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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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Energy is something we take for granted, because we just plug things into the wall, and it feels as inevitable as air. The best-known wearable energy-harvesting tech today is, of course, solar, which pulls down electrons from sunlight or ambient light. Solar won’t work for nocturnal animals or creatures in low-light environments.

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Security With a Spectrometer

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As a bit of background, this spectrometer measures largely visible wavelengths of light and some in the infrared. It breaks out the light into a spectrum of varying intensity, which tells us more about a substance than we’d be able to sense by eyesight (or camera sight) alone. So how might a smartphone use a spectrometer?

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

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Registration is open ; guests can attend in person or virtually. Smith at Bell Labs , consist of a sensor that converts an incoming two-dimensional light pattern into an electrical signal that in turn becomes an image. Sasson fixed those problems and was granted a U.S. This was more than just a camera,” IEEE Member Steven J.

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Andrew Leland on Assistive Tech for the Blind

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Leland is gradually losing his vision due to a congenital condition called retinitis pigmentosa , which slowly kills off the rods and cones that are the eyes’ light receptors. If you think about the blind person, you know having a mouse isn’t very useful because they can’t see where the pointer is.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

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