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Put on Your Muscle Suit

- Vanessa King 1 Comment

A new robot suit has been made that can increase the wearers power by up to 10 times their natural muscle strength. It’s called HAL or Hybrid Assisted Limb and is being perfected at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. The suit is powered on command signals from the brain being transmitted to musles and in some cases works faster than the human brain does when reacting to such signals.

This technology can potentially help thousands of people including those with muscular disabilities, people with injuries and the elderly. Not to mention the possibilities for superheros. Want your own robot suit?? Put aside about $20,000 and wait a few years for it to come on to the World market. Before you know it people will be robot wrestling all over the place!

Good Voting

- Adam Clare

A basic democracy needs people to vote at the very least. Recently two democracies that have been under question have actually defended the basic tenet of democracy. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), people were able to vote for the first time in forty years!

‘”I voted for the first time in my life!” shouted one man with excitement as he left the voting station’

In the United States, civil rights groups are celebrating the renewal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The act protect minorities from racial discrimination in elections.

“The bipartisan support for the legislation underscores the recognition of and importance of equality for all citizens’ right to use the voting booth to elect officials who reflect their concerns. For, if liberty and equality are found chiefly in a democracy, as Aristotle said, then it is best attained when everyone shares in the government to the utmost.”

World Map of Happiness

- Vanessa King 1 Comment

_41948068_happinessmap.gifThe first ever World Map of Happiness has been created. This map measures the happiness levels of people from different countries all over the globe. Developed at the UK’s University of Leicester the Happy Map is based on responses from 80,000 people worldwide who rated such things as their health levels, prosperity and education. Denmark ranks highest while Zimbabwe ranks amongst the least happy. Click on the map to take a closer look.

Speak Another Language?

- Adam Clare

Speaking only English limits people, and it limits the reach of knowledge. So to make this site slightly more friendly to non-English speakers you can now easily grab a Google translation of the site:

Technology Can Help Disabled

- Adam Clare

The UN is pushing for new technologies to help people who need accessibility support. The good news is that this has started to happen. OneWorld South Asia is reporting on the use of ICTs designed for accessibility.

Google recently added more accessibility services to its search engine. Google Labs created Accessible Web Search for the Visually Impaired that returns only sites that are easy to read by screen readers. The search uses the W3C standards, which ThingsAreGood.com passes.

“Governments, at the first World Summit on the Information Society in 2003 in Geneva, committed themselves to building a people-centred, inclusive and development-oriented information society, where everyone can create, access, utilize and share information and knowledge.

“The new computer-based information technologies have the potential for opening up a world of new opportunities for persons with disabilities,” said Sarbuland Khan, Executive Coordinator of the Secretariat of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development.”

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