Archive for the ‘Living’ Category
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
The group of Occupational Therapy students at UNISA I spoke with yesterday about how to use tools to do life with disability. The course title is "Enabling Occupation" Occupation being any activity in this case. I like to simplify that to mean "Helping to do stuff". Which ain't a bad ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Back here I wrote about the Emporia Life Phone.
The other day I got an email asking me about where to get one in Australia, which it appears you can't.
Can anyone help shelly? Are you listening Emporia?
shelly wrote:
EMPORIA PHONE
These are not available in Australia at present and nobody I have spoken ...
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Saturday, July 28th, 2007
Lifekludger correspondant Dave Faxon sent in this report on some mods he's been doing on remote control access of power outlets.Dave first came to my attention when we were talking about the USB PowerBar when he, amongst many others, contacted me, everyone seeking such a device that has control of ...
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Sunday, July 8th, 2007
Overview: * Getting hold of technology, operating it and getting value from it are challenges when the mode of access falls outside the intended design parameters.
* Access to technology needs to start with a person focus not a technology focus.
* Gaps in access should be approached from the bottom up ...
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
Caught this idea about a RFID keyless access device on the local New Inventors TV show on the ABC last night.
The Keyless Lifestyle Controller is an RFID (radio frequency identification) tag that is small enough to be worn on the inside of your watch band.
Evidently he's a friend of my ...
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