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ADAPTECHGBC: 03/19/15
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Thursday, March 19, 2015. Cyberlegs project wants to equip amputees with robotic limbs. You'll see a lot more. In the news, but it doesn't mean high-tech prostheses for the lower limbs. High-tech glove could help the deaf-blind send text messages. In German-speaking countries, deaf-blind people use a "tactile alphabet" called Lorm to communicate with one another, which involves a series of motions on the hand. SEE ALSO: 3D-Printed Prosthetic Hand Could Make Kids Feel Like Iron Man. A deaf-blind person ca...
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ADAPTECHGBC: This smartwatch app tracks epileptic seizures and alerts someone in an emergency
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Friday, March 27, 2015. This smartwatch app tracks epileptic seizures and alerts someone in an emergency. March 27, 2015. Share on google plusone share. Thirteen years later, Dolan and his brother Alex have cofounded a company, Neutun. Pronounced ‘Newton’) to improve the quality of life for epilepsy sufferers. Conceived at Hack The North last fall, the idea was to use the accelerometer in the inexpensive smartwatch to accurately track seizures. Dolan says that the opportunity to read the data from a smar...
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ADAPTECHGBC: 04/15/15
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015. How electrifying the brain wards off Parkinson's disease. Implanting electrodes in the brain and zapping it helps patients with Parkinson's. Disorders, but doctors have never been sure. Exactly. Now, researchers from UC San Francisco. Strong in Parkinson's patients, making it harder for them to move voluntarily. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Mobile Apps for Students with Disabilities. Accessibility Tutorials for Microsoft Products. Read Write and Think Student Materials. 8220;Ada...
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ADAPTECHGBC: 02/13/15
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Friday, February 13, 2015. Watch This Man Scale a Rock Wall With DARPA's Bionic Arm. The DARPA-funded DEKA Arm System is an amazingly life-like prosthetic arm controlled directly by electric signals from the muscles. It's the first such prosthetic. Available to the general public. And it can help you climb a rock wall like a badass. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Mobile Apps for Students with Disabilities. Accessibility Tutorials for Microsoft Products. Read Write and Think Student Materials. Adaptive Techn...
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ADAPTECHGBC: 01/26/15
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Monday, January 26, 2015. IBrailler Notes for iPad Brings Easy-To-Use Braille Keyboard to Blind Users. IBrailler Notes for iPad brings an easy-to-use Braille keyboard to blind users, allowing for an easy way to create, edit, and share notes. The app began as a summer project at Stanford University in 2011 and aims to offer blind and vision impaired iPad users an easy way to create and edit Braille notes. IBrailler Note for iPad. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Mobile Apps for Students with Disabilities.
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ADAPTECHGBC: 04/24/15
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Friday, April 24, 2015. Disney Invented a Way To Control Your Phone Using the Sounds It Emits. In an effort to bring more functionality and interactivity to a device that is often just a large monolothic touchscreen, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research have come up with a series of accessories that manipulate sound. Coming from a smartphone’s speaker to serve as an external controller. And because it doesn’t actually draw any power from the device (besides the constant ult...
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ADAPTECHGBC: 12/12/14
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Friday, December 12, 2014. Bionic Eyes Can Already Restore Vision, Soon They'll Make It Superhuman. We now live in an age where radical technology can help the blind to see. An impressive enough accomplishment in its own right that gets even more mind-bending when you consider what's it means for the future. UV vision? Eyeballs that zoom in and out like a camera lens? Scientists 'round the world are working to improve the retinal prosthesis system, or what many people simply call a bionic eye. Will inclu...
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ADAPTECHGBC: 04/06/15
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Monday, April 6, 2015. Microsoft Debuts Office Lens, A Document-Scanning App For iOS And Android. Office Lens, a mobile document scanner app that works with OneNote, for iOS and Android smartphones. The app, which allows users to snap photos of paper documents, receipts, business cards, menus, whiteboards, sticky notes and more, was first launched a year ago as an application designed only for Windows Phone devices. In addition, Microsoft says that Office Lens offers a business-card scanning function tha...
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ADAPTECHGBC: 02/05/15
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Thursday, February 5, 2015. New live music and events platform caters to people with disabilities. About 15% of the global population. Lives with some form of disability. That means more than one billion people have limited access to appropriate health care and other services, and up to 190 million adults have significant difficulties functioning. SEE ALSO: 10 Ingenious Inventions for People With Disabilities. Enter Why Not People. In an email. ". What I see is not representative of society. It's embarra...
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ADAPTECHGBC: 04/01/15
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015. This mechanical exoskeleton makes walking more efficient. For the first time, researchers can improve the way humans walk without using an external power source, according to a study. THEY IMPROVED HUMAN WALKING — WITHOUT A POWER SOURCE. A 7 percent reduction in the energy cost of walking isn’t entirely new: researchers have achieved similar gains in the past. In 2013. IT’S SORT OF BEEN A GRAND CHALLENGE IN THE FIELD.". Collins, et al (2015). The device is also super light weigh...
