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eWatch: A Wearable Sensor and Notification Platform

The eWatch is a wearable sensing, notification, and computing platform built into a wrist watch form factor making it highly available, instantly viewable, ideally located for sensors, and unobtrusive to users. Bluetooth communication provides a wireless link to a cellular phone or stationary computer. eWatch senses light, motion, audio, and...

Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Sensor, Wearable Computing, eWatch, Bluetooth Communication, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless

White papers 2005-11-30

Security Issues for Wearable Computing and Bluetooth Technology

Bluetooth is a short-range wireless cable replacement technology enabling restricted types of ad hoc networks to be formed. All the while, a need for connecting wearable devices, such as PDAs, mobile phones, and mp3-players, is rising. Such networks may be formed using Bluetooth technology, but issues such as security must...

Tags: Security, Helsinki University, Wearable Computing, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless

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Selecting the Wearable That Will Deliver Maximum Value in Your Enterprise Environment

The use of wearable computers continues to rise in enterprise applications, as the technology has evolved from an interesting concept to a deployable application with tangible business benefits. In fact, according to Venture Data Corporation VDC, wearable computers represent the fastest growing segment in the small rugged computing market, outperforming...

Tags: Environment, Wearable Computer, Computer, PDAs, Productivity, Handhelds, Hardware

White papers 2008-12-01

Intel World Mural project - just what will the next 40 years bring?

Intel is turning 40 and while most of us by fast cars, take up motorcycling, or go bungee-jumping to deal with our mid-life crises, Intel asked 500 kids in 21 countries what they expected the next 40 years of computing to bring us. It's actually a great...

Tags: Computing, Computer, Intel Corp., Kid, Productivity, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-20

Apple makes headway on PC vs Mac front, but isn't that the old war?

Apple makes headway on PC vs Mac front, but isn't that the old war?services forecast: cloudy with a chance of rain((( "The next war is the cloud war, and the battles will be fought around software as a service, desktop as a service, integration as a service, infrastructure as a...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Desktops, PC, Apple Inc., Mac front, old war, Apple Macintosh, software-as-a-service, desktop

Discussion threads 2008-04-01

A Survey of Mobile and Wireless Technologies for Augmented Reality Systems

Recent advances in hardware and software for mobile computing have enabled a new breed of mobile AR systems and applications. A new breed of computing called "Augmented ubiquitous computing" has resulted from the convergence of wearable computing, wireless networking and mobile AR interfaces. This paper provides a survey of different...

Tags: Mobile, Wireless Technology, Survey, Wireless, Naval Postgraduate School, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless And Mobility, Wi-Fi, Marketing

White papers 2007-12-12

Wearing a computer at work

The European Union has funded an ambitious project related to wearable technology. This project, named WearIT@work will end in one year and was funded with 14.3 million euros of EU money, even if the total project cost is expected to exceed 23 million euros. For mobile workers, the goal is...

Tags: Project, Aircraft, Information And Communication Technology, Computer, Aerospace & Defense, Productivity, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-11-29

A watch to measure your stress

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University CMU and the University of Pittsburgh are using a wrist-mounted watch to measure stress. This watch, which is in fact a wearable computing system, contains several sensors that gather information about the user and his environment. Now it will be used to conduct 3-minute interviews...

Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Study, Stress, eWatch, Productivity, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-10-18

Smart fabric mimicking knights armors

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC have created the world’s smallest chain-mail fabric. This fabric looks like the chain-mail armor worn by medieval knights, but can embed much more recent sensors to create some smart textiles. This fabric, which consists of "a network of small rings about...

Tags: fabric

Blog posts 2007-03-29

Making AI work

Last weeks blog wondering what a consumer would use a petascale handheld for led to some interesting comments - both on the record an off. Heres part of one comment by frequent contributor Roger Ramjet: Maybe with petascale computing, AI could become more than the...

Tags: IS IT

Blog posts 2007-02-07

The QWERTY keyboard wasn't designed for mobile devices

The QWERTY keyboard wasn't designed for mobile devicesIt's a lost causeKeep in mind that no matter how you end up laying out the keyboard, those of us who don't have tiny fingers are going to have to use a stylus and pick out the letters anyway.All in all, the (extremely...

Tags: Keyboards, Telephony, PDAs, mobile device, keyboard, voice recognition, real solution, mobile, QWERTY, phone

Discussion threads 2006-09-19

A SWAN to guide blind people

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed SWAN (an acronym for 'System for Wearable Audio Navigation'), a wearable computing system to help blind people navigate in unfamiliar environments. The current prototype is composed of a laptop or soon a PDA carried in a backpack, several GPS trackers, four...

Tags: SWAN, SWAN hardware.Now, bone phone

Blog posts 2006-08-15

SenseCam: A Retrospective Memory Aid

This paper presents a novel ubiquitous computing device, the SenseCam, a sensor augmented wearable stills camera. SenseCam is designed to capture a digital record of the wearer's day, by recording a series of images and capturing a log of sensor data. The authors believe that reviewing this information will help...

Tags: Ubiquitous Computing, Memory, SenseCam, Flash Memory

White papers 2006-07-26

A few minutes with Scott McNealy

After Friday's keynote address at JavaOne, former Sun CEO Scott McNealy chatted with a handful of reporters and analysts about his plans for the future and his vision for Sun going forward. What follows is a partial transcript of that event, as fast as I could type it. Any errors...

Tags: Jonathan

Blog posts 2006-05-20

The Ubiquitous Web, UPnP and Smart Homes

UPnP is a distributed computing framework based on Web technologies that is intended for use in local area networks - especially home networks. Over the years, valuable lessons have been learned from the efforts of various companies to develop and deploy products based on this technology. The essence of this...

Tags: Web, Nokia Corp., Wireless Communication, Vision, Distributed Computing, UPnP, Cloud Computing, Wi-Fi, Network Technology, Wireless, Networking

White papers 2006-02-14

Faster plastic circuits for flexible computing

Flexible materials used to build electronic displays are not mainstream yet, even if new products are launched almost every week. Until today, they needed to be powered by processors which couldn't been implanted on the displays themselves. But now, Technology Review reports that thanks to research done at Sarnoff Corporation...

Tags: plastic circuit

Blog posts 2005-12-14

A scarf that changes color

Here is something you can add to your wish list of gifts, but not for this holiday season. According to a brief article from New Scientist, Japanese researchers from Keio University have made a chameleon scarf which changes color according with what you wear. Put a green jacket, and the...

Tags: scarf, light-emitting diode

Blog posts 2005-12-10

Linux: The meaning of success

Linux: The meaning of successThe biggest barrierIMO the biggest barrier is the major computer supplierssuch as Dell, HP and Gateway continuing to protectMicrosoft's desktop monopoly.Here are some companies that offer a Linux Desktop.http://www.addonshop.com/http://www.emperorlinux.com/http://www.ibexpc.com/http://www.linare.com/http://www.linspire.com/http://www.linuxcertified.com/http://www.microtelpc.com/http://www.outpost.com/http://shoprcubed.com/http://www.sub300.com/http://www.systemax.com/divisions.htmhttp://www.walmart.com/http://www.xandros.com/http://tuxmobil.org/reseller.htmlhttp://www.us.debian.org/distrib/pre-installedhttp://www.linux.org/vendor/system/index.htmlhttp://tuxmobil.org/ general informationThis piece of ... journalism has to winthe award for most double talk and useless info...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Installing Apps, Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-10-03