Internet of things reviewer 1

Question 1

is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to- computer interaction.”

Answer 1

Internet of things

Question 2

The 2-Way Wrist Radio, worn as a wristwatch by ?

Answer 2

Dick Tracy

Question 3

members of the police force, makes its first appearance and becomes one of the comic strip’s most recognizable icons.

Answer 3

January 13, 1946

Question 4

The bar code is conceived when 27 year- old

Answer 4

Norman Joseph Woodland

Question 5

draws four lines in the sand on a Miami beach. Woodland, who later became an IBM engineer, received (with Bernard Silver) the first patent for a linear bar code in 1952. More than twenty years later, another IBMer, George Laurer, was one of those primarily responsible for refining the idea for use by supermarkets.

Answer 5

1949

Question 6

receives the first patent for a passive, read-write RFID tag.

Answer 6

Mario Cardullo

Question 7

Mario Cardullo receives the first patent for a passive, read-write RFID tag.

Answer 7

January 23, 1973

Question 8

develops an aid to the blind, a five-pound wearable with a head- mounted camera that converted images into a tactile grid on a vest.

Answer 8

CC Collins

Question 9

CC Collins develops an aid to the blind, a five-pound wearable with a head- mounted camera that converted images into a tactile grid on a vest.

Answer 9

1977

Question 10

Early 1980s

Answer 10

Members of the Carnegie-Mellon Computer Science department install micro-switches in the Coke vending machine and connect them to the PDP-10 departmental computer so they could see on their computer terminals how many bottles were present in the machine and whether they were cold or not.

Question 11

Steve Mann develops a wearable wireless webcam, considered the first example of lifelogging.

Answer 11

1994