IBM Patent: Multitouch Floor Detects Heart Attacks, Intruders

Imagine when the floor of your home is more than a surface to collect dust, but a smart suface that detects intruders, falls & who is in each room.

From the patent: ‘The system takes different actions based upon identifying which object is in a particular location. For example, if the system senses that a small child is in an “off-limits” location, such as a swimming pool or hot tub area, the child’s caregiver can immediately be notified to prevent the child from getting hurt. Similarly, if the system senses that the family dog has entered an area that is off-limits, such as a living room or bedroom, actions can be taken accordingly. If the owner is home, the owner can be notified with an alert in order to remove the dog from the off-limits location. If no one is home, a high-pitched dog alarm can be sounded in order to have the dog retreat from the off-limits location.

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Short on desk space? Build your PC into your desk drawer!

Do you keep knocking your desk chair into your PC under your desk? Perhaps you are tired of wrestling with cables and having to take everything apart just for a simple hard drive upgrade.

Then this DIY “PC in a desk” could solve many of your woes. Geek modder, Steve Palmeieri, put together an entire desktop computer in his standard wooden desk, with cables run throughout and the tower in an open drawer. What an awesome winter project!