This is pretty genius actually: wristband which interprets ambient noise, vibrating to alert deaf people of danger
It's all prototype, but it could be a ridiculously awesome device. The prototype design is pretty sexy:
The extrapolations for everyday use is also pretty awesome; you could "train" speakers to pick up cries for help in hospitals, baby crying in homes, the rain (for washing), your cellphone (for when you're plugged into your iPod), fire, the Athaan.
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That is a dope gadget. I would want a watch like that. :)
Amazing stuff yea. Spent most of the second half of my second year Post-Grad Information Management studying Ambient technologies. Really out of this world kinda stuff... but not that far off either.
And I kept on thinking that the socio-economic divide just gets greater and greater. Some of these technologies are already being used in China. Its difficult to fathom though, an Ethiopian or Sudanese woman marching through the dessert with her child strapped to her back and an ambient device on her arm telling her its 45 degrees centigrade :P
Pervasiveness makes for better absorption methinks - the more widely its used and accepted as an ordinary thing, the better it can be used (like cellphones and internet bakning now).
We shall have to hope and see :)
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