Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Great to see some good asthetic thought as well as pure functionality put into accessible design in this bicycle.
From the Tuvie site:
Bicycle designer Gavin Smith has come up with a new bicycle design that will help people with disabilities to ride the bicycle independently. Sometimes disabilities like cerebral palsy can ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Now folks we are talking about something I want and would actually be able to use. Compact, Mac OSX and a Resistive touch screen allowing me to control the cursor as I couldn't o this device and can't with the current track pads all Macs have.
I couldn't find out who ...
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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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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
pogo no go
After writing an article about my concerns over the pervasive use of touch I was alerted via a comment to the pogo stylus [thanks @garthk] .
The Touch Barrier
pogo stylus
I thought it might've been a solution so I wrote to "Ten One Design" outlining why I'm so interested.
The response ...
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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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Friday, January 18th, 2008
I recently came across this site called Export To World which offers a method of taking virtual objects created in Second Life and creating a physical paper model of it in First Life.
In effect making physical objects from virtual ones.
Novel concept you say, but so what?
Well, think of the situation ...
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