This short clip from the ITV comedy classic Man About The House, shows an example of what was surely one of the earliest electronic home video games. Depending on your definition of video game of course. The game? Mix up two or more Television channels to make a new programme, to entertain yourself, or others around you. Hopefully making them laugh. See more at the One Switch 100 musuem. One home video game, preceding this, would have been having the sound off, and putting your own words and sounds to the images. Again for entertainment and often the challenge of making the people around yo ..read more

'Livestream of Neuralink demonstrating “Telepathy” – controlling a computer and playing video games [such as Civilsation VI] just by thinking.' "If you’re interested in learning whether you may qualify for current and future Neuralink clinical trials, consider joining our Patient Registry: neuralink.com/patient-registry Learn: neuralink.com/blog Join: neuralink.com/careers Follow: x.com/neuralink ..read more

The Sony Access Controller is a fascinating accessible controller, but it only has 4 switch sockets on its own. 8 if you double them up. It's not enough for some Disabled gamers.  Unfortunately, it's extremely difficult to connect alternative controllers, such as the XAC or HORI Flex to a PS5. This new OneSwitch.org.uk 19-switch interface for PS5 may be the solution for some.  ..read more

Two Celtic Magic Dangles in use. More on them here. Low force joysticks (around 10g) with 10 buttons made available here. Nice ..read more

I'm part way through reading Alvin Toffler's 1970 book Future Shock, which tries to explain what the rate of change is doing to people and may do in the coming years. It's slightly less shocking for being over 50 years old now. It definitely explains a lot of the struggles humanity has been going through with the accelerating rate of movement, change and churn. One more book to add is Madhumita Murgia's Code Dependant. "A.I. is already changing what it means to be human, in ways large and small. In this compelling work, Murgia reveals what could happen if we fail to reclaim our humanit ..read more

With the Tsunami of "content creators" it's easy for people to get lost in it all and never be found. There are some accessible gaming videos that seem to break through. For example, Champutee's video "Gaming After Losing my Arm" with 2.4 million views, and Ricky Berwick's comedy channel with 5.1 million subscribers. It can be done in 2024, and it's good to see these people doing well. Most of course get small numbers. But even if you just make something for yourself... if the process and/or result gives you pleasure, surely there's value in that ..read more

The Game Center (model E1A) by Telesensory Systems Inc is a 1977 games console for Blind people. It includes 8 games that all use one of the earliest digital speech synthesisers. One game, Paddleball, even includes the use of stereo sound. Perhaps the earliest example of such a game.  Over at the OneSwitch Accessible Gaming Musuem, you can hear what the machine sounded like, and more on all the games. There's hope for a modern remake with some updates over at AudioGames.net. Fingers crossed ..read more

The VRAA! box (Variable Reverse And Accelerate) box is an old idea remade for the Sony Access Controller and Xbox Adaptive Controller. It allows for an accessibility switch to output anything from 0-100% strength for the triggers (L2/LT or R2/RT). That means someone who needs to use an accessibility switch doesn't have to be stuck with the choice of stamping on the acclerator or not with nothing in between. A slow drive is possible if needed for most driving games. It can be paired with a Latchbox so tapping accelerator on will hold it on at whatever strength you need. It could be use ..read more

What a brilliant outfit REMAP is for linking often retired engineers with Disabled people who can benefit from their skills. Long may they continue ..read more

 The Walk Box is something that should be available as standard for free for the Xbox Adaptive Controller and Sony Access Controller. Currently it isn't. It converts any standard accessibility switch to walk forwards. With the plus model, it allows you to dial the speed of walking, forwards or back. Used with a stick set as the camera, you can use one stick and one button to explore a 3D world ..read more