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The Scope Camera for Kids

by Christine Huang in Arts & Culture, Design, Global Community, Youth

This prototype by designer Bas Groenendaal
is an easy-to-use camera for kids that encourages them to interact
directly with their surroundings from a fun, new perspective. Inspired
by James Nachtwey’s TED Prize wish,
The Scope is shaped like a car steering-wheel and has a windowless
viewfinder, helping bring the photographer closer to the action and
his/her subject. The picture is captured with a simple squeezing of the
sides of the wheel. Groenendaal designed the camera “to be used as a
therapeutic instrument for underprivileged children, e.g. children
living in (former) warzones. Children can take photographs and
self-portraits in order to rediscover their environment and identity,
and share their point of view with others.” TED Blog explains more:

Ask a child what their favorite subject is at school, and chances are they’ll say recess. It’s the one time during the day when they are almost absolutely free to make decisions for themselves – from who to play with, what to play, and where to play. And as children grow, the social dynamics of who can play where shifts and an age-based pecking order ensues.

The Netherlands-based design team at Carve integrate architectural expression into their playground design thereby generating unique play experiences for children of all ages. Don’t let the kids know, however that the Carve team strives to encourage a cognitive process – even during free time. This new equipment and play structures stimulate decision-making, group and continuous play (use of the same equipment in varying way) encouraging children to climb, hang, swing, skate, slide, run, jump, vault, hide.

One of Crave’s creation in particular, the wall-holla, has received special notoriety as it was nominated for the Dutch Design Awards in 2006.  Thirty children at once can climb, crawl, roll and maneuver through the large fence-like structure. Older children are able to scale the climbing wall or just relax and look out over the domain they’ve waited countless years to control. By Andrew J Weiner.

Kids indoor spaces

Playground in Berlin

China’s internet access has been plagued with rumors of restricted browsing, missing articles and even bloggers who can’t publish to their personal sites.

The Freedom Stick gets around this problem. This €20 ($30) USB dongle is pre-loaded with software which will secure the communications of any computer it is slotted into. Made available by Germany’s Chaos Computer Club, the stick uses the TOR (The Onion Router) network to cloak your connections, routing traffic around the world through anonymous computers, thus avoiding detection.

The name is a little antagonistic but that’s the point, you can actually achieve the same hack with a software solution. Still how bad can getting detained by Chinese customs over issues of censorship really be.

The New York start-up company ‘virtual cable’ has designed a heads-up dashboard display that virtually ‘paints’ a highly visible line above the road ahead. The line curves precisely where a driver using an in-car navigation device would normally be instructed to turn. Follow the line till you reach your destination. It’s that simple.

No more distracting or annoying spoken instructions. Great.

From http://www.springwise.com/ and http://www.mvs.net/

Since long time there are talks about real portable projectors.
The pocket-sized Hikari Pro920 projector from Oculon is available in both VGA (around £150) and SVGA (around £200), each with the ability to drop a front-projected image onto any white surface. Not huge images either - 12-inches diagonal from 1 foot or 24-inches from 1 metre is about all you can hope for. But it is small,……so we wait for the next generations.

from: http://techdigest.tv/2007/11/hikari_pro920_p.html

There are a number of companies that are focusing on wireless applications and services for the healthcare industry. One of them is ‘HealthPhone‘, a company that is improving healthcare through connecting patients to their caregivers, health organizations to each other, and people to their own health information.

Source: Click
This source is an interesting blog from Bill Crounse, a Worldwide Health Director for the Microsoft Corporation. Keep an eye on this blog.

Another interesting blog about  technology in the healthcare is  http://www.ihealthbeat.org
That one reported that virtual health coaches and other electronic devices are being developed to help increase communications between patients and providers, and reduce hospital admissions and illness.

An example of a virtual health coach is ‘Laura’ that can ask patients questions and remind them to take their pills or exercise.
Source: Click

Upload of video is simple - capture should be simple. My friend is working at this California company. The idea is to make a YouTube/Flickr friendly device with very simple controls rather than a complicated video/stills camera. The interface with PC is an important part of the physical design. Part of a trend to make simple and single purpose devices or “internet accessories”?? The internet application is now the most important thing

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NXP Semiconductors and A Little World, a provider of ZERO mobile platform for inclusive banking, have rolled out the next generation of technology-enabled solutions which will enhance a micro bank to be set up in every village in India. The pilot project has been deployed by seven banks in over 450 villages across four states in India. The initial pilot project has brought full-featured banking services to over 45,000 rural Indian citizens, through customer service points equipped with NFC-enabled mobile phones, contactless RFID smart cards and integrated biometrics.

http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=21849

Fully charged, the headset has a talk time of nine hours, which increases to up to 21 hours when left in indirect sunlight.
from: http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2007/11/orange_launch_t.html

A new patent featuring a movable touchscreen ruler to allow dedicated input button on a preferably flexible touchscreen.

A modular gadget Design was recently introduced. It allows to choose between different modules like touchscreen, camera, motion sensor, GPS,…which are attached to a t-slot geared base. It looks pretty bulky and engineered but thinking of the next generations which are going to be hopefully pretty small this opens up a whole new world of gadget experience. DIY whatever you need!

Source: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/bug%20labs