Internet of things reviewer 1 Flashcards
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.”
Internet of things
The 2-Way Wrist Radio, worn as a wristwatch by ?
Dick Tracy
members of the police force, makes its first appearance and becomes one of the comic strip’s most recognizable icons.
January 13, 1946
The bar code is conceived when 27 year- old
Norman Joseph Woodland
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.
1949
receives the first patent for a passive, read-write RFID tag.
Mario Cardullo
Mario Cardullo receives the first patent for a passive, read-write RFID tag.
January 23, 1973
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.
CC Collins
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.
1977
Early 1980s
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.
Steve Mann develops a wearable wireless webcam, considered the first example of lifelogging.
1994