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Dear Santa, I have Usher...
By members of usherLife egroup
What do we want for Xmas? When we were kids, we would write a “wish list” to Santa, but for Usher people of all ages, this seems to linger on. They were asked, via the UUK egroup, what they wished for Xmas to help with their Ushers. Obviously a cure/treatment for our RP is on the top of our wish list, but this won't happen for a while, so that’our “in the meantime” wish list...
- Herbie Usher Car: The name says it all, doesn’t it? We would LOVE to have an automatic driven car to take us anywhere where we want to relieve the pressure from our partners, friends, etc.
- Super Usher Vision Spectacles: One of our most popular wish - a super, sexy and thin spectacles that can see in the dark, magnify in/out to read small print, train departure boards, etc. Also auto-lens adjustment to enable us to adjust to the quick light/dark conditions. And on-lens flashing warning signs of incoming people, small children, objects, traffic, etc. An every Usher’s dream gadget...
- Accessible Mobile Phone: One of the most frustrating things about the advancing technology of mobile phones is by throwing in everything from built-in digital cameras to kitchen sinks into one little device is that the LCD screen is STILL inaccessible for many of us. We desperately NEED font/size adjustment, inversion of background into a negative mode (white text on black background), magnifying modes to be able to read the irritatingly small icons and “fixed” text as well as reading SMS messages. Come on, you mobile phone manufacturers, we need those accessible features now!
NB: This wish has now been granted – see Telecommunications FAQs.
- Inspector Gadget Hat: If you’ve seen the cartoon series and the film, then you’ll know what the Closeau-type hat can do - bring out flashing warning signs, mirrors, lights and maybe a robotic hands to do hands on communication.
- Magic White Cane: An invisible (white) cane that has the magical power to divert people from crashing into us and also divert cars, buses and lorries from running us over.
- Smart Usher Shoes: Shoes with sensors to warn and stop us falling down steps, or in manholes, or tripping over things and bumping into small children. Also could help with crossing roads.
- Accessible TV: TV with the facility, via remote control, to configure subtitles - font, size and position.
- Smart Guide dog: One of the key issues about Usher and deafblind people who have a guide dog is that they are not trained as hearing dogs for the deaf, so they would love to have a “smart” guide dog that can do BOTH roles and maybe do a bit of hands on... sorry paws on, communication?
- Move Over See Hear!: BBC to axe See Hear! in favour of Usher See!. Say no more...
- Item Finder: A device that enables us to find things around the house such as TV remote controls, pens, coins... and maybe partners who are hiding from us!
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