I saw something that made me chuckle yesterday. I was coming home from picking up some stuff downtown. As I approached the door of our building, I heard the buzzer pad’s dial tone coming on and off, on and off. I thought “Oh boy, we have some poor souls who don’t know how to work …
Category Archives: gadgets
HumanWare Is Losing Its Humanity
I have to tell a little story, because I feel it needs to be told. It starts off with me being a dumb silly person. When I went to Barb’s place last weekend, I decided to take my Trekker with me. Since I knew that it would need a recharging after it was on all …
>Lose The Silicone, Get A Ringtone?
>Dr Hideto Tomabechi thinks he’s created the perfect way to enlarge women’s breasts. I think he’s full of shit. According to this story, he has gone on Discovery Channel with this breakthrough. He thinks by including a subliminal baby cry in a sound clip, and then having women play it, they will subconsciously go into …
>Yea, I Have Won, Yippee Hoo, Good Evening.
>If this goes to the blog, I think I have conquered the n86's email client.
The Wayfinder Access Refund Program Is Up
Well, here’s the final Wayfinder Access update. That refund program they promised is alive and functioning. Here’s the general page, and here’s the refund application form. Three things of note: If you bought more than one region code, say so in the notes section because you’re owed 300 euros per region. Also, apparently you don’t …
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Wake N’ Bacon
Somebody really doesn’t like an alarm clock that goes beebeebeebeep, and figures there are others who feel the same. So, whoever this is made at least a concept alarm clock with a totally different stimulus to wake the person up…the smell and sizzle of bacon! Yes, this alarm clock theoretically cooks a strip of bacon. …
NFB’s Database of Usable Consumer Electronics
How cool is this? Yup, there I go again with the how cool is this? But come on, how cool is this? The NFB is compiling a list of blind guy-accessible appliances. Do you know what this means? If you’re shopping for a new washer/dryer/dishwasher/other household gadget, but you don’t want to get stuck with …
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Cell Phone Camera Study
Ooo! Another study! I just received this yesterday. I think Steve should participate, because he takes awesome blind guy pictures. If I participate, I can show a good example of a blink failing at snapping a good picture. Just between the two of us, there’d be the two extremes haaha! Here are the details. Hi, …
Cell Phones And Accessibility of Emergency Messages Study
This cell phones and emergency services study will probably be our only post for the day, but hey, it’s something. Here are the study details. Researchers at the Neil Squire Society in cooperation with the Canadian Association of the Deaf, the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and the Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities …
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The Vtech Bullshit Hotline
On all of the Blue Jays radio broadcasts they’ve been plugging this Vtech Bullpen Hotline contest where you can win a VTECH Dect 6.0 Model DS6321-2 dual-handset cordless phone every time the team playing against the Jays goes to their bullpen. Actually they use this stupid wording about “every time the Jays ring up the …