Last summer, I went boating with some of my friends on Lake Lanier and one of the biggest problems we faced wasn’t how to get up on the wake board (I failed miserably), it was how to keep our drinks from flying away into the ocean.

I really wish we had some Lil’ Suckers, one of a few of the new products from Naidex 2008.
Naidex 2008 is the UK’s premier exhibition on homecare, disability and rehabilitation, opened this year from April 29, 2008 to May 1, 2008 at the National Exhibition Center (NEC) in Birmingham, England. It features a lot of universally designed products which I always dig.

Below are some of the cool new products that were featured at this years event.
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I read an interesting article in the New York Times this week that talked about a new program called Direct Note Access that will be released as a plug-in for some popular audio-recording programs. Direct Note Access has the ability to listen to a chord and transcribe the notes in it. The technology to record notes isn’t new. Programs have already existed which can record individual notes.

But while the New York Times is raving about its application to musicians around the world. I am imagining the possibilities for those who can’t hear. Read More »

Over the last few months, CATEA’s SciTrain project has been working with the Georgia Tech Sonification Lab to develop training modules for their preliminary sonification software known as the Sonification Sandbox. Sonification is the process of turning visual graphs and data into auditory graphs which can be used by people with and without visual impairments to better understand concepts like point estimation, trends, etc.
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