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Software
Harvard Medical School’s H1N1 App Let’s You Panic On The Go
4:17AM Adam Frucci | Swine flu! It’s the panic du jour, far less dangerous than eating poorly cooked chicken or getting in a car, yet apparently infinitely more scary. And now Harvard will take $2.49 to scare you on your iPhone. More »
Business
Harvard Business Review Says Steve Jobs Is A Horrible Manager
8:40AM Jason Chen | There are two things everyone knows about Steve Jobs. He pushes his employees to make some pretty impressive—and market-changing—products. He’s also a horrible person to work for. Now the Harvard Business Review confirms, once again, the latter. More »
Gadgets
Le Whif Inhaler Stinks of Chocolate, Marketing Ploy
7:00AM Jack Loftus | Harvard professor David Edwards wrote a graphic novel envisioning a future world where people ingested their food by smelling, or “whiffing,” it. That vision begot Le Whif, the chocolate inhaler. More »
Gadgets
iShoe Prototype Assists Wobbly Elderly Folk and Astronauts Alike
11:23PM Jack Loftus | Forget the opportunistic naming conventions for a moment, and focus on the tech and potential of the iShoe. Designed Erez Lieberman, a graduate student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, the iShoe could one day help doctors and NASA scientists detect balance problems before a fall occurs. Currently, the iShoe only diagnoses balance issues, but Lieberman theorises that future versions (iShoe 3G?) will actively correct bad balance with sensory stimulation. If you know anything about falls (300,000 hip fractures per year, 24% over 50 die within one year) or what happens when astronauts return home from space (10 days of wobbly knees), the iShoe couldn’t come soon enough. More »
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