#Mobile can drive down healthcare costs and improve care Jawbone, wearable technology for a healthier lifestyle.
Enter##Mobile Brands and healthcare organizations are realizing the potential of mobile apps and increasingly,
73 percent of people who use mobile to track their health/fitness now believe they are healthier than they used to be as a result.
Mobile in (medical practice When it comes to healthcare, mobile enables interactions and insights that were previously unimaginable,
Tracking of patients data through wearables and biometric sensors.##Healthcare providers can tell if the health of a patient at home is declining,
In addition, patients who track their data can have a more detailed conversation during visits, hopefully resulting in a better care plan.
While people are starting to use mobile devices more and more to manage their health, it is still not the norm.
they would use their smartphones to track their health and fitness even more. By leveraging the convenience, ubiquity and increasing intelligence of mhealth tools,
#Google buys startup Skybox Imaging for $500 million Google#will use Skybox s satellite-photo tech to improve Google maps.
Google is buying the startup, Skybox Imaging, a company that specializes in photos taken by satellites, for $500 million.#
and the company provides data analytics and video of Earth taken from afar. In announcing the deal Tuesday,
Google#said#the buyout will help bolster Google maps by keeping the service accurate with up-to-date images.
The acquisition will give Google the ability to design and build its own fleet of satellites.
and disaster relief areas Google has long been interested in, Google said in a statement. The deal comes as big tech companies have become more interested in aerial technology including satellites
and drones to expand their reach and business operations: getting more people online means being able to offer services to larger populations.
Google in April purchased drone maker Titan Aerospace to help further#Project Loon, the company s initiative to bring the Internet to less-connected places around the world using high-altitude Wi-fi balloons.
Facebook which was said also to be in acquisition talks#with Titan Aerospace has focused on developing drones and satellites as a means for beaming Internet connectivity to more people.
In March, the company#announced#a new lab dedicated to developing that technology. The effort is in line with the mission of CEO Mark Zuckerberg s Internet. org
which aims to bring the Web to everyone in the world. Skybox and Google share more than just a ZIP CODE,
reads a#blog post#by Skybox, which, like Google, is based in Mountain view, Calif. We both believe in making information (especially accurate geospatial information) accessible and useful.
Google maps itself got its start after Google#acquired#another satellite imaging company, Keyhole, a decade ago.
Skybox in November#launched#Skysat-1, a satellite capable of taking 90-second videos at 30 frames per second.
The satellite was to be the first of a fleet of 24 launched to capture views of Tokyo;
Bangkok; Baltimore; Las vegas; and Aleppo, Syria. Google hasn indicated t if the rest of the launches will remain on schedule after the startup joins the company.
We ve asked Skybox for comment and will update this post when we hear back.
Though people have for some time been speculating about Google s interest in Skybox, Tuesday s announcement pegged the deal at half the price of the#rumored $1 billion#that had originally been reported.
Google also warned that the price tag could be adjusted and that the deal is subject to approval by regulators.
#HP announces plans to destroy Microsoft windows Moments after Meg Whitman, CEO of Hewlett-packard, announced the company grand new plan to compete with the Microsoft windows operating system,
she was thanking Microsoft for being a major sponsor of the conference and inviting the company new CEO, Satya Nadella, on stage.
Nadella joined Whitman and Intel new CEO Brian Krzanich for a fireside chat-style interview conducted by New york times columnist and author, Tom Friedman.
But just before Nadella joined via video conferencing, during Whitman keynote speech, CTO Martin Fink, head of HP Labs, showed off
what HP hopes will be a game-changing new data center computer. It internally calling that computer he Machine.
HP is creating a lot of new technology to build The Machine, especially a new form of memory known as emristorswhich won lose data if the power turns off (also known as on-volatile memory.
The Machine claim to fame is that it can process loads of information instantly while using hardly any power.
