Tag: Assistive Technology
Introducing Voice Control on Mac and iOS — Apple
https://youtu.be/aqoXFCCTfm4
Voice Control gives your voice the power to navigate, dictate, and work your devices in a new way. Coming Fall 2019.
Introducing Voice Control. Your...
Quadriplegic Man Uses His Face to Move Wheelchair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zARSY2UuEB4
Jim Ryan was a pilot for 38 years but that all changed three years ago while on vacation in Hawaii with his wife, Isabelle.
"We...
Xbox Adaptive Controller’s next mission is helping veterans game again
The Xbox Adaptive Controller is a pretty impressive piece of kit, and though its uses in helping people with limited mobility game against are...
Art as an outlet: Montag, who has been a quadriplegic for 40 years, is...
Jeff Montag’s fingers can’t hold a paintbrush, but that doesn’t stop him from painting portraits, flowers, flamenco dancers, ornery bulls, airplanes, Sioux warriors and...
These Modular, AI Wheelchairs Can Watch for Obstacles Ahead
Wheelchairs can't yet be summoned via voice commands or connect with other wheelchairs to issues warnings about what's ahead. Dr. Konstantinos Sirlantzis wants to...
Hoobox launches first wheelchair controlled by facial expressions
Brazilian start-up Hoobox Robotics has collaborated with Intel to produce an adapter kit that allows almost any electric wheelchair to be controlled by the...
Voice-operated Camera for Journalist in Need
This journalist needed a voice-operated camera, but there was ‘nothing’ on the market. So he made her one
As a trapeze performer, Carolyn Pioro made...
Paralyzed People Control the Robot Waiters at a Japanese Cafe
In a win-win outcome for patients with spinal cord injuries and Japanese startup tech company Ory Lab, robotic waiters are working full shifts, allowing...
Microsoft’s Xbox Adaptive Controller ranked one of the top inventions of 2018
Microsoft’s Xbox division scores another high mark, but not for acquiring another studio or adding another game deal to its holiday season shopping list...
Quadriplegics can hunt again with Be Adaptive Equipment
https://youtu.be/-7NULUwgt3M
Be Adaptive manufactures adaptive shooting equipment for all physical disabilities. Whether you just need help pulling the trigger or if you are a high...
