For his latest architectural project, Drew Seskunas didn’t design a house or a restaurant or a retail shop, but an interactive light installation, presented at the 2011 DMY in Berlin. Made of folded pieces of laser-cut aluminum ...READ»
Apple has filed a number of stunningly promising patents this week--here's a peek at the sweet new features that'll make your current device look lame. READ»
A new iPhone app uses the device's accelerometers and other sensors to work out how safely you're driving. Fortuitous timing, as it's just emerged that Apple is the world's second-biggest buyer of these sorts of tiny sensors.READ»
Imagine a computer, complete with processor chip and sensors, so small it could give a grain of salt a run for its money. Now imagine embedding it inside your body as a super-smart sensor capable of transmitting data to your doctor. READ»
MIT's perfecting an embedded bio-sensor that would reveal to doctors if you've had a heart attack--even if you thought the culprit was too much Tabasco. READ»
MIT's CarTel project, a distributed mobile sensor network and telematics system, is examining how wirelessly connected cars might be used as real-time traffic sensors.READ»
Several times we've predicted the future world will be one where everything is networked to everything, and now IBM's revealed it has the same goal. It's releasing new software to enable "the internet of things" so that sensors can ...READ»
Brace yourselves for another Apple patent. It's a weird and wacky one. It's about using a "seamless" biometric heart rate monitor to identify iPhone users. Seriously. Your boom-tiddy-boom could unlock your iPhony-phone.Apple's patent ...READ»
John "Ivo" Stivoric
Cofounder, CTO, and VP of New Products
BodyMedia
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Making It Personal
Ivo Stivoric, 38, has developed wearable fitness sensors for clinical patients for more than ...READ»
The next iPhone could be the center of a sophisticated in-car navigation system, if a recently revealed Apple patent is taken to logical extremes. We've mentioned Apple's extensive patenting of GPS technology before, but that's ...READ»
