[Kde-accessibility] something intresting

[Pupeno]

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The other day I saw on television, a program that made a fragment, to you=
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inventors.
It was a mexican program (in spanish) and among the 4 inventions, there w=
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oriented to help handicpaed people.
One was a stick for blind people, with some kind a buzzer that detected t=
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presence of objects, nice idea but the stick could have use a little bit =
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design since it was hard to handle.
The invetion that impressed me most was a globe, with some sensors, conne=
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to a electric circuit that was conected to a computer running a program w=
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a TTS. What it did was read the mouse gestures and translage the hand sig=
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messages that people that can't talk or hear use into syntethized words. =
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think that was a brilliant idea.
I was made using Ms Windows and Visual Basic so I don't know how free/ope=
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thinkers they are, but if they made available the specs of the globe and =
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circuits and the source code of the program, it would be kewl to make a p=
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to Linux. Maybe even using some special gestures integrated into KMouth, =
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could be really kewl :)
In fact, a whole interface using globes would be nice.
Thanks.
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Pupeno: pupeno@kde.org
KDE Accessibility co-maintainer
http://accessibility.kde.org
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