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happy mutants Silver Ring Splints: stylish custom jewelry/medical appliance for people with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Seventh grader's Lego-based Braille printer Cory Doctorow
microsoft The man behind Microsoft's Clippy shares its backstory Rusty Blazenhoff
Technology AirPod Pros are functionally pretty close to hearing aids David Pescovitz
apple watch Watch: Apple Watch now has cool "assistive touch" functions for people with limb differences Mark Frauenfelder
Audio How the oil industry accidentally created autotune Thom Dunn
babies MIT's "Smart Diaper" alerts caregiver when it's wet David Pescovitz
CES Segway announces a new egg-shaped hover chair, because why not Thom Dunn
assistive technology Assistive tech can't handle the unusual fonts people use on Twitter to be cute Mark Frauenfelder
amazon Amazon: 'Unlikely' string of events led to Echo recording a family's private chat & sending to some random guy Xeni Jardin
happy mutants Wonderful marble run made out of fidget spinners, and a parable about accessibility and abled people Cory Doctorow
art This 'wheelchair dance' company asks, 'Where's the disability?' Xeni Jardin
corporatism The W3C has overruled members' objections and will publish its DRM for videos Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Portuguese proposal to legalize breaking DRM passes Parliament Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Australian media accessibility group raises red flag about DRM in web standards Cory Doctorow
Copyfight UPDATED Scanning artists de-loot stolen Egyptian treasure from a German museum Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Public Domain Day outside the USA: what Canada and the rest of the world get today Cory Doctorow
Boing Boing Gadgets This USB charger is powered by an electric wheelchair Joe Hall
makers Stephen Hawking's speech synthesizer now free/open software Cory Doctorow
Business Trends in Chinese mobile UIs Cory Doctorow