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Maria Gurova

2 | Samsung Introduces A Wearable Health Tracker That Geeks and Insurance Companies Wil... - 0 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 29 May 14 - No Cached
  • The popularity of wearable health trackers, such as Fitbit, Jawbone UP, and Nike FuelBand, have created a problem
  • Hardly anyone has developed algorithms that derive actionable insights from the data that your body generates, and the dashboards are separate
  • Samsung is not planning to release a wearable health monitor to consumers, but expects other developers to build on the reference design shown today.
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  • In a study conducted with the University of Chicago involving 15 patients who had experienced heart failure, sensors and predictive analysis were able to detect early signs of heart problems
  • Though Samsung will still compete on a consumer level, the data on its platform could ramp up its business serving health care professionals.
  • "big data to small data, and small data to insights that people can understand--that are actionable,"
  • Maria Gurova on 29 May 14
     
    Samsung is trying to find a solution on how to interpret the big data collected from the health tracking wearable devices 
Maria Gurova

Wearable baby tracker gives new parents peace of mind (Wired UK) - 0 views

www.wired.co.uk/...baby-wearable

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shared by Maria Gurova on 13 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Sproutling promises to use wearable, sensor-driven technology to give parents insight into their child's sleeping patterns. It does this with a wearable anklet, a charging dock with a novel UI, and an app
  • The app uses animations, not hard numbers, to provide an at-a-glance reassurance that your baby is alive and well ("New parents aren't going to know if 130 beats per minute is better than 90, and without the medical context to understand vitals data it's just going to cause more fear and anxiety and needless calls to the doctor,"
  • This generation of new parents are millennials. "They grew up with a smartphone in their pocket, so they're looking for technology to solve their problems,"
  • Maria Gurova on 13 Aug 14
     
    the wearable for a baby to calm the overwhelmed parents 
anna_nelidova

Head tracker knows what you're doing and helps you multitask | New Scientist - 1 views

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Technology Wearables ADD AI Multitasking

shared by anna_nelidova on 27 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • wearable system that tracks human movements to understand what task you’re doing, how difficult it is, and when you switch to something else. His goal is to help us control our multitasking lives
  • Gathering patterns of data that describe humans doing different tasks has more potential than just helping us work more efficiently.
  • the device could turn your phone to silent or deliver only emergency notifications. It could also tell you when you need to take a break
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  • Epps’s team has made a device which straps to a baseball cap that can work out the intensity of a task and when a person switches to another task – just from their head movements.
  • o use the data from wearables to train artificial intelligences.
  • Epps’s team is building a new prototype made from cheap components that can be worn on glasses, which tracks eye movement and speech as well as head motion.
  • anna_nelidova on 27 Nov 15
     
    A wearable system that tracks head movements could help people to multitask and handle distractions. The data generated by wearables on millions of humans can be useful for learning purposes of robots and AI. 
Maria Gurova

Wearables in the workplace: Employers buy fitness trackers to boost employee health - 1 views

www.factor-tech.com/...ckers-to-boost-employee-health

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shared by Maria Gurova on 24 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • The technology, known as UltraHaptics, is a haptic feedback system using ultrasound that provides users with a buzz-like feeling of pressure on their hand.
  • The technology does not just provide the sensation of flat surfaces, but can also be used to create the feel of 3D objects.
  • Sculptors could also use the technology to shape virtual objects using just their hands
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  • Hologram projections could be given a texture, with museum visitors
  • it could be used to indicate to drivers when a car is in their blind spot by providing a buzzing sensation on their neck, or developed as a wearable for blind people to indicate the presence of a road or obstacle
  • consumer fields are likely to be most interested due to the technology’s ability to augment existing entertainment systems.
Maria Gurova

