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How Obamacare could boost entrepreneurship Eva Arevuo/Engine.is, venturebeat.com Tickets On Sale Now Eva Arevuo is communications manager at startup advocacy group Engine.is. Here’s what we know about the Affordable Care Act: 32 million Americans who would otherwise be uninsured will now have… http://flip.it/iDnJn Related articles How Obamacare could boost entrepreneurship (venturebeat.com)
Tech companies produce fascinating data on the government shutdown Christina Farr, venturebeat.com Tickets On Sale Now Tech startups have taken advantage of the data scientists and engineers on their staff to produce some interesting studies on the impact of the government shutdown. On its blog, fancy car-sharing service Uber… http://flip.it/16kq1 Related articles Zipcar, Getaround, Uber:…
Mygola could (at last) be the startup to make your travel planning dreams come true Rebecca Grant, venturebeat.com Tickets On Sale Now We wait all year to take a vacation and jet off someplace exotic for a week or two of glorious relaxation and adventure. Unfortunately the process of planning a trip sucks. Travel startup…
Pavithra Mohan, gizmodo.com The Smell of Peanut Butter Could Diagnose Alzheimer’s On the heels of the recent discovery that accelerometers could be used as indicators for Alzheimer’s diseasecomes yet another potential diagnostic tool, one that most of us already have in ou… http://flip.it/UcbsD The Smell of Peanut Butter Could Diagnose Alzheimer’s
This Camp Stove Collapses Thinner Than the Bark Used as Kindling Andrew Liszewski, gizmodo.com When you’re heading out into nature with nothing but a backpack, the long hike ahead of you is going to be far more enjoyable if you pack as light and minimally as possible. But that doesn’t mean you have to completely…
Here’s where you’re most likely to die from air pollution John Metcalfe, grist.org Click to embiggen.Where on Earth are you most likely to die early from air pollution? NASA provides the answer with this mortally serious view of the planet, and it is: lots of places.Like tar stains on a healthy lung, the sickly yellow…
This plant could help people withdraw safely from meth Sarah Laskow, grist.org USDOJKratom, a plant that is indigenous to Thailand, relieves pain, improves mood, and is illegal to use. But there’s some research that shows that it could help drug users safely withdraw from methamphetamine. (Or cocaine or heroin, but we’re all… http://flip.it/Rlxek
You can use Google Street View to see the dead Jess Zimmerman, grist.org Wow, is there nothing Google can’t do? Street View can take you under the ocean, to the surface of Mars, around the South Pole, inside an abandoned Fukushima town, and up some difficult hiking trails. And now, one Oregon man’s experience suggests……
New Yorkers exposed to more pesticides than rural residents John Upton, grist.org ShutterstockNew Yorkers can eat all the organics that they want — but that won’t be enough to protect them from the Big Apple’s stubborn pesticide problem.Despite living in a dense city with only tiny patches of agriculture (much of it organic,… http://flip.it/inoiQ Related…
GoSun: Portable solar oven cooks food in as little as 10 minutes – Images gizmag.com http://flip.it/h5dvj Related articles Be Cool: Make the World’s Easiest Solar Oven (sierraclub.typepad.com) Prepare a Cardboard Box Solar Oven (outdoorcookingandgardening.wordpress.com) Typhoon Haiyan: How Technology Can Help (livescience.com) Solar ovens and solar cooking (makezine.com)
Cuddle Mattress lets you get closer to your significant other Dave Parrack, gizmag.com The Cuddle Mattress is a normal mattress divided up into slices that give you somewhere to put your arm when snuggling up to your significant other. This simple idea could help prevent bad backs, dead-arm-in-bed issues … and arguments between… http://flip.it/Bo2Tq
iSketchnote: The iPad cover that digitizes your doodles gizmag.com Many people are now using an iPad or other brand of tablet as a tool for writing notes and drawing sketches. Doing so makes a lot of sense as the form factor is built with such tasks in mind. It … http://flip.it/aFFQh Related articles Get started…
The fast and the furnished: A tour of modern Volkswagen bus campers C.C. Weiss, gizmag.com With the original Volkswagen T2 Microbus set for extinction, the days of VW bread loaf camper conversions appear numbered unless something like the Bulli concept comes to fruition. As Gizmag learned at the Dusseldorf Caravan Salon, however, the VW… http://flip.it/ylYYF…
The Action Camper makes your Jeep an all-terrain RV – Images gizmag.com http://flip.it/lCmOA
Habitents: The Toyota Prius camper gizmag.com We’re used to seeing campers and trailers here at Gizmag. Typically, they’re made for big, gas-drunk trucks, SUVs and vans – vehicles with the size and hauling capacity to spend the night in … http://flip.it/Zv7AH Related articles Toyota Prius is Consumer Reports’ best new-car value (fox6now.com) Toyota Prius Best,…
Blizzident “toothbrush” is claimed to clean your teeth in 6 seconds Ben Coxworth, gizmag.com When it comes to things that people don’t do as often or as well as they should, tooth-brushing would have to be at the top of the list. While it usually just comes down to laziness, a lot of people claim…
Box gets deeper into healthcare with new partners, strategic hire and $100k app challenge Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.com Back in April, cloud collaboration startup Box made its first big public foray into healthcare with the announcement that its service was HIPAA-compliant and that it had partnered with 10 health-related applications. Now, the IPO-bound… http://flip.it/NhlOl Related…
Startup Runnable fancies itself as “the YouTube of code” Barb Darrow, gigaom.com For folks who are searching the web for specific video clips, YouTube has become an invaluable resource not just for viewing your favorite stupid human tricks (or whatever) but for finding them in the first place. Now, Yash Kumar, a… http://flip.it/fbcyy
Stanford researchers to open-source model they say has nailed sentiment analysis Derrick Harris, gigaom.com Stanford Ph.D. student Richard Socher appreciates the work Google and others are doing to build neural networks that can understand human language. He just thinks his work is more useful — and he’s going to share his code with anyone wh……
This secretive startup plans to 3D print custom, affordable wood furniture Signe Brewster, gigaom.com The traditional wood furniture industry has its share of problems. Faced with cheap plywood and chip wood that can be packed flat to ship inexpensively before assembly, furniture made of solid wood has become rarer and more… http://flip.it/gpGfW
Rise of the prosumer analyst: How mobile is driving a new brand of business analysis Jonathan Libov, Guest Contributor, gigaom.com Today, it seems natural for, say, an iOS developer to follow Apple’s company affairs — changes to the executive team, the number of opening-weekend iPhone 5S sales, or even Apple’s stock price — in the…
As consumer tech speeds up innovation in health, can traditional med tech keep up? Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.com Consumer tech and telecom names like Verizon, AT&T and Sony may be relative newcomers to health care, but that doesn’t mean they’re not going to give industry stalwarts a run for their money. According to a Monday…
Why Azumio’s Argus wants to be your all-in-one picture of health Kevin C. Tofel, gigaom.com Health tracking apps are all the rage, particularly as wearable devices gain more wireless sensors to gather data. All that disparate data is useful, but how do you put it all together? Enter Argus, an app from Azumio that the…
New tool lets you visualize just about anything in 5 minutes (maybe less) Derrick Harris, gigaom.com There’s a new web tool called Raw that makes it really easy to do some advanced visualizations on data in just a few minutes. (Hat tip to Nathan Yau of FlowingData for pointing it out.) The way it works…
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