Archive for the ‘Living’ Category
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
Back here and here in 2006 I wrote about a bottle cap tripod for your camera.
There is now another take on using a bottle as a way to hold your digital camera from Photjojo.
This latest one differs in that it fits over the bottle cap rather than replacing it.
[The Bottle Cap ...
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Scientific American has an article about the Open Prosthetics Project.
The Open Prosthetics Project has applied the “open source” model to the design of inexpensive prosthetic hands and arms that a small demand can still support. The designs are free for anyone to use.
This is an exiting project to me as it's an ...
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Sunday, April 5th, 2009
More and more uses are surfacing for RFID chips and I can foresee many practical applications for alternative access to a myriad of life related activities.
Hackaday reports on a phone prototype which uses RFID tags to dial.
It is common for our motor skills and eyesight to deteriorate as we get ...
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
ReadWriteWeb reports on iPhone app that wirelessly connects to a Bluetooth-enabled glucose meter.
A good example and model of technology assisting health and well-being.
I think lots more work on hardware device interfacing needs attention allowing software <-> hardware interactions as these types of things tend to foster possibilities for environmental control.
[Diabetes ...
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
bluetooth wristband
Hack a Day had a post about this BT bracelet.
Forgetting the usefulness or otherwise of the display, I think there must be a myriad of uses due to the vibration of the device, especially for Blind users, for alerts of different kinds.
[via] [Bluetooth Bracelet ...
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