Tag Archives: IEEE Spectrum

Slow Food for the Mind


For many years our focus has been on making things faster and faster. Computer chips are doubling their speed about every 18 months (Moore’s Law). But in our faster and faster spinning world we rarely focus on really long-lasting or long-term … Continue reading

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Wireless Health Care


Just read a very interesting article on “ambient health monitoring”. Joseph M. Smith wrote in IEEE Spectrum an article on Wireless Health Care. Here a few passages from the article: “Imagine a world in which your medicine cabinet notices that … Continue reading

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Quadrotors Can Now Play Catch, All-Robot Baseball Team Closer to Reality – IEEE Spectrum


I have to admit my weakness for robots. Especially when they are flying. I find this really fascinating. Read the full article here: Quadrotors Can Now Play Catch, All-Robot Baseball Team Closer to Reality – IEEE Spectrum. Would this not come … Continue reading

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Does the West Now Learn From Dictatorships?


Limiting Access to Social Media . . . Does the West now mimic the behavior of some Far East governments and some of the other dictatorship regimes? The same circles that a short while ago praised the role of social … Continue reading

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Robot Swarm Could Steal Your Books


Swarmanoid Robot Teams Up with Itself to Steal Your Books – IEEE Spectrum. “The Swarmanoid swarm consists of three discrete types of robots, all of which we’ve been introduced to before: Foot-Bots can grab onto other robots and move horizontally. Hand-Bots have manipulators and … Continue reading

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Innovation vs. Patents: Google’s New Patent Armor – IEEE Spectrum


“How many patents does it take to stay afloat in the smartphone world? It seems Google has pegged it at around 20 000. Its proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility for US $12.5 billion, announced on August 15, would add 17 000 patents to its … Continue reading

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The Two Faces of Hacking – IEEE Spectrum


The Two Faces of Hacking – IEEE Spectrum. Interesting Article in the IEEE Spectrum with a matrix plot of recent attacks with scales from low to high impact and from simple to innovative. On the article page you can even … Continue reading

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