Archive for April, 2006

Tank my ride!

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

Forget Cam's lame 'trick ya stick' walking stick mod idea from my previous post. Here's the REAL deal to mods. Yeah baby. Seriously though. If someone can build me a track equipped device I can lock my wheelchair to that I can go on the beach with....give me a yell. Going on ...

Trick ya stick

Monday, April 24th, 2006

Over on Cameron's Brain blog, Cam has a sore toe (poor diddums). He wants to trick-up his walking stick. Make magazine reported on a GPS-enabled walking stick. There's a video on the Make post that references it - but doesn't show an exact picture of it. Maybe he could fit it with ...

Opensource meets the physical world

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

Kludging on the Radar - Alpha Geelks Hi people. Something a little different. I've put together a snippet of a podcast from the Emerging Technology Conference held just last month. This is from ITConversations and is Tim O'reilly speaking about modifying 'things'. If you've seen the Lifekludger Vision as it stands so far.....you'll ...

Ultimate Environmental Control

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

Just watched a video Hugo Ortega has made about a potential UMPC controlled 'home Automation' system that uses IP. By doing so he's just made my dream of a Horizontal computing solution more real. (By Horizontal I mean while in bed) This whole 'Home Automation' thing really is a broad consumer ...

Tablet PC - a Lifekludger view

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

It's rude not to point Ok here I am typing on the onscreen keyboard of a Tablet PC*. A first for me. The good folks at Tegatech Australia kindly sent me a Tablet to loan and have a bit of a play and see how someone without the use of hands might ...