Usually, the Tech Tuesday segment discusses high-tech products.
Assistive Technology can also be low-tech. Today’s Tech-Tip Tuesday features a low-tech invention which solves a seemingly age-old problem with another low-tech and fairly common piece of assistive technology.
The CLU Clip was developed by students at the California Lutheran University. As the name implies, it is a clip designed to hold a cane upright against a table or desk. Most canes are smooth and top heavy.
They slide and fall quite easily. Often the most practical thing to do with a long white cane is to lay it down somewhere out of the way. With the CLU Clip, however, a cane can be fastened upright against a horizontal surface.
The CLU Clip design team is a semi-finalist in a student competition sponsored by the Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology Society of North America. Five finalists will be announced at the RESNA conference going on this month.
Check out the CLU Clip homepage at: http://www.cluclip.net/
There is also a brief video of the CLU Clip in action at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fytNFvZBesY&feature=youtu.be
