Archive for the ‘Computing’ Category
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Call me a heretic, but surely there's got to be something inherently awry (not to say anything about accessibility) with a device that has to have specialised, modified clothing for humans to use it! Just sayin.
[Etre Touchy - Gloves for your iPhone, iPod Touch, Nintendo DS, Blackberry, PDA and more...]
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
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Combining pointing devices with keyboards is great for those with limited reach / movement and mouth stick users. ThinkPad keyboards are fantastic. To have em as a desktop kb would be great.
[New ThinkPad keyboard features crowdsourced design, lower price]
Related posts:Adesso compact wireless keyboard
Colourfull keyboard
Colour-coded Keyboard ...
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
This story from the Santa Cruz Sentinel shows the power of connection and what can be achieved when a Maker (Jon Bjornstad, a Santa Cruz freelance computer programmer) is backed by a Giver (Roy and Ana Cook of Saratoga) to help a Liver (Karadole, a paralyzed woman who lives in ...
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Saturday, July 11th, 2009
While touted as a "mouse for your TV," the Loop combines motion control with the familiarity feel of a mouse packaged in to an ergonomically friendly circular design.
Control the Loop pointer using four buttons and scroll wheel.
Further more though is the motion control. Freespace motion control technology allows "in-air ...
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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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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
"Accessibility is about accommodating characteristics a person cannot change by providing options" -- Joe Clarke, 2001
* An outline
* some ideas in olpc first look was promising
* accessibility and usability are hardware issues too
* accessibility should venture out of the online space into hardware design
Last year I had a first look ...
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Researchers from the University of Washington are developing a mouse that's controlled using sounds made with your voice.
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I have nothing to add.
Related posts:Voice Activated iPod Controller
Vista Voice Recognition
The Sony mouse phone
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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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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]
Related posts:A ...
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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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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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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Came across this neat little project that could be an alternate input device. Not sure if it could double as mouse and gaes controller, or just games.
"...a USB driver which allows you to use wired XBox 360 Controllers via USB, and wireless XBox 360 Controllers via the Microsoft Wireless Gaming Receiver ...
Posted in Computing, Devices, Input, Playing | 1 Comment »
