Athletic sneaker and fashion design company Puma teamed up with tech firm Sagem to launch a mobile phone earlier this week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. As you might expect, fitness applications and tools are at the core of the phone's offerings: The Puma Phone features a pedometer, GPS tracker, compass and stopwatch for fitness enthusiasts. The phone also sports a large solar...
During a presentation here at BodyNets in Los Angeles, Leif Hanlen from NICTA presented one solution for securing the information collected by wireless sensors in a Body Area Network (BAN) and argued that not all BAN services will require the same level of security.
Hanlen began his presentation by sharing some details of the IEEE working group that is creating the Body Area Networks profile: 802...