Category: Digital health

  • Nurses will assess whether your health tech is usable

    Nurses will never adopt your tech if the usability sucks Meghan Kelly, venturebeat.com Nurs­es are the unsung heroes of the hos­pi­tal who nav­i­gate crap­py soft­ware on out­dat­ed hard­ware to keep you healthy — and it needs to stop. Exec­u­tives from Cedar’s-Sinai and Kaiser Per­ma­nente explained at Ven­ture­Beat’s Health­Beat… http://flip.it/HXB4e Related articles Nurses will never adopt…

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  • Blackmagic pocket video cinema cam

    Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera: RAW Video In the Palm of Your Hand for $1000 Michael Hession, gizmodo.com The film/videomaking world was set aflame last year when Blackmagic Design announced its Cinema Camera. It looks like the rogues are back for more with a RAW-shooting, $1000 video camera that fits in your pocket.Filmmaker John Brawley, Blackmagic’……

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  • The life of a data scientist

    The Examined Life of Rachel Kalmar: Data Scientist D.C. Denison, makezine.com Rachel Kalmar will be easy to spot at the Hard­ware Inno­va­tion Work­shop next week. She will be the one wear­ing eleven health mon­i­tor­ing devices: three on each wrist, four on her belt, and one on her upper arm. That ele­gant alu­min… The Examined Life…

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  • Your digital footprint

    5 Places to Look for Your Digital Footprint TechNewsDaily, mashable.com Recently, many iPhone and iPad users were incensed to learn that Siri — the personal digital assistant for iOS devices — has an eerily long memory. Unbeknownst to Apple customers, Siri sends all your queries directly to Apple’s company’s servers,… http://flip.it/hKkfD Related articles 5 Places…

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  • Americans don’t like the taste of water

    Americans’ main complaint about water is that it tastes too much like water Sarah Miller, grist.org Robynne BlumeDo you feel like your doctors and your more annoying friends are always telling you to drink more water? Well, they’re just trying to help. Water is so important for your health! Sadly, water tastes like, well, water.…

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  • The rise of sensor journalism

    Is sensor journalism feasible, or even ethical? Columbia’s Tow Center hopes to find out By Laura Hazard Owen, paidcontent.org Journalists and organizations now have the ability to use sensors to collect their own real-time data and report on it. The practice raises both practical and ethical questions, Columbia’s Emily Bell said Thursday. If data jour­nal­ism…

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  • Tumblr and NYC ecosystem

    What Tumblr’s sale means for New York startup ecosystem Om Malik, gigaom.com A few weeks after Ken Lerer quit AOL-owned Huff­in­g­ton Post to work on his ven­ture fund Lerer Ven­tures, I stopped by in his office to catch up and talk about the New York land­scape. And dur­ing our con­ver­sa­tion, he point­ed out that New…

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  • Size of home around the world

    How Big Is Your Home? See How Your Space Compares to Those Around the World Lindsay Wilson, inhabitat.com Graham Hill’s flat is 420 square-feet, HGTV’s smart home is 2,400 square-feet and Al Gore’s home is quite a bit bigger. But just how big is the average home these days, and how big does it need…

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  • Most households don’t wear their clothes

    Average Woman Owns 22 Garments She Never Wears But Refuses to Junk ecouterre.com Photo by cohdra A wardrobe full of clothes but noth­ing to wear? You’re in good com­pa­ny. The aver­age British woman has 22 unworn items in her clos­et that she refus­es to throw or give away, accord­ … http://flip.it/AoUGo Related articles Ecouterre talks…

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  • Email apnea: how your email is making you sick

    Is Your Email Making You Sick? One Thing New, inc.com Researcher Linda Stone says 80% of us suffer from so-called email apnea. That quelches our creativity and can contribute to stress-related diseases. Your inbox may be caus­ing you more stress than you real­ize. Accord­ing to Linda Stone, a… Is Your Email Making You Sick? http://flip.it/21Hqu…

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  • Glaxo intrapreneurs convince big pharma to help developing world

    Turning Big Pharma Toward The Developing World, From The Inside BY MARZENA ZUKOWSKA, fastcoexist.com How three intrapreneurs at GlaxoSmithKline created a program to help diagnose disease in places without access to medicine, and how they convinced the company to support it. How many high-end research sci­en­tists does it take to make a dent in ……

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  • How to feed the world with insects

    A Grand Plan For Feeding The World With Insects BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com We need more protein for the developing world, but we really don’t need to be raising more livestock. The solution might be buzzing around your head right now. How do you feed 9 and half bil­lion peo­ple with­out destroy­ing the plan­et? Accord­……

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