Archive for the ‘Input’ Category
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Ricky Buchanan from ATMac has some interesting thoughts and good links on Comparing iPads, Netbooks, and Auggies for AAC Use, after an RJ Cooper comparison on the topic.
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Rex Bionics exoskeleton
[via Roy]
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
Over on his Artworks blog Crabfu has this excellent how-to video on making a touch screen capable stylus from a clutch pencil and conductive foam.
This is one of the best ideas I've seen, using a readily available item in the clutch pencil. My thoughts in using it with your mouth ...
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Sunday, June 20th, 2010
A couple weeks ago I received a tweet from @yukitake99 that he found Lifekludger blog helpful and he was going to try make a mouthstick for iPhone. Seems he'd been looking at some of the stuff I'd been sharing about the "Touch Barrier" and ways to work around it.
It's always ...
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Friday, May 21st, 2010
Developed by researchers at Boston College and Boston University, Camera Mouse is a free program that enables you to control the mouse pointer on your computer screen just by moving your head.
Camera Mouse requires Windows 7, Vista, or XP and a webcam.
Some useful applications and utilities are available from the ...
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Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Came across an interesting, potentially useful tip on a extension for the Chrome web browser called "Keyboard Navigation", on the excellent blog makeuseof.com.
From the blog:
The extension defines a hot key (,) which places a hint next to every link on the page that can be clicked. While the hint is ...
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Friday, May 7th, 2010
Finally, a Stylus kludge that actually looks workable as it can be made different lengths and is cheap and easy.
Now, I just need to get hold of some of that conductive foam so I can get someone to make me up a mouthstick version.
If anyone has some foam you can ...
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Sunday, April 25th, 2010
Isn't it interesting how we are seeing more and more uses where there's a need for a stylus on these capacitive touch screens? Just when everyone thinks Steve Jobs has liberated them to the freedom of the finger, it seems we aren't so free after all and that maybe other ...
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Saturday, April 10th, 2010
Over on Instructables is how to make a stylus out of anti-static socks for use on capacitive type touch screen devices - ala iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad etc. The stylus was the creation of dsLabs.
Looks neat, but not sure I'd want to put this sock stylus in my mouth for ...
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Looking at this post re HTC and stylus patents, I'm going to start looking at a kludge for my mouthsticks using magnets.
HTC has a solution ready for the market. They have patented an ordinary stylus but with a twist. The stylus has a magnetic head, and due to ...
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
iPhone Hacks blog has the low down on the problems of styluses on capacitive touch screens in a post titled New Apple Patent Talks about Stylus for Capacitive Touch Screens.
The relevant bit:
According to the inventors, modern day capacitive touch sensors are not optimized to receive inputs from styluses. This is ...
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Monday, March 22nd, 2010
The Whamberry is great mini keyboard/input pad that connects to your computer simply with a USB plug-in dongle. It is wireless and can be used more than 30 feet (10m) away from your computer.
You can control the cursor using the touch-pad that is built-in or type with the full keyboard. ...
Posted in Computing, Input, Suppliers, Touch, Type | 4 Comments »
