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It's a guilty pleasure to get home and watch the 6:30 evening news on ABC (how messed up is that?!), and Friday always features their Person of the Week. Last week was more human interest than design, but very inspiring. Richard Ellenson's son has cerebral palsy, and so the "successful advertising man" developed an ingenious device to help him communicate better.

From the frog's mouth:
A totally new language structure was developed to provide quick access to topics and relevant vocabulary. Users can switch from nearly 2,500 intuitively organized and customizable phrases to word selection or spelling keyboards for more specific communication. The interface is so intuitive that a sentence that would take minutes of hunting-and-pecking to program on other devices can now be spoken at the push of a button.

The man is here; the machine is here; and after fruitless searches on YouTube and GoogleVideo, the segment, sadly is nowhere.