Tag: PPE

A Covid-Friendly Wearable Shocks You With 450 Volts When You Touch Your Face

A reporter for Medium’s tech site OneZero recently spotted an especially bizarre ad on Instagram:
The ad features a GIF of a person wearing a Fitbit-style wristband, with the text “Eliminate Cravings.” Across the frame from their hand sits a giant slice of cake. As the person reaches towards the cake, the wristband turns red and zaps them with electricity. You can…

Trending online courses in business, data science, tech, and health

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Lyft Sparks Uproar After Opening Online Store to Sell Masks to Its Drivers

“The ride-hailing platform Lyft has opened an online store to sell masks and other protective gear as the Covid-19 pandemic intensifies, enraging drivers and labor organizers who say the company should be providing these free,” reports the Guardian: The tech company’s move to sell drivers protective gear rather than provide it resurfaces the debate of whether drivers are employees or independent…

More Drone Deliveries Being Tested in America

Long-time Slashdot reader necro81 writes: For several years, Zipline has deployed autonomous, fixed-wing airplane drones for medical supply deliveries in Rwanda. Now they have received permission to test their aircraft in the U.S., ferrying COVID-19 supplies from a depot to a hospital in North Carolina. The practical benefit is small: the cargo is modest amounts of PPE that could have been…

As Raspberry Pi Sales Skyrocket, Eben Upton Applauds Efforts of Open Hardware Community

“Sales of Raspberry Pi’s single-board computers hit 640,000 in March, the second-biggest month for sales since they started selling,” reports TechRepublic, “as consumers flocked to inexpensive ways to work and learn from home.”
But that’s not all, Eben Upton tells them:
With the pandemic having highlighted shortages in personal protective equipment (PPE), 3D-printing manufacturers and hobbyists have been building face shields printed on…

Open-Source Electronics Maker Adafruit Switches To Producing Face Shields, Other PPE

Slashdot reader and managing director of Adafruit, Phillip Torrone, a.k.a. ptorrone, writes: Tom’s Hardware talked to Adafruit about what it’s like to switch from selling tech to selling protective gear, and when hobbyists can expect things to return to normal. In March of 2020, Adafruit was deemed an essential service and business for critical manufacturing in NYC by executive order 202.6,…

Mobilizing 3D Printers Around the World Against the Coronovirus

“From face-shields to respirator valves, 3-D printer owners pitch in to the efforts to provide PPE to Australian hospitals,” writes davecb (Slashdot reader #6,526). It’s not only happening in Australia. But the Guardian talked to Mat Bowtell, a former Toyota engineer in Australia who’s using fourteen 3D printers to manufacture thousands of face shields for healthcare workers. And citing 3D printing,…

Y Combinator Company ‘Flexport’ Is Shipping PPE To Frontline Responders

The Y Combinator company Flexport is a San Francisco-based freight-forwarding and customs brokerage company. (Its investors include Google Ventures and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund.) But on March 23rd Flexport announced they were now re-focusing all their resources to get critical supplies to frontline responders combating COVID-19. They’ve joined a team that announced on Friday announced “we’re shipping full cargo planes filled…

More essential coronavirus links: March 17-23

A roundup of information from physicians, scientists and journalists. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/more-essential-coronavirus-links-march-17-23…