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"One Thumb to Rule them All"



This video is just flat out amazing. Mike Phillips is a Mac gamer and writer, who just happens to have been born with spinal muscular atrophy. He's apparently only able to move his thumb, and yet that doesn't stop him from playing Unreal Tournament and World of Warcraft. This is possible thanks to a proximity switch connected the Swifty USB switch interface from Origin Instrument and the SwitchXS software from AssistiveWare. The latter looks basically like a kind of on-screen keyboard, that Mike scrolls through to select arrows or letters, etc. Seeing Mike frag people left and right is enough to make me keep away from him online.

AssistiveWare has a variety of products to help disabled Mac users, as well as other videos demonstrating some of them.

[via MacDevCenter]

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This video is just flat out amazing. Mike Phillips is a Mac gamer and writer, who just happens to have been born with spinal muscular...
 

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davidn

The video is now also on YouTube for anyone who wants to encorporate it in a blog post or so: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BhHwk9qSvI

May 31 2007 at 5:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
brian

To lessen the load on the server (and because this video is probably going to get Dugg), here is a torrent link:
http://snipurl.com/1mqoy

May 30 2007 at 4:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jenny

we should utilize the latest technology to it's maximum. i really appreciate creating technology aids to the disable community which can really change their lifestyle.


Jenny
http://www.spaml.com

May 30 2007 at 2:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Liam Dunaway

wow, great video, and awesome song!

May 30 2007 at 1:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
SI

Mike's my ex-boyfriend, and he pwns just as much in real life as he does online!

May 30 2007 at 12:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gruff

The words "awesome sauce!" do come to mind. :-{>

May 30 2007 at 12:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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