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A study has found that a six-week acupuncture treatment significantly improved language function, quality of life, and neurological impairment in people with speech difficulties following a stroke. With the improvements still seen after six months, acu… Continue reading Acupuncture may help stroke patients regain their voice
A new meta-study from a team of Australian researchers has reviewed over 50 placebo-controlled trials from the last 20 years testing the efficacy of herbal medicines for weight loss. The results reveal herbal supplements are largely ineffective in aidi… Continue reading Meta-study finds herbal weight loss remedies don’t work
Puff and Suck (or Sip and Puff) systems allow people with little to no arm mobility to more easily interact with computers by using a straw-like unit as an input device. [Ana] tells us that the usual way these devices are used to input text involves a screen-based keyboard; a cursor is moved to a letter using some method (joystick, mouse emulator, buttons, or eye tracking) and that letter is selected with a sip or puff into a tube.
[Ana] saw such systems as effective and intuitive to use, but also limited in speed because there’s only so fast that …read more
Continue reading DIY Puff-Suck Interface Aims for Faster Text Input
Puff and Suck (or Sip and Puff) systems allow people with little to no arm mobility to more easily interact with computers by using a straw-like unit as an input device. [Ana] tells us that the usual way these devices are used to input text involves a screen-based keyboard; a cursor is moved to a letter using some method (joystick, mouse emulator, buttons, or eye tracking) and that letter is selected with a sip or puff into a tube.
[Ana] saw such systems as effective and intuitive to use, but also limited in speed because there’s only so fast that …read more
Continue reading DIY Puff-Suck Interface Aims for Faster Text Input
While many of the Arduino platforms are great tools for gaining easy access to microcontrollers, there are a few downsides. Price and availability may be the highest on the list, and for those reasons, some have chosen to deploy their own open-source Arduino-compatible boards.
The latest we’ve seen is the Franzininho, an Arduino Gemma-like board that’s based on the ATtiny85, a capable but tiny microcontroller by Atmel in a compact 8-pin configuration. This board has everything the Gemma has, including a built-in LED and breakout pins. One of the other perks of the Franzininho over the Gemma is that everything …read more
Are there viable, open source identity management solutions for IT organizations? Many IT admins are familiar with the usual open source IAM solutions such as OpenLDAP™, Samba, and FreeIPA, to name a few, but are there others that could be helpfu… Continue reading Open Source Identity Management
IT admins know that endpoint management is critical in the modern enterprise. The challenge has been that traditional endpoint management tools have historically focused on Microsoft® Windows® based systems. Yet, modern system environments in… Continue reading Cloud Endpoint Management Alternative
Microsoft® Active Directory® has been the most popular identity management solution in the directory services category for almost two decades. But, as the IT environment changes and there is a…
The post Open Source Active Directory® ap… Continue reading Open Source Active Directory®
Startups are aggressively leveraging technology to help keep their operations streamlined and their costs low. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that startups are taking advantage of web-based applications…
The post Best OneLogin Alternatives … Continue reading Best OneLogin Alternatives for Startups
Many of us made soda bottle rockets for science class. Some of us didn’t have that opportunity, and made them in the backyard because that’s what cool kids do. Water rockets work on the premise that if water is evacuated from one side of a container, the container will accelerate away from the evacuation point. Usually, this takes the form of a 2-liter bottle, a tire pump and some cardboard fins. [François Gissy] modified the design but not the principle for his water trike which reached 261 kph or 162mph.
Parts for the trike won’t be found in the average …read more
