Category: Projects
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Imprint Energy’s Flexible Battery
By: Ariana Berdy
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MIT Finger Reader
By Karyn Narramore Fluid Interfaces, the media lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (or MIT), recently unveiled its latest masterpiece, the FingerReader. The FingerReader is a 3-D printed ring with a mounted camera that scans text and reads it aloud to the wearer. Special software scans the text and gives both audio and haptic…
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Ring Reader – Santosh Vijayakumar
What is often passed off as a negligible and readily available asset could be something that another person was eagerly waiting for. As students, reading forms a crucial part of our academics. However, for a person who is visually impaired, the path to obtain a formal education is wrought with difficulties like dependency on persons…
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Taking Charge of Your Own Healthcare – Wearable Technology & Health Apps of Today & Tomorrow
By Suzanna Brooks The greatest improvements in medicine in the last few decades have been made possible by advances in technology. Today new personal and mobile technologies are just beginning to allow us to take charge of our own health and medicine. Smartphone apps compile data and provide solutions, and wearable technology such as fitness…
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What’s New About the Apple Watch?
By Ethan Harmon Apple had its annual “next big awesome waste of money” press conference earlier today, and of course, they revealed a brand new iPhone 5… er… 6! Yeah, that’s the one, 6. More or less the same ol’ stuff, except Apple pulled a surprise twist toward the end of the presentation: the Apple…
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The Wearable Personal Trainer
By: Benaiah Ely
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The Bracelet of Tomorrowland
By Amanda Sparling
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Wearable Technology & Teachers
What could wearable technology do for teachers? As a former six year middle/ high school teacher and coach I can recall times where I was put in a place of fear from false and frivolous accusations from a student with nothing but my character and integrity to defend me. Through the struggle of vindication I…
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Oooh, baby, baby, Oooh baby, baby!
I had a fit over a ONESIE that I skimmed over at the Internet of Things and had to check that it was not my biological clock! Confirming with my husband, I have validated that this is just COOL! The Huffington Post, Today, CNBC, and SF Chronicle all agree that Mimo baby sleep monitor is…