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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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Bionic Worker = Safer Workplace
“We’ve had customers who have said they can now go home and play with their kids,” exclaims Meghan Kennelly, Head of Global Marketing for German Bionic. Speaking at CES2023, Kennelly is talking about the benefits that the German Bionic exoskeletons bring to workers. German Bionic’s Apogee and CrayX (for harsh environments) exoskeletons provide up to…
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CES Download: Sustainability, Health Tech, Mobility & Better Tools – A Viodi View
The above video is Ken Pyle’s presentation to the 02/02/22 IEEE Consumer Technology Society regarding some of the products and companies he saw at CES2022. The presentation is split into four categories, sustainability, health tech, mobility & better tools. Highlights
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Making a Dumb Steering Wheel Smart #CES2016
A steering wheel cover that provides feedback via the cloud to parents who want to monitor their kid’s driving habits is what made SMARTwheel™ a CES 2016 Innovation Awards Honoree. Its sensors can turn an older car from dumb to smart. More than monitoring, this cover is about providing a way to improve people’s driving…
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Automated Live Video Production #CES 2016
Simplifying the video production of live events is Livestream’s objective with its with Movi, which it previewed at the Pepcom Digital Experience! event at CES. Phil Worthington, founder, SVP Research and Development of Livestream, describes this 4k, 30 frame/second, 150 degree field of view video capture device that records locally as well as streams via…
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Erector Set + Smart Phone = DIY Robot
Turning the original “maker” kit, the Erector Set, into a smart phone operated robot is what Spin Master (the company behind the popular Air Hogs brand) has done with its Meccano- brand, Meccanoid G15 and G 15KS. As would be expected for this type of iconic brand, a big part of the enjoyment is the…
