Standard.co.uk:‎ New technology that could revolutionise the way doctors measure patients’ vital signs has attracted a £500,000 investment from intellectual property firm IP Group. The device, which uses a webcam and computer software, allows medical staff to measure heart rate, respiratory rate and, uniquely, oxygen saturation. The software is still in its experimental stage but […]
Webcam Monitors People’s Vital Signs Read More »
PopSci: The Department Homeland Security is developing a system designed to apprehend you before you commit a crime. The Future Attribute Screening Technology, or FAST, is designed to analyze whether a person is likely to commit a crime, using a long list of factors. Some are akin to lie detection, such as breathing and heart
Security Application To Detect Would-Be Criminals Read More »
An IKEA store in Australia has taken the created a “playground” for bored men, complete with Xbox consoles, pinball machines, continuous televised sport and free hot dogs called MÄNLAND. MÄNLAND is being trialled for four days this Father’s Day weekend as a male-only play space to hang out in while wives and girlfriends peruse the
Ikea: Leave Your Husbands and Boyfriends in Our Playzone Read More »
Wall Street Journal Today, hospitals and doctors use a system of about 18,000 codes to describe medical services in bills they send to insurers. Apparently, that doesn’t allow for quite enough nuance. A new federally mandated version will expand the number to around 140,000—adding codes that describe precisely what bone was broken, or which artery
Government Gone Wild: Medical Service Codes Multiply By Ten! Read More »
Do you remember these commercials from 1993? It’s no longer “You will.” Today, it’s “You do.”
Remember These? AT&T’s You Will Commercials from 1993 Read More »
On this day in 1968 Chester Carlson [no relation] died. Chester Floyd Carlson (February 8, 1906 – September 19, 1968) was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle, Washington. He is best known for having invented the process of electrophotography, which produced a dry copy rather than a wet copy, as was
Today in Entrepreneurial History: September 19 Read More »
There’s a popular myth that NASA spent “millions” of dollars developing a pen for astronauts to use in the weightless environment of a space ship – while their sensible Russian counterparts were happy to use the low-tech pencil. Alas, for all its appeal and plausibility, this is not true. Initially, astronauts and cosmonauts were both
Its a Myth: NASA’s Million Dollar Pen Read More »
Stuff Daily: Based in Washington DC, FreePaperCups.com is a marketing firm specializing in non—traditional advertising solutions. The firm specializes in handheld branding in the office — ensuring office workers see, touch, and hold advertising messages throughout the day in the workplace. Whether a company spends $100 a month or $100,000 a month on disposable cups
Biz Resource: Free Coffee Cups Read More »
FunkyDiva is a digital jukebox, loaded with over 12,000 songs to suit all tastes of music. The company operates as a network of independent partners who run their own jukebox-for-hire business locally under the FunkyDiva brand. The customers who have hired a FunkyDiva from one of their local partners/distributors for their party were extremely happy
FunkyDiva Business Opportunity Read More »
What if you could text your car to stop, and have it stop moving when it is stolen? That is just one part of an anti-theft idea from self-taught inventor, Morris Mbetsa, and 18 year old who lives in Kenya. Mbetsa’s invention uses voice, DTMC and SMS text messages over a wireless service to carry
Putting A Stop To Car Theft Read More »
