#Clinicloud's Bluetooth-Enabled Stethoscope And Thermometer Lets Doctors Check Your Vitals From The Cloud We are getting that much closer to building the doctor office of the future right within our homes today.
Digital health diagnostic tools startup Clinicloud has launched a line of Bluetooth-connected stethoscopes and thermometers that enable consumers to check their own vitals
and have a doctor access them via the cloud. These digital devices can track things like your temperature
and heart rate and send a history of the recordings to an on-demand physician. The physician can then give a diagnosis without patients having to leave their homes. he stethoscope
and thermometer are the two most important tools we have in medicine for diagnosing common conditions,
says Clinicloud cofounder Dr. Andrew Lin. e are putting these powerful tools into the hands of everyday users,
allowing them to accurately record vital signs that can be shared with their primary care doctor as well as a network of on-demand physicians to determine
if a cough is just a cold or something more serious, like pneumonia or asthma.
in order to make it easier for people to find out what wrong without having to go to a doctor office to figure that out.
The startup plans to add more hardware devices in the future and is working on a series of partnerships with major retail brands to sell the devices to consumers That could possibly save the American consumer a lot of time and money.
According to Debt. org, the average 15-minute doctor-office visit cost patients an average of $69 in 2011.
That was without a copay. Even with insurance and copays to help with costs, hauling yourself to the doctor is the last thing most people want to do when sick.
Other startups such as Scanadu offer similar digital tracking of your vitals. The Scanadu Scout is a device you put up to your forehead to measure temperature, heart rate, blood oxygen and respiratory rate.
Meanwhile its Scanaflow device is an at home urine-testing apparatus that can test for drugs
Lin says. e fit in as part of that first step into telemedicine. Like Scanadu devices, the Clinicloud medical kit hooks information from the app up with remote physicians.
Clinicloud has set up a special partnership with Doctors On Demand to do this for now, but could expand to include other telemedicine services in the future.
The other thing to keep in mind about the kit is the price. The technology offers convenience
but it not cheap. Customers can pre-order the Clinicloud stethoscope and thermometer kit for $109,
though prices are expected to go up to $149 next month. Whereas a basic stethoscope is about $5 to $25 on Amazon,
and a regular thermometer goes for around $40 on the high-end. The Clinicloud website is now open for pre-orders
and the kits are expected to ship in July t
#Datameer Heads To The Cloud With Latest Big data Product Datameer launched a new cloud service called Datameer Professional today that offers customers a Big data solution without the hassle of installing,
configuring and maintaining it themselves in-house. The goal of this new approach is to put the buying decision into the hands of business units,
instead of being driven mainly by IT. Datameer, which launched in 2009, offers big data and analytics running Hadoop for a range of applications.
It has been selling an enterprise version since 2010 and boasts over 240 deployments including the three biggest credit card companies and two of the top three biggest banks,
according to CEO Stefan Groschupf. he cool thing is that we can be useful in a broad range of use cases,
what they call data lake or data hub. They were hearing not every company wanted to take that long
Business users don want to wait 12 months. We started seeing a rush of interest from lines of business, where the conversation changes to business value,
and eventually move that sale to IT to build a centralized data hub to bring all of the data together,
What more, it half the price of the $100, 000 installed version. The company always had a cloud version on its road map,
#Apple's Activation Lock Leads To Big Drops In Smartphone Theft Worldwide The temptation of a smartphone for a thief is dropping,
thanks to Apple decision to implement a remote kill switch via Find My Phone that can erase
and disable a phone once it been stolen or gone missing. A new report from Reuters found that iphone theft dropped by 50 percent in London,
40 percent in San francisco and 25 percent in New york. The drops represent theft activity as measured during the 12 months following Apple introduction of the remote locking feature in September 2013
as part of ios 7. With ios 8, Apple made its so-called said ill switchactive by default, in accordance with California regulation,
Apple Activation Lock requires a user to authorize a wipe or fresh install using the existing icloud credentials on record,
Apple is one of the first major manufacturers to switch to implementing the system by default, rather than through user opt-in,
All new iphone 6 and 6 Plus units for instance, will have it on be given default that they shipped with ios 8 pre-installed.
