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Tongue-Controlled Gameboy Advance SP Launched
Hangin10 writes "Simmunity Corporation and newAbilities Systems Inc. is going to introduce a specially modified tongue-controlled Gameboy Advance SP for young people with quadriplegia. They say 'We retrofit the Gameboy Advance SP with an internal PIC microcontroller to decode the wireless tongue transmitter signals and activate the GBA buttons. Games which do not require multiple simultaneous button presses can be played. We also offer custom games and special programs for augmented communication.'"
Isn't that a little outdated? I thought our scientists were working on controls built around electrodes attached to the brain.
I really can't think of any games (other than RPGs) that don't require multiple buttons pressed simultaneously.
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Well, first off, it's a big assumption that I am not handicapped. Second, you assume that the handicapped cannot make jokes about their own conditions. Third, and more importantly, you would probably not laugh when a handicapped person does.
Believe me, the handicapped have good senses of humour. And I am well familiar with handicaps, both from having one myself and from having relatives and friends who do as well. I also volunteered teaching ASL to the deaf when I was younger. Believe me, most jokes lose nothing in translation to ASL, and some even gain something.
So relax, and quit thinking of us as needing your (useless) pity.
You can have it fast, accurate, or pretty. Pick any 2.
I remember a feature in the Nintendo Fun Club magazine (remember before Nintendo Power?) that showed a controller that strapped to your chest, was played with your chin, and you blew/sucked on a tube for the A/B buttons. There's a review from '89. There are also some photos although the one I remember was black and red (maybe just a prototype) and I don't see a tube in the photos...
@AlexSheive
This is a great idea with a good heart behind it.
My aunt has MS and she is basically wheelchair bound and you have no idea how hard it is. She can barely function physically, requiring the aid of other people to help her do every day living things such as getting out of bed, going to the bathroom and transportation to and from work.
Great idea... I love seeing projects that help the folks that most people neglect and leave behind.
When they're apart of your family you really get to see the struggle of people who are wheel chair bound. Its a hard life and anything to improve their life experience is to be praised highly.
Bravo.
Glad someone else remembers. It was called the NES hands free. Introduced in 1989, and was mostly distributed to the Starlight Foundation. Nintendo also sold them at cost to whoever wanted to order one for $120 each.
Touch everywhere, even when inappropriate.