Archive for the ‘Devices’ Category
Sunday, May 31st, 2009
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This remote has no buttons. Instead it uses an accelerometer to enable activation by movement.
About the accelerometer:
[Via: Make: Online : Arduino powered buttonless remote control]
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Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
Back here and here in 2006 I wrote about a bottle cap tripod for your camera.
There is now another take on using a bottle as a way to hold your digital camera from Photjojo.
This latest one differs in that it fits over the bottle cap rather than replacing it.
[The Bottle Cap ...
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
This keyboard has color coded keys to teach consonants vs. vowels in order to assist kids become better spellers as well as different colors for the control keys and numbers..
I figure the extra visual feedback offered by the colour coding on this keyboard has to have additional application in areas ...
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
This video shows how you can combine Dasher, a clever text entry program, with RoboRealm, a clever machine vision program to write a sentence using a Red Ball and a WebCam.
You do this without touching the PC!
This could be used on a Wii, XBox or PS3 to control a browser.
[YouTube ...
Posted in Input, Makers, Visual/Light, Writing | 2 Comments »
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
A video demo of Dasher. A single finger interface that allows you to enter text without a keyboard. Dasher is free software, and it works in all languages, and on many platforms.
Keyboards are inefficient for two reasons: they do not exploit the redundancy in normal ... all » language; and they ...
Posted in Input, Touch, Typing | 1 Comment »
