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Better Sleep Through Aided Meditation
“The intrusion of technology into our homes and bedrooms is claimed by many of my research colleagues to be robbing of us of precious sleep, and I agree,” wrote Matthew Walker, PhD in chapter 16 of his bestselling 2017 book, Why We Sleep.* At the same time, Walker believed that it would be possible to…
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Why Charge When Wireless Will Work? #CES2020
Using infrared optics that are invisible to the human eye, Wi-Charge demonstrated wireless power transfer of up to 2.25 Watts from a central hub to remote devices across a room. Using beam steering, they are able to dynamically direct the power and optimize efficiency, as evidenced by the moving train in their CES Unveiled booth.…
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Telehealth Apps & Devices Abound at #CES2020
Products that improve health and well-being seem to be an ever-increasing part of CES and CES2020 was no exception. Here is an overview of some of the solutions we saw at this enormous tradeshow that promise to improve the quality of life for people of all abilities. Diagnosing concussions, internal bleeding and other brain injuries…
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So Many Stories Yet to Be Told #CES2020
The decade that Gary Arlen has been talking about for at least a decade is finally here and ViodiTV caught up with him at the CES Unveiled exhibition on the eve of CES2020. This is a follow-up of sorts to our 2010 interview where Gary made predictions and talked about his button, “2020 I can’t…
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The Software-Defined Home of the Future
KB Homes’ SVP Dan Bridleman discusses the smart home of tomorrow and the work they are doing to make the home the center of a smart ecosystem. Instead of traditional bespoke construction techniques, modularity and off-site construction of building blocks or subsystems is the trend for new construction and is seen in the KB Home…
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More Efficient AV Brains & More #CES2019
A hardware solution that allows Artificial Intelligence algorithms to run more efficiently is what Thinci promises with its Graph Stream Processing (GSP) computing architecture. Shawn Holiday, Thinci’s Senior Director of Product Marketing, explains that Thinci’s founders, who are veteran GPU designers, devised a new approach to graphics processing; one that reduces the need for memory…
