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Career Champion | Unique Ability
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Shining a light on the uniqueness of disability. How to use this site. What’s your story? Sally Champion blogged weekly in 2013 about the process of setting up her own business as a writer. She had polio as a child and after years of working nine to five, she was having to think differently about how to earn her living. Career Champion: Signing off”. Read other episodes Episode 20: “Signing off” Here we are at the end of my blog about setting up a part time…. As Sally Champion nears the end of her 20-wee...
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Sisters Create ‘The Disabled Life’ Comics Highlighting Life With a Disability | Unique Ability
https://unique-ability.nz/2016/06/22/sisters-create-the-disabled-life-comics-highlighting-life-with-a-disability
Shining a light on the uniqueness of disability. How to use this site. What’s your story? Sisters Create ‘The Disabled Life’ Comics Highlighting Life With a Disability. Illustrators and sisters Jessica. Oddi have a lot to say about living with a disability but have decided to draw their thoughts instead. Noting a lack of comics featured disabled people, the two created a blog on Tumblr The Disabled Life. To showcase their talents as artists, as well as connect the disability community. The sisters also p...
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Prosthetic arms inspired by video game world of Deus Ex | Unique Ability
https://unique-ability.nz/2016/06/09/prosthetic-arms-inspired-by-video-game-world-of-deus-ex
Shining a light on the uniqueness of disability. How to use this site. What’s your story? Prosthetic arms inspired by video game world of Deus Ex. Square Enix and Eidos-Montréal have teamed up with Open Bionics. A specialist in low-cost prosthetics, to develop new designs based on the world of. The franchise delves deep into a possible future where human augmentation is commonplace, changing society and warfare in equal measure. Two arms — one based on Adam Jensen, the hero of. Another on the wider.
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GlassOuse: the world’s first assistive mouse | Unique Ability
https://unique-ability.nz/2016/04/29/glassouse-the-worlds-first-assistive-mouse
Shining a light on the uniqueness of disability. How to use this site. What’s your story? GlassOuse: the world’s first assistive mouse. The GlassOuse is a bluetooth mouse that’s worn like glasses. Based on your head movements, it moves the cursor onscreen. You bite on a blue extension to click, and it can go a week without charging. Right now, it’s raising funds on IndieGogo. And it will retail for $299 when it’s available. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Have your say. Cancel reply.
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Deaf inventor develops innovative exercise product | Unique Ability
https://unique-ability.nz/2016/04/13/deaf-inventor-develops-innovative-exercise-product
Shining a light on the uniqueness of disability. How to use this site. What’s your story? Deaf inventor develops innovative exercise product. While working out in 2014, Mark Wood nearly smashed his knee when it was hit with a kettlebell. It was then that the idea was conceived of a new type of weighted equipment that would change how you grip when working out, making it safe and versatile. You can support the Indiegogo campaign here. 8216;s interview with the Gripbell models, who were sourced from. Fill ...
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Videos | Unique Ability
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Shining a light on the uniqueness of disability. How to use this site. What’s your story? This first series of videos features successful New Zealanders discussing their achievements in the light of their experience of disability. They share how their “unique ability” has influenced their journey through life and what they see to be the most pressing issues in their particular field of expertise. Liam Sanders and Jade Farrar. Jaylee Dutcher at the skate park. Shane Burcaw laughs at his nightmares. Follow...
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Thought-reading headset lets users speak their mind | Unique Ability
https://unique-ability.nz/2016/05/13/thought-reading-headset-lets-users-speak-their-mind
Shining a light on the uniqueness of disability. How to use this site. What’s your story? Thought-reading headset lets users speak their mind. By combining a wirelessly connected EEG headset from Emotiv. And an assistive communication app, California-based Smartstones is bringing the power of speech to those who have difficulty communicating verbally. The “think to speak” technology works by reading the brainwaves of the user and expressing them as phrases spoken through the app. App, a user can simply t...
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Quadriplegic man gets US’s first autonomous car driver’s licence | Unique Ability
https://unique-ability.nz/2016/10/08/quadriplegic-man-gets-uss-first-autonomous-car-drivers-licence
Shining a light on the uniqueness of disability. How to use this site. What’s your story? Quadriplegic man gets US’s first autonomous car driver’s licence. Driver Sam Schmidt, a paralysed racecar driver pictured here in 2014 in front of his modified Corvette, recently received a first-of-its-kind driver’s licence. USAF/AL BRIGHT. By Laurie L. Dove Source: HowStuffWorksNow. Schmidt’s modified Corvette, was retrofitted by U.S. Air Force performance lab Arrow Electronics. The Colorado-based company installe...
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Tips and tools | Unique Ability
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Shining a light on the uniqueness of disability. How to use this site. What’s your story? 8220;How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment; we can start now, start slowly changing the world.”. This purpose of this section is to offer practical tips and tools to use for creating constructive change. We’ll add more soon. Meanwhile let us know if you have any ideas. Don’t you hate it when people park in accessible parking spaces when they don’t need to? More tools coming soon…. Enter your comment here.
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Isaac Lidsky – What reality are you creating for yourself? | Unique Ability
https://unique-ability.nz/2016/10/09/isaac-lidsky-what-reality-are-you-creating-for-yourself
Shining a light on the uniqueness of disability. How to use this site. What’s your story? Isaac Lidsky What reality are you creating for yourself? Subtitled and transcript below.). 0:11 When Dorothy was a little girl,. She was fascinated by her goldfish. Her father explained to her that fish swim by quickly wagging their tails. To propel themselves through the water. Without hesitation, little Dorothy responded,. 8220;Yes, Daddy, and fish swim backwards by wagging their heads.”. We fear the worst. Three:...