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Last week at Ford’s press event, I got to check out another Sync application that’s in development. WellDoc is a monitoring service for diabetics, so they can log meals and glucometer results through an iPhone app. With WellDoc, Sync will detect if you haven’t logged any data recently, dial Sync services over Bluetooth, and have…
At one point or another, we’ve all said that we’d give an arm and a leg for a new toy or perhaps a vacation. But what about giving up a critical internal organ? Apparently, to one 17-year-old boy in China, an iPad 2 was totally worth one of his kidneys. Unfortunately, the kid is now…
Remember those commercials telling you that 3 out of 4 dentists recommended a certain kind of toothpaste? They were pretty convincing, right? What if you learned that 4 out of 5 doctors were planning on buying an iPad next year? Would that sway your decision to get one yourself? Aside from the curious – why…
For some time now, test results linking brain cancer from cell phone usage has been a mixed bag. It does. It might. etc. Well, the latest report from the World Health Organization claims that there may be a significant risk brain cancer from cell phone usage. The report says that extensive use of wireless communication…
Have you ever wished that your iPhone could measure and document the electrical activity of your heart? What might have sounded like a dream just a few years ago is now a reality. The new iPhonECG system is a new app that uses a case that connects to the iPhone (demonstrated in the video below…
Gold’s Gym has noticed the effect that cell phones have had on our health – and not the radiation/cancer kind – and has responded in kind. Whether we realize it or not, the fact that we’re cranking out more e-mails, SMS and status updates than ever on our smartphones means we’re susceptible to repetitive stress…
When people get sick they usually sleep more, use their phone less, and stay in bed all day watching DVD box sets of their favorite shows. Such patterns can be detected and that’s exactly what students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have successfully achieved. Anmol Madan, the guy behind this idea, gave 70 undergraduate students…
Your iPhone or iPad can get me sick around this time of year. That’s because it’s flu season, and every time you sneeze into your hands and wipe it all over your touch screen device, you could be passing on a virus when you decide to share it with someone else. So unless you’re immunized…
The University of Leeds is giving all 520 students in their fourth or fifth year studying medicine a free 16 GB Apple iPhone 3GS loaded with things like note taking software, textbooks, reference manuals, and a SIM card that gives them unlimited data. Students will have to pay for voice and SMS on their own.…
San Francisco is actually a hotbed of smartphone activity with multiple mobile startups and everyone and their mom rocking an Apple iPhone, but the city is in a war with the mobile industry over the issue of cell phone radiation. The industry’s trade association, the CTIA, recently filed a lawsuit against San Francisco’s ordinance which…