Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Tools for Virtual Reality (VR) and 3D printers
Biological Organic chemistry can be hard. There are several molecules and many of them are complex in shape and characteristics. To really understand molecular function and structure, it would be great to have molecules that you can rotate in 3D as well as see and feel with your hands. This has been traditionally possible only…
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Leave a mark
Look at the picture of the bridge with graffiti. There have been significant effort that has gone into making a mark on the bridge – not just the cost of paint, application cost and also substantial risk to mark at locations that look very dangerous. So why do people do it ? One obvious reason…
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Simple good ideas
There are several problems in treating cancer. Among the most vexing is to figure out exactly the type of tumor so that you can come up with a very specific therapy. If you cannot get access to the cancer through some simple measures then the physicians only choice is to look at it through…
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What if objects could communicate with us
Pedro Lopes from MIT has been doing some fantastic work on combining image sensing and providing feedback to the human. Typical VR (Virtual Reality) setup’s are problematic because though user can see things they cannot feel it. Pedro is using electrical stimulation to provide feedback as this video shows: {youtube}OcSmCamMKfs{/youtube} But take that a step…
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Simplicity
What is the value of simplicity? Take the Apple store as an example. Not too many places to sit and browse but just simple table in the center and then devices off to the side. Of course there is the glass front which enables everything to be seen. But imagine creating a medical device…
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Hospital corridors
Hospital corridors are boring Why are hospital corridors boring? The patients could do with a little knowledge while they wait or even some entertainment. Right now, they are just bored – they look at the walls or they would most probably look at the phone. Is that the best thing that they should be…
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Winner of ALS Prize4Life Hackathon
Team “Notify” from Usin’Life won the Hackathon Prize4Life and is moving on to the next level for qualification. The idea was to create a notification system that informs the care-giver or family about two needs – 1. Small needs, like a drink of water and 2.Emergency, like help me breathe. One cloudy but…
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Technology for ALS
The Prize4Life foundation is hosting a hackathon and to help people prepare it has written out specifications very clearly. 1. Emergency communication: Refining the Microsoft GazeSpeak application Creating a faster way for communicating a few words in emergency situations Improving the alarm system activating in case of Bipap failure 2. Speech devices: Building a dual…
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Biomarkers on your face
Face recognition technology has come a long way. The technology now enables the specific association of the face with a name and thus confirmed identification. The technology of recognition is very complex and requires not only significant image processing of the face to identify features of interest but also then matching the features with those…
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Marketing is changing
We had a brief chance to greet Seth Godin at the MarTech Conference and his talk was at the conference was educational as well as entertaining. Seth Godin has written more than 20 books, is a known figure in marketing, and gives very informative talks. His message at this meeting was not about specific ideas…
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