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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…
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An Indestructible Wireless Broadband Network for All – Part 1
“An indestructible wireless broadband network that everyone can use,” is how Devabhaktuni Srikrishna describes the concept of SocialMesh network. Although the original intent was to aid dissidents in their efforts to communicate to each other and the outside world, Rajeev Krishnamoorthy and Srikrishna have found that the underlying approach they proposed for a so-called SocialMesh network would…
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An Indestructible Wireless Broadband Network for All – Part 2
[Click here to see part 1 of this 2-part article] “There are better ways of assuring very high reliability and very high quality of service than selling spectrum,” said Rajeev Krishnamoorthy. He was referring to the idea that allowing radios to self-organize will provide for a more efficient use of spectrum than through existing allocation methods.…
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Know Your Customer’s Business – Part 1
Cable industry engineering icon and SCTE Hall of Fame member, Jim Farmer, who retired in August after some 45 years of service to the cable TV industry, discusses some of the people who influenced his career. He also indicates that engineering organizations, such as IEEE and SCTE, were important to his growth as an engineer…