Have we sunk so low that to be a hero is equated with donating to charity? A person invents, creates or is instrumental in bringing technology to the market that makes life more enjoyable, easier, more fun, etc., and you would only respect and admire him or her because he or she gives money away or creates jobs for others?
There is also Sproqit Technologies http://www.sproqit.com/ which works with both Palm and Windows devices. It uses a different approach and does not infringe on the NTP patents.
World Wind offers a variety of views. E.g. it has topo maps every bit as detailed as the 2-CD set I got for Northern Washington state. In Keyhole I only found fuzzy satellite imagery and road information.
For the Seattle area, both Keyhole and World Wind showed the about the same resolution by default (not very good at all, e.g. compared to what used to be available on mapquest). But, World Wind showed incredible amounts of detail in other views--although, not being a commercial solution, I guess it doesn't have the scalability that Keyhole must have (but which I couldn't test, because the resolution was pitiful). World Wind gets very, very slow at high resolutions.
But, for amateur, fun use, there's no point in paying for Keyhole with World Wind around.
It would be very cool, though, to get locality-based searches mapped out in Keyhole....
We got one like that, but it unfortunately gives off a false alarm every hour so, waking up both the baby and the parents, even though the crib seems to comply with the specified norms for the product. It uses air cushions under the mattress to detect lack of motion.
Apart from the unknowns of SIDS, babies will indeed make plenty of noise when they need help, so sound monitoring works fairly well. We run a soothing waves-on-the-shore noise in the background as well, so that we know the sound monitor is working....
BTW, I haven't verified this, but I think the commerical baby video monitors use infrared light. I guess this because the monitors are B&W, and the cameras have clear LEDs illuminating the scene. So, the usual webcam setup is probably not going to be very useful for monitoring the baby at night, unless you keep quite a lot of light in the room. Even my $150 iSight webcam is very poor under low light conditions. and would be useless to monitor a baby sleeping.
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Have we sunk so low that to be a hero is equated with donating to charity? A person invents, creates or is instrumental in bringing technology to the market that makes life more enjoyable, easier, more fun, etc., and you would only respect and admire him or her because he or she gives money away or creates jobs for others?
There is also Sproqit Technologies http://www.sproqit.com/ which works with both Palm and Windows devices. It uses a different approach and does not infringe on the NTP patents.
World Wind offers a variety of views. E.g. it has topo maps every bit as detailed as the 2-CD set I got for Northern Washington state. In Keyhole I only found fuzzy satellite imagery and road information.
For the Seattle area, both Keyhole and World Wind showed the about the same resolution by default (not very good at all, e.g. compared to what used to be available on mapquest). But, World Wind showed incredible amounts of detail in other views--although, not being a commercial solution, I guess it doesn't have the scalability that Keyhole must have (but which I couldn't test, because the resolution was pitiful). World Wind gets very, very slow at high resolutions.
But, for amateur, fun use, there's no point in paying for Keyhole with World Wind around.
It would be very cool, though, to get locality-based searches mapped out in Keyhole....
We got one like that, but it unfortunately gives off a false alarm every hour so, waking up both the baby and the parents, even though the crib seems to comply with the specified norms for the product. It uses air cushions under the mattress to detect lack of motion. Apart from the unknowns of SIDS, babies will indeed make plenty of noise when they need help, so sound monitoring works fairly well. We run a soothing waves-on-the-shore noise in the background as well, so that we know the sound monitor is working.... BTW, I haven't verified this, but I think the commerical baby video monitors use infrared light. I guess this because the monitors are B&W, and the cameras have clear LEDs illuminating the scene. So, the usual webcam setup is probably not going to be very useful for monitoring the baby at night, unless you keep quite a lot of light in the room. Even my $150 iSight webcam is very poor under low light conditions. and would be useless to monitor a baby sleeping.