IoT
Alum Launches New Device to Detect Asthma Attacks Before They Begin
Right now twenty-four million people suffer with asthma in the U.S. causing almost 2 million visits to the emergency room each year. What if asthma sufferers could use a simple test at home that could prevent dangerous and painful attacks and many of these ER visits? That is the idea behind Aeris, a hospital-grade spirometer…
Alums create world’s first stick and shoot camera
Tired of being left out of the picture when snapping a photo of a loved one? Don’t want to wield an awkward selfie stick to get a pic with your friends? UC Berkeley alums Eddie Lee (Haas / SCET certificate ’11), Samuel Pullman (EECS ’12), and Jae Choi (Econ ’13) have created Podo, a new kind…
SCET alums build a Bluetooth beacon to make your push notifications more relevant
Most of us have a love-hate relationship with the push notification (i.e. the little messages that pop up on our smart phone’s lock screen). It usually goes something like this: our phone vibrates or the LED blinks, which triggers us to check our phone to see what the latest message is. The best case might…