HP wants this computer to replace the servers being used in today data centers. But it also hopes the tech will become the basis for the next generation of PCS.
and open-source operating system and is inviting universities to help research and build it. He threw in a little dig at Microsoft
when announcing the news saying: e want to reignite in all of our universities around the world operating system research
which we think has been dormant or stagnant for decades. On top of that, HP is working on a brand new operating system for The Machine based on Linux.
And another one based on Android, Fink continued: e are, as part of The Machine, announcing our intent to build a new operating system all open source from the ground up,
optimized for nonvolatile memory systems. We also have a team that starting from a Linux environment
and stripping out all the bits we don need. So that way you maintain compatibility for apps.
What if we build a version of Android? We have a team that doing that, too.
Notice any operating systems not mentioned? Microsoft windows. You might argue that it would be difficult for HP to build an operating system based on Windows
since Microsoft doesn freely share that code. Windows is not free and open source as Linux and Android is.
You would be right. However, when Nadella and Krzanich were on stage, Whitman pointed out how all three companies have been doing joint R&d for 30 years.
In other words, HP could be doing a joint development project with Microsoft if it wanted to.
As Whitman said about the HP, Intel, Microsoft combo, ur partnership, the three companies it was the defining partnership of the industry for the last 30 years but sometimes 30-year marriages,
they need a little rejuvenation. That rejuvenation will obviously come in the form of Linux and Android.
It not wholly surprising that HP is building a new computer that will extricate itself from Microsoft,
and potentially from Intel, too, depending on who HP chooses to fabricate its new chip. Last year, Whitman called out Microsoft and Intel as competitors.
After a disappointing quarter for the company PC business she told Wall street analysts: P traditional highly profitable markets face significant disruption.
Wintel devices are being challenged by ARM-based devices. We are seeing profound changes in the competitive landscape.
Current partners like Intel and Microsoft are turning from partners to outright competitors. Since then, HP has introduced new Windows 8 PCS.
But it has introduced also new Google Chromebook laptops and an experimental new desktop aimed at businesses that runs Android.
This is a bold move by HP. The ability to process large amounts of data with little energy consumption plus nonvolatile memory could be a game changer on the hardware side.
Obvious benefits are longer life of mobile devices more processing power on the device for things like speech recognition, instant on/off functioning, superior servers, removing most of the device cooling engineering,
and lower energy costs for storage and server providers. There hasn been a real hardware advancement in decades.
As the article points out, this opens the door for a change in operating systems, and hp is interested clearly not in helping Microsoft,
and prefers open source OSS. Intel also might be left out in the cold. If hp has the goods
and delivers, this technology will become THE big data system, and take over the server world just for the energy savings alone.
Pricing will be the adoption issue for consumer mobile devices. When the price points are attractive the mobile phone and tablet suppliers will switch too.
Nice tech advancement we all can benefit from. And, if u have investment money for speculation,
hp stock could be a nice retirement plan. Since snubbing Microsoft seems to be the sport of tech royalty this year,
shorting MS stock might be fun money too t
#Ostendo Technologies chip to bring holograms to smartphones Ostendo chip that can produce a hologram Virtual reality won t require strapping a bulky contraption to your head in the future.
Instead, you may just step into an empty room and then suddenly seeing life-size, 3-D images of people and furniture.
Or look down at a smartwatch and#see virtual objects float #and bounce above the wrist,
like the holographic Princess Leia beamed by R2-D2 in the moviestar Wars.####A key to this future may lay in Carlsbad, Calif,
. where startup Ostendo Technologies Inc. has spent the past nine years quietly working on miniature projectors designed to emit crisp videos and glasses-free 3-D images for smartphones and giant screens.
Other companies have shown they can project floating images that appear to be holograms, but many involve large machines employing a system of mirrors to direct light with limited viewing angles.
For instance, the lifelike image of the late rapper Tupac shakur, which graced the Coachella music festival stage in 2012,
was a combination of computer graphics and video projection that relied on visual effects first designed in the 19th century.
