Science Daily 2001-01-02 GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Think of it as an electronic seeing-eye dog. A University of Florida engineering student has designed a helmet equipped with sensors that detect when the wearer is about to run into something. The helmet then beeps or vibrates, alerting the wearer to change course. "It’s a possible navigation system for visually impaired people in the workplace or in their homes, or possibly even for outdoors use," said Dale Milcetich, a UF senior and double ma ...

"Heads-up" Display Lives Up to Its Name Released: Fri 28-May-2004, 07:00 ET Source: National Science Foundation (NSF) NewsWise Newswise — Using a common laptop computer and a sophisticated head-mounted projection device, students at the University of Washington (UW) have created a system to help people with poor vision navigate around stationary objects. The Wearable Low Vision Aid (WLVA) is the first portable device to draw attention to obstacles using an illuminated, vibrating crystal t ...

"Killer App" of wearable computing: wireless force sensing body protectors for martial arts Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology archive Proceedings of the 17th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology table of contents Santa Fe, NM, USA SESSION: Wacky hardware table of contents Pages: 277 - 285 Year of Publication: 2004 ISBN:1-58113-957-8 Authors Ed H. Chi Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA Jin Song Impact Measurement, San Jose, C ...

"Magic of Today: Tomorrow’s Technology” Wearables for Kids By Marilyn Panayi and David Roy, University of Southern Denmark, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory, Odense, Denmark Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. ABSTRACT Research is presented that illustrates frameworks being developed that involve young children in the process of development of future wearable technologies – A hypercamera - the KidsCam. It is envisioned that ...

"Smart Rooms, Smart Clothes" to be Topic of Computer Science Lecture Contact: Elizabeth Luciano University of Massachusetts Amherst Nov. 18, 1997 AMHERST, Mass. - "Smart Rooms, Smart Clothes" will be the topic of the fourth lecture in the 1997-98 Distinguished Lecture Series sponsored by the computer science department at the University of Massachusetts. Professor Alex Pentland, academic head of the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will speak on Wed., Dec. 3, i ...

9 May 2003 "Smart" clothing is a new and coming trend in German and other European markets. A number of sports wear producers are successfully selling garments that do more than just protect and decorate their owners, giving credence to the notion that information and entertainment are fast becoming value items in clothing. But not to be ignored are occupational users such as hospital workers and firefighters, particularly exposed groupings, and relevant in the revelations over such issues as ...

Read the Full Article, Get a FREE Trial for instant access » Industrial Product Bulletin; 9/1/2002 Do you ever wonder how we all managed the flow of information before cell phones, PDAs, recorders, remote controls, two-way radios, camcorders, scanners, and other electronic information systems came into use? Nowadays, these devices all seem to be a necessary part of our business (and personal) lives. But where do you keep all this equipment for ready access during the workday (and weekend)? Although technology has been changing quite rapidly, the ability to efficiently use and carry these devices has not been addressed--until now. The SCOTTeVEST[TM], a form of Technolog...

written by Peter Barnes, Tech Live Washington, DC bureau chief on Thursday, March 21, 2002 Imagine a fabric that can double as a radio antenna. Before long, soldiers may be wearing just such a textile into battle. The Pentagon is testing "active fabrics," or "e-fabrics," created to conduct heat and electricity and carry voice, data, and even video images. Tonight's "Tech Live" looks at how the materials could make it easier for the digital soldier. "We were able to integrate electronic and ...

BBC News 15 Jun 2004 By Jo Twist A wearable camera full of sensors could help people with memory problems, according to Microsoft researchers. The prototype SenseCam takes an instant snap every time it spots changes in movement, temperature or light. Currently capable of storing 2,000 images on a 128MB memory card, the cam could help people record their days. The technology has been developed by the Microsoft Research laboratories in Cambridge, UK, and is to undergo tests at Addenbrooke ...

'Body Area Networks' in 2020? 10 décembre 2004 Roland Piquepaille This is almost certain, according to Ian Pearson, a futurologist working for British Telecom. In fifteen years, local area networks will be replaced by body area networks. As writes BBC News Online, "when technology gets personal," you can expect a "pervasive ambient world" where "chips are everywhere." Not only we'll be surrounded by intelligent objects in the streets, but we'll wear clothes made of nano-engineered smart fabr ...

'Brainwave' cap controls computer Tuesday, 7 December, 2004 BBC News A team of US researchers has shown that controlling devices with the brain is a step closer. Four people, two of them partly paralysed wheelchair users, successfully moved a computer cursor while wearing a cap with 64 electrodes. Previous research has shown that monkeys can control a computer with electrodes implanted into their brain. The New York team reported their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academ ...

'Cyborg' technology designed to make U.S. soldiers more effective CNN.com August 10, 2000 Web posted at: 11:44 AM EDT (1544 GMT) FORT BRAGG, North Carolina (AP) -- It is designed to make the 21st century U.S. soldier a more effective instrument of war, a veritable cyborg able to communicate with more speed and efficiency. Since early June, 44 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division have been experimenting with a prototype system the Army calls the "Land Warrior." Its video cameras allow s ...

'Dick Tracy' wristwatch phone on the way March 29, 2003 Associated Press The Japan Times NTT DoCoMo Inc. will soon start selling a Dick Tracy-style mobile phone that's wearable like a wristwatch and snaps off to become a regular handset. "We are targeting young businessmen in their 20s and 30s as the device looks a bit rugged," DoCoMo spokesman Takuya Kono said. The Wristomo watch opens up to become a phone, and users can talk while wearing it -- just like the U.S. comic-book hero. Manufactured by Seiko Instruments, the phone weighs 113 grams, including batteries, and hooks up to DoCoMo's i-mode Net-linking service. The company expects to sell 5,000 of the phones, which will run 30,000 yen to 40,000 yen. They will be sold through a Web site starting next month.

'Electronic eye' helps blind across the road November 19, 2004 NewScientist.com news service An electronic "artificial eye", developed for people with impaired vision, has been shown to reliably identify pedestrian crossings, determine when it is safe to walk across and even measure the width of a road. The system, created by Tadayoshi Shioyama and Mohammad Uddin, at the Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan, consists of a single miniature camera that can be clipped onto a pair of glasse ...

'Extreme Textiles' exhibit focuses on high-perfomance fibers May. 19, 2005 SAMANTHA CRITCHELL The Mercury News NEW YORK - You hear "textiles," you think T-shirts. Or maybe you think trade because of the battle between U.S. and Chinese clothing manufacturers. If you're a fashionista, textiles might bring to mind a luxe embroidered fabric used by Oscar de la Renta or a sassy print from Betsey Johnson. Even then, you're limiting yourself: There's actually an exciting world of textiles beyond ...

'Going through the motions' to better treat dementia October 28, 2004 Medical News Today Doctors are turning to wireless technology in an effort to better treat people with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. Thanks to a $200,000 grant from the Alzheimer's Association and Intel Corp., psychiatrist Adrian Leibovici, M.D., will explore whether gadgets such as motion sensors and wearable motion detectors can give doctors and nurses a clear picture of patients' lives in their own hom ...

'Intelligent' clothes drive new research Nov 22 2004 icWales WELSH scientists are developing smart clothing of the future that can play music or even give instructions to the washing machine. Clothes that monitor blood sugar for diabetics, sportswear that cools athletes down, and garments tracked by satellite are just some of the possible areas to be tackled by a new unit at the University of Wales, Newport. The Smart Clothes and Wearable Technology Research Unit, based at the Newport Scho ...

Thursday 21 October 2004 BOMBAY - Indian apparel companies have introduced a range of clothes for slogging nine to five executives - shirts and trousers that emanate perfume, repel mosquitos, keep you cool and remain spotless even when splashed with coffee. The concept has been well received in grimy India where weather often dictates what you wear or don't wear, company officials said. After a modest beginning when they were relegated to the "new arrivals" shelves, the "smart" or IQ ...

'Invisible' Computing PhysOrg.com December 07, 2004 Computer scientists and electrical engineers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), have joined a consortium of mostly European scientists setting out to network together the billions of electronic devices in everyday use. The Reconfigurable Ubiquitous Networked Embedded Systems (RUNES) project aims to expand and simplify existing and future networks of devices and embedded systems. Between now and April 2007 when the projec ...

By Jake Shaw NewsFactor Network July 27, 2004 2:00PM A German clothing company and a chip manufacturer have teamed up to create a jacket that plays MP3s and interfaces with a cell phone. The mp3blue jacket includes a textile keyboard on the arm, speakers in the collar, plus an MP3 player and a Bluetooth module. It not only looks smart and keeps you warm -- a new "lifestyle" jacket includes an MP3 player, a textile keyboard on the left arm and headphones in its collar. The mp3blue jacket f ...

InTech 01 January 2003 Blacksburg, Va.-E-textiles may soon become personal "wearable computers" and large sensing and communications fabrics if engineering researchers at Virginia Tech have their way. Mark Jones and Tom Martin, both faculty in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, are principal investigators on two federally funded e-textiles projects. E-textiles are cloth interwoven with electronic components. ith funding from the Defense Advanced ...

'Memory' glasses would cue wearer's memory with tiny computer display By THEO EMERY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Seattle Post-Intelligencer Friday, November 28, 2003 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- When Richard DeVaul sits down to his computer, he sometimes forgets to eat for hours at a time. Names slip his mind at cocktail parties and, to his embarrassment, he mixes up the faces of people he knows well. A string on the finger might have been a solution in the past, but the Massachusetts Institute of Technolo ...

Martyn Williams, IDG News Service Thursday, July 05, 2001 Wearable speakers also vibrate for special effects, suited to games and music. A South Korean company has come up with a new take on surround-sound stereo speakers that promises to put the shake back into shake, rattle, and roll. The U-shaped Neckphone, developed by Neckphone, is a wearable set of surround-sound speakers. You hang the horseshoe-shaped device around your neck. It contains two small speakers, one on the right and one on ...

'No Starch, Please, I Don't Want To Damage The Phone' July 23, 2001 By Larry Greenemeier InformationWeek.com From the far reaches of outer space to the shirt on your back, "smart fabric" technology is looking very fashionable. In the next few years, smart fabric, which consists of layers of optical fibers running through a foam bed, will touch a number of industries, from communications to computer peripherals. When technologists at Canada's Tactex Controls Inc. developed its fiber-optic ...

'Self-cleaning' Suits May Be In Your Future Source: American Chemical Society Date: 2004-11-23 Sending your favorite suit to the dry cleaners could one day become an infrequent practice. Researchers at Clemson University are developing a highly water-repellant coating made of silver nanoparticles that they say can be used to produce suits and other clothing items that offer superior resistance to dirt as well as water and require much less cleaning than conventional fabrics. The patent ...

'Smart bandage' diagnoses danger before infection takes hold November 2001 University of Rochester Science Blog Imagine placing an adhesive bandage on a cut and having the bandage tell you immediately that dangerous bacteria have gotten into the wound and that you need to seek a doctor's help. Researchers at the University of Rochester have taken the first major step toward a bandage that will change color depending on what kind of bacteria may be present in a wound. It can give an instant ...

'Smart bullet' reports back wirelessly May 28, 2004 By Will Knight NewScientist.com news service A "smart bullet" that can be fired at a target and then wirelessly transmit back useful information has been developed by US researchers. The projectile, created at the University of Florida in Gainesville, US, is 1.7 centimetres in diameter can be fired at from an ordinary paint-ball gun. The front is coated in an adhesive polymer that sticks it to the target. Inside, the elongated projectil ...

'Smart Concrete' Would Determine Weight Of Trucks As They Travel On A Highway 1999 Science Blog 'Smart Concrete' Would Determine Weight Of Trucks As They Travel On A Highway BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Truck-weighing stations on highways could become a thing of the past as a result of a new application for "smart concrete" developed by University at Buffalo engineers. A paper on the research authored by Deborah D.L. Chung, Ph.D., UB Niagara Mohawk Chair of Materials Research and professor of mechanical ...

'Smart Fabric' or Interactive Textile Products Market Seen on the Horizon January 14, 2003 Embedded Star According to a new market study from Venture Development Corporation (VDC) titled "The Global Market for Wearable Computers: The Quest for Killer Applications", worldwide shipments of clothing based ("smart fabric") wearable products are expected to total over $47 million in 2006. VDC forecasts commercial shipments of integrated clothing based wearable solutions starting 2002. Lead Analy ...

'Smart T-shirts' can sound the alarm November 27, 1998 By Robert Davis USAToday A computer T-shirt woven with fiber optics and electrically conductive thread may soon monitor the health of soldiers, rescuers, the elderly and others who are medically vulnerable. The "smart T-shirt" was developed by the government as a potential tool for pinpointing soldiers' injuries and helping medics decide whom to treat first on the battlefield. The shirt can tell when a bullet has ripped into the body, ...

Mirror.co.uk Oct 5 2004 CLOTHES that react to temperature to keep you warm or cool are on the way, say scientists. Micro-technology allows the material to let in air to cool the wearer when it is hot and shut out air when it is cold. The technology is based on how pine cones sense temperature to open up and let their seeds out. The University of Bath and the London College of Fashion say it could be in everyday use within a few years. Prof Julian Vincent, head of the university's centre for biomimetics, said: "Smart clothing will make wearers' lives much more comfortable." Veronika Kapsali, a student at the college, said: "It's up to me to work with the new material to make something that looks pretty cool."

'Smart' clothes feature sensors and cameras March 2000 Ken Clark TDC Trade Manufacturers will soon launch an exciting collection of "intelligent" clothes made from "smart" fabrics. Among these wireless, washable garments are a bikini with an integrated audio player, a shirt with its own mobile phone, a ski jacket that warns its wearer of hazards and a child's T-shirt with a built-in global positioning satellite (GPS) system. After two years of research and development at British laborato ...

'Smart' clothes raise stain shield USA Today; 3/11/2002; Theresa Howard What have your clothes done for you lately? Forget push-up bras and tummy-control pantyhose. This year's spring apparel lines are full of "smart" clothes. They feature functional, high-tech fabrics that wick away perspiration, repel stains, massage, moisturize and battle cellulite. The can-do clothes inspired by industrial fabrics and high-performance sportswear promise to make everyday pants, shirts and underwear work harder. Retailers and clothing brands are embracing the trend in hopes it will boost lagging sales and help brands stand out among products that have almost ... Read the Full Article, Get a FREE Trial for instant access »

'Smart' Clothes Sense Every Need By Larry O'Hanlon December 18, 2002 Discovery News You can't buy one this winter, but someday stores may be selling a jacket that senses your slightest chill and heats up before you even notice the cold. The "smart jacket" is just the latest invention in a burgeoning field of clothes that combine fabric with high-tech electronics. The clothes are being designed to do everything from monitor your heart and blood sugar, to calling for help if you get attacked ...

“Smart” Clothing Materials Could Lead to Synthetics with Biomedical Applications 11 Feb 05 Newswise What makes a nanocomposite material “smart”? Consider clothing that can detect the presence of chemical weapons, automatically seal its own pores, and then clean and decontaminate itself. Today the U.S. Department of Defense is funding research for fabric materials that do all these things and are also stronger, more durable, and lighter than current uniforms. Smart materials are becoming a r ...

The Age October 5, 2004 Wool may be part of a new type of clothing which adapts to changing temperatures to keep the wearer comfortable. Micro-technology used in the material allows it to let in air to cool a wearer when it is hot and shut out air when it is cold. The University of Bath and the London College of Fashion are jointly researching the material, which they think could be in everyday use within a few years. The project has been chosen as one of eight to represent UK science at ...

'Smart' fabrics to keep patients healthy Medical News Today March 16, 2005 Patients in the near future will use 'smart' fabrics to keep them healthy, thanks to a EU project that recently completed initial development of high tech clothing. The Wearable Health Care System (WEALTHY) IST project just completed 30 months of research and development to prototype technologies at the heart of smart fabrics. Smart fabrics incorporate functional fibres and yarns into the weave, allowing researchers ...

'Smart' hip could treat itself July 9, 2003 BBC News A replacement hip joint that could detect a bacterial infection and release antibiotic drugs is under development by scientists. They are hopeful that such a device could cut number of joint replacements that fail due to persistent infections. The joint would be able to tell an examining doctor whether it was under attack from bacteria, say researchers. Work has already started in the US to incorporate nanotechnology into artificial h ...

'Smart' hospital to improve care May 7, 2003 BBCNews The hospital of the future could have beds that monitor patients and drugs that warn you if you are taking the wrong pill. These are just some of the ideas that researchers in Denmark have come up with to improve the treatment of patients. The team at the Center for Pervasive Computing at Aarhus University have found that most computer hardware and software is unsuitable for use in hospitals. Instead, they are working on adapting the ...

'Smart' Jacket Warms, Lights Up at Night, Monitors Heart December 13, 2002 Newswise There are smart houses, smart cars and smart computers. Now get ready for smart clothes. At Cornell University that means a jacket that automatically heats and lights up when it is cold and dark and also contains a pulse monitor to measure activity level for joggers and walkers. "The miniaturization of electronics has led to the emerging field of intelligent clothing, which integrates functional clothing des ...

By David D. Haskell Published 4/11/2003 1:24 PM BOSTON, April 11 (UPI) -- Confident that U.S. combat troops in Iraq are uniformed in the best available materials, researchers are testing new "smart" textiles that would protect the war fighters while making them as "lethal as a tank." "We're always improving what's in the field," said Maurice N. Larrivee, a materials technology team leader at the Soldier Systems Center, the Army's research and development facility in the Boston suburb of Natic ...

'Solar cloth' offers moveable power Thursday, 23 May, 2002 BBC NEWS Textiles which incorporate solar cells could allow some travellers to dispense with batteries altogether, predict scientists. Researchers at the School of Textiles at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland say they may be able to produce fabrics carrying solar cells. These, they suggest, could be rolled up and carried to remote locations - perhaps to be used as a source of power for fireman or soldiers. However, the limited ...

'Techno' clothing hits high street BBC News Wednesday, 16 August, 2000 Techno-clothing could bring health benefits The world's first commercially available electronic clothing is about to go on sale in high streets across Europe. Clothes equipped with fully integrated computer networks have been designed and developed in a joint venture between clothing company Levi's and electronics company Philips, following three years of intensive research. The clothes, which could become the essenti ...

'This Is the Future of Medicine' December 22, 2000 By Ellen Licking BusinessWeek Online Blazing trails on a vast frontier called electronic care management Vivometrics, a Southern California startup, wants to put a shirt on your back. But the company's lightweight, stretchy garment is not your average muscle-T. Embedded in the fabric are four black bands equipped with electrodes and physiological sensors designed to record more than 40 vital signs, including fluid in the heart, breathing r ...

BBC News 29 July 2004 Tighter UK and European regulation over some aspects of nanotechnology -manipulation of molecules - is needed to ensure its long-term safety. A Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering report said that there was no need to ban nanoparticle production. But more formal research of them was "urgent". Nanoparticles should also be treated as "new chemicals", it said. Welcoming the report, science minister Lord Sainsbury said the government response would come by th ...

May. 17, 2004 Macon Telegraph By Gene Rector Telegraph Staff Writer ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE - Aircraft mechanics in the 116th Air Control Wing don't have to go by the office these days. They carry it with them - hung around their necks or strapped to their waist. Maintainers from the Joint STARS unit at Robins Air Force Base have been testing "wearable" wireless computers over the past several months, and they're finding that the 24-ounce devices open a new world of information access and mob ...

'Wrist Video' Gives Israeli Army an Edge March 4, 2005 By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press Writer ABCNews HOLON, Israel Mar 4, 2005 — Israeli troops are now sporting gear that Dick Tracy would be proud of: tiny video screens, worn on the wrist, which display video shot by unmanned airplanes. Similar screens have been in use for close to a year in the Israeli military's attack helicopters, helping pilots identify and strike Palestinian militants within seconds. The technology, which is als ...

M2 Presswire; 5/11/2004 Read the Full Article, Get a FREE Trial for instant access » M2 PRESSWIRE-11 May 2004-Research and Markets: 109 separate end-use segments of Polyester in Technical Textiles and Nonwovens(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05112004 Research and Markets announces the addition of this new report entitled "Polyester in Technical Textiles and Nonwovens: World Market Forecasts to 2010" to its offerings. The report provides forecasts of end-use consumption by volume and value annually from 2000 to 2004 and at 5-yearly intervals from 1995 to 2010 at 12 application areas, as defined by Techtextil: Agrotech Buildtech Clo...

1D selection of 2D objects in head-worn displays By Juha Lehikoinen and Mika Röykkee, A1 Nokia Research Center, P.O. Box 100, 33721 Tampere, Finland Volume 7, Number 1 May 2003 Personal and Ubiquitous Computing You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text. Abstract: In current desktop user interfaces, selection is usually accomplished easily with a mouse or a similar two-dimensional locator. In wearable computing, however, controlling two dimens ...

Read the Full Article, Get a FREE Trial for instant access » Design News; 6/17/2002; Field, Karen Smaller components and chips, and new design tools and aids are helping design engineers pack more features into devices and systems. Here's a quick round-up of how your designs can profit from what's new and in view in electronic products, as well as hints and tips useful for your upcoming design projects I -1- Food for thought Hungry for knowledge in image processing? Then Bob's Brain Snacks, offered at Coreco Imaging's website, www.imaging.com, may satisfy your cravings. These whimsical tutorial tidbits explain image-processing concepts, such as noise r...

300 years of Ten Cate 26 October 2004 World Textile Publications Ltd. Technical textiles specialist Royal Ten Cate of the Netherlands is marking its 300th anniversary with the introduction of new patented technology for intelligent and interactive textiles. During the Royal Ten Cate Innovation Forum in Amsterdam to mark the anniversary this month, Loek de Vries, chairman of the executive board, provided details of the company's latest technology involving coating fabrics to give them specifi ...

3D Digitization of a Hand-Held Object with a Wearable Vision Sensor Publisher: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg ISSN: 0302-9743 Subject: Computer Science Volume 3058 / 2004 Title: Computer Vision in Human-Computer Interaction: ECCV 2004 Workshop on HCI, Prague, Czech Republic, May 16, 2004. Proceedings Editors: Nicu Sebe, Michael S. Lew, Thomas S. Huang ISBN: 3-540-22012-7 DOI: 10.1007/b97917 Chapter: pp. 129 - 141 Online Date: May 2004 Abstract It is a common human behavior to ...

3GSM: Entertainment a major theme of 3GSM World Congress February 20, 2004 IDG News Service wireless.itworld.com With several mobile phone manufacturers recently launching "designer" models, it's little wonder that the organizers of the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, have included a fashion show in this year's event. The show, intended to demonstrate how wearable technology can be fun and fashionable as well as functional, promises to be a far cry from the suit-and-tie image that th ...

3M Intros Better Embedded Capacitance Material 2/16/2005 Reed Business Information Austin, Texas-based 3M unveiled today what it says is an improved embedded capacitance material with a dielectric thickness of 8 microns and a capacitance density over 11 nanofarads / square inch. The company claims it is among the thinnest and highest capacitance density materials available for embedding planar capacitance in circuit boards that fabricators and OEMs can use without a license. Using embedded ...

Technology Review By Joe Chung July/August 2004 genius is 99 percent perspiration (and 1 percent inspiration), then entrepreneurs surely walk the fine line that separates the Einsteins of the world from those poor sweaty souls who practice yoga in saunas. The archetypal startup is the lone inventor in a basement pursuing his or her passion with relentless energy. Somewhere between the original spark of genius and a successfully profitable enterprise, though, lies a maturation process that pi ...

LinuxDevices.com by Ralf Ackermann Background A "second generation" iPAQ-based wearable computer running Linux has been developed as part of the ongoing non-commercial research efforts of the Multimedia Communications Lab (KOM) at Darmstadt University of Technology in Darmstadt, Germany. In the KOM lab, we are dealing with several aspects of Network Multimedia Communication. I have for some time been developing a platform for use in experimenting with using mobile systems as clients for IP t ...

A bag for weather forecasts and distracted people October 21, 2004 near near future The Object-Based Media group at the MIT is developing a revolutionary system of computerised fabric patches called BYOB (see the PDF of "Build Your Own Bag".) Each patch contains a functional unit made of a microprocessor and memory plus either a radio transceiver, a sensor, a microphone, batteries or a display. The patches are joined with a modified Velcro enabling electrical and physical connections. The ...

Public release date: 20-Oct-2004 IMAGINE a handbag that warns you if you are about to forget your umbrella or wallet, and which you can later turn into a scarf that displays today's pollution levels. Or how about creating a wall hanging that glows if someone tries to use your home's wireless internet connection? All these bizarre objects could soon be possible thanks to a system of computerised fabric patches developed by engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Each patch contai ...

New Scientist (reported by EurekAlert!) 20-Oct-2004 By Celester Biever IMAGINE a handbag that warns you if you are about to forget your umbrella or wallet, and which you can later turn into a scarf that displays today's pollution levels. Or how about creating a wall hanging that glows if someone tries to use your home's wireless internet connection? All these bizarre objects could soon be possible thanks to a system of computerised fabric patches developed by engineers at the Massachusetts In ...

A Battery That Can Take a Bullet Chris Oakes Wired News 03:00 AM Aug. 03, 1999 PT The US Army likes to shoot batteries. "We actually take them and shoot them and see what response we get," said Colonel Bruce Jette, project manager for the US Army's Soldier Systems Center Land Warrior project. Any computer battery has to meet stringent requirements for weight, performance, and battery life. If it's for the US Army, it also has to be bulletproof. Survivability is key to designing battery ...

Wired News Apr. 13, 2004 By Amit Asaravala Whether diving deep in the ocean, battling an inferno or performing maneuvers in space, specialists trained to operate in extreme conditions know that keeping track of vital signs can be a matter of life and death. That's why engineers at NASA have spent the past three years developing a small device that can report on its wearer's health. Like the black boxes in cockpits that record an airplane's flight information, the Crew Physiological Observat ...

A Black Box for People By: Karen Miller Science@NASA April 7, 2004 When planes have a problem, analysts can usually figure out what went wrong. They simply check the plane's "black box," which records exactly what was happening to the plane at the time. Now, there's something similar for people. Under the leadership of Stanford University professor Greg Kovacs and engineers Carsten Mundt (NASA/Ames) and Kevin Montgomery (Stanford), researchers have developed a device that is like a black ...

A Case Study in Embedded-System Design: The VuMan 2 Wearable Computer By Asim Smailagic, Daniel P. Siewiorek You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract The development of an embedded-computer system with a visual interface is described. The authors detail the use of a target system simulator and a prototype printed circuit board (PCB), which facilitated a concurrent approach to the design of the hardware, sof ...

A Case Study in Environmentally Conscious Design: Wearable Computers Rebecca Lankey, Heather MacLean and Andrea Sterdis, Green Design Institute Carnegie Mellon University Introduction As environmental issues become increasingly important to the public, product life cycle studies are being considered in many industries. The computer industry, in particular, has been under scrutiny for environmentally conscious design. Portable systems have their own unique issues, such as batteries, which a ...

A Case Study: Using The Wearable Computer In The Construction Industry by Scott Fuller, Zhihui Ding, and Anoop Sattineni Building and Fire Research Laboratory's Fire Research Division at NIST ABSTRACT: This paper aims to explore the prospective applications of cuttingedge technology like wearable computers in construction industry. The current research, application areas and future trends of wearable computing investigated. The first-hand experience of the authors through a well-designed ...

A Catalyst for Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing M. Satyanarayanan - Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Research, Pittsburgh DS Online The convergence of wireless communication and portable computers is happening before us today. Hardly a week passes without an announcement by some major player in this arena about technology, deployment, or a new strategic partnership. Well-attended conferences and workshops attest to the vibrancy of the research community in this area. Something big is cle ...

A Collaborative Wearable System with Remote Sensing By Martin Bauer, Timo Heiber, Gerd Kortuem, Zary Segall , University of Oregon 2ND. International Symposium on Wearable Computers October 19 - 20, 1998 IEEE Computer Society You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract: This paper presents a collaborative wearable system based on the notion of remote sensing. Remote sensing lets users of wearable or stationary computers perceive a remote environment through the sensors of a remote wearable computer. We describe a concrete system with remote sensing capability that is designed to enhance the communication and cooperation of highly mobile computer technicians.

A Compact Wearable Sensor Package for Clinical Gait Monitoring By Stacy J Morris and Joseph A Paradiso, MIT Media Lab January 31, 2003 Offspring Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 7-15 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Introduction We have developed a compact, wireless, wearable shoe-mounted sensor package that is designed to provide continuous and real time monitoring of gait for clinical biomotion analysis. This paper discusses the initial design of our hardware, consisting ...

A Comparative Investigation into Two Pointing Systems for Use with Wearable Computers While Mobile By Alan Chamberlain, Roy Kalawsky, Loughborough University, UK Eighth International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'04) October 31 - November 03, 2004 Arlington, Virginia You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract Target selection is a task carried out by many wearable computer users. Conventional desk ...

A context visualization model for wearable computers By Antti Aaltonen, Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computing Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Context aware systems observe the user's current context and apply this information to the user's benefit. When implementing context awareness, several issues need to be considered and this paper concentrates on presenting the context information to the user. The key components needed to construct the context are identified and a model which allows using different visualization techniques for the context is proposed. In order to make the model more concrete, four use cases are presented, and the expandability of the model is discussed.

A Context-Based Document System for Wearable Computers By Kent Lyons1, Thad Starner1, Lonnie Harvel2 , Georgia Institute of Technology 1 College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA 30332 0250 2 School of Electrical Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA Fourth International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'00) October 18 - 21, 2000 Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. Abstract: With the continuous availability ...

A CSCW System for Distributed Search/Collection Tasks Using Wearable Computers By Tetsuo Sumiya, Keio University, Akifumi Inoue, Tokyo University of Technology, Sadayuki Shiba, Junya Kato, Hiroshi Shigeno, Kenichi Okada, Keio University Sixth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA'04) December 02 - 03, 2004 Lake District National Park, United Kingdom You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased onli ...

A current development: Electronic plastics 14 April 2004 ISA A new plastic that conducts electricity and easily accommodates chemical attachments to create new materials may be simpler to make. Oligotron polymers consist of tiny bits of material that possess a conducting center and two nonconducting end pieces, said officials at Wheat Ridge, Colo.–based TDA Research, which developed the plastic. The end pieces allow the plastic bits to dissolve in solvents and accommodate specialized molec ...

