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  • FDA approved iPhone EKG machine

    This $200 iPhone Case Is An FDA-Approved EKG Machine Co.Design, huffingtonpost.com Most iPhone cases just pro­tect your phone from drops. If you’re get­ting fancy, it may have a fish­eye cam­era lens or a screen-printed back. But what about diag­nos­ing coro­nary heart dis­ease, arrhyth­mia, or con­gen­i­tal heart defects? The… http://flip.it/tkpwY Related articles EPI Life: World’s first…

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  • Does 48 fps cause motion sickness?

    ‘Hobbit’ Motion Sickness, Nausea Critics Shot Down By Warner Bros. And Peter Jackson Cavan Sieczkowski, huffingtonpost.com Warn­er Bros. and Peter Jack­son are respond­ing to claims that “The Hob­bit: An Unex­pect­ed Jour­ney” is caus­ing motion sick­ness and nau­sea among view­ers. Peter Jack­son’s fan­ta­sy flick pre­miered in New Zealand on Nov. 28 and claims of… http://flip.it/WRhuh Related…

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  • iPhone, Panasonic GH 2 match pro video cameras in shoot out

    (via The Best Video Camera Revealed in Shootout) Related articles Evacuate, North Korea urges foreigners in latest ‘thermo-nuclear war’ threat – Telegraph.co.uk (telegraph.co.uk) EOSHD competition – Win a place at Panasonic’s exclusive Lumix GH3 workshop (eoshd.com) MōVI set to revolutionise filmmaking – Vincent LaForet shows gyro stabiliser by Freefly Systems (with footage from GH3 and…

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  • Obama campaign sparks new political tech startups

    The Obama start-ups economist.com Innovation and electioneering Techniques from the president’s election campaigns have spawned one lot of young firms AT THE inau­gu­ra­tion ball held for staff of Barack Obama’s cam­paign team in Jan­u­ary 2009, the new pres­i­dent “told us al… RT @TheEconomist: Techniques from the Barack Obama’s election campaigns have spawned one lot of…

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  • Big data will rewire your brain

    Big Data: You Have No Idea How Much It Will Change Your Life Juan Enriquez, inc.com Futurist Juan Enriquez on the mind-blowing changes that Big Data is about to unleash on your business, your health, and life in general. Most mod­ern humans are now attempt­ing to cram more data into their heads in a sin­gle…

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  • Step app lets you create time lapse on iPhone

    Create A Timelapse Film With Your Thumb With New Step App fastcocreate.com Step allows users to create timelapse and stop-motion movies—and it’s so easy even a kid can use it. When it comes to design­ing an app expe­ri­ence, mak­ing it easy enough for a kid to use is a great place to start. As design…

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  • Game cams now capture real life behavior

    Amazing Photos Of Animals In The Wild, Snapped By Hidden Automatic Cameras BY EMILY BADGER, fastcoexist.com The Smithsonian’s Wild project uses advanced automated cameras to capture images of animals in their natural habitats as they go about their day. It’s a much better kind of specimen than a dead, stuffed animal. Bill McShea has trav­eled…

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  • CW&T uses wheelbarrows to make mobile gadget stands

    This Makes Perfect Sense: The Wheelbarrow As Television Stand By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com CW&T used repurposed bicycle parts to build the TV Barrow, elevating the humble TV stand into the realm of surprisingly functional art. Most tele­vi­sions live on a shelf. The proud­est among them are hung from a wall. But in most cases, how­ev­……

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  • Memoto records every minute of your day

    A Wearable Camera To Record Every Single One Of Life’s Precious Moments BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com The Memoto is a “lifelogging camera” designed to capture and then re-stream everything that happens to you. Does this mean the end of memory as we know it? The cybor­gian future that awaits us is full of enhance­ments to…

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  • Visualizing all public transit in NYC

    Watch One Mesmerizing Day Of All The Public Transit In New York BY MORGAN CLENDANIEL, fastcoexist.com This video, made using MTA data, shows the city as defined by its subways, buses, and trains. New York is a city defined by its pub­lic trans­porta­tion sys­tem. It’s why, when large parts of it were taken out dur­ing…

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  • Visualize NYC buried in its C02 emissions

    Infographic: Watch NYC Get Buried Under Its CO2 Emissions By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com In 2010, NYC added 54 million metric tons of CO2 to the atmosphere. This video shows it as a big, blue ball pit. Last week, thou­sands in New York and mil­lions at home watched the Macy’s Thanks­giv­ing Day Parade, an annu­al, multi-hour…

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  • Visualize microscopic wonder of plants

    The Wondrous Beauty Of Microscopic Plant Seeds By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com U.K. artist Rob Kesseler is working with the Millennium Seed Bank to illustrate the remarkable, nearly invisible world of microscopic botany. As long as humans have made art, they’ve looked to the flora and fauna around them for inspi­ra­tion.… RT @FastCompany: Via @FastCoDesign, The…

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