Build your perfect keyboard with RocketKeys

MyVoice Inc. designed RocketKeys, an application available now on the App Store.  The app’s goal is to make communication accessible for everyone; individuals with Autism, ALS, Aphasia, Apraxia, Cerebral Palsy, MND, Parkinson’s Disease, Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injury and more may benefit from this keyboard application. RocketKeys is a customizable talking keyboard for people with speech […]

Liftware: bring the joy back to mealtime

Individuals with mild to severe tremors may often struggle performing tasks requiring fine motor skills such as eating.  As a result, they may end up with food everywhere except their mouths.  Today’s medicine offers many promises to such challenges, but some individuals may prefer to not take medication if it can be avoided; and those […]

Smart devices talking to one another: freaky or exciting?

I remember watching a movie over 14 years ago where the house had several automated items, ultimately simplifying the residents’ lives.  I was wholly intrigued with the idea of turning lights on from across the room, or playing a song by simply saying it aloud.  Though I was lost in reverie pondering the future, never […]

How will Google Glass benefit people with disabilities?

By: Laura Medcalf Throughout the years, technology has gone from boxed and small (but very heavy!) television sets with faulty rabbit ear antennae with fuzzy picture as seen here to sleek, lightweight flat screens mounted on walls with crisp, high-definition picture: What is arguably crazier to reflect on is how computers with limited functions once took up […]