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ROBOT HOSTESS. "Electronics manufacturer Toshiba is currently showing off a new android robot at CES in Las Vegas that looks, talks, sings and cries like a Japanese woman, and it's just a bit creepy. ChihiraAico is a humanoid robot made to look like a 32-year-old Japanese hostess. She is a prototype the company is developing to help create "effective communication between humans and non-humans". (2014). https://lnkd.in/eSptrJH View in LinkedIn

GROUPS RISKING VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY. 1. Breastfed infants, as breastmilk dies not contain enough vitamin D. 2. Older adults. 3. People with limited sun exposure. 4. People with dark skin. 5. Fat malabsorption associated with some forms of liver disease, cystic fibrosis, celiac disease, and Crohn's disease, as well as ulcerative colitis. 6. Obesity. https://lnkd.in/eVmSxuR View in LinkedIn

JAPANESE ELDER CARE ROBOTS. "The new version of RIBA (Robot for Interactive Body Assistance) can actually crouch down and pick up a patient off the floor, a strenuous action that caretakers must do frequently." https://lnkd.in/e8X_F9i View in LinkedIn

SUN BLOCKING. "Complete cloud cover reduces UV energy by 50%; shade (including that produced by severe pollution) reduces it by 60%. UVB radiation does not penetrate glass, so exposure to sunshine indoors through a window does not produce vitamin D. Sunscreens with a sun protection factor (SPF) of 8 or more appear to block vitamin D-producing UV rays, although in practice people generally do not apply sufficient amounts, cover all sun-exposed skin, or reapply sunscreen regularly. https://lnkd.in/eVmSxuR View in LinkedIn

ELECTRONIC COMPANIONS. "Robots have an immense positive application to be friends and companions." This angle is being actively pursued in Japan, where the Silver Tsunami of elders is a demographic challenge without robotics. http://mixedrealitylab.org/ View in LinkedIn

SUNLIGHT OR BUST. "A major source of vitamin D for most humans comes from exposure of the skin to sunlight.nin nature, very few foods contain vitamin D." Our normal source is sunlight, not supplements. https://lnkd.in/eQ_zpCy View in LinkedIn

MULTIMODAL SENSING. "I aim to develop new technologies related to multimodal sensing and actuation to give the user more definition in their experience in the co-space environment. Visual, Auditory, Haptic, (Olfactory) Smell, and (Gustatory) Taste are the five sensors that humans use for environmental sensing, and communicating emotional feeling." http://mixedrealitylab.org/ View in LinkedIn

SENSE TELEXISTENCE. "We thus need to create fundamentally new forms of media to connect humans in the physical world and through the virtual world, not just in the transmission of information and verbal communication, but through meaning and nonverbal communication to increase the sense of telexistence using all the senses." http://mixedrealitylab.org/ View in LinkedIn

"SYNESTHESIA is defined as the involuntary physical experience of a cross-modal association. In layman's terms, it means that experiencing one sense, simultaneously activates another sense." Electronic smell through the internet, and other sensations. Many possibilities for synesthesia. https://lnkd.in/eT3xjqA View in LinkedIn

BOOKEND. This ends the Fragment in nature spot in vitamin D until next weekend. View in LinkedIn