Category: Design UX

  • Fitbit: tracking my sleep, exercise and nervous twitching

    Fitbit Blog. Related articles 8,000,000+ steps on my Fitbit (mobileviews.com) Two days back with Fitbit and I’m already annoyed (agblog.com) Fitbit Ultra from Best Buy (shibleysmiles.com) How to Connect Your Lose It! Account to Fitbit (lockergnome.com) The Fitbit Ultra Review – for runners by a runner (coffeewithcaramel.com) Withings Health Companion app: A new way to…

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  • Infrared Diagnostics: New ways to analyze infrared heat patterns for medicine, architecture

      Increasingly people are using the  FLIR EX320 to diagnose heat loss, medical issues, and engineering concerns. Infrared Diagnostic Home Page. Infrared Diagnostic Home Page Related articles New Infrared Lenses Could Make Driving Safer (news.dice.com) Why Security system uses Infrared Camera? Fact File 37 (dmohankumar.wordpress.com) New production process promises cheaper infrared lenses (gizmag.com) Far Infrared Therapy…

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  • Seattle Genetics studies monoclonal antibodies for Hodgkin’s disease

    Interesting company that is studying the use of monoclonal antibodies for Hodgkin’s disease Seattle Genetics: News Release. Related articles More Effective, Safer Protection Against Osteoporosis? (medicalnewstoday.com) Clinical trial for rabies monoclonal antibody (medicalxpress.com) Invisible Sentinel Announces Product Launch of Its Foodborne Pathogen Specific Monoclonal Antibodies (sys-con.com) Billionaire’s biotech seals second deal with Synthetic Biologics (fiercebiotech.com) Lymph…

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  • Moretti: Applying Quantitative Analysis to Classic Lit

    Great article on Franco Moretti, a Stanford English professor, is championing computational linguistics, data mining, computer modeling, and network theory to take a data-centric approach to novels, which he graphs, maps, and charts.  Using IBM’s Visual Communications Lab he is turning books into a series of word clouds. He is also identifying the best titles and discovered a…

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  • Wordle and the future of Data Visualization

      I’ve been testing this neat new app called Wordle which I found out about on the Many Eyes site made by Martin Wattenburg and will create visualizations of any text. I applied it to my delicious bookmarks and to my blog. It’s also been applied on Many Eyes to analyze speeches and more.  …

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  • Traffic: Behavior Based Reality

    Drawing upon a growing network of sensors embedded on our roadways several new books and articles show that once again few studies were done into actual human behavior before designing the conduits which we spend most of our waking hours in: our national roadways. Discoveries reveal that for example the $15 Big Dig project in Boston…

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  • NWU – National Writers Union

    NWU – National Writers Union. Related articles More on What Freelancers Need to Know About Their Finances Another Look at Content Curation

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  • iphone as a bicycle computer? Yea!

      iphone as a bicycle computer? Yea!.   Related articles   iBike riding computer and case upgraded for iPhone 5 (electronista.com) The Gadgets And Games Of Kickstarter: September 18th 2012 Edition (makeuseof.com) Get Power with 1-degree Precision Bluetooth 4.0 Smart Sensor (prweb.com) Wahoo Fitness introduces RFLKT: an iPhone-powered bike computer that lets handsets stay in…

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  • Intellectual Ventures: patent hunters and gatherers

      Intellectual Ventures Home.     Related articles Olympus gives in, settles with Intellectual Ventures (news.cnet.com) Intellectual Ventures, Olympus reach truce in patent dispute (geekwire.com) Intellectual Ventures attorney: Settlement with Asian chip makers sends a message (bizjournals.com) Patent Troll Captures Olympus, Still Going After Canon and Nikon (petapixel.com) Non-Practicing Entities in Cleantech (ipstrategy.com) Crowdfunding campaign…

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  • Ultrasound Detection to Beat Cancer

      Why Early Detection Is the Best Way to Beat Cancer.   Interesting to note that a new ultrasound method is even more accurate than CT scan and much less dangerous. Ultrasound guided treatments are very promising.     Related articles   Ultrasound for Breast Cancer Detection (everydayhealth.com) A company’s novel approach to ultrasound to…

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  • Competitive Intelligence (CI) books

