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Wearable data? Apple patents the ‘smart garment’

April 21st, 2010 · No Comments

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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IP.com Patent Search Service

April 6th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Satellites and computers visualizing human activity

March 6th, 2009 · No Comments

satellite-visualizationsThese 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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WWI technology special

March 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments

sound-ranging-wwiWith 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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