Tag: EYEWRITER

The EyeWriter was originally designed for graffiti artist Tony Quan, who was diagnosed with paralyzing ALS in 2003. Aiming cameras at the user's eyeballs, the apparatus tracks the user's eye movements, thereby allowing him to draw. Some lucky little ones got the chance to try out EyeWriter at the recent Cinekid festival. There, the EyeWriter 2.0 was hooked up to the RoboTagger printing 'bot, ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. We've talked ...

If you live in Britain and are accustomed to bulky AC plugs (as we in the States are), London-based design student Min-Kyu Choi is about to turn your world upside-down. Or, at least, that's what the judges at the Brit Insurance Design of the Year competition would have you believe. Choi's design beat out the late Alexander McQueen's ravishing, alien-inspired Spring/Summer 2010 collection for the ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/paralyzed-graffiti-writer-tags-again-with-eyewriter-design/'; It must be nice to have friends as kind and brilliant as those of Los Angeles graffiti artist Tony Quan. And Quan must be a great guy (and artist), to boot. Since 2003, Quan has had Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disorder that renders its sufferers largely paralyzed, while ...