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New York based design studio Breakfast worked with rider Janeen McCrae to enable her bike named "Precious" to share its speed, location, temperature and more to the world as they traveled across the country in 2010 to raise money for the LIVESTRONG charity.During its 3 month journey...

Using GSM technology (versus wifi) the The Bodytrace eScale system will take your weight measurements and then upload them automatically to their site for tracking and comparisons over time. From their website: ...

EveryHeartBeat is a project announced by Leslie Saxon, MD from the USC Center for Body Computing to "connect the more than 5 billion mobile phones in the world to...

The fashion brand C&A in Brazil has launched a new 'Fashion Like' campaign for Mother's Day this year that integrates their flagship store in São Paulo to their Facebook page via digital hangers displaying a real-time like counter for each piece of clothing.Although my current...

From their website: The Kickbee is a device that updates Twitter when a baby kicks its mother from the womb. Long commutes and longer workdays force many expecting parents to spend...

London based design firm Digit has decided to spice up their office routine by adding some real world competition and fitness to their daily routines with an in-house project City Peaks that "makes mountain ranges out of staircases" The game is powered by a combination...

NODE: the bluetooth enabled handheld device from George Yu and his team at Variable Technologies is another Internet of Things project that has been fully funded on Kickstarter (Others include Twine, AirQualityEgg, NinjaBlocks, ReaDIYmate). The products basic elements include a gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer...

Pebble Watch made a big debut on Kickstarter by exceeding its funding goal by $500,000 within the first 12 hours of launching, it will become just one in the latest series of Connected Watches to come to market that brings data from your smartphone...

Alohar Mobile is a startup lead by former Googler Sam Liang creating a new persistent sensing platform that collects location and other data from your smartphone's sensors (motion, altitude, direction, wifi, timing, etc) and quickly analyzes it to understand a user's behavior.Watch the video...

Having trouble sitting up straight during the long hours at the computer, or dealing with general back aches and pains? LUMOback wants to help you improve your posture via the combination of a thin wearable sensor that monitors posture and sends vibrations to your...

Created by Huaishu Peng and Yen-Chia Hsu at the Computational Design Lab at Carnegie Mellon comes the SENSEable shoes project. The shoes can identity and transmit information for 10 different gait patterns (standing, sitting, turning left, turning right,...

Nike has unveiled a new element in their + products this week by rolling out Hyperdunk a sensor enabled shoe that Lebron James will first start wearing at the London Olympics later this year. Four different sensors and an accelerometer are located inside each...

Exmovere Holdings a biomedical engineering company focused on government and consumer applications for healthcare, security and mobility has announced the availability of their Exmobaby smart pajamas (cozy name) to distributers and clinicians.The pajamas provide some peace of mind to new parents (and specifically addresses...

The Augmented Reality Sandbox funded by the NSF and the sensing technology Touché from the Disney Research team are two projects giving us a glimpse of the next phase of user interface possibilities coming our way. We take a look at them both...

From their site: TSPS is a cross-platform Toolkit for Sensing People in Spaces. The Toolkit for Sensing People in Spaces (TSPS) works by extending the energy of a person,...

The Chameleon is a web enabled inhaler targeted at helping children to better manage their Asthma. According to the project organizers Asthma is the most common childhood disease in the US resulting in 100 million missed school days and 18 million annual emergency room...

Withings is a wifi body scale that automatically records your weight, fat mass and MBI and can upload it the internet for your review. It features automatic people recognition so more than one person can use it and the data can be shared...

Last September in San Francisco Facebook held its annual developer conference F8. Creative agency Obscura Digital added a little spice to the event with their interactive physical installation constructed from participants Facebook social graph data they dubbed...

Zeo is an Internet of Things enabled sleeping device that senses and tracks your sleeping patterns and uploads it to the web for analysis, tracking and sleep coaching. Available for consumer use you can pick up one from Amazon or their store for...