Earn up to 5 dollars per week for working out or eating healthy with Pact, an awesome new smartphone app that helps you earn money for living
healthy. It is designed to help you stick to your commitments to stay in
shape, eat more veggies, or log your meals, perfect for those New
Years Resolutions. Integrates with RunKeeper, Jawbone UP, Fitbit, Moves, MapMyFitness and MyFitnessPal.
Still looking for the ideal birth-control solution? Skyla is a new, smaller IUD suitable for women who haven’t had children. It is 99% effective at preventing pregnancy, lasts for 3 years, and is more affordable now it’s covered by the Affordable Care Act’s birth-control provision in the US.
Measure your autonomous nervous system (ANS) with Phyode’s wristband, the W/Me wearable wellness tracker. Measure your pulse and your temperature, and see if you are passive, excitable, anxious, or pessimistic. Then just let the smartphone app coach you on breathing techniques to help you feel more balanced.
This is the time of year wheb many people renew their determination to lose weight with yet another New Year’s resolution. What can you do differently this time to make a success out of your new plan? Apparently the latest idea for getting yourself to eat less is a simple one — switch hands. By eating with your non-dominant hand you will cut calories automatically accordingn to researchers.
Man and animal exhibit various signs of being in tune with
the universe, but recently a team of zoologists from University of
Duisburg-Essen in Germany made a new finding, one which provides yet
another example of Franz Mesmer’s theory of animal magnetism: Under stable conditions in the Earth’s magnetic field, dogs will tend to urinate and defecate in line with its magnetic field.
A graduate student at UC San Diego by the name of Nick Morozovsky has invented a rather unique alternative to in-person power line inspections. Meet Skysweeper: a mechanical inchworm that consists of little more than some 3D printed components, an arduino motor, and a store-bought battery.
Nvidia announced today that it plans to hold a press conference during the upcoming 2014 Consumer Electronics Show. The exclusve event will be hoested January 5, and will feature some of Nvidia’s top video game innovations, along with its mobile and automotive display technologies.
JustShakeIt is an Android App that acts as an emergency alert system for patients suffering with neurological conditions like strokes, epilepsy or migraines. It is the first product by Healint, a Singapore based mobile health tech startup.
In the foreseeable future, search on smartphones will allow for
intuitive logic not just text-matching based on keywords. But what will
our smartphones offer in the Web 3.0 world of Semantic Technology,
Augmented Reality and the Internet of Things?
It’s no secret that the tech industry has a bit of a problem with its treatment of women, and gaming isn’t exempt. Game development is still very much a boys club – though many seek to change that. Dames Making Games isone such organization; a nonprofit which aims to get more women involved in game development.
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