Archive for the ‘Touch’ 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, 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 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. ...
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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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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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