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by on June 29, 2005
"At first glance, a cloth bag may seem an unlikely security device. But if it's made from a new, electronic fabric, it could not only resist tampering, but sound off an alarm or send an alert...
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Filed in archive Products
by on June 28, 2005
plawa sells a keyboard that is made of light only (and a little gadget that generates the light). However, it would be cool to display some figures on textiles and build some features around it. The...
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Filed in archive Products
by on June 27, 2005
"... then open my browser, afterwards write a blog-entry about this new product." Looks like NeuroSky produced such a wonderful tool that can read your mind and let you control other units...
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For all of us who think it's maybe too hot today to work in the office space and that sunday is not the day to be in the office at all - it might be time to go swimming and......
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Filed in archive Technology
by on June 26, 2005
Smartmobs writes about a WiFi Tracking system to find stolen computers within the blink of an eye. The system tracks metropolitan areas only but even there I can imagine other services becoming...
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Grado zero espace is an italian fashion company that works together with the European Space Agency and developed a anatomic cooling system that is also used for the MotoGP (where italians lead the...
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by 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 Social...
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Filed in archive Cool
by on June 19, 2005
it's sunday again: I just bought the "Minimum-Maximum" CD from Kraftwerk (amazing), the german electro music pioneers. The first song is "Die Mensch-Maschine" (the man machine)...
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Filed in archive Products
by on June 18, 2005
Eleksen is the world's only supplier of integrated fabric switching and sensing solutions. They use it mostly to control music player and things like that. But I appreciate the idea to let things...
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by 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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Filed in archive Technology
by on June 16, 2005
Many technologies where explored first for military use. Btw, I'll travel to Florence next week, one of the capitals of the renaissance. This innovative age brought the gunpowder to europe. 500...
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News.com gives an overview of Intel's activities in the field of sensor, wireless and wearable technologies. Among those experiments are - a bed that monitors health related data of your baby...
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Filed in archive Enterprises
by on June 15, 2005
Xybernaut is in trouble. The "Lead Plaintiff Deadline" was yesterday and because the company brings no relevant information on their website it might be interesting to read about the...
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Filed in archive Cool
by on June 12, 2005
When I saw this bag it came to my mind that somewhere in the future when wearable computing is daily reality people might want that. It will show them how gadgets looked like before they all...
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Filed in archive Enterprises
by on June 10, 2005
Forbes writes about BodyMedia, a six years "old" Pittsburgh based company that produces wearable computing products for the healthcare sector. For example armband monitors with six sensors...
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by on June 10, 2005
"Any day now, the Supreme Court is expected to hand down the most important decision of the digital age in the MGM v. Grokster case." What has this to do with Wearable Computing? SmartMobs...
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Filed in archive Technology
by on June 08, 2005
Between the barcode and the RFID: A company called InkSure got patents on a technology to print low-cost chipless RFID's on products. The relation is $0.001 per barcode tag and from 25c to 10$ for...
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Filed in archive Market
by on June 07, 2005
The Gizmag is an amazing source about techwear products. Under the category "Wearable Electronics" they list a lot of them. But even more you'll get a deep insight into each product and...
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by on June 04, 2005
Infineon announced the management buy-out of Interactive Wear AG i.G., thats the former unit who produced a mp3-and mobil jacket together with O'Neill. Interactive Wear was founded pretty fast...
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Filed in archive Events
by on June 02, 2005
The ARS electronica is one of the most important hightech- culture events in the world. In the category "the next idea" artist under the age of 27 give us an idea of how they see the future...
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Filed in archive Science
by on June 01, 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 system...
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