Weight loss, Al Gore, and the Internet of Things
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Weight loss, Al Gore, and the Internet of Things
If you're new here, you may want to first register and subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Air Quality Monitoring with your bathroom scale? We were enthusiastic to learn that two Internet-connected devices, the Withings scale and the Netatmo weather station featured “air quality monitors.” However, this just turned out to be a simple CO2 monitor, and doesn’t monitor the more important dust, VOC, or other noxious gas issues that are generally considered to be of much greater concern. CO2 monitoring in crowded bars We’ve played with CO2 monitors in our office (using Ardunio hardware prototyping boards). It is one of the less effective air quality components to sense, because the valid range for CO2 is so wide. It’s kind of fun exhaling into a CO2 monitor and watching the CO2 counts spike (your exhaled breath has a lot of CO2), but that same reason means that animals have evolved in an environment where CO2 spikes in their inhaled air was not uncommon.… Read the restInternet Of Things (IoT) Cisco CES talk
[Update: One of our most shared posts, although sharing counts were lost during the site migration.] Internet of Things and Home Automation big at CES this year Some of us were at CES looking at exhibits. Internet of Things (IOT) was hot this year. The home automation space was hot; home automation products are being increasing advanced and more app-integrated. (Currently available home automation offerings include Mi Casa, Smarthings, and revolv.) Of course, just after CES closed Google announced it was acquiring IOT play Nest, makers of an Internet-connected thermostat and smoke alarm. But there were plenty of other large players dangling in this space (none of them yet focusing much on air quality, although Cisco had a presentation which touched on allergies, home automation, and the Internet of Things). Cisco had a large exhibit there promoting the Internet of Everything (IOE), Cisco’s marketing term for IOT. Cisco explained that under Moore’s law, sensors will become cheap and ubiquitous.… Read the restBad air pollution day in your city? Here’s the tech to get.
Sensor and purifier recommendations for a bad air day Saturday (Jan 4, 2014) we knew something was wrong in Los Angeles. Like any tech startup, we were in the office working, when our indoor dust sensor (& this less expensive version that we also support) started showing PM2.5 air pollution particle counts off the scale without any good (indoor) reason for the air being that bad. This despite our highly-regarded heavy-duty air purifier being on the maximum “Turbo” setting. PM2.5 dust levels to remember Since we weren’t running any indoor polluters (like a dishwasher or gas appliance), bad outdoor air could be the only reason. Sure enough, we checked with our iOS app. Los Angeles air was in the orange “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups” some of the worst air quality we’ve ever seen with our app in Los Angeles. (We did see the air quality in San Jose deteriorate all the way into the brown or “Unhealthy” region right before Thanksgiving, maybe because of the all the cars and airplanes accommodating travelers.… Read the restThe ancient link between fashion and technology
This article was original published by Acculation on another site. Is there a utilitarian purpose to fashion? Fashion is economically very important in the media and advertising industries for reasons not well understood, at least to the average tech engineer. In the smartphone and wearables area, the two fields are increasingly colliding. Is there an ancient link between technology and fashion? Humans love technology, but we were also very dependent on it very early on. Was fashion initially a way of identifying humans visually over long distances? Was it, in the sense, an early form of technology? Tech and Fashion: Ancient History? Our ancestors have been using tools for well over a million years. For most of that time, however, they had brains about half the size that we do currently. Anatomically modern humans that resembled us physically (and had our size brains) first appeared around 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.… Read the restA steampunk smartwatch?
This article was original published by Acculation on another site. Hyetis Crossbow: smartwatch from outer space? The Hyetis Crossbow has just gone on presale at this writing, and we’re sure this will hybrid smartwatch combined with traditional mechanical watch will peak the interest of some of our readers. We’ve previously written about the coming smartwatch revolution. Swiss watchmakers, of course, feel the need to modernize. Computer are getting smaller thanks to Moore’s law. That means that your future smartwatch will eventually be as powerful as today’s desktops (and have killers apps to boot). Every major manufacturing (Apple, Dell, Microsoft, Google) has announced plans to come out with one. A smartwatch is infinitely more practical, often lighter, and tells time much better than one of these “traditional” Swiss automatic chronometers. (Which are 1930s technology, cost hundreds or thousands more than a smartwatch, don’t have atomic/network time, and are heavy.) John Biggs of Tech Crunch referred to the Hyetis as the “smart watch from outer space.” … Read the restRecent Comments
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