Ostendo s projectors in contrast, are roughly the size of Tic Tacs, powered by a computer chip that can control the color, brightness and angle of each beam of light across one million pixels.
One chipset, small enough to fit into a smartphone, is capable of projecting video on a surface with a 48-inch diagonal.
A patchwork of chips, laid together, can form far larger and more complex images. The first iteration of the chip,
which is scheduled to begin shipping next year, will only project 2-D videos, but the next version, expected to follow soon after will feature holographic capability,
according to Ostendo s chief executive and founder, Hussein S. El-Ghoroury. Display is said the last frontier Dr. El-Ghoroury, who in 1998 sold Commquest Technologies, a mobile chipset company, to#International business machines#Corp. IBM for about $250 million in cash and stock.
Over the years, processing power has improved and networks have more bandwidth, but what is missing is comparable advancement in display.
The race to disrupt the screen is intensifying as both upstarts and technology giants try to find new ways to bring content to life.
Microsoft corp. and Advanced micro devices Inc. are both working on their own virtual reality rooms building a complex system of projectors and computers.
Hewlett-packard Co. recently spun out a company called Leia, that like Ostendo, is trying to bring 3d imaging to smartphones.
Meanwhile, Facebook Inc. agreed in March to spend $2 billion to buy Oculus VR Inc.,maker of the Oculus Rift headset that pulls users into a 360-degree virtual environments.
Facebook CEO#Mark Zuckerberg#was convinced, in part of the value of virtual reality after he accidentally tried to set down a real world object on a virtual table
while testing the Oculus Rift, forgetting for a moment that the table didn t exist in the real world,
according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Ostendo, tucked away in Southern California, is known little
but has raised $90 million from venture-capital firms and Peter Thiel, Facebook s first outside investor,
and has secured some $38 million in government research and development contracts. A large bulk of that has come from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,
or Darpa, the government s futurist agency that worked on the predecessor to the Internet and self-driving cars.
which fuses an image processor with a wafer containing micro light-emitting diodes, or LEDS, alongside software that helps the unit properly render images.
During a recent test reviewed by The Wall street journal, Ostendo showed a working prototype: a set of six chips laid together that beamed a 3-D image of green dice spinning in the air.
According to Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor at the Massachusetts institute of technology, who is working on 3-D displays for MIT s Media Lab,
The Retina display on Apple Inc. s#iphone, for example, has about 300 dots per inch,
With a lens attached, it will be less than 0. 5 cubic centimeters, roughly the size of the camera in the#iphone.
and is aiming to make the pixels even smaller to achieve higher resolution. Ultimately the larger vision is to have Ostendo s chips everywhere electronic displays are needed,
whether it is a glasses-free 3-D television screen, a smartwatch, or tables that can project hologram-like images.
So what happens in a world where 3-D and virtual reality is everywhere? Dr. El-Ghoroury predicts people s relationship with technology will change
and breed a wave of business opportunities, on scale with the introduction of the iphone.
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#Smart rifle uses Google glass to let you shoot around corners Google glass-equipped smart rifle. Trackingpoint is the company behind the U s army s new#smart rifle.
and what it does is link your smart rifle s sight to your phone, tablet or Google glass.
By networking your sight and your headset, you see everything your gun does streamed in real time. Basically, when you want to give yourself your gun s POV,
you simply select your scope as your Wi-fi server, open your Shotview app and you re suddenly able to see whatever your barrel is pointed at.
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Rus hopes that these folded electronics will evolve into something of ahardware compiler, where different working devices can be generated for performing a variety of tasks such as cleaning the floor.
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#Classcraft a new way to teach students by turning the classroom into a giant role-playing game Classcraft Shawn Young,
It s going to turn heads in an education system used to strict budgets and paying per-head for software solutions,
and pets for their Classcraft avatars on itunes. Playing in class If you re a gamer,
and check their stats on the screen projected at the front of the room. When the bell rings, its time for a random event,
or, as in Young s case, the kids can use their laptops to interact with it in real-time.
they ll be able to use their smartphones to keep up with the game too, with an ios app set for release and an Android version to follow.
