Cool wheelchairs

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Robotic wheelchairs

Robotic wheelchairs 05/27/2004 11:02 AM
BoingBoing reader Roland Piquepaille says,

Traditional wheelchairs used by the elderly and people with severe disabilities have some limited functions and flexibility. Their users often need help from nurses or relatives. Several teams are currently at work to develop robotic wheelchairs to overcome these limitations. For example, researchers from the University of Essex and the Institute of Automation at Beijing are developing the RoboChair.

RoboChair will be equipped with a vision system and a 3G wireless communication system. It will be able to avoid collisions and to plan a path. Meanwhile, Professor Ray Jarvis of Monash University’s Intelligent Robotics Centre in Australia, is building another robotic wheelchair which will help people to travel off the beaten track (PDF format, 1 page, 131 KB). His prototype system combines robotic navigation with a four-wheel drive. It automatically ad apts itself to the user’s capabilities and takes control when needed. You'll find more details and a picture in this overview. Keep in mind that there are still major issues to solve, such as security and costs, before these robotic wheelchairs become available.

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Homespun $42 Wheelchairs

Homespun $42 Wheelchairs 07/30/2004 08:55 AM

The Free Wheelchair Mission is an organization that aims to provide free wheelchairs to those in countries too poor to afford proper medical equipment. Inspired by the sight of a crippled Moroccan woman dragging herself across a dirt road (and a little old timey religion) inspired the mission's founder Don Schoendorfer to develop a simply-designed wheelchair that combines a lawn chair, some steel tubing, and a couple of bicycle wheels to create a real wireless mobility device, all for about $42 worth of parts. Even better, the assembly plans for the wheelchair are freely available, and they encourage anyone to use them to create their own.

The Free Wheelchair Mission shipped 10,000 chairs in December.

Read - Project Home Page [FreeWheelchairMission via WorldChanging ]

Related
Chunc Designer Wheelchair [Gizmodo]

Robotic Wheelchairs of the Future

Robotic Wheelchairs of the Future 05/27/2004 12:27 PM
From Roland Piquepaille's blog comes news on the future of robot wheelchairs. Traditional wheelchairs have limited functions and flexibility. Their users often need help from nurses or relatives. Several teams are working on robotic wheelchairs to overcome these limitations. For example, researchers from the University of Essex Human Centred Robotics Group and the Institute of Automation in Beijing are developing RoboChair, which is equipped with vision and 3G wireless communication. It will be able to avoid collisions and plan a path. Meanwhile, Professor Ray Jarvis of Monash University's Intelligent Robotics Centre in Australia, is building another robotic wheelchair (PDF format) which will help people to travel off the beaten track. His prototype combines robotic navigation with four-wheel drive. It automatically adapts itself to the user's capabilities and takes control when needed. And we can't forget to mention Dean Kamen's iBOT.

Ingenious spare-parts wheelchairs for
the world's poorest nations

Ingenious spare-parts wheelchairs for
the world's poorest nations 07/30/2004 08:18 AM
The Free Wheelchair Mission is a religious NGO that produces wheelchairs out of $41.17 worth of parts, and makes its plans for same available for free online. The project was inspired by the site of a legless Moroccan woman dragging herself across a dirt road. Now the project works to provide low-cost wheels to all comers around the world. Link (via Gizmodo)

There's no place like law.cool.cool.fun.

There's no place like law.cool.cool.fun. 03/22/2005 11:38 PM
What's a namber? A namber is a word that acts as a mnemonic for a number. For example, 65 is drum, and 181 is push. A namber address uses an arbitrarily-chosen list of nambers to represent each of the numbers from 0 to 255 in order to assemble four words to represent any IP address. Metafilter.com's namber is earth .frog.brown.tooth, and mysteryrobot.com conveniently provides translation and forwarding to the real IP address.

