Best Buy's a big name and, you know, it's pretty successful. But that doesn't mean it's closed-minded, and won't listen to good ideas from the public. To that end, it's just launched an online Suggestions Box.It's called the Best Buy ...READ»
John "Ivo" Stivoric
Cofounder, CTO, and VP of New Products
BodyMedia
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Making It Personal
Ivo Stivoric, 38, has developed wearable fitness sensors for clinical patients for more than ...READ»
One tip to avoid the spread of infectious diseases: Don't gather in confined spaces.
Like, you know, a ship at sea. (We haven't forgotten all those news
stories about the stomach-churning, disinfectant-resisting norovirus.)
This ...READ»
Seems like travel functionality is a trending topic in search engine design: Google's testing intelligently-created City Tours. Meanwhile Bing Travel, which we wrote about recently, is in trouble over an alleged plagiaristic ...READ»
Here's a medical innovation that's pretty amazing: It's a blood filter that could actually reduce deaths from sepsis in hospitals. The system works by removing dangerous bacteria not by using fine porous filtration, but instead the ...READ»
Some analysis last week poured cold water on the idea that the new iPhone 3G S would outsell its predecessor on the first weekend, and only make 500,000 sales. We say otherwise, and there's plenty of data around the net to back that ...READ»
Google's Street View app has always been, if you think about it, a bit mind-blowing (that's why we put Stephen Chau on our list of the 100 Most Creative People). But amazing--and free!--as it is, the app has never been very easy to ...READ»
Over the last several
months, I’ve introduced companies that are successful while also doing good for
all stakeholders – employees, the community and shareholders. Many of the
companies that I have introduced are younger, ...READ»
Nintendo Wii's role as king of motion gaming consoles is at risk. Sony and Microsoft have both previewed motion control systems at the E3 video game expo, and both systems knock Wii clean off the throne--even though neither has ...READ»
You are the CEO of your body, and physicians are simply your consultants. Unfortunately, doctors need for you to give up all your fun, and behave. No wonder you don't want to pay us for that advice.
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Swine flu still rumbles on in the background, and it is still dangerous--but could two new inventions revealed this week give us Star Trek-like medical technology to help us combat future pandemics?
Claims that scientists have ...READ»
When you read about OLEDs it's usually in the context of some super-performing display or TV, but now there's interesting news about a medical exploitation of OLED lights. They're being tested as a very efficient way to kill skin ...READ»
Last year, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation inaugurated its Grand Challenges Exploration--a five-year, $100 million program to encourage path-breaking research that's ordinarily too visionary to attract ...READ»
Social media is going to change the health-care industry just as radically as it changed entertainment, finance, and publishing. I know this to be true not because of any insider info or the research backing Chuck Salter's ...READ»
Today the Mayo Clinic and Microsoft unveiled a free Web site aimed at solving the thorny problem of keeping up all your medical records. Powered by Microsoft's so-called Health Vault system, the Mayo Clinic Health Manager ...READ»
A Credit-Suisse analyst is currently saying that the world's most popular video-sharing website, YouTube, is heading for a loss at the close of this year as it only implements advertising on a fraction of its web pages. ...READ»
Microsoft gave a public showing of its futurologist vision of 2019 the other day at the Wharton Business Technology Conference, and it's set the interwebs a-quiver with excitement. But if you have a bit of think about it, it's ...READ»
There's an increasingly large body of work on returning vision to people with damaged sight due to retinal failure: Recent advances in artificial retinas have been particularly amazing. But new research and an associated patent ...READ»
Multifunction cellphones get a whole new twist with this modification by UCLA scientists: A microscope add-on that can detect HIV. Dr. Aydogan Ozcan's Lensfree Ultrawide Cell-monitoring Array system simply bolts onto the camera sensor ...READ»
SmartHand is a European collaborative project to develop a next-generation robotic prosthetic limb, and as part of the project Swedish researchers have successfully demonstrated a neat psychological trick that makes wearers feel like ...READ»
It sounds like the stuff of pure science-fiction, but it's not: Japanese scientists have demonstrated a system that can display actual images of what you're thinking about on a screen.ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have ...READ»
Now there's a line that would fit nicely in Microsoft's unusually moving new ad campaign. This week the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it had spent $10 million on 104 global-health research projects considered too ...READ»
