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Cheap air filters for the broke?
Cheap air filters when you can’t afford to make a fashion statement? Air pollution is serious enough to create elevated cancer, trigger allergies and asthma is of concern in nearly every major city in the world. However, according to NASA, the worst PM2.5 pollution is in Chinese and Indian cities, places where it may be difficult for the average citizen to afford a traditional, consumer-grade air purifier. As most people don’t want to wear a mask all day long and look like a medieval plague doctor, the hunt is on for other cheap technologies, such as dirt cheap air filters and purifiers. [UPDATE: Thomas Talhelm of Smart Air Filters emailed us some comments/corrections on the article. We’ve included these in the comments below.] One Chinese/American startup, based in Beijing and the US [Update: they are mainly in Beijing], may have a solution. Smart Air Filters has come up with inexpensive kits consisting of little more than a fan, some duct tape [Update: it’s a velcro strap], and a HEPA filter.… Read the restRe-platformed website; check out our new mobile website
Serious new eye-candy on the mobile version of our newly revamped website! Some of you may have noticed the blog portion of our website was down Monday. Our previous hosting vendor and technology was not as customizable as we needed the site to be. Our vendor also experienced a number of other technical issues, including problems with the mobile of the site. (Most of our website visitors are mobile. We were redirecting mobile users to our desktop version as a work-around, which is less than an ideal experience for mobile users.) Our prior site, supposedly CDN-optimized, was also slow to load, typically taking 3 seconds or longer from within the U.S. Performance Tuning So we re-platformed everything to a heavily-customized version of WordPress with CloudFlare as our CDN. We saw load times of under 700 milliseconds in the day, although it slowed down somewhat later in the day during peak Internet usage times.… Read the restBrainwave and Virtual Touchscreen Controllers for Smartwatches
This article was originally published by Acculation on another site. Need for new interfaces With Moore’s law shrinking your desktop down to the size of your smartwatch or a future Google Glass knockoff, a lot of ingenuity is going to go into human interfaces that will allow wearables like smartwatches smartwatch and VR and augmented reality glasses (Google Glass) to run your favorite killer apps. We’ve already seen some of this with smartphones touch screens, multi-touch gestures, and, to a lesser extent, speech recognition largely replacing mice and traditional keyboards. If we want to make the form factor even smaller, touch screens become more limiting. Google Glass (and some of its knockoffs) have a touch sensitive panel on one side for more complex inputs, but Glass is intended to be primarily controlled through gaze and voice recognition. A smartwatch doesn’t have the option of gaze recognition (unless it’s linked to Glass, which may turn out to be a commonplace arrangement), so, at least with current technologies, we’re back to (tiny) touchscreens and voice recognition.… Read the restBiofeedback, Wearables, and Fitness Video Games
This article was originally published by Acculation on another site. As we’ve discussed earlier, one of the reason “sensor laden devices” like smartphones, smartwatches, and the emerging Internet of Things category are so amazing is that all of their uses haven’t yet been invented. There are so many sensors jam-packed into these devices, that software developers are constantly figuring out how to come with novel ways to use these sensors together in newly invented ways. It’s a combination of a large number of sensors jammed into a small space, combined with powerful computers and innovative software that is bringing us into the future. Fitness video games are just one aspect of this wearables revolution. Treating Stress and Pulmonary Disease with Heart Rate Variability Feedback: StressEraser and … Nintendo? Around 2008 one of our team members bought a product called the StressEraser. (It was quite expensive then; it has since fallen to around $130.)… Read the restRecent Posts
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