Archive for the ‘Devices’ Category
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
After my previous post about the "Touch Barrier" as referring to the inherent issues of the pervasive use of touch technologies I had some good responses.
@lucychili pointed me to work Peter Hutterer is doing with MPXLaurel wrote a blog post "Disabilities social networks games" pointing to a article DISABLED ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
SMK Corp developed "Wireless Input Pen," which can transmit characters written in the air and displays them on a monitor.
According to SMK, it is the world's first pen-type device that can transmit characters written in the air to a monitor ...
I caught this via a story on Engadget.
Engadget mention the ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
The following is fro the Blog of Beth Kanter, a friend who's up in Brisbane at the ConnectingUp Conference for Non-profits. Big thanks to Beth.
I am posting her notes on this breakout session as it highlights some of the key Benefits and Barriers for people living with disability participating in ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
I came across this site called 5min.com. It's a how-to style video sharing site with heaps of neat tricks and tips.
This video below got me thinking about emergency backup sources for such things as alarms etc. Watch it to the end.
How to Get Free Electricity
Watch more DIY videos on 5min.comhttp://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-Get-Free-Electricity-12198
Near ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
The "Walking Radar" project connects up a Basic Stamp and IR sensor to your cell phone in order to detect objects in the environment and influence games on the device or trigger SMS messages to be sent. [Make]
It occurred to me this gadget if hooked up to the vibration part ...
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