OMsignal’s smart shirt monitors your emotional well-being A host of fitness tracking tech is currently on the market allowing users to measure and monitor their daily activities, heart rate, exercise intensity and even how much they sweat. But what about your emotional state? Montreal-based smart apparel company OMsignal has developed a T-shirt and a bra that not only tracks your daily steps, calorie burn and heart rate, but it also measures your breathing and emotional well-being using your heart rate variability, or HRV, reported VentureBeat. OMsignal's clothing contains a 3-axis accelerometer, the basic tool found in other fitness devices, which measures motion, steps and calories. Sensors woven into the polyester/lycra fabric act as a 3-lead EKG, producing a readout of cardiac activity when the user is at rest or doing something active, according to the company. The clothing also contains GPS capability, a feature that can help you understand how your body reacts to certain activities and environments. Photo: OMsignal/Marlon-Kuhnreich
Epiphany Eyewear Picture This: Your Digital Photos Deserve Frames Too Yet another option for displaying family photos is easy to overlook: your TV. There are many ways to display slide shows on a TV set. Game consoles like the Xbox let you do that easily; you simply follow the onscreen instructions. And all smart-TV solutions enable you to display photographs, either streaming from a nearby PC over Wi-Fi or via some other method. You can also easily connect a digital camera, laptop, tablet or phone to most modern TVs and show on the big screen what you are already able to view on the little one. For more social sharing and control, however, there's an appealing new option for Google TV. Out My Window is a social photo sharing service that enables photo sharing on Apple-based mobile devices, like the iPhone and iPad and now Google TV. By using the Google TV app, you'll instantly see the new pictures uploaded by family and friends in the slide show on your TV. Digital pictures look better and last longer than printed photographs.
Cytta Corp Gizworld | Advising and partnering in the wearables space Robocoin - Bitcoin's Global Cash ATM Network VA Medical Center uses Telehealth technology to reach more veterans | The City Sentinel Oklahoma City VA Medical Center Clinical Health Technician, LPN Pam Elam (standing), assists a female veteran in connecting with her provider for a genetic counseling consultation. Photo by Tara G. Ricks. By Darla Shelden Contributing Writer To increase access for veteran health care, the Oklahoma City Veterans Administration Medical Center (VAMC) is now using Telehealth technology through the use of secure telecommunications and videoconferencing. “We offer a variety of programs for our rural or immobile veterans,” says Tanya Leasure, Oklahoma City VA licensed practical nurse and clinical telehealth technician. The VA currently has over 700 hundred community-based outpatient clinics (CBOC) nationwide, with nine in Oklahoma, to bring VA care closer to home for veterans. Travel to the medical center can be complicated and sometimes difficult for many veterans, particularly if the veteran lives in a remote or rural area. Dr. For more information, visit www.oklahoma.va.gov.
Home - Clothing+ OhMiBod’s New Remote App Will Let You Pleasure Your Partner No Matter The Distance Long-distance is where it’s at for sex toy makers, and though OhMiBod was one of the first in the industry to deliver app-compatible vibrators, the implementation didn’t allow truly long-distance or remote partner pleasuring. Until now. The company, which is best known for their digitally connected vibrators, is crowdfunding a brand new app called OhMiBod Remote, which not only allows for a number of different interactions but is also powered by Bluetooth, giving partners a bit more wiggle room about being in a different room, etc. For now, the app only has a standard Bluetooth range of about 50 feet, but the campaign will also fund an update that allows the app to work no matter the distance between the vibrator and the smartphone through Wifi integration. Originally, OhMiBod’s app only let you turn the vibrators on or off, and the phone had to be within visual range of the vibrator because they were connected via RF.
The Electronic Nag It’s been said that “necessity is the mother of invention.” It’s also been said (at least by me) that “forgetting to take out the garbage after a splendid seafood dinner is the mother of an angry spouse.” Hence the need for the NAG (Notification Alert Generator), which you can strategically mount on a wall near the bedroom to remind you of important upcoming events and tasks, such as taking out the festering garbage. The NAG was my first real foray into building one of the crazy devices I’ve come up with over the years. Luckily a friend of mine who is a developer clued me into microcontrollers, and then I did some research and learned about the Arduino, its many shields, and the Wave Shield kit from the fabulous Adafruit Industries ( which stores WAV audio files that your Arduino can play. When it comes to nagging, timing is everything, so this project uses a real-time clock (RTC) chip, which also contains a calendar. Project Code and Templates