Archive for March, 2007
Sunday, March 25th, 2007
# » Bionic hand touts can-crushing abilities - The future of artificial limbs?
The latest bionic creation to come from the doors of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. give it few years of miniaturisation and some human brain or nerve interface and hand function could be a possibility. [Video - Engadget]
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
The Geek Stories: David Wallace the Lifekludger
Nick now has video of me and my geek story from the other day out on Microsoft's Channel 10 site - www.onten.net
Check it out...if you're game.
Related posts:Lifekludger and Munge brothers geek out.
Lifekludger on TV – No Limits
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Bit late this week....
# » GUIDe: Gaze-enhanced User Interface Design
Eyegaze softwarec from Stanford. Aimed at being a mouse replacement. Still requires keyboard activation. Wonder how it would work with voice activation to replace required keyboard functions.
# » Sophisticated Circuits PowerKey Pro Model 650
PowerKey Pro 650 - USB controlled power board ...
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
Just had a visit from Nick Hodge and Mike Seyfang.
You'll know Mike as my co-host and co-hort in all things geeky and new media and Nick is from Microsoft Channel 10 and start_geek.
We were doing some geeking out while Nick shot some video and tell my geek story. ...
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Last June I wrote about a USB controlled power bar that seemed like it would be beneficial for environmental control in a 'plug and play', off the shelf package.
However the device written about was in Japan.
Since then I've had multiple people contact me asking about where to get it and ...
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Sunday, March 11th, 2007
» Optimus-103 Configurator looking good, still without its hardware - Engadget
The ultimate interface device, in a keyboard?
# » Strap a pill box to your cellphone
Great idea. Could use it hanging anywhere... Why are all these good ideas only in Japan? Not such a small, flat world after all.
# » Sign ...
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Friday, March 9th, 2007
A while ago Andy asked why I didn't have a lifekludger sticker on my van.
So the other day while thinking about it I searched where I could buy one online. Did it and got delivered from US, reasonable price. At least it got done.
So now I'm taking lifekludger to the ...
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
Update: * Link to Mike’s blog post on the day including photos.
Here's the direct link to the audio of my talk today from the e-accessibility forum.
Ran outta time, wasn't happy about that.
e-accessibility - David Wallace, 6 Mar 2007
Thanks to Mike for ...
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Sunday, March 4th, 2007
# » Akihabaranews.com : Japan revolutionizes the whistling keychain
Reminders for people with disorders that affect memory.
# » ThinkGeek :: Sonic Bomb Alarm Clock with Bed Shaker
Alarm clock for those who are deaf or hard of hearing.
# » Bed Tray | Bed Table By LapDawg™ - Portably Convenient
Great for accessing a ...
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Friday, March 2nd, 2007
As part of work, I'm giving a talk/demo at a forum on eAccessibility next week to a couple hundred Govt. and NGO types. I'm no accessibility expert and think mostly they want demonstrated issues around physical access to the online world.
I'm thinking about what effects software design, layout, markup ...
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