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by on October 19, 2006
Before your bone brakes there are different noises. Scientists developed a system that measures this sound and can tell you to stop before it's to late. The researchers are applying the same basic...
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by on October 14, 2006
What comes to your mind when you think about ants? For example that they can carry 8 times their own weight. To transfer animal skills is an old dream of mankind. No wonder that the armed services are...
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Very very cool is: Philips. Often enough I had this thought the last years but now they kick it. The company designer play around with an old idea from me: Clothes that show the emotion of the wearer....
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by on October 06, 2006
Konica Minolta developed a new display and is looking for possible applications. The technology sounds nice: The Holographic See-Through Browser prototype resembles a pair of eyeglasses and uses a...
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by on October 04, 2006
Nokia developed a competing technology to Bluetooth called Wibree. The business features are: power-efficient (can be used in smaller devices), scalable (using the same components Bluetooth does)....
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by on September 26, 2006
Simple but wonderful. The feeling must be great... Pretty close to fly like a bird but without the risk to fall. In fact you could lay down with your VR glass and just look around: The airplane is a...
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by on September 16, 2006
Something here reminds me to the movie Matrix- and that things come true. An Infineon spin-off can produce Electric power from your body. The basic technology is called "Peltier Cooler" (see...
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Imagine an electrocardiogram without the need to go to the doctor and with much better data. This is what the ECG T-shirt will be about. It's a research project at the EMPA. This institut works in...
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by on September 14, 2006
A new technology makes it possbile to measure healthcare related data without any sensors. The development from CNOGA Inc. is based on novel bio chrominance information processing acquired from the...
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We all know that animals (like we) are moved by bones and muscles - spiders are not. They use a hydraulic system that is much more lightweight. Scientists Carlo Menon and Cristian Lira have developed...
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by on September 07, 2006
RFID is everywhere but in a mop? Even more not at home but in the B2B business? Yep, the German room cleaning service company Schulten uses RFID for better service quality. The room cleaning business...
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by on September 06, 2006
You want to know where your food is from and what's in it? Look at BaToo, a new application that integrates technologies from camera mobiles, GPRS, mobile networks and databases to deliver...
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Where is the fitness industry going? Gadgets, gadgets, wearable. Thats the key-message from "The Raw Story". The experts see a huge trend to more equipment. Even if they think that not all...
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by on August 24, 2006
A breakthrough in nanotechnology - that is more important for techwear then ever before: chemists from the University of Arkansas announced the first 3D-form from nanomaterials. The advancement from...
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by on August 23, 2006
RFID reports about a new use for RFID chips - active and passive - in prison: Now at this prison, inmates would be fitted with an anklet or a bracelet having a unique identifier and the security guard...
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Everyone knows and loves car navigation systems. Now you can imagine how cool a personal navigation system would be. Most of all this one: the Georgia Institute of Technology presents SWAN - the...
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This creation was "close2catch" and is a technological revolution. A shirt that measures what is available with sensors today. Because you'll have a lot of healthcare data at hand the...
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... with Voice Trust - the leading voice recognition company from Munich, Germany. And what's fun - the founders first company was in the fashion business (and failed). But his second company is...
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Even at the worlds biggest consumer electronics fair in September in Berlin we will see a Wearable Fashion show named "eFashion" (I guess it will be part of the Science show. However, till...
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An interesting article about temperature measurement. They key is to use infrared for process control e.g. industrial work flows. But because infrared is fast and small it can be used for wearable...
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by on August 03, 2006
Techwear on the hill - Audex is a wearable technology to push Techwear in the funsport business. In the end it's just Bluetooth that really works. However, the design is great and the...
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by on July 21, 2006
HP (this time really) invents a new chip and I promptly think this can push the Wearable-to-consumer (W2C) business. What I have in mind is the label within every clothing. Add this chip and you can...
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by on July 14, 2006
One of the "parents" of wearable computing is the theory of pervasive computing: computing power is completely hidden, you will even not recognize them. In the heart of computing - or better...
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