On Saturday 27 January 2007 00:12, Mary Stovel wrote: > Recently I convinced a friend to get a prepaid > cell phone and hang it around her neck when she went out in case she > needed to call for help. This allowed her greater freedom to leave > home and sure was less expensive than some other advertised devices. > I thought of this with the design of the Moko which seems to have a > nice place to put a lanyard. There may be a nice app could be > designed around this with a call for help button...and with GPS > already there...just in case.
You could also set it up to vibrate, then biep, then ring - delayed - once every 15 minutes, at which point the wearer has to touch the screen, if they don't touch the screen within 5 minutes, a number is dialed, and the phone is put into speaker-phone mode, so the helper can ask if anything is wrong, even if the infirm person can't reach the phone... or voice-activated call-up, if someone shouts 'help'... You could also setup the phone to auto-answer the phone in speaker-phone mode after x rings if a helper's CLI is recognized... Or you could set the phone to sound a shrill 'finding tone' like an S.O.S. Morse code pattern activated remotely by sending an SMS 'sos', to help locating wounded people. (Could even be used for rescue-workers). If some features like monitoring ambient sounds constantly listening for 'help', greatly impact battery-life, a much larger battery could maybe be provided as accessory for circumstances where battery-life is more important than size and weight. (Hell, you might as well offer a fatter battery with a built-in usb wifi dongle for when wifi is more important than size and weight...) I've got to stop thinking about this... Richard _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
