Archive for November, 2005
Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
A new device is helping deaf people to "hear" music through vibrations.
Different instruments, rhythms and notes can be felt through five finger pads attached to the "Vibrato" speaker.
BBC NEWS | UK | England | London | Speaker allows deaf to feel music
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Friday, November 25th, 2005
After a lecture I gave to some Year 2 Occupational Therapy Students at UNISA back in September which I wrote about on my personal blog, I was invited back today to give the speel to some Post Grad Students.
This group was smaller compared to the 60 odd last time. I ...
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Thursday, November 24th, 2005
This article shows how to make a switch interface to the popular music playing software Winamp.
Handy for playing mp3s without having to access the pc. Or perhaps if you lacked the dexterity to control the pc.
HowTo: External Winamp Control at pasteler0
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005
Ground control to Major Tom
Blimey. I'm gonna have to watch what I rant about. Mike's picked me up on the space telephone talking about my mind bending thoughts on the attention, recognition and context posts on my personal blog.
He's remixed the rant to make a conversation and the output is ...
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Sunday, November 20th, 2005
Here I am again reporting on the PDA-Bluetooth issues I've alluded to in previous posts and written about in a paper about mobile technologies for people with a disability.
As a result of that I've pointed my feed reader over at the bluetoothlounge.com. A hugely indepth article about the technical problems ...
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