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Age, we’re told, is just a number, but that number seems to be the ever-increasing count of injuries of a ridiculous nature. Where once the younger version of us could …read more Continue reading Sleep Posture Monitor Warns You Away from Dangerous Positions
They say that sitting is the new smoking. They’re wrong — smoking is much, much worse, for you than sitting, and smoking only while standing or while jogging around the …read more Continue reading Presence-Detecting Cushion Keeps You from Sitting Your Life Away
Last year, German Bionic revealed a fourth generation of its Cray X exoskeleton, keeping things light by employing a carbon fiber frame. Now the 5th generation has been announced, which is reported to be the first of its kind to support two body region… Continue reading Carbon fiber exoskeleton first to support two body regions
In a slightly safer departure away from jetpack roller-skating and flinging around bolts of lightning, [Ian Charnas] has been hacking retro video games. After a lot of hard work [Ian] …read more Continue reading Hacked Punch-Out Controlled With Actual Punches
As more and more people spend their working hours behind a computer, bad posture and the accompanying back pain and back problems become a growing epidemic. To combat this in his own daily life, [ImageryEel] made PosturePack, a wearable Bluetooth-enabled posture sensor.
The PosturePack is designed to fit into …read more
Continue reading Sit Up Straight!: Open Source Bluetooth Posture Sensing
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone reading this article that there has been a major shift towards businesses hosting their critical applications in the cloud. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), as well as cloud-based servers from Amazon or Micr… Continue reading What Cloud Migration Means for Your Security Posture
Today, there are many factors that prevent businesses from effectively assessing and mitigating digital security risk. One contributor to The State of Security kicked off 2017 by discussing four of these causes. I won’t spoil the article for you. I will say, however, that data access and asset control feature heavily in the post. That’s […]… Read More
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Back problems are some of the most common injuries among office workers and other jobs of a white-collar nature. These are injuries that develop over a long period of time and are often caused by poor posture or bad ergonomics. Some of the electrical engineering students at Cornell recognized this problem and used their senior design project to address this issue. [Rohit Jha], [Amanda Pustis], and [Erissa Irani] designed and built a posture correcting device that alerts the wearer whenever their spine isn’t in the ideal position.
The device fits into a tight-fitting shirt. The sensor itself is a flex …read more
