Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Excellent life kludge here by student at MIT to automate door opening.
I especially like the various options of operation. Key, switch, knock and remote via iPhone, no less. - Access is about providing options.
[chris@localhost » iDoor – iPhone Controlled Hydraulic Door]
[via Hackaday]
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
ReadWriteWeb reports on iPhone app that wirelessly connects to a Bluetooth-enabled glucose meter.
A good example and model of technology assisting health and well-being.
I think lots more work on hardware device interfacing needs attention allowing software <-> hardware interactions as these types of things tend to foster possibilities for environmental control.
[Diabetes ...
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Great idea for people with low vision to read small print.
Which is an interesting point. Just what 'Universal Access' (to use Mac OSX parlance) does the iPhone have? Anyone?
[ThinkGeek :: Clarifi iPhone Case with Macro Lens]
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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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