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SFU smart jewellery start-up keeps wearers safe
Peak Web June 18, 2018By: Amal Abdullah, Staff Writer SFU computing science and mathematics student Georgiy Sekretaryuk has co-founded a company that focuses on public safety. NERO, completely self-financed by Sekretaryuk, creates smart jewellery which, if tapped three times, sends the wearer’s GPS location in an emergency call to local authorities. While the product looks like an ordinary pendant, the outside of the gem has a touch sensor, and the inside has technology that connects it via Bluetooth to the wearer’s phone. The correlated phone app is connected to a server at NERO, which automatically sends a call to the RCMP…
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SFU alumnus raises over $25,000 for sweatpants line
EIC November 21, 2014For SFU economics graduate Winson Tam, nothing is better than wearing sweatpants every month of the year. Unfortunately, the weather doesn’t exactly allow for that, which is why Tam decided to create a product he could wear all year long.…
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