FutureEverything Award winner

The ‘EyeWriter’, a pair of glasses that allows artists and graffiti writers with paralysis to draw using only their eyes, has won the first FutureEverything Award. The invention was chosen as the winner of the £10,000 prize following an online vote, beating more than a thousand submissions. It was inspired by Tony Quan (pictured), a graffiti writer who has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The EyeWriter is the result of collaboration between five other artists and a production company, and is part of an ongoing project to give people suffering from degenerative neuromuscular diseases access to creative technologies. Quan commented that “Art is a tool of empowerment and social change,” and hopes that he can continue to raise awareness of ALS.