What Happens When Medical Science Meets Data Science? | Co.Exist | ideas + impact - 0 views

www.fastcoexist.com/...cal-science-meets-data-science

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shared by Maria Gurova on 27 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • If data from personal biometric devices is ever going to be truly useful to researchers, big medical centers will have to pull it into electronic health records (EHRs), de-identify it, and make it public. Without the medical data found in EHRs, like CT scans, X-rays, and blood tests, researchers have little context for wearable sensor data and there is little useful information that can be gleaned from just the raw data
  • Practice Fusion, a popular EHR company, will begin opening up its API over the next year to pull in data from wearable sensors to its platform.
  • Basis, a startup that makes a health sensor-laden watch, is working on the first step: a device-agnostic platform that puts all of a person’s health sensor data into a single online repository.
Irina Marchenko

How Gesture Control And Wearable Tech Will Revolutionize Our Digital Lives - 4 views

http://www.forbes.com/sites/toyota/2013/07/17/how-gesture-control-and-wearable-tech-will-revolutionize-our-digital-lives/ Gesture control is the latest step in the evolution of human/computer int...

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started by Irina Marchenko on 23 Jul 13 no follow-up yet
Maria Gurova

Wearable Computers Create New Security Vulnerabilities | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 18 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Google Glass is a pre-production device made for developers. It has bugs, and it has problems, some of which are related to security.
  • Thus for the first time, this has provided malicious folks with the opportunity to gain access to your device through these machine-readable blobs of black and white blocks.
  • They could connect it to a Bluetooth device of their choosing and stream images from its camera to a remote display, all without the wearer’s knowledge.
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  • these devices are so new, and have increasingly broader capabilities, it’s difficult to predict what forms those vulnerabilities will arrive in.
Maria Gurova

FiLIP Smartwatch Helps Parents Track Their Child's Location [VIDEO] - 0 views

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Technology human tracking wearable parenting kids

shared by Maria Gurova on 04 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Parents can program up to five numbers into the gadget, which kids can call with the touch of a button.
  • The FiLIP's simple interface only includes two buttons, one of which is bright red. In case of emergency, the child can hold down the red button, prompting the watch to call the first person in its contact list.
  • Maria Gurova on 04 Dec 13
     
    First smart watch designed for kids
Maria Gurova

Google Glass Gets Foursquare, TripIt and OpenTable Apps - 0 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 15 May 14 - No Cached
  • Google Glass just got a whole lot more useful for travel. The connected headset now has official apps for Foursquare, TripIt and OpenTable.
  • TripIt inserts its trip updates and information in the Google Now cards that already appear on Glass. Your flight status, departure time and gate will all appear on a single card
  • Open Table has its own command: "Okay Glass, make a reservation...." Once you speak those words, a selection of nearby restaurants will appear, ready for you to scroll through
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  • The current version of Google's Field Trip sends you notifications about surrounding points of interest, but the upgrade, released in April, lets you specifically ask what's nearby.
  • Word Lens completes the travel package. The app has been on Glass since last November, but its augmented-reality translation abilities are arguably perfectly suited for smart glasses. With Glass, all you need to do is look at a sign or menu, aim Glass' camera so the text you need translated is in an onscreen rectangle, and the words will change — from, say, Italian to English — before your eyes
Maria Gurova

ВЕДОМОСТИ - «Умные часы - это отличная возможность для нашей индустрии» - 0 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 21 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • по мнению гендиректора Swatch Group,
  • умные часы – это быстро устаревающая бытовая техника и она не станет конкурентом механическим часам, которые служат десятилетиями и передаются из поколения в поколение.
  • В Swatch Group есть компания под названием EM Microelectronic, которая является поставщиком компонентов для многих производителей умных браслетов – Garmin, например, – а также для производителей смартфонов, название которых я не могу разглашать.
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  • Наши умные часы Swatch Touch Zero One появятся на рынке летом. Oни ориентированы на людей, увлекающихся пляжным волейболом:
  • Например, часы можно будет использовать как электронный пропуск для входа в офис
  • Наш следующий продукт, который должен появиться в конце лета, – Swatch NFC: часы, с помощью которых можно будет осуществлять платежи. Мы ведем переговоры с Visa, MasterCard и китайской UnionPay.
  • Следом появятся новые версии Swatch Touch: Zero Two, Zero Three, Zero Four, ориентированные на другие виды спорта – серфинг, горные лыжи, – и не только на спорт, но, например, на кулинарию. А часы Swatch Touch Zero Six, возможно, будут называться «Камасутра». Эти часы считают, сколько калорий вы сжигаете в какой позиции и нужно ли вам менять вашего партнера.
  • А чип часов пользователь сможет конфигурировать сам под собственные потребности.
  • Философия очень проста: это часы-ключ, мы сознательно не стали делать в них дисплей, поскольку дисплеи и так нас окружают повсюду.
  • Сейчас умные часы можно снабдить любыми функциями, но вам придется снимать их с руки и подзаряжать в лучшем случае раз в день.
  • Плюс такие часы открыты для рекламы.
  • А вы хотите получать сообщения от каждой близлежащей пиццерии, что у них для вас спецпредложение?
Maria Gurova

