The%20Internet%20of%20Things. Intel Readies for Internet of Things Invasion with Linux. Last month, Intel announced a new family of Internet of Things (IoT) gateways, as well as new Quark and Atom E3800 processors that will run them.
Now the chipmaker has unveiled a new IoT Solutions Group that combines its Intelligent Systems Group with resources from subsidiary Wind River. Led by Intel VP and GM Doug Davis, the division will report directly to CEO Brian Krzanich. The IoT Solutions Group will integrate "intelligent systems hardware, software, services and platform elements" into one organization, says Intel. Despite the growing IoT focus, Wind River's business of selling embedded Linux, Android, and VxWorks development platforms will continue as usual, says Wind River SVP Jim Douglas. So will its cross-architecture support, he adds. Intel announced a new family of Internet of Things (IoT) gateways, as well as new Quark and Atom E3800 processors that will run them.
The new division will give the embedded team the prominence to make that happen, says Douglas. iHealth Wireless Pulse Oximeter. Smart sock for baby monitoring in funding campaign. (Phys.org) —Owlet Baby Monitors, a Salt Lake City business, is self-raising funds for its product, Owlet Vitals Monitor, a "smart" sock on the baby that can monitor vital signs and can send the information direct to a smartphone or other mobile device.
The monitor relays such information as heart rate, oxygen levels, sleep position and sleep quality and can give you that data realtime on the phone. The company's goal is $100,000 and it hopes to be able to start shipping in November. It is no secret that information technology is to advance beyond the confines of screen and keyboard, and all eyes are on the future of wearables and the applications these wearables will support.
Cat Paws Can Unlock the iPhone 5S Fingerprint Sensor. The Wireless iPhone Baby Breathing Monitor. Phone Sensor Could Control Prosthetic Limbs. Wearable Gadgets: In Search of a Value Proposition. I’d like to start out with a question I have been asking myself: Why does Google Glass need to be on my face?
More importantly, to get the benefits of Google Glass (whatever one deems those benefits to be), why does it need to come in a form factor that goes on my face? The answer is that it likely does not. The same question will need to be answered by any potential existence of an Apple iWatch or any other smartwatch. My favorite line from smartwatch critics is that no one wears watches these days. My standard response: and those that do wear watches don’t wear them to keep time.
I absolutely agree that the wrist is prime real estate, but I’d add that it is also highly valuable real estate. In Search of a Value Proposition This is why, to date, the only real wearable success stories have been devices like the Fitbit, Nike Fuelband, Jawbone Up, and others in the wearable health segment. Google Glass’s challenge lies both in the value proposition and the form factor.
3 Things I’d Like to See from the Pebble Smartwatch. I’m not a watch person, but a few weeks ago I ended up buying a Pebble.
It was an unusual kind of impulse buy, inspired partly by a story I was writing about the future of smartwatches, and partly by curiosity. If smartwatches are going to be as big of a product category as the tech world expects, I wanted to get some experience with smartwatches in their current state. So far, my prevailing feeling about Pebble is “meh.” Regardless of whether a smartphone revolution is coming, the Pebble has not become indispensable for me. Some days I wear it, some days I don’t, and the decision tends to be arbitrary. Pebble’s current limitations aren’t hardware-related — I don’t find myself yearning for Samsung’s $300 Galaxy Gear – but have everything to do with software. More Useful Watch Faces.
UV2013-cameraready. Google Glass looks silly now, but we'll all be wearing mini-computers soon. I have a nostalgic memory from my childhood that conjures up that youthful sensation of limitlessness, of the feeling that the day will be so long and full of opportunity that it couldn't possibly be filled.
It was a full hour until my best friend was due to arrive and, I'd spent a restless minute or two fidgeting by the front door in anticipation. To an eight-year-old, an hour seemed like waiting until the end of time. Then, time seemed elongated, as if without all that assumed knowledge and the prejudices of experience, the perception of time was changed. This is a blissful, open-mindedness with which to view the world, learning by doing, getting stuck in. But that openness of mind seems extremely hard to retain into adulthood.
There is an easy currency in the curmudgeonly tradition of dismissing anything new, a default superiority given to wry scepticism over youthful enthusiasm and intrigue. Rethinking the mini-computer that is our smartphone makes sense. Breaking the mould.