"Harmless pot? New marijuana study shows brain damage in those 18-25"
Although this could certainly be the case, I do have an issue with the article. The conclusion of the research seems to be this quote:
"Breiter and his colleagues found that among all 20 casual marijuana smokers in their study — even the seven who smoked just one joint per week — the nucleus accumbens and amygdala showed changes in density, volume, and shape. The scientists also discovered that the more pot the young people smoked, the greater the abnormalities."
It is never actually stated that these changes in density, volume, and shape cause brain damage. Seems to be a bit of a sensationalist headline in my mind.
Our box actually wasn't disabled - just the network. We were getting hit with > 1 Gbps of bandwidth inbound. Prior to the DDoS, we were handling the traffic quite well with a single 1GB RAM box. At times we were pushing around 20MB/s outbound.
Haha, we actually did think about this when building it. The smartphone notification feature is a major selling point, but we also wanted it to be useful without a phone.
The touch sensitive cap lets you cycle through all the 'moods'. A lot of friends that have seen it love it for the music moods alone (microphone picks up the audio in the room).
We'll also be adding in a feature that allows you to turn the lamp on to full white and back off just by holding the top (really nice if you need to get up in the middle of the night).
What's the control interface for the mobile apps? Is it bluetooth, embedded web server or what? If you make your API open I could probably whip up a web app for it so even schmucks like me without a smartphone could use the full feature set.
It's Bluetooth Low Energy. We wrote a very basic Node.js library we're using to control it right now. You can check out the code here: https://github.com/lavallc/ionode Documentation is yet to come, but it will be an open API.
One of these guys and a Linux PC is all you need http://www.iogear.com/product/GBU521/ We'll most likely open source the Try Ion code as well so you can build off that if you like =)
We have thought about it, but we would need to either make a smaller version of the lamp or have less LEDs (a compromise we weren't willing to make). We pull close to 2A with the 40 LEDs right now. Most USB supplies and ports output around 0.5-1.0A.
A year or two ago - definitely. But as of today, I would disagree. Apple has been shipping BTLE in their devices since the 4S. All flagship Android phones have been shipping with BTLE for over a year (with official SDK support added in 4.3). You can pickup a $10 USB BTLE dongle and it works out of the box with bluez (Raspberry Pi works great).
Heh, name and shame the supplier? I ordered one of those from Adafruit. It was noticeably of "Chinese street market" build quality, but works great with a Raspberry Pi.
Although this could certainly be the case, I do have an issue with the article. The conclusion of the research seems to be this quote:
"Breiter and his colleagues found that among all 20 casual marijuana smokers in their study — even the seven who smoked just one joint per week — the nucleus accumbens and amygdala showed changes in density, volume, and shape. The scientists also discovered that the more pot the young people smoked, the greater the abnormalities."
It is never actually stated that these changes in density, volume, and shape cause brain damage. Seems to be a bit of a sensationalist headline in my mind.