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Welcome to Decrypted, Digital Trends' daily newsletter guiding you through the latest news in the world of tech, with insights from our senior writers. |
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Several decades before Apple introduced its AirPods, back in the 1980s, there was the Walkman, perhaps the first modern wearable technology, which allowed users to take their music with them wherever they went.
The Walkman gave users dominion not only over what they listened to (say, The Smiths), but also, by dint of its plastic earbuds plugging their ears, what they didn't listen to (say, their parents). It allowed people to create and exert control over the soundtrack to their lives, giving us all our own individual bubbles of meaning. While the boombox was about letting — or, in some instances, forcing — others to listen to our music, the Walkman made listening a fundamentally personal, isolated experience.
Romit Roy Choudhury and his team want to go further than that. They seek to transform today's earbuds into a whole new computing platform that could, in some cases, replace the need for you to reach for your smartphone or computer.
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It's been over a year since Vizio unveiled the OLED65-H1 TV at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show — the longest we've ever waited for a TV to review. And while it's been a long time coming, we still think it's a strong competitor that has brought OLED TVs down to the lowest prices we've seen.
So was it worth the wait? We put it through our gauntlet of TV tests to find out. |
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The amount of data that gets captured during an NFL game these days is absolutely mind-blowing. There's so much that it's almost hard to comprehend. But John Pollard, vice president of business development for Zebra Technologies, the official on-field player-tracking provider of the NFL, paints a pretty good picture:
"Every player that participates in a game, whether they're on the sidelines or on the field, has RFID tags in their shoulder pads." he explained in an interview with Digital Trends. "Most players have two tags — one on each shoulder pad, sometimes with a third one between the shoulder blades. All the field officials are also tagged, as well as things like the pylons and the yardsticks on the field. The ball itself has an RFID tag as well. And all these tags communicate with a series of receiver boxes that are permanently installed around the perimeter of all the stadiums in the NFL."
But here's the kicker: Despite the fact that the league has been capturing this data for the better part of a decade, we're only now starting to see how it's changing the game. |
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