The EazeMD app lets you consult a weed doctor on your phone
San Francisco-based cannabis delivery service Eaze announced Monday that it is launching EazeMD, a mobile video conferencing service designed to directly connect medical marijuana patients and prescribing doctors. The app, available on both iOS and Android, works just like physically visiting a clinic. Users fill out the same standard forms required by the state of California, queue up to speak to the doctor, and then discuss their maladies and potential treatment options with a licensed physician. The service is active 11am to 7pm, 7 days a week.
Google’s new smartwatch could draw your blood without needles
Gone are the days when smartwatches used to perform only basic tasks such as timekeeping, calculation and light entertainment. Nowadays, when market is witnessing an unprecedented upsurge in wearable technology, most smartwatches come preloaded with a host of health and fitness-related functions.
Google has decided to stay a step ahead in the war of wearable technology by filing a patent for a smartwatch that is capable of drawing blood samples without the use of needles.
While the technology is still in the patent phase; once operational, it would prove to be very beneficial for diabetic patients who’d be able to monitor their blood glucose levels without having to perform the usual finger prick test throughout the day.
“Such an application might be used to draw a small amount of blood, for example, for a glucose test,” Google writes in the patent application.
If you remember, Google was earlier reported to be working on smart contact lenses for diabetics, which could check the glucose in tears thanks to a tiny wireless chip and miniaturized glucose sensor.
Now, let’s take a look at how this smartwatch works. According to the patent application, the wearable sends an abrupt surge of gas into a barrel that has microparticles, which in turn puncture the skin to draw a droplet of blood. The blood then goes to the negative pressure barrel situated in the chunky device for final testing.
While this innovative smartwatch may have many takers immediately, it is not likely to hit the market anytime soon, says Google.
“We hold patents on a variety of ideas – some of those ideas later mature into real products or services, some don’t. Prospective product announcements should not necessarily be inferred from our patents.”
However, with over 9% adult human population suffering from diabetics would make us hope that the Internet giant introduces the wearable to the market as soon as possible.
Source: USPTO
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[Deal] Get 1TB of Zoolz Cold Online Storage for 97% off
Keeping your files backed up is extremely important nowadays. You don’t want to lose all of your favorite pictures or music if the hard drive in your computer takes a dump. While there are a plethora of cloud storage options available, you’ll probably run into the issue of cost.
Just about every cloud storage option has tiered levels that just rocket in price, the higher in storage you go. Today’s deal hopes to alleviate the questions surrounding which cloud storage service you should sign up for.
For only $39, you can get 1TB of storage for life through Zoolz Cold Storage. With this lifetime subscription, you’ll never have to worry about monthly fees, or needing anything else. This deal for Zoolz Cold Storage will give you a boat-load of storage and support that will make you wonder why you didn’t start using this service sooner.
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Android 6.0 appears for the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 in Hungary
Samsung has previously stated intentions to release Android 6.0 Marshmallow updates for its current and last generation flagships and Hungarian Galaxy Note 4 (SM-N910F) owners may have spotted an update heading their way in the past day or so.
Interestingly, Samsung hadn’t planned to roll out Marshmallow to its older phones until next year and given that a number of Note 4 owners are still steadily receiving Android 5.1.1, we certainly hadn’t expected an update so soon. Therefore, we could be looking at a limited early rollout or soak test, which we’ve seen other manufacturers do in the past.
According to the source, Samsung’s Android 6.0 Marshmallow update introduces a new Air Command menu and a screen-off note taking option that uses the device’s S Pen. Marshmallow also brings with it some core Android improvements, including the new Doze mode to save on idle battery consumption and Google Now On Tap, to search for results based on the current content on the display. The update is also said to offer some performance improvements.
We’re not sure how long it will be until Samsung starts a broader rollout or if this is just a limited test or similar. We can only hope that a Galaxy Note 4 Marshmallow update will spread across Europe and beyond before the year is out.
Postmates will offer one-hour deliveries in London next year
Sometimes you’re in a hurry and need a delivery fast. Not just that day, but within the next couple of hours. It might be an umbrella for when you leave work, a pair of trainers for an evening game of tennis, or a quick bite while you’re powering through your lunch break. Postmates has offered one-hour deliveries in the US for a while now, and soon it’ll be taking on the UK too. At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in London, Postmates CEO Bastian Lehmann said the company’s speedy services would be launching in London during the second quarter of 2016.
Source: TechCrunch
Apple increases iCloud Music Library limit to 100,000 tracks
Apple has made good on its promise to increase the iCloud Music Library limit to 100,000 tracks. This was previously set at 25,000, so the change increases the cap threefold. The move was first teased in June, with Eddy Cue, the company’s SVP of Internet Software and Services, promising it would arrive before the year’s end.
Via: The Verge
Source: MacRumors
London’s black cabs become moving traffic billboards
Driving around London can be nightmarish at the best of times, but no more so than when you end up sandwiched in an inescapable gridlock. Transport for London’s latest tech trial is hoping to make journeys though the capital that bit more pleasant, by using taxi-top signage that tells nearby vehicles where to avoid. Kicking off today, the six-month experiment sees 200 of London’s finest black cabs fitted with digital advertising boards that also broadcast live traffic warnings. For now they’re able to give you a heads-up on delays in up to London 50 areas, but should the signage be more widely deployed, the idea is to provide richer, real-time updates on congestion as traffic jams are taking shape. Whether we can get our Uber drivers to take the cautionary advice on board? Probably not.
Source: Transport for London
PlayStation Now offers 12 months of game streaming for $100
For a game streaming service to succeed, it needs three components: a decent library, competitive pricing and reliable, silky-smooth performance. PlayStation Now struggles on all three fronts, but slowly those shortcomings are being rectified. For instance, there’s now a better value subscription plan — $99.99 will net you 12 months of access, which works out at just over $8 per month. Compared with Sony’s existing one-month ($19.99, or $240 per year) and three-month ($44.99, or $180 per year) plans, it’s a steal.
Via: Polygon
Source: PlayStation Now
Hubble spots faint galaxy with ‘natural magnifying glass’
NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer have been ridiculously successful at spotting distant objects, but some galaxies are too faint to spot directly. Thanks to gravitational lensing, the space telescopes have found the dimmest object ever from the early universe — a galaxy that existed 13.4 billion years ago, or a mere 400 million years after the big bang. Dubbed “Tayna,” or new-born, the object belongs to a new class of faint, newly formed galaxies that have evaded detection until now. It’s roughly the size of the Magellanic Cloud near our own Milky Way galaxy, but makes new stars at around ten times the rate.
Source: NASA/JPL
Glowing bandages can reduce the chances of antibiotic-resistant bugs
Bacteria that can shrug off antibiotics is a medical problem that still needs answering, but this prototype could help reduce how much antibiotics are used on patients, and decrease the chances for bugs to become resistant. The experimental bandage from researchers at the University of Bath glows green when it comes into contact with unfriendly bacteria, (hypothetically) alerting medical staff when a wound is infected. A film formed by the body when defends against bacteria releases toxins that react with the bandage, puncturing the membrane of dye capsules stored in the bandage. That dye then glows (in case bright green didn’t stand out enough) when it dissolves in the gel around it.
Via: Technology Review
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