… While advances in personal technology continue at a rapid pace, at times their designers seem to forget about the population that could perhaps benefit from it the most. Stabelfeldt says just the ability to charge a phone with a wheelchair didn’t even exist until a few years ago. But features like Apple’s “Home” appContinue reading “How a Smart Home Empowers People with Disabilities”
Category Archives: People
In search of the Ubiquitous Mouthstick
Mick (email on request) sent me this very pertinent email the other day about the un-ubiquitous nature of mouthsticks. Lads is it just me or do we all use any given mouth-stick for a broad variety of tasks? I ask because I find that many of the solutions offered for a specific issue -in thisContinue reading “In search of the Ubiquitous Mouthstick”
Lego Prosthetic Leg – [video]
Christina Stephens, aka AmputeeOT made an amazing time-lapse of building her own Lego prosthetic leg. [wp_youtube]W8fdXNN0irI[/wp_youtube] via MAKE
The Social Internet as Social Assistive Device
The social web offers a means of engagement that trascends the technology and transforms lives. Strangely or not, I tend not to see myself as disabled. Maybe that’s why I tend to focus on sharing more about what I’m doing than who I am or what I think about disability specific things – whatever thoseContinue reading “The Social Internet as Social Assistive Device”
The Social Internet as Social Assistive Device
The social web offers a means of engagement that trascends the technology and transforms lives. Strangely or not, I tend not to see myself as disabled. Maybe that’s why I tend to focus on sharing more about what I’m doing than who I am or what I think about disability specific things – whatever thoseContinue reading “The Social Internet as Social Assistive Device”
Adelaide Tweetup at Kappys
Went to my first Tweetup today. Was held at Kappys in Flinders St. Was great meeting some of the Adelaide twitter folk (oh, and @silkcharm, who is an ex-Adelaide girl). Some I already followed and now have some new ones. Here’s some pics: (more here) UPDATE: @silkcharm has posted a qik video: http://qik.com/swfs/qikPlayer4.swf Dave
Roy’s Because Effect
UPDATE: Roy was interviewed on the show about Visual Facilitation – see the youtube video here. My mate Roy Blumenthal from South Africa, who is the man behind my portrait on my lifekludger blog, has scored himself a gig as a weekly co-anchor of CNBC AFRICA’s business magazine show, ‘Kaleidoscope‘ where he employs his visualContinue reading “Roy’s Because Effect”
Mark Pesce feed munger
After chasing all the places Mark Pesce chooses to write his missives, a tweet sent by @stilgherrian this morning asking Mark if he had a feed which gathers his writings from all the places it’s thrown spurred me on to creating one. So this evening I threw together a yahoo pipe of Mark’s feeds. GetContinue reading “Mark Pesce feed munger”
Lifekludger vision from outside
The other day my vanity feeds came up with another connection – this time in the shape of a photo on flickr that references Lifekludger being used in a blog post. The post was by Mike Poole who’d used a photo of a drawing Roy Blumenthal had started for me when designing a logo forContinue reading “Lifekludger vision from outside”
People don’t scale, People Networks do.
I read with interest my good mate, Hugo Ortega’s UberTablet blog. Hugo was the very first guest on our Extraordinary Everyday Lives podcast and, outside of my regular colleagues, has been the single biggest supporter of my Lifekludger endeavours, and indeed myself, in a substantial way – providing equipment to try with my mouthstick especially.Continue reading “People don’t scale, People Networks do.”
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