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Predictive systems, wearable technology, and health technology are examined in this section. It focuses on products and services that transform individual well-being by enhancing quality of life by fusing ease with cutting-edge analytics.
How has big data changed healthcare?
Healthcare institutions have been compiling massive amounts of data for decades, storing it away for future use. The future is...
#Video: In theory, this 3D printed tooth brush does the job in 6 seconds
Oral hygiene is important, but it's not normally associated with high tech gadgets. Even the mechanical toothbrush has been around...
#Video: Samsung’s inadvertent metaphor about class differences
Surely they didn't mean for it to come across the way it did. In essence, a rich man with tech...
#Infographic: Silk Road versus street drug prices
Silk Road had a huge impact on the Bitcoin world when the careless creator of the online drug black market...
Calico may be the best investment Google has ever made
There seems to be a lot of negative sentiment coming from multiple directions. Tech blogs, Wall Street analysts, and conspiracy...
3 of the hottest tech innovations being used for the public sector
The advent of global and communications technologies has been at the forefront of business and consumer industries for years, allowing...
Synthetic drugs may be a bigger concern than traditional narcotics
The war on drugs has had its share of ups and downs. On one hand, there seems to be a...
Internet addiction is real and you’re probably experiencing it right now
If you're reading this now on and you don't believe that internet addiction isn't real, chances are you're in denial....
Hospitalized children can play in a virtual playground with interactive walls
At the Royal London Children’s Hospital, the children who must be there are treated to amazing technology to make their...
Strange designs in China are optometry charts for spy planes
How can you tell if your spy planes and satellites need corrective eye wear? You have them read an optometry...
5 ways the smartphone is changing healthcare
The US Department of Health and Human Services calls it “mHealth.” The m stands for mobile and the term defines...
Touching “Magic Arms” video shows some of the potential of 3D printers
We've seen some of the amazing things that 3D printers can do, but most of them are more for folly...
IBM developing staph-killing “ninja polymers” that attacks physically rather than chemically
One of the biggest risks with drugs such as antibiotics that chemically attack bacteria and other harmful organisms is that...
Despite a cure in hand, a vaccine is the only way to end malaria (and may be right around the corner)
Technology and science often move faster than the money and logistics required to implement it. Such is the case with...
Japan’s cure for snoring and sleep apnea – a robotic bear pillow
At some point, the sheer oddity of Japanese technological solutions to various problems will stop surprising us. That day may...
The 4 most influential X Ray technicians
We often take the ability to see inside the human body for granted, and why wouldn’t we? X-ray technology is...
Meet the microbes living in our beds
In the 21st century, most people are aware that there are little creatures living in or on everything that we...
Attention, Men! Quick, Easy Birth Control: Your Laptop
These laptops sure are warm, aren't they? Mine gets absolutely unbearable sometimes. Turns out, perhaps unsurprisingly, that the intense heat...
Laugh Out Loud iPad App Burns Away Calories With Laughter
If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter. - Nicholas-Sebastien Chamfort The Health Monitor Network has just...