Binaudios
As part of the Thinking Digital Conference, artist Dominic Wilcox and creative technologist James Rutherford dreamt up Binaudios, an oversized public listening device which lets visitors experience the sounds of Newcastle, UK in a completely new way. (Video)
Thomas Frey checking out the mamaRoo at CES 2014.
The new mamaRoo from 4Moms is high-tech smart baby gear designed to mimic mom and dad’s motions with smoother sways and repetition. The mamaRoo also features an output to connect to an mp3 player or ipod, perfect for those baby playlists.
Continue reading… “4Moms mamaRoo – a high-tech baby swing : CES 2014”
48 million Americans have significant hearing loss in one or both ears.
A first-ever natioanl analysis finds that nearly one in five Americans has significant hearing loss, far more than previously estimated.
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Sikker Baby Monitor
Baby monitors have been around for decades, but the only thing most of them can do is let you know if the kid starts crying. The Sikker (Danish for safety) baby monitor is designed give parents a much better idea of how the baby is doing. (Pics)
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From now on, “virtual reality” has a whole new meaning for people with Cerebral Palsy who want to improve their balance and walk normally again.
Continue reading… “GaitAid Virtual Walker – New Hope For Walking With Cerebral Palsy”
Listening to cheerful music can be one way to put you in a good mood on the way into work. But beware – it can also make you think that everyone else feels just as happy as you do.
Continue reading… “Upbeat Music Creates Illusion That Everyone Around You Is Happy”
Researchers have discovered that they can identify individuals from the faint sounds made deep inside the human ear and are now developing security devices using the technology.
Continue reading… “‘Acoustic Fingerprints’ Can Be Used For Identification”
This toy jet engine is not going to fly you anywhere, but it’ll sure demonstrate what goes on inside those fiery turbines. Your kid can learn how to be a jet engine mechanic, putting together the kit’s 50 parts, and then adjusting thrust, speed and engine sounds with the battery-operated model’s control panel.
Continue reading… “Jet-Works Engine Demonstrates Inner Workings Of Turbines”
If you’re having trouble sleeping at night, there’s a good chance it’s because you’re stressed about something, and are unable to get into a relaxed state. But there are many solutions on the market designed to help you calmly drift off when you climb into bed, and the NightWave is one of them. Instead of sounds, medication or a novelty sized club to the head, the NightWave uses a soft blue light that’s just barely visible in a darkened bedroom. The luminance of the light rises and falls, and the idea is that you’re supposed to lay in bed with your eyes open and synchronize your breathing with the light. Over time the rising and falling will become slower and slower, which is supposed to relax your body to the point where you’ll drift off to sleep.
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Strange instrument, even stranger vocalist. It combines a tiny piano with a ukulele and a kazoo. Even stranger instrument video after the jump
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Researchers at the University of Washington have developed the ‘Vocal Joystick’ software, which allows disabled people to use computers in a better way. The software allows the computer to be driven by sound, in pace of the conventional functioning mouse. The difference between the Vocal Joystick and other technologies is that it does not use standard voice recognition technology and instead detects basic sounds at about 100 times a second and generates a fluid and adaptive cursor movement. It is said that the system allows users to exploit large sets of sounds for continuous and discrete movement. The Vocal Joystick does the job with the help of a microphone, computer with a standard sound card and a user who can vocalize.
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The Experience Recorder is a high tech glove that will actively and passively archive everything about your day. On its automatic setting, it’ll record sounds around you, touch sensations and even take pictures of things that may interest you later.
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