Red Hot & Cool

Red Hot & Cool 04/13/2005 02:03 AM
Saw-you ltd. selected for the 2005 Red herring 100 Europe [PRWEB Apr 13, 2005]

too cool

too cool 01/22/2004 09:54 PM
I just found out that Dancing Barefoot is number three on Mysterious Galaxy's 2003 Paperback Bestsellers list! Cool!

Keep Cool 1.0

Keep Cool 1.0 08/11/2004 07:59 AM
A tool that puts processes taking too much CPU to sleep.

Almost Cool

Almost Cool 09/07/2004 09:41 PM
Macintouch points out some new support articles from Apple, including one on the iMac G5 Diagnostic LEDs. I immediately thought...

Yes, They're Cool

Yes, They're Cool 01/09/2004 09:57 PM
It might have been smart for Apple to release a frustratingly hobbled player that could have been profitably sold for $200. But it just isn't in Apple's DNA to cut corners and capture a market by cutting prices. By Steven Levy (Newsweek via MyAppleMenu)

RSS On Your Mac: What It Is, Why It's
Cool, Why You Need It

RSS On Your Mac: What It Is, Why It's
Cool, Why You Need It 08/03/2004 07:34 PM
By Tera Patricks, Mac360 (via MyAppleMenu)

"Wow, this is cool"

"Wow, this is cool" 05/04/2004 05:02 PM

No, That's Not Cool

No, That's Not Cool 02/01/2005 09:35 PM

David Pogue: At least three readers... track[ed] me down and call me at home... Sometimes, it's best to leave the columnist alone.

Trs cool

Trs cool 07/12/2004 04:11 PM
USA Today Jul 12 2004 8:11PM GMT

Wouldn't it be cool?

Wouldn't it be cool? 05/08/2004 01:25 PM

Wourldn't it be cool if otehr people started parsing the ENT tags embedded in this post?

That way if I talked about FOAF - for instance - someone like danbri could scarf JUST the FOAF posts and do anything he wanted with them!

This would create an incredible two-way kind of capability because systems could then communictae back to me based upon what I said. I know I know -it's RSS2.0 but that becomes a really nice gateway to a world that has 75% market share of feeds(maybe even more.)

COOL BIZ

COOL BIZ 06/17/2005 04:39 PM

Via NoniWeblog , a pointer to the unsurprising fact that Japanese businesspeople are discovering the virtues of not wearing a tie; if you’ve ever been to work in a Tokyo summer you’ll understand why this is a good thing. But, in a uniquely Japanese way, they’re not just doing it, they’re mounting an official government-backed campaign. But mostly I wrote this so I could slip in a pointer to this picture.

Really Really Cool

Really Really Cool 12/13/2002 02:10 PM
The Camille Noire is really really cool, rivals the dragon I got earlier. Today is a nice day off, I am enjoying it.

God I'm cool...

God I'm cool... 08/22/2004 06:57 PM

Not a lot to be said about this really except that I look awesome and I kicked ass on the go-carting front in the Dutch University town of Enschede...

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Be Cool

Be Cool 03/29/2005 02:08 AM

Anything but cool, I wanted my money back at the end of this one. Catching a John Travolta film is always a gamble and he was alright in this, playing his typical Vincent Vega character, but the rest of it was just crap. I expected to like Vince Vaughn's character more, but it took about two seconds for you to get his whole schtick and then it just became really really tiresome. I did laugh out loud once -- Cedric the Entertainer as a reformed gangbanger-turned-rapper/producer/millionaire rolls up with his posse and they're all wearing tshirts with basketball jerseys over them and Cedric has a **button-down** shirt with a jersey over it -- but that was the only highlight. Metacritic, I will never doubt you again.

(Rating: 30/100)

Oh Too Cool

Oh Too Cool 06/09/2004 03:58 AM
UPS delivered my O2 in the afternoon. Oh, what a super sexy piece of kit. If it were purple it...

NOT COOL!!!

