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Coming up: Body-to-Body networks (BBN)

Impact: Communications    October 30, 2010
Try this idea on for size: Built into clothes, clip-on devices, hand-held devices, or eventually implanted devices – tiny, very low wattage transmitters to become part of a “Body-to-Body Network” or BBN. Not so keen on it? What if you got a reduction in monthly cost of your telephone communications for becoming a participating transmitter? [...]
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Tracking people with radio waves

News: Sensor Technology    October 31, 2009
It has a fancy name: Radio tomographic imaging (RTI). Most of us are not familiar with the technology, a Zigbee network – the kind of network often used by wireless home thermostats and other home or factory automation. However, you can bet it will show up in movies and television shows everywhere – especially the [...]
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The Internet at forty

Impact: Communications    October 31, 2009
Forty years old doesn’t mean much, not even for people. For the Internet, it really means next to nothing, other than a being kind of a marker. I suppose you could say, at least, that at forty the Internet is not new anymore. For most people the novelty of the Internet wore off years ago. [...]
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The Internet at Forty: URLs of character

Impact: Communications    October 31, 2009
There’s been some hoopla about the 40th anniversary of the Internet (precisely defined from the first Arpanet transmission October 29, 1969). Forty is not exactly a ripe old age. We need to appreciate that the Internet is neither old nor ripe. It continues to grow and evolve. For example, on October 30th ICANN, the custodian [...]
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