Posted: May 15th, 2011 | Author: Dougie Kinnear | Filed under: Degree Show, Final Year, RFID | Tags: CAD, conceptual, design, development, health, medical alert jewellery, Rhino, Technology | Comments Off
Tomorrow will see the arrival of the external assessors and they will be busy doing the rounds of the final year work, once they’ve finished it’ll be Tuesday, final year results day (4.15pm to be exact), and I feel a bit like the ‘accused’ waiting on a verdict. What that verdict will be I don’t know, but I’ll post it late Tuesday evening, I’m working ’til 9 that night.
Thursday evening is ‘Industry night’ when invited guests of the University get a preview of the degree show and after that the jewellers are going out for some food and banter.
Friday is the degree show opening night when the friends and families of final year students come to DoJ to have a look at our work, what my friends and family will make of my plastic prototypes amongst the shiny offerings of my talented year group I don’t know, maybe I’ll be waiting on that verdict with the same trepidation as the results, maybe more-so.
The show opens to the public on Saturday 21st May and is on ’til the following Sunday, details here
This week-end I’ve been playing around with Rhino in a non-jewellery way. I’ve been doing some designs for an EMA jewellery RFID scanner.
Posted: September 3rd, 2010 | Author: Dougie Kinnear | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: conceptual, design, dissertation, health, medical alert jewellery, Technology, The Guardian | Comments Off
I was formatting a Word document the other day getting ready to begin Chapter 3 of the dissertation when I saw a gem of an article about iPhones. Smart phones and their ‘apps’ will be discussed in chapter 3 of the dissertation in relation to medical alert jewellery, however, this article is something else.
Before I narrowed the field of the dissertation (it was far too wide and I would never have had the space to cover it all) a large part of it was going to be about conceptual jewellery/devices which could interact with the body and provide real time data on body functions. Looks like it’s no longer a concept!
Posted: May 30th, 2009 | Author: Dougie Kinnear | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: dementia, dissertation, Fife Council, GPS, health, jewellery, medical use for jewellery, NHS Fife | 2 Comments »
At one of our design history seminars in 2nd year we had various discussions about jewellery applications in medicine/health. Jonathan Baldwin (DHTP Tutor) told us about a system to track Altzheimers patients. Basically the patient wears a device that gives off a radio signal and they can be tracked if they wander off or get lost. Jonathan points out some failings of that particular system on the
Design Cultures blog.
Today, in the Courier, there is a story about a system being piloted by Fife Council, NHS Fife and Fife police where patients who suffer from dementia carry a matchbox sized gizmo that enables their position to be monitered using GPS technology. The Courier story isn’t in the online edition but there is an article available on the Fife Council website
This looks a bit better than the system pictured on the Design Cultures blog and it’s probably much better in practice.
I think I’m going to investigate further because I am still looking at the whole subject as a possible dissertation candidate.
