What a lovely read and solution.
My sister has a disability making independent living a challenge. Although I have 0 technical background, I need to start thinking and brainstorming in this manner.
MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but studies showed that he could remember some things, just not consciously. This reminds me of muscle memory. I can play pieces on the piano even though I don't actively remember the sheet music of them. My hands just "know" what to do. Funnily enough the moment I start actively thinking about certain passages that ability worsens by a lot.
Further than just muscle memory, every cell in our bodies actually has "memories". That's why heart transplant patients can experience personality changes from the donor: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03069...
Excuse my ignorance in asking, but is this trustworthy? I'm a layperson regarding biology and I was always assumed that organs outside of the brain don't contribute to memory. At the end of the article is the statement "Data not available / No data was used for the research described in the article." Is it possible to see the data?
Reddit is telling me to not accept it at face value - https://old.reddit.com/r/research/comments/1bh2jmv/this_is_h...
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#53Respect
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#54"I was concerned about the possibility of e-ink burn-in" Happily, e-ink displays don't suffer from burn-in.
Had the same thought but then I remembered coming across this.
Can't say if it is due to burn-in but some manufacturers do recommend refreshing the display image periodically like every 24 hours [1].
See precautions #4
https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/4.2inch_e-Paper_Module_(B)_Ma...
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#55This is one of the few HN articles that have profoundly moved me. Such a beautiful and simple use of technology to make a clear and big improvement in someone's life. As a side note on his mother remembering that the tablet exists, it sounds like she has amnesia quite like Henry Molaison, a famous case study in neuropathology. He had very specific brain damage that seemingly stopped him forming new memories in the sa…
> but studies showed that he could remember some things, just not consciously. This reminds me of muscle memory. I can play pieces on the piano even though I don't actively remember the sheet music of them. My hands just "know" what to do. Funnily enough the moment I start actively thinking about certain passages that ability worsens by a lot.
Yes it is strange to practice a song one day and then come back to it again the next day. It's like meeting a new person who plays better than I did yesterday, and practice involves finding out more about this new person.
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#56btw. you should write date of message on each message, on top of current date
Why downvotes? For someone with amnesia it is not clear what date message was written if someone has written "today"..
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but studies showed that he could remember some things, just not consciously. This reminds me of muscle memory. I can play pieces on the piano even though I don't actively remember the sheet music of them. My hands just "know" what to do. Funnily enough the moment I start actively thinking about certain passages that ability worsens by a lot.
Yes same for me on guitar. If I try to play something too slowly or if I really start thinking about what I'm doing it all falls apart. I think that's when you really know a piece, when you can play it incredibly slowly. Paradoxically it's easy to play quickly and just let your fingers play out their muscle memory, playing something really slowly is the challenge.
I ran into this when teaching my son to tie his shoes. He now ties his shoes “upside down” from me, because I tied it from my perspective. It’s surprisingly hard to tie shoes in slow motion, it took some practice by paying attention to myself tying shoes quickly.
Now I’m wondering if you can tell a kid is from an “even” or “odd” generation by which way they tie shoes…
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#58a commercial product along the same lines is KOMP https://komp.family/en/ . We had it to communicate with our elderly grandparents until they died. Its a bit like a senior accessible social network feed for the family, including its dynamics, because the app shows what is being shown to everybody else of the family. In that regard it's a disadvantage you have some of the same dynamics going on. You dont only communic…
I don't know if it's because we are conditioned by our interaction with TV and mobiles, but active LCD screens feel like they are screaming for our attention and an always on display will mostly be a distraction.
E-ink displays don't have this, they just blend in.
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#59This is great. His one concern of remembering to remove things could be done with optional expiry.
Meeting for dinner tonight? Set the message to expire after today.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is super cool! I might need to build one of those. My family needs a way to keep the fridge calendar up to date with our digital calendar.
for your family cal, check out TRMNL. can go on a fridge w/ magnets: https://usetrmnl.com (disclaimer, i'm the founder)
Are there any plans to have a version without the battery? It looks exactly like what I've been looking for otherwise.
Also, what country are the orders shipped from? US?