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on June 4, 2010
A limited edition wearable Walkman has been unveiled by Sony. It is based on their famous design. This is a water resistant wearable player with camouflage finish with six preloaded tracks from the soundtrack of the game. Walkman W252 is the first wire free MP3 player from Sony.
The packaging comes with code for unlocking characters in the game and the adventure includes Walkman gadgets for collecting which includes the first ever cassette one from 1979. This is a wireless device with 2GB memory for up to 470 songs. Charge it for three minutes and you can enjoy music for ninety minutes. When completely charged it runs for eleven hours and works with all DRM-free tracks for iTunes. To be unveiled in June, it will priced at £60.
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on June 4, 2010
LifeShirt The Techwear Weblog
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 research". Whoever asked the doctor knows that usually the data from 1-2 hour sleep at the hospital are not serious enough (or often useless). With the shirt you can measure all day long. That makes a huge difference in the quality of the [...] Read More
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: Child Magazine's Number One Pediatric Hospital in the U.S. Straightfromthedoc
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has been named the nation's best pediatric hospital by Child magazine, the Children's Hospital's fourth consecutive number one ranking. According to Steven M. Altschuler, M.D., president and chief executive officer of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: "Children's Hospital employees work tirelessly everyday to ensure every family has the ideal patient experience and we are truly grateful to our dedicated and talented staff. We recognize our responsibility to [...] Read More
Hospital Rooms to Become More Private Straightfromthedoc
The next time you stay in a hospital, you may find yourself enjoying a little more privacy. According to an article on CNN.com, research shows that private hospital rooms frequently end up paying for themselves by reducing infection rates, making patient care more efficient, and shortening recovery times. Moreover, any new hospital rooms that are constructed within the United States' 6,000 hospitals will likely have to be private in order [...] Read More
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on May 25, 2010
Everybody seems to be awestruck with the concept of wearable computing and experts around the globe are working to make such concepts into reality. One such concept is the Sony Nextep Computer which can be worn as a bracelet with flexible OLED touchscreen display, holographic projector and pull-out keyboard for execution of work at a rapid pace. It is set to be released in the year 2020 and that doesn't seem to be far off from the era when wearable computing will be not be a distant reality for the masses.
The concept of wearable computing is definitely catching up and now there seems to be a burst of wearable gadgets being launched by companies. Let's see how far does this concept go?
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on May 24, 2010
Psymbiote - a Cyborg overview The Techwear Weblog
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 Interface is an ongoing interdisciplinary collaboration focusing on the merger of technology with the human body. ... Ultimately we seek to fully transform a human body into a new and unexpected hybrid organism with fully integrated control systems." Talking about wearable computing and [...] Read More
Carnival The Techwear Weblog
Want to know what's going on in the blogosphere? Go to a carneval! Today I found two interesting topics people joined blogs about. First is fashion, second mobile life. Just go and check for yourself and you will see that nothings more current when it comes to trends than the weblogs. And nothings more fun ;-) Looks like I'm a topic-collector these days... [...] Read More
Wearables in 2005 The Techwear Weblog
Bradley Rhodes and Kenji Mase bring to us an overview about wearables in 2005. Read about RFID for context awareness (beside is the iGlove who uses RFID to track objects touched), interface evaluations, clothing design and recording events (and filtering tons of daily data). From "Clothing design": "The project's goal was entirely aesthetic: one dress's hemline rises and lowers as if betraying or thwarting the wearer's secret desires, and brooch flowers [...] Read More
being cyborg TJ's Weblog
Kevin Warwick is well published visionary who takes his own vision of being cyborg so serious that he has undertaken several surgeries to transform himself into one. A while ago I linked to this article. His story displayed on his homepage is intriguing: "On the 14th of March 2002 a one hundred electrode array was surgically implanted into the median nerve fibres of the left arm of Professor Kevin Warwick. The [...] Read More
Looking too far ahead? Nanotechbuzz
James Hughes at Cyborg Democracy speculates: Perhaps our descendents will use nanotechnology to turn whole planets into intelligent, living stuff, each atom a processor in a planet-sized mind, conscious of the fall of every sparrow and capable of preserving the memories of every life. In such a world our personal identities could continue for billions of years. Just as our Paleolithic ancestors could not have anticipated our great cities, our arts [...] Read More
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Technology
on May 20, 2010
Deafness is usually seen in many people today and it tends to affect them physically and mentally. To solve this problem, Designaffairs Studio of Germany has created a concept device called Deafinite Style which doubles up as trendy jewelry.
Its new TriMic system and classy accessory enables the right positioning of the microphone making it more helpful. This device is best for those who have a problem of medium level of hearing disability and people suffering from severe hearing damage can order the PLUG which you can get with a further powerful system.
Certainly it seems better than the normal hearing aid which looks quite ugly and tends to take a lot of space in and around your ear. Just hope it makes the cut.
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