Cutting class and eating chocolate As the Game Master, Young s students are playing by his rules,
something he believes is important in a 21st century that s proving a boom time for sharing, not least through social media.
Higuera told me via email. Before, some of my more apathetic students wouldn t care
Noschese told me over Skype. At least, he believes, not when kids are striving to earn rewards in a game.
And interestingly, they ll also be able to buy these coins through the ios app and on itunes. Young knows this is a huge move for an educational product.
It s very very innovative, he says. I don t know any products that do that for education.
It won t have customizable avatars, pets, ios app support, or interactive class forums. However, the base game will still be fully functional.
at its core, a challenge to the school budgeting system and a way of making Classcraft available to all, according to Young.
The ios app due in September will enable the whole system to run on a teacher s ipad
Video games in a very short time, have become this common cultural reference point that everybody knows,
and your smartphone will find it for you, up to a range of 50 to 150 feet.
But what makes this one different is that it also a social network of sorts. If your lost jacket isn in some mysterious corner of your home
you can ask all other Tile App users to watch for it. If they get near it,
their phones will beep and they can alert you to the jacket whereabouts. That why its creators, Mike Farley and Nick Evans, call it he world largest lost and found.
In 2013, Tile made news for being the most successful campaign to use open source crowdfunding software elfstarter, on its own website to raise funds.
Mason tells us he dabbles in some Angel investing, specifically nternet of Things (Iot) startups, companies making internet-controlled objects t
accessed via China intellectual property database, the suitcase is equipped also with a GPS navigator, a burglar alarm and a horn.
Set up by two former Google employees, it used remote sensing and other cartographic techniques to map every field in America (all 25m of them) and superimpose on that all the climate information that it could find.
By 2010 its database contained 150 billion soil observations and 10 trillion weather-simulation points.
The Climate Corporation planned to use these data to sell crop insurance. But last October Monsanto bought the company for about $1 billionne of the biggest takeovers of a data firm yet seen.
Monsanto, the world largest hybrid-seed producer, has a library of hundreds of thousands of seeds,
and terabytes of data on their yields. By adding these to the Climate Corporation soil-and-weather database,
it produced a map of America which says which seed grows best in which field, under what conditions.
Fieldscripts uses all these data to run machines made by Precision Planting, a company Monsanto bought in 2012,
Monsanto, loaded with data, can plant a field with different varieties at different depths and spacings, varying all this according to the weather.
to boost its farm-data business. The benefits are clear. Farmers who have tried Monsanto system say it has pushed up yields by roughly 5%over two years,
The seed companies think providing more data to farmers could increase America maize yield from 160 bushels an acre (10 tonnes a hectare) to 200 bushelsiving a terrific boost to growersmeagre margins.
But the story of prescriptive planting is also a cautionary tale about the conflicts that arise when data entrepreneurs meet old-fashioned businessfolk.
it reduces the role of discretion and skill in farmingheir core competence. However, the bigger problem is that farmers distrust the companies peddling this new method.
They fear that the stream of detailed data they are providing on their harvests might be misused.
the prescriptive planting firms might even use the data to buy underperforming farms and run them in competition with the farmers;
or the companies could use the highly sensitive data on harvests to trade on the commodity markets,
and control their data; that companies may not use the information except for the purpose for
Also, once data have been sent and anonymised, farmers might be said no longer to own them, so it is not clear
to negotiate with the data providers. Another worry is that, since the companies have not yet made the data fully ortable farmers may become locked into doing business with a single provider.
To assuage all these concerns the Climate Corporation has set up a free data storage service for farmers,
which others cannot access without the farmerspermission. New niche data-management firms are entering the market,
which should help make it more competitive. For the time being, though, the biggest companies will dominate prescriptive planting. They collect the most comprehensive data
and make better use of them than anyone else. And that raises a problem which affects big data in all its forms.
