Wearable Technology
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IEEE Spectrum: Monkey's Brain Can "Plug and Play" to Control Computer With Thought21 July 2009—Our brains have a remarkable ability to assimilate motor skills that allow us to perform a host of tasks almost automatically—driving a car, riding a bicycle, typing on a keyboard. Now add another to the list: operating a computer using only thoughts. Researchers at the ...
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The Display That Watches YouCaption: Two-way display: This image shows a detailed layout of the Fraunhofer display chip, which combines photodetectors with an organic light-emitting diode display. Credit: Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems June 05, 2009 By Kate Greene ( Technology Review) — Researchers in ...
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BodyNetsNetworks of sensing, computing, and communication devices are increasingly being deployed as wearable, and even implantable, systems to form Body Area Networks (BodyNets). BodyNets allow for unidirectional (monitoring) and even bidirectional (effecting) interactions with subjects. BodyNets are ...
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Ultra-Thin Chip Embedding for Wearable ElectronicsMarch 10th, 2009 — At today's Smart Systems Integration Conference in Brussels (Belgium), technologists from IMEC and its associated laboratory at Ghent University present a new 3D integration process enabling flexible electronic systems with a thickness of less than 60 micrometer. This ...
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Conductive FabricWhether you call it "soft tech" or "wearables," we can all agree that there has been great advancements in recent years merging fabric-based crafts with electronics. These innovations have changed the way we interact with our clothes, each other and our environment. Be it clothes that aid the ...
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Nanowires generate energy from muscle movement | Programmable Logic DesignLinePORTLAND, Ore. — The demonstration required a hamster to wear a jacket with a built-in nanogenerator, but the running critter showed that almost any movement can be harnessed to generate electricity to power electronic devices. Researchers at Georgia Tech, which conducted the demonstration, ...
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Club of Amsterdam - Shaping Your Future in the Knowledge SocietyClub of Amsterdam - Shaping Your Future in the Knowledge Society
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A foldable world - free e-book on nanotechnology and flexible electronicsMassimo Marrazzo of Italy-based design firm Biodomotica® has published a free e-book on printed flexible electronics. The book, a work in progress, is a collection of sources, articles and concepts dealing with the emerging field of flexible electronics. Marrazzo is a designer and his ...
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