NOT COOL!!! 06/08/2004 10:20 AM
Some fucking misbrain of a spammer, not worthy to rot on a skewer in the deepest pits of Hell has faked my email address as the return address, and now I'm getting about a billion of "We cannot deliver your mail" -messages from mailer daemons. Problem being, SpamAssassin does not pick them up since they appear as legit bounce messages. So my inbox is full of spam. This ain't the crap I was speaking of!

Wonderful double effect: if the spam goes through, then the recipient sees it; if it is bounced, then I see it.

You know, I have this wonderful blunt katana I could use to slowly rip the guts off every spammer, then whirl them around my head before tossing them over the fence for the pigs to eat. Then I would watch these gutless (literally!) illegitimate sons of bastards fall over, and kick them in the head just before they hit the ground, so their brains would burst out of their ears, and they would bounce back up before the final collapse to a mindless heap of goo.

(Quiet: I'm okay now.)

So not cool

So not cool 04/26/2004 09:34 PM
"Guys look! My third nipple!!!" - Me *didnt know Barr was around table* "I am telling your mother" - Mr....

so i have this cool new writing gig . .
.

so i have this cool new writing gig . .
. 02/01/2005 09:52 PM

Do you ever have something really exciting that you want to share with the world, but you're not allowed to talk about it? It drives you nuts that you have to keep it to yourself, so you quietly mention it to Janet, but Chrissy overhears you from the kitchen, and thinks you're dying, so she tells Larry, and pretty soon you're attending your own wake down at the Regal Beagle. You think this could be a chance to get Mr. Roper to give you a break on the rent, and maybe get a little something-something from that Kaylnn girl who passes out skates at the roller rink, but Mrs. Roper finds out the truth, and somehow you're learning an embarassing lesson in front of all your friends, rather than getting lucky on the waterbed in your cousin's van conversion.

In other words, I've been sitting on this big news for weeks, and I just got the green light to announce it. So pay attention, Chrissy:

I am writing a weekly column for The Onion A/V Club! Yeah, that's right! The Onion A/V Club! Wooo!

Check out the spiffy announcement:

The Onion A.V. Club also extends a hearty welcome to a new contributor who comes to us from Hollywood via the Internet. Each week, actor/author/gaming enthusiast/icon/renaissance man Wil Wheaton, who maintains an online presence at wilwheaton.net, will take a look back to games past with his Games Of Our Lives column, reaching beyond Pac-Man and Donkey Kong to find the dusty arcade games and worn-out cartridges that paved the way for the games of today.

(When I read that, I told my editor, "I love it. Can I just tell you how happy I am that it's not all 'Star Trek Star Trek Star Trek Star Trek (tiny font: writes some stuff too.)'?"

He said, "Well, the original draft referred to you as 'the spunky lad who saved the universe' and then went on to say 'Star Trek, Star Trek, Star Trek.' Then I had second thoughts.")

Can you freakin' believe that I get to write for them?! Holy shit! Writing this column is as much fun as doing Love Machine at ACME each week. I get a chance to be funny, add something pretty prestigious to my resume, and I finally have an excuse for playing so many classic video games. I mean, how many people do you know who could deduct an X-arcade Controller? :)

I did an interview with The Onion A/V Club in 2002. If you haven't seen it, you can read it here.

My first Games of Our Lives appears tomorrow. Check it out, and let me know what you think!

rethink the cool

rethink the cool 04/29/2004 09:02 AM
Adbusters is now in the shoe business .. blackSpot sneaker .. Rethink the Cool .. Black Spot

blackspotsneaker.org
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Quiet Cool PC

Quiet Cool PC 07/26/2004 09:06 AM
ABCNEWS.com Jul 26 2004 12:56PM GMT

Cool howto

Cool howto 12/17/2003 09:32 PM
Got to love this Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradmin HOWTO...

