Technology: a time sink or provider of unexpected benefits?
For younger generations, it is heard all too often: “technology makes you kids so lazy nowadays!” Just with anything new and unfamiliar, technology has been under fire for a plethora of issues, especially relating to the younger generations.
One of the most recent issues is the possible…
Health monitoring is all the rage in the mobile market these days as evinced by giants such as Apple and Google announcing new technologies with HealthKit and Google Fit, respectively, and the growing pile of wearable devices coming to the fore. A new technology from a team at MIT could either take that trend to…
A pair of healthcare organizations have agreed to pay a combined $4.8 million to settle charges that they potentially violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (otherwise known as HIPAA). The charges were the consequence of a data breach in which protected health information of thousands of patients was compromised.
An investigation into…
Showering is great, I’m a big fan, but drying off? All that "toweling" is enough to make you need another shower, am I right? New York-based startup The Body Dryer realizes this, and they've created a device to help you skip the towel and get dry a better way.
The Body Dryer dries you from the ground…
Sitting is killing you. Numerous studies have pointed to the health risks of sitting all day, but here you have info on how prolonged sitting affects our bodies and reminders to interrupt sitting time whenever possible.
The human body simply isn't built to sit all day at a desk or for hours vegging out on the…
Wireless routers use dangerous electromagnetic radiation to send their signals to your computer through walls. If you have a wireless Internet router set up in your home or office (Bluetooth, Air-Port Extreme, Air-Port Express, Netgear, D-Link, Belkin, Linksys and other wireless network devices) you are receiving massive amounts of Electromagnetic Field (EMF) exposure, and living or working…
These days, you can track just about anything in your life with the right device: how you move, sleep, drive, and even how you eat. But how much data do we really need, and at what point does this information cause more harm than benefit? Here are a few tools you can use to track…