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Intel Uses Wearables to Track Rhinos

August 21, 2014 By Dan Rosenbaum

madikwe_1684We’re always suckers for a good application story, and this one qualifies: Intel is using its wearable Galileo motherboard to track endangered black rhinoceroses in South Africa and save them from poachers. This entails attaching devices to the rhino, which gives rise to our favorite sentence of the week:

Attempting to affix technology to a rhino is risky.

Yeah. Y’think?

Seriously, this is a good yarn and a case where a bunch of companies come together to experiment with tech in an effort to do some good. Take a couple of minutes to read it.

 

Last updated by Dan Rosenbaum on August 21, 2014.

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