Filed under: Gaming, Video, Odds and ends
"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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Gruff said 12:31PM on 5-30-2007
The words "awesome sauce!" do come to mind. :-{>
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SI said 1:20PM on 5-30-2007
Mike's my ex-boyfriend, and he pwns just as much in real life as he does online!
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Liam Dunaway said 1:52PM on 5-30-2007
wow, great video, and awesome song!
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Jenny said 2:05PM on 5-30-2007
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
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brad said 4:23PM on 5-30-2007
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
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davidn said 6:09AM on 5-31-2007
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
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