Archive for the ‘Thoughts’ Category
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
The Miniguru keyboard is a compact keyboard that has a cut down, rearranged, minimalistic layout, layers for additional function keys, is reconfigurable and has a 'TrackPoint' style mouse pointer.
www.guru-board.com
[via Gadgetlab] & [Engadget]
Related posts:Adesso compact wireless keyboard
Colour-coded Keyboard & Mouse
Lifekludger Links Weekly #12
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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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Friday, November 6th, 2009
Interesting things in this report (PDF) about the effects of technology on social isolation. (http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/18--Social-Isolation-and-New-Technology.aspx) A lot of what it says I can attest to in my own experience, especially in relation to technology providing a platform and mechanism for "core discussion networks" to become more diverse. This also sets ...
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Sunday, September 6th, 2009
You can't have inclusion without openness.
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That may seem obvious to some. But it's true power hit me like a ton of bricks when it popped into my head. More-so as I've been hung-up and writing on this openness thing for ...
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
This story from the Santa Cruz Sentinel shows the power of connection and what can be achieved when a Maker (Jon Bjornstad, a Santa Cruz freelance computer programmer) is backed by a Giver (Roy and Ana Cook of Saratoga) to help a Liver (Karadole, a paralyzed woman who lives in ...
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
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Skin safe conductive ink.
Mmm...thinking this stuff must be good for something. Maybe it's conductive properties combined with it being non-toxic could have some application for getting around the touch barrier.
[Bare Conductive]
Related posts:NuTouch iPod case – ‘touch through’
Do RIM’s optical trackpads offer Accessible Alternative ...
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
The social web offers a means of engagement that trascends the technology and transforms lives.
Strangely or not, I tend not to see myself as disabled. Maybe that's why I tend to focus on sharing more about what I'm doing than who I am or what I think about disability specific ...
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
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In a few months the Lifekludger blog will have been going for four years. What started as a desire to share my thoughts about how I use technology as a person who lives with disability quickly turned into a platform to espouse the vision of ...
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Scientific American has an article about the Open Prosthetics Project.
The Open Prosthetics Project has applied the “open source” model to the design of inexpensive prosthetic hands and arms that a small demand can still support. The designs are free for anyone to use.
This is an exiting project to me as it's an ...
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
Reuters reported last month on Apple ordering larger touch screens:
Taiwan touchscreen specialist Wintek already makes small screens for Apple iPhones, and has received orders for the larger ones that are roughly the same size as those used in mini PCs - [http://www.wintek.com.tw/]
I bet you'll still need skin!
Source [Apple orders ...
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
Wired recently ran an article about Microsoft CEO Ray Ozzie.
One incident in particular introduced Ozzie to the magic that comes when people connect via computer. He had taken a part-time assignment helping a professor finish writing some courseware. The prof lived on the other side of town, so Ozzie collaborated ...
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
For those who use a mac, this little piece of shareware could be handy for custom control input.
From MacUpdate blog:
ControllerMate 4.3.9 - Use joystick, gamepad, trackball in place of keyboard. (Shareware):
ControllerMate 4.3.9
ControllerMate is a controller programming tool that allows custom functionality to be added to standard HID devices (joysticks, trackballs, ...
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