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Heart Rate Measurement Via Wi-Fi without any skin contact needed

2025-09-232025-09-23 Danie
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“The basic concept is simple enough. One ESP32 is set up to transmit a stream of Channel State Information packets to another ESP32, with a person standing in between. As the person’s heart beats, it […]

Bloghealth, innovation, technology, wifi

It’s true that Big Tech are not the most innovative companies around

2025-03-242025-03-24 Danie
An illustration featuring Google logos, keys, security icons, and alerts, emphasising online security and password protection.

The linked article is about the many shortcomings that Google Password Manager has, and it is quite true that many of the dedicated password managers out there have way better features than Google has. It […]

Blogbigtech, innovation, technology

Breakthrough EV battery pack could last 2 million kms, or 130 years of average driving, with 1,000km range: Goes into mass production 2024

2023-05-272023-05-27 Danie
2 million km battery

These incredibly high cycle numbers mean the battery could essentially last 2 million km before it starts to deteriorate. To put that into context, the average Australian car travels around 15,000 km per year so […]

Blogenvironment, EV, innovation, technology

What killed South Africa’s Tesla

2023-02-052023-02-05 Danie
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In 2004, a year after Tesla was incorporated, a group of South African engineers joined forces to develop an electric vehicle (EV) in response to growing concerns about global warming. Kobus Meiring, Mike Lomberg, Jian […]

Blog#joule, EV, innovation, southafrica, technology

Oliver Heaviside changed the face of telecommunications, mathematics, and science in the early 1900s, yet few have ever heard of him

2022-12-242022-12-24 Danie
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Heaviside is about in the same league as Nikola Tesla, although he probably has a broader influence than Tesla had, due to the different branches of science that his work was applied to. Like Tesla, […]

Blog#england, #oliverheaviside, innovation, technology

Goodbye expensive screen repairs — Researchers build 3D printer that can make OLED displays

2022-01-102022-01-10 Danie
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Researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have developed a customised 3D printer capable of fully printing a flexible OLED display. Their study was recently published in Science Advances, a peer-reviewed scientific journal from […]

Blog3Dprinting, innovation, mobile, technology

Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2021 as voted by Human-Centered Change and Innovation

2022-01-062022-01-07 Danie
Top 40 Innovation Bloggers 2021

See https://bradenkelley.com/2022/01/top-40-innovation-bloggers-of-2021/ #innovation #change #blogging

Blog#blogging, change, innovation
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