This Self-Cleaning Cashmere Never Needs To Go To The Dry Cleaner | Co.Exist | ideas + i... - 1 views

www.fastcoexist.com/...needs-to-go-to-the-dry-cleaner

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shared by Maria Gurova on 02 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • If the fabric is placed in light for 24 hours, any dirt, bacteria, or stain--even coffee or red wine--automatically goes away, thanks to a chemical reaction triggered by the light.
  • So far, preliminary tests have shown that the material is safe. Tests have also shown that the coating is durable
  • We are currently working toward transfer of the technology to the industry." A self-cleaning sweater might only cost 1% more than usual.
  • Maria Gurova on 02 Sep 14
     
    the self-cleaning cashmere can significantly decrease CO2 immersions, produced by laundry and often toxic dry cleaning 
Maria Gurova

I quantified my baby and wish I could get the time back - 1 views

mashable.com/...uantified-baby-infant-tracking

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shared by Maria Gurova on 15 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • It’s part of an experiment to see if technology can help with the daunting and seemingly Sisyphean tasks of a first time parent, to find out why a growing number of people are turning to gadgets to help with one of life's toughest jobs.
  • Attempting to simplify parenthood with gizmos and apps has perversely made it a lot more complicated. And as for peace of mind, forget it.
  • The concept of the “quantified baby” has been around for some time now, and there’s a large and growing market for smart infant products from anxious or diligent or curious new parents.
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  • But does it all help you to be a better father, or mother, or is it all a massive distraction from the serious business of parenting?
  • While tracking proved useful as a reminder of feedings, and gave an objective insight into longer term sleep patterns, there wasn’t much she could do with the info.
  • It's the same problem quantified self devotees have: what to do with all that data. Unless you're a math or data viz wizard and prepared to take it all incredibly seriously, the numbers that consumer gadgets and apps spew out can be pretty meaningless — even more so when you're dealing with an unpredictable baby.
  • The Mimo and the Owlet are just the tip of the emerging infant tracking iceberg.
  • Maria Gurova on 15 Oct 15
     
    does using all the tech can offer to monitor your infant health make you a better parent or ease the toughest job in the world. Based on the article - not really 
Irina Marchenko

Disney Launches Playmation Connected Toys - 3 views

Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media and Hasbro launched Playmation Marvel's Avengers Sunday, a new system of connected toys and wearables that fuses technology and digital storytelling. ...

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started by Irina Marchenko on 22 Oct 15 no follow-up yet
anna_nelidova

Remidi glove lets you create music with gestures - Tech Insider - 1 views

www.techinsider.io/ate-music-with-gestures-2016-3

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shared by anna_nelidova on 29 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • A new glove will turn even the most deficient in musical talent into rockstars.
  • The glove works in tandem with a motion sensor bracelet, allowing you to create sounds by moving your fingertips or your entire hand. You can tap any surface and it will sound like you're playing on a keyboard.
  • You can then record songs in real-time, on-the-go, and trust that they'll all be saved onto the app. The glove can send recordings over WiFi or Bluetooth.
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  • ou simply put on the glove and bracelet and open the Remidi app. Through the app, you can program what sound you want to play when you make a specific movement.
  • You can also play music using Remidi over a background track or mix to make songs more engaging.
  • anna_nelidova on 29 Mar 16
     
    This glove allows even non-professionals to create music by making gestures with hands and fingers.
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