Quando si pensa al made in italy vengono in mente, quasi per libera associazione, due cose: il cibo e la moda, simboli indiscussi di eccellenza e di qualità del nostro Paese. E tutti e due non rimangono certo immuni agli sviluppi e alle “magie” dell’innovazione, anzi, da questa traggono nuova linfa e slancio. E il…
We are in the middle of an explosion in the amount of data that exists about the health of individuals. This data is coming in via smartphones, wearables such as Fitbits, personal genomics and the digitisation of health records. […] In particular, this rich data can help us understand more clearly the huge variation in response…
Dana Lewis has Type 1 Diabetes, which she’s had to deal with since she was 14. In Type 1 Diabetes, the pancreas doesn’t produce enough insulin – the hormone that makes glucose available to they body’s cells to use as fuel – or sometimes, the pancreas doesn’t work at all. People like Dana have to monitor…
Christopher Payne’s photographic series Textiles gives us a rare peek inside the few remaining textile mills in America’s Northeast. The architect trained photographer spent 5 years exploring and documenting mills that date back as far as the Civil War. Esplora nel post: American Textiles
A four-month-old baby born with one lung and a defective heart has celebrated her first Christmas with her family, thanks to a life-saving surgery made possible with Google Cardboard, the tech giant’s cheap virtual-reality headset. Teegan Lexcen’s condition was deemed inoperable. Doctors were previously too afraid to press ahead with surgery as standard 2D images…
Manu Prakash has invented a 60 pence microscope — and sent 50,000 of them to children, teachers, pharmacists, farmers and health workers around the world. Now, the Indian-born Stanford professor wants to liberate the rest of the lab. “The scientific viewpoint needs to be propagated beyond the field of science itself,” he explains. “But the…
Ecco la lettera originale in cui la BBC negli anni ’80 rilascia le istruzioni passo passo per realizzare una sciarpa fatta a maglia dell’iconico Dr. Who. Leggi l’articolo completo su Open Culture: The BBC Creates Step-by-Step Instructions for Knitting the Iconic Dr. Who Scarf: A Document from the Early 1980s
I problemi di sicurezza legati all’IoT riguardano anche e soprattutto i dispositivi per le cure mediche: dai pacemakers alle strumentazioni in uso negli ospedali. In California il Dottor David Klonoff, alla guida di un team composto sia da pazienti che da esperti, sta sviluppando un nuovo standard di sicurezza che potrebbe diventare un modello per…