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Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 11:34AM The FitBit is yet another entry in the wearable fitness category. It uses motion-sensing to keep track of calories burned, steps taken, distance traveled and even sleep quality. It is in the form of a little clip that you can put on your waistband or pocket. It also comes with a wristband, which is recommended while sleeping. Here's a review in the Wall Street Journal
Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 11:17AM In Total Recall, we predict a proliferation of sensors. It seems that eventually nearly everything than can be instrumented will be. What does “nearly everything” include? Well, how about your lightbulbs? Lyndsay Williams, the inventor of the SenseCam, has invented the SenseBulb. This lightbulb watches over you from above, but with a view to temperature, not what is visible, as the BBC explains:
the device uses four sensors known as thermopiles - the same kind of detector found in heat-seeking missiles. They sense temperature differences accurately and over a short time from a narrow angle.
Lindsay envisions the bulb being used for "Assisted Living and Alzheimer's patients" detecting
...incidents in the home, e,g, a door left open, cooker unattended or somebody fallen in the bathroom. A text message is sent to a mobile phone. SenseBulb is also useful for security systems in the home and office.
It can even notice "the cold draft from the cat flap," sending Lyndsay a text message when her cat goes in and out.
Where will we find sensors next?
Girton Labs, LLyndsay Williams, SenseBulb in The Future Friday, January 29, 2010 at 3:26PM The WIN Human Recorder:
a system that measures electrocardiographic signals, body surface temperature and human movements at the same time by attaching a sensor with wireless communication capability to the chest... Human movements are detected by a three-axis acceleration sensor.
An tiny electronic device, which can be attached to an ordinary plaster, has been developed by a scientist from London's Imperial College.
The device checks vital signs such as temperature, blood pressure and glucose levels, sending results to a computer, which highlights any cause for concern.
Hat tip: Singularity hub
Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 11:20AM Police in San Jose are testing head-mounted cameras. Meanwhile Vievu is making a chest-worn "video camera for cops." Evidence.com wants to be the storage system for cops:
EVIDENCE.COM™ is a full featured system designed around easy-to-use dashboards that turn geospatial multi-media evidence, such as GPS tagged video, into visual dashboards and tactical maps with full click-through to underlying video data
For soldiers and cops, video may be the first thing to start capturing. For the rest of us, it is probably the last, with things like health data, personal correspondence, and vacation photos being near the head of the list.
Friday, January 15, 2010 at 2:38AM Lifelogging is what we advocate. Life Blogging is what many of us also engage in indirectly by being a member of a social network that allows us to blab about anything we do, hear, see, think, etc. and converse with 10s, 100s, or even 10,000s of friends we never knew. At some point the distraction may be just too great and you decide to get a life. This means you leave those sites and delete your friends, etc. Here's how to do it... by removing certain parts of your life from cyberspace, according to this article in Tech Crunch http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/31/web-2-0-suicide/
"Are you tired of living in public, sick of all the privacy theater the social networks are putting on, and just want to end it all online? Now you can wipe the slate clean with the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine . (Warning: This will really delete your online presence and is irrevocable). Just put in your credentials for Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, or LinkedIn and it will delete all your friends and messages, and change your username, password, and photo so that you cannot log back in.
The site is actually run by Moddr , a New Media Lab in Rotterdam, which execute the underlying scripts which erase your accounts. The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine is a digital Dr. Kevorkian. On Facebook, for instance, it removes all your friends one by one, removes your groups and joins you to its own “Social Network Suiciders,” and lets you leave some last words. So far 321 people have used the site to commit Facebook suicide. On Twitter, it deletes all of your Tweets, and removes all the people you follow and your followers. It doesn’t actually delete these accounts, it just puts them to rest."
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