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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Hacking technology to provide low cost tools for people with disabilities: The Eyewriter.
On Saturday, I went to Pecha Kucha in New York City where Steven Holl, Stefan Sagmeister, and many others spoke about their work with all proceeds going to Architecture for Humanity's non-profit division. One of the presenters was Zachary Lieberman. Zachary has created The Eyewriter: "The EyeWriter Initiative is an ongoing collaborative research effort to [...]
Affording sickcare.
There's a huge difference between affording sick care and affording wellcare. Our friends at ZocDoc made this very lovely video about the costs of sickcare in America, and connected the cost of sickcare with the cost of wellness. And by the way, ZocDoc is one of our favorite health-related companies ever-- you find a doctor [...]
Making a bit of me.
In response to the earlier Atoms are the New Bits post a commenter tipped us off (thank you!) to this article from The Economist: "The great hope of transplant surgeons is that they will, one day, be able to order replacement body parts on demand. At the moment, a patient may wait months, sometimes years, [...]
Posted in health Tagged sickcare, the future
Do vacations make you happier?
Researchers from the Netherlands set out to measure the effect that vacations have on overall happiness and how long it lasts. They studied happiness levels among 1,530 Dutch adults, 974 of whom took a vacation during the 32-week study period. The study, published in the journal Applied Research in Quality of Life,showed that the largest boost [...]
Atoms are the new bits.
Here’s the history of two decades in one sentence: If the past 10 years have been about discovering post-institutional social models on the Web, then the next 10 years will be about applying them to the real world. This story is about the next 10 years. Transformative change happens when industries democratize, when they’re ripped [...]
Posted in design
A sustainable hospital design.
"Hospitals have a brutal effect on the earth. They consume twice as much energy as typical office buildings and operate 24/7. Often, they're little better for people: The $41 billion health-care-construction industry habitually neglects design elements such as access to daylight that have been shown to boost healing. "Hospitals are the most challenging building type [...]
Posted in design Tagged green, sickcare, sustainability
All of the ingredients in a ham and cheese hot pocket.
We should follow Michael Pollan's 7 Rules for Eating: Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. "When you pick up that box of portable yogurt tubes, or eat something with 15 ingredients you can't pronounce, ask yourself, "What are those things doing there?" Pollan says. Don’t eat anything with more than five [...]
Posted in health Tagged food, infographic
Organizing people in real time in a community to improve health.
I had the pleasure of meeting with Joe Edelman at Groundcrew this week. Groundcrew is a new service that matches need with human ability in real time in a given location. It can connect to Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare. Groundcrew is agnostic. It can be used for any reason to organize real time meetups. How [...]
Posted in design
The evidence behind health supplements.