My New Sense Organ
Capital of Nasty, an Electronic Magazine - ISSN 1482-0471
Friday, September 18, 2009 at 09:58 (2652/14)
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Technology
With the risk of looking like I'm on house arrests if I was to wear something like this in the summer, I would love to have one for navigating new places.
My new sensory organ is a small anklet strap with a LiPo battery and circuit board attached to an electronic compass on the anklet's side. Inside the strap are eight small buzzers, up against my skin. As I sit here typing, the buzzer on the very left side of my left ankle is gently informing me which way is north. The anklet is called a Northpaw.
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