I was blown away by this demonstration of a multipoint input system and associated user interface concepts: Perceptive Pixel.
Wow. When can I get one?
January 18th, 2007 § 1 comment § permalink
I was blown away by this demonstration of a multipoint input system and associated user interface concepts: Perceptive Pixel.
Wow. When can I get one?
January 11th, 2007 § 1 comment § permalink
Story time. Several years ago, I was taking a deep diving class in February in a glacier lake in Washington called Crescent lake. Being February, the water was bitter cold. When we finally reached 129 feet, the unthinkable happened – my regulator failed. It was a simple sport diver model, not designed for extreme conditions. the failure caused my air supply to rapidly bubble to the surface. I was able to perform enough analysis to know that the regulator was done for the dive, and the only option was a surface ascent with my buddy.
The point of the story is this – my regulator “failed open”. They are designed to do this – in the event of a failure the armatures lock in the “air open” position allowing enough time to asses the situation, locate your buddy or redundant systems, and ultimately end the dive alive.
The “Fail open” mentality can be applied to many other situations.
For some software examples: