PetBot is a smart device that allows you to engage with your pet remotely and to detect when they’re active using artificial intelligence. Ask any pet owner and they’ll all tell you the same thing: leaving your cat or dog can be tough. No matter if it’s heading out to the office in the morning or vacationing […]
ŌURA is a ring-sized wellness computer that helps you sleep and perform better, without the bulkiness and distractions of other wearables. “The ŌURA ring may well be the first sleep tracker that works. I met the founder, and backed their Kickstarter,” Tim O’Reilly recently tweeted in response to the revolutionary wellness computer’s newly-launched campaign. Although health monitors have gotten smaller, […]
Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle reveals intelligent robots and smart home products are now closer to mainstream. Another year, another Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. New to the report in 2015 is the emergence of technologies that support what the firm defines as “digital humanism” — the notion that people are the central focus in the manifestation of digital businesses and digital workplaces. “The Hype Cycle […]
Atmel has launched the industry’s most innovative Single-Wire EEPROM with only two-pins, making it ideal for the Internet of Things, wearables, consumable, battery and cable identification markets. The advent of smart gadgets has increasingly made it necessary for embedded systems to store small amounts of information about the system itself. While a majority of memory technology development has been dedicated to increased capacity at low costs, […]
This new technology could reduce the power needed to send information from wearables. Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and UCLA are currently working on a Wi-Fi reflector chip that they say would drastically improve battery life in wearable devices by reducing the power needed to transmit or receive information to computers and cellular and Wi-Fi networks. The […]
Thanks to the Helix, you’ll never have to deal with tangled earbuds again! Whereas many wearables on the market today want to track calories burned, steps taken and other sorts of performance data, a new wrist-adorned accessory is looking to do something a whole lot simpler: store your earbuds. Let’s face it, when it comes to your headsets, you typically have one of two […]
Amazon Launchpad is a new online marketplace devoted entirely to hardware startups and crowdfunded products. On their journey from Makerspace to marketplace, arguably one of the biggest challenges a startup will ever have to endure is generating the necessary awareness and translating that into sales. With this in mind, Amazon has rolled out a specialized storefront within its popular website […]
HP report finds a majority of smartwatches to have insufficient authentication, lack of encryption and privacy concerns. While wearable technology continues to increase in popularity, it appears that embedded security may have been left behind. That is according to new research conducted by HP, which discovered serious vulnerabilities in a vast majority of today’s most popular wrist-adorned timekeeping devices. Without question, the wearables space […]
Wearsafe Tag instantly alerts, informs and connects your most trusted network so they can send help when you need it. We’ve come a long way since the days of LifeAlert’s earliest commercials with a helpless Mrs. Fletcher yelling, “I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up!” And though technology has certainly progressed over the years, one thing that continues to […]
Hertzian Armor is a piece of shoulder armor that visually illustrates the ubiquity of Wi-Fi networks. In today’s constantly connected world, there are an infinite number of wireless signals being sent to and from the gizmos and gadgets around us. However, they cannot be seen. As a way to better oberseve these invisible interactions, UC Berkeley design students Anthony Dunne and […]
