“If I want to put the photos into an email, should I insert or attach?”
Monthly Archive for August, 2008
Alternative forms of communication become necessary when conventional techniques (voice, body language) are compromised due to variety of circumstances.
This super cool technology is still in its infancy though moving fwd due to grant money and such. Basically, the idea is to have a person use their tongue as a mouse and the teeth as keyboards, eventually. By tracking the movements, even on a basic level, the technology allows a person who may not have been able to communicate in any other way to now answer basic yes/no questions.
There has been movement to utilize eye movements but it was found to be costly, slow and likely for mixed signals. (We certainly dont need any more mixed signals!)
BTW, I dont exactly know the segue for this except some neuron in my head connected the movie Le Scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.) Various assistive technology techniques are used to enable this former editor-in-chief of Elle magazine to write a book, despite his movement being limited to only his head and left eye.
So grandma’s back from the hospital and doing fabulous. (thank goodness, b/c she said the coffee there really sucked.)
She will, however, take a couple weeks to recover before getting back to video chat and other such things.
I know I said I would to take a few days, but just couldn’t resist a link to Popular Science and their article about robot aliens.
Yup. Robot aliens. More than 50/50 chance, no less. (Um, should I be worried about this?)
apparently ppl are reading my blog in other countries- or atleast i know that ppl reading my blog speak other languages. where are all the folks in Brasil @?
ps. i had a brilliant insight for a blog post while talking with my bro yesterday on the way to visit our grandma (aka Momma) but i gotta write it later. exhausted and signing off for few days. lata-
Step 1:
Step 2:
Almost done. Super psyched to start tracking my runs again.
“Lots of amphibians (a third to a half of all species) are dying, and their deaths are the breaking-edge of what many scientists are calling the first mass extinction since the dinosaurs checked out 65 million years ago, researchers say in a new paper published online in the Journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.”
So, they say its like a climate change or whatev but i know its direct result of all the little froggies ppl mutilate each semester in HS biology class. Poor froggies.
How do I explain to my FB Mini Me that I have actually been running?! (its just I haven’t gone w/the accelerometer since a few weeks ago.)
Kevin Kelly: Predicting the Next 5,000 Days of the Internet
We have to get good at believing in the impossible, he says. Internet as machine, black hole, oh boy
Okay, so he may no longer be living, but his words are.
George Orwell’s diaries are being published online in blog format, on the same date they were written - albeit 70 years later.
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