COVID-19 sparks new wearables to push the pandemic away
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Exhibit A: a startup named Nodle has cooked up a “smart wearable” that bakes the third-party contact-tracing the “Whisper tracing protocol” and Bluetooth into a device said to be wearable as a necklace or clipped onto your garments.
Bluetooth lets the device detect if it is within six feet of another, at which point it administers a buzz to remind wearers that social distancing is a fine idea. The contact-tracing protocol means companies that put the devices to work can inform staff if they come in contact with a COVID-carrier. There’s even some blockchain lurking in there somewhere to preserve records.
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The Nodle M1 will ship in October. Click to enlarge
Another piece of COVIDware is Motorola’s new V300 Body-Worn Cameras, in which the key innovation appears to be a field-replaceable battery and 128GB of memory. That combination means the camera can operate for 12 hours or more.
“With officers often working overtime during this pandemic to ensure the safety of their communities, we’ve seen a heightened demand from our law enforcement customers for a body-worn camera with capabilities that enable them to stay in the field longer,” intoned Andres Lacambra, senior director, Motorola Solutions’ WatchGuard portfolio. The new battery is said to make that possible by removing the need for a trip back to the station for a new battery.
The cameras also work with another Motorola product called the “WatchGuard 4RE in-car video system” that can also capture video, sync it with the bodycams and recognise number plates into the bargain.
Body-worn cameras have infamously high failure rates due to alleged misunderstanding of how to make the devices work in a crisis or battery failures that conveniently happen just before controversial moments. Hot-swappable batteries could either address or exacerbate such issues. And the buzzy wearables? The Register imagines some employers will see them as a fine way to protect staff. And others will love them, for all the wrong, reasons, long after the pandemic passes. ®
[1] https://regmedia.co.uk/2020/05/21/nodle_m1.jpg
Re: Buzzer?
No, but it can be activated remotely to discharge eight litres of pressurized sewerage. This puts off social contact, and uses proven anti-paedophile technology developed in 2001.
https://youtu.be/Q9frVTgoKSI?t=90
Hollywood has the answer
Bluetooth lets the device detect if it is within six feet of another, at which point it administers a buzz to remind wearers that social distancing is a fine idea.
Something additional to "a buzz" would be an exploding neck collar. If that doesn't enforce social distancing I don't know what will.
The one which might have a 'joke icon' in the pocket ->
Antisocial distancing
I am about to begin a Kickstarter for a new device that can be built into a hat, using a combination of Lidar, Bluetooth and short range radar at 24 and 79 Ghz, it can detect close proximity humans to within a millimetre.
At anything less than 1825 millimetres a small bioreactor kicks in and releases a measured amount of pungent methane that activates smell receptors in the encroaching individual, thus, driving them beyond the minimal acceptable distance of 1828.6 mm.
Being hat mounted allows easy 360° surveillance of potential enchroachees. Options for weaponisation are in the pipeline.
Re: Antisocial distancing
Does the hat have a sign on it saying "If you can smell my farts you're too close!"?
And wouldn't this hat be dangerous around naked flames?!? -------------->
Re: Antisocial distancing
Just make it a fedora and you don't need to add anything, it's already off-putting.
Re: Antisocial distancing
I'd rather wear a Fedora than a baseball cap turned around the wrong way. In fact I'd rather wear a Fedora than any baseball cap unless I was actually playing baseball that is...
Mines the MCC Blazer with white had in the pocket.
Blockchain, blinkenlichten and comes in October
So, the Noodle (sorry, that's how I write it) will need 128GB of SD storage to manage its blockchain - that it will have to synchronize somehow - it has bloody LED lights that you don't see because it's clipped on your shirt pocket, and it will be available when the pandemic is over. Or restarting, we'll see.
Now tell me, who is managing this blockchain thing, what server is it going to call for updates and what security measures are included ?
Frankly, I have the feeling that the company making this is going to fold if that's the only product they have.
Re: if that's the only product they have.
thry'll be like a gazillion other startups in that they are hoping that nice big conglomerate comes along and buys them up before their startup run out of cash.
[sign of the times I'm afraid]
Lightsabers.
They must be about 2m long, right ?
Someone please bring those into reality.
Buzzer?
If social distancing isn't respected after the initial buzzer warning, does it go into high voltage shock mode?