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on November 21, 2005
Tweakfest is a two day conference about cyber culture in Switzerland. Walter Hehl from the IBM research lab was talking about computer in ten years and how they may look like. One of the interesting t...
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Products
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on November 8, 2005
Sometimes they look strange, sometimes cool. IEEE Spectrum presents exoskeletons around the world. Wearable robotic systems in Asia, Europe, and the United States.Sometimes they help us when we lost s...
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on November 8, 2005
Whats that? It's a Generator. And a backpack. And it's for you. A generator not for a power house but for a human being.The easiest idea even in the beginning of wearable computing was to use ...
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on October 24, 2005
You can now download the C-Lab report about wearable computing in the maintenance sector (16pages, german).C-Lab is the Cooperative Computing & Cooperation Laboratory - works in the area of resear...
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on October 20, 2005
Will high-tech help to save the life of thousend of people? The worldwide german radiostation "Deutschlandfunk" writes about a real life test (german) of wearable computing with a fire briga...
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on September 22, 2005
Wearable computer collect at least a lot of information an dcompute them. Sure. To do so they often need environmental data. One of them is to localize you. And that still a problem. As easy it is for...
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High-Tech Textiles
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on September 15, 2005
A short look to Switzerland again, at the wearable computing lab at the ETH Zurich. In summer term 2005 they talked about textiles and electronics for example. The result is a great overview from Pr...
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on August 5, 2005
A new idea from the MIT: a wearable application for dogs. We know that the dog is the men's best friend. But who is the friend of your pet?
The SNIF (Social Networking in Fur) saves contact dates...
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on August 3, 2005
Wired reports about the reality mining cell phone project @ MIT. This report really fits with my "Pervasive Computing with mobiles (part I, II & III) series."
Some notes I found remark...
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Products
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on July 9, 2005
I heard about the product a while ago but finally found it, the LifeShirt from VivoMetrics.
The Shirt "collect and analyze continuous ambulatory physiologic data to enhance pharmaceutical resear...
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on July 7, 2005
The ninth annual IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers will be held end of october in Osaka, Japan. Last date for online registration is July, 18.
They expect researchers, product vendo...
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on July 6, 2005
Just found a journal that writes about personal and ubiquitous computing and looks pretty interesting. It is published in London by Springer.
You have to pay for every article but can browse through t...
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About
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on June 20, 2005
A pretty interesting lecture and demo on creative cybernetic research and a "short" overview of CyBorgs in science, media and todays reality.
"The Psymbiote: Hybrid Apparatus For Soc...
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on June 17, 2005
The second IFAWC (International Forum on Applied Wearable Computing) was held in Zurich some month ago. Some of the presentations are available now.
One of them gives a great overview of the biggest...
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on June 1, 2005
The future of RFID? The potential to make currrent RFID's obsolete?
Interesting student project for summer term 2005:
"In contrast to RFIDs, where the tag side is always an autonomous syste...
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on May 24, 2005
There is a huge project in europe started mid last
year you probably not heard about yet. Some
even say it is the biggest in the world.
36 companies and universities all over europe
(15 countries) ...
