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• "Organic semiconductors" help researchers monitor your heart

  Published: July 30, 2007, 12:24 pm

  Tags: Heart, Medical, Monitoring, Pentacene, Research, Respiration

  Filed under: Wearables Have you ever been halfway through a heart attack and thought "If only my shirt had been laced with wireless sensors that monitored respiration and body temperature, this cheese-stick-related incident might have been prevented"? Well now, next time you have one-too-many wings while tailgating, a fabric developed by

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• Linux Tip: Monitor Ubuntu services with Monit

  Published: August 1, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Linux, Linux Tip, System Monitoring

  a utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and devices on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations. Although written with Ubuntu in mind, the process demonstrated by Ubuntu Geek can be used with most flavors of *nix. Thanks, David!

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• Left-sided breast cancer radiation spikes heart risk

  Published: August 14, 2007, 3:00 am

  Tags: Abnormalities, Breast, Cancer, Coronary, Damage, Eating, Exercise, Heart, Left, Monitoring, Radiation, Right, Risk, Sided

  real, I can push for careful monitoring and long-term follow-up to assess my risk. And I can keep walking and running and eating right -- so I can keep my heart in tip-top, post-radiation shape.Read   Permalink   Email this   Linking Blogs

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• System Monitoring: Detect if someone is monitoring your computer usage

  Published: August 17, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Checklist, Employment, Spyware, System Monitoring, Tracking

  to detect computer & email monitoring or spying software [Computer Tips From A Computer Guy]

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• System Monitoring: More companies are monitoring email automatically, ...

  Published: August 21, 2007, 10:36 am

  Tags: System Monitoring

  More companies are monitoring email automatically, using systems that analyze outgoing messages for red flags, like foul language, customer data and competitors' names automatically.

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• DIY pervasive health monitor keeps tabs on your vitals

  Published: August 24, 2007, 11:02 am

  Tags: Biometric, Bluetooth, Diy, Ecg, Emg, Health, Medical, Monitor, Monitoring, Pocket Pc, Pocketpc, Sensor, Sensors, Video

  If you think your heart rate-monitoring wristwatch is hot stuff, a homegrown creation from the Berkeley Institute of Design is apt to put that to shame. Dubbed the pervasive health monitoring system, this project involves a TI microcontroller, a Bluetooth interface, audio amplifier, and a trio of low power "implementation amplifiers," which

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• Ambient Orb power-usage hack reduces energy consumption by 40%

  Published: August 28, 2007, 12:03 am

  Tags: Ambient Devices, Ambientdevices, Environment, Green, Mark Martinez, Markmartinez, Orb, Power Monitoring, Powermonitoring, Southern California Edison, Southerncaliforniaedison

  and we've seen some other monitoring attempts before, but we think we like Martinez's hack better -- it brings a little mod flair to living green. Hopefully he'll let us know how he did it soon.[Via Inhabitat] Read Permalink Email this CommentsOffice Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to

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• In The News: CBS 3 Philadelphia

  Published: March 14, 2007, 12:34 pm

  Tags: Computer Monitoring

  On CBS 3 in Philadelphia (Jim Donavan) recently did a report on kid tracking and eBlaster was one of the programs that were featured. Below is a link to watch the video.Kid Tracking

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• Aranz Medical SilhouetteMobile Laser-Equipped PDA Keeps Track of Your Wounds, So You Don't Have To

  Published: September 4, 2007, 10:21 am

  Tags: Gadgets, Health, Lasers, Medical, Monitoring, Pda, Portable

  This is either a technological breakthrough or a sign that the medical profession is getting lazier by the minute: Aranz Medical's SilhouetteMobile PDA was designed to diagnose how bad a wound is, and monitor its progress as it heals. With lasers. Fully disgusting illustrated "Wound Measurement Report" after the bloody jump.

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• RF-ECG biosensor kit enables wireless medical monitoring

  Published: September 11, 2007, 4:03 am

  Tags: Biometric, Biosensor, Ecg, Health, Heart, Medical, Monitor, Monitoring, Rf Ecg, Sensor, Sensors, Video

  Filed under: Misc. GadgetsThe kit recently unveiled by the Medical Electronic Science Institute most certainly has some homegrown competition, as it too seeks to record and wirelessly transmit "ECG signals and motion, as well as heart rate and epidermal skin temperature" to mobile phones or PCs. The body-worn sensor utilizes "low power consumption

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• Skiing Speedometer Gives You Bragging Rights in the Lodge

  Published: September 12, 2007, 6:30 pm

  Tags: Gadgets, Fast, Gadgets, Monitoring, Skiing, Speedometers, Sport, Wearables

  As a former ski instructor (best high school job ever) and resident of the mountains of New Hampshire now living in the relatively mountain-free areas of Brooklyn, skiing gadgets bring a tear to my eye. One the one hand, they're awesome; like this speedometer for skiers and snowboarders that clips onto your chest or boots, telling you just how

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• IBM to Monitor the Hudson River with Solar-Powered Underwater Vehicles

  Published: September 12, 2007, 2:40 pm

  Tags: Vehicles, Ibm, Monitoring, Power, Solar, Vehicles, Water

  IBM is gathering some goodwill points by partnering up with a nonprofit to help monitor a 315-mile stretch of the Hudson River. They're going to be using a combination of sensor-laden buoys and solar-powered robotic underwater vehicles numbering in the hundreds. The vehicle, which sort of looks like a yellow sting ray covered in solar panels, will

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• Bandwidth: Windows users who must manually monitor their ...

  Published: September 12, 2007, 3:15 pm

  Tags: Bandwidth, System Monitoring, Windows

  Windows users who must manually monitor their bandwidth usage can do so with Simplehelp's detailed guide.

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• Monitor Your Buzz - Can You Do It & Do It Free?

  Published: October 2, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Blogging, Goodies Freebies, Web, Andy Beal, Buzz, Monitoring, Online Presence, Reputation, Tools

  Andy Beal's twenty six buzz monitoring tools to keep track of our reputation, our online presence, our online "selves."  But even though we supposed know about the tools, his list is a handy reminder us that we could be missing something. Or a way to nudge ourselves into putting them to use in the first place. Andy

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• InGrid touts "first" all-digital home protection system

  Published: October 2, 2007, 2:16 pm

  Tags: Home Monitoring, Home Protection System, Home Security, Homemonitoring, Homeprotectionsystem, Homesecurity, Ingrid

  safe, including 24/7 monitoring from Guardian Protection Services, website access and control, and e-mail and cell phone alerts to warn you of potential dangers. The kit itself (which you install yourself) consists of a console, handset and base unit, along with sensors for your doors and windows, and a key chain remote to arm and disarm

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