Category Archives: ICT

Clothes That Monitor Health

By BabakF | Published: April 17, 2008

Clothes That Monitor Health A new patch tracks electrolyte levels in sweat.

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Smart textile in health informatics: Wealth and MyHeart projects

By BabakF | Published: March 3, 2008

Clever clothes in a smart world Pretty soon your gym gear will be more high tech than the groaning treadmill beneath you. Smart textiles and wearable devices can monitor your vital signs as you go about daily life. These clever clothes already exist and look set to find a market niche especially in elite sport [...]

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A Developers Bill of Rights: Open source study by Alan MacCormack

By BabakF | Published: May 24, 2007

There is an interesting article on open source by Alan MacCormack in this page. It includes a critic of GPLv3 as I can see from the abstract: “Our findings reveal that developers are primarily interested in flexibility and choice when considering a licensing approach. Most developers we interviewed used open source licenses to tap into [...]

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