A rush to solve problems that confront the disabled

Article Abstract:

A variety of new products aimed at automating the tasks of the handicapped are entering the market. A contest sponsored by Johns Hopkins University, MCI Communications and the National Science Foundation has produced 800 inventions that help disabled people who work at home or at the office. The equipment includes telephones, keyboards, computers and other essential products that are becoming more important in the business community due to the recent acceptance of the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990. The act forbids discrimination in hiring against disabled people and requires employers to provide equipment for the disabled. Two of the products entered into the contest include a telephone that allows deaf people to communicate using displayed messages and a keyboard that helps people who have trouble with standard size keyboards.

Computer peripheral equipment, not elsewhere classified, Usage, Product information, Equipment and supplies, Inventions, Blind persons, Deaf, Deaf persons, New Product, Blind, Handicapped

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The telephone transformed - into almost everything

Article Abstract:

The telephone is undergoing the most profound transformation in its history as new technology imbues it with the functions of the computer, the fax machine, the pager, the clock, the compass, the stock ticker and the television. The converging of technologies and industries has triggered a market excitement that can be represented by a graphical trend line that goes sky high. In the US alone, there are 11 million cellular telephone subscribers; pagers that display the caller's phone number and messages are being used by 14 million, while on-line information services have a market share of about 20 million users. The advent of the innovative telephone technologies are changing lifestyles and manners, and has overhauled the definition of what is private and what is public.

Innovations, Product introduction, Telephone systems, Telephone System, Trends, New Technique, User Behavior

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