Archive for the ‘Living’ Category
Monday, February 1st, 2010
Wireless door access using the TI hackable watch
What seems "novelty" can often be essential in a different context. This type device could be great for access.
The TI Chronos development kit will allow many great projects that cleverly exploit the resources of the Chronos watch.
This video shows a hack that wirelessly ...
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
The One Touch Automatic Jar Opener is made to make life easier in the kitchen for those without the strength or with any weakness or disability.
Will open all kinds of jars at the touch of a button. It is fully automatic, just attach it to a jar and press the ...
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
The Kind Reminder is a recorder that can be worn around the neck as a necklace or just kept close by. When the patient has a moment of disorientation, they can press the button on the recorder and the voice of their caretaker will play. The website says the product ...
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
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[Link: Moshi Alarm Clocks: Speak to your Moshi Alarm Clock and it speaks back]
Moshi Alarm Clocks are sleekly designed clocks with voice recognition technology.
The Moshi Alarm Clock is fully voice interactive and can be operated without ever even seeing the clock.
Speak to your Moshi ...
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
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These straws look useful and like a lot of fun, the $13 set comes with 20 rubber connectors and 16 straw parts to make your own drinking straw contraption...
- [via ThinkGeek] Link.
Related posts:Acoustibuds Earphone Adapters
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
More DIY motorised blind mods from over on Instructables:
Build A Motorized Window Blinds Controller For About $15.00 - More DIY How To Projects
[hat tip Liz Henry of hackabilityblog]
Related posts:Automated blinds controlled via computer and remote
Voice Activated iPod Controller
Have ramp will travel
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
The social web offers a means of engagement that trascends the technology and transforms lives.
Strangely or not, I tend not to see myself as disabled. Maybe that's why I tend to focus on sharing more about what I'm doing than who I am or what I think about disability specific ...
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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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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Scientific American has an article about the Open Prosthetics Project.
The Open Prosthetics Project has applied the “open source” model to the design of inexpensive prosthetic hands and arms that a small demand can still support. The designs are free for anyone to use.
This is an exiting project to me as it's an ...
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Sunday, April 5th, 2009
More and more uses are surfacing for RFID chips and I can foresee many practical applications for alternative access to a myriad of life related activities.
Hackaday reports on a phone prototype which uses RFID tags to dial.
It is common for our motor skills and eyesight to deteriorate as we get ...
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
ReadWriteWeb reports on iPhone app that wirelessly connects to a Bluetooth-enabled glucose meter.
A good example and model of technology assisting health and well-being.
I think lots more work on hardware device interfacing needs attention allowing software <-> hardware interactions as these types of things tend to foster possibilities for environmental control.
[Diabetes ...
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
bluetooth wristband
Hack a Day had a post about this BT bracelet.
Forgetting the usefulness or otherwise of the display, I think there must be a myriad of uses due to the vibration of the device, especially for Blind users, for alerts of different kinds.
[via] [Bluetooth Bracelet ...
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