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Waking up, calming down

Fujitsu is working on a steering wheel-mounted drowsiness sensor that will detect subtle changes in the driver’s heart rate and respond with various wake-up calls, including opening the windows, blasting the radio and jolting the wheel. Seriously ...

From ED GOTTSMAN, ZDNet,  1 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Fujitsu

Grid Computing meets ET

This turned out to be a pretty nerdy post, but there are nuggets you might be able to use as small talk in the next mosh pit you visit. (Hey, it’s worth a try.) The World Community Grid is a network of individually-owned PCs each running a small, ...

From ED GOTTSMAN, ZDNet,  19 Oct 2008

Cozying up on Twitter

Twitter…yet again. Stephen Rose over at Fast Company has discovered a new use for the beast: Following the activities of business contacts with whom you want to ingratiate yourself. Twitter (skip this paragraph if you know) is a micro-blogging service. ...

From ED GOTTSMAN, ZDNet,  24 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Fast Company,  Facebook Inc.

Lollicams

According to The Register, there were 1,400 incidents of crossing guard abuse (driving past while they’re in the road, revving engines, shouting epithets, etc.) reported in the UK last year. Dozens of guards (they’re called “lollipop ladies” because of ...

From ED GOTTSMAN, ZDNet,  10 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Twitter Inc

Perfecting the potato

New Scientist is reporting on new gaze tracking technology designed for use in 3D virtual worlds. Gaze tracking has been used for years by people with motor neurone disease, cerebral palsy and other “locked-in” syndromes, but only to operate desktop ...

From ED GOTTSMAN, ZDNet,  21 May 2008

REST: Reducing Effort in Script-based Testing

The (narrow but very important) problem: Test scripts used for version 1.0 of an application will probably break when applied to version 2.0 of that application. Testers try to edit old test scripts so that they won’t need to create new ones from ...

From ED GOTTSMAN, ZDNet,  14 May 2008

On polite police

The Register is reporting on a pilot program in the UK under which police officers will have video cameras sticking out of their helmets. The goal is to encourage good behavior on the part of suspects (and, I suppose, on the part of police ...

From ED GOTTSMAN, ZDNet,  7 May 2008
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.

On being detained in Cairo

I’ve brought up Twitter before. Twitter is a micro-blogging service. You use it to “tweet” messages of no more than 140 characters. Your friends, colleagues and the general public can follow your Twitter stream and keep up with such urgent intelligence ...

From ED GOTTSMAN, ZDNet,  7 May 2008
Related Topics: Twitter Inc

On owning your own bits

I recently got rid of my CD collection. It wasn’t a big collection, as these things go: Maybe 200 discs. I didn’t even need the shelf space…I just wanted to clear out an increasingly embarrassing relic of the “age of atoms.” Where am I getting my music ...

From ED GOTTSMAN, ZDNet,  6 May 2008

Internet addiction: threat or menace?

An editorial in a recent issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry presents the case for “Internet addiction” as a legitimate disorder deserving of inclusion in the DSM. (The DSM is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders–the ...

From ED GOTTSMAN, ZDNet,  2 May 2008

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