Cool contest

Cool contest 12/10/2003 11:25 PM

Design Within (no one I know's) Reach is holding a contest to design a chair using only champagne corks and wire. Pretty cool concept and I can't wait to see the winners, though it's sad to know the grand prize would only serve as a downpayment on 75% of the products they offer in their inventory. Why not let the winners pick out any chair DWR sells?

very cool code

very cool code 01/07/2004 02:44 PM
Go to Dropload and drop a load of bites with an email address, and it sends an email to the recipient to come pick up the load. Free and free of the limitations of email servers.

Intel cool on 802.20

Intel cool on 802.20 08/05/2004 03:19 AM
But makes room for Bluetooth

Gateway PC keeps it cool

Gateway PC keeps it cool 08/27/2004 01:35 PM
ZDNet Aug 27 2004 5:26PM GMT

cool dry place

cool dry place 03/08/2004 11:12 PM
cool dry place

blogs.clublaurier.ca/hermit/index.php
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I'm one of the cool kids now

I'm one of the cool kids now 08/18/2004 04:33 PM
Are you?...

Why iSync Is Cool. What It Really Needs.

Why iSync Is Cool. What It Really Needs. 08/16/2004 06:02 PM
By Jack D. Miller, Mac360 (via MyAppleMenu)

More Cool Web Tricks

More Cool Web Tricks 08/13/2004 02:30 PM
WebDevInfo Aug 13 2004 6:44PM GMT

Intel tries to keep its cool

Intel tries to keep its cool 04/14/2004 07:39 AM
Steve Pawlowski, the director of Intel Corp.'s Microprocessor Technology Lab, knows Intel has a heat problem.

A9.com > Company > What's New
& Cool

A9.com > Company > What's New
& Cool 04/14/2004 06:39 PM
yhteenveto A9:n ominaisuuksista .. the 7 reasons to use A9 .. what's cool about A9? .. una sola aplicacin .. They suggest that

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Cool tune: Not Going Alone

Cool tune: Not Going Alone 01/26/2004 04:12 PM
Paul Kimball (a good friend from my college days) posted his first GarageBand composition, Not Going Alone.

I first heard it last night, and it’s still in my head this morning. It’s more demo than radio-ready, of course, but the feel of it comes through with the everyman guitar sound and especially the melody and harmonies and Paul’s singing.

Zopto - is cool, I think.....

Zopto - is cool, I think..... 03/06/2004 01:49 AM

Zo pto = FOAF + RSS + open APIs.... In a reader's 'tip' to Weblogs, Inc., Ben Nolan writes, "The first of the Social Networking sites using FOAF. Foaf-based communities will likely become the second or third major social networking 'network'." According to Ben, "Zopto is building on the idea of foaf + rss + open APIs. It's a web-based application for creating and managing foaf file, and the basic framework for all the identity and collaborative tools that can build off RSS + Foaf... Zopto is currently in "alpha testing" and is only available to selected users." [The Social Software Weblog]

The next generation social nets are here!

Powered by FOAF, feature rich (including blogging, Listings, eCommerce, RSS, etc.) - these new systems are a hallmark of what's to come.

Ecademy has already shown that different kind of people want dikfferent kinds of features.  Zopto is fresh out of the box - hoping to play along. I haven't been able to get on - yet - but I'm trying.

Things that seemed cool when I was
little...

Things that seemed cool when I was
little... 01/23/2004 06:34 PM

...that don't seem so cool now that I'm older.

One in an occasionally series.

My best friend when I was little (who was also named Meg but is a Margaret not a Meghan) and I used to go to gymnastics several times a week. We were very limber and could do splits with both our right legs and our left legs forward. We were also very into the movie Grease and I had the album (which was an awesome double-album with pictures from the movies in the middle). So when Margaret would come over after school (I always called her Margaret because otherwise it was like I was talking to myself), we'd always play Grease on my parents' stereo. And for some reason, we'd do splits. And we'd hold them for the whole side of the album, because for some reason this seemed like a really really really cool thing to do.

It occurred to me as I was telling Gina about this today at work that perhaps it, in fact, wasn't as cool as it seemed at the time.

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