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don't know why this video was removed from her channel, thankfully someone else uploaded it. Game-changer,
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Petivity Smart Litterbox Monitor System: Uses Existing Pet Litter Box
It takes about a week or so for it to learn your cats’ habits accurately. During that time, the app alerts you when an event is detected and, based on the weight recorded, you select which cat it was (or if it was a non-cat event, like you scooping). Once it learns who’s who, it compiles that day’s activities into the app, letting you know when each cat peed, pooped, or did a little dance inside the litter but didn’t actually go, complete with cute illustrated icons. You can set up multiple monitors if you have several boxes.
I like that this using exiting litter boxes, and seemingly has no subscription cost. It appears to recognise which pet it is as well (well it prompts you to tell it), and it monitors the frequency the pet uses it, for any changes.
It’s also a handy ‘weigh’ to monitor their weight as well.
Interesting gadget, but is probably a bit pricey for most of us.
See https://www.wired.com/review/petivity-smart-litterbox-monitor/
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Le Sénat invente le « contrat dernière embauche » pour les plus de 60 ans.
Non content d’avoir adopté « l’index senior », rejeté à l’Assemblée nationale, la majorité sénatoriale de droite a inventé un nouveau type de contrat réservé aux plus de 60 ans, avec de nouvelles exonérations à la clé pour les entreprises.
"Pourtant rien n’empêcherait une entreprise de licencier à 59 ans pour recruter un autre senior de 60 ans", a-t-on objecté à gauche, laquelle gauche a, de son côté, longuement ferraillé contre cet index, qu’elle juge être « un gadget » et un « leurre » alors que le taux d’emploi des plus de 55 ans est – avant même le report de l’âge légal de la retraite – de 56 % seulement.
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Most Android and Apple Tablets will connect to large monitors, keyboards, and mice with a USB-C hub for better productivity
In fact, they also connect to many other devices such as SSD drives, memory sticks, headphones, Ethernet, and more. It can turn especially smaller tablets into quite productive devices. In most cases, the mobile app of a top end application, is cheaper than its desktop counterpart. If you have a smaller tablet with a stylus (Apple Pencil for iPads) being able to watch what you’re doing on a larger monitor is really useful.
Most USB-C hubs have become a lot cheaper and work well on Android and iPad (those with USB-C, but you also get such hubs and adaptors for Lightning ports), but it is well worth reading user reviews just to check if any compatibility issues have been reported. Usually you can expect to have one or more USB sockets, and an HDMI port. It is well worth ensuring you have more than one USB port to allow simultaneous connections of a keyboard, mouse and a storage device.
Keyboards, mice and a monitor probably won’t require external power on the hub, but as you start to add SSD drives (and especially a USB powered hard drive) you may want to consider getting a hub with external power capabilities, or a hub that can handle charge through to charge the tablet at the same time.
See https://www.pcworld.com/article/402858/the-best-usb-c-hubs-for-your-laptop-tablet-or-2-in-1.html
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Ye and Kano release MP3 player designed to "challenge what an album can be"
American musician Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, and design technology company Kano have launched Stem Player, a pebble-shaped device that allows users to customise songs in the palm of their hand.
Stem Player lets users control the vocals, drums, bass and samples – the "stems" of a track – by swiping their fingers across the grooves of the device as they listen to music.
Stem Player is an MP3 player that allows users to customise songs
"We wanted to create a living album that allows you to remix the songs, add effects and listen to the music differently each time you repeat use," Bruno Schillinger, lead product designer at Kano, told Dezeen.
"It is a way to be a participant in the listening experience and it really challenges the idea of what an album can be."
The Stem Player can be connected to headphones or speakers
The device gets its name from the music production term "stems" – individual sections that make up a song. Stem Player allows users to speed up or slow down different sections of a track, as well as reverse and loop parts of the song.
It also incorporates haptic feedback, as users slide their fingertips over the silicone-covered object and the lights flash in real-time to changes in the song.
Users can download music onto the device and then remix the stems
The designers see this "return to primal interactions" as an antidote to popular MP3 players on the market, which are usually controlled by users tapping or scrolling on black screens.
"One thing that we set out to do from the beginning was to use very primary dots of light and colour to signify function," explained Schillinger.
"The grooves in it – the channels that you slide your finger across – are supposed to be a little bit like meditation stones that you can stroke to make you feel calm," he added.
The portable device can fit in pockets
With this brief in mind, the team set about creating something that could be intuitively used by children. The interface is designed so that it reveals itself as you watch it, with the stems pulsing to the data.
For example, you can watch the vocal stem move up and down as the artist speaks, and the speed of your loops is mirrored by the pace at which the lights move.
Users can listen to music directly from the MP3 player, which can also be connected to headphones and speakers using bluetooth or cable.
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In their quest for simplicity Ye and Kano looked to nature for inspiration, which is why the Stem Player resembles a smooth pebble.
"Kanye has this mantra where nothing should have sharp edges and everything should be rounded as it is in nature," explained Schillinger.
"As a result, we also looked beyond stones and pebbles and were really inspired by ancient artefacts."
Users slide their fingers across the grooves and lights to alter tracks
Ye and Kano have been working together on the device since meeting at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2019 and believe that the Stem Player has the potential to revolutionise music in a similar way to the iPod.
