Archive for the ‘Access’ Category
Friday, September 19th, 2008
Set to launch in October : A door lock that can be activated by mobile phone and over the internet. Can also notify via phone when someone enters.
I could use this as I can use my mobile but not open my door without assistance of a keypad.
This has huge potential ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Being the geek I am, as well as the sleeper I am, I found myself following the Apple 'Let's Rock' event at 2.30am.
One interesting thought about the new stuff that was announced is the accessibility aspect is being thought about and incorporated at th design stage.
Like most of the things ...
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
For deaf, hearing impaired, and those with difficulties talking, AT&T unveiled a Text Accessibility Plan.
For $40.00 per month, qualified customers get unlimited text and unlimited data, without any allotment of minutes for talk time.
Sensible move by AT&T, showing that barriers to access don't always involve convaluted solutions.
[via techgadgetupdate]
Related posts:The Touch ...
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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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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
Related posts:Media Centre based AAC
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 ...
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Lots of new and interesting input and interface devices being developed it seems lately. Lets hope we can see some real world uses for access to technology evolving from them.
Mitch Kapor (from Linden Labs Board) and Philippe Bossut designed a prototype interface that demonstrates the possibilities for operating Second Life ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Recently I was made aware of a program called Pointui while scanning Frank Arrigo's blog (hi Frank). I thought it sounded interesting if for no other reason than the screenshot looked to provide bigger buttons. So I visited the Pointui site.
Pointui is a interface layer for Windows Mobile based devices. ...
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
There exists assistive technology devices that use tracking of a reflective dot by infrared to control a computer. They cost in vacinity on USD $4-500.
Now take a look at this video and think about the unforseen possibilities of general purpose 'stuff'. And what happens with mass market uptake and ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
A while ago I was approached to appear on the TV show "No Limits". The show is produced out of Melbourne and screens on Channel 31 on Mondays at 7.30pm.
Here's how they describe the show:
No Limits is a project of Disability Media Inc. We ...
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