A Design Research Program for Textiles and Computational Technology Submitted to Nordic Textile Journal, Autumn 2001 Lars Hallnäs, Linda Melin and Johan Redström PLAY Research Studio, Interactive Institute1 Abstract Textiles and computational technology share a common background in the early days of automation and industrial production. Today, we see a new opportunity for these two, by now, rather disparate areas to be joined in the search for new design spaces for everyday things. It i ...

By Jay Lyman NewsFactor Innovation March 18, 2002 2:41PM Poma, which features an integrated MP3 player, may be the first consumer PC from Xybernaut, but spokesperson Mike Binco told NewsFactor the company has years of experience making wearable computers for enterprise uses. More and more innovation is going into mobile computers, but Xybernaut's (Nasdaq: XYBR) personal optical mobile assistant, Poma, takes a different tack by putting the desktop environment itself on the go. Poma is a ...

A Digital Doctor On Your Wrist Volume 2, Issue 2 - Feb/March 2002 Berkeley Lab Notes, College of Engineering, University of Berkeley Tomorrow's wristwatches may tell you much more than the time. Department of Bioengineering chair Thomas F. Budinger is developing a wrist-worn biomonitoring alert system that will not only transmit a digital call for help if you've fallen but also detect when it's time for a nap or if your "last meal was cooked in old fat, like a fast food hamburger." As par ...

A Digital Nudge for Cocktail Conversation Prototype Joins Wearable Computer, Speech Recognition to Aid Memory By Francine Vida ABC News July 26 How often do you find yourself asking the person you met last week this question: "What's your name again?" Cutting Edge With the development of a wearable communication device, which uses the latest capabilities of speech recognition, you may one day get help in remembering those names. The prototype, called a Personal Awareness Assistant, was ...

PC Magazine November 12, 2002 By Alexandra Robbins Head-mounted displays, which project miragelike computing screens, have yet to be runaway hits. That's partly because they make you look like a telemarketer wearing a helmet about as inconspicuous as a pair of fake antlers. Massachusetts-based MicroOptical Corp. is taking a new approach, fitting projectable-display technology into standard eyeglass frames. At last month's International Symposium on Wearable Computers in Seattle, MicroOptical ...

A Feasibility Study of Yarns and Fibers with Annexed Electronic Functions: The ARIANNE Project 2004 A. Bonfiglio A1, D. de Rossi A2, T. Kirstein A3, I. Locher A3, F. Mameli A1, R. Paradiso A4, G. Vozzi A2 Studies in Health Technology and Informatics IOS Press Volume: Volume 108 / 2004 Pages: 324 - 329 Editors: Andreas Lymberis, Danilo de Rossi ISBN: 1-58603-449-9 A. Bonfiglio A1, D. de Rossi A2, T. Kirstein A3, I. Locher A3, F. Mameli A1, R. Paradiso A4, G. Vozzi A2 A1 Dept. ...

A Feasible Low-Power Augmented-Reality Terminal By Johan Pouwelse, Koen Langendoen, Henk Sips, Delft University of Technology 2nd IEEE and ACM International Workshop on Augmented Reality October 20 - 21, 1999, San Francisco, California You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract This paper studies the requirements for a truly wearable augmented-reality (AR) terminal. The requirements translate into a generic ...

A Few Suggestions January 27, 2003 By Peter N. Glaskowsky InStat MDR, Vol 17, Issue 04 I wasn't entirely forthcoming in my editorial last month (see MPR 12/30/02-02, "Toward a Brighter Tomorrow") when I declined to name specific new ways for semiconductors to add value to our lives in areas such as clothing, food, housing, and furniture. In fact, I can point to a few applications that could double the total world market for semiconductors—from tiny sensors to complex microprocessors. Some ...

A Field Usability Evaluation of a Wearable System By Jane Siegel and Malcolm Bauer, Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University 1st International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC '97) Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. Abstract: This empirical field study describes the wearable system, the study method used, and summarizes the experiences of aircraft maintenance specialists who participated in a field usability evaluation conducted at th ...

A Flexible, Privacy-Preserving Authentication Framework for Ubiquitous Computing Environments By Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Anand Ranganathan, Roy Campbel, and l M. Dennis Mickunas, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops 2002 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract The proliferation of smart gadgets, appliances, mobile devices, PDAs and sens ...

A Flexible, Privacy-Preserving Authentication Framework for Ubiquitous Computing Environments 2002 By Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Anand Ranganathan, Roy Campbell, and M. Dennis Mickunas, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract The proliferation of smart gadgets, appliances, mobile devices, PDAs and sensors has enabled the construction of ubiquitous computing environments, transforming regular ...

A flurry of developments in nanocomposite materials January 2005 Composites World Nanocomposite research continues to advance, as evidenced by several recent announcements. The first involves new technology for spinning multiwalled carbon nanotubes into yarns. Electrically and thermally conductive and extremely flexible, these yarns could be used for structural composites as well as "smart" textiles for clothing or ballistic armor, says a work group composed of Dr. Ken Atlinson (Commonwealth ...

A full-body tactile sensor suit using electrically conductive fabric and strings Meeting Date: 11/04/1996 -11/08/1996 Publication Date: 4-8 Nov 1996 Inaba, M. Hoshino, Y. Nagasaka, K. Ninomiya, T. Kagami, S. Inoue, H. Dept. of Mech.-Inf., Tokyo Univ.; IEEE Xplore This paper appears in: Intelligent Robots and Systems '96, IROS 96, Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Meeting Date: 11/04/1996 -11/08/1996 Publication Date: 4-8 Nov 1996 Location: Osaka , ...

Wired News 28 Jan 2002 By Katie Dean Instant messaging has improved communications for the deaf so significantly it's been called a "godsend" by one. Now, a glove that can translate American Sign Language into text may improve communications even further. Eighteen-year-old Ryan Patterson designed a sign language translator glove that works by sensing the hand movements of the sign language alphabet, then wirelessly transmitting the data to a portable device that displays the text on-screen. ...

A Headset-Based Minimized Wearable Computer May/June 2001 By Soichiro Matsushita IEEE Intelligent Systems You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. A low-power headset with a sensory system and a short-range wireless radio transceiver can become a highly context-aware peripheral device, but to avoid affecting the user as much as possible, the amount of components should be minimized. A combination of low-power motion ...

Note: You will need to copy and paste the URL in a browser window to view the abstract online. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_aset=B-WA-A-A-AD-MsSAYVA-UUW-AUEEUZDAAU-AUEZZVDEAU-ZVYECWDZE-AD-U&_rdoc=14&_fmt=summary&_udi=B6V06-3TXCNFG-6&_coverDate=08%2F31%2F1998&_cdi=5638&_orig=search&_st=13&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=806bfafbb54a524ecef9548aaecd43f7 A hierarchical virtual environment for a machine fault diagnostic application ...

A high-tech helping hand for the sight-impaired June 03, 2004 By ROB HARRILL University WEEK, University of Washington What do you get when you cross a computer and a seeing-eye dog? That’s easy, according to a group of student researchers at the University of Washington’s Human Interface Technology Laboratory: a first-of-its-kind Wearable Low Vision Aid. And, they add, the digital helper has distinct advantages over a canine: no feeding, no drooling and best of all, no need to worry abo ...

A Hybrid Sign Language Recognition System By Van R. Culver, University of Colorado Eighth International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'04) October 31 - November 03, 2004 Arlington, Virginia You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract This work describes an isolated sign language recognition (SLR) system that combines features from a video camera and an instrumented glove. Various combinations of features were tested on American Sign Language (ASL) vocabularies ranging from 10 to 200 words. The most accurate feature vector set included all available camera and glove features.

A Layered Approach to Wearable Textile Networks By K. Van Laerhoven, N. Villar & H.-W. Gellersen Department of Computing, Lancaster University, UK In Proceedings of the IEE Eurowearable 2003 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract The integration of digital components into clothing is becoming an increasingly important segment in wearable computing research. The first indications for this trend are the incorporation of existing mobile technologies, such as ...

A little piece of (silicon) cortex by Sunny Bains November 1998 OE Reports 179 The Army has just funded research on a newly designed battlefield computer, one that may eventually make the kinds of judgements that are normally considered uniquely human. If it works, the new "Silicon Brain Architecture" could allow a small, low-powered machine to receive and understand lots of different kinds of sensory data, consider the situation based on experience, and act. What is most surprising about t ...

A look at the future of stacked die integrated circuits by Keith Gurnett & Tom Adams Military & Aerospace Electronics April, 2003 The terms "stacked die" and "stacked chips" have become very lively buzzwords within the electronics community — so much so that the notoriety of these concepts can obscure the reality. Stacked configurations are in production, but there are few, if any, military or aerospace applications to date. There are plenty of potential applications — signal processin ...

Note: You will need to copy and paste the URL in a browser window to view the abstract online. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T04-4B9D9TS-2&_coverDate=02%2F15%2F2004&_alid=207754523&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_qd=1&_cdi=4852&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=4a5daa09a91780bc22cd2d24e3af755b A low power multichannel analog front end for portable neural signal recordings. By Iyad Obeid, a, Miguel A. L. Nicolelis, a, b, c, d and ...

A machine that thinks and listens - MIT researchers find a way of making a wearable computer aware of auditory cues Nov 30, 1998 Electronics Times LookSmart A group working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab has found a way to use auditory cues to help a wearable computer determine where it is as the user moves around. The goal is to build a wearable computer to react to real-world events so that it does not attempt to give the user information at inappropriate t ...

A Man-Wearable PC with an Artificial-Reality Helmet February 19, 2005 Sources: Jim Nash, InformationWeek, February 16, 2005; Quantum3D website In this short article, InformationWeek writes that "two sexy technologies that flamed out five years ago -- wearable computers and artificial reality -- are combined in a new training-development system" for the military. This system, developed by Quantum3D, includes a binocular head-mounted OLED display and head-leg-weapon motion-tracking systems, in ...

MEASUREMENT SCIENCE REVIEW, Volume 3, Section 2, 2003 1A. Tura, 2M. Badanai, 2D. Longo, 2L. Quareni 1Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Research Council, Padova, Italy, 2QUBIsoft S.r.l., Padova, Italy Email: tura@isib.pd.cnr.it Abstract. A medical wearable device has been developed within a project co-funded by the European Community (Karma2 – IST 2001-32320), whose aim is to create a network for the management of Home Care activities in brain-injured children. The device can mea ...

A Menu Interface for Wearable Computing By Gábor Blaskó and Steven Feiner, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 6th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2002) Seattle, WA, 7-10 October, 2002, p164-165 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract We present a menu interface designed primarily for headworn displays that have a small field-of-view. To support interaction with a hierarchical menu, we logically div ...

A Method of Key Input with Two Mice October 08 - 09, 2001 By Satoshi Nakamura, Masahiko Tsukamoto, Shojiro Nishio, Osaka University Fifth International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'01) IEEE Computer Society You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract Recently, due to remarkable advancements in computer technology, small mobile computers such as PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) and palmtop compute ...

A Mobile Computing System for Testing Wearable Augmented Reality User Interface Design May 1999 By Tom Sephton, Jon Black, Gaber El Naggar, Anthony Fong, Multimedia Graduate Program, California State University, Hayward ISWC 1999 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract This paper describes a mobile augmented reality system developed to test user interface designs appropriate for future wearable computers. As the graphics, sound and processing performance o ...

A Model for Human Interruptability: Experimental Evaluation and Automatic Estimation from Wearable Sensors By Nicky Kern, Stavros Antifakos, Bernt Schiele, Adrian Schwaninger 8th International Symposium on Wearable Computing (ISWC), Washington DC, USA, November 2004 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract: For the estimation of user interruptability in wearable and mobile settings, we propose in in [8] to distinguish between the users' personal and social i ...

A multichannel telemetry system for single unit neural recordings. Obeid I, Nicolelis MA, Wolf PD Medline J Neurosci Methods 2004 Feb 133:33-8 Abstract We present the design, testing, and evaluation of a 16 channel wearable telemetry system to facilitate multichannel single unit recordings from freely moving test subjects. Our design is comprised of (1) a 16-channel analog front end board to condition and sample signals derived from implanted neural electrodes, (2) a digital board for proce ...

A Multidisciplinary Course in Rapid Prototyping of Wearable Computers Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Microelectronics Systems Education (MSE '97) Daniel P. Siewiorek, Asim Smailagic Engineering Design Research Center Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 IEEE Abstract The paper describes a multidisciplinary, systems building course at Carnegie Mellon University. Over the last eight semesters that the course has been taught, teams of undergraduate and gr ...

A Natural Feature-Based 3D Object Tracking Method for Wearable Augmented Reality By Takashi Okuma, Columbia University / AIST, Takeshi Kurata, University of Washington / AIST, and Katsuhiko Sakaue AIST In Proc. The 8th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control (AMC'04) in Kawasaki, Japan, pp.451-456 (2004) Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract In this paper, we describe a novel natural feature based 3-D object tracking method. Our method dete ...

A New Affect-Perceiving Interface and Its Application to Personalized Music Selection By Jennifer Healey, Rosalind Picard and Frank Dabek, MIT Media Lab 1998 Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces PUI'98 Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. Abstract A wearable computer that perceives and responds to the wearer's affective state offers a new kind of perceptual interface. Instead of asking the user to continuously select preferences from a menu, the affective wearab ...

InfoSync World News By Jørgen Sundgot 19 September 2003 Based on magnetic communications, a new wireless headset from foneGEAR looks set to give Bluetooth a run for its money. Aura Communications, a fabless semiconductor company, and foneGEAR has announced what the two companies claim is the world’s first universal wireless headset based on magnetic communications technology. Using Aura Communications' LibertyLink technology, the foneGEAR Cord Free headset uses an enhanced form of 'near fiel ...

A New Sense of Place?' Mobile 'Wearable' Information and Communications Technology Devices and the Geographies of Urban Childhood August 2003 OWAIN JONES, MORRIS WILLIAMS , CONSTANCE FLEURIOT Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, Volume 1, Number 2 / August 2003 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract: In this paper we describe a new research initiative, 'A New Sense of Place?', which involves the ...

USA Today September 20 2004 By David Koenig GRAPEVINE, Texas — Kurt Ward tilted his head, fingered a keypad at his side, and a schematic drawing of a Corvette engine appeared on a tiny glass screen hanging in front of his right eye. With a click, Ward could zoom in for a better look or change the page, while literally keeping his other eye on the engine block. For about six weeks, Ward has tested the gadget — a 28-ounce wireless computer worn on the belt, and a screen attached to a baseba ...

08 Sep 2000 Source: just-style.com Article Summary: Merging fashion and technology to create workwear for the digital age, Dutch electronics giant Philips NV and the European division of Levi Strauss & Co have joined forces with Italian designer Massimo Osti to produce the world's first commercial range of wearable electronics. Niki Tait looks at the ICD+ range. Subscription required to view complete article.

Posted on Sun, Sep. 19, 2004 DAVID KOENIG Associated Press GRAPEVINE, Texas - Kurt Ward tilted his head, fingered a keypad at his side, and a schematic drawing of a Corvette engine appeared on a tiny glass screen hanging in front of his right eye. With a click, Ward could zoom in for a better look or change the page, while literally keeping his other eye on the engine block. For about six weeks, Ward has tested the gadget - a 28-ounce wireless computer worn on the belt, and a screen attache ...

A novel bluetooth antenna on flexible substrate for smart clothing January 1, 2001 By Salonen-Pekka; Keskilammi-Mikko; Rantanen-Jaana; Sydanheimo-Lauri IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Summary: The development of wearable computer systems and smart clothing has been rapid. They are coming more and more lightweight and quite soon we will see a wide range of unobtrusive wearable and ubiquitous computing equipment integrated to into our everyday wear. Rapid progress ...

A Novel Circularly Polarized Textile Antenna for Wearable Applications M. Klemm, I. Locher and G. Tröster, Proc. of 7th European Microwave Week, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pages 137-140, Amsterdam, Nederlands, Oct. 11-14, 2004 ABSTRACT — A novel circularly polarized (CP) textile patch antenna is presented in this paper. To our knowledge, it is the first textile antenna with circular polarization and for the first time, we show that more sophisticated design methods are also applicable to flexible ...

A novel implantable cardiac telemetry system for studying atrial fibrillation August 11, 2004 By Kityee Au-Yeung, Chad R Johnson and Patrick D Wolf, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA Physiological Measurement Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia in clinical practice. Most in vivo experimental research on AF is performed in a surgical setting, on animals instr ...

A Novel Wearable System for Capturing User View Images Title: Computer Vision in Human-Computer Interaction: ECCV 2004 Workshop on HCI, Prague, Czech Republic, May 16, 2004. Proceedings Hirotake Yamazoe1, 2, Akira Utsumi1, Nobuji Tetsutani1 and Masahiko Yachida2 Springer Abstract In this paper, we propose a body attached system to capture the experience of a person in sequence as audio/visual information. The proposed system consists of two cameras (one IR (infra-red) camera and one wide- ...

A Panorama-based Method of Personal Positioning and Orientation and Its Real-time Applications for Wearable Computers October 08 - 09, 2001 By Masakatsu Kourogi, Takeshi Kurata, Katsuhiko Sakaue., National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Fifth International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'01) IEEE Computer Society You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract In this pape ...

A paradigm shift: alternative interaction techniques for use with mobile & wearable devices By Joanna Lumsden, NRC - IIT e-Business, 46 Dineen Drive, Fredericton, Canada Stephen Brewster, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow U.K. IBM Centre for Advanced Studies Conference, 2003 ACM Digital Library You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text. ABSTRACT Desktop user interface design originates from the fact that users are ...

Friday, May 24, 2002 The future is something that we are all curious about. A cricketer wants to know whether he’ll score a century in the next match, a farmer wants to know whether it’ll rain substantially to cultivate his crops and so on. We don’t have any predictions for the former or latter but we do have some predictions for people in enterprise computing. A school of thought says that the future of computing is an intelligent computing fabric. What is an intelligent computing fabric ...

A Peer-To-Peer Approach for Resolving RFIDs 2003 By Christian Decker, Michael Leuchtner, Michael Beigl, TecO, University of Karlsruhe, Vincenz-Priessnitz-Str. 1, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany Ubicomp 2003 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. ABSTRACT We present a system using a Peer-to-Peer network for resolving associations of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tagged objects to their virtual presence. A query, which consists of an identification string, is sent t ...

Note: You will need to copy and paste the URL in a browser window to view the abstract online. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_aset=B-WA-A-B-EE-MsSAYZA-UUA-AUEEACVYWW-AUEZDBCZWW-ZCACCUADA-EE-U&_rdoc=3&_fmt=summary&_udi=B6V0D-4DDXW5F-2&_coverDate=09%2F28%2F2004&_cdi=5644&_orig=search&_st=13&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=ba6e1ffb95a8e83e0b331076cdcdd977 A platform for wearable physiological computing By Astro Teller, BodyMedia, I ...

A Preliminary Comparison of Body wearable Computers to Modern Audio Equipment in a Microgravity Environment By Matthew Dooris1, Michael Moorman2, Bryan Gregory2, Marilyn Brown2, and Heather Wright3 1University of Texas Houston, 2Saint Leo University St. Leo,FL, 3University of Georgia Athens GA January 2000 Volume 32 Number 1 SIGCHI Bulletin Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. Abstract The capabilities of body wearable computers (BWC) and modern audio equipment ...

A Procedure for Developing Intuitive and Ergonomic Gesture Interfaces for HCI Publisher: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg ISSN: 0302-9743 Subject: Computer Science Volume 2915 / 2004 Title: Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction: 5th International Gesture Workshop, GW 2003, Genova, Italy, April 15-17, 2003, Selected Revised Papers Editors: Antonio Camurri, Gualtiero Volpe ISBN: 3-540-21072-5 DOI: 10.1007/b95740 Chapter: pp. 409 - 420 Online Date: February 2004 ...

A Proposed Peritoneal-Based Wearable Artificial Kidney By M. Roberts, D.B.N. Lee Home Hemodial Int, Vol. 3, 65_67, 1999 Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Sepulveda, California, U.S.A. Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Ideally, an artificial kidney should simulate the normal kidney in providing continuous metabolic control, removal of toxins, and unrestricted patient freedom. Of the dialysis procedures available, continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis ...

A prototype network embedded in textile fabric Kenneth Mackenzie College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Eric Hudson College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Drew Maule College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Sundaresan Jayaraman School of Textile and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Sungmee Park ACM - Association for Computing Machinery 2001 Full text Pdf (320 ...

A Prototyping Environment for Investigating Context Aware Wearable Applications Melekam Tsegaye1, Shaun Bangay, Alfredo Terzoli 2005 Rhodes University Abstract In this paper we introduce the concept of a contextaware, wearable application prototyping environment, which can be used to support research into new wearable applications. We present an initial specification and implementation for such an environment. We also show how to model different types of sensors and present an example cont ...

A Proxy Based Architecture for Secure Networked Wearable Devices By Todd Mill,s Matthew Burnside, John Ankcorn & Srinivas Devadas, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge, MA Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract We describe the software and hardware architecture for a wearable communicator and a secure protocol for communication between it and its software proxy. The proxy runs on a fast computer so it is capable of implementing sophisticated cryptog ...

A rapid prototyping software infrastructure for user interfaces in ubiquitous augmented reality Christian Sandor1 and Gudrun Klinker1 (1) Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany Received: 1 June 2004 Accepted: 22 October 2004 Published online: 11 January 2005 Abstract Recent user interface concepts, such as multimedia, multimodal, wearable, ubiquitous, tangible, or augmented-reality-based (AR) interfaces, each cover different approaches that are all ne ...

A Real-Time Augmented Reality System for Industrial Tele-Training Publication Date: Jan 2003 Pierre Boulanger, Nicolas D. Georganas, Xiaowei Zhong, Peiran Liu Publication: Proc. SPIE Vol. 5013, p. 1-13, Videometrics VII; Sabry F. El-Hakim, Armin Gruen, James S. Walton; Eds. Abstract Augmented Reality (AR) is a departure from standard virtual reality in a sense that it allows users to see computer generated virtual objects superimposed over the real world through the use of see-throu ...

A Resource-Adaptive Mobile Navigation System Jörg Baus, Christian Kray, Antonio Krüger, Wolfgang Wahlster Collaborative Research Center 378 University of Saarbrücken International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces IUI02, January 13-16, 2002 Abstract The design of mobile navigation systems adapting to limited resources will be an important future challenge. Since several different means of transportation typically have to be combined in order to reach a destination, it must be ensu ...

A Rhetoric of Mobility, Interactivity, and Beingness for Wearable Augmented Reality Interfaces Isabel Pedersen University of Waterloo, Canada This project explores the conceptual design of an emerging medium, wearable computers and augmented reality (“wearable AR”). Specifically, it deals with how wearable AR materializes as a medium that promises human-centricity but does not strategize design in order to meet this promise. Despite the fact that the discourse of wearable computers claims muc ...

A Robust Hand Tracking and Gesture Recognition Method for Wearable Visual Interfaces and Its Applications By Third By Yang Liu, Yunde Jia, Beijing Institute of Technology Third International Conference on Image and Graphics (ICIG'04) December 2004 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract Gesture-based interface is one of the most promising modes of human-computer interaction for wearable computers. This pap ...

A Robust Hand Tracking for Gesture-Based Interaction of Wearable Computers By Yang Liu, Yunde Jia, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Eighth International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'04) October 31 - November 03, 2004 Arlington, Virginia You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract Hand gesture-based interface is one of the most promising modes of natural and fluid human-computer interaction t ...

A Scalable and Provably Secure Hash-Based RFID Protocol March 08 - 12, 2005 Gildas Avoine, Philippe Oechslin, EPFL Third IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOMW'05) You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. The biggest challenge for RFID technology is to provide benefits without threatening the privacy of consumers. Many solutions have been suggested but almost as man ...

ZDNet October 25, 2004 By Peter Cochrane Commentary--Manufacturers of hard drive storage technologies are having a ball. Never before has market demand been so insatiable or the growth curve so fast. Everything is being digitized faster than we can cope and as a result storage drive capacities are growing and prices are falling. What is the root cause? Legislation, regulation, security and entertainment. Every major company is now saving all paper and electronic documents, including emai ...

Business Week OCTOBER 16, 2002 NEWSMAKER Q&A A Seamless Style for Wearable Computers Forget clunky, cyborg-like costumes. Chipmaker Infineon's Stefan Jung says the devices it makes blend right into the clothing With keyboards attached to their sleeves, tiny displays mounted to their glasses, and wires wrapped around their waists, models at the International Symposium on Wearable Computing in Seattle looked more like cyborgs than walking ads for the latest in portable electronics. Alas, mo ...

A Sensate Liner for Personnel Monitoring Applications By Eric J. Lind, NRaD, Sundaresan Jayaraman, Sungmee Park, Rangaswamy Rajamanickam, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert Eisler, George Burghart, Mission Research Corporation; Tony McKee, ILC Dover 1st International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC '97) October 13 - 14, 1997 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract: This program develops and de ...

A Service Backplane for E-Textile Applications By Mark Jones Tom Martin and Zahi Nakad Electrical and Computer Engineering Virginia Tech Blacksburg VA Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. Abstract E-textile technology is rapidly progressing allowing for the development of truly wearable computers as well as very large scale computing textiles. Efficient development of applications on e-textiles will require significant software services support. This paper analyz ...

A shoulder pad insert vibrotactile display By Aaron Toney, Lucy Dunne, Bruce H. Thomas, Susan P. Ashdown, Wearable Computer Laboratory, School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia 2003 Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computing Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Touch is the most intimate and inherently private human sense and provides the potential for discrete, low social weight human computer interaction. ...

A Simple Architecture for Embedded Web Servers Miguel Domingues Universidade do Minho 4710 - 057 Braga, Portugal mig@idite-minho.pt Embedded Systems ICCA’03 Abstract. Older technologies can still play an important role in embedded systems. Complex applications such as a Web server can be embedded implemented, with some restrictions and assumptions, and still be efficient for current industry demands. This communication makes an incursion into the hardware architecture behind an embedded W ...

A Small Planar Inverted-F Antenna for Wearable Applications By Pekka Salonen, Lauri Sydänheimo, Mikko Keskilammi, Markku Kivikoski , Tampere University of Technology 3rd International Symposium on Wearable Computers October 18 - 19, 1999 IEEE Computer Society You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract: Small printed antennas will replace the commonly used normal-mode helical antennas of mobile handsets an ...

A Source Coding and Modulation Method for Power Saving and Interference Reduction in DS-CDMA Sensor Network Systems By H. Harry Asada, Principle Investigator, and Chun-Hung Liu, Graduate Research Assistant, MIT d’Arbeloff Laboratory for Information Systems and Technolog Progress Report No.3-2, April 1, 2001 – September 30, 2001 MIT Home Automation and Healthcare Consortium Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract A source coding and modulation technique for ...

A spray-on computer is way to do IT FIONA MACGREGOR EDUCATION REPORTER Edinburgh Evening News Thu 14 Aug 2003 SPRAY-ON computers the size of a grain of sand are set to transform information technology across the world thanks to pioneering research at Edinburgh University. Scientists at the institution have just been awarded a £1.3 million grant to develop the "ubiquitous computing" technology which uses tiny semiconductor specks that can sense, compute and communicate without wires. The ...

A Strategic Approach to New Product Development in Smart Clothing By Busayawan Ariyatum*, Dr. Ray Holland** * Design Researcher, Design Department Brunel University Runnymede Campus Egham Surrey TW20 0JZ UK, busayawan. ariyatum@ brunel. ac. uk ** Director of the Design Master Courses, Design Department Brunel University Runnymede Campus Egham Surrey TW20 0JZ UK, ray. holland@ brunel. ac. uk Please visit the website to read the article in its entirety. Abstract: Smart clothing represen ...

Journal of Composite Materials, Vol. 36, No. 4, 401-421 (2002) DOI: 10.1177/0021998302036004171 © 2002 SAGE Publications Shridhar Yarlagadda Center for Composite Materials University of Delaware Newark, USA Hee June Kim Center for Composite Materials University of Delaware Newark, USA John W (Jack) Gillespie Materials Science and Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Delaware Newark, USA Nicholas B Shevchenko US Army Research Laboratory Aberdeen Provi ...

A Study on Users’ Preference on Interruption When Using Wearable Computers and Head Mounted Displays March 2005 Marcus Nilsson, Mikael Drugge, Urban Liljedahl, Kre Synnes, Peter Parnes, Luleå University of Technology Third IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PERCOM'05) You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. An important part of making a wearable computer un-obtrusive is the u ...

MPHIL THESIS A Surface Dialogue: Electronically responsive surfaces in the built environment Rachel Joanna Wingfield MPhil Textiles 2002 Research Abstract The research explores electronically responsive, light emitting surfaces as a form of visual communication in the built environment. This is done by a technical investigation into advancing flat display technologies that digitalises interior surfaces and textiles. The basis of the practical work is formed through the integratio ...

A system design and build project on wearable computers Smailagic, A. Siewiorek, D. Inst. for Complex Engineered Syst., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA; This paper appears in: VLSI '99. Proceedings IEEE Computer Society Workshop On Meeting Date: 04/08/1999 -04/09/1999 Publication Date: 1999 Location: Orlando, FL , USA On page(s): 62-67 References Cited: 11 Number of Pages: x+133 Abstract: The Wearable Computers project at CMU exemplifies the importance of system level de ...

A System Design and Rapid Prototyping of Wearable Computers Course By Asim Smailagic, Daniel Siewiorek, Lu Luo , Carnegie Mellon University 2003 International Conference on Microelectronics Systems Education (MSE'03) June 01 - 02, 2003 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract: This paper describes a custom design approach as applied to power managem ...

A System for Evaluating Augmented Reality User Interfaces in Wearable Computers By Riku Suomela, Juha Lehikoinen & Ilkka Salminen , Nokia Research Center Fifth International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'01) October 08 - 09, 2001 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract: Usability tests with wearable computers are difficult to conduct due to the nature of wearable computers. Wearable computers are ...

A system-on-chip for pressure-sensitive fabric Author(s) : Sergio-M; Manaresi-N; Tartagni-M; Canegallo-R; Guerrieri-R Source: : Proceedings-of-the-Custom-Integrated-Circuits-Conference. n 01CH3716, 9) p 413-416. IEEE 2001 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. San Diego, CA, United States Date: 01-01-2001 Type: Academic Summary: This paper presents a mixed-signal system-on-chip (SOC) for decoding the pressure exerted over a large piece of smart fabric. The image map of the pressure appl ...

