Preliminary Donor List

April 12, 2013 - Anonymous Donor : $193.90

: April 12, 2013 - Gravecat : $20

: April 12, 2013 - Makyo : $970.70

: April 16, 2013 - Veloso: $100

Hi Glass Explorers,I know this could be bending the rules a little, but I have to try. I know that it may well get deleted, but if I don't even try, then it will never happen. And as will be evident from this post, I'm a person who doesn't ever dare to give up!First off, a little about me: I have early-onset dementia caused by a genetic disease that's progressive. This isn't meant as something to create guilt, but part of an explanation as to why I am pushing so hard, because this is something very important to me. Glass is something that I can wear which can give me reminders, allow quick note-taking, overlay directions for me to get to places, let me take pictures and video to replace my short-term memory deficits...It is, in a sense, like giving someone who lost a leg a prosthesis, but one which can bend at the knee, have ankles that can rotate. In other words, it can help fix some of what I've lost and continue to lose. It can help me move towards... if not normal, then at least a higher level of functioning. Being more equal with my fellow human beings. And that is something I want to share with others. And the out-of-the-box functionality, whilst useful, can be improved upon. I know it can.Which brings me to the Safety Glass Project.I intend to use my Glass and start developing software, plugins and a website that will enable people to use Glass as a way to help them talk and manage their doctors, remember important health information, connect to things like heart rate monitors, blood glucose meters, fitness monitors and more to try and give ill patients a good way to track their health.Not only that, but storing emergency information, record video and audio during events such as confusion, panic attacks, mental breaks, mild or severe seizures... There are many problematic things like that for which recordings made during to aid diagnosis are invaluable. Maybe even allow you to automatically send information to your doctor, or an ER physician in an emergency situation.Everything will be as transparent as the law will allow, as open source as possible and designed so that people can run these things themselves, so they don't have to worry so much about things like HIPPA, as they will be managing their own medical information and can share it with whom they want with a simple click of a button, or maybe just a voice command. And setting up this software/cloud combination could be made as almost a one-click solution, so that even non-technically minded people with mental deficits can easily get going.And this way, if it's open source, people who wish to help out who have very domain-specific knowledge, such as specialists in areas of medicine, research, bioinformatics (the list goes on...) who might know best ways of communicating or handling certain types of data can do that. And if I get sick, or hospitalized or something, I don't have to worry about people not being able to get at things to keep the development progressing. :)This is how I want to give back to all the medical professionals and the medical world that's trying to help me get properly treated and cared for, something that takes a lot of time, money and work because genetic diseases are rare.But I can't do it alone. Glass alone is expensive, but managable. But there's more that I will need help with and the earlier I can raise the funds, the better. Medical hardware, monitors, testing gear, cloud-type infrastructure... it all costs. But, I can and will work on software for free and I will develop these things and give the tools away FOR FREE so that everyone, rich or poor, will be able to improve their lives...So this is why I'm trying to raise funds. To obtain the following:Google Glass (Though, I pretty much have this funded already, which is why I am hoping this post is okay, as most of the funding is for tertiary items)Reliable server hostingCollaboration tools (eg, GitHub)Medical Equipment (Blood glucose monitors, heart rate monitors, fitness trackers)and many similar things...I'm covering most of the cost of the Glass hardware myself, but I already have plenty of medical bills and stuff of my own to pay for, like many of the people that I aim to help. But even that doesn't stop me from wanting to do the most I can for the world at large.So if there's anything you, the wider community, can do to help, it would... it would be so incredible. Anything from donating just a few dollars, to offering up some of your own time if you have a speciality that might help, perhaps raising something by utilizing a skill that you poesses for the artists and creatives among us... or if you want to help, but don't have the time or the resources, then just spreading the word can be a big help.ANYTHING helps. EVERYTHING helps. It will be for a good cause. Advancing the treatment of people with both manageable but carefully monitored to incurable, debilitating and disabling physical and mental conditions.Everyone who helps will be thanked, they will be credited in every single thing made (if they wish to be, or just anonymously, if they wish their involvement kept a secret, as some have) and I will give any of you I meet in the future a big goddamn hug. Because awesome people deserve a hug.If you want to donate or otherwise offer assistance, send me an email: safety.glass.project@malicelabs.com and let me know how you want to help, if you can. Otherwise, please... spread the word. Google+, Tumblr, Twitter, Blogs, Facebook, Pinterest or simply just E-Mail!I'm working on a site that will highlight the project goals, list the current supporters and such.There's a very very VERY early version of it currently up at: http://malicelabs.com/safetyglass/And finally, to everyone who took the time to read this... I <3 you all. You've helped me, and I will help others. And whilst this is not a cure, or anything like it... it will be an aid. For mothers and fathers with alzheimers, for brothers and sisters who had a stroke or a head injury. For sons and daughters with epilepsy, or multiple sclerosis. For worried friends and for frightened families. And for ourselves, all of us.Let's Help!