What a neat ideathisis, and I’m sure it’s exactly the sort of thing the smart tech people have in mind when they invent things. For the last 5 years, Kevin Zelko has been selling beer at Safeco Field. He normally does the walking up and down the stadium yelling for people’s attention thing, but now …
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Have Trouble Communicating? Find Your Voice With MyVoice
I saw this on the news last night. Pretty darn cool! Some university of Toronto students have created MyVoice, a communication device to help people who have had a stroke or who have whatever communication difficulty. What makes this thing uber cooler than any communication board you could ever carry are two big things: It’s …
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Surrounded By April Fools
I always knew that lots of April Fools entries get put up on news sites and blogs and stuff, but I guess I never went looking for them. Now that I’m on Twitter, they come to me, and boy were there a lot of them to do with blindness-related sites this year. There were two …
Some CSUN Goodness
I will say right here that I suck. Before that last little post, I hadn’t posted since March 16. Um, fail. I’ve been busy, but when has that ever stopped me before? It’s not like my computer was broken. I’ve just been made of suck and fail. But here are links to audio debuts of …
The Cozycast Is Finally Here!
Sorry this is going up so late, and sorry for the general neglect of this place over the last little while. Laziness, busyness, illness, hung overness and going out and having funness haven’t made for the best of reading lately. Hopefully things can start getting back to normal soon, but to hold you over until …
iBad…At Math…And Music…And Life…
I’m struggling to figure out who’s made of more fail inthis situation. Is it Hazem Sayed, the fellow who parted with $900 to buy Amanda Foote’s spot in an iPad 2 line (iPads cost around $500), or is it Amanda herself because she sat in the rain for nearly 2 days to make 300 bucks? …
There’s A Talking Calculator Older Than The Sharp One!
Have a look at the TSI speech plus, a really old talking calculator. Tell me. Was it huuuge? I wonder exactly how old it was. Let me check. Wow, it was created in 1976 ish. So…not that old. And by the sounds of it, not that huge. 7.1 inches long by 4.5 inches wide by …
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Talking Watch Survey
I just got a link to a survey, so I thought I would pass it along. There is a team of students who are trying to design a high-quality talking watch, and they want our input. They have some pretty neat ideas about things they want to put into it. It’s a quick 10-question deal, …
The Future of Shopping At Future Shop Just Got Brighter!
Yes! Yes! Yes! It’s so good to bring good accessibility-related news. Sometimes, I get so mired in the bad, the futile attempts to make things better. It’s so nice to see a victory, and here it is. I wish I could say I had more of a hand in this. I did write that old …
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His Defence Was Dead On Arrival
Here are two scary thoughts for anyone living in New York. There’s an ambulance company there that allows persistent violent felons to drive their ambulances, and one of them was dumb enough to use the ambulance as a getaway vehicle after a robbery. Kevin Cheeks had been driving the ambulance for a couple of months. …