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  • Zensorium cardio health monitor for iOS

    Zensorium launches Tinké cardiorespiratory health and stress monitor for iOS devices (video) Jamie Rigg, engadget.com Plan­ning a glut­to­nous hol­i­day sea­son and then a health kick in the New Year to bal­ance it out? Well, when you start on the lat­ter, you might want one of Zen­so­ri­um’s Tinké car­diores­pi­ra­to­ry mon­i­tors to track your progress. The… RT…

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  • Ditch the pricey telecom Internet with Freedompop

    Still Seeking to Shake Up Mobile Market, FreedomPop Also Looks to Rattle Home Broadband Ina Fried, allthingsd.com Free­dom­Pop, a start-up aim­ing to offer free and low-cost mobile broad­band access, is now tak­ing aim at the home Inter­net mar­ket as well. The com­pa­ny, backed by Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom, plans on Wednes­day to start tak­ing pre­ord……

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  • Why the iPod touch is the perfect VOIP soft phone: Freedompop

    FreedomPop Aims to Turn an iPod Touch Into an iPhone, With a 4G Add-On Ina Fried, allthingsd.com Wire­less start-up Free­dom­Pop is announc­ing plans on Tues­day to start sell­ing an add-on that effec­tive­ly gives an iPod touch many of the capa­bil­i­ties of an iPhone. The $99 add-on brings wire­less data capa­bil­i­ties to a third-generat… http://flip.it/lw7Sl Related…

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  • Language and cognitive systems guru Kurzweil asked to head Google engineering

    Ray Kurzweil becomes a Googler, named Director of Engineering Alexis Santos, engadget.com Come Decem­ber 18th, futur­ist extra­or­di­naire Ray Kurzweil will be join­ing Google’s ranks as Direc­tor of Engi­neer­ing to work on projects that involve machine learn­ing and lan­guage pro­cess­ing. Specifics regard­ing those projects, how­ev­… http://flip.it/K9Okf Related articles Ray Kurzweil’s Goal at Google is to enable…

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  • Ravi Shankar, champion of ethnomusicology

    Remembering Ravi Shankar, the ‘Godfather of World Music’ Arun Rath, theworld.org Remembering Ravi Shankar, the ‘Godfather of World Music’The World You’ve been hear­ing uni­ver­sal praise Wednes­day for Ravi Shankar, and it is deeply deserved: His music was so good, he man­aged to open a door and raise the bar at the same… RT @pritheworld: For…

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  • Rebooting medicine info graphic

    Digital Health Infographic wirelesshealthstrategies.com 6 Char­ac­ters (0,1,A,C,G,T) Reboot­ing Med­i­cine & Health I cre­at­ed this con­cep­tu­al info­graph­ic with the great team at Mis­fit Wear­ables. It’s based on the work of Dr. Eric Topol, author of “The Cre­ative Destruc­tion of… http://flip.it/ZfjsN Related articles What Digital Health Is (and Isn’t) (rockhealth.com) The Creative Destruction of Medicine (canadacloud.net)

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  • Popcorn: turn video into a computable medium

    Popcorn: Content Creation that Tastes Good iqagency.com A new type of video content creation. This post is about a brand new dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy for video called Pop­corn. It’s one of a num­ber of tech­nol­o­gy led efforts to broad­en what video is capa­ble of, and in a world where soon 90% of da… http://flip.it/EZTdB

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  • The relationship between coffee shop density and political party

    Coffee shops vs. 2012 election results ilovecoffee.jp Coffee shops vs. 2012 election results – I Love Coffee http://flip.it/UB02D http://flip.it/FQbvX Related articles Death Wish Coffee is World’s Strongest (techeblog.com) Coffee Coffee Coffee (writingformultimedia.com)

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  • Biella Coleman studies the anthropology of tech culture

    Coding Freedom: an anthropologist understands hacker culture Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net Biel­la Cole­man is a geek anthro­pol­o­gist, in both sens­es of the epi­thet: an anthro­pol­o­gist who stud­ies geeks, and a geek who is an anthro­pol­o­gist. Though she’s best known today for her excel­lent and insight­ful work on the mech­a­nis… RT @BoingBoing: Coding Freedom: an anthropologist understands…

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  • What jellyfish can teach us about immortality

    Do jellyfish hold the secret to immortality, and a cure for cancer? Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net Nathaniel Rich on the so-called “immor­tal jel­ly­fish,” Tur­ri­top­sis dohrnii: “[It] seems able to sur­vive, and pro­lif­er­ate, in every ocean in the world. It is pos­si­ble to imag­ine a dis­tant future in which most other species of li… RT @BoingBoing: Do…

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  • Coursera helps to mitigate the pain of calculus with elearning

    Free Coursera Calculus course with hand-drawn animated materials Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net Robert Ghrist from Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia wrote in to tell us about his new, free Cours­era course in single-variable Cal­cu­lus, which starts on Jan 7. Cal­cu­lus is one of those amaz­ing, chewy, chal­leng­ing branch­es of math, and… RT @BoingBoing: Free Coursera Calculus course with…

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  • Roger Ebert on education: more content, fewer sports stadiums

    Hello, Mr. President? It’s me, Roger Ebert – Salon.com By Roger Ebert, salon.com I think we need an emergency education program, investing in basics — and not $60 million high school stadiums I would ask the pres­i­dent for an emer­gency edu­ca­tion pro­gram. Our stu­dents at every level are below Amer­i­can his­tor­i­cal no… RT @ebertchicago: What…

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