https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jXjpteeLhw
MEME ‘smart glasses’ developed by Tokyo based eyewear designers JINS. The frames have sensors and ‘electro oculogram’ technnology to track eye behaviour, scanning for movements or responses that indicate fatigue or stress.
A further six axis motion tracking sensors record posture and balance, advising the user when to take a break via smartphone app.
The Lonely Island (briefly feat. Lil John) have a dig at ‘press play’ DJs.
You know the ones.
Previously: Bump And Grind (also feat. Lil John)
Created by Ranga Vadhineni, Localmint is a site and companion iOS app that lets you find out opening times of shops around you.
It doesn’t sound like something that would be hard to to find using Google, but it surprisingly IS especially when you’re in a hurry.
It’s one of those apps that you’ll have on your phone, forgotten about until the last can is drunk and you need to get to the closest shop still open.
Ranga and his co-founder Oisin Ryan are currently part of the current batch of start ups in the NDRC Launchpad programme and are working to bring their app to the UK and Australia.
The app is available now on the Apple App Store and an Android version is in the pipeline to be released in July.
Do you have an Irish app? Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Behold the ultimate u-lock: compact 2.95kg design with Bluetooth 4 proximity detection (which opens the lock as you approach with your paired smartphone); wifi connectivity and onboard accelerometers (to alert you if the bike is being moved or tampered with), USB chargeable internal battery with backup solar panels.
Available this Christmas for a we-don’t-normally-do-this €180.
(H/T: John Gallen)
SFX boffin Joey Shanks writes:
You wrote an article on our Star Trek “Teleport” episode about a year ago.
Figured I should share our newest video on holograms!!!!
Ten-year-old Niall Kehoe [above] released his first game last week, Kehoes Crazy War of the Worlds which he created using Game Salad.
Dermot Daly of Tapadoo (who Niall got in touch with for some advice) says:
[Niall] e-mailed us out of the blue to help him upload his app to the store.
His problems were in the process of submission – getting certificates, bundling the app correctly and so forth. Problems that any developer could run into. He was quite a dab hand at getting around the keyboard; seemed super-smart.
It’s great to see that people as young as 10 show an interest in software development. I started young myself, and always like to see movements like App Camp for Girls and Coder Dojo. Meeting enthusiastic young developers tells me that the future of software is in safe hands.
It’s fantastic to see someone so young be motivated enough to develop skills still not taught in schools despite all the lip service given to the Smart/Knowledge Economy given by politicians.
Kehoes Crazy War of the Worlds available on the Apple app store now. Why don’t you download and review it to give this budding young developer some encouragement?
Do you have an Irish app? Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eutUgxIqHRY
Fumo is an outdoor ashtray created by design studio Ioglo that rewards correct disposal with a sound and light show from a library of 50 sounds and 56 LEDs.
Common sense advice (possibly of dubious chronological accuracy) from How Secure Is My Password?
Databased pages from the one existing copy of a 1692 book entitled Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau by a Dutch artist known only as A. Boogert.
Housed at The Bibliothèque Méjanes at Aix-en-Provence in France, the book’s 700+ handwritten handpainted pages are a guide to creating just about every conceivable tone, hue and tint of watercolour known at the time, 271 years before its modern-day descendent, the Pantone Guide (1963)
A Colourful Book (Erik Kwakkel)
Previously: Six Books In One
