“Healthcare needs to be Amazoned, Zipcarred, Facebooked, Etsyed, Tumblred, Appled, and Zapposed. But our government is imprisoned by the grey-headed leaders of those institutions that control the $2.5 trillion health care market (insurance companies, the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association representing the specialists, and many others who benefit from quantity medicine). And therefore, those “leaders” of healthcare will do everything they can to prevent change and doing what’s right for our country.”Jay Parkinson, MD, MPH. A doctor in New York City.
“The Blimpduino kit is a very low cost, open source, autonomous blimp kit. It consists of an Arduino-based blimp controller board with on-board infrared and ultrasonic sensors and an interface for an optional RC mode, a simple gondola with two vectoring (tilting) differential thrusters, and ground-based infrared beacon.”Blimpduino kit
“Fred Wilson, Default Behavior and the Internet Operating System (via factoryjoe)If Google’s power over the web wanes, and I think it will in time, it will not likely be the result of Microsoft or someone else replacing it as the default search service. It will be because new default functions emerge that lessen the number of times we want to use the search function.
So what does this mean for entrepreneurs and VCs? Well for one, don’t make a frontal assault on a default service. Build or finance a service that can become a new default function in the Internet operating system. And if you have a shot at becoming one of these default functions, invest all of your time and energy attaining and solidifying that default position before working on monetizing it. Because its a very tough position to secure and once you get there it’s pretty hard to knock you out.
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“Now, the military wants a new equation: one that explains the human mind as a thermodynamic system. Once that’s done, they’re asking for “abiotic, self-organizing electronic and chemical systems” that display the PI principles. More than just computers that think, Darpa wants to re-envision how thought works — and then design computers whose thought processes are governed by the same laws as our own.”Darpa: Heat + Energy = Brains. Now Make Us Some. | Danger Room
“Sixty years later Salk’s hunch is now backed up by empirical evidence as new research in neuroscience hints at how our surroundings affect feelings and behavior. In the current issue of Scientific American Mind, Emily Anthes describes how ceiling height, colors and other design factors influence attention and creativity”This Is Your Brain on Architecture | Cannell | Fast Company
“Twitter is such a simple service overall, but look at a few screenshots of these apps, especially the recent ones, and you will see some very different UI designs, not only in terms of visual style but in terms of layout, structure, and flow. I’m not saying it’s easy to write a good Twitter client. In fact, that’s the point — that it is not easy to write a good client for something as small in scope as Twitter hints at just how hard it is to write a good app for anything, let alone something truly complex.”Daring Fireball: Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground
