Archive for the ‘Talking’ Category
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, October 20th, 2008
SENS concept phone.
by Japanese designer, Takumi Yoshida
I've written previously about the importance of the correct type of feedback for input, especially when one or more of your senses fail you.
This SENS phone uses a combination of tactile sensors and audio feedback to the user. When a person key is pressed ...
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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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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
emporia have a great statement on their site which states:
What is simple will be understood.
What is understood generates relevance.
I came across these phones made by emporia via Popgadget blog. They reminded me of my observations made in an earlier post where I see that simpler interfaces for devices that hide ...
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Friday, March 31st, 2006
Make reports on a telephone that features a built-in PIR motion sensor. If an intruder is detected within a 30 ft. range, TeleSpy calls a preset telephone number and allows you to listen in to the premises.
Now, what a cool concept. If this phone was positioned in a certain way ...
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Saturday, March 4th, 2006
The other day the e-HomeUpgrade blog had news and a review about some speech recognition software from OneVoice Technologies. The Media Center Communicator Version 2, is designed to let you talk to and control your Media Center PC.
For the future One Voice Communications is working with other partners on integrating ...
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
Last year I met Toan Nguyen at a seminar in Adelaide. Tonight I was watching The New Inventors on ABC TV and Toan was on as a contestant with his SGD Mobile Access interface :
SGD Mobile Access is a software interface added to existing technology. This enables users who do ...
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Thursday, January 19th, 2006
Over at Frank Arrigo's blog he has the low down on a kludge to get VoiceCommand to take commands straight from a BT headset.
frankarr - an aussie microsoft blogger : K-JAM, Microsoft Voice Command, Bluetooth earpiece and a registry hack
Longtime readers will know the ongoing battle I've had with this ...
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Friday, January 13th, 2006
This is a neat idea by Sony.
This is a phone handset built into a mouse. Okay, so it's not the most ergonomic looking rodent but for limited space or limited reach that would mean a mouse and phone together would not be able to be used, it could just fit ...
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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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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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Friday, November 4th, 2005
This device is a remote control and holder. The difference between it and the rest of it's ilk is the holder asks questions when the remote isn't put back.
Probing HAL-like questions such as:
"Where's the remote?"
"Are you still using the remote?"
Now this is cool, and maybe I could've used it for ...
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