A one-hand keyboard layout designed for former two-hand touch typists. Based on the same muscle memory you use to type with two hands, thus extremely quick/easy to learn.
Site and PC version: http://www.onehandkeyboard.org/
Mac App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/one-hand-keyboard/id465275525
while i'd share you sentiment at emotional level, at practical level lets be just toward the VCs. They don't have the scale of money to invest into "building devices to help people walk" - to reach the stage when it can be sold (ie. FDA approved, blah-blah-blah, and without that your device would just not be able to reach the majority of the people who would need the device) it would take not millions, at the best case scenario it would take high tens of millions.
On the other side by financing "a location-based restaurant recommendation app" the VCs' millions help to generate super-wealth which can take on the next scale challenges - look at Musk for example. Unfortunately, there aren't many Musk-s around (honestly i don't undestand why whouldn't Brin or Page or Ellison do something like Musk, they even have much more money than he does (he is even not that super-wealthy, more on the lower side of the range))
The first, which I'm almost certain stops the loading, is having your Flash privacy settings to never store any information. I have mine set to ask me when a new site wants to store information, but I can't set it to "No. Don't ask me again" on the BBC because if I do then the videos never load. I have to hit the "Deny" button when it prompts me, which it does, annoyingly, multiple times throughout a single video.
The second possible reason could be blocking of ad servers, but I'm not sure about this one.
It just goes to show that if you have a disease, condition or injury, life threatening or not. It pays to self diagnose and be your own doctor. We can specialize more in our specific problem than an entire industry devoted to the body of all problems.
I would venture to guess current therapies were developed by health professions and engineers at arms length to intended patients (via books and maybe some user-testing in constrained environments).
This solution was inspired and developed by a father who is involved with the health problem every day for long periods of time in real world situations. That provided a much better view of the problem space.
I am not sure if self diagnosing is a great idea or what I would identify as a key take-away. But accepting solutions blindly could be.
True story.
My ex-gf started experiencing cardiac arrests in college, which is rare for individuals of her age. Of course, her parents took her to some of the top physicians in the U.S. as well as in London and they all claimed she needed a very risky surgery for her heart. The arrests were scarring her heart tissue and any new arrest could permanently damage the organ further.
The doctors knew that she would experience these arrests when she became extremely emotional or stressed out, yet couldn't pinpoint exactly what the problem was. They simply thought she had an unnaturally fast heartbeat, which led to the arrests. As her bf, I had taken her on amazing dates and watched horror movies with her, so I knew that I had put her through various emotional stages (complete with crazy fast hearbeats) without her ever experiencing an arrest.
Luckily at the time, I was studying Endocrinology in college, so I proposed that there might be particular hormones in her system that weren't being flushed out of her body...which is very dangerous because the hormones can continually innervate vital organs; in my gf's case, her heart.
Sure enough they found that her body wasn't producing the correct enzymes to degrade the hormones and so she began a regimen of artificial hormones. I am proud to say that in the 4 years since she has been on the treatment, she has been perfectly normal! And all without any damn surgery.
I'm not a medical professional, but I knew my gf in and out. I think that the medical world would greatly benefit if there was some sort of greater collaboration between patient and doctor. Doctors are so busy that they don't have time to really understand the patient outside of the ailment at hand. At the same time, I understand how busy doctors are and how detached they must remain in order to maintain objectivity and professionalism.
