Sitting at the end of my Comcast business internet service, I was interested to see that the president of Comcast, David Cohen, in a reverse “Let them eat cake” moment, doesn’t think consumers need gigabit broadband. In an opinion piece…
I actually like don’t mind mowing my lawn. I have a battery-powered push mower called a Neuton, which I push around my 1/4 acre, using one battery for the front lawn, and a second battery for the back lawn plus the…
FileMaker Pro from Apple is a desktop database development system, similar to Access. After developing a solution using the desktop version (either Windows or Mac), you can deploy it on iOS devices, (iPad, iPad Mini, iPhone), sometimes with minimal changes. On…
Parallax, along with with the U.S. Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center and Carnegie Mellon, are sponsoring the microMedic contest for the use of vital-sign sensors for medical applications. Parallax has assembled a sensor and component kit targeted to…
“What would old people do with a fiber optic broadband internet connection to their home?” (Click to enlarge the image).
I found myself building list of the applications that we would expect to be running in our rural senior housing sites, for both residents (The Technology Enabled Home) and the housing and health-care staff that are onsite. This should give…
1. We have begun a “soft opening”… with our Tele-Yoga for COPD/CHF patients, transmitting to 3 patients in their homes in California, which have been equipped with DocBoxes. Originating from our “studio” (the community exercise room) in one of Cathedral…
Parallax has added a Polar heart-rate sensor with chest strap to its line of sensors, as well as a receiver. Both are around $30.00 each. Found in the super wonderful Nuts and Volts magazine.
Times and technology change. My previous wireless scale from Tanita cost $350.00 and used BlueTooth to communicate to a computer. The FitBit Aria wifi scale works on a conventional wifi network. It will automatically register your weight and percentage body…
I’ve had a FitBit pedometer for over a year now. Actually I’m on my second one, as I lost the first one. They are so darn unobtrusive that you hardly know they are missing. At $99.00 a pop, though, it…
