| tags: deaf, ideas, links, enabling technology
I'm continuing to think about the usb visual alert for people who are hearing impaired. Tonight I saw this article on writing a linux USB driver and it points to this source of cool controllable LED lights .
| tags: ideas, links, enabling technology
Article at CNN about an accessible music game out of MIT. Sounds a bit like Guitar Hero. Gotta try it out.
| tags: ideas, enabling technology
This very neat interface to a sequencer is a cool idea for an accessible music system. A simplified version of this could be a ton of fun for kids with disabilities and their friends.
| tags: deaf, ideas, enabling technology
In reference to my earlier post about the USB-driven visual alert for people who are hearing impaired.
| tags: ideas, enabling technology
I was talking with Steve Lee about the lack of tactile feedback in our simple video switch. We could play an audio click or even vibrate something like one of the haptic mice that were popular a few years ago. For many users making the switch target tactually interesting will be important.
| tags: deaf, ideas, enabling technology
Shelley Tabakman of the NC DHHS asked about some sort of visual alert for hearing-impaired users of email and IM. They'd like to be notified of an incoming message by a signal visible when not looking at the screen. The INSTEON developer kit looks like the right goods.
| tags: blind, enabling technology, ideas, literacy
I describe an idea for a simple and inexpensive tactile display and keyboard for Braille. The key simplification enabling this design is displaying Braille on six finger tips instead of as six tiny dots under one finger tip. The display is arranged in the same format as standard Braille embossers so users read and write in a reciprocal fashion. The display and keyboard might be useful for teaching Braille to blind children, as a communication system for deaf-blind people, and as a reading aid for blinded adults whose fingers are not sufficiently sensitive to read traditional Braille.
| tags: ideas, links, enabling technology
I should investigate progress in simple face detection methods. These could be the basis of a simple head-switch.
| tags: ideas, links, enabling technology
TC sent this link to cheap Donkey Kong Bongos . If we can figure out how to interface to USB these could be cool for a music game.
| tags: programming, ideas, links, enabling technology