Monday, February 1st, 2010
Wireless door access using the TI hackable watch
What seems "novelty" can often be essential in a different context. This type device could be great for access.
The TI Chronos development kit will allow many great projects that cleverly exploit the resources of the Chronos watch.
This video shows a hack that wirelessly ...
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
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The goal of the Mac Video Tutorials Subtitle Project is to caption the Apple video tutorials that help users learn to use the Mac.
To make this great resource available to non-English speaking users, and to those with hearing impairments or language processing problems.
A great use ...
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Meet Darrell
Earlier in the year I was contacted by Darrell. Darrell may not realise it, but he is a Lifekludger.
Darrell has a son. His son lives with a disability. His son's disability prevented him from using a mobile phone.
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Monday, August 31st, 2009
An article in Technology Review reveals development of pressure sensitive touch pads that could be used on future generation devices.
Why is this Lifekludger newsworthy? Because the pads are reported to combine features of both kinds of existing touch pads. To me, this might mean some breaking down of the Touch ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Being the geek I am, as well as the sleeper I am, I found myself following the Apple 'Let's Rock' event at 2.30am.
One interesting thought about the new stuff that was announced is the accessibility aspect is being thought about and incorporated at th design stage.
Like most of the things ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
pogo no go
After writing an article about my concerns over the pervasive use of touch I was alerted via a comment to the pogo stylus [thanks @garthk] .
The Touch Barrier
pogo stylus
I thought it might've been a solution so I wrote to "Ten One Design" outlining why I'm so interested.
The response ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Recently I was made aware of a program called Pointui while scanning Frank Arrigo's blog (hi Frank). I thought it sounded interesting if for no other reason than the screenshot looked to provide bigger buttons. So I visited the Pointui site.
Pointui is a interface layer for Windows Mobile based devices. ...
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