MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia

Post by oakesm9 » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 4:54 PM UTC

vanderZwan wrote: post #33

tekchip wrote: post #28

Pimeroni has a selection of eink displays up to 7.3" including some with various buttons and LEDs to make whatever you'd like. https://shop.pimoroni.com/search?q=inky All boox tablet/e-readers just run Android. They can do literally anything Android can for folks asking about the loading and displaying of the web page. There are several "kiosk" apps and browsers with kiosk modes. Also fairly expensive Android automat…

That's cool, but: > It takes approximately 40 seconds to refresh this display I think that would rule it out for the purpose of this project - the demo in their introduction video[0] shows that it flashes multiple colors for ages during this long refresh. I imagine that could be very confusing for someone whose short-term memory might not last that long. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TluopgSoSWY&t=500s

Post by biomcgary » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 5:03 PM UTC

voidmain0001 wrote: post #52

medvezhenok wrote: post #49

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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/researc…

Post by cbsmith » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 5:11 PM UTC

frereubu wrote: post #12

This 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…

Post by cka » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 5:19 PM UTC

withinboredom wrote: post #57

mathieuh wrote: post #31

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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…

Post by timschmidt » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 5:25 PM UTC

biomcgary wrote: post #63

voidmain0001 wrote: post #52

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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/researc…

We know there are lots of biological mechanisms that retain state at the cellular level to put it in CS-ish terms. A fraction of these mechanisms could plausibly be transmitted outside the cell (e.g., miRNA). These mechanisms may or may not encode memories as we typically understand them, i.e., the ability to remember an event or fact, but could very plausibly shift personality, preferences, etc.