Archives for November 2008
Kill Your Blog
At least this is what Paul Boutin suggests you do. He is a blogger himself, writing for the Valleywag blog, and for The New York Times, and for The Wall Street Journal, and for Slate, and for Wired magazine. And in the latest issue of Wired magazine he wrote a provocative and interesting article about […]
Baghdad ER
I just watched a great documentary by the team of Emmy Award winner producer/director Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill called Baghdad ER. This HBO documentary brings a story of medical personnel of the 86th Combat Support Hospital, the US Army’s premier medical facility in Iraq. It is quite shocking and a great reminder how pointless […]
Medical Reality
There are a few good medical television reality shows with health care workers playing the main roles. I think these shows are excellent and not just because of their great production or because they are fun to watch, but because I believe there is a lot one can learn from them. This is true for […]
im bored colgate
Google updated their iPhone app to include voice recognition. You simply tap a button, speak up keywords you want to use to search the web, the software recognizes what you said and gives you back your search results. When I tried pronouncing my name, Ivor Kovic, Google app recognized it as “im bored colgate”. This […]
Kraftwerk: Elektro Kardiogramm
Kraftwerk is an electronic music band from Germany. They are definitely one of the most influential and revolutionary bands of all time and they inspired artists from nearly all genre of modern music. In the early to late 1970s and the early 1980s the were really hot with their sound that combines driving, repetitive electronically-generated […]
Top innovations of 2008
TIME magazine picked top 50 innovations of 2008. Among them there are some related to medicine. 1. The Retail DNA Test 14. The Bionic Hand 21. The Synthetic Organism 24. Bionic Contacts 33. Biomechanical Energy Harvester 50. A Camera For the Blind
