| tags: blind, ideas, enabling technology
Current implementations of DDR specify steps the user must match exactly to score points. Someone recently introduced matching silhouettes but it is essentially the same thing. The step files are synchronized with the music using a simple offset and rate. Thus the music has to have a strictly fixed beat and (practically) has to be shipped with the game resulting in copyright issues.
| tags: ideas, enabling technology
Ideas for ET projects.
| tags: enabling technology, links
| tags: enabling technology, links
Wireless MIDI for the DS for homebrew DS software...
| tags: blind, enabling technology
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Treasury Department is violating the law by failing to design and issue currency that is readily distinguishable to blind and visually impaired people.
| tags: maps, enabling technology
Interesting looking book on text adventure and interactive fiction.
| tags: blind, deaf, enabling technology
Bapin talked about not being able to students while they are wearing "FM" headsets. Why not run the audio through the computer using the microphone in?
| tags: blind, deaf, enabling technology
While listening to Anindya Bhattacharyya (Bapin) at "The Magic of Technology for the Deaf-Blind Population" workshop in Raleigh today I starting thinking again about Morse code. Bapin was lamenting the high cost of Braille displays. The problem, as with most assistive technology, is low volume. You can buy a great laptop for less than $1k but a Braille display to go with it is going to cost several thousand. He told about students they train at Helen Keller National Center for the Deaf-Blind having to wait for years to get the equipment they need.
| tags: blind, enabling technology, links
Link to an article in the NY Times .
| tags: enabling technology, links
Frets on Fire is an open-source game like Guitar Hero, written in Python.