Artificial Eyelids Helpful, Creepy

Asterios Kokkinos — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:00:39 +0000

Being unable to blink due to facial paralysis: not funny. This picture of a device that helps those people blink: hilarious.

Look at that guy! You can just see him scouting your power level, and freaking out when he finds out that it’s OVER 9000!

Still, though – facial paralysis is serious. Without the ability to blink, people can literally go blind. How many people? Why…no, no I shoul- OVER 9000!

The implant uses an electroactive polymer artificial muscle (EPAM). When the silicon polymer recieves a signal, it reacts – just like your own muscles do to your body’s natural electrical signals. How many signals being sent does it take to read this article?

OVER 9000!

Source & Photo Source: PopSci

Wifi Allergies Force Man Into Exile

Nex — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:19:06 +0000

There are a few great reasons to become a hobo. Maybe you find the idea of eating shoe leather and punching rats in the snout to be romantic. Maybe you hear voices that you can only escape by huffing kerosene fumes. Maybe you’ve fallen in love with a scruffy drifter named Alistair Drizzlepop.

As for reasons why not to become a hobo, the obvious health and hygiene concerns are high on the list, but the number one reason almost certainly reads “because you’re allergic to Wifi.”

Despite the last two paragraphs, Santa Fe resident Arthur Firstenberg has left his house and moved into his car to escape the negative impact his neighbor’s use of modern technology has on his body.

Additionally, Firstenberg is suing his neighbor, claiming that by refusing to turn off their cellular phones, computers, routers, Internet service, iPods, fruit bats, washing machines, space heaters and Mechagodzilla, they have damned him to a life of homeless solitude.

Communications and technology enthusiast site TMC explains:

Firstenberg “cannot stay in a hotel, because hotels and motels all employ wi-fi connections, which trigger a severe illness,” says the request for a preliminary injunction. “If (Firstenberg) cannot obtain preliminary relief, he will be forced to continue to sleep in his car, enduring winter cold and discomfort, until this case can be heard.” The case has been assigned to state District Judge Daniel Sanchez, who has yet to set a hearing.

I won’t necessarily doubt Firstenberg’s allergy claims until a doctor rules one way or the other, but I am curious as to what sort of evidence he claims to have of his affliction. Actually, scratch that; I just want to watch a video of Firstenberg eating a Bluetooth headset.

No, I don’t know why.

(Image: Uberreview)

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Artificial Eyelids Helpful, Creepy

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Wifi Allergies Force Man Into Exile