Welcome to the NFC ring Project! It’s both open source hardware and software! Amazing project and an ecosystem in the making. Unlock your Smart phone or tablet Now when you take your phone out of your pocket just slide your hand under and the NFC Ring will unlock it. It couldn’t be more simple! The…
Improve your visibility with a glowing bike helmet! Becky Stern mods up a Carrera folding helmet with LED strip in the grooves that helps navigate you to the nearest Citi Bike station with a FLORA GPS. Full tutorial: http://learn.adafruit.com/citi-bike-helmet/ via Citi Bike “Smart” Helmet Navigates to the Nearest Station – YouTube.
Materials scientist John Rogers and his firm MC10 have developed flexible electronic circuits that stick directly to the skin like temporary tattoos and monitor the wearer’s health. via Biostamp temporary tattoo wearable electronic circuits by MC10. Pretty interesting developments could be foreseen for Healthcare and Wearable.
Freescale introduces the Kinetis KL02 chip-scale package CSP, the worlds smallest ARM Powered® MCU. Available in the ultra-small 1.9 mm x 2.0 mm wafer level chip-scale package, the KL02 CSP MKL02Z32CAF4R drastically reduces board space while retaining rich MCU feature integration. The KL02 CSP consumes 25 percent less PCB area, yet delivers 60 percent…
Microchip’s BodyCom™ Technology is a short-range, low-data-rate communication solution for securely connecting to a wide range of wireless applications. Activated by capacitively coupling to the human body, the system communicates bidirectionally between a centralized controller and one or more wireless mobile units. Intra-body communication occurs utilizing the human body as the transmission medium. via BodyCom™…
“According to researchers at Nottingham Trent University in the UK, wearable computers which can withstand washing are one step closer thanks to a technology which integrates electronic micro devices into yarns. […] Researchers at Nottingham Trent’s Advanced Textiles Research Group have created the garment using light emitting diodes (LEDs) to showcase the application of the…
Adafruit launches a new platform for the development of wearable devices: Gemma is a tiny wearable platform board with a lot of might in a 1″ diameter package. Powered by a Attiny85 and programmable with an Arduino IDE over USB, you’ll be able to realize any wearable project! via Adafruit: Gemma – Miniature wearable…
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