Stats from last year indicated that Apple implementation of the Activation Lock were having a significant effect,
but Apple combined ios 8 adoption rate (currently at over 70 percent) and the fact that it now on by default means that the risk associated with stealing a modern ios device is even greater.
The aim is to make smartphone theft ultimately as futile as stealing a credit card, whereby a user ancellingtheir hardware renders it ultimately useless.
Smartphone theft is often theft of opportunity meaning a thief weighs reward vs. risk, including factors like how difficult it is to recoup an investment on something theye taken.
Activation Lock doesn automatically render smartphones using it worthless to thieves, but it skews the value proposition considerably,
and reduces reward (an iphone sold for parts is worth far less than a fully functional unity, for instance).
Apple seems committed to coming up with new ways to protect user devices and data when it comes to theft,
given its early pioneering of phone tracking tech via Find My iphone. Patents awarded Apple have described also systems
whereby the phone requires positive ID of the user to even display an unlock prompt,
and tech which can monitor and report on unidentified users in the background
#Bittorrent Teams Up With Rapid Eye Studios To Make Young Adult Original Content Last November,
Bittorrent made a move into Netflix and Amazon territory with the news that it would be releasing its first original piece of video content, Children of the Machine.
Today, the peer-to-peer networking platform, which has 170 million active users, is kicking that strategy up another notch:
it is entering a bigger partnership with Rapid Eye Studios the production house that is behind Children of the Machine to identify,
produce and distribute more original video content for a new initiative called Bittorrent Originals, aimed initially at the 14-25 age bracket.
As part of this, part of Bittorrent team from Bundles Bittorrent paid content service covering different kinds of media from books to music
and video will relocate to L a. and work in Rapid Eye offices. There will be initially three people moving,
Indeed, this is a big step ahead for Bittorrent and another significant step away from its older reputation as a den of unlicensed,
no information about how much either side is investing, what sort of revenue shares will come out of the deal,
and whether it involves Bittorrent actually investing in Rapid Eye more directly. The idea behind Originals is that it will show first-run video content that it will sell through its Bundle ay gatemodel, for a period of between 30 and 60 days.
As background, Bundles is the distribution platform that Bittorrent has been slowly building up that lets creators sell content using a variety of different payment methods,
including partial payments, to nlockcertain parts of the content and advertising. Perhaps most notably, the model is disruptive in that it lets content creators keep 90 percent of the proceeds that their work makes through the platform.
Bittorrent says that it will be giving some parameters for what will be considered for its Originals: the content should be aimed at young adults between 14 and 25,
with Marco Weber (Igby goes Down, Unthinkable, The 13th Floor) and Jeff Stockwell (Bridge to Terabithea,
including a video game i
#Apple Will Spend $848 Million Building A Massive Solar Farm In Monterey Tim cook dropped a bit of news in a conversation at the Goldman sachs Technology and Internet conference today:
Apple is putting a massive $848 million into solar energy. According to Cook, Apple is putting $848 million into building a 1, 300-acre solar farm in Monterey, Calif,
As part of the deal, Apple will get electricity from the farm at a fixed rate for 25 years.
#Rakuten To Put Its Bitnet Investment To Work And Accept Bitcoin Worldwide Rakuten, Japan largest online retail firm, has announced that it will soon accept bitcoin across its global marketplaces.
The company is putting its investment in Bitnet a startup that raised $14. 5 million last October to work with this development.
Bitnet, which was founded by ex-Visa execs and is rivaled by Coinbase and Bitpay, will initially be integrated into Rakuten U s. marketplace to allow customers to pay in BTC.
Next up, the new payment option will roll out in Germany and Austria with other international markets to follow.
Interestingly, there no specific mention of when Bitnet will be integrated into Rakuten Japan, which is the most prominent of its 12 country-specific services.
