If Google's latest project is successful, the finger prick test for blood sugar levels could eventually become a thing of the past for diabetics. Google X lab is developing a smart contact lens that can measure glucose levels in tears ...
Tags: Smart Contact Lens, Google
Brian Otis gingerly holds what looks like a typical contact lens on his index finger. Look closer. Sandwiched in this lens are two twinkling glitter-specks loaded with tens of thousands of miniaturized transistors. It's ringed with a ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
For decades, futurists have been predicting the era of the "smart" home, where you don't need to be home to lock your doors, dim your lights or adjust your thermostats. But except for the homes of the wealthy and a few hobbyists, the smart ...
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Robots, even very well programmed robots, really don't care about you. And by "you," I mean humans. And even if a robot did care about you, most of them don't have a clue about what you're doing or what you want. We've seen all kinds of ...
Tags: Robots, Electrical, Electronics
While the indoor location market is relatively nascent, companies are already aggressively addressing next-generation, high accuracy (sub-5m) technologies to ensure they are best placed to dominate the emerging multi-billion dollar retail ...
Tags: LED Light, Visible Light
Smart Lids hope to expand to US market using crowdfunding Australian packaging firm Smart Lid Systems is hoping to expanded their heat sensitive takeaway coffee lids to the US, making the lids available directly to US households through ...
Tags: Smart Lid Systems, heat sensitive, takeaway coffee lids
Scientists and engineers in Europe are embarking on a quest to see if they can change the way young people at risk for becoming obese eat. Key to this will be developing unobtrusive technology that monitors how quickly or slowly a person is ...
Tags: young people health, obese eat, eating disorders, healthier pace
The Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), which uses a fine-tipped probe to scan surfaces at the atomic scale, will soon be augmented with a chemical sensor. This involves the use of a hollow AFM cantilever, through which a liquid - in this case ...
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Cars that park themselves, radar-guided safety sensors and infotainment systems with web access; automakers are competing for customers who now expect constant innovation. The speed at which the new features are migrating from premium ...
Tags: Car, Auto Parts, Transportation
ATHENS, GA — Carrier Transicold has updated the line of applications used to monitor refrigerated trucks, trailers and containers. The company has released TRU-Tech and TRU-View, two computer programs designed to replace its ...
Tags: Carrier Transicold, refrigerated trucks, monitor, TRU-Tech, TRU-View
Nuheat will launch Signature, a WiFi floor heating thermostat. Signature will give homeowners full access to all thermostat settings with wireless remote access through a smartphone app (iOS or Android) or a web browser. Changing the ...
Tags: Nuheat, WiFi, floor heating thermostat, thermostat settings
Integrity Applications and Ultramedix Australasia have signed an agreement for the distribution of Integrity Applications’ GlucoTrack non-invasive blood glucose measurement device in Australia and New Zealand. Subject to the ...
Nearly 1,000 American Electric Lighting® Autobahn LED luminaires from Acuity Brands, Inc. were installed by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to address safety and maintenance challenges on a 19-mile stretch of Highway 98. ...
Tags: Autobahn LED luminaires, Acuity Brands, American Electric Lighting
Given North America's recent record-breaking cold with its thousands of cancelled airline flights, ice and aviation are very much in the news-especially the ice that cakes up on wings and tails, requiring trips to de-icing stations on the ...
Tags: Aircraft Icing, Alpha Particles
This is the CES of the wearable gadget. And, while there are all sorts of technologies you can wear-after all, earbuds are wearable-the big explosion is in fitness trackers. The first wave of these small gadgets, worn on a wrist, clipped on ...
Tags: CES 2014 Trends, CES 2014, Fitness Trackers, Smart Watches