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OMsignal - technology woven into life

OMsignal - technology woven into life

OMsignal’s smart shirt monitors your emotional well-being A host of fitness tracking tech is currently on the market allowing users to measure and monitor their daily activities, heart rate, exercise intensity and even how much they sweat. But what about your emotional state? Montreal-based smart apparel company OMsignal has developed a T-shirt and a bra that not only tracks your daily steps, calorie burn and heart rate, but it also measures your breathing and emotional well-being using your heart rate variability, or HRV, reported VentureBeat. OMsignal's clothing contains a 3-axis accelerometer, the basic tool found in other fitness devices, which measures motion, steps and calories. Sensors woven into the polyester/lycra fabric act as a 3-lead EKG, producing a readout of cardiac activity when the user is at rest or doing something active, according to the company. The clothing also contains GPS capability, a feature that can help you understand how your body reacts to certain activities and environments. Photo: OMsignal/Marlon-Kuhnreich

Le Ballon connecté vu par Adidas, le miCoach Dévoilé l’année dernière, Adidas propose depuis peu son ballon connecté à la vente. Sans doute un effet coupe du monde des objets connectés. Un ballon connecté pour le mondial 2014 Chose promise, chose due. Le ballon aux multiples capteurs Son fonctionnement est très simple. Picture This: Your Digital Photos Deserve Frames Too Yet another option for displaying family photos is easy to overlook: your TV. There are many ways to display slide shows on a TV set. Game consoles like the Xbox let you do that easily; you simply follow the onscreen instructions. And all smart-TV solutions enable you to display photographs, either streaming from a nearby PC over Wi-Fi or via some other method. You can also easily connect a digital camera, laptop, tablet or phone to most modern TVs and show on the big screen what you are already able to view on the little one. For more social sharing and control, however, there's an appealing new option for Google TV. Out My Window is a social photo sharing service that enables photo sharing on Apple-based mobile devices, like the iPhone and iPad and now Google TV. By using the Google TV app, you'll instantly see the new pictures uploaded by family and friends in the slide show on your TV. Digital pictures look better and last longer than printed photographs.

OMSignal un t-shirt connecté mesure la respiration et le pouls OMSignal fabrique des t-shirts connectés composés de textiles intelligents permettant de mesurer la respiration et le pouls et de transmettre ces informations à un smartphone via bluetooth. Au croisement du prêt-à-porter, du Quantified Self et de l’innovation technologique se trouve OMSignal. La société montréalaise design et fabrique ses propres vêtements intelligents, composés de fibres textiles d’un nouveau genre. Les fibres mise-au-point par OMSignal intègrent de nombreux capteurs permettant de mesurer plusieurs paramètres: pouls, respiration, humidité et température de la peau, humidité et température extérieures, nombre de pas effectués et activité physique. Nous vous avions déjà parlé de la vague d’innovations qui déferle en matière de t-shirt connectés ; il s’agit d’un objet connecté nouveau mais extrêmement prometteur tant pour le quantified self que pour le secteur de la santé connectée. Voyez cette vidéo pour mieux comprendre Hexoskin : L’ambition d’OMSignal ?

Le Polo Tech, T-shirt connecté by Ralph Lauren A l’occasion de l’US Open, Ralph Lauren a sorti un nouveau polo. Celui-ci baptisé Polo Tech, ce polo est connecté à son porteur afin de recueillir des informations sur sa santé via des capteurs. Le Polo Tech En partenariat avec la société canadienne OMSignal, Ralph Lauren a décidé de sortir son tout nouveau bébé : Polo Tech, le T-shirt connecté. La sortie de ce polo n’a pas été choisie au hasard car c’est pour inaugurer l’US Open 2014. Ce polo est équipé de capteurs afin d’enregistrer et d’envoyer des informations sur son porteur à une application iOS. Pas encore commercialisé mais à l’US Open Le Polo Tech sera commercialisé très prochainement mais avant ça, il y aura quand même des chanceux qui vont le porter.

Robocoin - Bitcoin's Global Cash ATM Network Clothing Gets Computerized Sure those name brand threads may look good, but when was the last time they allowed you to become a walking sound and light show? The Soundie, part hoodie and part electric keyboard, is a build-it-yourself project now featured on the Instructables website. By touching the Soundie at different points and with different numbers of fingers, different pitches and lights will activate. Can your hoodie play songs? The Soundie works by measuring voltage differences across special iron-on conductive fabric. Along with augmented reality video merging, and total-body interaction media, the Soundie is part of a larger trend of immersion technologies. But we’re totally skipping the other amazing part of the Soundie: it’s build it yourself! The Arduino LilyPad microcontroller board - sew cool! Just as Kanjun Qiu and Instructables is providing the know-how, Arduino is providing the means. The open source trend is providing a huge wave of potential in every technological arena.

Lecteur MP3 Nabaiji OhMiBod’s New Remote App Will Let You Pleasure Your Partner No Matter The Distance Long-distance is where it’s at for sex toy makers, and though OhMiBod was one of the first in the industry to deliver app-compatible vibrators, the implementation didn’t allow truly long-distance or remote partner pleasuring. Until now. The company, which is best known for their digitally connected vibrators, is crowdfunding a brand new app called OhMiBod Remote, which not only allows for a number of different interactions but is also powered by Bluetooth, giving partners a bit more wiggle room about being in a different room, etc. For now, the app only has a standard Bluetooth range of about 50 feet, but the campaign will also fund an update that allows the app to work no matter the distance between the vibrator and the smartphone through Wifi integration. Originally, OhMiBod’s app only let you turn the vibrators on or off, and the phone had to be within visual range of the vibrator because they were connected via RF.

The 10 Most Amazing Electronic Clothes Of the Century Computers? Clothes? What's the difference? Let’s face it, without the technology you use everyday you’d be pretty stuck. No automatic coffee pot, no iPhone, no GPS helping you crash your car. Need to make a big impression at a formal event? Why buy computerized clothing when you can make your own? Kanjun Qie from MIT Media Lab made a really cool sound-producing hoodie called the Soundie. Not useful enough? For those of us with a little electronics know-how the Arduino Lilypad is definitely a great option to make some kick-ass electronic-wear. Sports injuries can take years to overcome, and when you’re a professional athlete they can cost you a lot more than time. Also by Cute Circuit, the Hug Shirt stands on a basic premise: we all want to reach out and touch someone. The Hug Shirt lets you hug yourself and send a warm feeling to someone on the other side of the planet. ...This is a situation ripe for abuse. Fibretronics lets you embed a walkie talkie into your coat.

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