job1119,

Point taken, but why let this stop us?

The problems are many:
- perhaps the gadget only works for Emma's version of PD;
- perhaps the response seen was only a placebo (but, let us not write off placebos, they have a value);
- perhaps the gadget has more complexity than we think (before this programme was broadcast I thought the solution was to fire tiny electrical shocks at the arm so as to cancel out the signals causing the tremor).

Progress has been made in similar areas: the non-spill spoon; a gyroscope strapped to the wrist.

I like the ethos of the show: you have a problem, we can likely reduce it. Or, taking it one stage further, I have a problem, I can likely reduce it.

The rapid development approach adopted by this programme, with its "can do" attitude, contrasts with the Big Pharma/ Big Medicine/ FDA approach of creating hurdle after hurdle to climb over.

John