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World Service,28 mins

27/04/2010

Digital Planet

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Arun Mehta discusses need for software designers to keep people suffering disabilities, such as cerebral palsy, in mind when they are designing computer software. Drew Hemment talks about the FutureEverything festival and its first winner, EyeWriter, that allows a paralysed graffiti artist to draw with his eyes. Brady Marks joins forces with the theatre company Rimini Protokoll to demonstrate the multi-player computer game designed for a theatre audience at the Brighton Festival. Randy Sarafan riffs on the 62 projects he has been able to make from old computers.

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