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Xiaomi’s venture arm, Xiaomi Ventures, has invested $25 million in the maker of mHealth gadgets, iHealth Lab. As part of the deal, Xiaomi will get a seat at iHealth’s board of directors. Launched in the US in 2010 as a subsidiary of medical device manufacturing company Andon Health, iHealth has launched the industry’s first mobile…
It’s New Years eve, one of the biggest party nights of the year! Unfortunately it’s also one of the biggest nights for drunk driving. As the DUI checkpoints start setting up and the celebratory champagne bottles are popping, an easy to use breathalyzer peripheral would be a great accessory. While it might be a little…
Texting while driving is a major problem the world over, one that’s spurred several public safety campaigns including Werner Herzog’s recent hard hitting documentary. Given the inherent danger of texting while driving, doing it while you’re also asleep can’t be very safe. Somehow a woman in New Zealand managed to drive for hours in her…
On and on we keep hearing that mobile phone users might be at risk of regularly using their beloved devices. MobilePhone.co.in prepared a neat infographic to explain the issue and as far as I can tell – you are free to keep using your gadgets. For one thing, although radio waves from mobile phones are…
Float Mobile Learning prepared a neat infographic to show us the prospects of mHealth services. As you’re about to see, this industry is set for a rapid growth, with all parties looking to cut costs and increase efficiencies. Judging from the facts neatly summed up in the following chart, there’s money to be made by…
It’s that time again, folks. Apple is set to unleash the latest shiny gadget into the world that you’ll be waiting in lines for hours on end at Apple stores to get your own. Of course, that shiny gadget would be the iPad 3. We know you’ll be wanting to get as much information about…
We’ve been through the whole “does cell phone radiation harm us?” debate but an interesting infographic from Mezzmer asks if there are some more health concerns we should be worried about with these devices. Of course, Mezzmer sells eye glasses, so it’s in its best interest to promote that cell phones could damage your eyesight…
Sherry Turkle has been writing about people’s relationship with technology since she published her second book in 1984 called The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit. Her latest work, titled Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, was published in January of this year and people are still…
Since many of us our glued to our cell phones throughout the day, it’s natural to worry whether all those radio waves and the radiation are harming us. For every handful of studies that show no correlation between heavy cell phone use and brain cancer, there are a few that do. However, a 15-year study…
The Apple iPhone has had many uses in the medical industry, and it looks like it will continue to make advances in the field as MIT researchers have just developed a way for the smartphone to detect cataracts. The CATRA system, developed by the Camera Culture Media Lab at MIT, is an iPhone attachment that…