Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
There is a car built just for wheelchairs. Lacking a front seat, the user of a wheelchair enteres the Kenguru through a large door at the rear and is locked into place at the front controols. The controols are built around an easy to use joystick. Pretty darn cool.
Now this is nifty, I wonder if this uses some of the technology that was pioneered at Lawrence Livermore Labs a few years ago.
Japanese geological research firm Oyo will launch this month a handheld radar system that rescuers can use to locate people that are alive but unmoving and trapped under rubble.
The system can pinpoint the location and the depth of persons who are breathing by detecting the electromagnetic waves that reflect back from their moving chests.
To use the system, wireless antennas are placed at the search site to send out signals and capture the signals that reflect back. This information is relayed to the handheld radar reader, which analyzes the data and displays moving objects as black dots and living but immobile persons as red dots. Each antenna can search an area of 1 square meter to a depth of around 4.5 meters. A single radar analyzer can read the signals from as many as 30 antennas.
[via we make money not art]
Oyo
I’ve seen these popping up in public places fr a while now, in fact I saw one of these in the lobby of my office just the other day. The one at my office is in a big white box that says “For Trained Personal Only”. I thought the point of the whole thing was that untrained people were supposed to use this… Anyway this is a wonderful life saving device. When used, the device will issues verbal instructions on how to use itself and will diagnose the patient to determine if a jolt to the heart is needed or not. Could be what keeps the victim off the slab and out the door.
[via GadgetMadness.com]
Philips HeartStart Home Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
NASA has unveiled a plan to return to the moon not too long ago. It’s going to look more like the old Apollo missions of the ’60s. Sounds like a good idea to me, the basic ideas have been tested already and are known to work. The advances in technology over the last 30 years will make for larger vehicles and better performance. Lets hope for solid funding and for politics to keep its nose out of the mix so we can look up at the moon and marvel at the bases there.
Fancy yourself a bit of a MacGyver? With this you might be a bit closer if you make one of these.
This little unassuming Altoids tin holds the following:
Not the sort of think you want to try explaining to the TSA guy when your trying to board your next flight, but then again if it will save your bacon in a tight spot you might want to stow this gem in you checked luggage. For years I kept a tiny (3″x”3″x1-/2″) first aid kit that had all sorts of ‘extra’ stuff in it with me and I can’t tell you how many time that came in handy. I think I need a new one… And some curiously strong mints.
[via MAKEzine]
Escape My Head: TTTk, Travel Tinker Trouble Kit
Eh, I might see a use for this if your real lazy and don’t want to have your computer with you every waking moment of your life. Not that anyone if fool enough to pull a stunt like that.
Xmultiple has come up with a new technology called FlashPoint, which lets you transfer files between all kinds of flash drives (or any other USB memory peripheral) without a laptop or any USB bridge. With SOTG (Sharing-On-The-Go) technology, Xmultiple’s new ShareDrive USB flash memory pen drive is small, light and powered by a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. Comes in 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1GB and 2GB sizes.