Cool Technology...

“Imagine what this could do in terms of trail maps, trail guides, bringing a book to read, etc.

New electronic paper displays video too”

“Prety cool, I used to work with this guy.

Double amputee walks again due to Bluetooth

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bleill lost both his legs above the knees when a bomb exploded under his Humvee while on patrol in Iraq on October 15, 2006. He has 32 pins in his hip and a 6-inch screw holding his pelvis together.

Now, he's starting to walk again with the help of prosthetic legs outfitted with Bluetooth technology more commonly associated with hands-free cell phones.

"They're the latest and greatest," Bleill said, referring to his groundbreaking artificial legs.

Bleill, 30, is one of two Iraq war veterans, both double leg amputees, to use the Bluetooth prosthetics. Computer chips in each leg send signals to motors in the artificial joints so the knees and ankles move in a coordinated fashion.

Bleill's set of prosthetics have Bluetooth receivers strapped to the ankle area. The Bluetooth device on each leg tells the other leg what it's doing, how it's moving, whether walking, standing or climbing steps, for example.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/01/25/bluetooth.legs/index.html?eref=rss_tech%23cnnSTCText

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“It's interesting to note, when he gets a phone call, his ringtone sends him into a magnificent dance number.”

“Ha-ha. Now that's funny. I still remember the Vietnam Vet amputees I worked with in '67,'68 and wonder what happened to them. Also, the Vietnames kids. No chance for them, I'm afraid.”

“saw this in a commercial the other night...WOW...very cool...I'm heavy handed though and would likely break it in half with my first email. Once again...thin is in.

http://www.apple.com/macbookair/”

“.I'm heavy handed


Well I told you, you need to stop working out so much.”

“The new Air has also already been labelled the slowest Mac on the market. So there's a downside.”

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“...stooopid technology...triple post...
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“It's light because they took all the features out of it. The cNet video review spent the bulk talking about what it DIDN'T have.”

“http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0741464420080207

Scientists make unique knee-brace power generator

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Talk about a knee-jerk reaction. Scientists in the United States and Canada said on Thursday they have developed a unique device that can be strapped on the knee that exploits the mechanics of human walking to generate a usable supply of electricity.

It generates enough power to charge up 10 cell phones at once, the researchers report in the journal Science.

Researchers have been working on ways to harness the motion of the human body to create power.

A shoe-mounted device was nice and light, but did not generate much electricity. A backpack device that generated power as it bounced up and down while a person walks generated a lot of electricity, but was heavy to lug.

The new energy-capturing knee brace, its inventors said, seems to find a happy medium -- generating decent amounts of power while still being relatively light.

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“What do I do with the other seven cell phones, I have only three ears. That's cool thinking.”

“all you need are two friends with three ears, with one of them being a deformed friend that is deaf in one ear, and can't hear out the other.
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“Pretty cool, but I wonder how much effort it takes to flex that and if it can cause joint stress over time.”

“I can see it now.......first, we'll be all be generating our own cell phone electricity and be chatting away with each other thinking everything is cool and we're saving the planet, then people will start to disappear. Everybody else will be calling each other to find out where so and so went. Pretty soon YOU will disappear, only to wake up in some weird factory run by LIBBIE machines running on---you guessed it---electricity generated by the people who disappeared! They've been turned into slaves and are running constantly to keep generating electricity for more and more government libbie machines! Pretty soon, they won't need our leg power anymore and they'll start tapping our brains for power created by our FEEEEELINGS! They'll feed computer generated touchy-feely thoughts into out heads to make it SEEM like we're living our lives when in reality we're unconscious SLAVES!! Only when some guy in a cubicle finds out about the whole plot will we be saved. Or will we? Well NO THANK YOU! You can count me out of this one!”

“Saved by Nonconformist once again.”

“Nonconformist - as long as Farrah Fawcett is there, I'm cool with that.

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“Me too, Logan, as long as it's the young hot Farrah.
Say...how old are you?”

“40

Hey, here's a video with more info on the effort needed for that knee brace.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ODEkUoBY3uA&feature=user”