“Mike Phillips is a gamer and freelance technology writer born with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). In this 3.5 minute video, he explores the frontiers of accessibility, playing games such as World of Warcraft and Unreal Tournament 2004 with just his thumb, a proximity switch, Origin Instrument’s Swifty™ switch interface and AssistiveWare’s SwitchXS® software. Mike not only uses his Mac to play games, he also writes game reviews for Inside Mac Games, presents at conferences, wrote chapters for several books, works on a novel and is active as a photographer and digital artist. Mike Phillips lives in Tampa, FL, United States of America.”
Check out the video, it’s really amazing.
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Far aside from this topic, I just got done taking a look at the megatokyo comic strip. Good job hawk, very good job.
That is really cool. I just sent this link to a nurse that helps take care of my brother, much like the Mike in this video, and he really-really liked it. He’s also going to send this link to Oprah Winfrey.
So…those guys are pretty much PWNED, right?
Wow, that’s pretty damn amazing.
Agreed.
wow, amazing, but does anyone knows how the little machine works? the yellow thing he uses to control his mac
i dont wanna DL plugin, so imma pretend. i am amazed at how that guy did that thing with that other thing to play that one game with his disability. kool!