Last year was a breakthrough year for bitcoin as a sea of established retailers, including Dell,
Overstock and even Microsoft, hopped onto the cryptocurrency to give customers an alternative avenue for payments. he integration with Bitnet platform will make Rakuten one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world to begin accepting bitcoin,
Rakuten said in a statement with no uncertain pride. Nonetheless, this news is notable because it not only continues the momentum for bitcoin among retailers,
but it could help position Bitnet as a credible alternative to the increasingly dominant duopoly that is Coinbase and Bitpay both
of which have raised significant venture funding, and own the most lucrative bitcoin retail partnerships. Coinbase is floated particularly well,
having raised $75 million in January in a round that featured several Wall street institutions, including The New york stock exchange.
Bitpay raised $30 million last summer in what was at the time the largest round ever for bitcoin startup.
Coinbase has nabbed since that accolade the U s. company has raised more than $100 million in investor money to date m
#Netflix Comes To Cuba Streaming video service Netflix will be available to Cuban customers starting today,
at the $7. 99 U s. per month rate that it offers in the U s, . the company announced today.
Itl still require an international payment method for now, as well as Internet access (which still isn ubiquitous in the U s),
and debit and credit cards become more available to Cuban citizens. With this move, Netflix becomes one of the first U s.-based companies to take advantage of the U s. government decision to relax trade restrictions that have been imposed on Cuba
and a robust arts culture and one day we hope to be able to bring their work to our global audience of over 57 million members.
Part of the plan to increase trade with Cuba included provisions aimed at allowing U s. telecommunications companies to provide better access to communication and internet services
#The Case That Turns Your Phone Into A Polaroid camera Is Now On Kickstarter The Prynt case,
which lets you print photos directly from your phone, is now available for pre-order on Kickstarter.
They demonstrated their new mount for phones, which will allow the case to support larger phablets like the iphone 6 Plus and Galaxy Note line down the road.
They weren showing a case with a direct connection to your phone over Lightning or USB
so print times still haven quite hit the 30 seconds the team is aiming for.
the Prynt will support the iphone 5/s/c/6 and the Samsung galaxy S4/S5.
Along with printing photos as you take them or from your camera roll, itl also come with an app that brings a nifty augmented reality feature,
When you hold up the physical photo to your phone camera with the app open, it is overlaid with a Play button that shows that video in place of the picture itself.
the company is looking into tricks like hiding pixels in images that would prevent them from being copied,
#The Internet Applied To Things And The Third Industrial revolution Editor Note: John B. Rogers is chief executive and cofounder of Local Motors,
which designs, builds and sells vehicles through the use of co-creation and microfactories in Chandler, Ariz.,
and Las vegas. There a new vanguard creating the future of the U s. manufacturing economy. Companies like Makerbot, Techshop and Kickstarter are playing a large part in fixing the breakdown between historical industrialized employment and manufacturing models,
which people still depend on for work, and the more flat and networked world in which we now live.
Part of this interrogation into the industrial manufacturers of tomorrow needs to involve looking at assumptions about financing and the actual mechanics of manufacturing.
Fundamental assumptions need to be reformatted in a new way to win. At my company Local Motors, we have a saying:
If we bring manufacturing of big hardware (home appliances, vehicles) within 100 miles of the most densely populated areas in the world,
I spent three years in China where companies like Foxconn built huge cities that can make any small hardware device anything that fits in a shoebox.
It easy to produce, easy to warehouse and inexpensive to ship. But if you want to produce large consumer goods
A Quick History lesson The steam-powered Spinning jenny, followed by the petroleum-powered version, led the first Industrial revolution.
Henry ford led the second Industrial revolution in the 20th century with large assembly-line factories being built on a mass economy of scale.
This second industrial revolution was refined by Toyota Kaizen process of continuous improvement and, later, lean manufacturing and Six Sigma process control.
I call a product of the very recent Internet-applied-to-things (not the overused phrase Internet of things).
Its hallmark is that of a flat and distributed economy, a level playing field where local enterprise can compete with global conglomerates.
The proponents of this movement are empowered to defy conventions and to share ideas globally at an unprecedented rate.
and download an STL file of a door grommet, send it to a 3d printer and within hours it printed
Our community has users who upload and exchange ideas on vehicle innovations. GE Appliances is building a microfactory called Firstbuild with the goal of speeding appliance innovations to market by opening up the process to the brightest minds from around the globe.
