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I'm Tony Turner, a user experience researcher. My passion is the human experience. This is my blog. My professional site is tony-turner.com

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Forest House

West Cornwall • Connecticut

By Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

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To understand the whole, it is necessary to understand the parts. To understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole. Such is the circle of understanding. We move from part to whole and back again, and in that dance of comprehension, in that amazing circle of understanding, we come alive to meaning, to value, and to vision: the very circle of understanding guides our way, weaving together the pieces, healing the fractures, mending the torn and tortured fragments, lighting the way ahead—this extraordinary movement from part to whole and back again, with healing the hallmark of each and every step, and grace the tender reward.

Ken Wilber (via inthenoosphere)

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When Feild Craddock decided to redesign the toothbrush, he had a target audience in mind. The resulting product, however, could easily find a place in the home of many more. “Squeeze is the result of a 2 week project addressing the dental needs of those above age 70. Its design is meant to be comfortable and simple without appearing clinical.”

[ippinka]

A pressure-tracking insole that monitors weight distribution and exertion during your everyday and/or fitness activities.

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Philographics Genis Carreras

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GUYS YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW WONDERFUL THIS IS 

Parkinson’s is a degenerative disease and while it’s progress can be slowed down, it currently doesn’t have a cure. People suffering from Parkinson’s will experience a gradual loss of coordination and ability to perform even the most basic of every day tasks, including feeding themselves. 

This spoon is HUGEfor them. Look at that gif of the man just trying to eat with the regular spoon and compare it to the liftware device. It’s NOT just a spoon, by the way, it comes with a fork as well, for example. 

I found the website for the project where you can purchase a spoon for someone you know/love and even possibly donate money to help someone out who can’t afford it themselves right: HERE.

At the very least, please spread this for all the people who have Parkinson’s or loved ones with Parkinson’s. 

You’ll help them take part of their life back. 

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that’s cool

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PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TAKING OUT THE ABOVE INFORMATION AND JUST REBLOGGING THE PICTURE.  IF YOU CAN REBLOG THE PICTURE, YOU CAN REBLOG THE LINK TO ACTUALLY HELP PEOPLE.  THANKS.

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Can never pass this up without reblogging it.

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The product is always in service of people, not the other way around. It’s easy—so very, very easy—to fall prey to a company-minded mentality of the world, where everything revolves around the builders and what they’re building rather than the customers.

The Death of “Users” and “Product Design” — The Year of the Looking Glass — Medium (via donttalkaboutdust)

[ippinka]

Extend your faucet to help your children wash their hands easily.

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Blackpack Cycling Backpack by William Root

Inspired by a turtles protective shell, the Blackpack incorporates clever innovative features to protect you and your belongings from the dangers of the urban environment. With built in lights, waterprooof seams, easy-close zippers and a hard faceted shell, the Blackpack is the the ultimate urban cycling bag.

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When Hoyoung Lee’s concept printer becomes reality, you’ll never throw away another pencil stub and never buy another ink cartridge. The pencil printer separates the wood from pencils and uses the lead to print documents. There’s even a built-in eraser component that allows you to remove text from a page and reuse the paper. Check out some more bizarre green inventions.

[mashable]

A UK company called Ultrahaptics has developed a method of providing haptic feedback for holographic imagery by using ultrasonic technology. [via]

[asapscience]

New self-filling water bottle harvests drinking water from the air

A new self-filling water bottle has been invented that can not only serve as a nifty device for long bike tours and races, but could also offer a new method of fresh water collection in parts of the world where groundwater sources are hard to come by.

Developed by industrial designer Kristof Retezar from Austria’s University of Applied Arts, the new device - called the ‘Fontus’ - works best in humid weather, which allows it to condense the moisture in the air into safe, fresh drinking water. Experiments have shown that under the right weather conditions, it can produce 0.5 Litres of water in just under an hour.

"My goal was to create a small, compact and self-sufficient device able to absorb humid air, separate water molecules from air molecules and store water in liquid form in a bottle,” says Retezar at the James Dyson Award website.

Retezar says he was inspired to invent the device as something that could be beneficial to some of the 2 billion people in more than 40 countries that live in regions where clean and safe sources of water are scarce. According to the UN, by the year 2030, 47 percent of our global population will be living in areas of high water stress. So he decided to take a 2,000-year-old technology - ancient civilisations from Asia and Central America were some of the first to employ it - that taps into some of the 13,000 kilometres cubed of fresh water held in the Earth’s atmosphere. 

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[mashable]

This is the true “one ring to rule them all.”

Mycestro is an innovative, futuristic looking, finger-mounted 3D wireless mouse. It comes with a USB charging cable, allowing you to easily plug the wearable into your laptop, your battery results may vary. 

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Google’s Nest Will Track You Closely To Make Its Thermostat More Efficient Aaron Tilley, forbes.com

Nest’s thermostat will be paying a little closer attention to you.

Nest calls its thermostat the “Learning Thermostat,” because its software algorithms are designed to learn your schedule and automatically set your temperature for maximum comfor…

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Foc.us: The first commercial tDCS headset that lets you safely overclock your brain

After an interminable wait, the first brain-boosting tDCS headset has finally received FCC approval and will begin shipping in the next few days. Dubbed the Foc.us, the headset jolts your prefrontal cortex with electricity, improving your focus, reaction time, and ability to learn new skills. The Foc.us is being targeted at gamers looking to improve their skillz, but tDCS has the potential to improve — or more accurately to overclock — almost every aspect of your life. »Continue Reading«

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This is glorious and even thought it doesn’t fit in the range of all the paranormal, I MUST share

It works like this: You tell Kitestring that you’re in a dangerous place or situation, and give it a time frame of when to check in on you. If you don’t reply back when it checks your status, it’ll alert your emergency contacts with a custom message you set up.

It doesn’t require you to touch anything (like bSafe) or shake your phone (like Nirbhaya) to send the distress signal. Kitestring is smarter, because it doesn’t need an action to alert people, it needs inaction.

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reblogging because this is seriously amazing.

[emergentfutures]

App-Controlled Hearing Aid Improves Even Normal Hearing

As they work more closely with our mobile computers, devices that once simply fixed whatever ailed us will begin to do much more.

It’s only a slight exaggeration to say that the latest crop of advanced hearing aids are better than the ears most of us were born with. The devices can stream phone calls and music directly to your ears from your phone. They can tailor their acoustic systems to your location; when the phone detects that you have entered your favorite sports bar, it adjusts the hearing aids to that environment.