A Tale of Two Wearables September 18, 2002 TheFeature Two things characterize the wearable device market: Slow progress in the commercial deployment and exciting long-term visions of pervasive computing. Wearable devices, from computers to phones, are exciting and innovative. The problem is that they have remained just that. From the highly successful 'wearables' fashion show hosted by Charmed Technology in London in May 2000, the consumer market has barely moved. Some early adopters have ...

A TEAM CENTERED APPROACH IN DESIGNING SOFTWARE PROTOTYPES FOR WEARABLE COMPUTERS By Alan Eliason, Marilynn Livingston, Zary Segall, Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 1997 ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. Abstract In an experimental course in software engineering students were placed in teams, where the role of the team changed during the term. In this paper we describe the process we ...

A Textile Based Capacitive Pressure Sensor M. Sergio*, N. Manaresi, M. Tartagni, R. Canegallo†, R. Guerrieri ARCES, University of Bologna, Italy † Central R&D STMicroelectronics, Italy Paper Topics: Sensor systems and Sensor applications Background. As interest on wearable computing [1] increases, researchers are looking for new materials to use as a support for electronics. A fabric substrate is very appealing: it is elastic and extensible [2], supported by a well known technology and ...

A Tiny Video Camera That Never Forgets By Syndication September 30, 2003 Wireless NewsFactor Network Tiny digital cameras on cell phones are coming under closer scrutiny since some have been used to clandestinely watch people in places such as public restrooms and locker rooms. You've just entered a local doughnut shop when what do you see? Elvis is walking out with a handful of crullers and a powdered-sugar mustache? If only you had a digital camera. Yes, small camcorders and digital ...

A Tool to Assess the Comfort of Wearable Computers Authors: Knight, James F.; Baber, Chris Spring 2005 Publisher: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Abstract: Wearable computer comfort can be affected by numerous factors, making its assessment based on one value with one scale inappropriate. This paper presents a tool that measures wearable comfort across six dimensions: emotion, attachment, harm, perceived change, movement, and anxiety. The dimensions for these comfort rating scales we ...

A Touring Machine: Prototyping 3D Mobile Augmented Reality Systems for Exploring the Urban Environment By Steven Feiner, Blair MacIntyre, Tobias Hollerer, and Anthony Webster, Columbia University Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC '97) IEEE Computer Society. Copyright (c) 1997 Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. Abstract: We describe a prototype system that combines together the overlaid 3D graphics of augmented reality w ...

A Twenty-Four Hour Tele-Nursing System Using a Ring Sensor May 1998 By Boo-Ho Yang, Sokwoo Rhee, and Haruhiko H. Asada, d’Arbeloff Laboratory for Information Systems and Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A. 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract The objective of this paper is to present the recent development of the r ...

Full text Pdf (269 KB) Source International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking & Computing archive Proceedings of the 5th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing table of contents Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan SESSION: Multicast and antennas table of contents Pages: 244 - 255 Year of Publication: 2004 ISBN:1-58113-849-0 Authors Karthikeyan Sundaresan Georgia Insititute of Technology Atlanta, GA Raghupathy Sivakumar Georgia Insititute of Te ...

A universal information appliance by K. F. Eustice Volume 38, Number 4, 1999 IBM Systems Journal Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract: The consumer's view of a universal information appliance (UIA) is a personal device, such as a PDA (personal digital assistant) or a wearable computer that can interact with any application, access any information store, or remotely operate any electronic device. The technologist's view of the UIA is a portable computer, c ...

A Vibratory Oximetry Sensor for Measuring Saturated Oxygen Levels in the Veins By H. Harry Asada, Principal Investigator, Phillip A. Shaltis, Graduate Research Assistant, and Andrew Reisner, Co-Investigator, MIT d’Arbeloff Laboratory for Information Systems and Technology Progress Report No.3-3, October 1, 2001 – March 31, 2002 MIT Home Automation and Healthcare Consortium Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract This report presents the framework and initi ...

A Virgin iPod killer? Posted Aug 3, 2004, 10:05 AM ET by Peter Rojas Engadget Is Virgin planning to take on the iPod? We’ve already mentioned their new silver dollar-sized 128MB Wearable MP3 Player (pictured at right) before, but buried towards the bottom of Mike Langberg’s story for the San Jose Mercury News about how more and more brand name companies are having their electronics built by obscure Taiwainese manufacturers (also known as ODMs, or Original Design Manufacturers) and it lets anyone get into the electronics game for cheap now, is the news that Virgin is planning on coming out with a hard drive MP3 player that’ll go head-to-head with the iPod (not that that isn’t said everytime someone comes out with a hard drive MP3 player). Should be out this fall, too.

A vision -- literally -- of what's to come May 28, 2004 By Allison Linn, The Associated Press MSNBC.com Industry conference unveils future of visual gadgets SEATTLE - A television sewn into your shirt sleeve. A dashboard screen to monitor the goings-on in your back seat, along with a rearview mirror offering directions to your hotel. A three-dimensional computer monitor with such high resolution that it could make a hardcore gamer's heart stop -- or help a surgeon start one. Most people ...

Wired 02:00 AM May. 10, 2002 By Katie Dean Jeremy Rossiter was not able to speak when he first entered Lisa Zverloff's class for the multiple-handicapped. The third-grader, who is autistic, communicated by hitting and biting. But with the help of a wearable computer, Jeremy learned to mimic, then utter, words and small phrases. His success story propelled Xybernaut, the manufacturer of the wearable computer, into a new market. Xybernaut is more known for supplying computers to telecommun ...

A Wearable Attitude-Measurement System Using a Fiberoptic Gyroscope By Keiichi Sawada, Masayuki Okihara and Shigeru Nakamura, Tokimec, Inc. 3-1, Takaku-ko, Nasu-machi Nasu-gun, Tochigi, 325-0001 Japan Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract An attitude-measurement system (TISS-5-40) has been developed to achieve a wearable sensor for individuals. This equipment is one of the inertial sensor systems having three ?beroptic gyroscopes and three accelerometers. He ...

A Wearable Augmented Reality System for Navigation Using Positioning Infrastructures and a Pedometer 2003 By Ryuhei TENMOKU Masayuki KANBARA Naokazu YOKOYA; Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara, 630-0101 Japan Proceedings of the Second IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR ’03) You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract This paper describes ...

A wearable augmented reality system using positioning infrastructures and a pedometer By Ryuhei Tenmoku, Masayuki Kanbara, Naokazu Yokoya, Vision and Media Computing Laboratory, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, 630 0101 Japan 2003 Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computing Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract This paper describes a wearable augmented reality system using positioning infrastructures and a pedometer. T ...

A Wearable Camera System for Pointing Gesture Recognition and Detecting Indicated Objects By Tomohiro Mashita, Yoshio Iwai, and Masahiko Yachida, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1-3, Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, JAPAN Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract We propose a system for pointing gesture recognition and detecting indicated objects by using a vision sensor. By using random sampling and importance sampling, our met ...

A Wearable Computer Based American Sign Language Recognizer By Thad Starner, Joshua Weaver and Alex Pentland, MIT Media Lab Georgia Tech Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Modern wearable computer designs package work station level performance in systems small enough to be worn as clothing These machines enable technology to be brought whereit is needed the most for the handi capped everyday mobile environments This paper de scribes a research eort to ma ...

A wearable computer for future GIs Machine Design magazine Engineers at Georgia Institute of Technology are working with Defense Department agencies to develop a Sensate Liner, a combination T-shirt and "woven computer," for use in combat. The Liner contains a network of optical and conductive fibers, along with a series of sensing fibers which detect heart rate, blood pressure, and temperature. The Liner will work with a series of sensors placed directly on a soldier’s body and linked to a pe ...

A Wearable Computer for Quality Assurance Inspectors in a Food Processing Plant By Lawrence J. Najjar, J. Christopher Thompson, and Jennifer J. Ockerman Georgia Institute of Technolgy Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC '97), published by the IEEE Computer Society. Copyright (c) 1997 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. Our team developed a wearable computer and a spec ...

A Wearable Computer for Support of Astronaut Extravehicular Activity October 07 - 10, 2002 By C. E. Carr, S. J. Schwartz, I. Rosenberg Sixth International Symposium on Wearable Computers IEEE Computer Society You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract A wearable situational awareness terminal (WearSAT) that provides text, graphics, and video to an astronaut via a near-eye display, and acts as a client on ...

A Wearable Computer for Use in Microgravity Space and Other Non-Desktop Environments By Edgar Matias, 1, I. Scot MacKenzie, 2, & William Buxton, 3 1 The Matias Corporation 2 Dept. of Computing and Information Science, University of Guelph 3 University of Toronto & Xerox PARC, c/o Computer Systems Research Institute, University of Toronto Companion of the CHI '96 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 69-70). New York: ACM. Please visit the web site to view the article in ...

A Wearable Computer System with Augmented Reality to Support Terrestrial Navigation By Bruce Thomas, Wayne Piekarski, David Hepworth, Bernard Gunther, University of South Australia; Victor Demczuk , Defence Science and Technology Organisation 2ND. International Symposium on Wearable Computers October 19 - 20, 1998 IEEE Computer Society You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract: To date augmented realitie ...

A Wearable Context-Awareness Component By Albrecht Schmidt, Hans W. Gellersen, Michael Beigl , University of Karlsruhe 3rd International Symposium on Wearable Computers October 18 - 19, 1999 IEEE Computer Society You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract: We describe the design of a wearable context-awareness component that derives general context information from low-level sensors. Derived context information is application-independent and can be used by wearables or other personal technologies in a body network via a simple protocol. We built the context-awareness component into a tie, stressing its design as an accessory.

A Wearable Cross-language Communication Aid October 08 - 09, 2001 By Jani Patokallio, Nigel Ward, University of Tokyo Fifth International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'01) IEEE Computer Society You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract This paper presents a wearable device, the Yak, that aids cross-language communication. The Yak produces utterances in the native's langauge at the user's command. ...

A wearable digital library of personal conversations By Wei-hao Lin & Alexander G. Hauptmann, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA International Conference on Digital Libraries archive Year of Publication: 2002 ACM Press You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text. ABSTRACT We have developed a wearable, personalized digital library system, which unobtrusively records the wearer's part of a conversation, recognizes the face of the current d ...

A Wearable Digital Library of Personal Conversations By Wei-hao Lin Language Technologies Institute Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 USA and Alexander G. Hauptmann Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 USA Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. ABSTRACT We have developed a wearable, personalized digital library system, which unobtrusively records the wearer’s part of a conversation, recognizes the face o ...

A Wearable Haptic Navigation Guidance System By Sevgi Ertan, Clare Lee, Abigail Willets, Hong Tan and Alex Pentland In Digest of the Second International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Oct. 19-20, Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 164-165, 1998 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract This paper describes a wearable navigation system based on a haptic directional display embedded in the back of a vest. The system consists of a 4-by-4 array of micromotors for delivering h ...

A wearable leaf-like robotic car only for you! [Technology India]: London, Dec 12: Japanese car giant Toyota is redefining the future of the car with the development of a new breed of wearable single passenger robotic vehicles that envelop drivers. According to The BBC, the driver cruises in a four-wheeled leaf- like device or strolls along encased in an egg-shaped cocoon that walks upright on two feet. The models are being positioned as so- called personal mobility devices, which have few li ...

A Wearable Mixed Reality with an On-board Projector October 2003 By Toshikazu Karitsuka and Kosuke Sato, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University Second IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract One of methods achieving Mixed Reality (MR) displays is the texture projection method using projectors. Another kind of emerging inf ...

A Wearable Networked MP3 Player and "Turntable" for Collaborative Scratching By Mat C. Hans, Mark T. Smith, Hewlett-Packard Labs Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, White Plains, New York October 21 - 23, 2003 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract We present a new type of wearable musical instrument called the DJammer. The DJammer brings turntable like creative functionality to t ...

Tim Gnatek Published: October 14, 2004 new cellphone headset can help you find some quiet in a noisy world. The Jawbone from Aliph senses and counteracts ambient noise while enhancing intended sound, making it easier to communicate in loud places. It does this by means of technology shared between two wearable parts. In the rectangular, brushed-metal headset, a voice-activity sensor detects intended sound through jaw and cheek vibrations. Two small microphones monitor ambient noise. A comp ...

By John R. Delaney June 19, 2003 With the processor of a PDA but the appearance of a tablet PC, the Xybernaut Atigo-M ($1,895 direct and up, depending on configuration) is a bit of both. This unique portable Web tablet is designed for mobility in the field but is also useful as a thin-client wireless device or as a smart terminal. You're more likely to find the Atigo-M in the military, shipping companies, transportation concerns, and the utility maintenance field than in the typical home or ...

A Wearable PC That Helps You Remember By Francine Vida ABCNews.com Prototype Joins Wearable Computer, Speech Recognition to Aid Memory How often do you find yourself asking the person you met last week this question: "What's your name again?" With the development of a wearable communication device, which uses the latest capabilities of speech recognition, you may one day get help in remembering those names. The prototype, called a Personal Awareness Assistant, was developed by researchers ...

A wearable public key infrastructure (WPKI) June 2000 H. Muller and N. P. Smart, Computer Science Department, Woodland Road, University of Bristol, BS8 1UB, UK Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract We describe the design and implementation of public key infrastructure for the Bristol University Cyberjacket and three initial applications. The first one removes the need for the user to remember passwords, the second application provides an authentic record that a meeting took place, the third provides an authentic record of a conversation. The wearable public key infrastructure (WPKI) we develop uses very small communication, whilst also providing a balanced and low computational overhead on both the ‘client’ and ‘server’ sides.

A wearable sense of balance monitoring system towards daily health care monitoring By Soichiro Matsushita, Department of Computational Science and Engineering, Toyo University, 2100 Kujirai, Kawagoe, Saitama, JAPAN; Toshihiko Oba, Kazuoki Otsuki, Masao Toji, Junichi Otsuki, Department of Otolaryngology, Tokyo Saiseikai Central Hospital, Tokyo JAPAN; Kaoru Ogawa, Department of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo JAPAN 2003 Proceedings. Seventh IEEE International Symposi ...

A Wearable Spatial Conferencing Space By M Billinghurst, a, J Bowskill, b, M Jessop, b, J Morphett, b, a Human Interface Technology Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195 b Advanced Perception Unit BT Laboratories, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich IP5 3RE UK Proceedings of Second International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC '98), pp. 76-93. Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Wearable computers provide constant access to computing and ...

A Wearable Standards-Based Point-of-Care System for Home Use Jianchu Yao, Ryan Schmitz, and Steve Warren Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract From a user’s point of view, a point-of-care system for home use should be wearable and easy to use in addition to satisfying requirements for medical devices. In this paper, we address mobility, power consumption, data stora ...

A wearable, mobile phone-based respiration monitoring system for sleep apnea syndrome detection. 2005 Ishida R, Yonezawa Y, Maki H, Ogawa H, Ninomiya I, Sada K, Hamada S, Hahn AW, Caldwell WM., Department of Electronics, Hiroshima Institute of Technology, Hiroshima 731-5193, Japan. Biomed Sci Instrum. 2005;41:289-93. A new wearable respiration monitoring system has been developed for non-invasive detection of sleep apnea syndrome. The system, which is attached to a shirt, consists of a piezo ...

A Whole New Fashion Industry February 2002 Space Daily Car seats that wake up drowsy drivers, bed sheets that monitor your health, socks that let you know when you are about to do a tendon, vests that trigger an emergency beacon if you are dying of exposure - that's what an eclectic mix of researchers spent last Friday discussing as part of an Electronic Textiles workshop in Geelong. The textile scientists, polymer chemists, physicists, and bioengineers from around the world met at CSIRO Tex ...

A wired jacket with 17 pockets? How cool is that! 15/03/2003 By Guy Kewney NewsWireless.Net The magic words are "washable headphones for your mobile." Almost. Unlikely though it may seem, one of the highlights of the CTIA Wireless 2003 show in New Orleans next week will be a fashion show. And leading that "Fashion In Motion" show will be a utility jacket with 17 pockets, so that nerds can carry all their mobile crap around with them... The jacket comes from ScotteVest, makers of t ...

A Wireless Body Area Network of Intelligent Motion Sensors for Computer Assisted Physical Rehabilitation Date: March 2005 Source: BioMed Central The paper introduces a multi-tier telemedicine system and describes how to optimize the prototype WBAN implementation for computer-assisted physical rehabilitation applications and ambulatory monitoring. The system performs real-time analysis of sensors' data, provides guidance and feedback to the user, and can generate warnings based on the user's ...

A Wireless Modular Sensor Architecture and its Application in On-Shoe Gait Analysis By Ari Y Benbasa,t Stacy J Morris, and Joseph A Paradiso, Responsive Environments Group, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA 02139 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Sensors, October 21-24, Toronto, Ontario, pp. 1086-1091. Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract We have developed a compact wireless modular sensor architecture which contains a number of circui ...

A wireless PDA-based physiological monitoring system for patient transport 2004 Dec;8 Lin YH, Jan IC, Ko PC, Chen YY, Wong JM, Jan GJ. IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed. This paper proposes a mobile patient monitoring system, which integrates current personal digital assistant (PDA) technology and wireless local area network (WLAN) technology. At the patient's location, a wireless PDA-based monitor is used to acquire continuously the patient's vital signs, including heart rate, three-lead elect ...

A Wrist-Worn Integrated Health Monitoring System for Telemedicine and Telehealthcare 2004 Honggu Chun Abstract This paper reports a wrist-worn integrated health monitoring device (WIHMD) which detects fall and measures blood pressure, ECG, body temperature and SpO2. The WIHMD detects the fall of a patient by analyzing signals from a 2-axis accelerometer and an in-house fabricated posture sensor that is composed of a photo-interrupter with a pendulum. Blood pressure is measured by an oscillo ...

A-Life - Increasing Survival Chances in Avalanches byWearable Sensors 2003 By Florian Michahelles, Timo Ahonen and Bernt Schiele; Perceptual Computing & Computer Vision Group, ETH Zurich 3rd International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC 2003) Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Avalanches are one of the major threats to life in high mountain terrain. Once buried by an avalanche, survival chances dramatically drop from 92% afte ...

A-Life-Increasing Survival Chances in Avalanches by Wearable Sensors By Florian Michahelles, Timo Ahonen,and Bernt Schiele, Perceptual Computing & Computer Vision Group, ETH Zurich In 3rd International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC 2003), at ICDCS 2003, Providence, Rhode Island USA, 2003 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract: Avalanches are one of the major threats to life in high mountain terrain. Once buried by an avalanche ...

A-Life: Saving Lives in Avalanches Florian Michahelles and Bernt Schiele, In Fifth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), Seattle, USA, 2003 Abstract: We present a novel approach to enhance avalanche companion rescue using wearable sensing technologies. The time to find and extricate victims is most crucial: o nce buried by an avalanche, survival chances drop dramatically already after the first 15 minutes. Current technology offers only information on the location of a si ...

ABB hosts 'Technology Day' in Sweden November 18, 2004 Control Engineering Västerås, Sweden—ABB suggested that Western companies will only remain competitive in the world through research and inventive use of automation. Some of it's own examples include the world's most-powerful dc transmission line, selling ABB robotics to more than 80% of automotive manufacturers; and more than 20% ABB market share in distributed control systems, high-power ac drives—as well as in power, pulp and paper, me ...

Accessing Context in Wearable Computers By Juha Lehikoinen, Riku Suomela January 2002 Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Volume 6 Issue 1 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text. ABSTRACT We present an easy interaction technique for accessing location-based contextual data shown on a head-worn wearable computer display. Our technique, called Context Compass, is based on a regular compass metaphor. Each object belonging to the user’s cur ...

Full text Pdf (487 KB) Source Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems archive Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Human factors in computing systems table of contents Vienna, Austria Pages: 1 - 8 Year of Publication: 2004 ISBN:1-58113-702-8 Authors Stephen S. Intille Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Ling Bao Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Emmanuel Munguia Tapia Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA ...

Active Dressware: Wearable Proprioceptive Systems Based on Electroactive Polymers October 08 - 09, 2001 By Danilo de Rossi, Federico Lorussi, Alberto Mazzoldi, E.P. Scilingo, University of Pisa Piero Orsini, Unita Operativa Neurologia Azienda Ospedaliera Pisana Fifth International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'01) IEEE Computer Society You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract A technology based ...

Active fabric Electronics, optics integrated into clothing shows initial success U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center Jan/Feb 02 From the finger of a glove, a soldier determines if water is safe to drink. Unrolled from his pocket, he plugs in a keyboard to type a message. Calling for support, his radio sends and receives signals with an antenna blended into his uniform. Through a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program started in 1998 known as Electro-Optic Fabric Concepts for Comba ...

Active Noise Cancellation Using MEMS Accelerometers for Motion-Tolerant Wearable Bio-Sensors By H. Harry Asada, Hong-Hui Jiang, and Peter Gibbs, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA 2004 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract An active noise cancellation method using a MEMS accelerometer is developed for recovering corrupted wearable sensor signals ...

W.W. Mayol, B.J. Tordoff, T.E. de Campos, A.J.Davison and D.W. MurrayDepartment of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PJ, UK Abstract— In this paper we report on our ongoing research on wearable active vision, where we have iteratively prototyped a Wearable Visual Robot — a body mounted robot for which the main sensor is a camera. Two main areas have been studied: robot design and visual algorithms. In the design stage, we have analysed sensor placement thr ...

ActiveBelt: Belt-Type Wearable Tactile Display for Directional Navigation Publisher: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg ISSN: 0302-9743 Subject: Computer Science Volume 3205 / 2004 Title: UbiComp 2004: Ubiquitous Computing: 6th International Conference, Nottingham, UK, September 7-10, 2004. Proceedings Editors: Nigel Davies, Elizabeth Mynatt, Itiro Siio ISBN: 3-540-22955-8 DOI: 10.1007/b99948 Chapter: pp. 384 - 399 Online Date: October 2004 Koji Tsukada1 and Michiaki Yasumura2 ( ...

Activelink Co. Developed Wearable Robot September 27, 2004 Nikkei On Line September 27, 2004 (Kyoto) - Activelink Co., a subsidiary of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., has developed the basic structure for a wearable robot that uses pneumatically driven tubes to boost the physical power of the wearer. The prototype has sections that fit on the shoulders, chest, thighs, and ankles. A total of 50 rubber tubes are made to expand and contract with an air compressor, serving like muscles to su ...

1st quarter 2003 Suppliers of technical textiles continue to benefit from a large and growing world market for activewear and sportswear. According to Textiles Intelligence estimates, worldwide sales of activewear and sportswear increased by 23% between 1997 and 2001. In the European Union, the market for sports apparel and equipment is now worth over Euro37 bn (US$43 bn). And in the USA sales are estimated at around US$46 bn. The market for activewear and sportswear is diverse. As Leah Hi ...

Activity and Location Recognition Using Wearable Sensors By Seon-Woo Lee, Kenji Mase July-September 2002 (Vol. 1, No. 3) IEEE Pervasive Computing You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract: The authors propose a new method for detecting and classifying a person's activity using dead-reckoning-based location recognition and a set of inexpensive, wearable sensors—a biaxial accelerometer, an angular-velocity s ...

Adaptive Radio Resource Sharing for Collocated Wireless Personal Area Networks By Hiroyuki Yomo,1, Petar Popovski and Ramjee Prasad Department of Communication Technology, Aalborg University, Niels Jernes, Vej 12 9220 Aalborg Denmark Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract A Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) provides wireless networking among proximate devices usually carried by an individual. As the WPAN gains momentum in ubiquitous usage, the interfer ...

Adding Generic Contextual Capabilities to Wearable Computers By Jason Pascoe, Computer Laboratory, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, United Kingdom Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Context-awareness has an increasingly important role to play in the development of wearable computing systems. In order to better define this role we have identified four generic contextual capabilities: sensing, adaptation, resource discovery, and a ...

Adding intelligence to our garments By Maharaj K. Koul December 31, 2000 Spectrum Adding intelligence to our garments LETTING children make as much mess as they like, allowing them to play in the mud-filled ground all day long and having their fill of chocolates and candies and still not having to bother about washing their clothes may seem to be a dream for every parent. Well. Not any more. For a chemical process developed by British scientists could, in the near future, lead manufacture ...

Adding Some Smartness to Devices and Everyday Things By Hans-W. Gellersen, Albrecht Schmidt and Michael Beigl, TecO, University of Karlsruhe, Vincenz-Prießnitz-Str. 1, 76131 Karlsruhe, GERMANY IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications 2000 (WMCSA’00), 7.-8. Dez. 2000, Monterrey, USA, IEEE Press. Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract In mobile computing, context-awareness indicates the ability of a system to obtain and use information on asp ...

The Ledger Online Sunday, May 9, 2004 By MICHEL MARRIOTT The New York Times PORTLAND, Ore. Shoes have long been sensible. Now some are getting smart. Smart enough, that is, to sense their environment electronically, calculate how best to perform in it, and then instantly alter their physical properties to adapt to that environment. In short, the designers say, shoes that can do whatever is needed to deliver improved athletic performance or just a better experience in the ancient poetry of f ...

Adidas comes up with a smart trainer 7 March 2005 SOFTPEDIA NEWS Why should only phones and cars get smart? Adidas doesn't see things that way, and so they introduced the smart running shoe. Adidas has developed intelligent training shoes which are claimed to stop runners feeling down at heel by dynamically adjusting the cushioning.. The Adidas-1 trainer, which will be available in stores as of this week, is fitted with a microprocessor, sensor and motor. The processor uses data from the ...

Adidas creates 'smart shoe' May 6, 2004 CNN.com PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) -- Adidas says it has created the world's first "smart shoe" by mating it with a computer chip that adapts its cushioning level to a runner's size and stride. The Adidas 1 is the product of a three-year secret project the German company developed at its U.S. headquarters in Portland, Oregon. On Thursday, Adidas opened its research lab to reporters from around the world for a first peek at a shoe the company claims will re ...

Advanced Fabrics By Heidi L. Schreuder-Gibson and Mary Lynn Realff, Guest Editors MRS Bulletin/August 2003 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract This brief article describes the content of the August 2003 issue of MRS Bulletin focusing on Advanced Fabrics. The six articles will feature reviews of advanced fibers, new fabric constructions and design considerations, materials for novel fabric properties, and the incorporation of new elements within fabric structures to add multifunctional, wearable features to clothing.

Information technology is playing an increasingly important role in the battlefield, and the best equipped forces of the not-too-distant duture will be carrying an array of wearable IT to assist them in their tasks. One such system recently shown at Soldier Technology 2004 in Belgium was the NA-OR Advanced Integrated Soldier System. The Advanced Integrated Soldier System (AISS) has been designed to significantly enhance combat and control capabilities of the infantry in both urban and open- ...

By Deborah Méndez-Wilson July 17, 2000 Wireless Week One-way paging may be headed toward a dead-end, so smart carriers are finding detoursdown a two-way street. Some analysts wonder though if there's enough room for all that traffic. Ask WebLink Wireless Inc. Chairman and CEO John Beletic what he wants the telecommunications future to hold, and he's likely to respond, "Two words: Two-way messaging." "As it turns out, humans have two really big needs and the younger you are, the more pronoun ...

Advances In Power Sources For Wireless Sensor Nodes E.M. Yeatman 2004 Abstract – Wireless sensor nodes may have power requirements as low as microwatts, and while batteries suitable for such applications may have lifetimes in years, inexhaustible supplies which scavenge energy provide an interesting alternative. This paper reviews the approaches to powering micro-sensor nodes. Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety.

Advances in wearable technology and applications in physical medicine and rehabilitation J Neuroengineering Rehabil. 2005 Feb 25;2(1):2. Bonato P. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School and The Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, 125 Nashua Street, Boston MA 02114, USA. pbonato@partners.org. The development of miniature sensors that can be unobtrusively attached to the body or can be part of clothing i ...

Adventures in the Skin Trade April 29, 2005 Eric S. Brown This month, NTT Labs, the research and development wing of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, plans to start conducting field trials for a radical new "human area networking" technology called RedTactont that uses the naturally-occurring electrical fields of human skin to transmit data. The slim, PCMCIA-based RedTacton transceiver combines a an optical receiver circuit equipped with a super-sensitive photonic electrical ...

Adwalker powered by Xybernaut Wearable Computer May 19 2004 I4U Irish Company Adwalker selects Xybernaut Wearable Computers to enable Brand Advertisement and Point of Sale functions on the go. The system works by equipping Adwalker marketing representatives with a wearable computer configured with wireless network connectivity, a flat panel display which is touch-screen enabled and a compact body pack incorporating a daylight viewable LCD screen, high output batteries and a direct thermal p ...

Aesthetic Forms of Expression as Information Delivery Units By Paul Nemirovsky and Glorianna Davenport Interactive Cinema Group MIT Media Laboratory Abstract This paper presents the hypothesis that aesthetic forms of expression - such as music, painting, video - can be used for direct information delivery. In contrast to concrete alternatives such as text or verbal narrative techniques, which require a conscious act of transcoding, these aesthetic forms stimulate direct emotional response. ...

Affective Computing Wearable Sensors Daniel Bishop Phillip Hay Christina Hernandez Adam Stevenson 02-10-04 Problem Background Affective wearables are a relatively new branch in computer engineering that focuses on the study and tracking of the body’s physiological responses to various stimuli using a wearable computing device. Studying a body’s physiological response is not new; it has been used for many years to help people monitor various medical complications using vital body statistic ...

Affective Medicine: Technology with Emotional Intelligence By Rosalind W. Picard, To appear as a chapter in book: "Future of Health Technology," ed. by R. Bushko, 2001 IOS Press MIT Tech Report Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. ABSTRACT For a long time people have kept emotions out of the deliberate tools of medicine and science; scientists, physicians, and patients have often felt and sometimes expressed emotion, but no tools could sense, measure, and respond ...

2/13/03 6:31:57 PM By Rosalind Picard and Jennifer Healey for Massachusetts Institute of Technology Summary: An "affective wearable" is a wearable system equipped with sensors and tools which enables recognition of its wearer's affective patterns. Affective patterns include expressions of emotion such as a joyful smile, an angry gesture, a strained voice or a change in autonomic nervous system activity such as accelerated heart rate or increasing skin conductivity. This paper describes new applications of affective wearables, and presents a prototype which gathers physiological signals and their annotations from its wearer. Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety.

