Service animals—almost always dogs—literally open doors for their disabled owners, as well as turning out the lights as they leave. Service dogs’ training varies with the kind of disability they will be helping with, and they can physically help their person with stairs and balance, bring medicine and water, provide assistance in emergencies and when the person is unresponsive, … [Read more...]
Profile of Thad Starner, Father of Wearable Computing
If anyone could lay a claim to having invented the idea of wearable technology, it's probably Thad Starner. Now a professor at Georgia Tech, Starner's been strapping computers to his face for about 20 years. (Scientist Gordon Bell and writer/researcher/tinkererSteve Roberts are in that pantheon, too.) Besides his work in Georgia, Starner is a technical lead on Google … [Read more...]