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Archive for January 17, 2006 - י"ח טבת תשס"ו

bionic bolero

By penny • January 17, 2006 - י"ח טבת תשס"ו • Category: misc

Wired article: My Bionic Quest for Boléro.
I have mixed feelings on cochlear implants mostly because they (at least five years ago when I was more in the research field) required that parents of deaf children choose between their child learning sign OR speech. Not both. Sign languages and culture are important standing on their own. [...]



links for 2006-01-17

By penny • January 17, 2006 - י"ח טבת תשס"ו • Category: misc

PodBrix . 1000 brix in your pocket
(tags: mac fun)

Rare Device / good stuff for you and your home / Brooklyn, NY
(tags: design nyc shop)

Welcome! - EPICS at Purdue University
Engineering Projects In Community Service.
(tags: nonprofit)

LibraryThing | Catalog your books online
(tags: book reference)

Resurgence issue 203 - A CULTURE OF SIMPLICITY by Leonard Koren
(tags: simplicity)



cleaning up

By penny • January 17, 2006 - י"ח טבת תשס"ו • Category: misc

In cleaning I always make a bigger mess FIRST. I broke the web-server while trying to do this, so I think everything is working again. I *think*…
What did I clean up? I removed that index.php that was plaguing all of my URIs.
Before this post would be: http://www.intracommunicate.com/pocketchange/index.php/2006/01/17/clean-up/
Now, you can access it as: [...]



machine translation .. to sign language

By penny • January 17, 2006 - י"ח טבת תשס"ו • Category: misc

Robotic hand translates speech to sign language
Wow!
[via slashdot]