Lie Detectors Everywhere
Want to know if your son ate his vegetables? Now, based on the work of some Yale researchers, you may be able to figure out what your child, or anyone else, ate by simply bouncing a blue light off of...
View ArticleData Exhaust and the Future of Peer Pressure
About a month ago, I received several negative comments through Twitter about a blog post on the idea that people are beginning to threaten themselves with embarrassment online as a strategy to improve...
View ArticleUsing Technology to Manage Our Addiction to Technology
File this under the category of things that probably shouldn't be medical problems: Computer Eyes. What are computer eyes? They're what happens when you spend so much time staring and working at...
View ArticleParticipatory Social Systems for Well-Being
One of the big stories we highlighted in last year's Ecosystems of Well-Being Map centered around participatory health, and it stems from a set of broader trends we're seeing both in and out of health....
View Article20 Years from Now, You'll Have Alzheimer's
As part of our Ecosystems of Well-Being map last year, we argued that the increasing importance, as well as the increasingly confusing challenge, of anticipating how today's measures and metrics affect...
View ArticleWhy 3-D Pharmaceutical Printing May Emerge from Outside the U.S.
The Guardian has a great interview with a Scottish professor named Lee Cronin who is working on developing a system to create pharmaceuticals through 3-d printing. Which is to say that he wants to make...
View ArticleThe Sharing Economy and the Future of Food
My latest Fast CoExist piece is up and it looks at the challenge of thinking about how to use practices around sharing to rebalance a global food system where both the number of hungry and number of...
View ArticleThe Fascinating Future of Cloud Diagnosis
Via a slightly old article in Good Magazine comes word of a great student project out of Australia called StethoCloud that is aimed at using the receiver on a phone to diagnose pneumonia by capturing...
View ArticleA Lesson in Designing Nudges from the World of Crime Prevention
The BBC has a great article up exploring subconscious efforts to fight crime through design. Among the ideas: Cover walls and buildings with pictures of babies, play classical music to try to calm...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Underground Bio-Economy
We like to look to hidden places to find some of our most intriguing signals about the future--and in this case, an unusual crime seems to be pointing toward the increasingly important, and...
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