Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Temperature-spotting kiosk is also a wear-a-mask reminder
A New Hampshire firm that makes stand-alone kiosks for things like buying tickets is creating COVID-specific products, including a kiosk that measures body temperature through thermal imaging (accurate enough to spot people who need a check w/ a thermometer) and also...
N.H. patents through Aug. 23
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Aug. 16 to Aug. 23. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Base Station Grouping for Topology Hiding Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No....
Any incandescent bulbs still used out there? (Update: Real data!)
NHSaves, a program to urge energy efficiency in the state, and sometimes give financial to upgrading items, sent out an item today telling people how bad incandescent bulbs are. That led me to wonder: Who uses incandescent bulbs any more? Funky restaurants use them to...
Hunting COVID, Dartmouth-Hitchcock jumps into sewage (so to speak)
Looking for the SARS-CoV2 virus in sewage is a hot topic, if also a smelly one. I wrote last month about Keene's plans to test the city's wastewater as a relatively quick and easy way to spot a COVID-19 outbreak (from, say, a bunch of returning college students, to...
Electric school buses make sense, so why is $9 million to help them sitting unused?
School buses, especially in cities, are perfect vehicles to be electric: They have set, predictable routes and return to the same place every day for charging. And being fleet vehicles, the cost savings in fuel and especially maintenance will be immediately...
Another invisible thing the pandemic made visible: Logistics
"The unsung heroes of the pandemic are supply chain managers" says the headline on a story in the Monitor (read it here) and boy that's true. Most of us hadn't even heard the term "supply chain" until a few months ago and now our lives are whipsawed by them. There are...
Rattlesnakes – yes, rattlesnakes – are part of New Hampshire culture
It has always surprised me how many places in New Hampshire are named “rattlesnake.” There’s Rattlesnake Hill in Concord, of course – home to Swenson Granite – and boaters know Rattlesnake Island in Lake Winnipesaukee, but there are also five other Rattlesnake Hills...
Contact tracing COVID in New Hampshire
In the old days of local journalism, nothing irritated me more than having a competitor do the story I was planning to do, just before I did it. The profession was pretty competitive back then. But the collapse of the business model for local journalism and resulting...
9 of 10 COVID patients in N.H. have recovered – but what does that mean?
The Monitor is tracking four measurements every week to judge the state of the COVID-19 pandemic in New Hampshire, but there are plenty of other measurements compiled by the state also worth considering. One of them is “percent recovered,” which as one reader has...
N.H. patents through Aug. 16
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned to companies in New Hampshire from Aug. 9 through Aug. 16. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Radio Operation Switch Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No....
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