Word: dashboard
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...being: the LifeShirt, a vest that monitors cardiac, pulmonary and respiratory activity as well as posture; the M2A capsule, a pill that when ingested reports on the functioning of your intestines; a nurse bot named Pearl that will take your vital signs and retrieve basic items; and the Health Dashboard, inspired by the dashboard in your car, which displays everything from environmental metrics like the pollen index and flu trends to personal data like blood pressure, cholesterol levels, exercise patterns and drug compliance...
...preventing the leading mechanized cause of death, car crashes. Some of these pioneering firms--like Optobionics, a company based in Naperville, Ill., that is perfecting a microchip to help the blind see--have a decidedly cyborg bent. Others use advanced computer technology to stimulate humans into action, like the dashboard equipment from Seeing Machines that detects when drivers become drowsy and then jolts them awake. And companies like Gilead and Procognia are helping to find new drugs to stop the world's killer diseases. But what unites all these companies is the common desire to use the latest scientific...
...more like ourselves. Alex Zelinsky, CEO of tiny Seeing Machines, based in Canberra, Australia, has been keeping his eye on road wrecks, which kill 1.26 million people worldwide every year, according to the World Health Organization. Working with Swedish carmaker Volvo, Seeing Machines is pairing small, driver-facing dashboard-mounted cameras with pattern-recognition software that analyzes whether the driver's face shows signs of fatigue, a top cause of traffic fatalities. "Our philosophy is that you cannot drive while you're fatigued. It's like driving drunk," says Zelinsky. If the system, called FaceLAB, spots a sleepy operator...
...plane's four afterburners ignited, as indicated by four green lights on the plane's dashboard. Blood hit the throttles and we whizzed down the runway. To make the BONE more aerodynamic and thus faster, Blood reached to his right and pulled back on a lever which retracted the wings to a desired angle. It reminded me of the way I set the height of the blades on my lawnmower. We accelerated to roughly 500 m.p.h. at an altitude of 10,000 ft. and moments later we were over Powder River. That's when he took his hand...
...RADIO CONTROL Want to lose the headphones entirely? A transmitter attachment to the iPod can broadcast tunes from the player to a nearby FM radio. Each model has its pros and cons. One of the priciest is the TransPod ($100), which mounts on your car's dashboard and doubles as a battery charger. Less expensive is C. Crane's model, but it's nearly as big as the player itself. The iRock 300W is smaller, but it plays through only a measly four frequencies. I chose the new iTrip from Griffin Technology, a stylish gizmo roughly the size...