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Your Heartbeat on an iPhone

ECGs are used to diagnose irregular heartbeats, or arrhythmias, a common type of medical problem that can also be the result of a heart attack. AliveCor's monitor is built into a case that slips onto an iPhone. It has two electrodes that pick up voltage changes on the skin—the ECG signal—produced by the contraction of the heart. A low-power wireless transmitter sends the signal to the phone. Power comes from a lithium watch battery that Albert claims will last for 180 hours of continuous use.

via MIT Technology Review <--- Check the video!

Meet The Tacit Project. It’s Sonar For The Blind.

It's wrist mounted and senses objects from about 1 inch (2 cm) to 10 feet (3.5m).  It has generally fast response time (fractions of a second) to quickly navigate complex environments. It's designed to help a vision impaired person to navigate complex environments.  Mounted to the back of the hand, the force feedback means it doesn't interfere with other assistance devices that mount elsewhere and use audio feedback cues. The learning curve is measured in seconds, everyone who has worn it has figured it out immediately.

http://grathio.com/2011/08/meet-the-tacit-project-its-sonar-for-the-blind/

好東西!

筆記本筆套

via bookofjoe

設計的真好!

Carzor

The Carzor (card + razor, get it?) features a small, lightweight razor with detachable blades and a tiny mirror on the reverse side of the blade storage space. When you find yourself stubbly before a big meeting, you only have to rotate the head of the razor, attach a blade and scrape those pesky chin hairs into oblivion.

via gajitz.com

真是好東西ㄚ

Science DNA-based artificial neural network is a primitive brain in a test tube

via Engadget

好多有趣的書籤

想看其他的請按這邊

Sharpener Jar

via bookofjoe

好東西 我喜歡!

空瓶的25種創意用法

剩下的24種在這邊

圍繞著一棵樹的幼稚園

http://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/ring-around-a-tree/

這個真的很棒ㄚ 我也想去念這家幼稚園

Red Cross Charity Donation Vending Machine

via Japan Trends

利用自動販賣機來做小額捐款是不錯的方法ㄚ

Insert Coin: Social Bicycles bike sharing system

via Engadget

Mobile Phone + Web Access Control + GPS Tracking = Good public goods mangement system

Mini Maxwell

There are now about half a dozen Mini Maxes running around across the United States. As our software development is starting to calm down, I thought I would take a moment to showcase a few of the robot's features.

As you probably have guessed, this robot runs ROS (on a netbook). We're using an ArbotiX to control the arm and neck servos (7 AX-12s total), while the Create base connects directly to the netbook. Two demo buttons are attached through the ArbotiX allowing users to quickly add user input to programs.

http://www.showusyoursensors.com/2011/06/introducing-mini-maxwell.html

Arduino to Android IO on the cheap (aka Poor Man's NFC)

via jdesbonnet.blogspot.com

PS.是利用手機上的指南針sensor 來收資料 ! 真是巧妙ㄚ

"Schrodinger's Hat"

via bookofjoe

Creative and Cool Polaroid Inspired Products

via cookedbrain -> more products

GAMA-GO and Hello!Lucky print to benefit Japan

The print - titled “Japand-Aid” - is a 15” x 20” three-color letterpress poster.

via Boingboing

Zoomin Watch

via crunchgear

Matthew Cusick's Human Maps

via bookofjoe

Rings made from circuit boards

via Adfruit

MIT Media Lab gets a multiplicitous new logo

via Engadget , Check the Video, it is fun to watch.

Microchip Paintings

via adafruit

Wearable Sensor Reveals what Overwhelms You

Q Sensor, a device made by Affectiva, a company based in Waltham, Massachusetts. It looks like a large digital watch with no readout. A button on its surface lights up in different colors to convey the level of battery charge. Two small silver electrodes on the underside of the device continually send out a low electric current to measure skin conductance. Skin conductance rises along with physiological levels of stress, including both excitement and fear.

Over the last year, the Q Sensor has been snapped up by researchers studying everything from sleep to game design, eating habits, and brand design. Scientists are using it to tailor new treatments for autistic children; others are planning studies to see if information about stress can help treat people with drug addictions or post-traumatic stress disorder. But anyone might benefit from the information the sensor provides. Knowing our daily state of stress could help us understand ourselves and our daily lives better. It might also, perhaps, help us de-stress more effectively.

via MIT Technology Review

就是一種皮膚導電性測量的機器 當你緊張放鬆時會有變化 心理學家用來測量很多各式各樣的人類行為 不過我是認為單單只用一個變化來測量複雜的心理現象 有些太過簡化

 

Wheelchair for the developing world: cheap, rugged and easy to maintain

via boingboing

超好笑的台語諺語

今天下午搭計程車回家時 司機實在厲害

每句話都有諺語

這裡我跟大家分享一句現代版的台語諺語

"吃菜吃到肚臍為界 嘴念阿彌陀佛雙手摸乳"

真是太好笑了!

