Whenever I would go home to dialupville, I always drooled at my brother’s Blackberry. While I’m fighting with a computer that’s half dead and using dialup, he’s sitting there click clickedy clicking his way onto google with no trouble. I would drool and drool, but I knew that Blackberries werent’ accessible. That isn’t true anymore, …
Category Archives: gadgets
CRTC Makes Pretty Cool Ruling
This is good news! The CRTC has made a ruling that, among other things, blind and deaf folks whill have better access to accessible cell phones and text messaging, and there will be better captioning and description on TV. I think the coolest thing I saw in there was that every wireless provider has to …
My Little Blind Dune Buggy
Ooo! Driving the Blind Driver Challenge Vehicle sounds like fun! Can I do it? Can I can I can I? Please? I personally would have to take a hell of a lot of training to feel confident out on the road, but this sounds like a cool idea. I’d at least enjoy driving it around …
Cell Phone Chatter
I figure while I’m ranting, I might as well get both of my small complaints out of the way first. Steve finally got himself a new cell phone, the same one I got a couple years ago, and while I’m largely happy with how smooth it was for him to get his hands on the …
iPhone Info
Holy crap! Remember when I mentioned that the iPhone was going to come up talking? Well, now the internet is exploding with blinky iPhone related resources. Check this out. Want some chapters of the manual in other formats? There’s a blog for that. Want to read a review of the phone? He has a page …
Twitter Twits
First it was walking and texting-related injuries. Now those injuries have subcategories, one of them is twinjuries, or injuries suffered while twittering. James Coleman decided he would jog and tweet, tweet and jog, and so he was jog jog joggin’ along..and then…it happened! Clonk! Head meets tree, and he heard tweets of a different kind. …
Cell Phone Seminar
There’s an interesting online seminar, I refuse to say webinar with any seriousness, being put on by Citizens with Disabilities of Ontario. the subject is cellphones and people with disabilities and the presenter is Jeff Stark. I think they ask some pretty interesting questions, and if you register, you can ask questions of your own. …
Want To Have Your Phone Talk Right Out Of The Box? There’s An App For That.
This is pretty cool news. The iPhone that is being released in mid July will come equipped with a version of Voiceover, the Mac’s screen-reader. That means that, out of the box, the iPhone will work for blind folks. We won’t need to buy another screen-reader package and lay out more cash. That’s a pretty …
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We Notice Too Many Ads
Here we go again with the comercials. I saw an ad for Iams dog food that said that the food would produce the seven signs of healthy vitality. Uh, what other kind of vitality is there? I’ve never heard of unhealthy vitality. I guess cancer could have healthy vitality that would be unhealthy for you, …
USBeans
This is a scary sign of the times. Because we’re sooo busy that we can’t make it out for lunch, Heinz has invented the beanzawave. What is it? A tiny microwave oven that you can hook up to a USB port on a laptop that uses radio frequencies to cook your food…so you never have …