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Modded Nintendo Lets You Play Mario With Your Eyes
hasanabbas1987 writes "A group of engineers going by Waterloo Labs in Austin, Texas created a way of controlling an original NES by simply moving your eyes. By using electrodes placed around the eyes to track the movement of a players eyeballs, they were able to jury rig a Nintendo to accept eye movement as controller input." Quite the production on the video (attached below) too.
Its a minor quibble, but paraplegic specifically refers to someone who has lost the use of their lower body, they generally can use their hands.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Fortunately, there are. Virtually all modern text adventures (or interactive fiction, as people like to call them now) can be played by blind people that use screen readers, like most programs that output text to a terminal or text area.
In the NES is a Super Mario Bros II cartridge, however the game being played on the TV is Super Mario Bros I. If this part is faked, I wonder what else in this story is fraudulent.
Real men drink coffee as black as the heart of Corporate America, so the sig is irrelevant.
Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
Non-dextrous?
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.