Thursday 11 March 2010

Avatar and the float tank

OK, Now we have all seen Avatar,
what was the technology of the pods?
Clearly not a float tank as such but it looked to me like a group of liquid filled sacs with plastic tops.

For long term rest like that, a bed would not be enough although they are at reduced gravity. It would make sense for a float system to be used and the use of liquid filled bags is a great idea. In general normal water beds do not let you sink in enough for any real float effect and technically its hard to do with a static system.

In theory you could tailor a group of bags to a particular body, rather like they do in Formula one, putting in just the right amount of liquid, and a spongy air-bubble filled liquid would be better still.

However for a general system, the bags would have to be filled and emptied and joined so that just the right amount of pressure support touches all over.

It might be the next development, and may be easier than linking your brain to an alien body, but hey, we're nearly there too, when you consider the games world.
Here are some links to new pages on different subjects

For sleeping problems try this one.

For restless legs syndrome.

For more about couple floating.

General notes on stress.

And to deal with nagging pain.

Friday 26 February 2010

Haiku time:
This classic is not apparently on the web yet so now it is:

Corn: in between the rows
weaving them together,
a butterfly goes.