{"id":1793,"date":"2016-08-23T08:30:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T16:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2016-08-23T09:22:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T17:22:33","slug":"the-transformers-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/the-transformers-come\/","title":{"rendered":"The Transformers Cometh!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Written by:\u00a0 Luke C. Hsieh, Assistive Technology Advocate, Community Access Center<\/a><\/pre>\n
While there has been little exciting news in the realm of high-tech consumer electronics – other than the soul-eating-time-devouring-productivity-killing Pokemon Go – there is some news in the tablet word.<\/p>\n
Sometimes masquerading as a therapeutic app for people with agoraphobia, or, more generally, a cure for most Americans’ aversion to outdoor exercising,\u00a0 the iPad has<\/em> gotten faster and bigger.<\/p>\n
Not to be outdone, Samsung has now also released an enormous 18.4 inch Android tablet called the Samsung View.<\/a>\u00a0 These bloated Android tablets, of course, have actually\u00a0 been with us since 2011, starting with Viewsonic’s Smart Monitor and HP’s all-in-one Android Computer.<\/p>\n
However, with the more recent popularity of carbon fiber and other metal alloys, there has been an exciting and welcoming move by the durable medical equipment (DME) industry to make their traditionally bulky and heavy devices more sleek, mobile and portable.<\/p>\n
For example, check out this fold-able scooter called the Luggie<\/a>.\u00a0 I first saw Luggie<\/a> in late 2014, when a vendor did a presentation at my workplace, Community Access Center,\u00a0 in Riverside, California. This lightweight portable scooter actually folds into a luggage-shape so that people can tote it around like a luggage.<\/p>\n