Steering a Wheelchair with Your Tongue?!

Yep.  New technology is allowing people with spinal chord injuries to use a magnetic tongue piercing to control an electric wheelchair.  The user has to wear a headset to detect the movement.  Apparently the idea is that the tongue is not easily tired and not generally affected by spinal chord injuries because it has a direct connection to the brain via a cranial nerve.  Check out this article for more!