Archive for the ‘Listening’ Category
Monday, December 5th, 2005
Akihabara News had a post on a Motorcycle helmet with integrated music. It evidently uses a technology called "Bone conduction" and the sound was transferred via your skull.
Okay. Neat idea. But my mate Fang kludged together his own 'Podhat' by wiring his mp3 player on his hat and letting ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
A new device is helping deaf people to "hear" music through vibrations.
Different instruments, rhythms and notes can be felt through five finger pads attached to the "Vibrato" speaker.
BBC NEWS | UK | England | London | Speaker allows deaf to feel music
Related posts:Podhat
Pin Clock – Feel your way
Bluetooth and PDA ...
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Thursday, November 24th, 2005
This article shows how to make a switch interface to the popular music playing software Winamp.
Handy for playing mp3s without having to access the pc. Or perhaps if you lacked the dexterity to control the pc.
HowTo: External Winamp Control at pasteler0
Related posts:CD control with single switch
Bluetooth and PDA interoperability ...
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Sunday, November 20th, 2005
Here I am again reporting on the PDA-Bluetooth issues I've alluded to in previous posts and written about in a paper about mobile technologies for people with a disability.
As a result of that I've pointed my feed reader over at the bluetoothlounge.com. A hugely indepth article about the technical problems ...
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Saturday, November 19th, 2005
Yes, you can now listen to all the articles posted to Lifekludger.
Under each article there is a icon and text link that reads ' Listen to this article'. Simply click on the link and listen. Also it means you can get the audio posts as a rss delivered feed ...
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Friday, November 18th, 2005
I'm not sure exactly what functions of a mobile telephone this controls (aside from the games, obviously) but if it controls more than just games, one of these type mobile phone extenders could prove handy for accessing those phones with tiny buttons.
You can see a lot of close-up images from ...
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
This just cracks me up. This guy took an iSight camera and taped it to a pair of headphones.
Reason? The iSight has a microphone and the iSight plugs into the Mac firewire port viz a digital mic input!
Kludge-o-rama baby!
iSkype - ReesesWiki - musing/2005-11-01 DIY Skype Headset
Related posts:Bluetooth & My PDA ...
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
Here's a take on the idea of converting an old style land-line telephone by hooking it up to a mobile inside it. This article shows how it's done.
I thought what a neat idea for someone needing a mobile phone with big buttons!
Article - http://www.tristanperich.com/Art/Telephone/
via make - http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/10/old_phone_to_new_phone.html
Related posts:XEG, ...
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2005
This article from Newsday outlines how over at Purdue University the students are gettig into using podcasts. Digital recordings of lectures allow college students with MP3 players to catch lessons or just catch up wherever and whenever they want.
This is excellent example of lifekludging using existing (if not emerging) ...
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2005
I saw this article on how to make a RSS Alarm clock and thought that could be usefull...for someone. In particular I thought someone who has a vision impairment could benefit. So I filed it away for another day.
Well, today I found my 'someone'. Darren over at ProBlogger has some ...
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