Codoon is one of the first wearable tech gadgets produced by a Chinese company. It’s also an almost exact copy of the Jawbone UP. Sina Tech reports Chinese consumers will be able to get a Codoon on their wrists by the beginning of June. Like the Jawbone UP, the Codoon is meant to be worn 24/7 as it monitors the ...
10 iPhone Apps to Help You Train for Your First Marathon
on 5.1.13
Training for your first marathon is an enormous challenge and requires complete dedication. Ideally, when you start, you’ll have the best training partners and programs out there to make sure you’re prepared for that challenge. Unless you’re rich or a celebrity sports personality, however, you’re probably not going ...
Jawbone Acquires BodyMedia, Announces UP Platform
on 4.30.13
I have tried many activity trackers, but after the release of the new Jawbone UP and Android support, the UP is my preferred choice. Jawbone just announced their new UP Platform (PDF file) that takes the UP even further and allows 3rd party developers to integrate their service with all of the amazing data the UP captures. ...
LA Hospital Providing ‘BabyTime’ iPad Surveillance for Newborns
on 4.8.13
After a difficult birth, women are sometimes separated from their newborns because the babies are in the neonatal intensive care unit and the mothers are recovering elsewhere in the hospital. Cedars-Sinai in LA is providing iPads for "BabyTime", though, so families can stay connected. Doctors at Cedars-Sinai estimate that ...
Gates Foundation Offers $100,000 For a ‘Next-Gen Condom’
on 3.24.13
We're not quite sure what a next-generation condom would look like (gesture control? a tiny touch screen?), but we may find out sooner rather than later if the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation succeeds in its new quest. The foundation is seeking new ideas that improve on condom design, which it describes as having seen ...
Reebok Fitness’s New Mobile App Offers Pro Tips, Custom Workouts
on 3.11.13
After the success of Nike’s various fitness apps on Android and iOS, it was only a matter of time before another sports apparel giant such as Reebok ventured into the space. Reebok Fitness is both a calendar and fitness app, combining original workout routines with a unique schedule centered around when and how you want ...
3D Printers Being Used to Repair Damaged Human Skulls
on 3.8.13
3D printing technology has helped replace 75% of a patient's skull with the approval of U.S. regulators. The 3D-printed implant can replace the bone in people's skulls damaged by disease or trauma, according to Oxford Performance Materials. The company announced it had received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug ...
Baby Cured of H.I.V. in a Medical First
on 3.4.13
Doctors announced on Sunday that a baby had been cured of an H.I.V. infection for the first time, a startling development that could change how infected newborns are treated and sharply reduce the number of children living with the virus that causes AIDS. The baby, born in rural Mississippi, was treated aggressively with ...
IBM’s Watson Moves From Trivia to Treating Cancer
on 2.10.13
In the final round of a televised game show that pitted top players against IBM’s AI program Watson, a humbled human jotted down an aside to his written response: “I for one welcome our new computer overlords.” Now even doctors are speaking that way. “I’d like to shake Watson’s hand,” says Mark Kris, an ...
CES 2013: Lots of Health and Fitness; Where’s the Market?
on 1.6.13
I’ve been looking at a lot of people’s wrists lately. Not because I have some weird fetish or anything. I’m curious about whether wearable devices like the Nike+ FuelBand and Jawbone Up are really taking off. While that remains to be seen (I’ve only spotted about a dozen in the wild), it hasn’t stopped device ...
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