New Technology
Finally, a four wheel drive vehicle adapted for a wheelchair!
Monday, June 13 2011 14:17
Finally, a truck adapted for a wheelchair!
Why would you drive a mini-van when you could drive a truck?
For years, wheelchair users have not had the option to drive a 4 x 4 truck.
GoShichi LLC has changed the playing field and it is not level.
Learn more, visit http://www.goshichi.com/
Tobii PCEye
Thursday, May 26 2011 08:49
The new Tobii PCEye is an easy to use, stand-alone eye tracking device that can be used with most personal computers. It is quick to set up, highly accurate and provides total control of your computer using only your eyes.
For More Information visit the tobii site at:
http://www.tobii.com/en/assistive-technology/north-america/products/hardware/pceye/
Bionic Engineer
Monday, May 02 2011 13:21
Hugh Herr's PowerFoot could make life easier for countless amputees. Herr should know; he wears two of them.
Charles J. Murray, Senior Technical Editor, Electronics & Test -- Design News, November 29, 2010
Hugh Herr was 17 years old when he designed his first prosthetic leg, just months removed from a brush with death and fresh off a grueling period of rehab. At the time, Herr was an unlikely engineer. An academic underachiever in high school, he'd been more attracted to mountain climbing than to physics. But in June of 1982, wearing two crude prosthetic limbs, he got the itch to resume some semblance of his old life.
"I wanted to design limbs so I could return to mountain climbing," he recalls.
So Herr, with only a brief stint in vocational school and a rudimentary knowledge of tool and die-making to serve as a starting point, launched a career. He began building prosthetic limbs. He earned degrees from MIT and Harvard. He climbed, designed, and then climbed some more, in an interwoven pattern that continues today.
Paralyzed Graffiti Artist Draws Using His Eyes
Monday, July 12 2010 09:34
A group of artists and hackers have crafted a gadget that lets a paralyzed graffiti artist continue making art using only his eyes. And it costs about as much as an iPod shuffle.
Zach Lieberman of the Graffiti Research Lab started working on the EyeWriter with one man in mind: Los Angeles-based graffiti artist Tony Quan. In 2003, Quan was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, leaving virtually every muscle in his body paralyzed except for his eyes. Lieberman and developers from Free Art and Technology, OpenFrameworks and the Ebeling Group were inspired to create low-cost, open-source hardware and software for eye-tracking to help Quan draw again.
Phraze-It Digital Texting (PIDT)
Tuesday, March 02 2010 15:16
Texting Made Easier
Phraze-It Digital Texting (PIDT) is a simple technique for texting with the five
fingers of your hand based on the five vowels A E I O U.
PIDT enables texting with only your hand - no cell phone or keyboard
necessary. PIDT is a simple method to text messages with one hand when you
are with another person.