After the Fall: Help for Climbers December 24, 2002 By Mark Baard Wired News Alpinists may soon be using wearable sensors and tricorder-like medical scanners to bail out their buried comrades. Computer scientists Bernt Schiele and Florian Michahelles, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, are designing A-Life, a portable device that transmits and receives avalanche victims' vital signs through snow, up to 80 meters away. A-Life is an enhanced version of the avalanche radio bea ...

Note: You will need to copy and paste the URL in a browser window to view the abstract online. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_aset=B-WA-A-A-AD-MsSAYVA-UUW-AUEEUZDAAU-AUEZZVDEAU-ZVYECWDZE-AD-U&_rdoc=7&_fmt=summary&_udi=B6TYG-43K93W1-4&_coverDate=08%2F31%2F2001&_cdi=5618&_orig=search&_st=13&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=666277e02641a8153973d71c8b3891d9 Agents and wearables—usability in the COMRIS system By Geert de Haan, a, and J ...

Newsweek International Alexandra A. Seno Lee Shang Ping's radio is dead. So he jogs in place, jumps up and down, and the radio hidden in his camouflage suit springs to life, blaring Mandarin pop. It runs on energy generated when he steps on cells embedded in his running shoes, and by motion-sensitive canisters in his pockets. The hope is eventually to operate larger devices like mobile phones this way. Lee is a "human-power harvesting" engineer in Singapore's Mixed Reality Lab. Mixed Reali ...

ABC News.com By Michele Norris May 24 - Baby boomers are aging at a fortunate time when Americans are living longer and staying healthier longer than ever before. The 2000 Census found that women can now expect to live to 79 and a half a year longer than a decade ago. Men now live two years longer, to almost 74. However, there are some unavoidable facts of life. One of them is that getting older makes getting around much more difficult. But new technology is making a difference. At the Ag ...

Ahead of the game 12/3/2004 Evening Gazette A revolutionary product aiming to transform the worlds of music and fashion has been launched by a Tees Valley company. Peratech, of Darlington, has developed a product that allows your favourite clothing to be ... Read the Full Article, Get a FREE Trial for instant access »

Wired News 24 Jun, 2002 By Mark Baard Researchers in artificial intelligence today are beginning a race to offset an epidemic of age-related memory loss. Barring a cure, 14 million Americans will develop Alzheimer's Disease by 2050, according to the National Institute on Aging. Scientists in the emerging field of assisted cognition are designing AI systems to care for Alzheimer's patients without any direct human assistance. Assisted cognition systems meld artificial-intelligence softwar ...

BBC News February 10 2004 Scientists are developing a wearable, 'intelligent' computer system to help humans or robots explore Mars on future missions to the Red Planet. The "cyborg astrobiologist" consists of a person equipped with a compact computer, camera, finger mouse, head-mounted display and keyboard. It is designed to help explorers select interesting geological features for investigation on the Martian surface. The system is currently designed for a human, but could be used with ...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 12/22/2002 Read the Full Article, Get a FREE Trial for instant access » By Tony Mecia, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 22--EMERYVILLE, Calif.--In a converted fitness center around the corner from a Starbucks coffee shop east of San Francisco, research scientists say they've discovered the textile industry's future. To see it, you must look though a microscope. Here young scientists in white lab coats are developing the super-fabrics of tomorrow -- cloth that repels stains, garments that resist fading or fraying, socks and sweat shirts that clear out body odor. The researchers, ...

Ailing textile firm pins turnaround on high-tech superfabrics By Tony Mecia Charlotte Observer Posted on Thu, Jan. 16, 2003 EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- In a converted fitness center around the corner from a Starbucks coffee shop east of San Francisco, research scientists say they've discovered the textile industry's future. To see it, you must look though a microscope. Here young scientists in white lab coats are developing the superfabrics of tomorrow -- cloth that repels stains, garments th ...

News Story by Jennifer DiSabatino APRIL 26, 2002 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Air Canada and IBM yesterday announced that they are jointly selling wearable, wireless, mobile kiosks developed for the airline as part of an outsourcing agreement. A 30-day pilot program using two ticketing agents wearing the devices at Lester B. Pearson International Airport in Toronto, the St. Laurent, Quebec-based airline's hub, was such a success with customers that the airline has revised its deployment plans, said Ali ...

10Meters News Report Feburary 15, 2002 – The next market for wearable-computing could be the battlefield – and the computer itself could be something as mobile, and comfortable, as a mesh undershirt. Announced Friday, the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology has signed a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with VivoMetrics, a Ventura, California, developer of health-monitoring technologies. Under the terms of the agreement, the Air Force will enhance the VivoMetrics' L ...

Maintenance Group workers at Robins Air Force base, Georgia, are using wearable computers to replace laptops and printed technical manuals. DCLnews reports. AIRCRAFT MECHANICS in the 116th Air Control Wing at Robins Air Force Base, GA, no longer need to check into the office. They take it with them - hung around their necks or strapped to their waists. Maintainers from the Joint STARS unit at Robins Air Force Base have been testing wearable, wireless computers over the last few months. And they ...

By Cheryl Vance, MA, RDMS, RVT, OBGYN.net Editorial Advisor, 382nd Training Squadron at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas Sep 6, 2004 This article represents the views of the author, not the views of the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force has a program, the Education and Training Technology Application Program (ETTAP), specifically geared to introduce new technology into the training environment. This program funds initiatives to incorporate the latest advances in technology into the training setti ...

Air Force to evaluate fuel cell powered computer August 24, 2004 e4engineering.com General Dynamics C4 Systems has today been awarded a contract by the United States Air Force (USAF) to develop and deliver 10 fuel-cell driven prototype tablet computers. The computers will be evaluated as a potential replacement for the USAF's current ground air traffic control computers. According to General Dynamics, the program will combine commercial-off-the-shelf computer equipment with privately develop ...

Airport Security Adopts Wearable Computers November 13, 2001 By Ramon G. McLeod PCWorld.com Checkpoints will use lightweight wearable computers to track, apprehend suspects via face recognition. LAS VEGAS -- Early next year security personnel in major U.S. airports will be equipped with wearable computers, introduced at Comdex here this week, so they can instantly identify suspicious travelers based on face recognition technology. The manufacturer of the devices declined to identify which ...

September 08, 2004 08:01 AM US Eastern Timezone BRISBANE, Calif. & SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 2004--Now you can stop screaming into your mobile phone, trying to be heard on noisy streets, in airports or restaurants. Aliph, the developer of next-generation mobile audio processing technologies, today announced the availability of Jawbone, a new kind of headset for mobile phones that provides a superior level of audio performance, allowing mobile phone users to communicate more clearl ...

BRISBANE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 6, 2004--Aliph, the developer of a next-generation headset for mobile phones, today announced that BusinessWeek, the world's most widely read business magazine, has recognized Jawbone as a recipient of the 2004 Silver High-tech Annual Design Award. Jawbone was designed by Yves Behar of Fuseproject - this award marks one of 12 IDEA awards Fuseproject has received from BusinessWeek since 2000. "Our vision was to create a mobile product that addressed all e ...

All in the threads... Wednesday 29 October 1997 ElectronicsWeekly.com All in the threads...Weaving electronics into the fabric of our lives is becoming reality. David Manners heard that hardware isn't hard anymore. Mary Quant eat your heart out Burtons or Dixons? What a dilemma for the electronics industry. Which High Street chain will be selling the electronics goods of the 21st century? For posh people it will all be tailor-made. The age-old question: "Does Sir dress to the left or to ...

All the News That's Fit to Wear Leander Kahney Wired News 03:00 AM Jul. 15, 1999 PT A wearable Linux computer that wirelessly beams video over the Net is ready for testing. Developed for Internet journalists covering live events, Art+Com's UrbanJunglePack (UJP) uses a camcorder and microphone to record photos, sound, text, and video, which are transmitted with a built-in wireless phone. The UJP prototype will be tested at the LoveParade techno street party in Berlin this month. The resu ...

All wired up - wearable computers Feb 12, 1999 by O'Brien J.L. Computer Dealer News LookSmart In what may be the future of mobile computing, wearable computers could soon blur the line between what is real and what is not real With a computer on his belt, radar devices sewn into his undershirt and image-altering sunglasses that download e-mail and record everything he sees, University of Toronto engineering professor Steve Mann is as wired as he can be. Habitually hooking wayward strands ...

All wired-up but machine washable The Straits Times THE jacket is made for snowboarding, but it has 'fabric buttons' on the sleeves that the wearer can use to play/stop/pause, forward, rewind, increase or decrease the volume on his MP3 player, or even make a call on his mobile phone. It uses Bluetooth technology, the same that lets people use their mobile phones wirelessly. This wearable music and mobile phone jacket has been available online since last month at 500 to 600 Euros (S$1,040 t ...

All-Plastic Display Demoed February 10, 2004 Technology Review Researchers from Philips Research in the Netherlands have demonstrated a fast, flexible computer display that is nearly as thin as paper. The five-centimeter-square prototype is a little less than a third of a millimeter thick and still functions when rolled into a tube as narrow as a centimeter. The key to the flexibility was making the screen from plastic transistors, which are also relatively inexpensive. The researchers' pr ...

By Heather Clancy and Paula Rooney, CRN 1:57 PM EDT Fri. Sep. 24, 2004 From the September 27, 2004 CRN Microsoft's Windows platform chief Jim Allchin last week told 50 top-tier OEMs to think more like custom-system builders. During Microsoft's annual OEM executive summit at company headquarters in Redmond, Wash., Allchin, group vice president of platforms, advised the vendors to shift development resources into creating computing "experiences" through which they can differentiate their of ...

ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO IMPROVE PHYSIOLOGICAL PREDICTIONS Nicholas Oleng’, Jaques Reifman Bioinformatics Cell, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Frederick, MD 21701 Larry Berglund, Reed Hoyt U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine Natick, MA 01760 2004 ABSTRACT Recent advancements in technology have resulted in new biosensors and information processing capabilities that permit on-line, real-time measure ...

Ambient Intelligence October 11, 2002 By Jeff Chappell Electronic News Leuven, Belgium-Here in Flanders, the crossroads of Europe, researchers envision electronics improving human existence in a tailored, non-invasive way-far more than a few steps beyond ergonomic keyboards. "Ambient intelligence … where people don’t have to adapt to the electronics, the electronics adapt to us," said Rudy Lauwerens, VP of design technology for integrating information and communications systems for IMEC. ...

Ambient Intelligence - Key Technologies in the Information Age By W. Weber1, C. Braun1, R. Glaser1, Y. Gsottberger1, M. Halik2, S. Jung3, H. Klauk2, C. Lauterbach1, G. Schmid2, X. Shi1, T.F. Sturm1, G. Stromberg1, and U. Zschieschang2 1Infineon Technologies AG, Corporate Research, Laboratory for Emerging Technologies, 2 Memory Products, 3 now with Corporate Center, Wearable Technology Solutions IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, 2003, pp. 3 - 10 Abstract In this paper, applica ...

Ambient Intelligence - Wearable Context Aware Terminal for Maintenance Personnel October 2003 Heikki Ailisto, Ville Haataja, Vesa Kyllönen and Mikko Lindholm, VTT Electronics, P.O.Box 1100, FIN-90571, Oulu, Finland Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 2875 / 2003, Chapter: pp. 149 - 159 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. A wearable context aware terminal with net connection and spoken command input is prese ...

Ambient intelligence clothing October 17, 2003 Inteletex Scientists at Philips Research in Germany, have developed a wearable, wireless monitoring system that can warn patients with underlying health problems, assist clinicians in the diagnosis and monitoring of patients at risk, and automatically alert emergency services in the event of and acute medical event. Based on dry-electrode technology that can be built into common items of clothing such as bras, briefs or waist belts, Philips' wi ...

Ambient Intelligence Visions and Achievements: Linking Abstract Ideas to Real World Concepts By Menno Lindwer1, Diana Marculescu2, Twan Basten3, Rainer Zimmermann4. Radu Marculescu2, Stefan Jung5, Eugenio Cantatore1 1 Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 2 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA, USA 3 Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 4 European Commission, Brussels, Belgium 5 Infineon Technologies, Corporate Research, Emerging Technologies, ...

Full text Pdf (1.34 MB) Source International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design archive Proceedings of the 2003 international symposium on Low power electronics and design table of contents Seoul, Korea SESSION: Keynote speech 2 table of contents Pages: 247 - 251 Year of Publication: 2003 ISBN:1-58113-682-X Author Werner Weber Infineon Technologies, Munich, Germany Sponsors ACM: Association for Computing Machinery SIGDA: ACM Special Interest Group on Design ...

Ambient Telepresence: Colleague Awareness in Smart Environments 1999 By Hans-W. Gellersen and Michael Beigl, Telecooperation Office (TecO), University of Karlsruhe, Vincenz-Prießnitz-Str. 1, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany Workshop on Managing Interactions in Smart Environments (MANSE 99), Dublin, Irland, Dec 1999 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract. Ambient Telepresence is a method to support informal awareness in distributed collaborative work, and to pro ...

Full text Pdf (3.71 MB) Source Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology archive Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology table of contents Paris, France SESSION: Interaction in the real world table of contents Pages: 51 - 60 Year of Publication: 2002 ISBN:1-58113-488-6 Authors Ivan Poupyrev Interaction Lab, Sony CSL, 3-14-13 Higashigotanda, Shinagawa Tokyo Shigeaki Maruyama Micro Device Center, Sony EMCS, 2-15-3 Ko ...

American Passports to Get Chipped October 24, 2004 By Ryan Singel Wired News New U.S. passports will soon be read remotely at borders around the world, thanks to embedded chips that will broadcast on command an individual's name, address and digital photo to a computerized reader. The State Department hopes the addition of the chips, which employ radio frequency identification, or RFID, technology, will make passports more secure and harder to forge, according to spokeswoman Kelly Shannon. ...

www.e-insite.net by Mark Long, March 7, 2001 According to a recent national poll, more than half of American adults would, if given the choice, gladly carry around multiple wireless devices if that's what it takes to gain access to key communication and productivity tools. Of the remainder, 34 percent were willing to carry just a single device while the other 11 percent don't want to carry around any type of wireless device, even if it was provided at no cost. To no one's surprise, the most p ...

September 09, 2004 POCATELLO, Idaho --(Business Wire)-- Sept. 9, 2004 -- AMI Semiconductor Gains Added Experience in Hardware and Product Design That Will Greatly Benefit the Company in the Development of Next-Generation Products AMIS Holdings Inc., parent company of AMI Semiconductor, (Nasdaq:AMIS), a designer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art integrated mixed-signal products and structured digital products for the automotive, medical and industrial sectors, today announced that it has si ...

AMON: A Wearable Medical Computer for High Risk Patients By P. Lukowicz, U. Anliker, J. Ward, G. Tröster, E. Hirt, C. Neufelt, ISWC 2002: Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Wearable Computers, 7.-10. October 2002 Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. Abstract We present a wrist worn medical monitoring computer designed to free high risk patient from the constraints of stationary monitoring equipment. The system combines complex medical monitoring, da ...

Astrobiology Magazine The Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) was established in 1990 as an interdisciplinary research unit of the University of West Florida. Since that time, IHMC has grown into one of the nation's premier research institutes with more than 115 researchers and staff investigating a broad range of topics related to understanding cognition in both humans and machines with a particular emphasis on building computational tools to leverage ...

An Actuator for the Tactile Vest — A Torso-Based Haptic Device By Mealani Nakamura, Lynette Jones, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 11th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (HAPTICS'03) March 22 - 23, 2003 Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract Our goal is to design a robust, versatile actuator for a Tactile Vest, a weara ...

An adaptive drug infusion system. October 2004 Simmons M, Gillett D, Catanzaro B, Jacobs B, Klonoff DC, Sage B.; TheraFuse, Inc., Carlsbad, California 92008, USA Diabetes Technol Ther. 2004 Oct;6(5):607-20. BACKGROUND: In order to reduce the overall size and power consumption of ambulatory drug infusion systems, and to provide higher delivery accuracy, faster start-up, and more rapid occlusion detection, a non-contacting, low-power thermal time-of-flight technology has been used to provide a ...

An Architecture Concept for Ubiquitous Computing Aware Wearable Computers By Martin Bauer, Bernd Brügge, Gudrun Klinker, Asa MacWilliams, Thomas Reicher, Christian Sandor, Martin Wagner, Technische Universität München 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops July 02 - 05, 2002 IEEE Computer Society You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract: In Marc Weiser’s vision of ubiquit ...

An Architecture for Outdoor Wearable Computers to Support Augmented Reality and Multimedia Applications By Wayne Piekarski, Bruce Thomas, David Hepworth, Bernard Gunther, Victor Demczuk School of Computer and Information Science, Wearable Computer Lab, University of South Australia, The Levels, SA, Australia Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract This paper describes an architecture to support a hardware and software platform for research into the use of we ...

An Audio-Based Personal Memory Aid By Sunil Vemuri, Chris Schmandt, Walter Bender, Stefanie Tellex, Brad Lassey, MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract We are developing a wearable device that attempts to alleviate some everyday memory problems. The “memory prosthesis” records audio and contextual information from conversations and provides a suite of retrieval tools (on both the wearable and a personal comp ...

An E-Textile System for Motion Analysis By Josh Edmison, Mark Jones, and Thomas Martin, Configurable Computing Lab, Virginia Tech Proceedings of the International Workshop on a New Generation of Wearable Systems for eHealth, NGWSH 2003 December 2003 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract: Electronic textiles (e-textiles) offer the promise of home health care devices that integrate seamlessly into the wearer's everyday lifestyle while providing a higher leve ...

An Empirical Study of Collaborative Wearable Computer Systems Jane Siegel, Robert E. Kraut, Bonnie E. John, Kathleen M. Carley Human Computer Interaction Institute Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A. 15213 E-mail: Jane.Siegel@cs.cmu.edu CHI '95 Proceedings Abstract We report an empirical study of aircraft maintenance workers using wearable visual interfaces and collaborative systems to support troubleshooting and repair work. Preliminary results suggest gains in coordinat ...

Full text Pdf (72 KB) Source ACM SIGMOD Record archive Volume 32 , Issue 4 (December 2003) table of contents SPECIAL ISSUE: Special section on sensor network technology and sensor data managment table of contents Pages: 47 - 52 Year of Publication: 2003 ISSN:0163-5808 Authors Anastassia Ailamaki Carnegie Mellon University Christos Faloutos Carnegie Mellon University Paul S. Fischbeck Carnegie Mellon University Mitchell J. Small Carnegie Mellon University Jea ...

An Evaluation of Audio-Centric CMU Wearable Computers By Asim Smailagic April 4, 1998 Institute for Complex Engineered Systems, Carniegie Mellon University Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. Abstract: Carnegie Mellon’s Wearable Computers project is defining the future for not only computing technologies but also for the use of computers in daily activities. Fifteen generations of CMU’s wearable computers are evolutionary steps in the quest for new ways to impro ...

An Evaluation of Wearable Information Spaces 1997, Proceedings of First International Symposium on Wearable Computing By M. Billinghursta, J. Bowskillb, Nick Dyerb, Jason Morphettb aHuman Interface Technology Laboratory, University of Washington, Box 352-142, Seattle, WA 98195 USA bAdvanced Perception Unit, BT Laboratories, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, IP5 3RE, UK Human Interface Technology Laboratory, Washington University Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. ABST ...

An Event-Driven Sensor Architecture for Low Power Wearables By Henk Muller and Cliff Randell, Department of Computer Science University of Bristol, UK ICSE 2000, Workshop on Software Engineering for Wearable and Pervasive Computing ACM/IEEE, June 2000 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract In this paper we define a software architecture for low power wearable computers. The architecture is event driven, and is designed so that application programs have access to sensor data without the need for polling. The software architecture is designed to allow for an underlying hardware architecture that can achieve maximal power efficiency by switching off parts of the hardware that are known not to be required.

An Event-Driven Wearable System for Supporting Motorbike Racing Teams By Masakazu Miyamae, Tsutomu Terada, Masahiko Tsukamoto, Shojiro Nishio, Osaka University, Japan and Keisuke Hiraoka, Takahito Fukuda, Westunitis Co., Ltd., Japan Eighth International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'04) October 31 - November 03, 2004 Arlington, Virginia You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract Exploiting the lates ...

An Extended Menu Navigation Interface Using Multiple Pressure-Sensitive Strips By Gábor Blaskó and Steven Feiner, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers October 21 - 23, 2003 White Plains, New York, USA Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract We present extensions and modifications that we have made to a cursorless menu navigation interface that is controlled by m ...

Science Daily 2004-06-03 Sitting blindfolded with a device equipped with 144 pixels in his mouth, any journalist would wonder about his career choice. But after a few minutes of experimentation, you have to recognize that the system developed by neuropsychologist Maurice Ptito of Université de Montréal, together with colleagues in Denmark and the United States , to allow blind people to "see with their tongue" appears strangely effective. In just the first few minutes, the subject is able to b ...

An EyeTap video-based featureless projective motion estimation assisted by gyroscopic tracking for wearable computer mediated reality October 2003 By Chris Aimone1 , James Fung1 and Steve Mann1 (1) University of Toronto, 10 King''s College Road, Toronto, Canada Volume 7, Number 5 Personal and Ubiquitous Computing You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract In this paper we present a computationally econ ...

An historical account of the `WearComp' and `WearCam' inventions developed for applications in `Personal Imaging' October 13, 1997 By Steve Mann, MIT, 20 Ames St., Cambridge MA02139; Author currently with University of Toronto, Elec. Eng. Dept Published in IEEE Proceedings of the first ISWC, October 13-14, 1997, Cambridge, Massachusetts, p66-73 Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. Abstract: We are entering a pivotal era in which we will become inextricably inter ...

An Integrative Circulatory System Model Using Foreground-Background Multi-Time Scale Simulation Environment By H. Harry Asada, Principal Investigato, and r Devin B. McCombie Graduate Research Assistant d’Arbeloff Laboratory for Information Systems and Technology, MIT, Cambridge, MA Progress Report No. 3-3, October 1, 2001 – March 31, 2002 MIT Home Automation and Healthcare Consortium Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract An integrative physiological model ...

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An Interaction System for Watch Computers Using Tactile Guidance and Bidirectional Segmented Strokes By Gábor Blaskó, Steven Feiner, Columbia University, New York, NY Eighth International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'04) October 31 - November 03, 2004 Arlington, Virginia You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract We introduce an input system that is based on bidirectional strokes that are segment ...

An On-Line Sensor Data Processing Toolbox for Wearable Computers David Bannach Institute for Computer Systems and Networks UMIT Innsbruck, Austria david.bannach@umit.at Abstract? This paper presents the design and initial implementation of a toolbox for recognition systems running on wearable computers. The toolbox is intended to facilitate the development of systems for on-line processing of sensor data. The special requirements of wearable devices are taken into account leading to a desi ...

An Ontology for Context Aware Pervasive Computing Environments1 By Harry Chen and Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore MD 21250 USA Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract We describe a framework for an agent based pervasive computing environment. Central to our framework is the presence of an intelligent context broker that accepts context related information from devices and agents in the environment as well as from other sources, ...

An optical tracker for augmented reality and wearable computers By D. Kim, S.W. Richards, T.P. Caudell , Dept. of Electr. Eng., Washington Univ., Seattle, WA 1997 Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium (VRAIS '97) March 01 - 05, 1997 IEEE Computer Society You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract: Augmented reality provides factory workers and other touch laborers with visual information overlaid ...

An Overview of the International Symposium on Wearable Computers 1998 By Mark Billinghurst and Thad Starner SIGCHI Bulletin Volume 32 Number 1 January 2000 Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. October 19 1998: Over 300 attendees converge on the Pittsburgh Sheraton Station Hotel for the annual two day International Symposium on Wearable Computers ISWC'98 Registration opens and a sense of enthusiasm can be felt as researchers greet each other and introduce new members ...

An overview of worldwide developments in smart textiles 1 June 2004 - Technical Textiles International Smart and intelligent materials are making their way into textiles, with the potential to revolutionize our lives. Usha Rashmi Bhaskara Sastry of Hochschule Niederrhein in Germany summarizes the major developments in the last few years. Over the last few years, smart and intelligent materials have made their way into the textile world. They have galvanized the interest of researchers in mat ...

An XML Based Multimedia Data Acquisition and Retrieval with Wearable Computers By Yoshihiro Ohmori, Kazushige Ouchi, Masakazu Hattori, and Miwako DoiToshiba Corporate Research and Development Center 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCSW '01) April 16 - 19, 2001 IEEE Computer Society You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract: We developed an XML based multimedia ...

Full text Pdf (566 KB) Source Annual ACM IEEE Design Automation Conference archive Proceedings of the 39th conference on Design automation table of contents New Orleans, Louisiana, USA SESSION: Design methodologies meet network applications table of contents Pages: 524 - 529 Year of Publication: 2002 ISBN ~ ISSN:0738-100X , 1-58113-461-4 Authors Terry Tao Ye Stanford University Giovanni De Micheli Stanford University Luca Benini University of Bologna Sponsor ...

Analysis of the Impedance Spectra of Short Conductive Fiber-Reinforced Composites J. M. Torrents*, T. O. Mason Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA A. Peled, S. P. Shah Department of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA E. J. Garboczi National Institute of Standards and Technology, Building Materials Division, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA Reference: J.M. Torrents, T.O. Mason, A. Peled, S.P. Shah, E. ...

Analysis of the Influence of Displacement on Finger Photoplethysmography for Wearable Health Monitoring Sensors By Harry H. Asada, Principal Investigator, and Sokwoo Rhee, Research Assistant d’Arbeloff Laboratory for Information Systems and Technology, MIT, Cambridge, MA Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. ABSTRACT The ring sensor is a miniaturized, telemetric, monitoring device worn by a patient as a finger ring. The ring encapsulates photoplethysmographic, pulse ...

Analysis of Wearable Interface Factors for Appropriate Information Notification By Vlaho Kostov, Jun Ozawa, Satoshi Matsuura, Panasonic - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kyoto, Japan Eighth International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'04) October 31 - November 03, 2004 Arlington, Virginia You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract This paper explores the emotional and the functional aspec ...

Analyzing the Use of E-textiles to Improve Application Performance By Mark Jones, Tom Martin, Zahi Nakad, Ravi Shenoy, Tanwir Sheikh, David Lehn, Joshua Edmison, Madhup Chandra Virginia Tech Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Blacksburg VA Seventh International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2003), pp 190-199, October 2003. Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. Abstract E-textiles are an alternative to radio based personal area networ ...

Anger management wearable monitor December 13, 2004 near near future Houston-based company BioSentient, presided by ex-astronaut Mae Jemison, is working on MobileMe, a device that monitors the body's autonomic nervous system (ANS), which controls breathing, sweating, heart rate, and digestion. It picks up on slight changes to help diagnose medical and behavioral conditions, such as anxiety disorders, neurological complications stemming from diabetes, attention deficit disorder, and even ang ...

Anger management wearable monitor December 13, 2004 Media Temple Houston-based company BioSentient, presided by ex-astronaut Mae Jemison, is working on MobileMe, a device that monitors the body's autonomic nervous system (ANS), which controls breathing, sweating, heart rate, and digestion. It picks up on slight changes to help diagnose medical and behavioral conditions, such as anxiety disorders, neurological complications stemming from diabetes, attention deficit disorder, and even anger-m ...

Animal-Machine Interfaces October 18 - 21, 2000 By Jesus Savage, R.A. Sanchez-Guzmán Walterio Mayol, Leobardo Arce, Alejandro Hernandez, Laura Brier, Felipe Martinez, Anaid Velazquez, Gerardo Lopez, University of Mexico Fourth International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'00) IEEE Computer Society You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract During the last decades, too much effort has been done to deve ...

Annotated Reality Oct. 20, 1998 By Chris Oakes Wired News PITTSBURGH -- Virtual reality, the technology of the early '90s, used headsets that transported people to a computer-generated faux-world. Here in the late '90s, VR's half-cousin, the wearable computer, also wants to deliver a world to the user. But this time, it's the real world they're serving up, using virtual information to augment reality, not replace it. "Augmented reality involves overlaying information -- graphics and annot ...

By Jeff Michalski iApplianceWeb (07/14/02, 02:08:21 PM EDT) Antelope Technologies, has signed a licensing agreement with IBM to build and market the Meta Pad, a portable computing device that transforms into a personal digital assistant (PDA), a desktop, a laptop, a tablet or a wearable computer without having to power down. The Meta Pad is based on a Mobile Computer Core (MCC) which incorporates the Transmeta Crusoe TM5800 processor. Antelope has a ten-year license agreement to manufactur ...

Antenna Design and Radio Propagation Modelling for Wireless Wearable Computers 2003 Y. Hao, C. G. Parini Department of Electronic Engineering Queen Mary, University of London Background The development of wearable computer systems has been growing rapidly. These systems are becoming smaller and more lightweight: no one wants to wear a bulky and heavy computer all day! We will soon see a wide range of unobtrusive wearable and ubiquitous computing equipment integrated to into our everyday ...

Full text Pdf (329 KB) Source International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking & Computing archive Proceedings of the 5th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing table of contents Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan SESSION: Multicast and antennas table of contents Pages: 234 - 243 Year of Publication: 2004 ISBN:1-58113-849-0 Authors S. Guo University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada O. W. Yang University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada Sponsor ...

Read the Full Article, Get a FREE Trial for instant access » Art Business News; 3/1/2002 Kinetronics Corp. of Sarasota, Fla., introduces "ASG" anti-static gloves for handling and cleaning glass. The specially knitted gloves are made from a blend of microfiber and conductive fibers. The conductive fibers prevent static charges from bu...

Anywhere Interface Technology Review December 2004 French physicists Ros Kiri Ing and Mathias Fink have figured out how to turn any rigid surface into an interface for electronic systems. The technology—which the pair hope to commercialize via their Paris-based startup, Sensitive Object—uses one or two inexpensive accelerometers to detect finger taps on, say, a storefront display window or a keyboard drawn on a blackboard. A computer chip calculates the precise origin of each tap and transla ...

Wired News Jul. 29, 2003 By Brad King A young man crouches, staring intently into a small camera about 10 feet in front of him, hands balled into fists hovering at chest level. Overhead, his image flickers on a television screen as cartoon characters leap from a series of footbridges. He swings his hands in a circular motion, waxing on and waxing off, sending the animated avatars flying. The sight of a man knocking digital characters askew stopped more than a few people at San Diego's Comic ...

