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The Virtualized Club: Outdoor Workouts- Part 3
7-May-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
Note: This article has been updated to reflect what is now a 5-part series. In the previous article about the Virtualized Club @Home, we discussed how the club app takes on a different persona when you are working out at home. All this really means is that the app, tapping into a much larger, underlying
Read MoreThe Virtualized Club: Working Out @Home- Part 2
28-April-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
Note: This article has been updated to reflect what is now a 5-part series. In the previous article, we talked about the overall framework for the Virtualized Club and its five elements. One of them, the Connected Gym, has already been extensively written about on this site. In this article, we will extend your club
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Energy Harvesting: Sweat
24-April-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
It was with some excitement that I read this article this week about harvesting energy from sweat, using it as fuel to power a fuel cell. This skin-thin sensor incorporates electronics and a radio and can operate for up to 60 hours! While this is obviously a temporary patch, due to its fragility, I am
Read MoreThe Virtualized Club: Transcending the Four Wa...
21-April-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
Note: This series has been updated to add a 5th part, which covers working out at work. These articles are written as an idea takes form, so as I write subsequent articles, things occur to me that I go back and address. Partly, this is thinking out loud as an idea evolves. Also note that
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Success Isn’t Always Obvious
18-April-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
In many companies and in many programs, success is obvious and measuring success is easy. You set about to achieve a goal, and you measure it by how well you achieved that goal. A business’s goal is to make money, and the amount and margin is a direct measure of that success. If you develop
Read MoreVisualization: Run Mapping & Self Gamific...
11-April-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
Run Mapping allows you to track all of your runs on a map and make a game out of it! Visualization is a great motivator! I discuss several methods of visualizing your runs in this article.
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The Role of Context in Match Candidate Reductio...
6-April-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
Automatic detection and categorization of motion is processor intensive. Using the context of the user provides valuable constraints to reduce the set of possible matches.
Read MoreEnergy Harvesting- A New Hope
2-April-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
Following up on the previous energy harvesting article, a new breakthrough at MIT could make a big difference in the future.
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Modularity and Architecture- The Importance of ...
1-April-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
Products designed with modularity and architecture in mind are inherintly more flexible, customizable and adaptable to future changes in technology and markets.
Read MoreEnergy Advances for IoT
25-March-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
As IoT deployments increase in number, they will drive a demand for better power sources. We examine here a few advances in energy storage and harvesting.
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