Health Data Company Athenahealth Goes Mobile With Acquisition Of Health Innovator Epocrates By Anya Kamenetz, fastcompany.com Epocrates, the startup whose mobile apps provide drug reference advice to more than half of American health care providers, is being acquired by Athenahealth, the data management platform for doctors—a marriage of two Most Innovative… RT @FastCompany: #FCMostInnovative Health … Continue reading Health Data Company Athenahealth Goes Mobile
This $10 Chip Turns 50 Blood Tests Into A Brilliantly Simple Chart By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com Test results become far easier to process, since they’re visual. Blood tests are one of those things that always seem to slow down doctor appointments. You’re in the room. The nurse takes blood. The doctor sees you—speculates a lot—and … Continue reading This $10 Chip Turns 50 Blood Tests Into A Brilliantly Simple Chart
A DIY Kit To Determine If Your Water Is Contaminated BY EMILY BADGER, fastcoexist.com To get definitive evidence if oil from the BP spill has seeped into water sources, citizen scientists need a device called a spectrometer. Sounds fancy and expensive. But a new project will send you one made with nothing but a few … Continue reading A DIY Kit To Determine If Your Water Is Contaminated
Diesel Tells You How Many Days Are Left In Your Life Joe Berkowitz, fastcocreate.com The brand expands on its “Time to Be Brave” philosophy by calculating roughly how much time each of its fans has in which to be brave.If you knew the extent of your projected longevity, it would probably change the way you … Continue reading Diesel Tells You How Many Days Are Left In Your Life
A New Test To Find Out If Your Water Has Been Fracked BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com There is a lot of talk about the dangers of fracking, but few hard facts. BaseTrace’s new technology—using DNA—will let you test to see if the natural gas extraction process has contaminated your water. Depending on whether you’ve just … Continue reading A New Test To Find Out If Your Water Has Been Fracked
A Cheeky Guide To Eating Like A Caveman By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com Corn is a grain, knucklehead. Keeping up with the eating habits of our cave-dwelling ancestors can be tough. Luckily someone has slapped together a handy flowchart for you to reference if you’ve hopped on the latest diet-craze… http://flip.it/TxJpy Related articles Eating Like A … Continue reading A Cheeky Guide To Eating Like A Caveman
Venom: The Bite That Heals By Jennifer S. Holland, nationalgeographic.com The Bite That Heals Scientists are unlocking the medical potential of venom. Michael decided to go for a swim. He was on vacation with his family in Guerrero, Mexico, and it was hotter than blazes. He grabbed his swimming trunks from… RT @NatGeoScience: The Bite … Continue reading Venom: The Bite That Heals
Digital Tool Ages Your Face To Scare You Into Saving Money By Colin Lecher, popsci.com People save more for retirement when they see older versions of themselves, so Merrill Edge is more than happy to make you look old and wrinkly. Did you know that if you see an age-enhanced version of yourself, you’re more … Continue reading Digital Tool Ages Your Face To Scare You Into Saving Money
IBM Predicts: Cognitive Computers That Feel And Smell, Within The Next Five Years By Clay Dillow, popsci.com The computing giant’s annual list of technology predictions for the next five years foresee computers that can taste, see, smell, hear, and touch. At the end of each year, IBM releases its “5 in 5”—five technology predictions that … Continue reading IBM Predicts: Cognitive Computers That Feel And Smell
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Get instant pulse readings with iSpO2 for iPhone, iPad by Jennifer Van Grove, cnet.com Need a pulse check? iSpO2 — an iPhone and iPad accessory — gives you an immediate reading on your vitals. LAS VEGAS—The iSpO2 by Masimo ports the hospital checkup experience to iPhones and iPads and makes on-the-spot pulse readings… http://flip.it/wJG9a Related … Continue reading Get instant pulse readings with iSpO2 for iPhone
Start-Up Behind Lumoback Posture-Monitoring Gadget Raises $5M Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com Lumo BodyTech, which makes a wearable waistband that tracks posture and movement and vibrates when the wearer slouches, has raised $5 million in Series A funding led by Madrona Venture Group. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based start-up double… http://flip.it/mi6cM Related articles Posture Police (wired.com) LUMOback Posture … Continue reading Lumoback Posture-Monitoring
‘This generation’s Agent Orange:’ New registry to tally, track burn pit illnesses among vets By Bill Briggs, NBC News contributor, nbcnews.com An American flag dangles from the Torres home, the sign of a long battle won: a new law — signed Thursday by President Barack Obama — creating a registry of U.S. service members perhaps … Continue reading New registry to tally, track burn pit illnesses among vets
Top Ten Medical Uses of the iPhone internetmedicine.com (SOURCE: John Bennett MD: http://www.internetmedicine.com) December 15, 2012 The creation and widespread use of the iPhone has impacted many industries, and now has affected Medicine in many ways. In manycases the iPhone applifies the po… http://flip.it/0JXBc
This Weird Map Visualizes Air Pollution as Nose Hair Length smithsonianmag.com If there’s one thing nobody wants, it’s really long nose hairs. Which is perhaps why Clean Air Asia has decided to start visualizing each person’s air pollution exposure as super-long, disgusting nose hairs. The group says: The more… This Weird Map Visualizes Air Pollution … Continue reading Anthropological indicators of air pollution emerging: nose hair length
Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net In “Credibility ranking of tweets during high impact events,” a paper published in the ACM’s Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Privacy and Security in Online Social Media , two Indraprastha Institute of Information… Machine-learning algorithm develops heuristics for trustworthy tweets in time of emergency Related articles Machine-learning algorithm develops heuristics … Continue reading Tweet analyzer ranks trustworthy Tweets during emergencies
Infographic: Showing When People Get Killed In Cars, Using Excel By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com John Nelson’s charts and maps on traffic fatalities are a reminder that a good data viz doesn’t always require graphic design chops—or software. With the abundance of data visualization projects we’ve seen over the last few years, it’s hard… RT @FastCoDesign: … Continue reading Car deaths by time of day
Study: Transit Apps Make Us Happier Commuters By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com A study of two crowdsourcing apps suggests that a better digital infrastructure for commuters could improve urban transit overall. We know that we tend to be happiest when we’re communicating with and helping those around us. But could th… RT @FastCoDesign: Study: Transit Apps … Continue reading Transit apps and commuter happiness
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