Wednesday, September 28, 2011

drag2share: CHART OF THE DAY: The Incredible Growth Of Amazon's Kindle Book Sales (AMZN)

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-amazon-kindle-book-sales-2011-9

During Jeff Bezos' presentation of the new Kindles, he flashed the slide below which shows the phenomenal growth of Amazon's Kindle eBook sales in comparison to physical book sales.

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drag2share: Zeo Mobile turns phones into a sleep clinic, aids in advanced Power Rangers dreaming

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/28/zeo-mobile-turns-phones-into-a-sleep-clinic-aids-in-advanced-po/

Much like hope, love and Coconut M&Ms, sleep is one of those things that is both hard to live with and impossible to live without. But unlike the first three, it's evidently possible to throw math into the whole "shut-eye" thing. Like it's bedside-based older brother, the newly-announced Zeo Mobile includes a SoftWave wireless headband that wraps around your grey matter as you sleep, reporting on how well your brain is shutting down. Instead of the custom base-station, the data is sent straight to your iOS or Android device and syncs up with the Zeo site to give you the inside skinny on your dreaming. Best of all, the device can wake you at the peak of a sleep cycle, rather than halfway through that dream about Björk and the melting clock. Of course, if you didn't already know that mainlining Red Bull until 3am isn't healthy, then perhaps you're beyond redemption.

Zeo Mobile turns phones into a sleep clinic, aids in advanced Power Rangers dreaming originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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drag2share: Remains of the Day: Developers Allowed Free App Integration of Dragon Voice Recognition Software [For What It's Worth]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5844432/remains-of-the-day-developers-allowed-free-app-integration-of-dragon-voice-recognition-software

Remains of the Day: Developers Allowed Free App Integration of Dragon Voice Recognition SoftwareNuance gives developers Dragon app integration for free, OnStar reverses their decision to stalk you, and T-Mobile says they love Android.

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drag2share: Medify Helps You Easily Find the Relevant Medical Research You Need [Health]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5844610/medify-helps-you-easily-find-the-relevant-medical-research-you-need

Medify Helps You Easily Find the Relevant Medical Research You NeedLooking for health information online is often hit-or-miss, with results sometimes too generic. If you want more personalized, yet thorough information about a condition, now there's Medify, which takes millions of medical research studies and lets you filter according to your situation.

Seaching on a topic, you'll find information on treatments and causes with the most recent research, ones with the best supporting evidence, links to institutions studying the condition, and more. You can read the abstracts for free and save studies for future reference.

Besides being able to filter the studies by demographics, treament types, and more, there's an interesting bubble chart visualization where you can see at a glance which treatments are stronger or more recently researched.

Medify takes its data every night from Medline, the National Institutes of Health's National Lirary of Medicine, and other sources, such as drug side effects from the FDA. It takes all that complex data and presents it interactively, so you can be a more informed patient or help a loved one manage a chronic condition (Derek Streat, Medify co-founder and CEO, started the service after being frustrated trying to find information about his two-year-old daughter's rare autoimmune disorder).

Medify | via CNet


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drag2share: Ferroelectric transistor memory could run on 99 percent less power than flash

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/28/ferroelectric-transistor-memory-could-run-on-99-less-power-than/

We've been keeping an optimistic eye on the progress of Ferroelectric Random Access Memory (FeRAM) for a few years now, not least because it offers the tantalizing promise of 1.6GB/s read and write speeds and crazy data densities. But researchers at Purdue University reckon we've been looking in the wrong place this whole time: the real action is with their development of FeTRAM, which adds an all-important 'T' for 'Transistor'. Made by combining silicon nanowires with a ferroelectric polymer, Purdue's material holds onto its 0 or 1 polarity even after being read, whereas readouts from capacitor-based FeRAM are destructive. Although still at the experimental stage, this new type of memory could boost speeds while also reducing power consumption by 99 percent. Quick, somebody file a patent. Oh, they already did.

Ferroelectric transistor memory could run on 99 percent less power than flash originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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