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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
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
News 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
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
Unbelievably beautiful GIF art by DarkAngelØne Xeni Jardin
Science Brain-computer interface gives lock-in sufferers a way to communicate Cory Doctorow
Meet the Theremini, retro reimagining of early electronic instrument Rob Beschizza
Copyfight UK cinemas ban Google Glass from screenings Cory Doctorow