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Cycling while texting safety device
Progress blunders onward:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/28/apple_patents_tool_to_tip_off_oblivious_texters_to _oncoming_collisions/ Apple makes texting while riding safe. With this patent, you will receive an on screen warning that you are about to crash while texting, thus making it possible to text while riding. With a little imagination, this patent can also be used to allow reading, browsing, and checking email while riding, thus avoiding the anxiety produced by oncoming traffic and immovable objects. -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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this release is relevant to current LA and Cal earthquake paranoia, the OSO debacle, and generally the SF concept that equipment has consciousness. Here the consciousness manifests in a protective force field for device and user.
Drupe ! appro Dude right on. |
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Cycling while texting safety device
On 3/28/2014 12:29 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
Progress blunders onward: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/28/apple_patents_tool_to_tip_off_oblivious_texters_to _oncoming_collisions/ Apple makes texting while riding safe. With this patent, you will receive an on screen warning that you are about to crash while texting, thus making it possible to text while riding. With a little imagination, this patent can also be used to allow reading, browsing, and checking email while riding, thus avoiding the anxiety produced by oncoming traffic and immovable objects. The way people hold their phones while they text, read, or web browse, while cycling, walking, or driving, makes the value of that app questionable. They need a motorized lens that automatically points in front of the user and that adjusts for the incline, if any. I.e. if you're walking (or cycling or driving) up or down a steep hill, or climbing or descending a mountain, the lens needs to adjust its position for terrain. For cyclists, linking a collision avoidance system to a helmet camera from a phone via BLE would work. For vehicles it could be a dashcam which are becoming more popular in the U.S.. For walking I guess some sort of camera attached to glasses would work. |
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Cycling while texting safety device
I sensor radiates 360 with radiation propagated more in travel vector...linked to a body sensor...an I/body processor then transmitter to THE CLOUD.
Herr Cloud then processes... into all kinds of unconstitutional information and a California Earthquake sensor. |
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Cycling while texting safety device
On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 08:25:17 -0700, sms
wrote: On 3/28/2014 12:29 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: Progress blunders onward: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/28/apple_patents_tool_to_tip_off_oblivious_texters_to _oncoming_collisions/ Apple makes texting while riding safe. With this patent, you will receive an on screen warning that you are about to crash while texting, thus making it possible to text while riding. With a little imagination, this patent can also be used to allow reading, browsing, and checking email while riding, thus avoiding the anxiety produced by oncoming traffic and immovable objects. The way people hold their phones while they text, read, or web browse, while cycling, walking, or driving, makes the value of that app questionable. Agreed. However, the alleged benefits of such a safety device gives the user the perception of safety, thus allowing them to perform dangerous acts of near terminal stupidity on the assumption that if they do something wrong, the device will warn them. That's the basic fallacy of all safety features and devices. As always, perception is everything. They need a motorized lens that automatically points in front of the user and that adjusts for the incline, if any. I.e. if you're walking (or cycling or driving) up or down a steep hill, or climbing or descending a mountain, the lens needs to adjust its position for terrain. No problem. A gimbal mount, an inclinometer, and gyro stabilized iPhone mount for the bicycle should do the trick. Extra points for doing the same with the bicycle headlight (as I previously suggested). For cyclists, linking a collision avoidance system to a helmet camera from a phone via BLE would work. Yep. I suspect that a modular phone will be the next innovation, after the smartphone makers are done copying each other. One module could be an external camera, with BLE (Bluegoof Low Energy) for inter-module communications. It may also be possible to separate the display module from the cell phone module. Such things already exist for the GoPro camera: https://www.google.com/search?q=gyro+stabilizer+gopro&tbm=isch Soon, everyone will be wearing bicycle helmets just to mount their cameras. For vehicles it could be a dashcam which are becoming more popular in the U.S.. For walking I guess some sort of camera attached to glasses would work. Eyeglass cameras, such as Google Glass, are known to give one the "evil eye". These can suck out your immortal soul, affect probability, and invade your privacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_eye Superstition dies slowly. Perhaps including the necessary talisman in the box will help. -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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Cycling while texting safety device
an interesting probability is a 'soccer riot' alert.....unit would detect mass flow alerting carrying participant n onlooker as well as control forces
....... are Cruzians practicing the 4 second escape ? or buying Moorish furniture ? .............. B1 B1 move to handbags along left wall..... |
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On Sunday, March 30, 2014 8:35:53 AM UTC-4, DATAKOLL MARINE RESEARCH wrote:
an interesting probability is a 'soccer riot' alert.....unit would detect mass flow alerting carrying participant n onlooker as well as control forces ...... are Cruzians practicing the 4 second escape ? or buying Moorish furniture ? ............. B1 B1 move to handbags along left wall..... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz n lookit the raft of screen symbols .....your choice ! symbol to cloud http://goo.gl/egyYOc Scotty ? do we have a go on this ? |
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On Sunday, March 30, 2014 8:55:09 AM UTC-4, DATAKOLL MARINE RESEARCH wrote:
On Sunday, March 30, 2014 8:35:53 AM UTC-4, DATAKOLL MARINE RESEARCH wrote: an interesting probability is a 'soccer riot' alert.....unit would detect mass flow alerting carrying participant n onlooker as well as control forces ...... are Cruzians practicing the 4 second escape ? or buying Moorish furniture ? ............. B1 B1 move to handbags along left wall..... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz n lookit the raft of screen symbols .....your choice ! symbol to cloud http://goo.gl/egyYOc Scotty ? do we have a go on this ? TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT essential to the nect Cheech n Chong film..... |
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energy savings organizing traffic flows are incalculable
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On 3/29/2014 11:16 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 08:25:17 -0700, sms wrote: On 3/28/2014 12:29 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: Progress blunders onward: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/28/apple_patents_tool_to_tip_off_oblivious_texters_to _oncoming_collisions/ Apple makes texting while riding safe. With this patent, you will receive an on screen warning that you are about to crash while texting, thus making it possible to text while riding. With a little imagination, this patent can also be used to allow reading, browsing, and checking email while riding, thus avoiding the anxiety produced by oncoming traffic and immovable objects. The way people hold their phones while they text, read, or web browse, while cycling, walking, or driving, makes the value of that app questionable. Agreed. However, the alleged benefits of such a safety device gives the user the perception of safety, thus allowing them to perform dangerous acts of near terminal stupidity on the assumption that if they do something wrong, the device will warn them. That's the basic fallacy of all safety features and devices. As always, perception is everything. To succeed in a really big way, the phone gizmo should have several other features: 1) A way of enabling claims that it "Saved My Life!" even if it did no such thing. This reinforces pride of purchase, and generates volunteer advertising. (Or as some might call it, "guerrilla marketing.") 2) A way of requiring a purchase of a new unit at full price if it ever does pretend to Save Your Life; 3) A way of purportedly expiring - say, by claiming that three years of sitting mostly on a shelf will decrease its life saving capability below some magically critical threshold. 4) An organization of volunteers - say, Safe Phones, Inc. - who will lobby to mandate the device, claiming phoning without the device is terribly, terribly dangerous, even if the user is sitting still. I know that sounds weird, but that strategy has worked very well for certain other "safety" devices. -- - Frank Krygowski |
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