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Travel Second Life hands free

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Lots of new and interesting input and interface devices being developed it seems lately. Lets hope we can see some real world uses for access to technology evolving from them. Mitch Kapor (from Linden Labs Board) and Philippe Bossut designed a prototype interface that demonstrates the possibilities for operating Second Life ...

Mind control interface a near reality

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Be interesting to see what practical applications this device from Emotiv can be put to use as. There's some discussion on the Facebook Emotivated Group discussion around using it for computer control by those with a disability. I'm looking forward to being able to walk in second life, and fly, by thinking ...

Hardware remix, economies of scale and corporate incompetence.

Monday, January 7th, 2008

My friend JP has written an excellent post We’re not talking games any more. More and more, we will see enterprises spend real money on usability, on visualisation tools, on ways to support people who would otherwise be disenfranchised. Incidentally, thanks to a tweet from LifeKludger, I went and took a look ...

Lifekludger talks with JP Rangaswami

Friday, June 15th, 2007

The latest edition of The Extraordinary Everyday Lives Show podcast is out. The Extraordinary Everyday Lives Show #028 - JP Rangaswami On this show we have a special guest, JP Rangaswami from Confused of Calcutta blog. JP and I have been chatting via the blogs for a year and JP graciously agreed ...

Robot arm makes my brain ping

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

Something about this makes my brain go 'ping'. [link]There's some potential real world usefulness for disability, even for those without the range of motion, out there on the fringe somewhere for this kinda stuff. Just can't pin it down yet.[via hacked gadgets]Technorati Tags: robot, arms, servo, makers