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...interfere with Internet usage, the issue has grown even more pressing. In particular, state and federal legislators must craft a flexible legal framework for dealing with data security, especially as the tools available to insurance companies and other interested observers become increasingly complex and powerful. According to Dr. Alex Pentland, a researcher at the Media Lab, the basics of privacy regulation should be based on the fundamentals of English common law. We agree with Dr. Pentland’s basic ideas: that an individual possesses his or her own online data, has the right to control data collection...
...that remind you when it's time for your next dose. "You get these horrifying statistics, like the cost of health care will go up five times in the next seven years unless you can keep people out of those emergency rooms and out of doctors' offices," says Sandy Pentland, co-founder of the Center for Future Health and former academic head of M.I.T.'s Media Lab. The solution among the cognoscenti is simple home-based technologies--that is, wiring your world for health...
...often the case, the technology is getting a jump start through the military. At M.I.T., Pentland, for one, has been building devices for the Army as part of the Warfighter Physiological Status Monitoring program, including, according to Pentland, gear to be worn by every soldier that would report back to officers "who's on the ragged edge, who's not." Sensors track hydration, heart function, sleep status, psychological status, tremors and blood flow because the Army, like a family, wants to account for the health of its members and prevent bad situations by catching problems early...
...hydraulic accumulator, which condenses the power into a motor that drives the generator. David Baird, managing director of Babtie, the engineering group that is working with Ayre, thinks tidal stream power has a big future. "Twice a day the North Sea drains in and out of the Pentland Firth," he says. "We estimate that using tidal stream generators we could meet all of the renewable energy needs of the U.K." The Severn Estuary was chosen to test the new technology because it has the world's highest range between high and low tides, around 12 m, and during the Severn...
With freshman Michael Blumberg coming out on top at No. 5 and sophomore James Bullock falling at No. 2, the match came down to junior No. 3 Dylan Patterson against Infinity’s Joe Pentland. With both sides looking on in the final match, Patterson led 7-5 in the fourth game, but couldn’t hold on and fell in four games...