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iPad Empowerment: Brave New Hooks
Virginia is 99 and the iPad is her first computer. The video exempifies the potential for personalized technologies like the iPad for enabling people to be people again (thanks Kat). (link with video)
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Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » The iPad as an Affordable...
Ok guys, Here we go! The first AAC review of the iPad! Glenda Watson makes a compelling case for the utility of the iPad as an AAC device. Take a look! (link).
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Swype Reinvents Typing on Touch-Screen Phones – NYTimes.com
Kudos to our friend Cliff Kushler for his new keyboard invention. Cliff, one-time engineer at Prentke Romich and developer of the T9 cellphone typing system has developed a gesture recognition system...
View ArticleBook review: How To Wreck A Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to...
This book details the early history of speech synthesis, particularly the Vocoder, which still finds use today as a music synthesis tool. What’s most interesting to me is the youtube video below of a...
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Apples In Stereo man controls his Moog… with his mind! (and you can too) —...
Three brain control interfaces (BCI) in one day? Coincidence you say? Or perhaps something GrEaTeR (sorry no scary fonts) is at work here! Anyway….. our first offering is the “go-cart” of the crowd: A...
View ArticleRoger Ebert – Roger Ebert Reviving At The Movies – Contactmusic News
Ebert’s back on TV! His new show, Reviewing at the Movies is due to hit PBS in January. Ebert will host a segment, using his Mac and synthetic voice to give his review. Kudos Roger! (link). I’ve...
View ArticleRoger Ebert Tests His Vocal Cords – NYTimes.com
(Thanks, NYT) First there was the Turing Test, a benchmark for computer intelligence via conversation. Now perhaps, there is the Ebert Test, a way to see if a synthesized voice can deliver humor with...
View ArticleWe don’t need no stinkin’ designers! – Core77
(thanks Cre). Norman’s critique of current design in technology comes at a good time in our field. Do we design my testing, or from the subjective and personal approach? Take a read (link).
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The failure of universities (and university researchers) in producing good...
Don Norman, one of the originators of cognitive science and modern technology design, castigates the university culture for producing designers with little practical experiences and limiting...
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My Homeboy: Zach Anner!
Ok, I don’t really know the guy personally, but Zach Anner, Oprah’s pick to host a travel show on her new station does live in my part of town. His mother just penned an opinion piece “(Changing...
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