Tomorrow is Earth day!
And Mdm Fara show us this video on the impact of globalisation. I feel like killing those gobshite who did those cruel act to the animals and plant. It contribute to global warming.
Yes. I'm also that idiot who took taxi to TampinesMall when I can frigging walk there.
& I'm saving up for a bicycle
Plus riding a bicycle always seem so embarrassing to me. That's why I'm saving up to buy a nice
feminine old school bike with a basket at the front. So I can go to the market in the morning, buy breakfast for my entire family using dad's money and see their smile ;]
That shall be my goal.
Test on Speed of reaction.
Extra class for math.
Homeworking piling up. Bye!
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Monday, April 21, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Staying healthy by dressing smart
Patients in the near future will use 'smart' fabrics to keep them healthy, thanks to a EU project that recently completed initial development of high tech clothing.
The Wearable Health Care System (WEALTHY) IST project just completed 30 months of research and development to prototype technologies at the heart of smart fabrics. Smart fabrics incorporate functional fibres and yarns into the weave, allowing researchers to develop many useful sensors for a wide variety of applications.
Intelligent use of microelectronics allows scientists and engineers to extract useful data from very simple inputs. For example, the WEALTHY project integrated temperature sensors in the armpit and shoulder of their garment to register core and skin temperature.
Europe is currently a leader in R&D on smart fabrics and interactive textiles, a market that analyst firm Venture Development Corporation believes will boom in the coming years: at $300m in 2003 the overall market growth is estimated between 11 per cent and 28 per cent through 2008 ($720 m in 2008).
posted by : http://cordis.europa.eu
The Wearable Health Care System (WEALTHY) IST project just completed 30 months of research and development to prototype technologies at the heart of smart fabrics. Smart fabrics incorporate functional fibres and yarns into the weave, allowing researchers to develop many useful sensors for a wide variety of applications.
Intelligent use of microelectronics allows scientists and engineers to extract useful data from very simple inputs. For example, the WEALTHY project integrated temperature sensors in the armpit and shoulder of their garment to register core and skin temperature.
Europe is currently a leader in R&D on smart fabrics and interactive textiles, a market that analyst firm Venture Development Corporation believes will boom in the coming years: at $300m in 2003 the overall market growth is estimated between 11 per cent and 28 per cent through 2008 ($720 m in 2008).
posted by : http://cordis.europa.eu
Smart Clothes
Smart clothes -- clothes and accessories into which technologies are seamlessly and stylishly enfolded -- is a big coming meme. Horizon Zero has a collection of excellent articles on the subject:
"Over the past few years, technological prostheses have gradually encroached upon the world of clothing by combining with the surfaces that protect and personalize our bodies. Communications and entertainment devices, such as cellular phones and mp3 players, have become new forms of adornment, connecting our inner world with our surroundings and profoundly altering our relationship with the world. These increasingly multifunctional and powerful accessories have contributed to a process of layering our personal boundaries with multiple strata of information and sensation while offering others the image of a hardware-equipped body. In the field of smart clothes, the trend today is towards a subtler and more complex integration of technological elements - the concept of the "second skin" - while taking our needs and desires into account. This issue of HorizonZero highlights the many achievements in the field of "ready-to-wear" technology."
While "fashionable technology" is worth keeping an eye on, the implications here extend far beyond geek couture into questions of security and privacy (and the participatory panopticon), the changing nature of urban space (and way new urbanism), the whole realm of smart-mobby politics, even, potentially, our ability to understand natural systems.
posted by : Alex Steffen
"Over the past few years, technological prostheses have gradually encroached upon the world of clothing by combining with the surfaces that protect and personalize our bodies. Communications and entertainment devices, such as cellular phones and mp3 players, have become new forms of adornment, connecting our inner world with our surroundings and profoundly altering our relationship with the world. These increasingly multifunctional and powerful accessories have contributed to a process of layering our personal boundaries with multiple strata of information and sensation while offering others the image of a hardware-equipped body. In the field of smart clothes, the trend today is towards a subtler and more complex integration of technological elements - the concept of the "second skin" - while taking our needs and desires into account. This issue of HorizonZero highlights the many achievements in the field of "ready-to-wear" technology."
While "fashionable technology" is worth keeping an eye on, the implications here extend far beyond geek couture into questions of security and privacy (and the participatory panopticon), the changing nature of urban space (and way new urbanism), the whole realm of smart-mobby politics, even, potentially, our ability to understand natural systems.
posted by : Alex Steffen
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