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Phone App Passively Tracks Your Health

At Cornell University in Ithaca, there’s a group of researchers who are working to teach electronic devices what makes people tick. The group, called People-Aware Computer, is headed by Tanzeem Choudhury, a professor of information science at Cornell. Lately, Choudhury’s … Continue reading

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Printed Electronics 2009: Wearable Sensors

I’m at the 2009 Printed Electronics conference in San Jose today and tomorrow. Below are highlights from a talk about wearable sensors by Professor Joe Paradiso of MIT. (Note: Paradiso gave the disclaimer that his projects are less about printed … Continue reading

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Recent Stories: Cyborgs, Solar, and Data Storage

This post is a roundup of the stories I’ve written over the past few weeks. Without doing it consciously, I’ve totally carved out a cyborg beat. The most recent story is about a neural implant that is wirelessly controlled and … Continue reading

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