Omigoodness. I managed to get my hands on a Kindle 2 this past weekend and aside from the fact that the Whispernet (Amazon’s renaming of Sprint’s EVDO Internet service) is totally inaccessible for me, and it would be an absolute pain for me to actually put any books on the device, I really really really [...]
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The Drawbacks of Having the Perfect Noise Isolating Headset in Uganda
I love my headset. I got them at Costco a few years back after months of research, and hours of pestering Joe Hall and various other friends on what kind I should get, whether noise-canceling technology was actually worth the money, etc etc etc.
The fact was that I spent a lot of time on [...]
Ergonomics, Ugandan Style (sort of)
Well, you can’t really call it Ugandan style if it involves a stack of 4 eeePC boxes, admittedly, and I’m not actually going to use this as my permanent setup. But I thought it would be entertaining to share this with you. Most days I’m too lazy to set up the entire stack – I [...]
Ubuntu-ifying the eeePCs (Netbook Mania Part II)
(Warning: This one is for the techies)
So I mentioned before that I purchased a bunch of eeePCs to test out in the health clinics and to use in the management agencies as asyncronous web servers and health information management devices.
I suppose to some extent that in retrospect these clinics will have wanted Windows on these [...]
Poynting Antennas and Wilson Antennas
I’m posting this here mostly for my own future reference:
I’ve been using tri-band antennas from Wilson Antennas, but unfortunately they don’t actually work in the places where you need the antennas because, well they’re made for the US-based frequencies (e.g. 1900, rather than 1800)
Jeff Wishnie from Inveneo points out this antenna for boosting signal strength:
This [...]
Preparing for Power Cuts
I’m pretty gadget heavy on this trip. In terms of power stuff I have:
1 solar flexible-panel charger (retail $99-ish) for 4 AA batteries2 solio solar chargers, for mobile phones and usb devices (can be charged via solar or grid power. I only have one adapterfor grid power) (retail about $80 each)1 inverter (retail about $40)1 [...]
Mobile Phone Microscope
So last year, our co-winners in the Bears Breaking Boundaries IT for Society contest was a group of students working on attachments for cell phone cameras that could be used for microscopy diagnosis of diseases like malaria. Since then both of our projects have been taken up by the Blum Center for Developing [...]
AfriGadget
My friend Neema pointed out AfriGadget, a blog showcasing African ingenuity. The posts currently on the front page feature everything from biodiesel and renewable energy to simpsons toys to mobile phones made from recycled parts.
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Epocrates for developing countries?
So I’m talking to my doctor about possible drug interactions between various prescriptions and he pulls out a… (drum roll) palm treo. Oh okay so that’s probably not a major revelation.. doctors love Palm devices and have loved them pretty much since 3COM started making them back in the 90s. (Can I say that [...]
