Musician's Mirror helps players overcome bad habits and avoid injury. The?computer vision based system watches its users practice and feeds back instantly, sounding warning notes to make them aware when they slip into bad habits. The system uses a camera, typically mounted on the music stand, to track the musician's overall posture, or any part of their body that they want to concentrate on. http://www.arthurcarabott.com/musicians-mirror/
The Hobart City Council in Tasmania has agreed to draft legislation that would phase out single-use plastic containers and cutlery by 2020. Instead of using plastic containers for home delivery and takeout, restaurants in the city of 220,000 would have to use ones made from cardboard, cornstarch or bamboo that could be composted. The move follows Tasmania?s ban on thin plastic bags in 2013. (Thicker retail bags are still allowed.) https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/09/world/australia/plastic-tasmania-hobart.html?
A recent study found that men interrupt women 23% more often than they interrupt other men. A new app, Woman Interrupted, has been created to help detect these interruptions which can prevent women from expressing their ideas. The app is free and uses microphones to analyse conversations and detect how often women are being interrupted.?http://www.womaninterruptedapp.com/en/
Plastic bottles make it easy to transport water, but it takes energy to make the bottles. When you?re done with your drink, it takes more energy to unmake the bottle, as plastics won?t fully degrade on their own. Now a startup called Skipping Rock Labs thinks we can just skip plastic bottles entirely. It has developed a capsule called ?Ooho!? for transporting water that is not only biodegradable, it?s edible. https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/247672-seaweed-based-water-pouch-aims-end-need-plastic-bottles
