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.'"

Comments

Re:That's nice.

[Lemmeoutada Collecti]

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.

Re:Has existed for at least 15 years

[PyroMosh]

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.