How should I call that: High-High Tech? New research shows that you can control Solitons. The polymer chains tend to bend and twist as solitons pass through them. This has led to the possibility of...
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by on July 19, 2006
The BMBF is the education and research ministry of Germany. And they decided to spend 15 Mill. € for projects in Wearable Computing and Techwear. The ministry already received over 50 project ideas...
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by on June 15, 2006
Hurry up! 30th of June is the last day for your submission to the 10. International Symposium on Wearable Computing 2006 in Montreux, Switzerland. The idea behind the ISWC Student Colloquium is to...
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by on May 07, 2006
"Be a Freeporter": social behavior changes because of new technologies. In the next years mobile solutions will be the key driver for this process. Look at all the mobile phones with camera...
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by on May 03, 2006
Learning from insects eye's - scientist at Berkeley had created a series of artificial compound eyes that could be used to make ultrathin camera phones or wearable cameras. The material they use...
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by on April 22, 2006
Here is a complete overview of the Virtual Retinal Display (VRD). This technology describes how the source image is projected directly onto the retina. The VRD technology eliminates any screen outside...
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by on April 18, 2006
I guess you'll find that interesting too: it's just an overview of topics for diploma thesis at the ETH Zurich this summer. It's simply amazing how huge and broad the field of wearable...
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by on March 31, 2006
Paul Lukowicz is a european veteran in wearable computing and now became head of applied informatics in Passau (University of Passau), Bavaria, Germany. His main field will be embedded systems /...
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by on February 22, 2006
How about a mask that can display the best way trough a building aflame? Or show different degrees of heat while trying to put the fire out. That's what FIT works on. FIT stands for Fraunhofer...
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by on February 21, 2006
There is another interesting european research from IST - beside work clothes like yesterday this one focuses on healthcare. What is Wealthy? - The main objective of WEALTHY is to set up a...
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by on November 20, 2005
Tweakfest is a two day conference about cyber culture in switzerland. Walter Hehl from the IBM research lab was talking about computer in ten years and how they may look like. One of the interesting...
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Sometimes they look strange, sometimes cool. IEEE Spectrum presents exoskeletons around the world. Wearable robotic systems in Asia, Europe, and the United States.Sometimes they help us when we lost...
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by on November 07, 2005
Whats that? It's a generator. And a backpack. And it's for you. A generator not for a power house but for a human being.The easiest idea even in the beginning of wearable computing was to use...
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by on October 24, 2005
You can now download the C-Lab report about wearable computing in the maintenance sector (16pages, german).C-Lab is the Cooperative Computing & Cooperation Laboratory - works in the area of...
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by on October 20, 2005
Will high-tech help to save the life of thousend of people? The worldwide german radiostation "Deutschlandfunk" writes about a real life test (german) of wearable computing with a fire...
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by on September 22, 2005
Wearable computer collect at least a lot of information an dcompute them. Sure. To do so they often need environmental data. One of them is to localize you. And that still a problem. As easy it is for...
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A short look to switzerland again, at the wearable computing lab at the ETH Zurich. In summer term 2005 they talked about textiles and electronics for example. The result is a great overview from...
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by on August 05, 2005
A new idea from the MIT: a wearable application for dogs. We know that the dog is the men's best friend. But who is the friend of your pet? The SNIF (Social Networking in Fur) saves contact dates...
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by on August 03, 2005
Wired reports about the reality mining cell phone project @ MIT. This report really fits with my "Pervasive Computing with mobiles (part I, II & III) series." Some notes I found...
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by on July 09, 2005
I heard about the product a while ago but finally found it, the LifeShirt from VivoMetrics. The Shirt "collect and analyze continuous ambulatory physiologic data to enhance pharmaceutical...
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by on July 06, 2005
The ninth annual IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers will be held end of october in Osaka, Japan. Last date for online registration is July, 18. They expect researchers, product...
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by on July 05, 2005
Just found a journal that writes about personal and ubiquitous computing and looks pretty interesting. It is published in London by Springer. You have to pay for every article but can browse through...
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