Category: Cool

The Funhaler

FunhalerWow! Yeah, it’s for kids but still… It would be kind of cool to have one of these whenever I had to take a puff of my asthma medication.

The Funhaler® is a paediatric small volume spacer that makes it easier for young children to take their aerosol-based medication. The Funhaler® is specifically designed to improve compliance in asthmatic children through being both functional in delivering medication and fun to use. It has the unique feature of having an incentive module that encourages children to use the delivery device more effectively

The Funhaler

MOO Card Test Set

MOO card test set

These are a set of free cards that I got from Moo.com. I like the way they look, some of the full frame formatted photos have white borders but I can fix that by uploading some edited photos. The paper has a nice weight to it. The surface is smooth satin and feels great. I’ll be buying more of these soon. I love the way that Flickr can be used to not only display your photos but to also serve as the source for physical items. These cards are darn cool. 

MOO card test set on Flickr – Photo Sharing!

STAX Food System

Chris Powells' STAX system 

If anyone asks me my opinion on weight loss I just say eat less and move around more. It’s a simple concept but it can be hard to do sometimes. Oddly enough, the ‘moving around more’ part, at least for me was never a problem. It was the eating less part that was tough. I hate feeling like my stomach is trying to digest itself. 🙁 Anyway, I saw this today and realized that keeping the food with you through out the day would help a lot. Lots of diets tell you to eat a bunch of small meals throughout the day but where do you keep the food? The Stax system solves this problem. The design is pretty clever. The food is loaded into color coded containers (protein, carbs, veggies, etc) and then into the bag. The bag has a gel pack to keep everything nice and chilly. It comes with a timer so you know when to chow down and the best part is you can use this with just about any diet you want. So if your looking to follow a diet you found in a book or prefer to ‘roll your own’ you can do both with this. It’s like a LEGO set for food, it gives you the tools to do the diet that works for you. Not too shabby.

Welcome to Chris Powell’s STAX

Wired Nextfest 2006

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I had the happy accident of seeing a sign for the Wired Nextfest in a subway on Tuesday and made it one of the last things on the big list for NYC.
Holy crap, all the time I was there I kept thinking Roy Batty’s line from Blade Runner "I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…’ This was stuff that I had blogged about or read of in magazines…

Flickr photoset Wired Nextfest 2006 

DIY Lenticular Stereo Images

Lenticular dragonI’ve seen parallax barrier/lenticular kits that you can buy in computer stores in Thailand. It had some software (simple image manipulation, 3D title maker, and the lenticular program) along with a picture frame that had a screen of the ridged lenticular material. The whole thing looked very cool. I think it was being sold by a printer maker, but I can’t remember what one. I do a bit of stereo photography here and there and was quite intrigued with it, but sadly not enough to buy the kit. The free software in the DIY article should be fun to play with though. 

 

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Colograms – a simple way to create stereoscopic images