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The Pocket Digestive Analyzer #CES2018
Understanding the impact of diet on health is challenging as it is difficult to easily and regularly quantify the interaction of foods within the digestive system. FoodMarble hopes to change that with its innovative device that detects and analyzes the composition of one’s breath to help individuals and their doctors understand and diagnose issues people…
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Switch the Script to You Deserve #TIS18
“Switch the script…so that you are focused on the customer,” implores Dr. Frank Luntz. Luntz, well-known for his astute political commentary and polling, provides sage marketing advice to the operators at the 2018 Independent Show. He stresses that operators focus on the needs of the customers, instead of focusing on their products. The challenge for…
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The Eye as a Window Into Health and Well-Being #CES2018
Low-cost identification of health issues, whether concussions, developmental issues, or debilitating diseases is a huge challenge, particularly in rural areas where specialists are often not available. Enter Righteye with its solution which includes eye-tracking technology powered by Tobii. At CES2018, RightEye demonstrated its solution, which utilizes machine learning that studies its datasets to help identify…
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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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A Forum for Broadband and More
Lincoln Lavoie, Senior Engineer for the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab, provides an overview of the Broadband Forum’s October 27th, 2018 BASe event. The event covered all types of next generation access, whether wired (e.g. NGPON2) or wireless (e.g. 5G), as well as access within the home. Lavoie, who is also Technical Committee Chair of the…
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Curiosity Led to Discovery and More #TIS18
“Why can’t this be on television,” asked a University of Alabama student in the 1970s? The young John Hendricks was referring to the documentaries he was cataloging for his professor. That question led to his founding of the Discovery Networks in the 1980s and many other innovative ideas, such as Your Choice TV, an early…
