Apple has received a patent for a Smart Garment (Patent 7,698,101), originally filed in Q1, 2007. Read more about it on Wordlab, along with their request for smart garment name suggestions.

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If you are in the innovation business, or the intellectual property (IP) law business, check out IP.com’s Global Patent Search. They are the only service I know of that has searchable databases of both US and Chinese (PRC) patents. You can also browse patents by International Patent Classification (IPC), going back several decades. Brilliant.

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These stunning images are computer visualizations, made by mashing data like air traffic GPS signals from satellites, taxi cab activity, Internet activity, highway use and Internet activity with Google maps’ Mapplet technology…

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With our economy racing back to the 1930s, pretty soon these gadgets might be new again. So let’s reconsider a few of these bygone technologies and see how they might be re-purposed for life in the 21st Century.

In the days before radar existed, this was the only way to detect incoming aircraft. These days it could be adopted by the NSA to listen in on Al Qaeda chatter…

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