Shining light on healthcare at home
Blog By combining infra-red sensors with communications hardware in an LED lightbulb, inventor Lyndsay Williams claims that dangerous domestic situations can be detected in plenty of time to prevent disaster.
[January 27, 2008, 15:27 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
Craig Barrett's love life hits IDF
Blog There's a rather good infra-red camera in the Wii remote, so if you stuff an infra-red LED in the tip of an old whiteboard marker, the Wii can track it against a projected image. As I type, we're half an hour into IDF proper.
[August 19, 2008, 17:03 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
IBM - an apology (and some really neat physics!)
Blog Now, one of the fortuitous facts of physics is that silicon is transparent to infra-red light - and, if you alter the number of electrons in a piece of silicon, its refractive index at infra-red changes.
[December 7, 2007, 15:38 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog You know the score: just like a Palm Pilot but rounder, more memory and an infra-red port. One of our reviewers phones up the marketing bod in charge of the Palm, and asks: 'So, what can you do with the infra-red?
[April 18, 1998, 8:00 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Orange SPV C500: a first look
Talkback Go to the file manager, choose your file you wish to send, then click menu and choose to send via infra red. On the screen it should appear to say allign, however below this it will say searching. Click down to highlight searching and click beam.
About: Orange SPV C500: a first look
[January 29, 2006, 11:10]
Fujitsu's biometric scanner reads palms
Talkback Also, I understand that the near infra-red scanner actually detects the de-oxygenated blood below the surface of the skin - and so it is not significantly affected by the temperature of the hand (there is a test on the Fujitsu web page).
About: Fujitsu's biometric scanner reads palms
[April 10, 2006, 17:36]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It has infra-red connectivity, so you dump it next to your laptop and voila, it's all connected. See a sneak preview of an absolutely fab cellphone. I can't reveal the name of the manufacturer - because they don't know I know - but it's the bee's...
[February 21, 1998, 6:00 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
IDF Day Zero: Of Intel China, Carrying Small and Living Large
Blog He's doing it in Chinese, and us big-noses have been equipped with infra-red instantaneous translation devices. We watch a video of people visiting ICRC -- the Intel China Research Centre, not the International Committee of the Red Cross -- and...
[April 1, 2008, 20:46 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
Microsoft takes a sideways look at touch technology
Blog The company's researchers have studded the sides of a mobile phone with infra-red sensors, which can detect the presence and movement of a finger held some way away from actually touching the device. Always a pleasure to report on Microsoft doing...
[October 22, 2008, 0:01 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
A shocking lack of journalistic standards at CES
Blog Noting that a large part of the CES experience involves TVs, and that a certain device called 'TV-B-Gone' is specifically designed to shut down tellies of all brands and models by spraying every infra-red OFF command known to man indiscriminately...
[January 11, 2008, 0:02 in Not Safe For Work by Rupert Goodwins]
Studies motivated by fear of magic
Talkback Do you know how many radio waves, tv signals, satellite scans, mobile phone tower transmissions and infra red beams the average city dweller walks through every day? These studies wouldn't be though enough anyway unless prolonged exposure over many...
About: Government to study Wi-Fi health risks
[October 18, 2007, 11:04 by David Long]
More fun for frequent fliers
Blog Whether this means a cartoon hand appears from the belly of the plane clutching a rolled-up newspaper, the firing of explosive Guardian readers wrapped in Baco-foil and propelled by a carbon-neutral fuel, or the terminal confusion of guidance...
[January 18, 2007, 12:42 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Still, they could always equip us with infra-red controls and let us take part in some big videogame tournament. Monday, 22/02/1999 In a rare burst of Maoist self-criticism, Steve Ballmer -- Bill Gates' sidekick -- says that Microsoft has got...
[February 26, 1999, 16:24 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Infra-red's no good and Bluetooth doesn't go through walls, so it'll have to be something like Wi-Fi. Weds 12/7/2006 My very favourite telecoms regulator is going sane. I had my worries about it earlier this month when it appeared to have a hissy...
[July 14, 2006, 19:15 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
