Archive for July, 2008
Sunday, July 27th, 2008
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June 30, 2008
A new assistive technology developed by engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology could help individuals with severe disabilities lead more independent lives.
The novel system allows individuals with disabilities to operate a computer, control a powered wheelchair and interact with their environments simply by ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Some various links to sites highlighting some of the thinking and experimenting being done around 'adaptable' hardware. Some of it 'open-source-hardware'.
Anything used as a basis to build something else I like to refer to as a "prim" - borrowing from the secondlife concept of "primitives" - small basic building blocks ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Listened/watched a couple videos of Shirky's on group forming.
Here's my notes on them. More discussion via my podcast with Mike over here.
Shirky on group forming
Ted -
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html
Berkman centre - via youtube -
http://www.youtube.com/v/A_0FgRKsqqU&hl=en&fs=1
Sharing
Conversation
Collaboration
Collective action
Sharing
- old way before group forming was easy was gather->share; new share->gather
- sharing has in-built identity [personality] ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
This is kind of like using gestures without contact.
Wave Power: The G55 picks out key hand signals from webcam video feeds. Photo by Toshiba
Funny how, apart from the attempts with voice commands, input always seems to come back to hands. At least this one isn't touch related.
[via Popsci]
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Over a month back I mentioned in a blog post titled "Mind control interface a near reality" the Epoc Headset, being developed by Emotiv.
The other day on the New Inventors on the ABC here in Australia my friend Mark Pesce gives a shoutoput to me. Ref 1min in.
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