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- The challenges of travel for the disabled
- I'm on my way to a weekend ECKANKAR conference in Minneapolis, MN, and once again had the "growth opportunity" of dealing with air travel. Although flying from place to place was once a pleasurable adventure, it is now typically a long, tiring, dreadful experience. If it is problematic for an...
- Tags: Wheelchair, Flight, Aerospace & Defense, Real Estate, Manufacturing, Business Operations, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- How about a wheelchair that is also an exam table?
- How about a wheelchair that is also an exam table?Great Idea will hospitals buy it thoughThe chair seems like a great idea but i wonder if hospitals will put the puse before the nurse.I don't know...That's the great thing about entrepreneurship. There must be some facilities who can afford these...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Entrepreneurship, wheelchair
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- For the blind the Web is one step forward, two steps back
- For the blind the Web is one step forward, two steps backIf there's a demand for......new assistive technologies, someone will hack them together--we don't need yet ever more of the intrusively heavy hand of government "allowing" or disallowing this or that. That is your proposal isn't it? That...
- Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Channel management, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Major Corporations, Americans with Disabilities Act, Web, wheelchair
- Discussion threads 2007-08-29
- Photos: Stephen Hawking's zero-gravity flight
- The physicist gets an "amazing" experience of weightlessness and a rare moment out of his wheelchair. His next goal: "Space here I come."
- Tags: wheelchair, physicist, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-04-27
- The Sims - LoPan skin (Windows)
- It's David Lo Pan, the 2,000-year-old "Basketcase on Wheels" (minus the wheelchair, unfortunately) from John Carpenter's "Big Trouble in Little China." It also includes an alternate "Younger" Lo Pan head. Note: Lo Pan head #1 works best with the "RomanCrew" shape, while #2 needs to use the C003fa_longhair model. Turn...
- Tags: Wheelchair, Carpenter, Josh Horowitz, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2003-10-23
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- The Queen could better manage security of personal information than civil servants are
- It is worse than the article saysImagine this: You are a patient in a hospital. Your doctor decides to order you a wheelchair or other medical device. Now, your name, address, and Social Security Number is on the desk of a worker in a mom and pop medical supply store,...
- Tags: Social Security, Operational accounting, HEALTHCARE, security, worker
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- Deconstructing United Airlines: Where Customers are Transactions
- United Airlines: Customers are Merely Transactions If you're a loyalty marketer and look at my United profile, you find something that would make you 4.5 on a scale of 5.0 when it comes to warm and fuzzy.  You'd see hundreds of thousands of United Airlines frequent flier FF miles;...
- Tags: Customers Ltd., Mile, Customer, United Corp., United Airlines, Corporate Communications, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Marketing, Human Resources, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Experiences of Supporting Local and Remote Mobile Phone Interaction With Touchscreen Based Situated Displays
- The use of mobile phones appears to provide a range of opportunities for supporting interaction with public displays. Furthermore, such interaction can help overcome some of the problems associated with interactions with public displays, e.g. the potential inability of users interact with a touch screen display because of its physical...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Lancaster University, Phone, Mobile, Interaction, Cell Phone, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2009-06-16
- New software enables communication for students with severe disabilities
- ITPro featured an interesting article late last week about a new application called "How was School Today?" The simple question after which the software is named is hardly simple for non-verbal or severely disabled students. These students often must rely upon time-consuming computerized devices to hold even brief,...
- Tags: Software, Child, Tools & Techniques, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- (Honda's walking-assist devices--photos)
- (Honda's walking-assist devices--photos)WonderfulAs an individual with MS and exceedingly weak leg muscles, this is a very welcomed device. I don't care what it looks like - and I don't think it looks bad - anything that can keep me out of wheelchair at age 55 would be a...
- Tags: Honda Motor Co., walking-assist device, photograph
- Discussion threads 2009-04-15
- (Gallery: GM, Segway take P.U.M.A. for a spin)
- (Gallery: GM, Segway take P.U.M.A. for a spin)PUMAOh come on! RE: (Gallery: GM, Segway take P.U.M.A. for a spin)It looks like a faulty wheelchair. It needs to look a lot better than that. And why only 2 wheels? What's the real benefit? I mean, how long can you...
- Tags: P.U.M.A., Segway, General Motors Corp., Gallery
- Discussion threads 2009-04-07
- Gallery: GM, Segway take P.U.M.A. for a spin
- It looks more like a tricked out wheelchair than a Segway PT or mini-car but GM and Segway say their planned P.U.M.A. will hit 35 mph. by Andy Smith
- Tags: Segway, General Motors Corp., General Motors, P.U.M.A., cars, Andy Smith
- Image galleries 2009-04-07
- Breaking News On The Inauguration: Look, Don't Listen (Yet)
- Former President George Bush (#41) and wife Barbara engage the Clintons, on Fox News' live stream at 11:18 a.m. It's 10:37 a.m. -- and the video feeds I have been watching from the Inauguration have just frozen up, for the third time. ...
- Tags: CNN, Fox News, Internet, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
- The future? Man falls in love with robot
- The future? Man falls in love with robotI underestimated the creepiness!...That wheelchair was a definite bummer. It looks like they took one of those Japanese lifesized dolls and put motors in it.Just buying the chassis probably broke the bank, so they didn't have enough money to add realistic motive movement.
- Tags: Robots, robot
- Discussion threads 2008-12-11
- Cybercriminals syndicating Google Trends keywords to serve malware
- In an underground ecosystem that is anything but old fashioned when it comes to abusing legitimate web services, cybecriminals have started exploiting the traffic momentum, and by monitoring the peak traffic for popular search queries using Google's Trends, are syndicating the keywords in order to acquire the traffic and direct...
- Tags: Google Inc., Blog, Malware, News Story, Blogging, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Hurricane Ike and some class acts
- Although the Citrix analyst bash was interesting, informative and a wonderful opportunity to re-connect with old friends both at Citrix and in the analyst community at large, getting back to my office became quite a challenge. Continental Airlines, in preparation for Hurricane Ike, canceled our flights and did little to...
- Tags: Analyst, Citrix Systems Inc., Pharmacy, Compay, Public Relations, C/C++, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-14
- Kentucky School District Helps Special Needs Student Communicate and Learn With Mobile Technology From Dell
- Anderson County Schools wanted to make it easier for a student with severe cerebral palsy to communicate and take part in classroom activities. Previous attempts at technology solutions were frustrating for the student and required a high level of manual intervention. The district purchased a Dell Latitude XT tablet PC...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Mobile, Student, Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Case studies 2008-09-01
- How about a wheelchair that is also an exam table?
- The chair seat has a latch at the bottom which helps convert it to a table that can hold up to 600 pounds. This means patients don't have to be lifted, even obese patients. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Patient, Chair Seat, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Are you underinsured?
- Are you underinsured?The problem is costs.Being uninsured is not the problem. It is a symptom. It is the cost of medicine. It is so expensive, that we cannot afford the insurance no matter who handles the policy. The profit margins on all the suppliers of medicine are absurd. A push...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Being Uninsured, Insurance deductible, health care, insurance, national healthcare
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- TSA is failing us, let my associated ranting begin thusly
- TSA is failing us, let my associated ranting begin thuslyHand Sanitizer Bombinterestingly enough, it's probably completely possible to build a bomb out of a can of hand sanitizer and a lighter. well... maybe not a bomb persee... but enough of a distraction i'm sure.i know i'm not giving away...
- Tags: Transportation Security Administration, F'ing
- Discussion threads 2008-06-09
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