Author: Tonya

  • Recognizing Anxiety

    My project concept was to create a device that would allow people suffering an anxiety attack to alert people around them of their impending attack.  The device checks a wearer’s pulse and alerts those around the person when the pulse increases.  I know this sounds oddly familiar.  If you’ve ever been on a treadmill you…

  • Privacy Expectations

    The show Law and Order aired an episode this month called Comic Perversion.  Summed up the episode is about a comic known for his satirical rapist jokes and is then accused of rape.  The victim turns out to be a poor witness and a concerned female citizen attempts to trap the comic by posing as…

  • Tech in Motion Fashion Show

    Tech in Motion hosted a fashion show for wearable tech this past week. There were ten companies that presented clothing and accessories as a part of the company’s Social Media Week. Included in the show were a knitted brains sensor that would lights up in different colors depending on your brain activity, an umbrella which…

  • The Simpsons Go High Tech

    You know you’ve hit the big time when the television show The Simpsons is covering your product.  This past week the Simpsons did a spoof on Google Glass. One of the funniest lines is when Homer takes off his glasses and screams, “oh, reality!”  Now, on a serious note Marge, the mother in the show,…

  • Fitness for your dog

    I own three dogs and I’m a busy graduate student with a full time job.  I’m not sure my dogs get the exercise they need.  If you’ve followed my blogs you know I have an addiction to the Nike Fuelband.  I won’t say I’ve been using it lately, but I love the idea of gamification…

  • Samsung Beats Apple to the Punch – Smartwatches

    There’s a rumor out there that Apple is coming out with a watch, but Samsung has already beat Apple to the punch.  Samsung has released two updated versions of its Gear smartwatch featuring slimmer designs and heart rate sensors beating Apple to the release of a health-tracking smartwatch.  This is a major competitor to a…

  • Creepy Media

    I recently argued that wearing Wearable Media is not a human right not only is it not a human right, but it’s something I think should have some sort of legislation attached to it.  I’m not changing my tune, but I was intrigued by Simson Garfunkel’s review Glass Darkly on February 17th in the MIT…

  • Wearable Media as a Human Right?

    This past week Steve Mann from the MIT Technology Review wrote an article titled Wearable Technology as a Human Right. I took umbrage with the article. Mann is well known in the Wearable Media arena because he founded MIT’s wearable computer project more than 20 years ago.

  • What exactly is wearable media and who wears it?

    http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/media-network-blog/2013/sep/13/rise-wearable-technology-infographic#zoomed-picture This hypertext nugget is trying to school you who have no idea about wearable media, present company included.  So I thought I would help break down the graphic for you.

  • A Brave New Vest

    I love to read. I’m partial to murder mysteries, but put a well written book in my lap and I’m done for the next few hours. Now, I can read and feel my book for hours. I know how this sounds, but it is true. According to Olivia Waxman at the Time’s NewsFeed blog, students…