Category: Digital health

  • Linguistic analysis decodes true messages of Obama and Romney

    Gesture analysis reveals what Obama and Romney care about By Liat Clark, wired.co.uk Science An analy­sis of the body ges­tures of Barack Obama and Mitt Rom­ney dur­ing the pres­i­den­tial debates sug­gests that how can­di­dates speak could reveal what they real­ly care about and affect whether or not vot­ers believe what they… http://flpbd.it/HeO5x Related articles Mitt…

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  • iPod Touch makes point and shoot camera pointless

    The New iPod Touch Will Further Obliterate The Point-And-Shoot Market Mg Siegler, techcrunch.com It’s easy to for­get that the iPod touch didn’t even include a cam­era until 2010. While such a key fea­ture has been stan­dard on the iPhone since its ini­tial unveil­ing in 2007, Apple appar­ent­ly didn’t think it was one of the must-have…

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  • Inforgr.am makes everyone a graphic designer

    Infogr.am Launches To Kill The Careers Of Struggling Infographic Designers Mike Butcher, techcrunch.com Infogr.am wants to cre­ate a sort of Adobe Illus­tra­tor in the Cloud, allow­ing any­one to cre­ate cool info-graphics on the fly. Back in Feb­ru­ary Euro­pean accel­er­a­tor Hack­Fwd invest­ed in the start­up from Riga, Latvia, and now it’s fully… http://flpbd.it/t9zRD Related articles Latvia…

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  • Shareist helps you manage your content

    Shareist Is A Content Management System For Your Content Management System (That’s A Good Thing) John Biggs, techcrunch.com As a major media fig­ure on the Inter­net, I often find it dif­fi­cult to man­age all of my con­tent out­lets. I have a Twit­ter feed con­nect­ed to my Face­book con­nect­ed to my Tum­blr. I also have a…

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  • Climate scientists face death threats

    The Battle Over Climate Science By Tom Clynes, popsci.com Climate scientists routinely face death threats, hate mail, nuisance lawsuits and political attacks. How much worse can it get? There’s no police tape across Michael Mann’s office door­way this morn­ing. “Always a good start,” he says, jug­gling… http://flpbd.it/ibrtZ Related articles Climate Scientist Describes Death Threats And…

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  • Panasonic Lx 7 updates a classic low light compact

    (via Panasonic LX7 review | Compact cameras Reviews | TechRadar) Related articles Best compact camera for less than $450 (thewirecutter.com) The Best Compact Camera for Less Than $450 (tested.com) Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX7 Review (digital-photography-school.com) Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX7 (pcmag.com) Camera sensor size: Why does it matter and exactly how big are they? (gizmag.com) Morning with the…

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  • Samsung patents voice recognition for emotional state

    Samsung patent ties emotional states to virtual faces through voice, shows when we’re cracking up Jon Fingas, engadget.com Voice recog­ni­tion usu­al­ly applies to com­mu­ni­ca­tion only in the most util­i­tar­i­an sense, whether it’s to trans­late on the spot or to keep those hands on the wheel while send­ing a text mes­sage. Sam­sung has just been grant­ed…

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  • Sokanu uses science to find out what you’re good at

    Sokanu Says Science Can Help You Find Your Dream Job Eric Johnson, allthingsd.com Why do you work where you do and are you happy there? If the answer is “no” for the sec­ond ques­tion, Spencer Thomp­son has a new answer for the first. Thomp­son, 21, is the CEO of Vancouver-based Sokanu, which offi­cial­ly launch­es this…

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  • New York Magazine captures post Sandy NY

    New York Magazine Captures the Look of Post-Sandy New York Arik Hesseldahl, allthingsd.com To the list of New York insti­tu­tions that saw their oper­a­tions dis­rupt­ed by the Super­storm known as Sandy last week, add New York Mag­a­zine. With offices on Var­ick and Canal Streets, it is sit­u­at­ed right at the bor­der­line between t… http://flpbd.it/Den3G Related…

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  • Why Pharma conferences need to be about what patients really need

    Let Patients Create- A Rally Call Jon Gwillim, eyeforpharma.com Précis: There’s an old say­ing; “if you want some­thing done prop­er­ly, do it your­self”. My back­ground is as a con­fer­ence researcher and organ­is­er – for phar­ma, with phar­ma. I focused on dig­i­tal oppor­tu­ni­ties, case-studies and… http://flpbd.it/CdnZ6 Related articles ePharma Summit Top 5 (portal.lillycoi.com) Bad Pharma Audiobook…

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  • Chris Jordan’s Portraits of American Mass Consumption

    Chris Jordan’s Portraits of American Mass Consumption Kaushik, amusingplanet.com Amer­i­can pho­tog­ra­ph­er Chris Jor­dan using large-scale works depict the mag­ni­tude of our con­sumerism and its impact on our envi­ron­ment. Like Edward Bur­tyn­sky, Jor­dan uses large scale pho­tographs to depict scenes of infra­struc­ture a… http://flpbd.it/3sGTD Related articles Midway – A film by Chris Jordan (vinodkumartiwari.wordpress.com) Our Earth,…

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