This "smart home" even monitors your health
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Team works to create sensor-rich environment that can tell if you're having trouble sleeping, losing weight or even developing a joint problem.
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Forget about temperature taking and blood pressure checking. In the bright, near future, the first step for people seeking medical care may be to have their bicep read by an electronic scanner seeking data stored on an implanted chip.
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Sensors will be used to relay data to medical files.
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Students design mobile data-access system for health-care workers.
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Slackers, rejoice! Remote controls can now be used to shop from home.
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By John McBride, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 25--Every night after the kids have gone to bed and the house grows quiet, I go upstairs and enter a digital world. I'm a sick man.   I start my computer and get to work.
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Here are some of the technologies that power devices to control everything from home entertainment to security:
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A novel wireless EKG monitor could make diagnosing heart conditions much easier.
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Updated Internet appliance adds home networking features.
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So what about that dream of the perfect "digital living room," where you can access TV, Internet, radio, music, video -- all things digital, all the time?
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Belkin's latest product lets you effortlessly share digital content within the house, but is it lawful?
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NHS patients may get new smart cards controlling access to personal health data.
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This year saw the debut of some great new products. These include the cell phone that keeps track of blood sugar levels and the digital music player that indicates how fast you run.
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WASHINGTON - Privacy advocates are concerned that an implantable microchip designed to help doctors tap into a patient's medical records could undermine confidentiality or could even be used to track the patient's movements.   "If privacy protections aren't built in at the outset, there could be harmful consequences for patients," said Emily Stewart, a policy analyst at the Health Privacy Project...
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It's amazing what kind of items can be advertised as "green" these days: a grocery-delivery service, a projection HDTV and a home-automation system, to name a few recently pitched to me.
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Digital photo frames expand beyond standalone frames into home appliances.
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Scientists are developing clothing embedded with sensors which they say will be able to monitor your health.