[oats-sig] ASUS mother board good for OATS devices

This looks awesome, I'm totally inspired by this concept... It is

Totally... Jambu would surely be key to this and turning it into an AAC
device... Integrating Open Gazer and Open Interaction (or whatever Stephen's
work will be called!) would be impressive too!  It makes a good 'vision
device' to aim for... Perhaps we should write it up as a little brief...

Cheers.

Simon

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[mailto:oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Steve Lee
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 9:40 AM
To: OATs Project Special Interest Group
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Jambu could play a part too.

In fact other applications come to mind. If FireVox works with Splashtop
then you have an internet device for the visual impaired.

Add a dash of Nokia's Hildon input method and you get tablet device.

Add a twist of voip and you get communications.

add a splash of multimedia .....

On 16/10/2007, Simon Judge <simon.judge at nhs.net> wrote:
>  This looks awesome, I'm totally inspired by this concept...  It is 
> interesting that AAC (communication aid) devices have, historically, 
> been based on Win operating systems but 'locked down' to prevent 
> access to the OS (apparently for increased reliability, though there 
> is some evidence against this [1]).  In recent times the companies 
> have finally relented and admitted that there is an OS behind their 
> software and now let users have access to the OS, however it now means
that boot times are an issue!!!
>
> 5 second power up to a functioning AAC device is a very desirable goal 
> and if it can be on a FLOSS and lightweight platform that allows 
> access to some basic/simple other tools through Ffox, then awesome!!!
>
> I really think this is brilliant!!!!  I'd better get writing research 
> proposals......
>
> Cheers.
>
> Simon
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Steve Lee
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 6:03 PM
> To: OATs Project Special Interest Group
> Subject: [oats-sig] ASUS mother board good for OATS devices
>
> This low power, fast boot mother board acts is a communications 
> appliance and includes Linux and a stripped down Firefox called 
> splashtop. It should be an ideal base for OATS devices AACs given its
> 5 seconds power up time.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2th2dz
> http://www.splashtop.com/
>
> also see
>
> http://gemal.dk/blog/2007/10/10/firefox_on_the_motherboard/?from=rss-c
> ategor
> y
>
>
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