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: September 2014 Articles published to Intel Free Press (www.IntelFreePress.com). Articles: - Apple Watch Revealed: The Original - Investigating Human Body Communications - Launching Edison into Near Space - What Will You Look Like in the Future? - From Red Mud Building Blocks to Ruggedized Laptops - Professional Gamers Get Paid to Play - Researchers Explore Hackproofing Your Car Intel Free Press is a tech news site from Intel Corporation, covering technology and innovation stories that are often overlooked or warrant more context and deeper reporting. The news and information here is focused on people, technology, events and topics relevant to Intel and the computing industry. The stories, photos and videos we share may be republished, edited, and re-used free of charge unless otherwise noted, so long as you use them with the story they originally run with and do not misrepresent what is happening within them.TRANSCRIPT
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Apple Watch Revealed:
The OriginalSept 3, 2014 - Silicon Valley giants had
wearable timekeepers long before smart watches.
A couple of decades before the Pebble Watch,
the Samsung Gear, the Sony Smartwatch, the i’m
Watch, the Moto 360 or the LG G Watch were a
couple of other time pieces worn on the wrist
and produced by two Silicon Valley natives. In
1995, Apple had its own branded watch to help
with a marketing campaign for its new operating
system. And 20 years before that, Intel had the
Microma digital watch.
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Investigating Human
Body CommunicationsSept 5, 2014 - Transferring data via worn
devices, ‘body area networks’ and touch.
Using the body to communicate through
speech, expressions or gestures is something
humans have been doing since the beginning
of our existence. But what if we could send
and receive that information by touching a
sensor or a screen?
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Launching Edison into
Near SpaceSept 10, 2014 - Helium-filled and Edison-powered Balloon Reaches Altitudes of 100,000 Feet
When Mikal Hart, a networking engineer at Intel, posted some GPS parsing software to an internal collaboration board several years ago, some coworkers in England decided to use his code for a project that they were working on. This is pretty typical. What isn’t typical, however, is the lofty project the English group inspired Hart and some of his Austin, Texas-based colleagues to embark on.
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What Will You Look
Like in the Future?Sept 15, 2014 - Using Big Data and Computer
Vision to Simulate Aging.
Have you ever wondered what you’ll look like
in 50 years? Thanks to computer vision
technology, it’s no longer a big mystery.
The University of Washington and Intel Labs
embarked on a facial aging project using big
data to analyze and predict the way people’s
faces age.
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From Red Mud Building
Blocks to Ruggedized
LaptopsSept 17, 2014 - Volunteer organization brings technology to schools where water, even power are scarce.
In Kenya, living off of the earth literally means exactly that: you build with what you have around you. If there is only red soil, the buildings are made of red mud bricks; if you only have sticks and stones, town construction reflects those materials. This is what Intel Event Marketing Manager Cindi Wiggin noticed as her van wound its way to Matete, a small village in the Western Province of Kenya. As part of a 17-day program, Wiggin and others brought a new type of building material to the Chimoi Primary School in Matete: silicon.
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Professional Gamers Get
Paid to PlaySept 23, 2014 - The Spectator Sport of the Future - With lucrative cash prizes, sponsorship deals and fans in the millions, eSports gamers are next generation pro athletes
They train for hours each day, score lucrative endorsement deals, and get flown all over the world to compete in front of fans – sometimes at sold out venues – for big cash prizes. Such is the life of a professional athlete. Top players get recruited into professionally managed teams, not unlike how Ferrari and Red Bull have Formula 1 drivers who are on the same team but still compete individually. But these aren’t race car drivers, golfers or professional tennis players. These are video gamers.
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Researchers Explore
Hackproofing Your CarSept 29, 2014 - Intel Research Scientists Hack Slot Cars to Illustrate Vulnerabilities and Security of IoT Hardware.
You’re driving through downtown, heading to a new hot spot as your Internet-connected GPS gives you the best directions with real-time traffic updates, when suddenly your car veers out of control and accelerates onto the sidewalk. Were you just hacked? As part of a demonstration, Intel research scientists oversimplify the risks of a world of Internet of Things (IoT)-connected devices as they remotely hack into the speed controls of a targeted slot car and force it to shoot off the track.
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