Jan. 1, 2003 Issue of CIO Magazine | Ideas 2003 Chances are, you've already seen someone with wearable computing gear and just not realized that beneath that geeky-looking guy's coat was the same technology you have on your desktop. Wearable computing isn't just the stuff of science fiction. It's already here and in use today—from an aircraft technician's full-color head-mounted display that shows him exactly which engine part needs to be replaced to a teenager's ultra-hip jacket that hides ...

Application design for a smart watch with a high resolution display By Chandra Narayanaswami & M T Raghunath, Wearable Computing Platforms, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Wearable Computers ISWC'00 Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Advances in technology have made it possible to package a reasonably powerful processor and memory subsystem coupled with an ultra high-resolution disp ...

Application Design for Wearable and Context-Aware Computers By Asim Smailagic, Daniel Siewiorek October-December 2002 (Vol. 1, No. 4) IEEE Pervasive Computing You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. This article describes a taxonomy of problem-solving capabilities for wearable and context-aware computer applications. The authors developed this taxonomy from their iterative design methodology and experience with a wi ...

Application of Virtual Wearable Guards in Dangerous Environments By G Kaefer, G Prochart, and R Weiss at Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria Abstract Steadily increasing reliability of wearable computing hardware will lead to further deployment of wearable computers in security applications. We suggest the usage of wearable computers as virtual guards for staff working in dangerous environments. The first step to realize our vision is VECAS (Virtually Enhanced Communication Assi ...

Applications - Materials NanoBusiness Alliance Wednesday - September 22, 2004 "Reprinted from "Nanotech: The Tiny Revolution." Copyright CMP Cientifica, 2001." It has been estimated that nanostructured materials and processes can be expected to have a market impact of over $340 billion within a decade (Hitachi Research Institute, 2001). Like so many aspects of nanotechnology, this is a difficult thing to estimate because of potential new applications - if you can make a material ten time ...

Applications for Implantable SAW Pressure Sensors Chris McLeod*, Robert Dickinson#, Aimen Sabkha*, Chris Toumazou# 2004 Introduction. The last decade has witnessed a rapid surge of interest in new sensing and monitoring devices for healthcare and the use of wearable/wireless devices for clinical applications. One key development in this area is implantable monitoring devices. For implants, the problem of long-term stability and biocompatibility must be addressed, and several promising prototypes are emerging for measuring pressure, amongst other parameters, in patients with chronic cardiac and cardiovascular diseases.. Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety.

APPLICATIONS OF CONDUCTING POLYMERS By Colin Pratt Introduction: Until about 30 years ago all carbon based polymers were rigidly regarded as insulators. The notion that plastics could be made to conduct electricity would have been considered to be absurd. Indeed, plastics have been extensively utilized by the electronics industry for this very property. They are used as inactive packaging and insulating material. This very narrow perspective is rapidly changing as a new class of polymers ...

Applications of Wearable Computing University of Toronto ECE1766 Web Productions 17/05/2004 Every emerging discipline in computing is born first as a theoretical approach, almost a dream in the mind of the inventor. Some of such theories have clear practical ramifications, such as encryption algorithms. Others, on the other hand, take some time to evolve from the concepts on paper to something that can be applied in the real world. The transistor is the best example of this: legend has it ...

Read the Full Article, Get a FREE Trial for instant access » Business Wire; 8/2/2004 N. KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- Applied Radar announced today the introduction of a new line of electronic textile (or E-textile) antennas that enable higher performance and lower cost OEM wireless and radar products. This technology will also help the US textile industry, which has recently suffered from off-shore competition. "Electronic textiles promise novel methods of producing lightweight, flexible antennas with performance surpassing current solutions to address a wide variety of applications," explained Dr. Bill Weedon, President and CEO of Applied Radar, Inc. "What's exci...

Apply Current, Boost Brain Power November 6, 2004 By Amit Asaravala Wired News Sending a weak electrical impulse through the front of a person's head can boost verbal skills by as much as 20 percent, according to a new study by the U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. In the study, researchers at the institute asked 103 volunteers to recall as many words that begin with a particular letter as possible. The researchers then passed a 2-milliamp current -- one-tenth o ...

Note: You will need to copy and paste the URL in a browser window to view the abstract online. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_aset=B-WA-A-B-EE-MsSAYZA-UUA-AUEEACVYWW-AUEZDBCZWW-ZCACCUADA-EE-U&_rdoc=16&_fmt=summary&_udi=B6TYG-49R5D90-1&_coverDate=12%2F31%2F2003&_cdi=5618&_orig=search&_st=13&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=2f257949b52bd42e747aa2e3f4e11b50 Applying wearable sensors to avalanche rescue By Florian Michahelles, a, Pete ...

Archeoguide: System Architecture of a Mobile Outdoor Augmented Reality System By Patrick Dähne, Computer Graphics Center, John N. Karigiannis, INTRACOM S.A. International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR'02) September 30 - October 01, 2002 IEEE Computer Society You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract We present the system architecture of a mobile outdoor augmented reality system for the Ar ...

Architectural Issues in Supporting Ad-hoc Collaboration with Wearable Computers By Gerd Kortuem, Steve Fickas, and Zary Segall, Wearable Computing Research Group Department of Computer and Information Science University of Oregon June 6, 2000 Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. ABSTRACT This paper reports our experiences in developing Proem, an open software framework for building applications that support ad-hoc collaboration of wearable users. We discuss common tasks of such applications and identify a set of common services to be provided by a future collaboration framework. We propose a concrete collaboration architecture and discuss its properties. REFERENCES 1 Belotti V Bly S Walking Away from the Desktop Computer

Architectures for e-Textiles By Zahi Samir Nakad, Ph.D. Dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University December 10, 2003 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract The huge advancement in the textiles industry and the accurate control on the mechanization process coupled with cost-effective manufacturing offer an innovative environment for new electronic systems, namely electronic textiles. The abundance of fabrics in our regular life offer ...

Are Smart Materials Intelligent? by Carolyn Yeates (Group Head, Interdisciplinary Physics Group) (from INSPEC Matters issue no.77 - March 1994) Science and technology in the next century will rely heavily on the development of new materials. "Smart" or "intelligent" materials will play an important role in this development. Research is concentrated in the United States and Japan and shows a distinct difference between Western and Eastern approaches. American "smart structures" have emerged f ...

July 3rd 2003 According to a report by UK based consultants, Wireless Healthcare, one day computers embedded in clothes could be monitoring our health. The conclusion is that this would cut the cost of healthcare, give a boost to textile and IT producers and provide mobile phone companies with a new market for their data services. Like Internet enabled home appliances, wearable computing captured the imagination of both the media and the public. Even so, for some time this enthusiasm failed t ...

Geek.com posted 12:00pm EST Thu Oct 10 2002 submitted by Sander Olson NEWS One concept which has been hyped over the past decade is wearable computers. The concept emerged when researchers first thought of embedding computers in clothing. The idea evolved to a point where, at the Fall 2002 Intel Developer Forum, Pat Gelsinger virtually cocooned himself in a Web of wearable electronics. He, along with many other enthusiasts, argued that wearable computers are virtually inevitable. There are ...

Are You Ready? Outside Magazine 2003 By Brian Alexander THE FUTURE>> BodyMedia, a Pittsburgh-based company, is developing the technology for an armband that would monitor heat stress, hydration levels, expended energy, heart rate, and other performance variables and send them via wireless connection to be analyzed instantly by a separate computer. Armed with this info during a race, a coach stationed at a computer could determine whether a cyclist has, say, enough energy to pull away from th ...

Sravanthi Challapalli Thursday, Jul 01, 2004 MOST of the names sound as if they belong in a chemistry textbook but metrosexuals wear them with ease. And SMS gets a whole new definition by having little to do with mobile phones but everything to do with the management of that icky bodily exudate, sweat. Yes, there is Oxy-Rich, there is No Sweat, there is Teflon Wrinkle-free, E-Washed, odour-free and what have you. These apart, there are radiation-free trousers, sun-guard shirts, fire-retardan ...

Are your clothes intelligent? Newsletter January 27, 2003 AgentLand.com Over the next five years, intelligent clothing will become increasingly commonplace, particularly in areas such as sports, leisure and business. Smart jogging pants that give a rundown on a sportsman or woman's physical performances are just one example. Trousers that keep a track of the day's activities are another idea under development. There are two main types of clothing. On one site, the 'wearable computers' that ...

Business Editors and High-Tech Writers MUNDELEIN, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 19, 2002 New Reduced Pricing Also Announced for ArialPhone Device ArialPhone Corp., of Mundelein, today introduced new software that turns its popular ArialPhone telephone communications device into a wearable, wireless microphone for the PC. At the same time, the company also announced a new reduced price of $199 for the ArialPhone, which features a patented, hands-free Earset design that improves standard telepho ...

By Bob Karlovits TRIBUNE-REVIEW MUSIC WRITER Tuesday, January 14, 2003 Astro Teller and his up-tech Downtown firm have created "dashboards" to measure the efforts of Will Cross and Jerry Petersen as they finish their journey to the South Pole. The installation of the final bit of equipment for the trip took place Monday, when Dr. Bret Goodpaster strapped armbands on the explorers. "You wouldn't buy a car without a dashboard," says Teller, chief executive officer of BodyMedia, on Smithfiel ...

Armed for Success April 1, 2003 By Bob Parks Business 2.0 Media, Inc. What's more amazing than Astro Teller's new wearable body monitor? How a sci-fi novelist with little business cred landed the funding to sell it. Strap the silver-blue gizmo to your bicep and, in an instant, your body goes on trial for sloth. Through your skin, metallic sensors take readings of body motion, heat, and sweat. Inside, software algorithms translate the data into a constant reading of your body's energy burn ...

Armor conference shows off state-of-the-art battlefield technologies May 18, 2004 By ERICA WALSH The News-Enterprise Mike Riley spent part of his day Monday leading soldiers and civilians through the streets of Baghdad — without leaving Fort Knox. Riley, director of new products and business for Raydon Corp., demonstrated the latest in combat training technology with the Raydon Virtual Convoy Trainer, one of the more popular vendor exhibits at the 2004 Armor Conference. More than 130 vendor ...

Wired News 24 Jan, 2001 by Amy Hembree Battlefield armor is making a comeback. While long out of style for soldiers, the sight of armor from any era or culture can fire even the most pacifist civilian's inner Mongol warrior. The stormtroopers in Star Wars clattered about convincingly, and Sigourney Weaver in her kickboxing forklift in Aliens continues to spark fantasies. The Knights of the Round Table conjure images of epic battles in the Crusades. Now the past and the future are ready to ...

ARMY CHOOSES MIT TO HELP CREATE THE NEW, NANO-EQUIPPED U.S. SOLDIER By Candace Stuart Small Times Senior Writer March 13, 2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a research university with small tech expertise and a history of developing technologies for the military, will receive $10 million annually for the next five years to turn nanotechnology into useful products for the United States Army. The U.S. Army selected MIT on Wednesday to create the Institute for Soldier Nanote ...

Army develops prototype for 'wired' soldier of tomorrow April 19, 2000 By Richard Stenger CNN Interactive Writer COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (CNN) -- Crawling through a field in hostile territory, a soldier spots an enemy. What does he do? He might fire up his palmtop computer, pinpoint the exact GPS coordinates of the foe, and pipe the information over a satellite phone network back to headquarters. A U.S. Army battle laboratory in Colorado is working to apply such personal tech breakthro ...

Army Enlists Microvision for Mobile Medical Technology December 20, 2001 By Jay Wrolstad Wireless NewsFactor Mobile workers, including medics, can work hands-free and heads-up while receiving information right in front of their faces. Wireless technology has been embraced wholeheartedly by the U.S. military, with men and women in uniform using everything from satellite communications systems to GPS (global positioning systems) to PDAs (personal digital assistants). Now, a new government ...

Army hires General Dynamics for JTRS BY Frank Tiboni July 19, 2004 An industry team led by General Dynamics Corp. will design the Army's soldier-wearable Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS). On July 16, Army officials awarded a $295 million contract to General Dynamics to modify commercial radio products and develop a two-channel JTRS radio carried by soldiers in a backpack, called Spiral 1. Company officials then will design a one and a two-channel handheld JTRS radio and a small, form-fi ...

Army lab pushes flat-panel displays BY Brian Robinson Jan. 7, 2002 FCW.COM The Army wants to speed the introduction of flat-panel displays into military information technology systems by taking over a contract previously managed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The Army Research Laboratory announced last month that it would partner with the U.S. Display Consortium (USDC), a public/private organization, to develop dual-use technologies that will benefit the military and priv ...

Army lightens load with solar power Idea is to replace disposable batteries on 'digital battlefield' 5 May 05 MSNBC BOSTON - U.S. Army soldiers will be testing flexible plastic sheeting that converts light into energy — technology that could someday find its way into the casing of laptops or even clothing to power portable devices. A $1.6 million contract with Konarka Technologies Inc. aims to lighten the load for troops who must lug around batteries to power everything from night vision go ...

Army MPs go biometric BY Dan Caterinicchia March 18, 2002 FCW.COM Army military police officers have successfully tested mobile facial-recognition technology to aid them in their duties and may ultimately incorporate language translation capabilities for use in Defense Department peacekeeping initiatives, the Army announced last week. The technology is part of the Army's Digital Military Police program, which promotes the development of systems that enable the military police to better perf ...

Army plans battle biomonitors May 17, 2004 By HELEN PEARSON Nature News Service Registration required to view article. Soldiers of the future may be wired up to sensors that raise the alarm when they near exhaustion. That's part of a vision for military health technology outlined in a new report. The document was commissioned from the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academies, by the US military. It is seeking new ways to predict when soldiers or pilots are mentally or physic ...

Army Purchases Sensor Shirts June 22, 2004 iHealthBeat A California technology company will sell the military a number of respiratory monitoring devices, part of the company's human monitoring system for blood pressure, blood oxygen, temperature and movement, the Ventura County Star reports. VivoMetrics' LifeShirt—a tightly worn shirt with embedded sensors—could one day alert commanders that soldiers on the battlefield are under attack or wounded, according to company founder Andrew Behar. ...

Army Reboots GIs' Tired Fatigues Wired News May. 25, 2004 By Noah Shachtman Ever since they tangled with the Red Coats, American generals have been giving their grunts more and more and more gear to lug -- from rations to radios, body armor to batteries. Now, for the first time, the Army has decided to junk the old uniforms and start from scratch. "We're stripping the soldier down to his skin, and building out from there," said Jean-Louis "Dutch" DeGay, an equipment specialist at the Army' ...

Army research center developing wearable datalink April 12, 2002 by Curt Biberdorf dcmilitary.com NATICK, Mass. -- Using a finger of his glove, a Marine determines if water is safe to drink. He takes a rolled-up cloth keyboard from his pocket, plugs it in and starts typing a message. Calling for support, his radio sends and receives signals using an antenna blended into his uniform. Through a 1998 Small Business Innovative Research program known as Electro-Optic Fabric Concepts for Combat ...

Army science conference speaker forecasts replacement of computers by 2010 Army News Service Nov. 30, 2004 By Steven Field ORLANDO, Fla. (Army News Service, Nov. 30, 2004) – By 2010, computers will be replaced by electronics so tiny they can be embedded in clothing or eyeglasses and broadcast on the human retina, a noted inventor predicted at the Army Science Conference. Dr. Ray Kurzweil, creator of the first synthesizer, inventor of the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech ...

Army tents plug into solar power July 10, 2004 By Megan Fromm THE WASHINGTON TIMES New technology aims to make military missions safer and more energy-efficient. The U.S. Army's Natick Soldier Systems Center is working in conjunction with Iowa Thin Film Technologies to develop tents and other fabrics made with flexible solar panels that can provide up to one kilowatt of energy, enough power to run devices such as laptops and lights. Such capabilities would ultimately make travel safer fo ...

Army Tests Land Warrior for 21st Century Soldiers Sep1998 By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service DefenseLINK News FORT BELVOIR, Va. -- American soldiers and Marines are already among the most deadly in the world, but a system called Land Warrior will soon make them unmatched. Land Warrior integrates small arms with high-tech equipment enabling ground forces to deploy, fight and win on the battlefields of the 21st century. "Land Warrior soldiers fight as a syst ...

Army to spin off future soldier gear to homeland security first responders August, 2003 By Ben Ames Military & Aerospace Electronics U.S. military forces in Iraq had an enormous technology advantage over Saddam Hussein's vaunted Republican Guard, from nutrition and textiles to communications and weaponry. The 21st century war-fighting gear that helped coalition forces prevail over Saddam Hussein's regime could soon help domestic emergency workers handle terrorist attacks by advantage ...

Army Wants Wearable Solar Panels May 5, 2005 The Associated Press BOSTON -- Army camo is going electro. A Boston company has signed a $1.6 million contract to develop flexible solar cells for the military. The technology will allow GIs on the go to recharge batteries for things such as night vision goggles and GPS satellite navigation units. The solar cells can be made part of backpacks or even battle fatigues. That means the soldiers won't have to carry so many heavy batteries. Konarka Technologies is also developing solar cells that are woven into the camo pattern on tents. The base camp solar chargers should help reduce the need for diesel fuel and noisy, polluting generators. On the civilian side, the solar chargers may someday be part of your laptop case.

Artifact-Resistant Power-Efficient Design of Finger-Ring Plethysmographic Sensors By Sokwoo Rhee*, Boo-Ho Yang, and Haruhiko Harry Asada, Associate Member, IEEE IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, VOL. 48, NO. 7, JULY 2001 795 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract A miniaturized, telemetric, photoplethysmograph (PPG) sensor for long-term, continuous monitoring is presented in this paper. The sensor, called a “ring sensor,” is attached to a finger b ...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_aset=B-WA-A-B-EE-MsSAYZW-UUA-AUEEDCZVWW-AUEDBBDWWW-ZZCCUADDV-EE-U&_rdoc=86&_fmt=summary&_udi=B6T5Y-4C53FFR-1D&_coverDate=10%2F31%2F1994&_cdi=5015&_orig=search&_st=13&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=851cb3facf58dcbf8fd14fd1fb3b68ac Artificial endocrine pancreas and optimal blood glucose regulation in diabetic patients — from bedside-type to wearable-type By Motoaki Shichiri, Hideki Kishikawa, Michiha ...

Artificial Heart Approved for Clinical Trials February 7, 2001 By Frank Blanchard Whitaker Foundation ROSSLYN, Va., Feb. 7, 2001 -- Abiomed Inc. of Danvers, Mass., has won approval from federal regulators to begin human clinical trials of an internal, battery-powered artificial heart as a permanent alternative to a heart transplant. The Food and Drug Administration has approved plans to implant the 2-pound, fist-sized pump in five patients who are too ill for a transplant. The trials will ...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE May 26, 2002 TIME Europe Magazine Machines with sinister minds of their own have been standard fare in popular sci-fi chillers like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Stephen King's bestseller Christine. But the fiction behind these devices is rapidly becoming fact, and Ada — a room-sized artificial intelligence system on show at the 2002 Swiss National Exhibition in Neuchâtel until Oct. 20 — is living proof. Developed at the Institute for Neuroinformatics at the Swiss Federal ...

Artificial pancreas provides automatic treatment May 13, 2004 By Emma Young NewScientist.com A prototype artificial pancreas for patients with type 1 diabetes is about to undergo its first major clinical trial. The device could put an end to regular glucose testing and insulin injections, and could prevent life-threatening irregularities in blood glucose levels, say its creators. "Better control of glucose would mean less hypoglycaemia and hyperglycaemia," says Roman Hovorka of City Univer ...

Artificial synesthesia via sonification: a wearable augmented sensory system By Leonard N. Foner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge March 1999 Mobile Networks and Applications, Volume 4 Issue 1 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text. ABSTRACT A design for an implemented, prototype wearable artificial sensory system is presented, which uses data sonification to compensate for normal limitations in the human visual system. ...

As gadgets proliferate, the visually impaired struggle April 22, 2005 By Vicki Smith, The Associated Press post-gazette.com Jay Leventhal, who is blind, still fumbles with the tiny controls on his iPod but has given up on the kiosk in his New York office building that lists all the tenants. For Leventhal, even laundry has become a task requiring the help of a sighted person. The washers he uses now take smart cards instead of quarters, issuing instructions on a digital screen that he can't ...

Read the Full Article, Get a FREE Trial for instant access » The Boston Herald; 3/2/2003; Markey, Edward J. Byline: Edward J. Markey Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has made it clear that a high-tech, efficient and mobile military must be the future of our armed services and the goal of the upcoming Base Realignment and Closure Commission. One facility that must survive BRAC scrutiny is the Soldier Systems Center in Natick, which most of us simply call the Natick Labs. If the BRAC process is done wisely, it will conclude what many already realize - that tucked away in the suburbs of Boston is the country's most innovative soldier-centered research lab. It is a ...

Asono Mica Wearable Flash MP3 Player Thursday March 10, 2005 Gizmodo The Norwegian Asono Mica shown at CeBIT is a simple, wearable flash MP3 player that looks a bit like a pack of floss on a lanyard. Featuring integrated headphones (within said lanyard) and iPod shuffle-esque simplicity, the Mica comes in a variety of stately colors. MP3, WMA & ASF playback and available in 512MB or 1GB flavors, it weighs in at just 43g and has a 12 hour battery life. Also, although difficult to tell from the pictures, there’s a small screen on the bottom of the unit. Still, at an outlandish $260 for 512MB and $345 for 1GB, I want mine shipped with authentic Norwegian glacier snow. Asono is accepting pre-orders now. Asono Mica [Asono]

You will have to copy and paste the URL into your browser window to view the article. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_aset=B-WA-A-B-AU-MsSAYZW-UUA-AUEEAZEAZW-AUEZDVEEZW-ZCWWUEVDD-AU-U&_rdoc=1&_fmt=summary&_udi=B6TXX-4BRB7VK-1&_coverDate=08%2F31%2F2004&_cdi=5602&_orig=search&_st=13&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=9bb7fcd136204f128b40ee16a57bcfaa Bo-an Ying, , a, Yi-lin Kwoka, Yi Lia, Qing-yong Zhua and Chap-yung Yeungb a Institute o ...

Assessing Wellness by Sensing Everyday Activities and Interactions Tanzeem Choudhury, Gaetano Borriello, Jonathan Lester 2005 ABSTRACT In this paper, we describe our vision of using wearable sensors to simultaneously track people’s physical and social activities. We believe this will enable us to assess the overall well-being of individuals more easily. We present our initial work in capturing and modeling the social network, interactions, and physical activities automatically using multi-mo ...

ASU researchers demonstrate wearable electronics to aid health and fashion at wired magazine's NextFest May 17, 2004 By Skip Derra Arizona State University TEMPE, Ariz. – Soon you may be wearing your computer, or elements of it, according to a team of researchers and designers at Arizona State University. The era of smart bodysuits is about to begin. In a demonstration of integrated and embedded electronic sensors, power sources, microfluidic devices and pumps in clothes, the ASU researc ...

Asymmetries in Collaborative Wearable Interfaces By M. Billinghurst, H. Kato, University of Washington; S. Bee, J. Bowskill , BT Laboratories 3rd International Symposium on Wearable Computers October 18 - 19, 1999 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract: Communication asymmetries are inherent in collaborative dialogues between wearable computer and ...

At Comdex, wireless became wearable - Samsung Electronics' Scurry - Brief Article Dec 14, 2001 Computing Canada LookSmart LAS VEGAS -- Where once exhibitors showed off mobile devices of the future, there was an increased focus on how users will carry them or wear them. Samsung Electronics previewed Scurry, a keyboard that uses gesture control to wrap input technology around the human hand. Intertial MEMs sensors signal processing and feedback schemes are incorporated into a glove-like dev ...

At the UW HIT Lab, There's Virtue in Virtual Reality April 11, 2004 BY RICHARD SEVEN The Seattle Times: Pacific Northwest Magazine Plenty of interfacing is going on inside this therapy room at Harborview Medical Center's Burn Unit. Lonnie, a wiry 39-year-old framer, sits waist-deep in a metallic tub of water, naked other than a white towel over his lap and a virtual reality headset covering his eyes and ears. Images flow from a laptop down through two cables and into his eyes and mind. A n ...

Atair Aerospace becomes the first company in the world to demonstrate Flocking and Swarming capabilities on autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles. March 17, 2005 Atair Aerospace BROOKLYN, NY – March 17, 2005 – "For the first time in history, autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have flown using flocking and swarming algorithms," reports Daniel Preston, chief executive and lead engineer for Atair Aerospace, Inc. (Atair AS). “Flocking and Swarming” are two words used interchangeably to re ...

Attentional Objects for Visual Context Understanding By BerntSchiele and Alex Pentland, The Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Technical Report No. 500 submitted to ISWC'99 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract This paper exploits wearable computers' unique opportunity to record and index the visual environment o fthe user from the "first person" perspective. We propose to use a hat-mounted wearable camera to record wha ...

Auditory Context Awareness in Wearable Computing By Brian Clarkson, Nitin Sawhney and Alex Pentland Perceptual Computing Group and Speech Interface Group, MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA Nov. 5-6, 1998 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract: We describe a system for obtaining environmental context through audio for applications and user interfaces. We are interested in identifying specific auditory events such as speakers, cars, and shutting doors, an ...

Augment-able Reality: Situated Communication through Physical and Digital Spaces By Jun Rekimoto 1, Yuji Ayatsuka 2, Kazuteru Hayashi 3 1 Sony Computer Science Laboratory, 3-14-13, Higashigotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0022 Japan 2 Information Technology Laboratories, Sony Corporation, Kitashinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0001 Japan 3 Dept. of Information Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama Meguro-ku, Tokyo Japan 2nd Interanational Symposium on Weareble Computer (ISWC'98), ...

Augmented Reality January 15, 2002 By Steve Ditlea Popular Science Believe it or not, this may be the prototype for the killer app in portable computing. It's called augmented reality and it alters how we see the world. But there's still a little work to be done. Walk down the street, look at the world. This is reality. Now repeat, but wearing an odd-looking, bulky pair of glasses that place into your line of vision selective, relevant bits of data about the world; the data hovers in sight ...

AUGMENTED REALITY : AN APPLICATION FOR ARCHITECTURE By Anish Tripathi, A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the School of Architecture, University of Southern California Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. ABSTARCT Augmented reality (AR) works on the same principles as virtual reality. Yet, unlike VR where the user is immersed in a completely virtual environment, augmented reality overlays virtual objects and information over the real world. This is usually achie ...

Augmented Reality in Architectural Construction, Inspection, and Renovation 1996 By Anthony Webster,1 Steven Feiner,2 Blair MacIntyre,3 William Massie,4 Theodore Krueger5 1 Associate Professor of Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University. Associate Member, ASCE. 2 Associate Professor of Computer Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University. 3 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University. 4 Adjunct Assis ...

Augmented Reality Technology Promises Breakthroughs In Education And Cognitive Potential March 23, 2005 News Target.com NASA is developing new technology known as the wearable augmentable reality prototype, or WARP. It's a wearable personal computer very similar to the concept I have described in the report called The Ten Most Important Emerging Technologies For Humanity. These augmented reality wearable computers would overlay audio and video signals onto the natural surrounding environment, ...

Augmented Reality Through Wearable Computing By Thad Starner, Steve Mann, Bradley Rhodes, Jeffrey Levine, Jennifer Healey, Dana Kirsch, Rosalind W. Picard, and Alex Pentland, The Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA 02139 1997 Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. Abstract: Wearable computing moves computation from the desktop to the user. We are forming a community of networked wearable computer users to explore, over a ...

Augmented Reality: A New Way of Seeing By Steven K. Feiner April 24, 2002 ScientificAmerican.com Computer scientists are developing systems that can enhance and enrich a user's view of the world What will computer user interfaces look like 10 years from now? If we extrapolate from current systems, it's easy to imagine a proliferation of high-resolution displays, ranging from tiny handheld or wrist-worn devices to large screens built into desks, walls and floors. Such displays will doubtles ...

Augmented-reality visualization in iMRI operating room: system description and preclinical testing Publication Date: May 2002 Frank Sauer, Ali Khamene, Benedicte Bascle, Sebastian Vogt, Gregory Rubino M.D. Publication: Proc. SPIE Vol. 4681, p. 446-454, Medical Imaging 2002: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Display; Seong K. Mun; Ed. Abstract We developed an augmented reality system targeting image guidance for surgical procedures. The surgeon wears a video- see-through he ...

Augmenting a pH Medical Study with Wearable Video for Treatment of GERD By Thad Starner and Daniel Ashbrook, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 Proceedings of ISWC. Arlington, VA. November 2004. Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract In this paper we present an augmentation to the wearable computers typically used to determine if a patient is a candidate for surgery to correct problems associated with Gastroesophageal Re ...

Augmenting and Sharing Memory with eyeBlog 2005 By Connor Dickie, Roel Vertegaal, David Fono, Changuk Sohn, Daniel Chen, Daniel Cheng, Jeffrey S. Shell and Omar Aoudeh, Human Media Lab, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON. K7L 3N6, Canada CM CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. ABSTRACT eyeBlog is an automatic personal video recording and publishing system. It consists of ECSGlasses [1], which are a pair of gl ...

Augmenting Conversations Using Dual–Purpose Speech October 2004 By Kent Lyons, Christopher Skeels, Thad Starner, Cornelis M. Snoeck, Benjamin A. Wong, Daniel Ashbrook, College of Computing and GVU Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 USA Proceedings of UIST. Sante Fe, NM. Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. ABSTRACT In this paper, we explore the concept of dual–purpose speech: speech that is socially appropriate in the context of a hum ...

Austin, Texas-Based Company Performs Research to Help Stop Terrorism Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 2/25/2003 By L.A. Lorek, San Antonio Express-News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 25--Every day, scientists at the Southwest Research Institute work on programs ranging from designing solar wind systems to developing "smart" clothes that protect against harmful chemicals. But much of the work goes unnoticed, officials said at an annual board meeting Monday, because the nonprofit institute runs solely on contracts from government and business. "We have a lot of work we can't talk about because it's classified," said institute President J. Dan Bates. During ... Read the Full Article, Get a FREE Trial for instant access »

21 Feb 2002 Source: just-style.com Article Summary: Australian scientists believe they are on the edge of a textiles revolution with "intelligent clothes" that automatically alter their structure in response to rain, sweat, heat and cold. Subscription required to view complete article.

