Results tagged “Intel” from Innovations

High-Tech Home Health Help

July 13, 2008 4:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Microprocessor-maker Intel is getting into the high-tech health business: its Health Guide has won approval from the Food and Drug Administration. The device records vital signs and allows for videoconferencing with doctors or nurses in remote locations. Daily Tech says Intel is marketing the device to nursing homes and care centers, and also expects that chronically ill people who live in their own homes might purchase the Guide.

Web pick posted by Neil Savage, Xconomy.com

Tags: Daily Tech, FDA, Intel

Measuring Air Quality, Block by Block

July 8, 2008 12:50 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Intel's Berkeley Labs team is working with the City of San Francisco to attach mobile phone prototype sensors to a fleet of street sweepers zooming around the city in the early morning hours. (Intel photo)

by Zack Beauchamp, CQ staff

For the roughly 75 million Americans afflicted with asthma or allergies , air quality can be a deadly serious issue. Air pollution can set off sometimes-fatal asthma attacks, and can cause otherwise healthy people to get the disease. To help the most vulnerable people limit exposure, the federal government issues a daily air quality report, which includes cities with "action alert" days. http://www.airnow.gov/. But there's not much detail there.

Enter San Francisco and the Intel Corporation. They're piloting a new technique of measuring hyper-local air quality with sensors on the city's street sweepers.

Tags: air pollution, Eric Paulos, Intel, San Francisco

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Solar Cell Market May Mirror That of Computers

June 30, 2008 6:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

In a sign that the market for photovoltaics may be about to take off, three computer heavyweights that promoted the development of the PC over the past three decades are moving into the solar cell business, says Scientific American. IBM announced it will begin making solar panels based on chemical thin films. Intel spun off a new solar tech company. And Hewlett-Packard started licensing technology to a company that makes rooftop solar systems.

Web pick posted by Neil Savage, Xconomy.com

Tags: Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Scientific American, solar