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Temporary tattoos can monitor patients at home. / Hospital Care / Todd Coleman

(vía Todd Coleman: A temporary tattoo that brings hospital care to the home | TED Talk | TED.com)

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Nuevas centrales de energía: bosques y plantas / Pablo Vidarte / Bioo

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Transcription: Landscape, Axes of Innovation, Platforms and business models.

Presentation.

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The future of human computer interaction will be multimodal

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Today medtech startup, AliveCor, unveiled the Kardia Band, a medical-grade EKG device for Apple Watch. The product is intended to help wearers detect cardiac arrhythmia conditions, that can cause stroke, as well as indicate whether your heart rate and rhythm are normal.

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Uber for health

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Misfit Speedo Shine: swim and sleep tracker.

uses: accelerometer and algorithms to count laps, distance, calories burned and exercise time.

Why this matters: The Speedo Shine isn’t the only fitness tracker than can count laps in the pool, though it is one of the cheapest and simplest. Its closest competitor is the $100 Moov Now (currently selling for a pre-order price of $60), which uses similar motion-based lap detection and also offers coaching for a much wider range of workouts. Still, Misfit has the power of the Speedo brand behind it, though we’ll have to see if the companies can truly provide accurate lap detection on a budget.

After the workout, users can sync the data over Bluetooth to Misfit’s apps for iOS, Android, and Windows phones, where it counts toward a general activity score. 

The data will also sync with Speedo’s own swim tracking app soon after launch. Beyond the swim tracking—and a new pale silver color scheme—the Speedo Shine is identical to Misfit’s existing Shine fitness trackers, and is able to track walking, running, cycling, and sleep. A set of 12 LED lights around the aluminum face tells users how far they are toward their daily fitness goals, and the device is water resistant to 50 meters. It runs on a standard CR2032 coin cell battery, which doesn’t need charging, but must be replaced about every six months.On the downside, Misfit Shine doesn’t have the same level of smart home and connected device controls as Misfit’s cheaper Flash ($30) and Flash Link ($20) trackers. Misfit has been building out a new app that lets Flash users assign the device’s single button to control music playback, snap selfies, scroll through presentations, and toggle various connected home products, but that app doesn’t work with the Misfit Shine.

(vía Misfit brings a Speedo-branded swim tracker to the Apple Store | Macworld)

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Hearables, a $5 Billion market by 2018.

9 VC-funded and crowdfunded hearable companies have captured nearly $52 million since 2009. Some of the biggest names specializing in music entertainment and sound engineering (Live Nation Entertainment with Dopple Labs) are joining this sector.

Funding nearly tripled for hearables from $12.6 million in 2014 to $31.2 million this year to date. This is largely due to two substantial venture rounds in the past two months alone: Eargo’s $13.6 million Series A and Doppler Labs’ $17 million Series B.

“The ear is a very great place to put a lot of sensors and also shape experiences because you can actually have a speaker there and provide a lot of augmented content through your mobile device,” says Eargo co-founder and CEO Raphael Michel to CrunchBase. “But it’s a challenging environment because it’s small, every ear canal has a unique shape, and it’s a sensitive place with moisture and earwax.”

Using patented flexi fibers that can flex and accommodate the shape of different ear canals, Eargo has developed a hearing aid that is both virtually invisible and fits comfortably within the ear – a device that could potentially upend the traditional hearing aid industry, according to the company.

Companies: Wearhouse, Valencell, Voz, Bragi, Light, Doppler Labs, Eargo, GMG33 and Muko Inc.

(vía Investments For Hearables Surge | TechCrunch)

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Spinali Design. Smart bikini prevents sunburn.

(vía Spinali Design | Connected bikini)

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DANIT PELEG, 3D printed fashion

http://danitpeleg.com/

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ATTACH (Adaptative Textiles Technology with Active Cooling and Heating), centrado en su uso en interiores para temperaturas que oscilan entre los 19 y los 26 grados centígrados. Los tejidos utilizados en esta ropa incrementan o decrementan su aislamiento (porosidad y grosor) según los cambios de temperatura, y de hecho esa parte del funcionamiento no necesitaría consumir energía, pero además el equipo está preparando la integración de elementos adicionales de refrigeración y calentamiento a través de dispositivos termoeléctricos integrados ("impresos") en la ropa.

(vía Ropa con tejido inteligente para sustituir al aire acondicionado y la calefacción)

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Leada, Teaching Professionals Data.

 ScienceData is a bottleneck for many business decisions because companies don’t have enough data scientists. Rather than hire a specialist, Leada lets businesses pay to train their employees to be “data literate” with a 12 hour online course. Leada says training 100 Zenefits operations employees saved Zenefits $75,000 a month through better decision-making. Leada likens data literacy today to being able to type in 1970, and sees a huge market training every professional to understand data science.

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TetraScience, Cloud-connected scientific instruments.

Researchers still use old-school instruments, monitor them in person, and log data with pen and pencil. TetraScience creates cloud-connected instruments like thermometers that let researchers monitor experiments remotely, get alerts, and automatically log data. Major pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, and universities like the co-founders’ alma mater Harvard are already using TetraScience instruments. Now it’s partnering with instrument makers like Corning to embed its software into their wares. Science is going to the cloud, and TetraScience could accelerate that shift.

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Bodyport. A smart scale that measures your heart disease risks

Bodyport is building a smart scale that goes way beyond measuring your weight. It’s targeted at consumers who are at risk of contracting or dying of heart disease. They’ve outfitted the scale with additional sensors that measure blood pressure, heart rate, heart rate variability, arterial stiffness and six other factors right through a person’s feet. The scale doesn’t require you to wear cuffs, cables or electrodes. It just takes 15 seconds of time. They’re launching their product with a $199 campaign later this summer. The team previously sold a medical device company to Medtronic.

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Since the Klarismo 3D Body Scan uses harmless magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), you can have regular scans to monitor the impact of your training or diet program. We show you where the subcutaneous and visceral fat deposits are located and how well different muscle groups in your body are developed. This allows you to focus your training effort on where it is most needed.