Boxing Wiis and Vista Woes

[dracodraconis]

Source: Engadget These $22(US) gloves have a place to slip your Wii controller into the back. They're also padded to protect your furniture you and your Wiimote from injury.

Source: Gizmodo Two McMaster students have developed a glove to assist in providing CPR. The glove detects the depth and frequency of compressions, and emits audio tones to guide the user in their technique. The glove can also detect a pulse, probably the most important thing the lifesaver should be made aware of.

Source: Gizmodo Stick a marker into this little Remote Control bug and kids (or adults) can draw from a distance.

Source: Gizmodo If you are a photographer, you may be among those that use metadata stored in your photo to keep track of it. Windows Vista may make this difficult because it ALSO wants to use that metadata. Specifically, the photo tag feature overwrites previous metadata which, in the case of RAW images, can render them unreadable. Microsoft's response was to request camera manufacturers provide them with plugins to gloss over the problem. They're response was to recommend that anyone who uses image metadata avoid purchasing Vista until the problem has been resolved. Have I mentioned the Mac is great for image processing....

Source: Reuters After 5 years of study involving 1,650 people from 11 countries, the UN has released a new symbol to represent radiation risk. They wanted something that intuitively says "Bad mojo! Run away!". Seems to say that to me.

Comments

[ancalagon-tb.livejournal.com]

wow, one more reason to freaking wait before geting vista... I'm sory, but I like other people to be the beta testers, not me! Unlike say, win 98 where there was clear reason to switch, I am quite satisfied with XP.

Radiation sigh - yeah, that would get me getting the hell out of there too...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_luaineach/]

I think that CPR glove is brilliant. Whenever I imagine having to give someone CPR (which, for some reason, now that I think about it, happens absurdly often), I always think I would panic about if I was doing it deep enough/too deep and if I was remembering the count right. I always imagine I would have to run and get the little CPR magnet off the fridge to be sure...

[dracodraconis.livejournal.com]

At least with Canada's "Good Samaritan" Act, doing it wrong doesn't mean you may also be sued for trying to help.

Hopefully this glove will find its way into medkits, helping to save a few more lives.