    Amazon.com: Competitive Intelligence (CI). I’m looking for good books that I can recommend to others on searching online using major databases such as Lexis, Factiva, Ovid Related articles The Importance of Competitive Intelligence for B2B Companies Outlined in Latest White Paper (prweb.com) CI Radar Announces New Competitive Intelligence Tool (prweb.com) Comintelli Wins Major Competitive Intelligence…

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  • Losing heat, seeing blue: get a thermography study of your house

      Losing heat, seeing blue – The Boston Globe.   I must get an infrared thermography done of the house. This article has some good vendors. They charge around 300 bucks which is the same as renting it for a week plus they come with expertise and create an 80 page report of all the…

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  • Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

      Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Home Page.   This is a great new site for publishing social science findings. It uses Web 2.0 to allow ranking of the best articles.   Related articles What’s Soft about Social Science? (everydaysociologyblog.com) New Professional Network Brings Chinese Scientists and Researchers into International Community (prweb.com)  

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  • Downloads transform iPhone into handy tool

    Downloads transform iPhone into handy tool – The Boston Globe. Definitely get apps: where, stanza, recorder Related articles Asahi Launches iPhone Application Development Services in New York (prweb.com) iPhone 5 Travels 20,096 Miles Before Ending Up in Your Hands [INFOGRAPHIC] Mashable iPhone 5 Travels 20,096 Miles Before Ending Up in Your Hands [INFOGRAPHIC] | The…

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  • GPS for the Mac

      GPS for the Mac | Macworld.     Related articles   Learn About Diverse Career Opportunities Available to Those with Geospatial Expertise (prweb.com) GIS in the Digital Humanities: A free one day seminar (ihrprojects.wordpress.com) New SAASM Compatible GPS Module For Digital Cameras Delivers Advanced Geotagging and ‘Object’ Location Capabilities (prweb.com) GPS technology trends (zintro.com)…

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  • IBM’s new Center for Social Software

    IBM’s new Center for Social Software claims it is a first of kind center of excellence dedicated to helping our customers and partners with the tough challenges of collaborating across globally distributed organizations. An acknowledged leader in the field, the center will bring together the brightest minds in IBM from around the world and tap into…

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  • Google Earth Uncovers Cow GPS

      I found this article fascinating since it demonstrates how large scale observation of thousands of bovines can detect patterns in their behavior, namely that they all face North/South. A pair of German researchers are crediting Google Earth for enabling a new discovery into the hidden powers of cows. The two zoologists used the Google mapping tool to…

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  • Obama Uses Social Networking for Content Focused Campaign

      This is amongst the rare elections in my experience where the Democrats have succeeded in communications and this is due to Obama’s clever use of social networking technologies, as this MIT article describes. While McCain and Palin continue to use their crudely effective cliche sound bytes to attract less knowledgeable voters, Obama/Biden are proving…

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  • Linguistic analysis of election perception

    Boston.com – Ideas – Globe. Both campaigns are linguistically all about Obama according to metrics of the word patterns in blogs. Related articles Republican ethos on display – Boston Globe 5 Things to Watch at the DNC on Thursday President Obama sweltered in Windham, NH, as he talked about his opponents … – Boston Globe…

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  • NASA-Funded Carbon Dioxide Map of U.S. Released on Google Earth

    NASA – NASA-Funded Carbon Dioxide Map of U.S. Released on Google Earth. Related articles Plants’ fungi allies may not help store climate change’s extra carbon (esciencenews.com) Differences Between Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Dioxide (differencebetween.net) New Tool Maps California’s Biggest Greenhouse Gas Emitters (blogs.kqed.org) The coal conundrum and global warming (blogs.courier-journal.com) You: Rising carbon dioxide in…

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  • Where do all the neurotics live?

    Where do all the neurotics live? – The Boston Globe. Related articles Personality Disorder & The Neurotic (jeremyhermanns.org) Neurotic men have shorter lives (pinnaclelife.co.nz) Let’s go to a spa meeting for neurotics! (feministphilosophers.wordpress.com) Delaying Gratification . . . part two. (writinglife101.wordpress.com) Evangelizing the Neurotic (fatherstephen.wordpress.com) Study: extroverts and neurotics feel phanthom vibrations the most (textually.org)

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  • The Political Mind by George Lakoff

    Book Review – ‘The Political Mind,’ by George Lakoff – Review – NYTimes.com.

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