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No Hassle, Continuous Gut Monitoring for Proactive Health
At CES 2026, the concept of the “smart home” moved deeper into the most private room of the house. While ViodiTV has previously explored the evolution of “health from the hip” with companies like Olive Diagnostics and the high-tech wellness concepts from Toto, a new player, Throne Science, is looking to make gut health monitoring…
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The Rise of Local AI in a Fun & Educational Way
Privacy and power. In the world of semiconductor design, these are often the “Sophie’s Choice” of engineering—you can have one, but usually at the expense of the other. However, as Dr. Diana Zhu, Head of U.S. for RiseLink Technologies, explains the above interview, a new generation of edge AI silicon is proving product designers don’t…
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Extending Wi-Fi to Hard-to-Reach Places #CES2025
Wi-Fi HaLow is a potential game-changer for broadband service providers needing to extend their signals to hard-to-reach places. It’s a long-range Wi-Fi technology based on the IEEE 801.11ah standard. Example applications range from single-family residences with massive yards to homeowner associations with sensor needs, to commercial and industrial buildings to the unique IoT needs of…
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Listening to and Learning from Your Customers to Unleash Innovation – #Summit23
It is a fun time thanks to the many opportunities that a Fiber to the Home platform creates, so said Gary Johnson, GM/CEO of Paul Bunyan Communications in a February 2023 ViodiTV interview. For Calix, the challenge is to prioritize which opportunities to pursue to help their customers, such as PBC, maximize the value from…
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Ambient Health Monitoring and More
One problem with aging is that it tends to be gradual. To date, the slow decay brought by time has been difficult to measure on a day-to-day basis. The approach that Somalytics is taking with its prototype mat may change the immeasurable part of the decline. Using their carbon-nanotube capacitive technology, the scientists, and engineers…
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Broadband Drives Housing Occupancy
From about 50% to greater than 90% occupancy is the impact that broadband as an amenity has had on the Stoneridge Apartments. In the above video, Brittany Hustad, Project Manager Corporate Services for Dominium, explains that earlier efforts at rehabilitating various Stoneridge amenities failed to drive occupancy rates. It was the inclusion of broadband as…
