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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.'"
Is tetris for the original GB. Hours and hours and hours of addictive fun, and fairly discrete (as in seperate) button presses.
That would work
> probably never had to spend four hours lying on your kitchen floor trying to get back into wheelchair because you fucked up trying to open a jar of pickles,
First I was going to point out what a reactionary jackass you are and how the average person in a wheelchair probably read your post and thought "Wow, what's up *his* ass?" Then I read that sentence I quoted up there, called the wheelchair-bound dude in my office over, and we both laughed at it until we were crying. It's the "pickles" thing that makes it so funny, I think.
Oh, btw, Mike (the guy in the chair)said "I hear that shit all the time from people who think I need to be saved from 'normal' people. Hell, I'm in a wheelchair but that tool has no sense of humor. Between the two of us, I win."
Think about that.
I'd like to see more eye-tracking software available to people for use with games. For quadralegics or for people with limited mobility of their extremities, eye-tracking would be pretty useful. I did some work with eye-tracking in college.
http://github.com/gbook/nidb
With all of the greed in high-tech, its great to see some people actually making lives a bit better.
You should feel so very proud of your ability to express an entire paragraph of text without coming anywhere near making a point.
The ability to smile and/or laugh at just about anything is one of the only mental mechanisms that keep a lot of people sane. It's not the most noble thing in the world, but I'll be damned if I'm going to spend every day and night of every day feeling sorry for people who don't want my pity.
Socially, you're damned-if-you-do and damned-if-you-don't when it comes to the 'differently-abled'. If your heart bleeds, you are given hostility because you're just overcompensating for something you 'just could not understand'. If you try to smile about it, you're given hostility for finding 'humour in the suffering of others'.
In conclusion, fuck everyone else and live your life. Try to feel good about yourself, and try to make others feel the same. Don't count on either one succeeding, though.
Glad to see someone else watches The Office. Though I think the quote is flying over people's heads here.
I have a positive modifier on Troll. When I mod someone Troll their karma should go UP!
Oh, I don't know....maybe because it's
FUNNY!!!!!