Archive for: disabled technology

Abledbody brings tech love to the disabled

  • March 27, 2009 6:37 am

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We as tech lovers may get all excited and drool happy over the latest Wii controller or laptop and get sucked into our own little worlds, but laptops, MP3 players, and cellphones aren’t the only gadgets that are manufactured.  I would raise the thought that disabled people should or can benefit from technology even more than those that are not disabled.  While we are tapping away on our third cellphone, a disabled person may be searching for information on the latest electroic wheelchair, glucose meter, or crazy iPhone app that measures blood sugar, things that can be truly life threatening.  But these things  never get reported in the mainstream news.  It kind of makes technology geared towareds and helping the disabled an “underground” in a sense.  No one on the outside really knows about it…or really where to find information about it.  This causes an estimated 54 million americans with either a physical or mental disability to get stuck in the technological dark.  That is where Abledbody comes in.