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How the Zeo sleep device works around the limitations of home monitoring
The Zeo is part of a trend toward using technology to monitor our own bodies. People have always been concerned about their health, of course, and have tried different things to see what works...
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Raytheon Sends Android to Battlefield — Google’s OS sees deployment. Using Android software tools, Raytheon ( RTN – news – people ) engineers built a basic application for military personnel that...
View ArticleHealth Care 2.0 Challenge announces winners: focus on access to Practice Fusion
In the set of programming challenges announced by Health 2.0 a little over two months ago, Practice Fusion unveiled plans for the first open test of their API. In fact, according to Matthew Douglass,...
View ArticleFour short links: 19 October 2010
YIMBY — Swedish site for “Yes, In My Back Yard”. Provides an opportunity for the net to aggregate positive desires (“please put a bus stop on my street”, “we want wind power”) rather than simply...
View ArticleComplete real-time sleep feedback loop: Zeo device provides raw data
In a radical application of modern health philosophies–feedback loops, patient empowerment, open data–the Zeo company has recently added a new feature to their consumer-priced sleep device that puts...
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The secret is to bang the rocks together
“We’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.” — “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” Douglas...
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Why embedded systems are "terrifyingly important"
Engineering embedded systems is an increasingly interesting, disruptive — and lucrative — field for designs ranging from bicycles to firearms to airplanes and beyond. In the following interview,...
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Top Stories: November 14-18, 2011
Here’s a look at the top stories published across O’Reilly sites this week. Steve Jobs, the Unabomber, and America’s love/hate relationship with technologySteve Jobs and Ted Kaczynski represent the...
View ArticleOobleck security
I’ve been thinking (and writing) a lot lately about the intersection of hardware and software, and how standing at that crossroads does not fit neatly into our mental models of how to approach the...
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Hurdles to the Internet of Things prove more social than technical
Last Saturday’s IoT Festival at MIT became a meeting-ground for people connecting the physical world. Embedded systems developers, security experts, data scientists, and artists all joined in this...
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Internet of Things in celebration and provocation at MIT
Last Saturday’s IoT Festival at MIT became a meeting ground for people connecting the physical world. Embedded systems developers, security experts, data scientists, and artists all joined in this...
View ArticleWhat BlackBerry is up to these days
Here’s a surprise, via Bloomberg: “BlackBerry’s QNX operating system, used to power its BlackBerry 10 phones, has become the technology of choice for mapping, communication and entertainment systems in...
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The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things — a Bruce Sterling Kindle single, a powerfully-written challenge to the presumed-benevolent technology-pervaded universe that we label “the Internet of...
View ArticleFour short links: 2 June 2015
Toyota’s Spaghetti Code — Toyota had more than 10,000 global variables. And he was critical of Toyota watchdog supervisor — software to detect the death of a task — design. He testified that Toyota’s...
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Peter Hoddie on JavaScript for embedded systems
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