[Link] Tech In Plain Sight: Eyeglasses

Read: 16/11/2021 hackaday.com

Glasses wearers, try a little experiment. Take off your glasses and look at this page or, at least, at something you can’t see well without your glasses. Now imagine if you lived in a time where there was nothing to be done about your vision.

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[Link] Magnets Could Give Prosthetic Control A Leg Up

Read: 22/8/2021 hackaday.com

Today, prostheses and exoskeletons are controlled using electromyography. In other words, by recording the electrical activity in muscles as they contract. It’s neither intuitive nor human-like, and it really only shows the brain’s intent, not the reality of what the muscle is doing.

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