Archive for the ‘Devices’ Category
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 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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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
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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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