But its success depends on service providers persuading users (farmers or patients) to trust them. If the users think they are taking a disproportionate share of the risks
while firms are getting an excessive chunk of the benefits, trust will remain in short supply
#Demand for computer science programs is booming at colleges across the U s. People in the tech industry have worked to persuade more young people in the U s. to become interested in studying computer science for years.
Demand for computer science classes and programs is booming at universities across the U s, . according to data presented this past week at the NCWIT summit for Women in IT by Ed Lazowska, the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer science and Engineering at the University of Washington,
and Stanford Computer science professor Eric Roberts. Demand is also booming for the less expensive Micro Colleges that teach programming skills like Davinci Coders near Boulder, Colorado,
which only costs $6, 000. At Lazowska own school, the number of incoming freshman who plan to major in computer science is soaring the graph below,
published earlier this week by Geekwire, speaks for itself. It not just UW that seeing A CS boom.
Computer science class enrollment is markedly up at a number of institutions, from traditional tech hubs like MIT and Stanford to more humanities-and business-focused schools like Harvard.
But at the academic level Lazowska and Roberts say that this time around things just feel different than they did during the first dot-com frenzy.
According to Lasowska and Roberts, our higher education institutions today aren prepared adequately to handle the surge in computer science education demand.
but a groundbreaking idea could change the face of medicine for good. 3d software design companies Dassault systèmes
the teams developed a realistic 3d model of a human heart featuring software designed to make it function just like the real thing.
and offers up-to-date data on the wearer mental and physical tiredness by linking the MEME to a smartphone feed.
Users can then keep track of their daily energy levels, ideally taking a break when their MEME notes their tiredness,
the MEME glasses rely on monitoring a user eye movements and gaze. The glasses contain small metallic lectrooculographysensors in the portions of the frame that touch the face,
changes in voltage are collected then into data that is measured for parameters such as alertness or fatigue.
There will be an optional attery headbandavailable for purchase that will extend battery life to about 16 hours It is anticipated to be compatible with Mac, Windows, ios,
and Android devices, and will be available in both English and Japanese languageshough there is no word on overseas sales beyond their upcoming 2015 launch in Japan.
It is complicated a mix. he computer simulation of fluid dynamics has changed dramatically in the last 5 years,
An aluminium factory used to stand on the site but was closed down in 2007. The freshwater lagoon will be 300m long
you probably think about electronics products like televisions and computers. Thanks to its CT and other diagnostic imaging machines and technology, Toshiba has made a name for itself in the healthcare industry, too.
#25%of patients now read online physician reviews There has always been a love/hate relationship between doctors and the Internet.
using online review sites. A recent study by researchers at the University of Michigan says 25 percent of Americans now look online for doctor reviews before making an appointment.
There are now 40 to 50 doctor-review sites for patients to choose from, the biggest among them being Healthgrades, Ratemds and Vitals.
Also, general review sites such as Yelp also offer ratings for medical practices and specific physicians. It gets better.
doctors can sometimes be preoccupied with their handheld computers. Patients can feel ignored. And doctors sometimes simply must give patients bad news. Some doctors believe bad news in the exam room can cause bad feelings that turn into bad reviews on sites like Healthgrades. com
. But the review sites are on the minds of doctors. Both the Congress of OBGYNS and the American Psychiatric Association have held panel discussions about online reviews at recent meetings
#Longevity gene may enhance brain power For the first time ever, scientists have shown that people who have a variant of a gene called KLOTHO also have improved cognitive abilities,
and perhaps nly half require students to use a laptop or tablet. But, she added,
and was used for collecting data as well as video t would dramatically change medical education. Imagine an attending physician seeing what you saw during a simulation,
Pristine, and Google is involved not currently. In August, another 20 to 30 pairs will go to first-and second-year students, for use in anatomy labs, the medical simulation center, the ultrasound institute,
but he looks forward to incorporating data calling up a patient electronic health record, for instance
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