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Wireless Sensors Make Wearable Medical Diagnosis A Reality

Wireless sensors stick to skin and track health | Stanford News. Science is making great strides with wearable computing devices that monitor human health. The BodyNet system monitors physiological data from the skin and wirelessly transmits the data to doctors and others for analysis and action. Think of these computing devices as digital band-aids. While used now exclusively in medical environments, the technology has implications that go far beyond simple sensor data. Once computer circuits that don't require batteries or similar tech are able to be sewn into clothing, or taped to the skin, full body sensing won't be far behind. This tech is far beyond even anything imagined in Star Trek, which relied on hand held sensing devices. Smartwatches already can monitor heat beats, do EKGs, and monitor our physical activity. What wearable tech do you have on today?

Welcome Your New Robot Tail Overlords

SIGGRAPH 2019: Robotic tails for humans are here. No, human, it won't be robots controlled by aliens that subjugate the human race. It will be cyborgs that begin as humans, and that add robotic attachments which make them stronger, faster, and able to leap tall buildings with a single bound. Look, up in the sky, its robotic tail man! Wearable computing run amok, or useful appendages to help humankind. Actually, this might make a great Halloween costume, paired with a dinosaur head. We report. You decide. 

LG V20 - Still A Great Phone Two Years Later

As many of you know, I buy and use a lot of Smartphones. However, I have been more frugal lately, and, while rummaging through my desk drawer today, I found my 2 year old LG V20. I charged it, and installed a few updates, and realized how much I missed the removable battery, the light weight, the metal back, and Android 7.0. I am going to use this phone for a few days and see if I don't fall in love again. Love is better the second time around. Or is that the third, fourth or fifth? I can't remember. But, maybe Google knows.

 

Get Google Assistant On Your Tizen Watch

Get Google Assistant on your Samsung Galaxy smartwatch with GAssist. My Galaxy Watch, running Samsung's excellent Tizen OS, is superior to Wear OS phones. However, I use Google Assistant for all of my mobile device searching, and it isn't available on Samsung watches. Until now, that is. GAssist.Net and its companion Android app, while not wake word ready, can, with a tap of the watch, give Tizen users voice responses from Google Assistant. Check it out. I now have Google Assistant with me when I leave the phone and go just with the Smartwatch.

Gear S - Everything Old Is New Again

One of the things I love about Smartwatch technology is that even the old tech runs the latest software. I have had this Gear S for 5 years, and I am charging it up to see how it works in a new environment. It is one big Smartwatch, and I imagine that I will get some odd looks. But, hey, everyone likes a little attention now and then.

Samsung Gear S - Biggest SmartWatch Ever

Samsung Gear S review: The smartwatch that's also a smartphone - CNET. It doesn't seem like 5 years since I bought the Gear S LTE SmartWatch by Samsung. It was the first Smartwatch that was also a Smartphone, and made phone calls as well as all the other SmartWatch functions. I still have mine, and this trip down memory lane makes me want to put this big, honking, smartphone back on my wrist. Not.

Bose Soundwear Speaker - Almost Private Listening

Amazon.com: Bose Soundwear Companion Wireless Wearable Speaker - Black: Electronics. My Bose Frames are geeky looking glasses that have me being mistaken for Roy Orbison. But, they give big sound, and Bose tech keeps the sound from being heard by anyone else close by, and I never have to put anything in my ears. Now, Bose has an option for those of you who don't want to wear big geeky glasses all day. This speaker gives big Bose sound and drapes around you neck, and keeps the sound away from others near you. Since both of these devices stay out of your ears, you can hear doorbells, calls for help, or other sounds in your environment. On sale now for $149, and regularly $299. You know you want these. And, you can't have mine.

The Very First Smartwatch Was A Sony

I posted this seven years ago, and it is instructive as to the pace of technology. It also brings back bittersweet memories of SWMBO, who was with me on a shopping trip at International Mall when I purchased it at the Sony store. We had lunch and I unboxed it, while she contemplated all the purchases she was going to make after lunch. 

"Sony SmartWatch - Wearing A Wrist Watch Again. I have been playing with, and wearing, my new Sony SmartWatch for a couple of weeks now, and it has become part of my arm. I stopped wearing wrist watches last year. They were so "last century", and they only told me the time and day; although, my recent versions had temperature, barometric pressure, altimeter and other cool sensors. I had my smartphone and computer for time and day, and I wasn't spending a lot of time mountain climbing. However, the bluetooth integration, and the tiny Android apps that connected live with my phone convinced me that it was worth $150 to try the smart watch. Now, my wrist buzzes when I have incoming email, gives me the time and date in digital numbers when I want it, tells me my exact location with the press of a button, acts as a long distance viewfinder for my phone's camera, vibrates and buzzes when a call comes in on the phone, and more. The cool thing about it is that I can have my Jabra earset simultaneously connected with bluetooth 3.0, and I can take and make phone calls without using my hands. The earset has a pleasant female voice that announces the call, from what phone number it comes, and I can answer or ignore the call merely by saying answer or ignore. Pretty cool. I am going to start calling myself robot man.
I prefer metal watch bands, and the watch comes with a metal base to clip the watch on, so I got rid of the rubber wrist band that came with the watch. You can also clip the smart watch to clothing, or just carry it around if you like. Here are a couple of photos of mine:"

Look! Up In The Sky! It's SuperWatch!

The excellent Samsung Gear Sport is on sale at an unbelievable $110 after $170 discount - PhoneArena. More powerful than a Ten Thousand Dollar Rolex. Cheaper than a Timex. More versatile than a $700 Apple Watch. It's Gear Sport! A great Smartwatch, with Tizen OS, it slices, it dices, it makes a salad of apps. And, now, for a short time, you can have it for only $110! If you've been putting off having a computer on your wrist because of cost, now is the time. Fry's has this guy for $109.99. You spent more the last time you went to a restaurant.

Livescribe+ Desktop App For Aegir Pens

Livescribe App - Livescribe. The Aegir Smartpen is now the only pen of its kind that syncs with mobile devices and the Desktop with the release of LiveScribe+, which is a Desktop companion for the slim and light Aegir. The pen stores every keystroke on its USB drive when the user uses LiveScribe notebooks, which contain millions of dots invisible to the naked eye, and the user experience is the same as writing on a regular paper notebook. When connected to a phone, tablet, or computer, the results are synced to the device, and the application shows them as they were drawn or written. They can be converted to digital text and transferred as any file would be. Analog meets digital and you get to keep the paper, if you want.