AssistiveWare’s Giesbert Nijhuis Launches Apparel Line

By Paul Natsch • December 20, 2008

I thought I’d pass on the news that MacWorld just published an interesting news item about one of our very own, Giesbert Nijhuis. Giesbert has started selling his own line of T-Shirts under the label, AssistiveWear. Congratulations Giesbert!

You can check out the full article here.

- Paul Natsch

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Paul Natsch

My name is Paul Natsch and I’m a thirty-nine year-old C4—C5 Quadriplegic who’s been using Macs for over twenty years. I enjoy playing games, beta testing games, writing, composing music, chatting, and doing just about anything I can think of on my iMac.

2 Comments For “AssistiveWare’s Giesbert Nijhuis Launches Apparel Line”

atmacjournal (Ricky Buchanan) Dec 19th, 2008 at 12:49 pm

New ATMac post: AssistiveWare’s Giesbert Nijhuis launches apparel line http://is.gd/czMd
jason Nolan Dec 23rd, 2008 at 1:36 am

Cool. Just shared the video a couple links down. May show it in my tech/children class this winter.

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