Fibre2Fabric 7th September 2004 Electronic tags are used to track prisoners on home detention, and are now increasingly used on patients with a tendency to wander the end to the doctor's home visit. The tags are alert a base if an "invisible electronic fence" is transgressed, developed to also monitor vital statistics such as body temperature, heart and activity rates. Smart tags would provide remote wellbeing monitoring, beaming data back to doctors which reduced the need for visits, accord ...

Australian Company Develops Underwater PC September 22, 1998 By Adam Creed, Newsbytes. Discovery Channel, Canada An Australian marine science institute has developed a wearable personal computer that can be used underwater. The "Wet PC" is being promoted for a whole host of applications for unusual working environments. The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) originally designed the PC for use in its marine science research on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Queensland. ...

Australian-designed heart pump gives new hope to heart patients May 9, 2005 News-Medical.Net A 56-year-old New Zealand man, a heart failure patient, is recovering in hospital after world-first surgery to implant an Australian-designed device which helps the heart pump blood. The man, who has had heart failure for almost a decade had been considered unsuitable for a transplant and he received the device during a two and a half hour operation at Auckland City Hospital this week. William Peter ...

Authoring 3D hypermedia for wearable augmented and virtual reality By Sinem Güven and Steven Feiner, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computing Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Most existing authoring systems for wearable augmented and virtual reality experiences concentrate on creating separate media objects and embedding them within the user's surroundings. In contrast, ...

Authoring of Physical Models Using Mobile Computers October 2001 By Yohan Baillot, Dennis Brown, Simon Julier, ITT industries Fifth International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'01), Zurich, Switzerland You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract Context-aware computers rely on user and physical models to describe the context of a user. In this paper, we focus on the problem of developing and maintainin ...

Autocalibration algorithm for ultrasonic location systems By Paul Duff and Henk Muller, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK 2003 Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computing Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract As mobile and wearable technology has evolved, an increasing need for indoor positioning has arisen. In particular, the use of ultrasonics provides a cheap way to fulfil this need. However, current ultrasonic loc ...

Automatic Calibration of Body Worn Acceleration Sensors Title: Pervasive Computing: Second International Conference, PERVASIVE 2004, Linz/Vienna, Austria, April 21-23, 2004. Proceedings Paul Lukowicz1, 2 , Holger Junker2 and Gerhard Tröster Publisher: Springer-Verlag GmbH Abstract The paper presents a scheme for automatic calibration of body worn acceleration sensors which does not require any user interaction and any knowledge about the position and orientation of the sensors on the body. We describe the theoretical principle behind the method, discuss the main practical implementation concerns, and present experimental validation results. The references of this article are secured to subscribers.

Automatic Summarization of Wearable Video - Indexing Subjective Interest June 2003 By Kiyoharu Aizawa, Kenichiro Ishijima, Makoto Shiina, University of Tokyo, Dept. of Elec. Eng., 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan Second IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia Bejing, China, October 24-26, 2001 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract: ”We want to keep our entire life by video” is the motivation ...

Read the Full Article, Get a FREE Trial for instant access » The Nation (Thailand); 10/21/2004 URL: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/ Thousands of children and science enthusiasts flocked to Thailand Science-Tech 2004 at Impact Arena Muang Thong Thani yesterday, where a variety of science and technology exhibits are on show until Saturday. The fair opened yesterday with an array of robotics, computer, electronics and nanotechnology products that piqued the interest of many a youngster. Robots are one of the highlights. A robot called Ifbot, imported from Japan by the National Metal and Materials Technology Centre...

Jan 30th, 2004, news release Microvision, Inc. has announced the launch of its Nomad Expert Technician System (NETS), the first wireless wearable computer with head-mounted monitor. Scheduled to be shipped in the first quarter of 2004, the NETS weighs in at only 4.5 ounces and the head-worn display delivers high resolution images that can be overlaid on the user's vision. Users have the choice of two headgear options - the display device can be mounted under the brim of a baseball cap or integr ...

Avante Takes On Cargo Security April 18, 2005 By Mary Catherine O'Connor RFID Journal Claiming that adding an RFID tag to container seals does not secure cargo, RFID systems provider Avante offers what it says is a better way to monitor a container's integrity. As attendees of this week's RFID Journal LIVE! conference entered a room to hear the event's opening keynote address, they were greeted by two large video screens that welcomed each of them by name. The electronic greeting was made p ...

Avante Takes On Cargo Security April 18, 2005 By Mary Catherine O'Connor RFID Journal As attendees of this week's RFID Journal LIVE! conference entered a room to hear the event's opening keynote address, they were greeted by two large video screens that welcomed each of them by name. The electronic greeting was made possible thanks to portal readers that read a HF RFID tag attached to their name badge and carried an ID number and their name. The badge system, used at the conference to track ...

Monday, September 13, 2004 San Diego-based Avexus (www.avexus.com) said that it is in a partnership with Xybernaut Corporation to provide wearable computers for the aviation, defense, aerospace, and manufacturing industries. Avexus provides software for management of aviation and aerospace operations, and will tap Xybernaut's Atigo mobile/wearable computing platform for its products. Avexus will become a value added reseller of the Xybernaught wearable computer devices. The Avexus software is used to manage all aspects of product development, sales, manufacturing, maintenance, repair, and overhaul; the company counts such customers as Boeing, General Electric, Pemco World Air Services, and the U.S. Air Force and Navy as customers. posted on Monday, September 13, 2004

Aviation industry brings area tech wins By Michael Hardy Mass High Tech 05/17/2002 12:50 PM The commercial aviation industry has been kind to Potomac area technology companies. Three area firms yesterday announced aviation related signings. Airinc Inc., an Annapolis, Md., firm that develops software and communications technology for air travel, announced new contracts with Melbourne Airport in Australia, and with Virgin Atlantic Airlines. The company will install its iMuse Internet protoco ...

24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops - W3: IWSAWC (ICDCSW'04) March 23 - 24, 2004 Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan Naoki Miura, Masakazu Miyamae, Tsutomu Terada, Masahiko Tsukamoto, Shojiro Nishio, Osaka University In recent years, e-mail has become widespread explosively and it became one of very important communication tools which anyone can use easily. Here, the wearable computing has also attracted a lot of attention. In wearable computing environments, a use ...

By Deborah Méndez-Wilson February 12, 2001 Wireless Week AT&T Wireless Services is partnering with the developer of a location technology that one day might allow doctors to use microchips to track and measure biological data about at-risk and disabled patients remotely and in real time. Applied Digital Solutions Inc., based in Palm Beach, Fla., has chosen AWS as its "wireless carrier of choice" for its Digital Angel Delivery System, a patented technology that currently is being tested but co ...

ExtremeTech March 23, 2004 By Jim Louderback Focusing on phones and wide-area wireless networking, The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) wireless convention is in full swing in Atlanta. It was mostly talking heads and Bluetooth technology, but in the back of the Georgia World Congress Center, nestled among the sleek handsets and svelte headsets, was a fashion show runway. Along with the great gear, CTIA presented the Fashion in Motion catwalk show. Semi-starved m ...

Backpack PC helps disabled children March 27, 2002 By Alfred Hermida BBC News Online A specially designed wearable computer is giving a voice to children with learning disabilities. The computer, built by the Xybernaut company, has been tested at several schools in the US with promising results. "Its portability and flexibility allowed Jeremy to communicate and access the curriculum across all school environments with increasing success," said Lisa Zverloff, a teacher at Ohio Coventry L ...

Backpack System Captures Streaming Video August 2002 by Sandra I. Erwin National Defense The U.S. Marine Corps has purchased four man-pack receiving stations, which would allow front-line troops to receive live video from reconnaissance aircraft, including unmanned aerial vehicles. The manufacturer, Tadiran Electronic Systems, in Holon, Israel, says that the Corps plans to buy up to 64 MRS (man-pack receiving station) systems. The device weighs 7 kilograms, plus 2 kilograms for the termina ...

Bacteria cellulose makes e-paper, bandages By Charles Choi April 08, 2004 United Press International NEW YORK, April 7 (UPI) -- Scientists are weaving microbe-generated cellulose -- the substance that makes up wood -- into artificial blood vessels, next-generation electronic paper and novel bandages that enhance healing and reduce pain. Many species of bacteria grow cellulose, including E. coli, a germ that lives in the guts of most humans. Unlike cellulose from plants, which is only 50 or ...

BARS: Battlefield Augmented Reality System By Simon Julier, Yohan Baillot, Marco Lanzagorta, Dennis Brown, Lawrence Rosenblum, Advanced Information Technology, Code 5580, Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20375 October 2000 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Many future military operations are expected to occur in urban environments. These complex 3D battlefields are extremely demanding and introduce many challenges to ...

Base webs for printed circuit board production using the foam process and aramid fibers Author(s) : Ahlstrom-Glassfibre-OY; Rokman-K; Sabel-H Source: : Extracts-from-European-Patent-Applications,-Part-1B:-Primary-Industry,-Fixed-Constructions,-Mining. 2001; 17(1) Patent Number: EP 1 064 421. IS: 0943-1268 PP: 99908993.1, 19 Mar 1999 PY: 2001 Date: Type: Academic Summary: : A printed circuit board is made from at least one non-woven sheet or web layer comprising at least 10% weight aramid f ...

By Jay Wrolstad Wireless NewsFactor April 9, 2002 11:04AM 'Most of the parents are surprised by being able to buy tickets through the wearable computers, but the teenagers take it for granted,' Blue Jays director of ticket operations told Wireless NewsFactor. Toronto baseball fans who would rather not wait in long lines -- or deal with the scalpers -- to buy tickets for Blue Jays games can now avoid those hassles through the marvels of modern wireless technology. This season, the Major ...

Batteries and Power Supplies for Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing By Robert Hahn, Herbert Reichl , Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration 3rd International Symposium on Wearable Computers October 18 - 19, 1999 IEEE Computer Society You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract: The paper discusses the energy storage requirements of wearable computer technology and identifies research topi ...

Battery-powered socks spell warm feet STUFF : NATIONAL NEWS 02 June 2004 Battery-powered socks developed by New Zealand scientists are being promoted in Australia as an aid for office-workers, hang-glider pilots and people who suffer from poor circulation. Canterbury research company, Canesis Network – indirectly owned by New Zealand farmers through the Wool Research Organisation – has produced socks made of a woollen fabric which contains conductive fibres. Dr Nigel Johnson of Canesis N ...

Battle Wear The Osgood File (CBS Radio Network): 8/2/02 ACFnewsource Scientists are developing military uniforms that not only keep soldiers warm and provide camouflage, but will also transport power and information. A soldier walks across the battlefield, avoiding danger thanks to high-tech landmine sniffers embedded in his fatigues. He calls for help, using antennae woven into his uniform to transmit messages. And all the while, medics monitor his well-being via sensors that send informa ...

Full text Pdf (334 KB) Source Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems archive Extended abstracts of the 2004 conference on Human factors and computing systems table of contents Vienna, Austria SESSION: Student competition papers table of contents Pages: 1617 - 1621 Year of Publication: 2004 ISBN:1-58113-703-6 Authors Wolfgang Aigner Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria Martin Tomitsch Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria Miruna Stroe ...

Be all Captain Kirk with Siemens’ wearable communication badge Posted Mar 17, 2005, 9:30 AM ET by Barb Dybwad engadget Now you, too, can look like an idiot talking to your lapel in your own home, thanks to Siemens’ new wearable communications device. It hooks into a central home communications server (server not included…) via Bluetooth to send voice commands that get translated by software into controls for the integrated systems of your house. The speech recognition technology developed by ...

Being Invisible By Wil McCarthy Wired News Issue 11.08 - August 2003 Next-gen optical camouflage is busting out of defense labs and into the street. This is technology you have to see to believe. has been on humanity's wish list at least since Amon-Ra, a diety who could disappear and reappear at will, joined the Egyptian pantheon in 2008 BC. With recent advances in optics and computing, however, this elusive goal is no longer purely imaginary. Last spring, Susumu Tachi, an engineering profe ...

eyetap The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 3.26.2000 Jay Bookman Steve Mann can sound strange. "For two years, I had 30,000 people inside my head, watching what I did every day, altering my reality, offering suggestions on what I should do next," recalls the University of Toronto professor. "I finally had to shut it down, though. My head space got a little too crowded." No, Mann's not crazy. From 1994 to 1996, while a grad student at MIT in Boston, he streamed live video directly onto the I ...

Bell Canada Spurs Wearable Computer Trend August 2, 2001 By Jay Wrolstad, Wireless NewsFactor NewsFactor Innovation The devices are manufactured by IBM and feature the functionality of a desktop PC. The MA V is about 40 percent smaller and lighter than earlier wearable models, Xybernaut said. But these gadgets are not exactly cheap - pricing starts at $3,995 apiece. Who needs a laptop or a PDA (personal digital assistant) when you can put on a computer as easily as you can don a belt? In ...

Bendy solar panels offer portable power Could charge cell phones, DVD players Dec. 16, 2004 Reuters MSNBC.com LONDON - European scientists have developed light, flexible solar panels that could be sewn on fabrics and placed on surfaces to charge objects ranging from cell phones and DVD players to batteries. Developed by scientists working on a European Union research project called H-Alpha Solar (H-AS), the panels could be on the market in three years. "The new solar panels will be cheap ...

Better insight for stars of track and field August 11, 2004 e4engineering.com A head-mounted monitoring and display device from Cambridge Consultants could help athletes optimise their training and performance without the need for sensors and cumbersome wrist displays. The glasses, dubbed Technospecs, are said to incorporate an athlete's key biomedical parameters in real time. For today's athletes and their coaches, performance improvement depends increasingly on access to detailed biomedica ...

Better Rescue through Sensors By Florian Michahelles & Bernt Schiele, Perceptual Computing & Computer Vision Group, ETH Zurich In First International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing for Cognitive Aids (UbiCog'02) UbiCom 2002, Göteborg (Gothenburg), Sweden, 2002 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract: This paper investigates how wearable sensing technology can be applied to alpine avalanche rescue. Sensors worn by mountaineers reveal information about vi ...

Beyond Big Brother: Inside The 'Mobile Mind' June 23, 2004 Staff Writer NextInnovator Move over Big Brother! By the year 2015, the mobile worker will undergo a radical metamorphosis, as emerging technologies expand our definition of mobility to include wearable computing as well as neural interface, increasing our connectivity while at the same time, profoundly impacting our sense of individual privacy. A new, forward-looking report from IT analyst firm Forrester Research ("Big Idea - Th ...

Beyond Geek Chic by Peter Panepento COMPUTERWORLD SEPTEMBER 18, 2000 The latest in fashion gadgetry will hit boutiques in Europe later this month. For about $900, plugged-in consumers will be able to purchase a jacket equipped with a remote-controlled mobile phone and an MP3 player. The jacket, the product of an 18-month marriage of engineers from Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV in Amsterdam and designers from Levi Strauss & Co. in San Francisco, is the first practical example of wear ...

Beyond Polartec: Malden Mills refashions its identity New leaders plan strategic changes February 17, 2005 By Davis Bushnell New York Times LAWRENCE -- With a new senior management team in place, Malden Mills Industries Inc. has been active on several fronts, trying to mount a major comeback as the manufacturer of Polartec synthetic fleece for military and consumer apparel. Since emerging from bankruptcy in October 2003, Malden Mills has been contending with a number of issues, includin ...

Beyond Polartec: Malden Mills refashions its identity New leaders plan strategic changes February 17, 2005 By Davis Bushnell Boston Globe LAWRENCE -- With a new senior management team in place, Malden Mills Industries Inc. has been active on several fronts, trying to mount a major comeback as the manufacturer of Polartec synthetic fleece for military and consumer apparel. In addition to rolling out high-tech products, the company is moving ahead with plans to transform old factory space ...

Beyond Sensible Shoes By: By Alexandra Robbins, PC Magazine ABC News March 22, 2004 Flexible Fabric of Microsensors May Lead to Smart Clothing. The phrase "second skin" may soon refer to garments far more intriguing than curve-clinging clothes draped on supermodels. Unlike that version of second skin, the new version doesn't elicit reactions; it monitors them. Smart Skin, still in development, is made of a flexible material embedded with microsensors that mimic the signal sending of nerve ...

By SUSAN WARREN Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal August 10, 2001 Novelist John Jurek published a mystery, "KaeLF Skin," last fall featuring "smart fabric" underwear that can pleasure, addict, injure and even kill the wearer. As it happens, the fiction isn't all that far from the truth. The first generation of garments that couple nanotechnology--the science of making electronics on the tiniest of atomic scales--with high-tech fabrics to create "smart clothing" is beginning to roll ...

Beyond the Informedia Digital Video Library: Video and Audio Analysis for Remembering Conversations By Alexander G. Hauptmann and Wei-Hao Lin, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. ABSTRACT The Informedia digital video library project pioneered the automatic analysis of television broadcast news and its retrieval on demand. Building on that system, we have developed a wearable, personalized ...

Beyond Wi-Fi By Xeni Jardin Wired May 2003 Ultrawideband This superfast, short distance wireless technology promises data speeds 10 times faster than Wi-Fi. It works by transmitting its signal over a wide swath of frequencies, including licensed bands, at such a low power that it doesn't interfere with the other occupants of the spectrum. That's the idea, anyway. In February 2002, the FCC approved UWB for short-range applications despite howls of protest from the FAA and wireless carriers ...

Big Brother's Enemy July 21, 2003 By Mark Roberti RFID Journal I get a lot of e-mails from people telling me that RFID is God's gift to Big Brother. Most of these correspondents, of course, have never met Big Brother. Unfortunately, I lived in his shadow and know him better than I'd like to. I lived in Hong Kong for eight years, during the 1980s and early 1990s. I carried an identity card with my photo on it everywhere I went. If a policeman asked to see it, I showed it to him. That was t ...

Big Brother, big business BY L.C. WONG August 24, 2004 Star Publications (Malaysia) Bhd GEORGE Orwell first coined the term, numerous sci-fi books and movies have delved into it, and now there’s also a reality show on TV: Big Brother fears are gradually becoming a real-world concern. Just look at Japan, where the schoolbags and uniforms of primary school kids are being tagged with microchips that can track their whereabouts on school grounds. All a Japanese kid has to do is to pass by r ...

Big Returns From Small Fibers: A Review of Polymer/Carbon Nanotube Composites Publication date: 2004-12-01 Arrival time: 2004-12-23 Source: Polymer Composites ConocoPhillips intranet This paper reviews recent studies conducted on carbon nanotube/ polymer composites. Carbon nanotubes are promising new materials for blending with polymers with potential to obtain low-weight nanocomposites of extraordinary mechanical, electrical, thermal and multifunctional properties. The size scale, aspect ...

Big Things, Big Thinkers August 23, 2002 By James Pinkerton Fellow TECH CENTRAL New America Foundation What's the NBT - Next Big Thing - in homeland security? In 1945, scientists in these parts built the atomic bomb. Talk about Big Things: "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" ended World War Two. For decades thereafter, Sandia Labs was at the center of nuclear weapons design and production; the deterrent provided by the thousands of Big Things cranked out of here helped win the Cold War. But now ...

Mass High Tech 09/16/2002 09:10 AM By Patricia Resende The technology being developed at a local company could have been ripped out of a scene from Mission: Impossible. MicroOptical Corp., a Westwood-based business, has developed a wearable computing technology that displays video and text in or on a pair of glasses, similar to the glasses worn by Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible. The 25-person company has developed displays that allow the user to view electronic images simply by wear ...

Big, Expensive Wristphone Released In China August 21, 2003 by Scott Raulinaitis, Editor goodthatway.com China Electronics Corporation (CEC) has launched a wearable wristphone which runs on China's CDMA 1x network. The F88 wristphone sells for over $1100. While feature-packed with a very nice looking screen and apparently an eye towards good usability, this thing is awfully big. Would this really be smaller than just strapping one of the smallest traditional cell phones to your wrist? As ...

Bio-Sensing Systems and Bio- Feedback Systems for Interactive Media Arts 2003 Yoichi Nagashima Shizuoka University of Art and Culture / Art & Science Laboratory ABSTRACT This is a report of research and some experimental applications of human-computer interaction in multi-media performing arts. The human performer and the computer systems perform computer graphic and computer music interactively in real-time. In general, many sensors are used for the interactive communication as interfaces, ...

BIOELECTRONICS SHRINKS WIRELESS WEARABLE DEVICES Tuesday, 22 Mar 05 2005 CLB MEDIA INC. LEUVEN, Belgium - IMEC has developed a miniature 1 cm3 3-dimensional stacked system-in-a-cube (SiC) for wireless bioelectronic communications systems. The low-power 3D SiC, which comprises a radio and digital signal processing (DSP), has broad application in a variety of wireless products, ranging from monitors for human-body information to environmental data. The bioelectronics breakthrough will be ...

Bioimpedance measurement system for smart clothing By Timo Vuorela, Kari Kukkonen, Jaana Rantanen, Tiina Järvinen, and Jukka Vanhala Tampere University of Technology, Institute of Electronics Korkeakoulunkatu, Tampere, Finland 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computing Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Bioimpedance of a human body produces a great deal of information about the changes of the body during different kinds of activities. Acco ...

BIOMEDICAL TELEMEDICINE Jeffrey Lee Sanjeev Oghra January 11, 2005 Introduction Modern Wireless Devices The concept of a device that can execute complex computational functions has changed substantially over the past decade. What was once thought to just be a computer has evolved from desktops to laptops, to PDAs and cellular phones. Everyday over one billion people carry around devices that have sensors, location beacons, a connection to the Internet to download and upload information, im ...

BIOMONITORING WITH WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Thomas F. Budinger August 2003 Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering Wireless biomonitoring, first used in human beings for fetal heart-rate monitoring more than 30 years ago, has now become a technology for remote sensing of patients' activity, blood pulse pressure, oxygen saturation, internal pressures, orthopedic device loading, and gastrointestinal endoscopy. Technical advances in miniaturization and wireless communications have enabled develo ...

Bionic running shoe to hit the road Last modified: May 6, 2004, 6:28 AM PDT By Michel Marriott The New York Times CNET Networks PORTLAND, Ore.--Shoes have long been sensible. Now some are getting smart. Smart enough, that is, to sense their environment electronically, calculate how best to perform in it, and then instantly alter their physical properties to adapt to that environment. In short, the designers say, shoes that can do whatever is needed to deliver improved athletic performanc ...

BioSentient’s MobileMe wearable diagnostic device Posted Dec 14, 2004, 2:01 AM ET by Peter Rojas Engadget, LLC. It’s not often you get to write about the keynote speaker at your high school graduation (p.s. - Class of ‘93 was the best ever, way better than the Class of ‘94), but Dr. Mae Jemison, former astronaut and host of some CNet TV show we can’t remember the name of, has a new company called BioSentient which is working on a wearable diagnostic device called the MobileMe that uses the s ...

BBC Tuesday, 7 October, 2003 By Lakshmi Sandhana Michelle Thomas is learning to "see", not with her eyes but her ears. A computer reconstruction of one second of sound as seen by the vOICe system Now she can also use a mobile camera phone to do it. Blind since birth, Ms Thomas is able to recognize the walls and doors of her house, discern whether the lights are on or off and even distinguish a CD from a floppy disk after only a week using a revolutionary new system. She is "seeing wi ...

Bloom Accessory: Accessories Using LEDs with Remote Control By Yasue Kishino, Osaka University, Japan; Hiroyuki Fujiwara, Solution Crew, Inc., Japan; Toshiyuki Tanaka, Asao Shimosuka, Sohoaid Limited, Japan; Tomoki Yoshihisa, Masahiko Tsukamoto, Osaka University, Japan; Tomoko Itao, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan; Mizuko Oe, Ueda College of Fashion, Japan; Shojiro Nishio, Osaka University, Japan Eighth International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'04) October 31 - November ...

Bluetooth blues ZD Net Australia March 16, 2005 Oliver Descoeudres A Google search for "Bluetooth" and "frustration" returns 35,900 hits. A surprisingly low number, considering how much frustration I've had actually getting my "Personal Area Network" or piconet to provide some kind of productivity gain. (Apparently a "piconet" is a Bluetooth PAN consisting of up to eight active devices in a master-slave relationship -- I'd be happy to get two devices talking to each other in any kind of rel ...

Bluetooth display animates clothing 8 July 2004 James Tyrrell IOP Publishing Ltd Fashion victims and cyclists could soon be benefiting from wearable, flexible displays that can talk to mobile phones. The R&D division of France Telecom has developed a Bluetooth compatible LED screen that fits into clothing and displays text, drawings and animations sent by multimedia messaging service (MMS). The wearable screen is part of the group's forward-looking 'communicating clothes' project. However ...

Gizmo.com Infineon Technologies and O'Neill Europe unveiled the result of a joint product development project on January 14 - their first 'wearable electronics' snowboard jacket with functions such as an MP3 player and mobile telephony by Bluetooth. Based on O'Neill's specifications, well-known semi-conductor company Infineon developed the chip module suitable for integration into the pioneering snowboard jacket. The jacket will be known as "THE HUB" and technologically clued-in snowboarder ...

Bluetooth, MP3 jacket has keyboard on sleeve the INQUIRER Monday 26 July 2004, 08:54 For the fashion conscious geek By our Fashion Correspondent: Monday 26 July 2004, 08:54 GIANT SEMI firm Infineon has delivered on its threat to produce wearable computer systems by announcing the introduction of a Rosner combo MP3 Bluetooth jacket that includes a textile keyboard on the sleeve. Infineon said the product is intended for "technologically progressive, fashion conscious men" and said it will ...

Bluetooth-Enabled Medical Help on the Way March 6, 2001 By Mike Mayor NewsFactor Technology News Bluetooth and PC cards for medical devices will further the advancement of healthcare informatics in the home and doctor's office, the companies said. An agreement to develop medical device applications and products based on wireless Bluetooth technology has been announced by QRS Diagnostic, LLC and Advanced Medical Electronics Corporation. Embedding Bluetooth technology will enable the QRS Di ...

Body area network--a key infrastructure element for patient-centered telemedicine 2004 Norgall T, Schmidt R, von der Grun T. Stud Health Technol Inform The Body Area Network (BAN) extends the range of existing wireless network technologies by an ultra-low range, ultra-low power network solution optimised for long-term or continuous healthcare applications. It enables wireless radio communication between several miniaturised, intelligent Body Sensor (or actor) Units (BSU) and a single Body Ce ...

Body Coupled FingeRing: Wireless Wearable Keyboard By Masaaki Fukumoto & Yoshinobu Tonomura, NTT Human Interface Laboratories, Yokosuka-shi, Kanagawa-ken, JAPAN CHI 97 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Association for Computing Machinery Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. ABSTRACT A really wearable input device "FingeRing" is developed for coming wearable PDAs. By attaching ring shaped sensors on each finger, many commands or characters can be i ...

Body monitor Advances in Textiles Technology, June, 2003 US researchers are developing a system for constantly monitoring a human body. In US Patent 6 474 367, Atlanta-based Georgia Tech Research Corp describes a fully-fashioned garment that resembles a hospital gown. The gown's design is based on the minimal use of seams and requiring only minimum cutting. This unusual one-piece garment has legs and may have sleeves, all of which may be made from woven, knitted or nonwoven fabrics. The final garment is designed to incorporate intelligence that has the ability to monitor physical signs from the wearer and/or penetration of the garment. ... Want to read the whole article? You can purchase it here. It's quick and easy.

Body Tech David Pescovitz Dec/Jan 2001 Two years ago, when I spotted someone walking down the street having a heated conversation with himself, my immediate reaction was: "How sad, another schizophrenic." Things have changed. Now when I see a suit-wearing schizo bustling through the Financial District, an increasingly common occurrence, I just look for the wire running from his ear into the mobile phone in his pocket. These hands-free jabberjaws are the advance scouts in the nascent w ...

US Army Natick Soldier Center Overview: A rigid Merenda double-loop antenna has been transformed into a wearable, flexible, textile based antenna that is compatible with SINCGARS (Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System), and has been integrated into the MOLLE (Modular Lightweight Load-carrying Equipment) vest. It has advantages over the 30-inch whip antenna in that it is body conformal and visually covert, not compromising the soldier's silhouette. CECOM, a partner in the effort, has ...

Body, personal, and local ad hoc wireless networks Author Marco Conti Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy Year of Publication: 2003 Publisher CRC Press, Inc. Boca Raton, FL, USA ABSTRACT A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) represents a system of wireless mobile nodes that can freely and dynamically self-organize into arbitrary and temporary network topologies, allowing people and devices to seamlessly internetwork in areas without any preexisting communication infrastruct ...

Note: You will need to copy and paste the URL in a browser window to view the abstract online. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_aset=B-WA-A-B-EE-MsSAYZA-UUA-AUEEACVYWW-AUEZDBCZWW-ZCACCUADA-EE-U&_rdoc=8&_fmt=summary&_udi=B6V1W-4C708PF-1&_coverDate=05%2F31%2F2004&_cdi=5685&_orig=search&_st=13&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=5582b843e4d223598be9090816cfd0e8 Body-based interfaces By Gerard J. Kim,a, S.H.Sung H. Han, b, Huichul Yang, b, ...

Appl Ergon. 2004 May;35(3):263-74. Kim GJ, Han SH, Yang H, Cho C. Department of Computer Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, San 31, Hyoja-Dong, Nam-Gu, Pohang, Gyungbuk 790-784, South Korea. This research explores different ways to use features of one's own body for interacting with computers. Such "body-based" interfaces may find good uses in wearable computing or virtual reality systems as part of a 3D multi-modal interface in the future, freeing the user from holdin ...

Body-Centric WLANs for Future Wearable Computers A. Alomainy1, A. S. Owadally1, Y. Hao1, C. G. Parini1 Y. I. Nechayev2, C. C. Constantinou2 and P. S. Hall2 2004 Abstract – Wearable computers are expected to provide personalised assistants to the user anywhere at anytime with the user being the centre of attention in order to be a true extension of the human’s mind and body. Current wearable computer systems include wired connections between the various distributed network components. Replac ...

Boeing, Lockheed to design Air Force/Navy radio September 9, 2004 BY Frank Tiboni FCW.COM Industry teams led by officials at Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. will design the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) for the Air Force and the Navy. On Sept. 8, officials at the Air Force's Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., awarded contracts worth more than $50 million each to Boeing and Lockheed Martin for the pre-system development and demonstration phase of the airb ...

