Archive for the ‘Computing’ Category
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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Friday, October 26th, 2007
I've been under a rock. Just decided pop my head out and saw that these Phone Fingers had been released.
Immediately I thought that this may at long last be the answer to the problems I have using anything that requires a finger skin to operate it.
I'm off to order ...
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Friday, August 17th, 2007
Finally, someone has tackled the problem inherent with 'finger touch' devices that I've written about before a few times.
SUCK UK has developed a Touch Pad stylus, designed as a stubby little pencil, to use on those finger touch devices becoming so prevalent.
Popgadget reports:
Made from a "special space age" silicone material ...
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
Photo by agg.alex
Operating Mobile phones, PDAs and Bluetooth with a disability.
I often get questions about different devices and things via email. I will as much as possible answer these publicly here so we all can benefit from each other's experiences via comments etc. So if ever you write email to ...
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Sunday, June 10th, 2007
I've had a guest living with me the last two weeks - his name was SparkySparky is a laptop from the olpc people. Called an XO, it is one of the 2500 BTest-2 hardware units built by Quanta, sparky had 128Mb RAM, Sugar interface and is green.I was keen to ...
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Monday, May 14th, 2007
Live blogging from the Connecting Up 2007 conference.
Sat in on James Kavanagh from Microsoft giving a presentation on accessibility in Vista.
The intereting part was a project MS are doing with the NSW Govt. The project is Alternative Communication, Symbol based Software app built on Windows Media Centre.
Was ...
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Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Lifekludging a UMPC
Dave drives an eo
Previously I have reviewed and offered my thoughts on Tablet PCs, one being a slate [Sahara Slate] and the other [Acer C200] having a keyboard with touch screen.
While the tablet experience really highlighted some advantages for myself and the way I could interact with ...
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Friday, March 2nd, 2007
As part of work, I'm giving a talk/demo at a forum on eAccessibility next week to a couple hundred Govt. and NGO types. I'm no accessibility expert and think mostly they want demonstrated issues around physical access to the online world.
I'm thinking about what effects software design, layout, markup ...
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Thursday, February 15th, 2007
This is an interesting looking device. Some kind of fully floating computer controlled ergonomic workstation, suppossedly designed by a "group of researchers involved in medical research for persons with spinal cord injury".
The multifunctional GRAViTONUS® system allows moving the user in space freely. It comes with an on-board computer which ...
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Saturday, November 11th, 2006
This extremely modded cradle for a Dell PDA grabbed my attention the other day.
The thing that appealled to me was the compactness of the device given all the connections it had. Why is this important? Well, being able to have a device that can be
ubiquitous with its connections is ...
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Had call from Lloyd and a visit from Nigel from Novitatech.
They're evaluating this neat phone/gps device that comes from Europe. Mainly the alarm feature of the phone is why they were investigating it in the first instance. With the idea that maybe this device could see convergence of phone and ...
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
The other day I got a message fom Nathan who read my AcerC200 tabletpc review.
He told me about an onscreen keyboard, text input alternative he uses on his PPC device that is also available for TabletPCs, Origami, cell phones or it looks like nearly anthing else requiring text input.
Hi Dave,
Just ...
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