Tagged with: accessibility assistive technology blind disability GPS visual impairments This GPS unit is perfect for someone on the go, who wants to find their way around town using voice rather than vision. The GPS unit “Where Am I” tool gives you your precise location and a description of what is around you; and even allows you to save your destinations and trips so that you can use them again (called geotagging).
Tagged with: assistive technology disability mobile Technology The AT and Apple team have come up with a wide range of assistive technology devices that go wherever you go! New mini-microphones, tiny rechargeable speakers, page bots (balls to turn pages in an eReader) and stationary clips for the leg, arm, table, arm-rest are just a few accommodation aides provided by this savvy tech company. In addition to this short list the team has developed many, many more tools that you should look into.
Tagged with: advocate assistive technology awareness disabilities disability programs research spinal cord injury wheelchair How would you like to be told you could be superman, the actual superman, a character that has been around since 1932 and known all around the world? Well, a man that did not take anything for granted had that very opportunity.
Read part I of this post here: http://blog.ncpad.org/2011/06/01/the-a-t-galler…hnology-part-i/
I have used an assortment of adaptive technology over the years. Assistive or Adaptive Technology (A.T.) is defined as “products, devices or equipment, whether acquired commercially, modified or customized, that are used to maintain, increase or improve the functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities”.[i]
Tagged with: Apple assistive technology disability emerging technology iPad Apple may not have known how much the iPad would be a game changer in the way it could reach out and help people with disabilities. But it has done so time and again, including children with autism or other disabilities. But now Apple is interested in making it possible to deliver content to multiple users with varying disabilities, catering to each person’s specific needs in a classroom-like setting.
Tagged with: accessible parking assistive technology research robotics Virtual Valet wheelchair accessible After ranting about stupidity not qualifying as a disability to park in an accessible space, I got a kick out of researchers developing a Virtual Valet to park cars.
Tagged with: assistive technology disability humanoid robot robotic assistant robotics robots O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? But this Romeo has nothing to do with Shakespeare and everything to do with robots being a companion and helpmate. And not like that…if you were thinking “hmmm, Romeo huh?”
Tagged with: assistive technology I never cease to be amazed by the opportunities that technology provides. Things that were once thought to be impossible are made possible. Limits and boundaries are destroyed – walls come crashing down – new doors are opened, sometimes faster than we know how to handle. The world today is different than it was even yesterday.
