Intel Proactive Health projects
December 15th, 2003 by rbanks
This page contains pointers to Intel research around Proactive Health, using technology to provide healthcare solutions, particularly for the aged.
Intel Research
Archive for December, 2003
Intel Personal Server
December 15th, 2003 by rbanks
This is a research project at Intel focussed on a small, display-free device that’s carried with you, stores all your personal information on it and talks to the environment (displays and devices) using bluetooth.
Intel Research
Tracking your grandma
December 15th, 2003 by rbanks
A system for monitoring whether elderly relatives are ok, primarily using passive motion sensors set up in their home.
Living Independently
Project a display on any surface
December 15th, 2003 by rbanks
An IBM research project that allows you to project a display onto any surface using a mirror. The software compensated for any warping of the projected image.
IBM Research
British Telecom launches VoIP service
December 15th, 2003 by rbanks
The BT voice over IP service is targetted at their high speed data access customers, rather then regular BT customers.
Light Reading
Light stops
December 15th, 2003 by rbanks
Harvard University researchers have apparently stopped light. This is supposed to be a good thing for Quantum computing.
CNN
Sun – Project Looking glass
December 15th, 2003 by rbanks
A 3d desktop demo, from Sun, showing some interseting animated stuff, and fairly unoriginal perspective windows.
Sun.com
NetGen cell phone savvy (cellGen?)
December 15th, 2003 by rbanks
Article about the generational differencesfor phone use, between netGen and baby boomers.
cellular-news.com
United States Post Office digital signature
December 15th, 2003 by rbanks
The United States Post Office has digital rights management technology that allows you to electonically seal Word documents. Protection from a “trusted name”.
USPSepm.com
Customize tunes for people calling your phone
December 8th, 2003 by rbanks
T-Mobile is the first to introduce a service that allows you to pick what tunes a caller hears when they call you.
T-Mobile
Video and photo camera
December 8th, 2003 by rbanks
It’s taken a long time coming, but the Fisher FVD-C1 is finally a reasonable example of a video camera that also takes good (3.2 megapixel) still photos. And it can do both at once. It’s SD only (no tape) which limits the length until SD card volumes grow a bit.
FisherAV.com
