Reinventing Health Monitoring
Published: May 24, 2012 Reinventing Health Monitoring: Peter Diamandis, MD on the New Nokia Sensing X CHALLENGE Nokia and the X PRIZE Foundation have teamed up to launch the Nokia Sensing X CHALLENGE, which will award $2.25 million to a team that develops the most innovative biosensors. The winner will be chosen by a non-partisan judging panel of industry experts. The competition will be divided into a series of three events, which will take place over the next three years. The winners of each competition will be the teams that submit best in class technology as determined by a non-partisan...
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Hack the Cover COVERS, COVERS — EVERYWHERE — Craig Mod, May 2012 Muerto! The covers are dead! Dead! Dead like the record jacket! Dead like the laser disc sleeve! Dead like the 8-track cartridge sticker! Dead like the squishy Disney VHS container! Dead like the cassette case inserts! Dead like those damned CD jewel cases and their booklets! Dead like DVD and Blue-ray box art! Put ’em all in a box, burn ’em, and sprinkle their ashes over your razed local bookstore. Call it a day. Hang up your exact-o knifes and weld shut your drawers of metal type. The writing’s not on the...
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Transmedia in 21st Century From a Blog by Dr. Marilyn Hill The Community of Education Leaders recently discussed “Transmedia in Education” on GETideas.org. The major thread of the conversation was that today’s students are vastly different from their predecessors and that education must change to meet their needs. Simon Pulman expressed, “Educators and administrators who do not move quickly to incorporate digital learning and cross-platform thinking into the curriculum will do a disservice to students.” Lucas Johnson affirmed that people do not live within a single medium at a time. Instead,...
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100 Ideas That Changed Film by Maria Popova How the seventh art went from magic lanterns to state-of-the-art computer-generated imagery in 100 years. When a small handful of enthusiasts gathered at the first cinema show at the Grand Cafe in Paris on December 27, 1895, to celebrate early experimental film, they didn’t know that over the next century, their fringe fascination would carve its place in history as the “seventh art.” But how, exactly, did that happen? In 100 Ideas that Changed Film, Oxford Times film reviewer David Parkinson and publisher Laurence King — who brought us 100 Ideas...
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