Monday, May 5, 2008

No Contact Orders - SAVE LIVES!

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/09/05/bc-oakbay.html
For years I have communicated to the authorities and even written a technology company on how these lives could be saved.
When I was a Correctional Officer, we had an Electronic Monitoring Program to do surveillance of inmates on house arrest. It was scrapped, being deemed too cumbersome in favor of conditional sentences and incarceration. At the time, about 10 years ago, I suggested the equipment could be modified to be used as proximity alarms for no contact orders.
If they would have listened to me, several women would still be alive.
It is really quite simple. The offender wears a tamper electronic bracelet and goes about his or her daily life. Any attempt at removal results in the police and the victims getting a signal. The victims get a signal if the offender gets within a certain distance. You see, the victims wear receiver bracelets.
A few years ago, there was a terrible incidence of child abduction and car crash here in Nanaimo, resulting deaths. If the school had the receivers, the approach of the offender could have warned them to call the police.
The EMP 'bracelets' were cumbersome ankle bracelets. They could be much more streamlined with 'up to date' technology.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

double sided monitors

This blog is a repository for my inventions and business ideas. A few weeks ago I saw a woman in a coffee shop giving a demonstration to Clients on her notebook computer. One Client would bend over her shoulder to see the screen and she would pick up the notebook and twist it around for the person across to see.
It got to me thinking. What I am about to say must have been thought of before? However, the product is not in production as far as I know. For me, it a completely original idea, as I have not heard or seen of the improvements I am about to suggest.
While the concept will be clear for an improved product, there are certain features of the idea I will not disclose here.
PCs could have two sided monitors. Okay, notebooks want to be light and compact, but for most sales people the extra 1 pound would be worth the versatility. As for desk top, flat screen PCs, I cannot think of a realtor, financial advisor, broker, car salesman, and so on that would not want the Clients sitting across the desk to be able to be shown a demonstration of the product in discussion.