(image source | Sindya N. Bhanoo via The New York Times)
Remember when you didn’t have to leave your house when you were sick because your doctor made house calls? Yea, well I don’t either, but I saw it in a movie once. However, getting to a doctor is a routine part of many individuals lives, especially the elderly. Many need to have weekly tests performed to manage health conditions. Beyond the inconvenience of constantly needing to visit your doctor and adhering to their appointment hours, many who experience severe difficulties with their mobility simply cannot make these trips without help and/or more suffering. Beyond the burden on the patient, this routine visits incur financial and administrative strains on doctors and hospitals, raising health care costs and delaying service for everyone. As a solution Denmark is pioneering in “telemedicine”. The NY Times recently ran an article in regards to the evolution of electronic medical records into home medical tests. Through the use of technologies and a few computer accessories individuals can take certain exams in the privacy of their own home and electronically submit the information gathered to their physician. Prescriptions can even be electronically sent to pharmacies to be filled, and if that pharmacy delivers, well you get the point about how these technologies can be a great benefit for all. Be sure to read The New York Times article after the jump for a personal take on this emerging technology.
Unveiled at the Geneva Auto Show, the Porsche 918 Spyder is not only a high-performance, sexy sports car, but a planet loving hybrid too - so suck it hippies! Click here for the official Porsche press release and be sure to check out this video for the behind the story behind the making of this dream machine.
With so many app’s available the few really great ones can get lost in the shuffle. To help showcase some of the best produced and designed iPhone app’s comes the app.itize.us website. As the site says “app.itize.us is a painstakingly curated presentation of the best of the best designed iPhone apps that are available via the app store (for free or paid). it is intentionally a very small hand picked selection compared to what is currently available via the app store (now upwards of 140k) due to the fact that its very difficult to find many of these apps since they are not part of any of the top rated/grossing lists.”
Who says you can’t have a cool hybrid electric car? Mixing in vintage racer styling and a belief that caring for the environment can indeed be cool, James Piatt’s MOFO is one bad-ass M%&#$!@ F&^!@*# plug-in electric vehicle. The MOFO, or Motorized Flexible Operation, is imagined with a 2.5l V6 that can carry you from 0-60 in 3.5 seconds at a tree-hugging 75 mpg. Piatt’s vision goes beyond a simple PEV, but to include the option to run on hybrid gas/electric power, or just on gas at the press of a button. Good luck selling this one James! It’ll be fun to at least imagine, for now.
Following the Wii Graf Controller, some other lovers of paint have developed a not only refillable spray can, but one that allows you to dial your CMYK spray selection (both color and hue) in the palm of your hand. Operated externally much like your childhood multi-colored click pen, the internals of the Color Dial Spray work in a bubble jet printer style, properly combining the base CMYK colors to meet your spraying choice. While the Color Dial Spray is being billed as a trash reducing savior for a longer lasting environment, I don’t know if this would ever see production, let alone mass market success, other than with a few eccentric collectors. That being said I gotta admit I’d love to try one out!
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