Smart Sensor Energy Egg and Power Strip to manage your power use better

energy-eggIt would not be too far off the mark to say that without electricity in our homes, we would feel crippled. There is no Internet to hook up to (at least, until the batteries on our smartphones that function as a hotspot dies off), and neither can we watch TV or do the simplest of household chores such as getting the clothes washed in the washing machine. Hence, it makes perfect sense to make sure that we use electricity as prudently as possible, which makes the €72.59 Smart Sensor Energy Egg and Power Strip worth checking out for any home.

The Energy Egg is actually a very simple device which intends to reduce your electricity bill, as it offers home automation all the while improving home safety, now how about that? It arrives in a stylish form factor and is a snap to set up, as you gain intelligent control of all your appliances and prevents wasted electricity. Thanks to cutting-edge motion sensor technology, the Energy Egg’s sensor will be able to know whether someone is in the room or not. The moment it detects a movement, it will double up as a remote control, wirelessly turning on/off lights and appliances depending on your prior preferences.

It is full well capable of controlling the entire range of your devices that have been paired with the unique power strip, socket and light switch. In order to gain the most savings possible, one will have to use the Energy Egg in a room where majority of the devices can be accidentally left on, such as in the bedroom as well as the living room. Since each family’s use of energy is different and dynamic in nature, the amount of money saved can vary between £50 to £150 each year.

To get started, just pair the Energy Egg and power strip wirelessly with but one click of the Energy Egg button. From there, you can plug in any device (TV, DVD, satellite receiver, games console, lamp, stereo, radio, charger, printer, electric heater etc.) into the 6 socket power strip, where a pair of power outlets will always remain on, while the other four outlets would be Energy Egg controlled.
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AllSee Low-power Sensor Uses Ambient Radio Signals to Detect Gestures

Many gesture detection devices, including the Kinect and the Leap Motion, use infrared cameras to sense movement. They also have dedicated chips that process the data from the cameras. These components are power-hungry, especially if they’re turned on at all times. Researchers from the University of Washington have developed a gesture detection device that uses 1,000 to 10,000 times less power than its counterparts.

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Bryce Kellogg, Vamsi Talla and their teacher Shyam Gollakota call the device AllSee. Instead of cameras and infrared light, it measures how the user’s hand affects ambient TV signals: “At a high level, we use the insight that motion at a location farther from the receiver results in smaller wireless signal changes than from a close-by location. This is because the reflections from a farther location experience higher attenuation and hence have lower energy at the receiver.”

The signal can also come from a dedicated RFID transmitter such as an RFID reader; future models may even use ambient Wi-Fi signals. The researchers even built prototypes that used TV signals both as source of data and as source of power, eliminating the need for a battery or plug.

Wave at your browser and go to the AllSee homepage for more on the device.

[via DamnGeeky]

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Bra Only Unhooks When There’s ‘True Love’

“The morning after” often sucks for people who weren’t in the right state of mind the night before. Cue this unusual bra by Japanese lingerie maker Ravijou, which only unlocks when it detects “true love” emanating from its wearer.

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So it’s not actually “true love” that this bra detects, because love isn’t exactly something you can measure or quantify. What it monitors instead is its wearer’s heart rate and other vital stats to determine whether or not there’s any “love” in the air.

The bra is comprised of a sensor which monitors your heart rate and other vitals. The data is constantly transmitted via Bluetooth to a mobile phone which processes the data and heart rate elevation using special algorithms and preset data and it is only when your heart has truly found that special someone would it beat in a way that the app would recognize and wirelessly unhook the bra.

As you probably already know, it takes more than a quickened heart rate to indicate that you truly love someone and don’t just have the hots for them. Ravijour claim to have already taken this into consideration:

Ladies can relax as not any changes in heart rates will unhook the bra as the experts at Ravijour say it is only when a woman falls in true love does she get excited enough for the Adrenal Medulla to secrete Catecholamine which affects the autonomic nerve and increases the heart rate which is detected by the sensor and processed by the specially developed iOS app.

What do you think?

[via Geekologie]

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Microsoft Smart Bra Lets You Know When You’re Stress Eating

Emotional eating is more common than you think. Some people sing their worries away, while others find that they’re calmer when they’re eating a cookie. Then a salad. Then a bowl of noodles. And so on and so forth.

Women aren’t the only ones who eat when they’re stressed, but men don’t really wear anything like a bra, do they? The reason why researchers from Microsoft, the University of Rochester and the University of Southampton, UK went with the bra is that it’s an article of clothing that rests over the heart, which allows it sensors to conveniently monitor its wearer’s heartbeat, and not because they had any thoughts on women being more emotional eaters than men.

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The on-board sensors record the heartbeat and emotional state of its wearer. It hooks up with a smartphone app that uses the data gathered to determine whether its wearer is eating because of fluctuating emotions or not. If it’s the former, then it’ll send the user a message to let her know just that.

After it was put to the test, the bra was found to be 75% accurate when it came to predicting its wearer’s emotional state. Microsoft doesn’t have definitive plans to release this technology in a consumer product, but continues to research devices which react based on users’ moods, or so called “affective computing.”

[via Mashable via Dvice]

Hi-tech Sensors Might Help In The Fight Against Obesity

Hi tech Sensors Might Help In The Fight Against ObesityThe world is getting fatter on average, that is for sure. The thing is, what is being done in the fight against obesity? A wise man once told me, anything that can be measured, can be improved, and here we are with this bunch of hi-tech sensors which are said to be capable of measuring the amount of food intake as well as activity level, so that one is able to figure out just what kind of obesity risks are attached to the associated lifestyle. This particular project is funded by the European Union, and the project is known as Splendid, targeting to persuade younger folk to adopt healthier lifestyles as well as to be more aware of their eating and exercise habits.

As of now, obesity can be said to be the cause of approximately 2.8 million deaths among adults annually, and the Splendid system will first be tested on around 200 secondary school students in Sweden, with a different set of children receiving the very same test in the Netherlands. I would suppose that ordinary folk like you and I would be able to make do with such metrics, but high performing athletes, too, might be able to benefit from such technology as they attempt to max out every bit of possible performance from their bodies when crunch time strikes.

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