Archive for the ‘Talking’ Category

SGD interface for mobiles wins on Inventors

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 ...

Bluetooth & My PDA - my ongoing saga

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 ...

The Sony mouse phone

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 ...

Bluetooth and PDA interoperability - again

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 ...

XEG, the mobile phone pad

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 ...