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Monitoring the Man Cave
Vampire appliances are often the cause for excessive electricity usage that catapults a consumer’s bills to an expensive tier. In this video, we learn about how one man’s children were vampires of sorts, sneaking into his man cave and using his electronic gizmos while he was away. Jay Kenney, Vice President of Marketing for Alarm.com…
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From Connected to Selfie
The maturation of technology, personalization and the rise of the “selfie” segment are three of the trends that Stuart Sikes, president of Parks Associates, observed at International CES 2014. One thread these trends have in common is the creation of lots of data, whether that data consists of pictures, telemetry, voice or video. And the…
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Beyond Video — Metadata as Part of the Action
Metadata may be in the royal court of content, but collecting it and using it for something useful can be a royal pain. Rigado and its Rebound product solves that problem for people who want to relive their action sport adventure. With 9 sensors, they can provide a rich suite of data including elevation, speed,…
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Continuous Fitness Feedback
Keeping New Year’s resolutions, particularly when they are associated with staying in shape, is always a challenge. Even identifying and tracking progress can be overwhelming. Fitbit aims to solve this through a series of low-cost sensors that monitor things such as steps taken, calories burned, hours slept and quality of sleep. What makes this approach…
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Vital Signs Monitoring via an iDevice
The Tinke’ from Zensorium turns into an iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone into a tool for monitoring heart rate, respiratory rate and blood oxygen saturation. Although it is not a medical device, it is relatively accurate; for instance, it is within +/- 2 beats per minute and +/- 2 breaths per minute. The real value of this device is…
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Water Repellent Protection – Service Provider Opportunity?
Drop that expensive electronic device in the sink? Liquipel has a solution in the form of a protective coating. What makes this interesting for service providers or anyone with a retail presence is that Liquipel has developed a relatively small unit that allows on site application of their coating. This is be a new revenue…
