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The Story in Our Eyes – Eye-Tracking Tech #CES2018
If the eyes are the portal to the soul, then the Swedish company, Tobii may be the electronic way to enter that portal. At CES2018, Tobii demonstrated their eye-tracking technology integrated into gaming laptops, as well as a virtual reality headset. And the results are amazing, as demonstrated in their virtual reality headset. Their virtual…
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The Invisible, Magic Hand
Using a single low-cost camera to detect 26 skeletal points and mimic hand gestures in real-time is the trick that uSens has seemingly mastered. Using a relatively lightweight, deep learning algorithm, their software runs on android smartphones and only requires a single core of processing power and no external calls to a cloud compute engine.…
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The Professor with the Electronic Tattoo #CES2017
In what may be the ultimate wearable, Rotex’s electronic tattoo is a hair-thin, stretchable dry sensor for measuring things, such as electrocardiogram (ECG), electromyogram (EMG), electroencephalogram (EEG), skin temperature, and skin hydration. It conforms to the skin, like a temporary tattoo, so it blends into the skin. It currently receives its power and communicates via…
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App Enriched Blue Jeans & Swimsuits #CES2017
Blue Jeans with built-in vibration to direct a female (they don’t have them for men) to a given location without having to look or listen to a smart phone is the clever way that France’s Spinali Design is marrying technology with fashion. The wearer may also set up alerts so that only certain text messages…
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The IoT Hair Coach/Hair Brush #CES2017
At a superficial glance and from the perspective of someone who spends no more than five seconds on his appearance, the thought of an Internet-connected hairbrush seems unnecessary. In the above interview, filmed at its CES2017 debut, Vincent Nida, General Manager of Kérastase, makes a convincing case, which encompasses hair health as well as economics,…
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A New Way of Powering IoT Devices – Wood @IDTechEx
Harvesting forests may soon yield wood that allows harvesting of energy, thanks to researchers from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and with help from the USDA. Speaking at the 2016 ID-TechEX conference, Chunhua Yao, co-founder of EWPanel and Xudong Wong, Associate Professor at UW-Madison explain that an electrode is embedded into the wood fiber. The wood…
