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Health Technologies: August 2010
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Sunday, August 15, 2010. Predicting catastrophic health events - noninvasively and short term. I've just picked up a fault in the AE35 unit. It's going to go 100% failure in 72 hours". These were famous words of the almighty computer HAL in "2001: A Space Odyssey". Few of us believe too much in software forecasts - be it weather, earthquakes or computer hard disk failures. Yet, we all know that sometimes it works. And such systems are very valuable, assuming they continuously improve. Gordon Bell predict...
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Health Technologies: Is the Internet of Things the Real Thing?
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Saturday, September 6, 2014. Is the Internet of Things the Real Thing? The Internet of Things: an exciting new world with a digital nervous system or a nightmare where objects take decisions while we are unconscious? Consumers are not ready to embrace the flood of smart wearables and appliances - as they don't really know what to do with them, don't perceive their value and are concerned about privacy and prices. However, the current generation of "smart things" is focused mostly on better designed hardw...
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Health Technologies: On Luck, Skill and Hard Work - in Soccer and Life
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Saturday, June 28, 2014. On Luck, Skill and Hard Work - in Soccer and Life. Big data doesn't always get us closer to truth. Especially if there a fair bit of luck involved. And many think this applies to football/soccer games ( Sally and Anderson. For example, say that soccer results are 50% luck). Yet data analysis provides valuable, sometimes counter-intuitive insights into this beautiful sport and the science of winning and losing in general. How can we measure luck in soccer separate from skill?
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Health Technologies: The Curse of the Internet
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Sunday, April 13, 2014. The Curse of the Internet. It's hard to imagine our lives without the. Internet - either mobile or desktop. The Internet has become a catalyst of innovation, an essential tool in business and social life. It brought new levels of participation and access to knowledge. It enabled new forms of interaction, albeit mostly utilized for entertainment purposes (as in the famous answer of a Reddit user. To a now deleted question. Captured in the figure on the right). The network of a big ...
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Health Technologies: June 2012
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Saturday, June 23, 2012. Health technology of the future promises an easy life with no interruption in your daily activities. For example, information about your health could be collected while you're driving. A car is already viewed as a health platform and wellness coach by leading manufacturers. How would this work? Are addressing the problem of noisy environments with innovative approaches. The latest report by HealthyStuff.org ranks over 200 of the most popular models based on chemical-emitting ...
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Olfactics and Olfactory Diagnostics: Inhale and feel it with your heart
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Olfactics and Olfactory Diagnostics. Smell is the Cinderella of senses, but could you imagine losing it? This blog is about the sense of smell, olfactory properties of chemicals, and uses of volatile emissions for medical diagnostics. Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Inhale and feel it with your heart. All you need is love. Or failing that chocolate. Feldmesser E, Olender T, Khen M, Yanai I, Ophir R, and Lancet D (2006). Widespread ectopic expression of olfactory receptor genes. BMC genomics, 7. Aurametrix. W...
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Olfactics and Olfactory Diagnostics: I Know What You Ate This Summer
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Olfactics and Olfactory Diagnostics. Smell is the Cinderella of senses, but could you imagine losing it? This blog is about the sense of smell, olfactory properties of chemicals, and uses of volatile emissions for medical diagnostics. Friday, June 28, 2013. I Know What You Ate This Summer. 1-Butanol smells like permanent marker (Sharpie). Gasoline-like, car exhaust. Octyl chloride smells faintly of oranges. 1-Pentanol smells like paint thinner. Strong fruity or floral. Rancid beer, old cooking oil. Baran...
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