Boffins get their circuits in a twist By Lucy Sherriff Published Tuesday 16th March 2004 11:07 GMT The Register A Baltimore research team has developed a technique for building electrical circuitry that can bend and stretch like rubber. It could be used to make artificial nerves, rubbery needles or wearable electronics. The researchers used extremely thin gold wire, bent into a wave-like pattern, according to Nature. Thinner wires broke less than thicker ones, so the team sent the current a ...

Bond Would Love This October 18, 2004 By Alexandra A. Seno Newsweek MSNBC.com Oct. 18 issue - Lee Shang Ping's radio is dead. So he jogs in place, then jumps up and down for a few minutes. Then he offers up his earphone, now blaring a Mandarin pop song live from a local Singapore radio station. The radio hidden in his camouflage suit runs on energy generated when he steps on cells embedded in the soles of his running shoes, and by the movement of motion-sensitive canisters in his pockets. T ...

Medical Textiles; 7/1/2004 Read the Full Article, Get a FREE Trial for instant access » With a production of 280 000 tonnes in 2003, medical textiles is one of the fastest developing technical textile markets in China. According to Zhu Minru, Chairman of the China Nonwovens & Industrial Textiles Association (CNITA), the sector received a boost in the first half of last year following increased demand for protective textiles due to the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). He said this has led to more product development and production in the area, particularly of spunbond and composite fabrics, as well as increased imports from such companies...

Booting Up Something More Comfortable Scott Kirsner Wired News 10:20 AM Oct. 14, 1997 PT For most people, cell phones, personal digital assistants, and alphanumeric pagers are examples of technology that is small and unobtrusive enough to go anywhere. But attendees of the first-ever International Symposium on Wearable Computers won't be satisfied until you can step into your Pentium machine, button up your global positioning system, and slip on your liquid crystal display in the morning. T ...

Wired news May 02, 2003 By Mark Baard BOSTON -- Technology has a role to play in the arts, so long as high-tech contraptions don't come between artists and their audiences, says a conductor and inventor of electronic music instruments. Teresa Nakra, an MIT Media Lab alumna and the director of a company called Immersion Music, wants her inventions to inspire people to become great artists, or at least add some new visual and sound effects to their performances. Nakra is participating in the ...

Boxer shorts that call 9-1-1 January 14, 2005: 1:05 PM EST By Gordon T. Anderson CNN/Money staff writer NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Big ideas like the automobile or the jet engine were called revolutionary. But less heralded inventions affect people's lives much more directly. These days, pundits marvel at gee-whiz technology like the Internet, and how it is transforming society. Meanwhile, a quiet revolution is taking place in textiles and apparel. The jargon to describe it is "smart cloth ...

Wired News Mar. 27, 2003 By Michelle Delio TORONTO -- A happy brain hums. A stressed-out brain makes static sounds. A mildly concerned brain produces a noise that sounds like breakfast cereal melting in milk. An interested brain sounds like a jumpy cat emitting a steady, low-level purr interspersed with a few high-pitched squeals. Hook a whole bunch of brains up to a computer, capture and play the sounds they make, and you get, well, not quite music, but certainly some interesting noise. ...

Brain-driven gear gets sophisticated May 6, 2005 MALCOLM RITTER, The Associated Press Tuscon Citizen ALBANY, N.Y. - To somebody peeking into this little room, I'm just a middle-aged guy wearing a polka-dot blue shower cap with a bundle of wires sticking out the top, relaxing in a recliner while staring at a computer screen. In my imagination, I'm sitting bolt upright on a piano bench playing Chopin's Military Polonaise. Why? Because there's a little red box motoring across the screen, and ...

11.02.2003 By SIMON COLLINS Australian scientists have made a bra with a brain - it tightens its own straps if an energetic wearer needs extra support. The "smart bra" is made of a fabric with a special coating that makes it contract when the strain on it passes a pre-set level. Other smart fabrics developed by the team at Wollongong University are being made into a knee sleeve that tells athletes whether they have landed properly and a cloth for the United States military with built-in s ...

Brave New Wardrobe Dan Tynan From the April 2005 issue of PC World magazine Posted Friday, February 25, 2005 When it comes to fashion, I'm stuck between the preppie eighties and the grungy nineties. It's not a pretty sight, as my wife will attest. But my wardrobe may soon become a whole lot hipper, thanks to some nifty gadgets that double as clothing accessories. For example, Oakley's $500 Thump combines a flash MP3 player with a set of lightweight and stylish sunglasses--a very cool gadget ...

Bright sparks' latest invention – electric socks 25 March 2005 Amy Binns Yorkshire Post FIRST it was the musical jacket, then the light-up carpet – and now an innovative Yorkshire textile firm has created the world's first battery-operated sock. Canesis Ltd has produced a prototype of a pair of heated socks, which provide toasty toes without wires or chemical packs. Although they look just like an ordinary sock, they are actually made of wool blended with a conductive polymer which transmit ...

British Design Students Unveil Tooth Phone Prototype June 28, 2002 By Simon Smith Betterhumans In a few years, dentists may be doing more than just filling cavities. They may be installing the latest, greatest cell phones. To stimulate debate about wearable computers and the implications of cyborg technology, Royal College of Art students in London have created a prototype cell phone that fits in a tooth. Technology exists While the tooth phone lacks a communication chip, its student d ...

BRITISH DESIGNERS DEVELOP 'SMART' CLOTHES Read the Full Article, Get a FREE Trial for instant access » United Press International 10-05-2004 British designers develop 'smart' clothes LONDON, Oct 05, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- British designers are developing "smart" clothing that adapts to changing temperatures to keep the wearer comfortable. A team from both the University of Bath and the London College of Fashion is using nature as a guide to employ micro technology that will let in air to cool a wearer when it is hot and shut out air when it is cold, a spokesman said Tuesday. The technology is similar to a system used by pine cones to open up and emit ...

Subscription is required to view article online. British May Form Displays From Fabric by Brian Dance Semiconductor International Feb 01 '02 Softswitch (Yorkshire, UK) has developed a fabric that is expected to lead to display devices based on fabric materials within the next few years. These materials have already been used to develop low-resolution displays with pixel sizes of 1-2 mm. However, the company claims that, within two years, its fabric displays will be able to offer the same qu ...

Broadcast tip: Lifesaver on the Wrist 11 November 2003 ETH Zurich Researchers at the Wearable Computing Lab at ETH Zurich have developed a health monitoring for the wrist. A small account of it is given in the TV programme “MTW” on thursday. Zurich, 11 November 2003. Health monitoring is among the most attractive application fields for wearable electronics. The AMON (Advanced telemedical MONitor) project is an ambitious attempt at combining multiple health monitoring devices in a single wris ...

M2 Presswire; 3/3/2003 Read the Full Article, Get a FREE Trial for instant access » M2 PRESSWIRE-3 March 2003-David Rigby Associates: Broadwovens in technical textiles continue to grow but lose market share(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03032003 LONDON -- A new report from David Rigby Associates (DRA) forecasts that world consumption of broadwoven fabrics in technical textiles will grow from 5.9 million tonnes per annum in 2000 to 7.6 million in 2010. This is mainly the result of the volume market growth of technical textiles overall, averaging 3.2% per annum over the period, and is despite broadwovens losing market share to fast...

BT boffins develop SMS ‘with feelings’ August 5, 2003 By John Leyden The Register BT has developed new technology that takes mobile messaging from the arena of 2D photo messages and voice clips to another level where "actual emotions can be conveyed between family and friends in a physical and tactile way". The research by BT Exact, BT's research business, allows interactive toys to be linked to mobile phones so that SMS communication can be displayed through the toys' actions. This enables ...

Building a lightweight eyetracking headgear By Jason S.Babcock & Jeff B. Pelz, Rochester Institute of Technology Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium, San Antonio, 2004 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Eyetracking systems that use video-based cameras to monitor the eye and scene can be made significantly smaller thanks to tiny micro-lens video cameras. Pupil detection algorithms are generally implemented in hardw ...

Building Intelligent Environments with Smart-Its January/February 2004 By Lars Erik Holmquist, Viktoria Institute; Hans-Werner Gellersen, Gerd Kortuem, Albrecht Schmidt, and Martin Strohbach, Lancaster University; Stavros Antifakos, Florian Michahelles, and Bernt Schiele, ETH Zurich; Michael Beigl, University of Karlsruhe; Ramia Mazé, Interactive Institute Victoria Institute Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. In the Smart-Its project, we are developing technolo ...

Built textile tough Apr 19, 2005 By Washington Post NEW YORK -- In the brave new world of advanced materials, the key words are stronger, lighter, faster, smarter and safer. "Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance," a new exhibition at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, showcases the latest precision-engineered materials as if they were fiber art. But they are pure function, a convergence of design, science and technology. Gossamer filaments can heave a sa ...

15:31 31 May 02 NewScientist.com news service Will Knight The first wearable computer designed to withstand enemy fire in a hostile combat situation has been built in the US. Small computer systems are already used by the US military for communications, navigation and reconnaissance. The new, ultra-tough computer system was constructed by Xybernaut, which currently makes compact wearable computers for use in the engineering and construction industries. Prototype Xybernaut computers fitte ...

Burton and Motorola Present New Wearable Technology 12.01.2005 www.burton.com This weekend at the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas Burton and Motorola introduced three new Bluetooth-enabled products: a jacket, a RED helmet and a beanie. The crew at Motorola wanted to do something dramatic to let all the gear heads at the show know they were there with something super-different. They went all out and built a 100-foot tall scaffolding jump, called Motomountain, just outside the main ...

Businessinfo: Report Sees Smart Textiles Topping $64.4 Million in 2004 March 3, 2005 Business Wire LONDON -- A new study from Businessinfo.ws puts the U.S. market for smart and interactive textiles at some $64.4 million in 2004 and is expected to rise at an AAGR (average annual growth rate) of 36% to $299.3 million in 2009. 'The SMIT Report' shows that consumer products accounted for the bulk of U.S. SMIT sales in 2003 and 2004. The SMIT Report notes that in some circles this might be consi ...

But It Doesn't Have Any Debt! By Rich Smith April 27, 2005 Motley Fool Over the past few weeks, I've taken the liberty of conducting an autopsy on wearable computer maker Xybernaut (Nasdaq: XYBRE) before it's actually, officially dead. It's a painful process, but by this time, I suspect that investors have suffered so much hurt from the company's crashing share price that the incremental pain of investigating what went wrong is insignificant. So on to it. For readers who are not yet up to ...

But Will Your Shoe's Operating System Need Upgrading? May 7, 2004 Adidas has a computerized shoe that it says will know you well enough to make you a better distance runner. By The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Adidas says it has created the world's first "smart shoe" by mating it with a computer chip that adapts its cushioning level to a runner's size and stride. The Adidas 1 is the product of a three-year secret project the German company developed at its U.S. headquarters in ...

CA clothing designer Angelic Genius presents ‘Intelligent Clothing’ for infants 14th October 2004 fibre2fashion.com Clothing designer Angelic Genius releases a line of "Intelligent" infant clothing in top retail fashion locations and at AngelicGenius.com. California clothing designer Angelic Genius (angelicgenius.com) has debuted a new line of "Intelligent" infant clothing. On its first showing this line was immediately chosen to be carried at Los Angeles’ nationally-renowned and trendset ...

Calibration of a Head-Mounted Projective Display for Augmented Reality Systems By Hong Hua, Chunyu Gao, Narendra Ahuja, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR'02) September 30 - October 01, 2002 IEEE Computer Society You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract In augmented reality (AR) application, registering a virtual object with its real c ...

Read the Full Article, Get a FREE Trial for instant access » Wireless News 09-22-2004 California Honda Dealer Deploys Microvision's Nomad System WIRELESS NEWS-22 September 2004-California Honda Dealer Deploys Microvision's Nomad System (C)2004 10Meters - http:// www.10meters.com Microvision announced today from the Annual Honda Dealer Conference that its Nomad Expert Technician System is scheduled for use at Norm Reeves Honda Superstore, Cerritos, Calif. The Nomad System is a wearable, wireless computer with a head- worn, head-up display, providing automotive technicians and service advisors with hands-free access to...

p2pnet.net News:- France Telecom now has working prototypes of flexible colour screens integrated into clothing. It's, "opening up new horizons for services that let users display images on the clothes they wear," says a cellular-news story here, going on: "These flexible display screens usher in a new type of expression: the image a person wears personalises their clothes to reflect their particular surroundings, centres of interest, moods, etc. Displaying animated visuals on yourself conside ...

Calling All Air Conditioners by Elisa Batista Wired News 11:20 AM Apr. 18, 2001 PT From the what-will-they-think-of-next file, Carrier plans to release an air conditioner this summer that could be turned on or off by a cell phone or desktop computer. Carrier initially plans to offer the air conditioners -– which have sensors and a GSM modem powered by IBM -– in Europe. IBM admits it "sounds stupid" but the concept could be applied to all household appliances in the future: Users could ...

Pittsburgh Technology Council December 2003 By: Jonathan Kersting Let’s face it. We’re a nation battling the bulge. Seems like a near-daily occurrence for the nightly news to report the latest obesity statistics on our growing waistline. Fad diets abound and many of us make New Year’s resolutions to exercise more, but like our super-sized meals, our pant sizes still keep getting bigger. No matter what diet or exercise program you stick to, the only real way to lose weight is by burning mo ...

Camera in a pill offers doctors a look at your inner space Thursday, April 7, 2005 By GRANT BUCKLER Special to The Globe and Mail, with files from Associated Press 'Take this pill, and it will call me in the morning." Your doctor isn't quite ready to say that yet, but futuristic technology is slowly transforming medicine, giving physicians new ways of finding out what's happening inside your body. One of the world's first diagnostic pills, the PillCam SB, is a capsule developed by Given ...

Camera in a Pill: High-Tech Imaging Solution June 2004 David Ramkumar, M.D., University of Iowa Health Science Relations and Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine Virtual Hospital Picture this: Your doctor needs to examine the middle portion of your digestive tract. Conventional technology using long flexible tubes won't quite do the trick. Instead, your doctor hands you a pill the size of a multivitamin. The pill has a tiny camera inside. You swallow the pill with water and put a reco ...

BBC News Thursday, 18 September, 2003, 09:24 GMT 10:24 UK Soon your sunglasses could help you capture all the important moments of your life. A prototype pair of sunglasses with a camera built in to them has been created by Hewlett Packard researchers. "It means you now have a wearable camera which nobody will notice and can take pictures while being involved in events," said Huw Robson from Hewlett Packard. But experts say there could be privacy implications if this sort of technology ...

Can chips make you a better person? R&D consortium seeks cross-disciplinary approach to realize the future Oct 14, 2002 by Jeff Chappell Electronic News LookSmart LEUVEN, BELGIUM--Here in Flanders, the crossroads of Europe, researchers envision electronics improving human existence in a tailored, non-invasive way--far more than a few steps beyond ergonomic keyboards. "Ambient intelligence ... where people don't have to adapt to the electronics, the electronics adapt to us," said Rudy Lauw ...

Canada : Nano route to spider silk 12th August 2004 fibre2fashion Nexia of Canada has decided to refocus its fibre development towards biopolymer sales and specialized nano-scale fibre applications for spider silk away from traditional fibres and yarns. This decision was prompted by the emerging interest in nanofibres and by the ongoing technical challenges of producing bulk, cost competitive spider silk fibres with superior mechanical properties, especially strength. Nexia has therefore s ...

Canada : Uni Of Toronto's nanotechnologists' develop new solar powered fabric 31st January 2005 fibre2fashion Researchers at the University of Toronto have invented an infrared-sensitive material that has the potential to create clothing with the capacity to turn the sun's power into electrical energy. In a paper to be published on the Nature Materials website Jan. 9, senior author Professor Ted Sargent, Nortel Networks – Canada Research Chair in Emerging Technologies at U of T's Departmen ...

Washington Business Journal 8 June 2004 Jeanine Herbst A wearable computer that's also a cell phone and a pager? Xybernaut says it's possible, and the Canadian government agrees, awarding a patent to the Fairfax-based maker of hands-free, full-service computers. The Canadian patent resembles a recent Israeli patent and covers a core computer, a display and a communications module, Xybernaut officials say. In a statement, the company's CEO and chairman, Edward Newman noted the company ...

Canadian Researcher Invents New Solar Cell Thursday, January 13, 2005 11:16:15 AM ET By Astrid Poei metro TORONTO (Reuters) - It may only be a matter of time before we will be using our shirts to charge our cellphones. Researchers at the University of Toronto have invented a flexible plastic solar cell that is said to be five times more efficient than current methods in converting energy from the sun into electrical energy. Team leader Ted Sargent, a professor of electrical and computer en ...

Canesis Smart Textile Technologies for Healthcare Devices Stewart Collie 2004 Abstract Canesis Ltd is a textile research and development company, the UK subsidiary of Canesis Network Ltd (formerly the Wool Research Organisation of New Zealand). At our laboratory we carry out a range of projects developing intelligent and electronic textile technologies. As our goal is to achieve deep integration of functional technologies into textiles (and therefore allow such systems to become ubiquitous) ...

Capital inventors put world of TV at your fingertips Tue 29 Mar 2005 Scotsman.com IMAGINE being able to watch crystal clear pictures on a tiny television set you could fit on your fingertip. In an age of giant-screen TVs and home cinema systems, you might well wonder why anyone would want to watch EastEnders on a screen the size of a fingernail. The answer, explains Bill Campbell, the chief executive of Edinburgh company MicroEmissive Displays (MED), is quite straightforward. Instead of ...

Capture forWearable Computer Evaluation By Kent Lyons and Thad Starner, College of Computing, GVU Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 USA Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Introduction Wearable computers have the potential to offer their users great advantages. Worn like clothing, the machine can always be with its user. A single interaction can be as short as a few seconds, yet some users have relied upon their machines for years. Once a user integrates the machine into her daily life, the persistent, quick access, always–on nature of the machine allows her to take especial advantage of the augmentations the wearable provides [13].

Carbon Boosts Plastic Circuits December 4, 2003 Technology Research News Plastic thin film transistors promise to enable flexible displays, radio frequency ID tags, electronic paper, and electronic textiles. Transistors switch on and off to provide the binary logic of computing using source, drain and gate electrodes and a channel. The source electrode introduces electrical current into the channel, and the drain electrode receives it at the other end. The gate, or control, electrode uses ...

Carbon Nanofiber Makes Smart Yarn November 24, 2004 By Bill Christensen Live Science Science fiction writer Neal Stephenson wrote about arachnofiber uniforms in his 1992 novel Snow Crash. These bulletproof and lightweight uniforms were worn by the Deliverators, the world's best pizza delivery guys. Carbon nanofiber can now be spun like yarn to make an amazing variety of new inventions possible, including lightweight bulletproof uniforms. Among the many possibilities: - Soft protective ves ...

Read the Full Article, Get a FREE Trial for instant access » Business Wire; 10/6/2004 HOUSTON -- Carbon Nanotechnologies: --Provides coverage for composites, fibers and other materials containing derivitized single-wall carbon nanotubes which are substantially aligned --Complements recently issued or allowed patent coverage relative to derivatization and purification of carbon nanotubes Carbon Nanotechnologies, Inc (CNI) announced today the issue of U.S. Patent 6,790,425 B1 for both pure and composite materials containing derivitized single-wall carbon nanotubes in substantial alignment with one another. This patent paves the way for commerc... 600 of 4438 Characters

Carbon nanotubes fill up with magnetic nanoparticles April 1, 2005 By Liz Kalaugher Nanotechweb.org Researchers at Drexel University and TRI/Princeton, US, have filled carbon nanotubes with magnetic nanoparticles. The resulting magnetic nanostructures could have applications in memory devices, medicine and wearable electronics. “After successfully filling multiwalled carbon nanotubes with a variety of polar and nonpolar liquids, such as water, glycerin, alcohols, benzene, and cyclohexane, ...

CARE TO SLIP INTO SOMETHING MORE DIGITAL? By Paul C. Judge BusinessWeek 10/20/97 It's the ultimate in portable computing: clothing that incorporates elements of a computer right into wearable designs. But is the fashion world ready for geek chic? On Oct. 15, a group of cyberfashion pioneers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Laboratory will find out when they present a bona fide fashion show of wearable computers. Part academic conference and part fashion preview, the sho ...

Carmakers Study RFID's ROI for Racks May 3, 2005 By Jonathan Collins RFID Journal Looking to help determine where RFID can best provide automotive manufacturers with a way to cut operating costs and increase efficiency, the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) is preparing a business case to establish the potential return on investment for automakers deploying RFID on reusable containers and transportation racks. "Manufacturers spend a ton of money on reusable containers such as wheel pa ...

Carrier board simplifies CompactFlash development Edited by: Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 14 April 2005 Electronics Talk C Data Solutions has a new low cost carrier board for its CompactFlash Computer. The CompactFlash Computer is a Freescale ColdFire MCF5272 processor, 32Mbyte SDRAM, 8Mbyte Flash all packaged in a Type II CompactFlash card, measuring 42 x 37 x 5mm and is preloaded with uClinux. The CompactFlash Computer is available for $200 in small volumes or $100 in OEM quantities. ...

Case study: user research to inform the design and development of integrated wearable computers and web-based services By Jodi Forlizzi, Margaret McCormack August 2000 Proceedings of the conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text. ABSTRACT The competitive playing field for startup companies often does not allow for the time to understand how user need ...

Casio Introduces 2nd Generation Wrist Camera Watch WQV10D-2 January 27, 2003 Mobilemag.com, Inc. Casio has introduced the new WQV10D-2 Color Wrist Camera watch with Color LCD. A 2X Digital zoom let's you get closer to your subjects and IR transfer let's you share your pictures with other Casio wrist cameras* and your PC. A 25,000-pixel color CMOS sensor lets you capture rich colors when needed and a text editor lets you add notes to your images so you'll always remember the name with the face ...

Castles in the air 20 October 2001 Will Knight Zurich From New Scientist Print Edition ARCHITECTS may one day walk onto a greenfield site and conjure up the edifice they want to build with a click of their fingers. A wall here, an atrium there—all the legwork will be done by a wearable virtual reality system. Wayne Peikarski and Bruce Thomas of the University of South Australia in Mawson Lakes, Adelaide, last week showed a conference on wearable computers in Zurich how their system would ...

Catalyst Bundles for Compliance April 14, 2005 By Jonathan Collins RFID Journal The supply chain systems specialist has launched three packages of RFID hardware, software and professional services to help smaller companies meet mandates. Drawing on the software and experience it gained designing and supporting custom RFID implementations, supply chain systems specialist Catalyst International has launched three RFID bundles composed of hardware, software and professional services. The Milw ...

Catch a Flick on Flexible E-Paper 11:46 AM Sep. 24, 2003 PT Reuters LONDON -- Even before the electronic ink has dried on the e-page, a new generation of electronic paper may soon be able to bring a moving image to a foldable screen near you, according to scientists in the Netherlands. Hot on the heels of the invention of a wafer-thin foldable screen that can display static type and may one day replace newspapers as it can be overwritten each day, scientists at Philips Research in Eindho ...

CBS' 'Evening News' Reports on Wearable Computer for Doctors August 9, 2004 iHealthBeat.org CBS' "Evening News" on Thursday reported on a new wearable computer system that lets physicians at Vanderbilt University Medical Center view information while walking through the hospital (Strassman, "Evening News," CBS, 8/5). The system, developed by Vanderbilt anesthesiologist Dr. Michael Higgins, lets doctors control what they view on a floating monitor that sits in front of their eyes. Dr. James ...

CCNC 2005 to Demonstrate Enabling Pervasive Consumer Communications Wednesday December 15, 1:24 pm ET CCNC 2005 to Demonstrate Enabling Pervasive Consumer Communications Wednesday December 15, 1:24 pm ET IEEE 'Consumer Communications and Networking Conference' to Take Place January 3 - 6, 2005 in Las Vegas NEW YORK, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The IEEE "Consumer Communications and Networking Conference," known as CCNC 2005, will take place January 3 - 6 at Caesar's Palace hotel in Las Ve ...

CEA Announces Its Five Technologies To Watch In 2005 ecoustics.com November 12, 2004 Annual Publication Spotlights Up and Coming Technologies in the Consumer Electronics Industry Arlington, Va., November 10, 2004 - Media servers, portable entertainment, hybrid white goods, innovative gaming and telematics are hot technologies to watch, according to the annual Five Technologies to Watch report issued today by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). Each year, the publication explores fi ...

CeBIT 2005: 'Wearable Hub' for Communications in the Home March 16, 2005 PhysOrg The day isn’t far off when it will be possible to control all home communications and automation systems by using a single wearable device that recognizes voice commands. Siemens developed such a small multi-talented communications device. It can be worn like a badge or pin on an article of clothing. The commands are transmitted via the Bluetooth short-range digital radio standard to a central home communication ...

CeBIT Event Latest Stage for Xybernaut Mobile/Wearable Technologies Thursday, 03 March 2005 GISuser.com FAIRFAX, Va. & HANNOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 2005--Mobile/wearable computing is finding increasing interest in business applications across many industry segments. The 2005 CeBIT technology fair is one of the venues at which Xybernaut(R) (NASDAQ:XYBR) (Hall 2/ booth B 25) will showcase the Company's solutions service abilities, its leading technologies -- such as the Atigo(R) ...

Thursday August 14, 2003 1:19 PM CDT Source: CNet Asia CNet Asia reports: A Chinese company has launched a tiny, pricey wristphone that packs in features found in larger phones, such as a keypad, color screen and camera. Government-run electronics conglomerate CEC (China Electronics Corporation) has released the mobile phone, designed for China's CDMA 1x network. Several Chinese Web sites are currently taking orders for the F88. The retail price of the device on cellular enthusiast Web si ...

Cell phone as everyday neck attire? April 11, 2002 Reuters USAToday.com KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Reuters) — Never mind the jewel pendant. Sprint PCS Group wants to grace your neck with the first wearable cell phone, with a screen to display personalized greetings such as "Wassup?" and "How Ya Doing?" To match your mood, just change the decorative side panels. The $149.99 phone, which weighs just 3.7 ounces, was launched Thursday by the nation's fourth-largest wireless phone service provider. Kor ...

Cell Phone of Future Fits on the Wrist By Martyn Williams, IDG News Service October 10, 2000 PCWorld.com To take a call, put your finger in your ear (wash hands before eating). CHIBA, JAPAN-- NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest cellular operator, provided visitors to the CEATEC electronics exhibition here last week with a glance at a cell phone of the future. The telephone, which was on show only as an engineering prototype, resembles a watch phone. That's futuristic enough, but several companies ...

A wearable communications system has been developed by NetworkAnatomy. The one-size-fits-all gauntlet is a wireless system that contains a two-way radio, cellular and satellite technologies, a PC-based interactive monitor, an interlaced audio/video camera, integrated power systems and extreme lighting to provide its user with "out-front" communications access without restricting hand movements or use of fingers. The waterproof gauntlet is ruggedized to withstand bumps and impacts, measures 15 i ...

Cellphone to monitor your health April 22, 2004 Cellular News MedicTouch, developer of the first cellular wearable health and wellness devices, and Sun Microsystems have jointly announced the launch of the Pulse Meter mobile health solution for Java mobile phones. MedicTouch Pulse Meter is the first mobile health and wellness monitor that allows users to monitor their pulse, view the results in a high-resolution screen on a Java technology-enabled mobile phone, and transmit the data to a Java ...

By Bernard Cole iApplianceWeb (01/02/04, 11:26:38 PM EDT) Las Vegas, Nev. -- At the Consumer Electronics Show this week, Deja View, Inc. will introduce what it says is the first camcorder that is small enough to clip onto a pair of eyeglasses or bill of a hat and shoot video of selected action 30 seconds before the record button is pressed. According to Deja View founder and president, Sid Reich, the new Model 100 device is the first in a family of "camwear" products aimed at to solve the a ...

Challenges and considerations for the design and production of a purpose-optimized body-worn wrist-watch computer Sep 2004 Chandra Narayanaswami, Mandayam T. Raghunath Proc. SPIE Vol. 5443, p. 1-12, Defense, Security, and Cockpit Displays; Darrel G. Hopper; Ed. Abstract We outline a collection of technological challenges in the design of wearable computers with a focus on one of the most desirable form-factors, the wrist watch. We describe our experience with building three generations ...

Challenges and Opportunities in Electronic Textiles Modeling and Optimization* By Diana Marculescu, Radu Marculescu and Pradeep K Khosla Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. ABSTRACT This paper addresses an emerging new field of research that combines the strengths and capabilities of electronics and textiles in one electronic textiles or e-textiles. E-textiles, also called Smart Fabrics ...

Chameleon Fibers: Dynamic Color Change From Tunable Molecular and Oligomeric Devices Richard V. Gregory, School of Textiles, Fibers and Polymer Science, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634-1307 Robert J. Samuels, School of Chemical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0100 Tim Hanks, Department of Chemistry, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina 29613 National Textile Center Annual Report: November 2001 Goal: The goal of this research ...

Changing markets make for fast times at Flint Ink mlive.com March 13, 2005 Bryce G. Hoffman Flint Ink Corp. is embracing change. In January, Howard Flint II stepped down as chief executive officer of the family-owned company, passing the reins to the company's president, Leonard D. Frescoln. That move capped a busy couple of years in which the Ann Arbor Township company launched three new domestic subsidiaries, opened a new factory in China, accelerated its expansion into other developing ...

Channels Characteristics for On-Body Mica2Dot Wireless Sensor Networks 2005 David Jea & Mani B. Srivastava Department of Electrical Engineering University of California, Los Angeles Abstract - Wearable computing has long been interested by numerous research groups. Biomedical applications in Sensor Networks also attract many researchers’ focuses, especially in the real-time health status monitoring field. However, the inconvenience of interconnecting sensors through wires not only induces ...

Characterization and Implications of the Sensors Incorporated into the SenseWear Armband for Energy Expenditure and Activity Detection By Craig B. Liden, MD, Mary Wolowicz, M.Ed., John Stivoric, M.Des, Astro Teller, Ph.D., Chris Kasabach, B.F.A, Suresh Vishnubhatla, MS.EE, Ray Pelletier, MS.LC, Jonny Farringdon, MSc., Scott Boehmke, B.S BodyMedia.com Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract The SenseWear Armband is a versatile and reliable wearable body monito ...

