Don't steal meat
Episode 37
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Audio file
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February 10th, 2017
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1 hr 7 mins
What are wearables & RFIDs?
- Wearables 101: What they are & why you’ll be seeing a lot of them (How-To Geek)
- Wearable technology (Wikipedia)
- The wear, why & how (The Economist)
- Gamification (Wikipedia)
- The Apple Watch, Series 2 (Apple)
- How the Apple Watch works (How Stuff Works, Tech)
- FitBit
- How FitBit works (How Stuff Works, Tech)
- How does a pedometer work? (Explain That Stuff!)
- Pedometer take-apart (Evil Mad Scientist)
- What is a mercury switch? (wiseGEEK)
- Mercury switch (Wikipedia)
- How the (Nintendo) Wii works (How Stuff Works, Tech)
- What are accelerometers & how do they work? (Explain That Stuff!)
- Flight Radar 24: An app that uses the accelerometer in your phone (flightradar24)
- Apple Watch heart rate sensor: Everything you need to know (Tech Radar)
- A discussion about how the Apple Watch knows if you're standing or sitting...not sure if anyone really understands (Quora)
- How to use a trundle wheel (NSW Department of Education)
- Blindside Margaret River Classic White 2016 (Naked Wines)
- Google Glass (Google)
- Google Glass (Wikipedia)
- Snapchat Spectacles (Snapchat)
- We tried Snapchat Spectacles - here's what it's like (c|net)
- Smart ring (Wikipedia)
- Ingestibles, wearables & embeddables (Federal Communications Commission)
- How does your chip credit card work? It uses 'EMV', the technical standard for smart payment cards (Wikipedia)
- Radio-frequency identification, or RFID (Wikipedia)
- Radio frequency (RF & RFID) tags (Explain That Stuff!)
- RFID FAQ (RFID Journal)
- RFID tag tuning (Atmel)
- Apple's fight with Aussie banks over Apple Pay & iPhone NFC rages on (Gizmodo)
- Apple Pay explained: What is it & how does it work? (Pocket-lint)
- How Apple Pay & Google Wallet actually work (ars TECHNICA)
- How do antennas & transmitters work? (Explain That Stuff!)
- How anti-shoplifting devices work (How Stuff Works, Science)
- Samsung reveals 'Family Hub' fridge that orders food, plays films & lets you see inside it remotely (Daily Mail)
- The 'Amazon Go' shop in Seattle that doesn't have checkouts (Amazon)
- There's a smartphone-powered store in Sweden with no human cashiers (Gizmodo)
- Electromagnetic activation & deactivation of security tags (Wikipedia)
- How much does it cost to find a Higgs Boson? The cost of the Large Hadron Collider (Forbes)
- The cost of Melbourne's MYKI transport system (The Age)
- RFID handshake (All Things Sensory)
- UUIDs & GUIDs (Wikipedia)
- Online GUID Generator
- 7 gadgets to keep track of the things that matter most to you (Tech Radar)
- The 'tile' tracker's battery lasts about 1 year & then they help you recycle & replace the entire device (tile)
- How wireless mesh networks work (How Stuff Works, Tech)
- Mesh networking (Wikipedia)
- These wearables are designed to help people with Alzheimer's (Forbes)
- NHS dementia patients to trial wearable technology (BBH)
- What is the future of fabric? These smart textiles will blow your mind (Forbes)
- Clothes with hidden sensors act as an always-on doctor (New Scientist)
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