#Spinoff

[nasa]

For the Benefit of All: Assistive Tech Developed from NASA Tech

What do modern cochlear implants and robotic gloves have in common? They were derived from NASA technology. We’ve made it easier to find and use our patented inventions that could help create products that enhance life for people with disabilities.

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, which highlights the contributions of American workers with disabilities – many of whom use assistive technology on the job. Take a look at these assistive technologies that are NASA spinoffs.

Low-Vision Headsets

The Joint Optical Reflective Display (JORDY) device is a headset that uses NASA image processing and head-mounted display technology to enable people with low vision to read and write. JORDY enhances individuals’ remaining sight by magnifying objects up to 50 times and allowing them to change contrast, brightness, and display modes. JORDY's name was inspired by Geordi La Forge, a blind character from “Star Trek: The Next Generation” whose futuristic visor enabled him to see.

Cochlear Implants

Work that led to the modern cochlear implant was patented by a NASA engineer in the 1970s. Following three failed corrective surgeries, Adam Kissiah combined his NASA electronics know-how with research in the Kennedy Space Center technical library to build his own solution for people with severe-to-profound hearing loss who receive little or no benefit from hearing aids. Several companies now make the devices, which have been implanted in hundreds of thousands of people around the world.

Robotic Gloves

Ironhand, from Swedish company Bioservo Technologies, is the world’s first industrial-strength robotic glove for factory workers and others who perform repetitive manual tasks. It helps prevent stress injuries but has been especially warmly received by workers with preexisting hand injuries and conditions. The glove is based on a suite of patents for the technology developed by NASA and General Motors to build the hands of the Robonaut 2 humanoid robotic astronaut.

Smart Glasses

Neurofeedback technology NASA originally developed to improve pilots’ attention has been the basis for products aimed at helping people manage attention disorders without medication. The devices measure brainwave output to gauge attention levels according to the “engagement index” a NASA engineer created. Then, they show the results to users, helping them learn to voluntarily control their degree of concentration. One such device is a pair of smart glasses from Narbis, whose lenses darken as attention wanes.

Anti-Gravity Treadmills

A NASA scientist who developed ways to use air pressure to simulate gravity for astronauts exercising in space had the idea to apply the concept for the opposite effect on Earth. After licensing his technology, Alter-G Inc. developed its anti-gravity G-Trainer treadmill, which lets users offload some or all of their weight while exercising. The treadmills can help people recover from athletic or brain injuries, and they allow a safe exercise regimen for others with long-term conditions such as arthritis.

Wireless Muscle Sensors

Some of the most exciting assistive technologies to spin off may be yet to come. Delsys Inc. developed electromyographic technology to help NASA understand the effects of long-term weightlessness on astronauts’ muscles and movements. Electromyography detects and analyzes electrical signals emitted when motor nerves trigger movement. Among the company’s customers are physical therapists developing exercise routines to help patients recover from injuries. But some researchers are using the technology to attempt recoveries that once seemed impossible, such as helping paralyzed patients regain movement, letting laryngectomy patients speak, and outfitting amputees with artificial limbs that work like the real thing.  

To further enhance the lives of people with disabilities, NASA has identified a selection of patented technologies created for space missions that could spur the next generation of assistive technology here on Earth.

Want to learn more about assistive technologies already in action? Check out NASA Spinoff to find products and services that wouldn’t exist without space exploration.   

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[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was out really, really late and there was no public transport so my only way to get home somehow involved a Doctor Who spinoff that would be consumed using my voicemail app but someone chased me before I could do that.

[dontmentionitsrsly]

WE’RE BACK BABY

GRAB YOUR GLASSES AND MULTIVITAMINS WE’RE A LITTLE OLDER BUT WE RIDE AGAIN

[stevesbipanic]

Give me a spinoff of the fruity four just living their lives and being gay, I want cute movie nights, I want Eddie annoying Steve and Robin at work, double dates at the diner, them all looking after the kids, IS THIS TOO MUCH TOO ASK DUFFER BROTHERS

[see-arcane]

After reading and watching several adaptations, I have come to the conclusion that Quincey gets much more respect than Jonathan. Yes he appears much less, but he gets his heroic sacrifice when he does instead of getting bastardised. Three times I have seen him be the one who kills Dracula without Jonathan. In two of those he has the kukri.

Also idk if vampire Quincey is underappreciated, there is a novel all about him.

And in this one Jonathan is revealed to have been a cowardly cheater all along.

You know. Sometimes I think I might be going too overindulgent with my Harker Horrors and lavishing of attention on my favorite special little haunted gothic heroine lad.

And then I get lovely reminders like these that not only am I not being indulgent, I have to actively burn every daydream of an inhibition I have as a writer to unfuck 126 years' worth of doing the whole cast dirty, but Jonathan Harker the absolute worst.

[doughguts-art]

Been doing a lot of traditional drawings lately! Here's some of those

Most have Bandit, but there's some other guys. Danny and Darren from START, Glaive from ONE, two of my other elsen characters Monty and Den, and @lilyanswan 's elsen, Elmer.

[doodlelots]

been playing confinium for the first time, it's fun

[angel13xo]

i need a spinoff of young makarovs life like his generation and a spinoff of all the fairy tail kids + lucy's childhood cause i just love her 😭😭🤍

[dianessunflower]

Elsbeth (2024-)

1x01 Pilot

[apricotto]

ossan's love returns spin-off(2024)

[euclicide]

TWO DAYS / F(O)UR

(created for the fangames by the awesome @tzalmavet! go play both of these silly short little fangames they're well worth your time :D)

[mysteriousdragon2]

Manga coloring art trade for @spamtonjuice420

Requested me to color Vol. 1, Ch. 2, pg. 21 of Crazy Diamond’s Demonic Heartbreak. Just a couple of dudes being dudes. Their introduction together was absolutely hilarious.

Had plenty of fun! Especially the fact that this spinoff exists. Without a certain friend of mine @fellow-traveller for getting me into the spin-off, I probably wouldn’t have been hyped up to read it. So thank you!

Hope you enjoy it, because I worried that the shading and lighting would look awkward here!

Here’s the original panel, not very good quality as I screenshotted it, but it’ll suffice.

Thank you very much for this opportunity!

[one-time-i-dreamt]

The Bluey cartoon was actually a spinoff of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. The manga version is way grittier and had a bittersweet ending I didn’t get to read because I woke up.

[soloh]

Now THAT'S what I'm talking about.

Bloody amazing effort from the protestors, and fantastic turnout

[privatehousesanatomy]

i've talked about it on here once before but since i have recently finished watching house entirely through and am devastated that there are only 8 seasons, i feel as though i should bring this up again.

they should have had a spin off show dedicated to house doing clinic duty. like, each season could have had a smaller subseason for the clinic patients. it would have been absolutely hilarious, and honestly i think something that hugh laurie as a comedian would have been all for.

[veinsfullofstars]

Kirbtober 2023 Day 16: Spinoff

(ID: Kirby series fanart of Yarn Kirby in car form driving off in a puff of yarn smoke, with Prince Fluff barely hanging on by one hand. It is done in the art style of Kirby’s Epic Yarn, with everything rendered as yarn outlines on beige canvas backing stitched in white thread around the edges. END ID.)

Kirbtober 2023 prompts by @/paintpanic (link to list here)

Started and finished on 09/19/23. NOTE: This was originally posted on my deleted account on 10/16/23.

I already used all my yarn puns on the last one, dang. At least recreating the KEY art style was a fun challenge. Lookit ‘em go.