Characterization of integrated fiber optic sensors in smart textiles Publication Date: Mar 2004 Jianming Yuan, Mahmoud A. El-Sherif, Saif Khalil, James Fairneny Publication: Proc. SPIE Vol. 5272, p. 197-206, Industrial and Highway Sensors Technology; Brian Culshaw, Michael A. Marcus, John P. Dakin, Samuel D. Crossley, Helmut E. Knee; Eds. Abstract Smart textiles with integrated fiber optic sensors have been studied for various applications including in-situ measurement of load/deform ...

Charge Defects in Low Temperature Silicon Nitride/Silicon Interfaces for Application in Computational Clothing and Electronic Textiles By KIE JIN PARK, Master's Thesis, Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University June 26, 2002 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract The purpose of this research has been to 1) explore materials prepared using plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) for amorphous silicon thin film transistors (TFTs) fabric ...

Charles Arthur On Technology 15 December 2004 The Independent Online Edition 'The next big thing for communication on the move: a computer you can wear on your sleeve' Spitting Image, the current affairs rubber puppet programme of the 1980s (and what a strange phrase that is), may turn out to be responsible for a computing breakthrough, one that has been promised for years yet never before quite come to fruition. Here's how. Two of the people who worked on the programme were challenged to c ...

Science Daily 04/04/02 Berkeley - University of California, Berkeley, chemists have found a way to make cheap plastic solar cells flexible enough to paint onto any surface and potentially able to provide electricity for wearable electronics or other low-power devices. The group's first crude solar cells have achieved efficiencies of 1.7 percent, far less than the 10 percent efficiencies of today's standard commercial photovoltaics. The best solar cells, which are very expensive semicondu ...

Check out the invisibility cloak DOT.LIFE - Where tech meets life, every Monday By Maggie Shiels In San Francisco BBC News Last Updated: Monday, 17 May, 2004, 10:29 GMT 11:29 UK Flying cars, transparent cloaks, technology which can read minds and games played by brain waves - the stuff of fiction, surely? Not so, these seemingly far-fetched inventions - and more - are now reality. For a vision of what the future holds, thousands of nay-sayers and believers alike have got an up close ...

Chemists develop technology for cheap, plastic solar cells April 2, 2002 By Jason Ford e4engineering.com University of California, Berkeley, chemists have found a way to make cheap plastic solar cells that are flexible enough to paint onto any surface and potentially able to provide electricity for wearable electronics or other low-power devices. The chemists' first crude solar cells are said to have achieved efficiencies of 1.7 percent. The best solar cells, which are very expensive semico ...

BBC News Wednesday, 10 September, 2003, 07:51 GMT 08:51 UK By Jo Twist BBC News Online technology reporter Your clothes will soon become accessories for your gadgets, say fashion and technology experts. The technology will be so much a part of you and your clothing, the outside world might not even know it is there though. But there are many design challenges for fashion and engineers if they want people to wear technology. One thing is certain, you will not have to resemble the Bor ...

Chic geek 24 February 2001 Scott Lafee Magazine issue 2279 New Scientist Clothing of the future will be smart, so smart it will organise your day. It'll take you jogging, massage your ego and even fix your love life, says Scott Lafee IF DRESSING well is a sign of advanced civilisation, you could be forgiven for thinking that we're heading for disaster. Science fiction tends to clothe the next generation in drab stuff: dull white-on-white spacesuits or rags, animal hides and other post-A ...

Chic solar power breakthrough claimed Updated: 10:23 a.m. ET Jan. 14, 2005 MSNBC News TORONTO - It may only be a matter of time before we will be using our shirts to charge our cellphones. Researchers at the University of Toronto have invented a flexible plastic solar cell that is said to be five times more efficient than current methods in converting energy from the sun into electrical energy. Team leader Ted Sargent, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the university, sa ...

Chinese university, Xybernaut tie on wearable computers November 326, 2003 IDG News Service Xybernaut Corp. has signed an agreement with the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Beihang University) under which the two will research and develop mobile and wearable computers, the company said in a statement Tuesday. Under the terms of the agreement the two will establish a National Center of Competence for Wearable Technology to carry out the research, which will also include i ...

Chip for humans a blessing to some, a curse to others November 29, 2004 By Charles Murray, EE Times Embedded.com Chicago — Futurists predict that some day, electronic devices will routinely communicate from inside the human body, possibly even uploading and downloading data to and from the brain. But that rosy scenario is cold comfort to the founders of Applied Digital Solutions Inc. The Palm Beach, Fla., maker of RF chips for use inside the human body has struggled with questions about it ...

Chip for humans a blessing to some, a curse to others November 29, 2004 By Charles Murray EE Times Chicago — Futurists predict that some day, electronic devices will routinely communicate from inside the human body, possibly even uploading and downloading data to and from the brain. But that rosy scenario is cold comfort to the founders of Applied Digital Solutions Inc. The Palm Beach, Fla., maker of RF chips for use inside the human body has struggled with questions about its business ...

Chip Maker Gets to Heart of the Matter By Norbert Sparrow May/June 2004 European Medical Device Manufacturer And the beat goes on for austriamicrosystems (Schloss Premstätten, Austria). The maker of mixed-signal integrated circuits has announced a development deal with Polar Electro, a manufacturer of heart-rate monitors based in Finland. Austriamicrosystems will design and supply ultra-low-power application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for a new line of wearable heart-rate monitors ...

Chip promises brighter wearable displays February 28, 2001 By Eric Smalley Technology Research News Tiny computer displays that can be mounted on eyeglasses and visors would be brighter, faster and sturdier if they could be made out of semiconductor chips rather than the liquid crystal and organic materials currently used. It's hard to coax light out of silicon, however, and the semiconductor has to produce the right kind of light. Some common semiconductors like gallium arsenide emit red ...

Chipmaker Infineon Technologies is weaving its products into an entirely new fashion industry: high-tech textiles April 26, 2002 By John G. Spooner CNET Networks, Inc. The Munich-based company on Friday showed off new prototype wearable chips that it says can be sewn directly into clothing and other textiles. Infineon's Emerging Technologies Group has developed chips, sensors and packages that allow the processors to be woven into fabrics. Special materials woven into the fabric are used ...

Chipmakers Zero In On Gains In Products With GPS Capability BY JAMES DETAR INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Thursday, June 10, 2004 You took the photo of a lifetime on your vacation last year. The setting was gorgeous, the colors brilliant. Now, if only you could remember where that beautiful spot was so you could visit it again. The human memory is fallible, but technology can help. One way to remember that locale is to use a digital camera equipped with a global positioning system chip. Such GPS ...

Chips will be woven into your Armani suits By Mike Magee the INQUIRER Tuesday 12 November 2002, 16:21 Fashion victims, beware trustworthy computing INFINEON, WHICH which has a large presence at the "Electronica" electronics fair which opened in Munich today, said it is demonstrating chips and sensors woven into "smart textiles", with connecting wires integrated into the weave and with miniscule power consumption. The firm is showing a jacket with a voice controlled MP3 player, and the ga ...

Chips-with-everything is the future: expert by Charlie Taylor April 22 2005 ElectricNews.Net Ltd Cheap chips and easy networking mean that in a few years everything that can be connected will be connected, but technology needs to get back to basics. That's according to Ian Pearson, a futurologist with BT who was in Dublin on Thursday to attend the World Nano-Economic conference. Speaking to ElectricNews.Net, Pearson said that in the coming decades ubiquitous networks will lead to a chi ...

Chips-with-everything is the future: expert April 22, 2005 by Charlie Taylor Electric News. net Cheap chips and easy networking mean that in a few years everything that can be connected will be connected, but technology needs to get back to basics. That's according to Ian Pearson, a futurologist with BT who was in Dublin on Thursday to attend the World Nano-Economic conference. Speaking to ElectricNews.Net, Pearson said that in the coming decades ubiquitous networks will lead to a c ...

Circuit Transfers Four Times More Power Out Of Shakes And Rattle September 24, 2002 ScienceDaily Penn State engineers have optimized an energy harvesting circuit so that it transfers four times more electrical power out of vibration – the ordinary shakes and rattles generated by human motion or machine operation. Using their laboratory prototype, which was developed from off-the-shelf parts, the Penn State researchers can generate 50 milliwatts. Although they haven't tried it, they believe ...

Circular connector available with coax, power contacts 25 Apr 2005 Gina Roos Electronic Engineering Times Hypertronics' D series of high reliability circular plastic connectors is now available with coax and power contacts. This D02 offering is available with a combination of 1 coaxial contact (rated at frequencies to 18GHz) and up to 9 signal contacts (rated at 2.5A). Alternatively, the coax may be replaced with a 25A power contact in the same housing. The circular connectors are also ava ...

Cisco Extends Leadership in Storage Virtualization HostReview March 14, 2005 Cisco Systems, Inc.® (www.cisco.com) today unveiled significant updates to its network-based storage virtualization solutions that will help Cisco and a wide variety of independent software vendors (ISVs) jointly address key customer pain points related to storage provisioning, data migration/replication, backup/recovery, disk capacity utilization, and storage management costs. Cisco enables these new solutions, or ...

Cisco, PanGo Unveil Tracking System May 12, 2005 By Bennett Voyles RFID Journal Cisco Systems and PanGo Networks have announced an integrated asset-tracking system that operates over a standard 802.11 Wi-Fi network. PanGo Networks, a Framingham, Mass., a technology firm specializing in asset location software, is now jointly marketing the PanGo Locator, its Wi-Fi-based tracking software, with the San Jose routing giant's 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance as a single, integrated solut ...

Clever clothes April 18, 2002 By Brian Davis e4engineering.com In future it won't be simply a case of what you're wearing, but how intelligent the clothes are. Sick of carrying around a mobile phone and a laptop? Want to improve your tennis technique? As mobile technology comes to play an increasingly dominant role in people's lives, the next wave of computing is focused on developing soft, wearable technology and devices. A new generation of computerised textiles and clothing is being dev ...

Clever clothes that react with smell March 11, 2005 By Julie Clothier CNN LONDON, England (CNN) -- Of all the senses, smell is the most important to Jenny Tillotson. It makes sense then that the British designer has dedicated much of her career researching the importance of scents and incorporating them into art. Now, she is using her research and combining it with technology to create clothes and brooches that give off their own smell. A far cry from the primitive-in-comparison "scratch ...

Clinical efficacy of a wearable defibrillator in acutely terminating episodes of ventricular fibrillation using biphasic shocks. October 2003 Reek S, Geller JC, Meltendorf U, Wollbrueck A, Szymkiewicz SJ, Klein HU.; Division of Cardiology, University Hospital Magdeburg, Germany. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2003 Oct;26(10):2016-22. You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. The Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator (WCD) a ...

Close Encounters: Supporting Mobile Collaboration through Interchange of User Profiles By Gerd Kortuem, Zary Segall, Thaddeus G. Cowan Thompson, University of Oregon, Department of Computer Science, Eugene, OR 97403, USA Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract This paper introduces the notion of profile-based cooperation as a way to support awareness and informal communication between mobile users during chance encounters. We describe the design of Proem, a we ...

Closed-Loop Data Validity Assurance for Wearable Health Monitoring Systems By Professor Haruhiko H. Asadan Principal Investigator, and Reginald C. Hutchinson, Graduate Research Assistant d’Arbeloff Laboratory for Information Systems and Technology, MIT, Cambridge, MA Progress Report No. 3-1, April 2001, MIT Home Automation and Healthcare Consortium, Phase 3 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. ABSTRACT Current devices on the market have the feature to minimize all ...

Cloth bag catches shoplifter May 22, 2005 Tracy Staedter Innovation & Technology At first glance, a cloth bag may seem an unlikely security device. But if it's made from a new electronic fabric, it could not only resist tampering, but sound an alarm or send an alert to the owner and authorities. "You wouldn't need a safe if you had this," says Dr Jerry Krill of Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, and the technology's inventor. The cloth is woven with conductive fibres an ...

Cloth Lights And Computerized Military Garb Are Possible Uses For New Organic Films ScienceDaily Source: University Of Arizona Date: 2002-10-07 The soldier of tomorrow may be uniformed in fatigues imprinted with an electronic map that only the soldier sees with special vision goggles. However remote the military mission, when central command issues updated field orders by computer, soldiers can literally read those orders as print outs on their shirts. Soldiers are linked by the clothe ...

Sept. 26, 2002 The soldier of tomorrow may be uniformed in fatigues imprinted with an electronic map that only the soldier sees with special vision goggles. However remote the military mission, when central command issues updated field orders by computer, soldiers can literally read those orders as print outs on their shirts. Soldiers are linked by the clothes they wear in a computerized network to each other and to central command. The home of tomorrow may be illuminated with a new generatio ...

Technology Review Free Registration Required Clothes Make the Network Wearable computers create ad-hoc wireless communities. By Howard Rheingold December 4, 2002 Gerd Kortuem likes a catchy tune, but considers himself clueless when it comes to seeking out new music. However, instead of asking his friends what they are listening to, his iPAQ PocketPC does it for him. Whenever Kortuem sits down with another participant in his ongoing experiments at the University of Oregon's Wearable Co ...

Clothes maketh the geek August 1, 2003 By Dan Danbom MIS Magazine Dan Danbom ponders whether wearable electronic products are the latest fashion or just the emperor’s new clothes I like using computers as much as anyone. I like the efficiency they bring to my work, the feeling of confidence they give me, the knowledge that, through the internet, I can swiftly and easily find access to specious information. But I like having my computer where my computer belongs – on my desk and not in my ...

Clothes may be used to charge cellphones JANUARY 14, 2005 Times Internet Limited TORONTO: It may only be a matter of time before we will use our shirts to charge our cellphones. Researchers at the University of Toronto have invented a flexible plastic solar cell that is said to be five times more efficient than the present methods in converting energy from the sun into electrical energy. Team leader Ted Sargent, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the university, said the ...

Clothes That Change Color November 19, 2002 by Ann Marie Cunningham ScienCentral All too often, you eagerly tear open a holiday package and find something you'd like to wear—but it's arrived in a color you despise. As this ScienCentral news video reports, a new thread developed for the military will make holiday disappointment and retail returns things of the past. You'll be able to change the colors of your clothes to suit yourself, whenever you please. Rewiring your wardrobe At Massac ...

BBC News 30 Dec 2000 By Julian Siddle Scientists in Belgium are working on what they think will be the definitive clothes of the future. The clothes, known as "i-Wear" for Intelligent Wear, will perform many of the current functions of mobile phones, computers and even hospital monitoring equipment. Starlab, a research institute based in Brussels and specialising in the field of artificial intelligence, is trying to make clothes that seem to think. The company says the range of tasks th ...

Clothes that know when you’ve been sleeping… Textile News online March 2002, Issue 6 …car seats that wake up drowsy drivers, bed sheets that monitor your health, socks that let you know when you are about to do a tendon, vests that trigger an emergency beacon if you are dying of exposure - ...these are some of the ideas discussed at a recent electronic textiles workshop in Geelong.. Textile scientists, polymer chemists, physicists, and bioengineers from around the world met at CSIRO Text ...

Read the Full Article, Get a FREE Trial for instant access » Machine Design; 2/20/2003; Koucky, Sherri Move over smart appliances, here comes smart clothing: A prototype jacket automatically heats and lights up when it's cold and dark. Also built in is a pulse monitor to measure activity levels for joggers and walkers. "The miniaturization of electronics has led to the emerging field of intelligent clothing, which integrates functional clothing design with portable technology," says Lucy Dunne, jacket creator and a graduate student at the Dept. of Textiles and Apparel at Cornell's College of Human Ecology. Embedded sensors re...

Time International; 1/14/2002 Read the Full Article, Get a FREE Trial for instant access » Byline: Thomas K. Grose LONDON Imagine a world where people are encased in an individual "bodynet," a wireless, apparel-based computer network that lets them make phone calls, check e-mail, watch TV, listen to music and pay bills as they walk down the street. Michael Dertouzos, the late director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laboratory for Computer Science, forecast that scenario in his 1997 book, What Will Be. Sound farfetched? Well, since then, the technology and fashion media have promised consumers that computer-enabled intelligent clothes--perhaps t...

Clothes that tell you what to do 20 February 2002 Electronic News CAR SEATS that wake up drowsy drivers, bed sheets that monitor your health, socks that let you know when you are about to ‘do a tendon’, vests that trigger an emergency beacon if you are dying of exposure; all of these products are on the agenda following an international electronic textiles workshop held in Geelong. The textile scientists, polymer chemists, physicists, and bioengineers from around the world met at CSIRO Text ...

Clothier Benetton adopts Philips' RFID technology for 'smart' labels March 11, 2003 By Junko Yoshida EE Times PARIS — Philips Semiconductors' RFID chip will be embedded into the label of every new garment bearing the name of Benetton's core clothing brand, Sisley. Philips said Tuesday (March 11)) it sewed up the design win with European clothier Benetton through close work with LAB ID, an Italian system integrator. Philips estimated that it will ship 15 million RFID chips, based on its I.C ...

Clothing Mounted Computer Sensors Discussed by MIT Octobert 25, 2004 By Berni Dwan Digital Lifestyles How would you like some magic fabric that you could use to make, and remake useful objects depending upon the job you neededon a given day? A wallet might inform you that you have run out of money, a belt might tell you that the pollen count is low, or a hat might tell you that the sunburn index if high. The wallet, the belt and the hat will be the same set of patches used in different ways ...

Clothing that Can Save Your Life: Reconfigurable Fabric Spring, 2003 by Christopher Sutton UCLA Engineer UCLA computer scientist Majid Sarrafzadeh is designing a vest you won't find at The Gap. Embedded within the fabric of the vest are circuits, sensors, and actuators that can monitor a patient's vital signs and treat symptoms with a customized dose of medication whenever a patient shows signs of distress. Sarrafzadeh hopes that people who suffer from high-blood pressure, angina, and a ho ...

11th September. 2003 Information technology, it appears, is finally leaving its hard plastic box. Display technology will eventually be all around us, even painted on walls and ceilings. And personal technology will be woven into our clothing. ‘First generation’ textiles refer to one of humanity’s early technologies, the spinning and weaving of natural fibres. ‘Second generation textiles’ were developed as alternatives to natural fibres and include synthetic, petroleum-based fibres like nylon, ...

Clothing that connects Anne Eisenberg The New York Times the International Herald Tribune Friday, February 7, 2003 Designers traditionally choose textiles based on their beauty, strength or cost. Now they can choose them based on their ability to conduct electricity. These days some companies, including the chemical maker DuPont Co., are producing yarns that can transmit electrical signals or current. The yarns, made of synthetic or metallic fibers, are woven or knitted into cotton or ...

Clothing with a high IQ Infineon Technologies AG Science fiction becomes science fact Intelligent clothing that thinks for itself - until not so long ago that would have been more reminiscent of a Utopian idea from a Jules Verne novel than an innovative semiconductor maker. A jogging suit with integral MP3 player? One that guarantees a degree of wearing comfort appropriate to the activity and can be washed in a color wash at 60 degrees? Or a suit with an audio chip concealed behind the jac ...

CMU Wearable Computers for Real-TIme Speech Translation By Asim Smailagic, Dan Siewiorek, Richard Martin, Denis Reilly, Carnegie Mellon University April 16, 2000 Technical Report Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. Abstract: Carnegie Mellon’s Wearable Computers Laboratory has built four generations for real-time speech translation wearable computers, culminating in the Speech Translator Smart Module. Smart Modules are a family of interoperable modules supporting r ...

CNNdotCOM Technofile: SportBrain Novembe15, 2000 By Rick Lockridge CNN.com LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN) -- Roaming the hallways of the giant computer show Comdex, I had a thought: What good is all this technology if it can't make us feel good about ourselves? Life is full of sorrow, missed opportunities, and lately, too much chad. We need a device that will give us a boost, just for doing the everyday stuff. Fortunately, gadget guru Cheryl Currid had just what I was looking for. SportBrain, a l ...

Co-Modal Browser-An Interface for Wearable Computers By Jonny Farringdon, Vanessa Oni, Chi Ming Kan, Leo Poll , Philips Research Laboratories 3rd International Symposium on Wearable Computers October 18 - 19, 1999 IEEE Computer Society You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract: This paper describes user tests on a co-modal browser, a general interface for wearable devices that can communicate through a b ...

Coarse, inexpensive, infrared tracking for wearable computing By Drexel Hallaway*, Tobias Höllerer**, Steven Feiner* *Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York NY 10027 **University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA 93106 ISWC 2003. White Plains, NY Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract We present a novel, inexpensive, coarse tracking system that determines a person's approximate 2D location ...

Coast Guard tests digital photo transmission BY Randall Edwards Aug. 19, 2003 FCW.COM Coast Guard first responders may soon be able to transmit photos directly from incident scenes to command centers. A testing program has begun this month in San Francisco, Cal. to determine the effectiveness of combining wearable computers with digital photography in an On-Scene Photo Documentation Kit. Officials for the Coast Guard expect to use real-time data from the kit to plan quicker responses to e ...

CodeBlue: An Ad Hoc Sensor Network Infrastructure for Emergency Medical Care By David Malan, Thaddeus R.F. Fulford-Jones, Matt Welsh, Harvard University; and Steve Moulton, Boston University WAMES 2004 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Sensor devices integrating embedded processors low power lowbandwidth radios and a modest amount of storage have the potential to enhance emergency medical care. Wearable vital sign sensors can track patient status and l ...

Coexistence By Rebecca Allen and Eitan Mendelowitz, Department of Design | Media Arts, University of California Los Angeles Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Recent advances in mobile, wearable technology expand our ability to communicate remotely and connect to networked environments while still participating in the physical world around us. As technology allows us to more easily participate in simultaneous realities, aesthetic issues take on a central ...

Saturday October 4, 2003 gizmo.com.auA "coin-sized" MP3 player has been unveiled by digital audio specialists Eratech. The EMP-Z squeezes in 128MB of storage capacity into a casing just 42 mm diameter by 10mm thick and weighing 15g and can be used as a portable HDD as well as an MP3 player. Designed to be worn as a necklace, the device works via headphones and one battery charge delivers 8hrs playback. No pricing is yet available for the EMP-Z which is expected to go into production in Korea next month.

Collar Cultivates Canine Cliques April 11, 2005 By Lakshmi Sandhana Wired News If you've ever longed for a way to monitor your dog's social life, map out its buddy network and sense who its true friends really are, you might have been waiting for SNIF. The Social Networking in Fur, or SNIF, project is a wearable computer system for dogs that allows their owners to monitor the animals' behavior and capture their social networks. The technology, designed by a group of researchers at MIT's P ...

Combat Casualty Care fabrics 1 Feb 2005 MedGadget Polartec and Foster-Miller have received a US$5.5 million contract from the US Government for the research and development of Combat Casualty Care fabrics. Together the two companies are now developing rugged, durable, electronic textiles that incorporate conductive fibres, discreet sensors and supporting electronics to transmit vital medical information within a war zone. It is planned that the new Combat Casualty Care fabrics will be able ...

The Boston Herald; 9/16/2002; Goodison, Donna Byline: DONNA GOODISON High-tech military undergarments of the future could allow medics to remotely monitor the health of battlefield combatants and pinpoint the locations of the most seriously wounded. The combat casualty care gear under development by Foster-Miller Inc. and Malden Mills Industries Inc. is expected to improve triage, allow quicker treatment of wounded soldiers and reduce the number of medics killed in action. "Medics have twice the casualty rate of your regular soldier, and a lot of them are killed going to a dead body," said David Coste... Read the Full Article, Get a FREE Trial for instant access »

Combined Force Display System of EMG Sensor for Interactive Performance Yoichi Nagashima 2003 Shizuoka University of Art and Culture / Art & Science Laboratory Abstract This is a report of research and some experimental applications of human-computer interaction in computer music and interactive media arts. In general, many sensors are used for the interactive communication as interfaces, and the performer receives the output of the system via graphics, sounds and physical reactions of int ...

Combining Positional Information with Visual Media October 1999 By Neill Campbell, Henk Muller and Cliff Randell The Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract By integrating visual media with positioning information obtained with our wearable computer, we create new opportunities for using visuals both in the field and at the workstation. The position information we store with each visual is direction, pitch ...

roanoke.com August 26, 2004 By Andrew Kantor If the clothes make the man, Mark Jones and Tom Martin are creating a cyborg. The two computer engineering professors work in Virginia Tech's e-Textile Laboratory, where they're creating a wearable computer, clothing that's interwoven with fabric-like wires, sporting sensors and processors, and designed to monitor the wearer's health - and even protect it. Their research could lead to comfortable, unobtrusive and detailed medical monitoring dev ...

Comfort and performance Source: Textile Month. 2002; -(JAN): 40-42. Summary: The influence of fabric construction and fibre selection on sportswear was a major theme at the 40th Dornbirn Man-Made Fibres Conference. The main sportswear trends are the introduction of new fibres enhancing wear comfort and improving skin's natural properties; seamless knitting techniques; evolution of the classic three-layer protection system; high fashion/designer labels for sportswear and smart garments through ...

comMotion: a context-aware communication system By Natalia Marmasse, MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. ABSTRACT How many times have you gone to the grocery store but left the grocery list on the refrigerator door? Wouldn’t it be more efficient to have a reminder to buy groceries and the shopping list delivered to you when you were in the vicinity of the store? We live in a world in which the informat ...

Communicating clothes By: Jørgen Sundgot, Thursday 16th May 2002, 14:10 GMT infoSync World France Telecom has invented a flexible fiber optic screen that can be embedded in clothes, allowing static or animated graphics to be displayed. See the exclusive pictures! If you've ever found yourself annoyed by the relatively small displays of mobile phones and handhelds, France Telecom's R&D department has come up with something that might suit you better (no pun intended). The research department ...

Esato 20 August 2004 by axxxr PIX is an unconventional product from an unconventional lifestyle company called Xenofreaks Inc. With PIX, Xenofreaks have hit on an idea that may change the way people interact with each other, especially those whom we don't know, but would like to. Communication and interaction is the basis of the new Korean product PIX, an interactive visual display device that has just hit the market. Also coined the "ego visualiser" by its designers, PIX could quite possibl ...

Communications in Electronic Textile Systems By Z. Nakad, M. Jones, T. Martin, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Virginia Tech Blacksburg VA The 2003 International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC 2003), pp. 37-43, June 2003. Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Electronic textiles (e-textiles) are emerging as a novel method for constructing electronic systems in wearable and large area applications. This new type o ...

Compact Flash Size Embedded Computer Runs Linux May 3, 2005 LinuxElectrons C Data Solutions Ltd has released a new low cost carrier board for its Compact Flash Computer. The Compact Flash Computer is a Freescale Coldfire MCF5272 processor, 32MB SDRAM, 8MB FLASH all packaged in a Type II Compact Flash Card, 42*37*5mm and is pre-loaded with uClinux. The Compact Flash Computer is available for $200 in small volume, $100 in OEM quantities. The low cost development kit cost $400. The carrier boar ...

CompactFlash card turns PDAs to acquisition News from: National Instruments Edited by: Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 7 April 2005 Engineers and scientists can now turn standard PDAs into customised, portable measurement tools with the new National Instruments CompactFlash data acquisition (DAQ) device. The NI CF-6004 device - which is slightly larger than a standard passport photo - plugs into any PDA with a CompactFlash slot to create a handheld instrument with the processing and wirele ...

Companies are touting "wearable technology" again, though our man sees more future for the business-focused Siemens SK65 Aug. 25, 2004 Mobile News All the latest gear Wearable electronics have been around for a while, in one form or another. The basic idea is that, rather than having to lug around your laptop, phone or MP3 player, they should be designed to be worn - either on belts or sewn into clothing. Companies such as Xybernaut have been selling rugged commercial units for several years ...

Companies bridge gap between man, machine 04/22/2002 08:00 AM By Michael Hardy Mass High Tech CosmoBot, a robot designed to help therapists counsel children with disabilities and developmental disorders, starts beta trials this week at Claremont Academy in Arlington, Va. Developed by AnthroTronix Inc. in College Park, Md., the robot is an example of the many ways companies are trying to develop technologies that enable people to interact with computers in new ways. Some are trying to h ...

Companies team on responder networks BY Dibya Sarkar Oct. 31, 2003 FCW.COM Two Virginia-based technology companies recently announced a partnership to provide law enforcement agencies and other first responders with high-speed wireless networks bundled with mobile and wearable computers. Fairfax, Va.-based Xybernaut Corp., a maker of wearable computers, will work with Visual Link Internet LLC, headquartered in Winchester, Va., where the police department is testing the combined broadband s ...

Post-Gazette October 10, 2002 By Pamela Gaynor For health club members who'd like to have personal trainers but find either the cost or time commitment prohibitive, two Pittsburgh-based companies think they've found a solution in technology. BodyMedia Inc., which produces wearable devices to monitor human health indicators, and ClubCom, which provides entertainment systems and programming to fitness centers, said yesterday that they'd teamed up to turn treadmills and other kinds of fitness e ...

Companies test prototype wireless-sensor nets January 28, 2003 By R. Colin Johnson EE Times PORTLAND, Ore. — Self-organizing wireless-sensor networks, a realization of the Pentagon's "smart-dust" concept, have reached the prototype stage worldwide. The smart sensors, or Motes, were created by the University of California at Berkeley and Intel, and are being tested out worldwide today. "At this stage, there are over 100 groups around the world that are using the combination of our open-s ...

By Jo McIntyre Small Times Correspondent Aug. 26, 2004 Defense contracts, the boon and bane of many a young technology startup; have been welcomed by several small tech firms in the Pacific Northwest. Portland, Ore.-based FLIR Systems Inc., (Nasdaq:FLIR), which makes infrared cameras that use MEMS technology, has a $6.3-million Air Force contract for one of the company's thermal imaging systems to be installed in helicopters for ICBM security missions. Bothell, Wash.-based MicroVision, ...

Companies tune in to wearable technology by Dayna Lovelady A&E Writer February 07, 2005 Technology company Motorola is teaming up with the privately-run apparel maker Burton of Burlington, Vt. to develop high-tech gear aimed to servicing skiers, snowboarders and other outdoor sporting fans who may enjoy technological company in the form of radio tunes. The new clothing was released during the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show, and it will consist of outerwear such as coats, jackets and suita ...

Company markets new hearing-aid technology By Michael Hardy Mass High Tech 05/14/2001 00:00 AM A new technology that will make hearing aids more precise in filtering out unwanted sounds will bring a long-established McLean, Va., technology company into a new market. Planning Systems Inc., a 28-year-old software and device developer that brought in $33 million in revenue last year, has begun to market its "hybrid adaptive beamformer" technology. Devices made using the beamformer could not