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by on August 2, 2007
Like said before - Healthcare is one of the big things in wearable and the future of IT. Personal computing and personal healthcare grow together like never before. IBM starts a project together with ...
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by on July 7, 2007
I'm a bit late with this entry but I saved the site in my browser because it's that damned cool.. A display so thin that you can even wear it. The technology is electroluminescent.
"In t...
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by on April 9, 2007
Fibre2fashion published a huge report about fibres in the 21st century written by Prof. T.K.Sinha, Yogita Agrawal, Rupa Mohanta and Rupali Kapoor. The whole thing is really comprehensive. Here is the ...
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by on March 30, 2007
The Emotional Wardrobe is a London, UK, based project for research about what I call the "Social Interface". They differ between three dimensions of the topic:
The three themes we have iden...
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by on March 21, 2007
I'm sure you know the movie Minority Report and you'll remember the interface Tom Cruise uses to navigate in all the information he needs to build a story from the mind pictures.
The pointsc...
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by on February 23, 2007
Looks like we have some results from the huge European project WearIT @Work. And it looks like the field of on-site, real-time trainings with wearable technologies is a coming market.
Giunti Labs, mob...
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by on November 25, 2006
Part II - VDI/VDE-IT Innovation + Technik GmbH - what is it?
The VDI/VDE-IT is located in the middle of the power centers that drive innovation. The company studies research on many places, consults ...
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by on November 18, 2006
Part I - What drives the world?
Convergence is probably the word of the century. Convergence of technologies, convergence of media etc. But what's about the structures behind these trends? What a...
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by on November 17, 2006
WMMNA released an interview with Lalya Gaye from the Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute in Göteborg, Sweden.
She's an engineer and PhD graduate working in multidisciplinary projects that ...
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by on October 25, 2006
The Philoneist brought my attention to a NASA lab with an interesting field of research. The lab's name is Ames Research Center. Sure, at first I thought this is SciFi because the project he talke...
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by on October 24, 2006
Looks like I found the killer-app for the over-stressed manager of today (and many other within the "burn-out-zone"). Medick Healthcare has launched a personal heart monitor called MHM 100. ...
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by on October 23, 2006
An interesting idea from scientists is to get energy from biological processes. Now they extracted a protein that may be used as a micro-reactor to produce energy within a biofuel cells.
According to ...
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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 basi...
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by on October 11, 2006
Just a reminder that the impressive International Symposium on Wearable Computing 2006 in Montreux starts tomorrow and is worth a deeper look at.
Even if wednesday starts a bit slow the topics are:
...
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by on October 7, 2006
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....
Read more of Emotional Design - the wearable social Interface
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by on September 16, 2006
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 8, 2006
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 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 18, 2006
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 Syste...
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by on August 12, 2006
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 n...
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by on July 21, 2006
How should I call that: high-High Tech? New research shows that you can control Solitons.
The polymer chains tend to bend and twist as solitons pass through them. This has led to the possibility of t...
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by on July 19, 2006
The BMBF is the education and research ministry of Germany. And they decided to spend 15 mill. € for projects in Wearable Computing and Techwear.
The ministry already received over 50 project ideas ...
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by on June 15, 2006
Hurry up! 30th of June is the last day for your submission to the 10. International Symposium on Wearable Computing 2006 in Montreux, Switzerland.
The idea behind the ISWC Student Colloquium is to of...
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by on May 7, 2006
"Be a Freeporter": social behavior changes because of new technologies. In the next years mobile solutions will be the key driver for this process. Look at all the mobile phones with camera ...
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by on May 3, 2006
Learning from insects eye's - scientist at Berkeley had created a series of artificial compound eyes that could be used to make ultrathin camera phones or wearable cameras.
The material they use...
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by on April 22, 2006
Here is a complete overview of the Virtual Retinal Display (VRD).
This technology describes how the source image is projected directly onto the retina. The VRD technology eliminates any screen outsid...
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by on April 18, 2006
I guess you'll find that interesting too: it's just an overview of topics for diploma thesis at the ETH Zurich this summer. It's simply amazing how huge and broad the field of wearable com...
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by on March 31, 2006
Paul Lukowicz is a european veteran in wearable computing and now became head of applied informatics in Passau (University of Passau), Bavaria, Germany. His main field will be embedded systems / emb...
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by on February 23, 2006
How about a mask that can display the best way trough a building aflame? Or show different degrees of heat while trying to put the fire out.
That's what FIT works on. FIT stands for Fraunhofer in...
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by on February 21, 2006
There is another interesting european research from IST - beside work clothes like yesterday this one focuses on healthcare.
What is Wealthy? - The main objective of WEALTHY is to set up a comfortab...