"[It] lets you go from listening to music to creating and then you're building new creations – but then at a press of a button, you go back to listening," James Hicks, lead designer at Kano, told Dezeen.
"I think that way to move from consuming something to creating something in single seamless transition is something that doesn't really exist anywhere else in music."
The beige device looks similar to a round pebble
Playing it on the device will also be the only way people will be able to listen to Ye's upcoming album Donda 2, in a move that Ye and Kano believe will give control back to the artist – especially when compared to releasing the album on a streaming site like Spotify.
This is Ye's first music-playing device, but the musician is no stranger to product design. His previous projects include footwear line Yeezy and an ongoing partnership with high street retailer Gap.
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Dotplot device monitors changes in breast health
Postgraduate students at the Royal College of Art have created a portable tool to help women check their breasts for abnormalities.
The handheld device, called Dotplot, is a breast health monitoring tool that uses sensing technology – a technology that uses sensors to acquire information by detecting the physical, chemical, or biological property quantities and convert them into readable signal – to build a map of the user's chest and take readings of their breast tissue.
Dotplot is a breast monitoring device
Dotplot is programmed to identify different areas around the breast in order to map the reading to a specific point, meaning that any changes in tissue density can easily be detected.
When used over a period of several months, it's able to provide month-by-month comparisons of breast tissue, helping to flag abnormalities as soon as possible. The long-term goal is to help more women detect potential breast cancer earlier.
It uses sensing technology to create a map of the user's breasts
"Our goal at Dotplot is to eliminate the confusion and misconceptions surrounding self-checks," Royal College of Arts (RCA) students Debra Babalola, Shefali Bohra, Himari Tamamura and Yukun Ge told Dezeen.
"We want women to take care of their breast health with confidence, clarity and ease," they continued.
The device can be connected to an app that guides users as they check their breasts
Women can connect the Dotplot device to an app via Bluetooth and while pressing the device to their chest, they can read a step-by-step guide on how to check each area of their breasts.
Instructions include prompting women to follow the on-screen marker to move the device across the chest to cover the entire chest.
The app provides real-time feedback and at the end of each check, it creates a report which can be compared to statistics gathered from previous months. It also reminds users to conduct a check each month.
The tool builds a map of the user's chest and takes readings of their breast tissue
The first phase of developing the device prototype involved asking a group of women of different ages how regularly and in what ways they check their breasts.
The students found that many women are confused or even scared of conducting breast self-checks, despite it being a key method in helping to detect breast cancer in its early stages. This feedback informed the final design.
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"We were surprised to hear that women who had been shown how to conduct self-checks by their general practitioners were still not 100 per cent sure that they were doing them correctly," said the designers.
"Others worry that the moment a lump is found, death is certain and this has deterred women from checking their breasts as regularly as they should, in fear of feeling a lump or abnormality."
"It highlighted that the demonstrations, pamphlets and tutorials provided for breast health care – though useful – were insufficient," they continued.
It comes in a choice of colours
The students hope that Dotplot will help prevent more cancer diagnoses while encouraging women to make a habit of checking their breasts.
"We aim to make breast health care routine and demonstrate that discovering changes in your breast tissue is not something to be feared – especially when detected in good time," they said.
"We then asked ourselves, how can we ensure that women perform these checks correctly in order to reduce the number of deaths per incidence of breast cancer?" they added.
"The good news is that early detection increases survival rates to 93 per cent, so when caught on time the prognosis is significantly improved."
The students hope that it helps more women detect cancers earlier
Babalola, Bohra, Tamamura and Ge developed Dotplot as part of studies on Innovation Design Engineering, a course run by RCA and Imperial College London.
Past designs by students at the RCA include Nat Martin's Scroll ring which enables wearers to interact with augmented reality and Brian Black's virtual-reality proposal that would give people the opportunity to drive NASA's rovers in space.
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Neben der NSO Group hat einem Bericht zufolge auch die unbekannte Firma QuaDream Lücken in Apples iMessage ausgenutzt, um iPhone-Nutzer zu hacken. 50 Cyberattacken kosteten Kunden offenbar über 2 Millionen Dollar.#Apple #iPhone #Überwachung #Israel #Gadgets
Überwachungssoftware: Weitere israelische Firma soll iPhone-Schwächen ausgenutzt haben
A hands-on look at the SwissMicros DM42, the world’s most precise pocket calculator
I know I have posted a month back about this calculator, but this video unboxing and test, is really entertaining to watch (as testified by the over 430k views so far). It just makes me want to have one, although I really don’t have a need for it (I have an HP41CV if I really need one).
The DM42 is a clone and improvement of the famous HP42S, with open source firmware based on the Free42 platform. SwissMicros has done an excellent job though on the build and presentation. It is also an excellent example of how repairability should be done.
Watch at 
EEVblog #1159 – World’s Most Precise Pocket Calculator
by EEVblog on YouTube
#technology #gadgets #HP42S #DM42 #SwissMicros
#Reddit Gets New Real-Time Features Including Live Voting and Comments Count, Typing Indicators, More | Technology News ⚓ https://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/reddit-features-live-upvote-count-comments-typing-reading-indicators-update-rollout-2634047 ䷉ #gadgets
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