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by gautam on February 24, 2010
Sometimes when we are down and out, we always think about a friend who could be by our side during the troubled times but what if we have a robot friend instead who would be perched on top of our shou...
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by gautam on January 20, 2010
You are following a healthy diet, you are also slogging in the gym but still the fat doesn't seem to disappear from your body. If this is the case with you then you need scientific dissection of y...
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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 August 1, 2007
Often enough we learn from army technology - why not when it comes to personal safety and personal information. Often enough people aks me whats with security and wearable etchnology? Maybe this new a...
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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 27, 2007
Just a last note form the CeBIT 2007. I made a picture at the stand of MRC, the Mobile Research Center, Bremen, Germany. This was btw my first intense use of a wearable system.
The job was to answer ...
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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 March 16, 2007
Energy is one of the main boundaries for wearable computing. The news just sounds to amazing to be true: battery power that is woven into textiles. In other words - I dream about cable-less energy for...
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by on March 10, 2007
You probably not know the wonderful German town Bremen? It's just one of the oldest Sea-side cities. However, because it has the lead in the wearIT@work project (a brand that should definitive be ...
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by on March 2, 2007
How Japanese see the future - the "now future in front of us" to be proper. Watch this video short before you leave your office today and I wish you a great start into the weekend. Beside th...
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by on March 1, 2007
The really first contact with wearable computing for me was in Zurich, Switzerland when the Expert from the ETHZ presented his idea for a PHA - the Personal Health Assistant. Looks like we are a bit c...
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by on February 21, 2007
Seldom enough I write about interfaces for wearable computing because there are not so many fresh ideas yet. However, this collection of "13 computer keyboards you've never seen before" ...
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by on February 19, 2007
The Register reports about a european police conference in Berlin, Germany. One of the real challenges on the street is to make sure that criminals can not use the policemen's gun. The conference ...
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by on February 16, 2007
One of the most advanced wearable projects has stopped now, the land warrior. Time seems not to be right for the whole bunch of technologies planned. But a few became "part of the process". ...
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by on February 12, 2007
"We have many exciting opportunities to use these proprietary coatings to stop infection before it causes disease and death," says Tom Roberg
Sounds like a huge new market that connects the...
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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 22, 2006
Seldom enough I'm at Gizmode the last year - however this entry inspired me:
It creates a body area network (BAN) that lets you communicate with other peripherals by touching them. So for example,...
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by on November 21, 2006
Wearable displays were a real hype some years ago. But this product category had kind of a long sleep.
I always loved that idea. Computing power within a tiny box and a huge (virtual) screen. What t...
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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 2, 2006
A new use for RFID tags within a museum was honored for it's innovative idea - and the idea is simple enough: The Tech Museum of Innovation wanted to personalize the museum experience. To do so th...
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by on October 28, 2006
Circumferential visibility is exact what a new wearable technology offers. Canoe Money writes "from wearable video glasses to a wearable helmet". Yes, the helmet is huge and not what we mean...
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by on October 26, 2006
So what is Ambient Intelligence? It's like Techwear - but - with objects instead of clothes. The main idea stays the same: build sensors into something and connect it to something else.
Here is a...
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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 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 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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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 October 7, 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 pr...
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by on October 5, 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).
W...
