Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany says that the principal application of its new IR Oslux SFH 4780S (its first infrared emitter with a wavelength of 810nm) is biometric unlocking of cell phones and tablet computers. With ...
Tags: cell phones, tablet computers, Electrical
OMsignal, the Montreal smart apparel startup, began shipping the first edition of its Biometric Smartwear to pre-order customers and launched its iOS app in the Apple App Store. The Smartwear compression shirts and iOS app work in tandem ...
Tags: Montreal smart apparel, Biometric Smartwear, Sporting Goods
Athos, which has announced plans to launch a line of biometric fitness apparel this fall, has closed $12.2 million in Series B financing. The Redwood City, CA company said it will use the funds to further commercialize its product and ...
Tags: Athos, Financing, Sporting Goods
Match2blue GmbH will present its Ambiotex t-shirt for the first time at this year's Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco. The shirt, which was developed in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits ...
Tags: Biometric Shirt, Shirt
Samsung has revealed its Galaxy S5 will be resistant to water and dust, will feature a finger scanner and will have a 16MP camera at Samsung’s Unpacked event in Barcelona. The company’s president and CEO, JK Shin, took to the ...
Deployed in commercial buildings and campus microgrids, direct current (DC) power supply equipment reduces the number of required conversions between alternating current (AC) and DC power, thereby increasing overall building energy ...
The Target credit and debit card and personal information breach, which last week was revealed to have affected more consumers than originally thought and which may be linked to attacks on other retailers, is expected to prompt U.S. ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Security, Protection, Target credit card, debit card
Heapsylon, the creator of the Sensoria Fitness bio-tracking line of smart clothing, announced that it has signed a non-exclusive worldwide distribution agreement with leading British shoe manufacturer Vivobarefoot for its Sensoria Fitness ...
The computing giant recently obtained a pair of new patents, one related to hover touch sensors and the other an integrated heart rate monitor that might be included in some of the company's 2014 product launches. The cardiac sensor can be ...
Apple has been awarded patents that include one for an accurate touch and hover panel, originally filed back in 2010, and another for an embedded heart rate monitor, originally filed in 2009. Details of the patents were reported by ...
Tags: Apple, patents, accurate touch, hover panel, embedded heart rate monitor
Armed with an Apple or Android smartphone, it is now possible for people to keep track of their weight, diet, exercise levels, stress levels, heart rate, blood pressure, and blood sugar. In addition, some of the latest smartphones ...
US-based Sense4Baby has obtained 510(k) approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its smartphone-based maternal/fetal monitoring system. The company has also obtained CE Mark approval from the European Commission for its ...
The Nissan 3E web-enabled eye display has been teased in another expression of the Japanese car maker’s experimentation with non-automotive technologies. While a teaser video gives us a preview of the technology, few details been ...
Tags: Nissan 3E, Google Glass
NXP Semiconductors N.V. announced that it has strengthened its presence in Asia by establishing Singapore as its Global Headquarters for Standard Products, Global Headquarters for Operations, and ASEAN Headquarters for Sales & Marketing. ...
Tags: Semiconductors, Lighting
German hackers claim to have breached the Apple iPhone 5S's fingerprint security. In a post on its website, German group Chaos Computer Club (CCC) describes how members of its biometric hacking team were apparently able to take a photo of ...
Tags: Apple Iphone, Computer Products