Archive for June, 2008
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
In the first 2 minutes of this interview from Supernova, Clay touches on the reason why Lifekludger as a collaborative eco system for good hasn't yet got traction.
So far most of the action on the net has been to organise group activity around STOP actions (eg: protests) not START ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Caught this via Hacked Gadgets.
Accelerometer based input devices could be a great boon for alternative access.
Dave
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The Touch Barrier – Accessibility and usability issues around touch technologies
Hardware prims
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
After my previous post about the "Touch Barrier" as referring to the inherent issues of the pervasive use of touch technologies I had some good responses.
@lucychili pointed me to work Peter Hutterer is doing with MPXLaurel wrote a blog post "Disabilities social networks games" pointing to a article DISABLED ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
I'm Worried. Worried about recent technology developments - actually the application of one technology in particular - touch. In this instance, when I say 'touch' I'm referring to devices requiring skin - a finger as opposed to a stylus - ala the iPhone and nearly every laptop on the ...
Posted in Access, Input | 15 Comments »
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
SMK Corp developed "Wireless Input Pen," which can transmit characters written in the air and displays them on a monitor.
According to SMK, it is the world's first pen-type device that can transmit characters written in the air to a monitor ...
I caught this via a story on Engadget.
Engadget mention the ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Interesting article on the state of getting medical equipment in the States over at New Mobility.
It certainly is an indicator of how the available funds for equipment is becoming scarce -- how much is artificial is another argument.
My point is that when something becomes scarce we need to start looking ...
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