Showing posts with label accessibility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label accessibility. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Monday, October 27, 2008

Klango Player

Klango
http://en.klango.net/about-klango/
info: The purpose of existence of Klango is to give as much enjoyment as it's possible to people who like or have to listen to computer programs.


Excerpts from the site:

Klango Player is…

* different, because of its user interface in which sound plays a major role.
* accessible, because it's designed for and with the help of the blind community.
* user friendly and novel, because ideas of the community members are really great.
* well-tested, because people have already spent several thousands hours testing and playing with Klango.
* a multimedia player and recorder, because Klango Player can play and record radio stations, podcasts and audio books. Klango Open Media
Catalogue contains tenths of thousands audio sources available to you in seconds.
* a community center, because you can chat with your friends, discuss at the public forum, and even start writing your own blog. All social features are available directly through the Player's menus and use Player's user interface.
* extensible, because there are additional Klango Programs available to download, install and run with just a few keypresses without leaving the Player.
* fun, because some of these Klango Programs are (audio) games.
* education, because some Klango Programs are serious educational applications.
* FREE, because Klango Player costs nothing(!)

Friday, October 10, 2008

TRON, HAL - Video, Facial Enhancement Algorithm

china: Good: mobile phones:
https://www.lightinthebox.com

Data-driven Enhancement of Facial Attractiveness
http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tommer/beautification2008/
info: Digital Face Beautification

Ubiquitous computing (ubicomp)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquitous_computing
info: human-computer interaction in which information processing has been thoroughly integrated into everyday objects and activities.
This paradigm is also described as pervasive computing, ambient intelligence, or more recently, everyware.[1][2] When primarily concerning the objects involved, it is also physical computing, the Internet of Things, haptic computing,[3] and things that think.

Programming in MicroScript
http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/microscriptindex.html

T-Engine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Engine
info: a project to develop a standardised, open, real time computing system and development environment.

more: For development, a programmer could use any operating system or kernel that T-Builder (the standard development environment) can run on the system. In our present reference implementation, we use a Unix-based operating system.

more: The Toyota Dream House PAPI - the brain child of Toyota Home - is an intelligent home embedded with T-Engine boards and designed to have an interface with other Toyota technologies. PAPI comes packed with advanced technologies including high-definition digital video formats with surround sound, high-capacity DVD players, and wide screen display technologies.

MicroScript programming Language - graphically oriented high level programming language similar to 'Apple Computers's HyperTalk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroScript_programming_language


TRON - The Realtime Operating sytem Nucleus
info:
TRON English Homepage
http://www.tron.org/index-e.html

video: HAL Hybrid Assistive Limb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynL8BCXih8U