The software used to help Stephen Hawking communicate with the world has been made available by Intel for free online in the hopes it can help other people with similar disabilities. Hawking, 73, who has a motor neuron disease and is almost entirely paralyzed, relies on the technology to speak. Read More >
Christopher Hills is an amazing young man who I greatly admire and find very inspiring. Christopher is an Apple Certified Pro Final Cut Pro X, Level One and an Accessibility Ambassador and a geek who has cerebral palsy. I have been following Christopher for a while now. His YouTube Channel Read More >
Today’s mobile movement is all about efficiency and multitasking. But with the first cellphone in 1973, you could place a phone call and get a workout at the same time. After all, the phone weighed 2.5 pounds. The cellphone turned 40 on Wednesday, April 3. Its creator, Martin Cooper, 84, Read More >
Google Glasses? Passe. Voice-controlled intelligent agents? So over. Controlling the tempo of “Call Me Maybe” with your heartbeat? Please. The future of wearable computing is all about using your noggin. That’s what the Muse headband promises to do. Currently seeking funding on Indiegogo (see the smartly produced and highly convincing Read More >
Technology codes our minds, changes our OS. Apple products have done this extensively. The video shows how magazines are now useless and impossible to understand, for digital natives. It shows real life clip of a 1-year old, growing among touch screens and print. And how the latter becomes irrelevant. Medium Read More >
http://youtu.be/1xYhn0hy4XI TrackerPro is a computer input device that takes the place of a mouse for people with little or no hand movement. Simply plug it in and it works just like a mouse (no additional software required). Anything that can be done with a regular hand mouse can be done Read More >
The Ken’s Power Caster is a fully automated, push-button or “sip and puff” controlled fishing machine that gives severely disabled people the ability to cast out their line (around 100 feet), hook, fight, retrieve and land fish with total independence – no matter the disability or injury level.
Thanks to its front-facing camera, the iPad 2 is capable of producing a glasses-free 3D effect using head-tracking technology. Jeremie Francone and Laurence Nigay from the Laboratory of Informatics of Grenoble at the EHCI Research Group have used this technology, along with some really basic applications, to show off what Read More >
Bob Radocy of TRS Inc. holds a basketball with a prosthetic hand designed for the sport at a gym in Boulder, Colorado. He designs prosthetic attachments that allow amputee athletes to participate in multiple sports
Download Firefox 3 on June 17, 2008 Everyone favorite web browser Firefox is going to launch the 3rd version soon! So, to make it big, Firefox held a campaign to set a Guinness World Record on most downloaded software in 24 hours. Everyone can pledge to download Firefox 3 on Read More >