IMG 6409 Cut the Cost of Tools Makers can access expensive professional tools through companies like Techshop where you can access large computational power/storage and machines like 3d printers, for example, for an hour at a time.
and the private sector together and provide access to super computers and the ORNL Manufacturing Demonstration Facility to solve the most pressing challenges facing manufacturing today.
because you can bring hardware and software to market at unprecedented rates with a much smaller amount of capital through crowdsourcing,
Meaningful Legal Protections Today, in the U s.,we have legal protections for user-generated content that now mean something.
GNU and other open-source licenses that grant users more free rein to modify and sometimes market software while protecting attribution and creators wishes.
you have shot a running to make it work. Why? Because microfactories move concepts to products faster by using crowdsourcing for the design and 3d printing for the manufacturing.
and manufacture products faster than traditional factory processes. This means less space and materials are required to manufacture products, resulting in a significant reduction in capital costs.
Microfactories reduce negative impact on the environment by reducing waste, creating jobs, reducing freight and distribution costs and speed time to market p
#Facebook Censors Blasphemous Page To Comply With Turkey#s Demand But Won t Publish It When Google and Twitter receive legal threats from countries to censor controversial content
or have their services shut down locally, they often publish them on Chillingeffects. org for transparency.
But today when Facebook followed Turkey legal order to block a Page that defamed the Prophet Muhammad from Turkish users,
Mark Zuckerberg has said it Facebook duty to comply with censorship so it can keep operating
there been an increasing push for transparency in how tech companies work with governments. Most tech giants now publish transparency reports,
Google and Twitter both have large archives of notices theye shared on Chilling Effects. But Facebook abstains from this transparency practice.
Instead, the company has been beefing up its transparency reports with an interactive map the shows
Some claim that Facebook is wrong to comply with censorship, and that it should accept bans.
Facebook growth and advertising objectives are cited often as supposed reasons it complies. However, Mark Zuckerberg recently commented on the censorship issue in a public Q&a saying one more country doesn add much extra ad money or growth.
Instead, he defended his position, saying (paraphrased): I can think of many examples in history when a company not shutting down in the face of a law
Facebook declined to comment on this specific issue. Regardless it seems obvious that Facebook could maintain its current position
while also being more transparent and publishing the demands it receives in a timely fashion.
and is doing all it can to fight back without cutting off citizens from their social network i
#Number26 Could Be The Best Banking Experience In Europe When I first wrote about Number26
I said that it was designed a bank for the 21st century but all of this was on paper.
Old well-established banks should be ashamed that they can provide the same level of user experience.
As a reminder commercial banks in Europe Suck in the U s. you can show up and open an account in five minutes.
and you will leave with a temporary debit card. In Europe you need to make an appointment with a bank local branch bring documents fill a lot of forms
and listen to a customer representative trying to upsell you. You will waste a couple of hours.
Now I also have a French bank account with a so-called mobile-first bank (BNP PARIBAS-owned Hello Bank)
and you will spend some time over the phone with a customer representative. When I signed up for Number26 cofounder
and CEO Valentin Stalf just told me to install the app on my phone and register with an invite code.
You enter an email address a password and some basic info. At some point Number26 will need to verify your identity.
A few days later my debit card was ready to use and I could transfer money to my new bank account.
Number26 banking partner (Wirecard Bank) actually holds the money and holds a German banking license your money is safe.
But why would you need another bank account? For example when you use your Number26 Mastercard you will receive a push notification to make sure that the transaction was approved
and there is no fraudulent use. Everything is customizable you can disable these push notifications set limits
or even disable online payment if you don need it for now. You can disable everything but the ATM feature.
And reenable everything later. But one feature makes Number26 stand out from the competition opening and maintaining an account is free
and lets you pay anywhere in the world without any foreign transaction fee. There is no hidden or additional charge.
Number26 already makes money from Mastercard cut on every transaction it transparent for the user.
The company doesn want to scam you like your existing bank. The Number26 app is native and well-designed.
I sure that many other European countries would love to have a seamless bank like Number26.
