12:47 PM
The Land Warrior wearable electronics gear for soldiers has gone from being canceled a few years ago to being considered so valuable that the Army's special forces now want to use it:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/07/special-forces-getting-high-tech-soldier-suits-for-iraq-mission/
Taking eye drops multiple times per day is difficult for patients to do and blinking and tearing means that only 1% to 7% of the dose is actually absorbed by the eye. Researchers have now developed a special contact lens that can gradually dispense a constant amount of medication to the eye, at adjustable rates:
http://www.childrenshospital.org/newsroom/Site1339/mainpageS1339P1sublevel550.html
Obesity appears to double the risk of getting seriously ill from the swine flu:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327175.000-fight-the-flab-to-fend-off-swine-flu.html
Pregnant women are also in a high-risk group for the swine flu because their natural immunities to it is suppressed by their pregnancy:
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Pandemic-flu/Pages/Adviceforpregnantwomen.aspx
Article about how commercial shipping uses 9% of the world's oil and is a major air pollution source, with the claim that air pollution from commercial shipping kills 60,000 people per year. The solution proposed is to convert all commercial ships to run on nuclear power:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/07/commercial-shipping-uses-9-of-world-oil.html
Amazing shotgun shooter--the video is just crazy!
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/07/video-shotgun-master-cant-miss/
Technique developed to address privacy concerns by making information expire. After a set time period, e-mail, Facebook posts and chat messages would automatically self-destruct, becoming irretrievable from all Web sites, inboxes, outboxes, backup sites and home computers. Not even the sender could retrieve them:
http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=50973
Competition between social networking sites has resulted in users' data protection being compromised:
http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/press/dpp/2009072127
The GSM Association says that the latest numbers show that HSPA/LTE is on track and WiMAX is dying:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=45262&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10#
Martin Patterson outbid Nokia for Nortel's CDMA/LTE assets, and controversy is swirling over RIM's bid that is much higher than either bids:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124822264843370511.html
Rumor is that Apple will come out with a tablet device in time for the Christmas season (basically a bigger and more powerful iTouch) and that it will be subsidized by Verizon:
http://www.thestreet.com/print/story/10548621.html
Costco has partnered with Gazelle to expands its electronics trade in and recycling program, giving Costco Cash Cards for sending in their unused electronics:
http://news.prnewswire.com/ViewContent.aspx?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/07-22-2009/0005064162&EDATE=
Illinois Sheriff's office is being sued due to an allegedly unprovoked attack by two police officers on four children. Three of the children were repeatedly tasered and one was allegedly threatened with sodomy by a duputy:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/lawsuit-cops-tasered-3-kids-threatened-one-with-sodomy.html
West Virginia man arrested for allegedly breaking into a home and having sex with the dog inside:
http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200907140348
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/07/special-forces-getting-high-tech-soldier-suits-for-iraq-mission/
Taking eye drops multiple times per day is difficult for patients to do and blinking and tearing means that only 1% to 7% of the dose is actually absorbed by the eye. Researchers have now developed a special contact lens that can gradually dispense a constant amount of medication to the eye, at adjustable rates:
http://www.childrenshospital.org/newsroom/Site1339/mainpageS1339P1sublevel550.html
Obesity appears to double the risk of getting seriously ill from the swine flu:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327175.000-fight-the-flab-to-fend-off-swine-flu.html
Pregnant women are also in a high-risk group for the swine flu because their natural immunities to it is suppressed by their pregnancy:
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Pandemic-flu/Pages/Adviceforpregnantwomen.aspx
Article about how commercial shipping uses 9% of the world's oil and is a major air pollution source, with the claim that air pollution from commercial shipping kills 60,000 people per year. The solution proposed is to convert all commercial ships to run on nuclear power:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/07/commercial-shipping-uses-9-of-world-oil.html
Amazing shotgun shooter--the video is just crazy!
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/07/video-shotgun-master-cant-miss/
Technique developed to address privacy concerns by making information expire. After a set time period, e-mail, Facebook posts and chat messages would automatically self-destruct, becoming irretrievable from all Web sites, inboxes, outboxes, backup sites and home computers. Not even the sender could retrieve them:
http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=50973
Competition between social networking sites has resulted in users' data protection being compromised:
http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/press/dpp/2009072127
The GSM Association says that the latest numbers show that HSPA/LTE is on track and WiMAX is dying:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=45262&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10#
Martin Patterson outbid Nokia for Nortel's CDMA/LTE assets, and controversy is swirling over RIM's bid that is much higher than either bids:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124822264843370511.html
Rumor is that Apple will come out with a tablet device in time for the Christmas season (basically a bigger and more powerful iTouch) and that it will be subsidized by Verizon:
http://www.thestreet.com/print/story/10548621.html
Costco has partnered with Gazelle to expands its electronics trade in and recycling program, giving Costco Cash Cards for sending in their unused electronics:
http://news.prnewswire.com/ViewContent.aspx?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/07-22-2009/0005064162&EDATE=
Illinois Sheriff's office is being sued due to an allegedly unprovoked attack by two police officers on four children. Three of the children were repeatedly tasered and one was allegedly threatened with sodomy by a duputy:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/lawsuit-cops-tasered-3-kids-threatened-one-with-sodomy.html
West Virginia man arrested for allegedly breaking into a home and having sex with the dog inside:
http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200907140348