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A Humanitarian Engineering Problem
zrosener asks: "A have a friend who has ALS (Stephen Hawking's ailment), a particularly nasty disease in which her motor neurons deteriorate over time, slowly waylaying her. She is in pretty bad shape now, and her movement is restricted to moving her eyes, and very limited (1 inch in each direction) hand movement. She has very light bell that she uses to wake up her husband when she needs assistance, but as her strength wanes it is becoming less and less effective. She is afraid at night now that if something were to go wrong she would not be able to rouse her husband. My challenge to you is to design a noise-making-husband-alerting device cheaply and quickly assembled from strip mall parts (Radioshack, Walmart, etc.) that she could use with her extremely restricted movement. Buttons are out of the questions, as are anything that requires gripping. Analog answers are encouraged too! Please email all suggestions or post them."
hey, I'll send you the e-mail of the bastard who lives 3 doors down the street from me with the subwoofers than keep waking me up at 3am...(that is, if I don't lynch him first)
You must live in Daly City. We'll cordinate on hunting that bastard down. =)
It seems that the most effective solution for overall quality of life would be to download her brain into a computer. Storage requirements should be relatively modest - on the order of a few terabytes. The details of the implementation will require some consideration. However this should allow for an indefinate lifespan, and an increased quality of life.
How the fuck am I moderated as "redundant", I was the fourth post!!!
LOL!
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