Tongue-Controlled Gameboy Advance SP Launched 248
Hangin10 writes "Simmunity Corporation and newAbilities Systems Inc. is going to introduce a specially modified tongue-controlled Gameboy Advance SP for young people with quadriplegia. They say 'We retrofit the Gameboy Advance SP with an internal PIC microcontroller to decode the wireless tongue transmitter signals and activate the GBA buttons. Games which do not require multiple simultaneous button presses can be played. We also offer custom games and special programs for augmented communication.'"
The only one I can think of that's also fun... (Score:2, Insightful)
That would work
Re:That's nice. (Score:4, Insightful)
> probably never had to spend four hours lying on your kitchen floor trying to get back into wheelchair because you fucked up trying to open a jar of pickles,
First I was going to point out what a reactionary jackass you are and how the average person in a wheelchair probably read your post and thought "Wow, what's up *his* ass?" Then I read that sentence I quoted up there, called the wheelchair-bound dude in my office over, and we both laughed at it until we were crying. It's the "pickles" thing that makes it so funny, I think.
Oh, btw, Mike (the guy in the chair)said "I hear that shit all the time from people who think I need to be saved from 'normal' people. Hell, I'm in a wheelchair but that tool has no sense of humor. Between the two of us, I win."
Think about that.
Re:My great uncle had quadriplegia... (Score:4, Insightful)
God bless these people... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:That's nice. (Score:5, Insightful)
The ability to smile and/or laugh at just about anything is one of the only mental mechanisms that keep a lot of people sane. It's not the most noble thing in the world, but I'll be damned if I'm going to spend every day and night of every day feeling sorry for people who don't want my pity.
Socially, you're damned-if-you-do and damned-if-you-don't when it comes to the 'differently-abled'. If your heart bleeds, you are given hostility because you're just overcompensating for something you 'just could not understand'. If you try to smile about it, you're given hostility for finding 'humour in the suffering of others'.
In conclusion, fuck everyone else and live your life. Try to feel good about yourself, and try to make others feel the same. Don't count on either one succeeding, though.
Re:That's nice. (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:OS name (MOD PARENT DOWN) (Score:1, Insightful)
FUNNY!!!!!