我就是喜歡台語這種直接了當又有點粗俗的率真

The World 100

http://www.toby-ng.com/graphic-design/the-world-of-100/

這才叫生活中的裝置藝術

via BoingBoing

Wiki Reader 入手

最近在上一些生物化學 分子生物學 化學之類的課程 需要經常查Wiki 雖然可以用PC可是畢竟看書時經常是躺在沙發上 而且很多時候是用PC看電子書 或是各大學的Open CourseWare (video)  要切換畫面很麻煩 有了Wiki Reader就方便多了 另外Wiki  Reader的 random 功能也是很適合打發時間 我在信義誠品買的 蠻適合給Geek的聖誕禮物

http://thewikireader.com/

Cities made of broken technology

via BoingBoing

Geeky wreath

via BoingBoing

Hourglass traffic light design

via Boingboing

鋪路像在舖地毯

http://inhabitat.com/2010/11/15/amazing-brick-machine-rolls-out-roads-like-carpet/

Balloon Plus Coffee Grounds Equals Versatile Robot Gripper

via Botjunkie

垃圾壓縮蓋

via Core77

有趣的窗簾

via Make

超酷系統家具

via core77

好東西ㄚ

Electric Skin that Rivals the Real Thing

One, made by researchers at Stanford University, is based on organic electronics and is 1,000 times more sensitive than human skin. The second, made by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, uses integrated arrays of nanowire transistors and requires very little power. Both devices are flexible and can be printed over large areas; they are described this week in separate papers in the journal Nature Materials.

Highly sensitive surfaces could help robots pick up delicate objects without breaking them, give prosthetics a sense of touch, and give surgeons finer control over tools used for minimally invasive surgery. "Our goal is to mimic the human skin," says Zhenan Bao, professor of chemical engineering at Stanford. Human skin responds quickly to pressure and can detect objects as small as a grain of sand and light as an insect.

via MIT Technology Review

The Egg-Bot Kit

via adafruit

這個好ㄚ!

極簡風手機

http://www.johnsphones.com/

Custome Made Moleskine Covers

http://www.engraveyourbook.com/

花粉(Pollen)真面目

via Telegraph <-- More Photos

Pollen (花粉) Wiki

可愛的星戰小絨毛娃娃

via Cookedbrains

Buy from Etsy

Filter Could Make LCDs More Efficient

The best LCDs today only emit about 8 percent of the light produced by their backlights. This means that they drain batteries in portable electronics and ramp up electricity bills in homes (the California Energy Commission estimates that televisions consume 10 percent of the electricity in homes).

Normally, LCDs use several layers of optical devices to colorize, polarize, and shutter light from a backlight, and inefficiencies emerge at every step. Now researchers at the University of Michigan have made an optical film that promises to boost the overall efficiency of LCDs by more than 400 percent--so that 36 percent of light makes it through. The new optical film was developed by researchers led by L. Jay Guo, professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the university. The film colors and polarizes the light that passes through an LCD more efficiently than conventional components can.

via MIT Technology Review

PS.原來LCD背光只有8%被我們看到 大部分都被率掉了 讓我蠻驚訝的 雖然我不知道應該是多少 但是我一直覺得應該有個30%.

Creating flexible robotic hands (tr35)

Aaron Dollar, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Yale, has invented a robot with a soft touch. His plastic hand is deft enough to grasp a wide variety of objects without damaging them. What's more, it's cheaper and requires less processing power than the metal hands typically used in robots.

Dollar's design uses plastic fingers that can lightly brush against an object--whether it's a wine glass, beach ball, or telephone--before firming up their grip. Few researchers have used soft plastic in robotics before, partly because it can be difficult to shape small, precise parts out of such materials. To get around this problem, Dollar mills wax molds for each finger. He places sensors and cables in the molds and then pours in layers of three types of plastic with varying degrees of softness--for fingers, joints, and finger pads. Once the plastics harden and are removed from the molds, the fingers are ready to be hooked up to a base. Dollar's design has already been licensed to one robotics manufacturer, and because it replicates the flexibility and gentleness of a human hand, he is investigating whether it could work as a prosthetic.--Kristina Grifantini

via MIT Technology Review

Excellent POV clock

via Make

one of the first digital cameras.

via adafruit 

柯達研發的數位相機 1975年

100 LASERCUT JEWELRY DESIGNERS

via Ponoko ---> More Works to see

雷射切割自製項鍊墜子或是小飾品

香菇LED燈

via Make

日本人設計的 我覺得不錯 應該會賣

Ultimaker 3D Printer

http://www.ultimaker.com/

Tiny Probes Measure Signals Inside Cells

The Harvard cell probes, described today in the journal Science, are three-dimensional, V-shaped silicon nanowires with transistors at their tips. They're flexible and coated with two layers of lipid molecules, just as a cell is. When the transistor tip, which is about the size of a virus, encounters a cell, the cell pulls it inside. Lieber's group found that the tips can also be removed gently, with no ill effects to the cell. They've used the transistor probes to take electrical measurements in single cells and are now using them to measure electrical activity in the groups of adjacent cells that form tissues.

via MIT Technology Review

超酷的飛行監視攝影機

via Make

via BoingBoing <--這台也很像

實在是太棒了 一台有自己的起落場的飛行監視攝影機 可以收納兼充電!