Archive for the ‘Access’ Category

Dave the Lifekludger gets a mention by Mark Pesce on New Inventors

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. ...

Wireless Accelerometer Based Mouse Pointer

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Caught this via Hacked Gadgets. Accelerometer based input devices could be a great boon for alternative access. Dave Technorati Tags: adaptive

The touch barrier — responses

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 ...

The Touch Barrier - Accessibility and usability issues around touch technologies

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 ...

Turn phone into walking radar to detect physical spaces

Monday, February 4th, 2008

The "Walking Radar" project connects up a Basic Stamp and IR sensor to your cell phone in order to detect objects in the environment and influence games on the device or trigger SMS messages to be sent. [Make] It occurred to me this gadget if hooked up to the vibration part ...