Archive for the ‘Lifekludger Links’ 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.
on | ATMac [Source]
Related posts:Open-source hardware heads towards mainstream?
Posted in Lifekludger Links, Touch | No Comments »
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Neat boom arm that might be very helpful :
Extremely adjustable for position, angle, height:
Boom arm is Angle adjustable.
Boom Arm is Length adjustable.
Base is height adjustable.
Platform is angle adjustable side to side, front to back.
[via] easychairworkstation.com
Related posts:Umbrella rotations
Lifekludger Links Weekly #22
Adaptive peeler
Posted in Access, Lifekludger Links | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Input, Lifekludger Links, Touch | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Design, Input, Lifekludger Links, Touch | No Comments »
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
Posted in Computer, Input, Lifekludger Links | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Interesting article on Computerworld talks about the emergence of open-source hardware and the ways it seems to be moving towards more mainstream acceptance.
Open-source hardware developments offer great hope and advantages for the adaptive technology field where there is not a huge mass market need and such specialisation and individualised needs ...
Posted in Lifekludger Links, Makers | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Design, Input, Lifekludger Links, Suppliers, Touch | No Comments »
Sunday, January 24th, 2010
Make has put together a list of Open Source Hardware projects.
These are projects in which the creators have decided to completely publish all the source, schematics, firmware, software, bill of materials, parts list, drawings and "board" files to recreate the hardware - they also allow any use, including commercial. Similar ...
Posted in Lifekludger Links, Makers | No Comments »
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
Posted in Lifekludger Links, Thoughts | No Comments »
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Blowing into the Zyxio SensaWaft"][/caption]
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 ...
Posted in Input, Lifekludger Links, Puff/Blow | No Comments »
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...]
--
Related ...
Posted in Computing, Lifekludger Links, Touch | No Comments »
Monday, January 11th, 2010
The Kind Reminder is a recorder that can be worn around the neck as a necklace or just kept close by. When the patient has a moment of disorientation, they can press the button on the recorder and the voice of their caretaker will play. The website says the product ...
Posted in Lifekludger Links, Livers, Living | No Comments »
