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Always warms my heart to see technology re-used in interesting ways that can help people with a medical condition. Way back(~2004) I was working for UPS. One o
by vvanders 11y ago
Always warms my heart to see technology re-used in interesting ways that can help people with a medical condition.
Way back(~2004) I was working for UPS. One of our package loaders had a BlackBerry, back when only suits had them. He was mute and since he couldn't speak he used the BB for all of his communication. Here I was just geeking out over smartphone tech(Kyocera 7135, woo!) and he was able to have his whole life changed in a fundamental way with tech that was conceived for business productivity.
- eli 11y agoI once wrote an article about how the Danger's Hiptop phone (aka T-Mobile Sidekick) was revolutionary for the deaf. Pretty sure it was the first cell phone that interfaced directly with the TTY network from the phone keypad. It was a pretty neat little device actually. Ahead of its time in many ways.
- vvanders 11y agoVery much so, it was the first consumer device that had push-email, Danger was very much ahead of their time. You can see lots of things from it that influenced Android when Andy Rubin went over to Google.
- wickawic 11y agoI used to work at Subway ~10 years ago and a deaf couple would always come in and order with their sidekicks. They would even tell us jokes! Thanks for digging up that memory for me :)