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Here is my piece from Edutopia: A Student Calls for a Learning...
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The 100-Year March of Technology in 1 Graph
- In 1900, <10% of families owned a stove or had access to electricity
- In 1915,...
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Why Collaborative Storytelling Is The Future Of Marketing
Full Story: FastCompany
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Phoenix Pro: New Guitar Plugin Turns Hacks into ShreddersHah! If only.
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Reimagining business with a social mindset – Deloitte Tech Trends 2012
Even today, business leaders may dismiss the potential of social business,...
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My prediction for the next 5 years: demand for renewable energies will grow even faster than demand for Internet access. This is one of my core...
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Mazda Envisions Creating Their Future Car Today
It’s a new bold design idea of a car that weighs less than 1,000 pounds, yet still packs a...
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The Missing 20th Century: How Copyright Protection Makes Books Vanish
The above chart shows a distribution of 2500 newly printed fiction books...
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Railroad Sensors Predict Derailments Wirelessly « Wireless Sensor Networks Blog
Union Pacific, the nation’s largest railroad company, says
Azumio turns your phone into a biofeedback device
Whether it is analyzing your heart rate, controlling stress, or tracking your sleep patterns, Silicon Valley-based Azumio is using smartphone technology to give users a better and more accurate picture of your health. In this video, SmartPlanet gets a demo from Azumio’s Jen Grenz on how the entire process.
Going Mobile: Mobile Health as a Disruptive Technology
Disruptive technologies displace an earlier technology while adding greater value. Gone are the days of physicians sitting at their desks at the end of the day to input patient data. Mobile technologies are now being adopted by doctors faster than any other consumer types, and it is changing the way they run their practices and making them more productive. In this video, Massoud Alibakhsh, CEO at Nuesoft Technologies, discusses what mobile health is and why it is taking root in health care.
Brain Wiring a No-Brainer?
The brain appears to be wired more like the checkerboard streets of New York City than the curvy lanes of Columbia, Md., suggests a new brain imaging study. The most detailed images, to date, reveal a pervasive 3D grid structure with no diagonals, say scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Full Story: Science Daily
Changing Healthcare through IT Innovation - Harvard School of Public Health
David Blumenthal, MD, is Professor of Medicine and Professor of Health Care Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners Health System and Harvard Medical School. He also serves as Chief Health Information and Innovation Officer at Partners Health System in Boston, MA. From 2009 to 2011, Dr. Blumenthal was the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under President Barack Obama. He spoke at HSPH on Feb. 6, 2012, as part of the Decision-making: Voices from the Field series.
The goal of the Decision-making: Voices from the Field series at Harvard School of Public Health is to enhance the decision-making knowledge of students and to generate ideas that can provide solutions and strategies to challenging global and domestic health problems. Senior decision-makers are invited to specifically address the practical aspects of judgment and decision making. Students learn from these experienced leaders what decisions worked, what decisions failed, and what decisions, if any, could have been made differently.
Man’s heart replaced with a pump.
This is an amazing short film (under 3 minutes) which is well worth a watch.
It shows the story of two surgeons who completely remove the heart of a man and replace it with a centrifugal pump. Suffering from Amyloidosis, the man would have died within a day without the procedure, but according to one surgeon, “The following day, he was completely stable” and went home to his wife shortly afterwards.
(via 8bitfuture)
Bryan Roberts: Innovation Revolutionizing Healthcare
Bryan Roberts gives his insight on innovation in our healthcare systems and predicts how both our near and long term healthcare landscape will shape up at TEDxBigApple.
Bryan is a partner at VC firm, Venrock. Named a Henry Crown Fellow by the Aspen Institute in 2006, Bryan has been the highest-ranking healthcare investor on Forbes’ Midas List since 2008.
Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute Develop DNA Nanorobot to Trigger Targeted Therapeutic Responses
Using the DNA origami method, in which complex three-dimensional shapes and objects are constructed by folding strands of DNA, Shawn Douglas, Ph.D., a Wyss Technology Development Fellow, and Ido Bachelet, Ph.D., a former Wyss Postdoctoral Fellow who is now an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Nano-Center at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, created a nanosized robot in the form of an open barrel whose two halves are connected by a hinge. The DNA barrel, which acts as a container, is held shut by special DNA latches that can recognize and seek out combinations of cell-surface proteins, including disease markers. When the latches find their targets, they reconfigure, causing the two halves of the barrel to swing open and expose its contents, or payload. The container can hold various types of payloads, including specific molecules with encoded instructions that can interact with specific cell surface signaling receptors.
Full Story: Harvard
USB stick sized DNA sequencing device announced.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies has said that it’s disposable gene sequencing device will be available by the end of 2012. Priced under US$900, the MinION device plugs into a computer and delivers results via the USB port.
A minaturized version of the company’s larger GridION device, the MinION uses pores made from bacterial proteins. An electric current flows through the pore. The DNA bases interrupt the current in different ways as they go through.
(via 8bitfuture)
Stanford Startups Focus on Health Care - Health 2.0 News
Of the nine startups that demoed, five companies aim to tackle problems in health care ― from ensuring that instant messages in the hospital are securely transferred, to making health care costs more transparent.
It becomes more and more clear that the wave of entrepreneurial innovation have come to health care. The main problem now is the traditional perception of health care, organizational models and incredibly complex web of regulations which shows a much slower speed of change.
(via emergentfutures)
