Archive for the ‘Input’ Category
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Mouse parts mounted on a glove.
This is interesting as alternate input is can't grasp a mouse. You only need to place your hand on any surface and start mousing.
[via hackaday]
Related posts:Wireless Accelerometer Based Mouse Pointer
Camera Mouse
Vertical Mouse / Keyboard
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Friday, March 12th, 2010
There's always going to be different options required for alternative input devices according to differing abilities.
So it's great to see the research and experimentation going on around this area, mostly driven I suspect by the need for different control of mobile technologies.
Here's one using acoustics of taps on the ...
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Friday, February 19th, 2010
Thought: Feedback can be turned to alternative input if inverted.
Fabian Hemmert does research through and about design and creates projects like shape-changing-mobiles, weight-shifting-mobiles, breathing and pulsating ambient-life mobile device feedback.
The mobile concepts are designed to provide different feedback mechanisms that are physical.
I've often written about the importance of feedback when ...
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Touchco was a New York company that, according to it's now closed website title, was developing "IFSR* multi-touch resistive sensors". It has now reportedly ben bought by Amazon.
The impressive thing about this technology is this.
"Unlike the more common and more expensive capacitive touchscreens, Touchco-equipped screens can be used with a ...
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Last year I captured this video, and has been on my youtube channel, yet seems I never posted it here.
iTouch iStick iKludge
From: lifekludger | August 10, 2009
The iTouch/iPhone needs skin so it doesn't work with my mouthstick. In this video I show use by running copper wire down the stick ...
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
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Wired Gadget Lab has the full report on a breath-enabled interface recently shown at CES. To scroll blow steadily. To click, blow a forceful puff.
Using 'suck, puff, blow' switches is nothing new in the area of Assistive Technology but seeing them ...
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
CNN report on the future of brain controlled devices.
In part :
"Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) come in two varieties. Noninvasive techniques use electrodes placed on the scalp to measure electrical activity. Invasive procedures implant electrodes directly into the brain. In both cases, the devices interact with a computer to produce a wide ...
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Call me a heretic, but surely there's got to be something inherently awry (not to say anything about accessibility) with a device that has to have specialised, modified clothing for humans to use it! Just sayin.
[Etre Touchy - Gloves for your iPhone, iPod Touch, Nintendo DS, Blackberry, PDA and more...]
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Related ...
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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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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
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Combining pointing devices with keyboards is great for those with limited reach / movement and mouth stick users. ThinkPad keyboards are fantastic. To have em as a desktop kb would be great.
[New ThinkPad keyboard features crowdsourced design, lower price]
Related posts:Adesso compact wireless keyboard
Colourfull keyboard
Whamberry Handsized ...
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Saturday, December 19th, 2009
It seems RIM's 'optical pad' technology could offer hope for the "touch barrier" that exists with the requirement for skin to touch the capacitive type pads that dominate todays gadgets.
Thinking about how your phone's touchscreen operates, you might assume that the so-called optical pads that have been making appearances on ...
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Meet Darrell
Earlier in the year I was contacted by Darrell. Darrell may not realise it, but he is a Lifekludger.
Darrell has a son. His son lives with a disability. His son's disability prevented him from using a mobile phone.
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