Archive for November, 2008
Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Creating specialist vertical search engine using yahoo! boss api
Truevent is a search engine built on top of the Yahoo! boss api.
I was talking to a search researcher about their offering.
researcher: i think the underlying theory is a bit overstretched…
researcher: well, i think there’s nothing new about it
Paul Birnie: you mean the linking of words associated to other words
Paul Birnie: well at least boss […]
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Body sensor networks
About a year ago I met Douglas Mc Ilwraith, who is working on research into body sensor networks at Imperial college
The device I like is the accelerometer that fits behind you ear and uses bluetooth to transmit information about your head movement
here are some links
http://www.sports-bsn.org/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7337503.stm
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12640
http://www.theengineer.co.uk/Articles/302074/Ear+to+the+track.htm
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/behind-the-ear-motion-sensor-helps-monitor-patients-athletes/
http://vip.doc.ic.ac.uk/bsn/m188.html
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/02/diy_bluetooth_acceleromet.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
