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A Shook-Up Mouse

A Shook-Up Mouse

After seeing one of those pens that shocks you, I thought about putting something like that into a mouse as a joke. But mixing computers and high voltage is not such a good idea. The idea of using a vibrating motor from an old pager came to mind. So with an old pager, a mouse […]

Talking Booby Trap

Talking Booby Trap

People snatching your top-secret stuff? Here’s a sneaky gizmo to keep those snoops away.

Tacit: A Haptic Wrist Rangefinder

Tacit: A Haptic Wrist Rangefinder

Tacit is a wearable system that translates the distance to anything you aim your hand toward into pressure on your wrist. The closer the object, the greater the pressure. Sweep your hand around, and the device conveys to you a tactile image of your surroundings. I designed Tacit to help vision-impaired people navigate their environments, […]

Nomad’s Closet

Nomad’s Closet

As an Entrepreneurial Adventurer I have gone from owning an underground record label and a bar in South Florida, to a farming co-op in Tampa, then to a coffee shop/bar and cider brewery (using the term brewery loosely, of course) in the Dominican Republic, and finally to the most recent clandestine late-night taco delivery service […]