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Designer Dress That Changes Color in Response to Pollution?
In the publicity stunt section, as mentioned on CNN and others, Danish fashion house Diffus has created a designer dress (pictured; photo courtesy Diffus) that changes color in response to levels of pollution. (It actually changes color in response to CO2 levels. As this is fairly constant outdoors, it might not have been the most inspired pollutant to monitor — NO2, NO, CO and dust would all have been more interesting.) Interested readers with a fashion bent can build their own. You need an Arudino open-source hardware board (some sample projects for incorporating Arudino projects can be found here. Then, all you need is an Air Quality Egg Arudino shield kit, which can be purchased from WickedDevices. This can monitor CO, NO2, and NO, with add-ons available for dust, VOC, and Ozone pollutants. (Arudino shields for CO2 are avaiable from other suppliers.) Once you’ve completed your electronics prototype, it’s time to become a fashion designer: there are small “Arudino-like” boards that are designed to be woven into fabrics, like the Adafruit Gemma.… Read the restDr. Beak From Rome and the Black Plague, or why having a surgical mask might be handy
This 1656 woodcut (see photo) depicts the plague doctor “Dr. Beak from Rome” (“Doktor Schnabel von Rom”). His bird mask was stuffed with straw, which served as a crude air filter. Medieval artists alternated lampooned him (as here) and later celebrated him as scientific and practical methods of plague control slowly proved themselves over the more superstitious practices of that era. When we got into this we were thinking about how smart homes (and smarter air purification) could reduce dust buildup in our more dusty urban areas (like urban California, Europe, and Asia). While it was obvious there was a lot of dust buildup on furniture, we didn’t realize just how badly air quality fluctuated from day-to-day here. Bird Flu or just poor air quality Earlier this week one of our staff members saw someone walking the streets of Los Angeles with a surgical mask on. He appeared to be from a part of Asia that had experience with bird flu, and wearing surgical masks on the street is more culturally accept there than here.… Read the restWhy did the toaster salute the CES-announced Internet-of-Things smart range hood? Because it was General Electric.
Smart, Internet-connected kitchen appliances make it easy to prepare Internet spam? We’ve already mentioned that the Internet Of Things was big at the Consumer Electronics Show this year, and have already covered Internet-connected vacuum cleaners with airborne dust sensors. Now, you might not have heard about the smart range hood. (It was, of course, right next to an Internet-connected smart refrigerator, the product labels and exhibit material still in Chinese (see photo gallery), so fresh off the boat is this smart refrigerator technology. Actually, there are several companies with an Internet-connected refrigerator. They are sometimes the butt of jokes. It is technology of the future. It was already the technology of the future at last year’s CES. And probably the year before. A little slow getting off the ground. In more recent news one of these Internet-connected smart refrigerators was recently implicated in spam sending attacks after being hacked. So if there’s spam in your Samsung smart refrigerator, it’s not clear if you mean email spam or Hormel Spam(TM).… Read the restDust sensors, the latest CES vacuum cleaners, and the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things comes to vacuum cleaners at CES The Internet of Things was big at CES this year so we went looking for appliance manufacturers that had incorporated a dust sensor (and Internet connection!) into their appliances. We’re apparently a little ahead bit of the pack on this, as most exhibitors in this space weren’t quite thinking along these lines yet. (There were “smart vent hoods” that might, or might not, incorporate a dust sensor. These allow restaurants to save energy, and we might do a future post on them [updated: link].) One company that was thinking along these lines was Moneual, that makes a robotic vacuum competitor to the iRobot Roomba that we review below. The exhibit heavily touted that the Moneual was “a hybrid” dry and mop robotic vacuum. This is a brilliant marketing move, and it makes sense that the same robot vacuum should be able to also mop.… Read the restRecent Posts
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