Misfit Shine personal activity tracking device, image source: www.indiegogo.com/misfitshine Its no surprise that the adorable lean product design of Misfit’s Shine personal activity tracker catched so much public attention that its Indiegogo pledge for funding reached nearly $700.000 and exeeded its target value by around 600%! Misfit Shine is designed as a waterprove, durable and […]
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Aquaponics Innovation and DIY Greenhouse Technology
Pierre Beauchamp, a young and successfull innovator and evangelist for greenhouse and aquaponics, who’s goal is to bring fresh and natural food production into urban environments. When Pierre Beauchamp was 15 years old he created an amazing aquaponics operation in a greenhouse in his families property in Auburn, Calif. DIY Aquaponics Innovation by Pierre Beauchamp, […]
Measure your Blood Pressure and Health State with your iPhone
The Withings Blood Pressure monitor is one of the first products that measures and monitors your blood pressure over time, by using your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch as sensor data hub. The blood pressure iPhone app gives you a good tracking overview by additionally showing you recommended values and recorded tracking charts. The pressure […]
Seabear-diving : Smart system for underwater blood pressure measurement
image source: seabear-diving.com Seabear-Diving, a startup company from Graz Austria, recently published their work on implementing a smart sensor system that is able to measure the blood pressure of divers during their underwater trips. It continuously records depth, time, heart rate, oxygen saturation (SO2) and plethysmogram. Seabear-Diving has specialized on underwater, diver supporting technologies, such as Apnea […]
growerbot: the social gardening arduino
The goal of Luke’s Kickstarter project growerbot can be summarized by one simple statement: Automate growing food and share your real-world farming activity with your friends. Grow faster and better by sharing! Growerbot combines the growing of food in the real world with enhanced social any community activities. It keeps your friends and followers updated […]
Makezine: Some Tips on DIY Projects and Waste Disposition
All forms of making, from electronics and crafts to DIY automotive, invariably produce some type of waste product. Not everything can be endlessly upcycled into something new. From exhausted batteries and spoiled paint products, to that unlabeled bottle of mysterious liquid in your basement, the question of what to do next with waste product and […]
Medical Mirror
Ming-Zher Poh form the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology presented a Medical Mirror, which is a novel interactive interface that tracks and displays a user’s heart rate in real time without the need for external sensors. Currently, collection of physiological information requires users to strap on bulky sensors, chest straps, or sticky electrodes. The Medical […]