It just the beginning as there is no savings account for example. But so far Number26 has yet to disappoint me a
#Teachmate365 A Platform For Special Needs Educators Launches With $3m In Funding Organizing special needs education is complicated often
because teachers have to juggle learning materials for students with different requirements. Teachmate365 a new cloud-based teaching platform developed by education technology startup Specialneedsware
and Boston Children Hospital wants to make it easier for educators therapists and parents to collaborate so kids get the help they need.
Teachmate365 announced today that it has picked up $3 million in Series A funding from private investors
which it will use on product development and to grow its sales and marketing team.
and Dr. Howard Shane who leads the Autism Language Program and the Center for Communication Enhancement at Boston Children Hospital.
After graduating from university with a degree in computer science Izak created an ipad app that was inspired by his younger brother Oriel who has autism.
Autismate now has 10000 users on its classic platform as well as another 15000 on its lite version. Like Autismate Teachmate365 is focused on visual learning.
The platform allows educators to create visual tools for their students using technology developed by Izak and Shane.
It also lets them sync and store lesson plans schedules and other educational materials and track a student behavior and progress so it can be shared with other teachers therapists and parents.
Students can access lessons and visual exercises through their own tablets or smartphones. urrently what you will find is that the special education market is fragmented extremely
and that is one huge reason why there is such a massive opportunity here. Youl find hundreds of communication options on the market geared toward different areas of communication dozens of apps designed for social
and life skills and things that cover academics but don really cover communication and behavioral needs.
Wee really the first platform which helps support all those needs in one device. eachmate365 is aimed at educational institutions
and will provide districts with up to 37 days of training to use the platform. Boosting Special education With Technologyone of the benefits of a collaborative platform like Teachmate365 is that it can make it easier to integrate children with special needs into general education classrooms. nclusion classroomsare supposed to prevent students from being ostracized by their peers
but it can be difficult for teachers to organize individualized lesson plans and teaching strategies for each pupil.
Teachmate365 cuts down on the amount of paperwork they have to do and makes it simpler for educators to coordinate with therapists
and support staff. veryone has diverse and unique needs and the platform really allows teachers to cater to all of them by creating teaching
and collaborating around individualized contentsays Izak. As students get older Teachmate365 can be used to help them transition to college or their first jobs.
For example the Arc of Northern Virginia an advocacy group has used Specialneedsware technology to create a program to help people with learning disabilities navigate public transportation.
While the growing affordability of tablets and platforms like Teachmate365 have provided new tools for students with special needs
and educators Izak says there is a still huge gap in available resources. He notes that
even though venture capital investment in technology aimed at students in kindergarten through high school jumped 32 percent to $642 million last year almost none of that went toward tools for special education.
That is especially striking because 13 percent of all students in U s. public schools currently receive special education services.
Furthermore the average amount spent per year on a special-education student is compared about $24000 to $9559 for a student in general education.
Izak believes that there is plenty of room for educational technology startups to help improve education for children with learning
or developmental disabilities especially since only 15 states met the U s. Department of education basic standards for special needs education last year. t really a massive opportunity to help students with unique and diverse needs
who have the most to gain from techsays Izak t
#Malaysia Airlines Site Hacked By Lizard Squad Hacker group Lizard Squad which took down Xbox Live
and the Sony Playstation Network last month have claimed credit for an attack on Malaysia Airlineswebsite.
The site currently displays a picture of a lizard in a top hat and monocle as well as the text 04-Plane Not Found (a reference to flight MH370 which disappeared in March) and acked by LIZARD SQUAD-OFFICIAL CYBER CALIPHATE.
Some users may see a lite version of Malaysia Airlineswebsite as the air carrier restores access to its site.
It unclear whether or not Lizard Squad is linked actually to Cyber Caliphate a hacker group that claims to be associated with ISIS. Last month Cyber Caliphate took control of the U s. central military command Twitter and Youtube accounts.
Malaysia Airlines confirmed the attack on its Facebook page: In a tweet however Lizard Squad (which itself was hacked last week) claimed it had taken materials from Malaysia Airlinesservers.
It has shared already a screenshot of an inbox with passenger itineraries. Wee contacted Malaysia Airlines for more information
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