Assistive Tech
Affective computing and physiological sensors Feb 5,2004
Rosalind Picard's affective computing research group at MIT is a good place to go if you're interested in any kind of physiological sensing. They're also doing some interesting thinking about how physical state reflects human affect.
Fonts for Dyslexic Readers Nov 22,2003
These folks have been developing fonts that help people with dyslexia to read more clearly. " target="_other">These folks disagree with the research.
Neurosky Feb 20,2006
From their site: "NeuroSky, a fabless semiconductor/module company, has developed a non-invasive neural sensor and signal processing technology that converts brainwaves and eye movements into useful electronic signals to communicate with a wide range of electronic devices, consoles, and computers." So far they haven't got any links to an actual product for sale up.
Open Prosthetics Project Sep 22,2006
The Open Prosthetics Project is an open source project dedicated to the sharing and dissemination of knowledge on the construction of artificial limbs. This article by Quinn XXX summarizes it nicely.
Seeing with the tongue Jun 3,2004
Neuroscientists in Montreal, Denmark, and the US have developed a Braille-like tongue display of 144 pixels, that stimulates the visual areas of the brain through the tongue.... It may be impractical now, but it's an interesting approach to the problem of providing vision replacement or augmentation through technology.
Text Is Life Nov 14,2005
We Talk in Text is a Livejournal community of people who communicate mainly or prefereably through text, as opposed to speech, images, sound, or video. Thanks to Terri Senft for the link.
ThinkCycle Aug 30,2003
From their mission statement: "ThinkCycle is an academic, non-profit initiative engaged in supporting distributed collaboration towards design challenges facing underserved communities and the environment.... "ThinkCycle provides a shared online space for designers, engineers, domain experts and stakeholders to discuss, exchange and construct ideas towards sustainable design solutions in critical problem domains."