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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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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 ...
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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
ThinkPad keyboard with TrackPoint
Lifekludger Links Weekly #13
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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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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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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 ...
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
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These straws look useful and like a lot of fun, the $13 set comes with 20 rubber connectors and 16 straw parts to make your own drinking straw contraption...
- [via ThinkGeek] Link.
Related posts:Acoustibuds Earphone Adapters
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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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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, 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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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
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Interesting, wide ranging discussion over on Slashdot about Tools For Disabled Geeks, voice input and other hardware discussions.
[Slashdot Hardware Story | Better Tools For Disabled Geeks?]
Hat tip to whoever it was pinged me on this, I've forgotten who it was now, but if it's you, thanks.
Image ...
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
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I have trouble with earbuds falling out and this is problematic for me as I can't put them back in myself. Seeing a lot of my listening is done wile traveling in the back of my van, it becomes a bigger problem and annoyance. My solution ...
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