Tag: health
New NIKE+ FuelBand brings fitness tracking to everyday activites
NIKE have added a new gadget to their range of digital fitness products today. The NIKE+FuelBand sits on a user's wrist, and is designed to track everyday movements that could encourage people to live more active lives. Pairing up with…
CES 2012's hottest fitness and health gadgets and apps
From research papers, new companies and industry rumours, we always knew 2012 was going to be a big year for fitness gadgets and technology that gives us the power to take control of our own health in a way…
Connected Health Store: Shiny Media launch health and wellness tech site
Connected Health Store is a brand new website from the brains behind Shiny Shiny and our very own Tech Digest. The new site will focus on the latest news from the worlds of health and technology, as well as the…
Now mobile phones DON'T cause cancer
Do they? Don't they? Do they, don't they??? Today, they don't. New research looking at a large selection of the Danish population has found that there is no definitive link between mobile phone usage and an increased chance of…
Steve Jobs's resignation letter in full
Steve Jobs has stepped down from his position as CEO of Apple. The enigmatic tech leader, who has struggled with health problems in recent years, stated in an emotional open letter to the world that he "could no longer meet"…
Google Health and Powermeter services scrapped
Google's Health and Powermeter are the latest two services from the search giant to be sent to the online scrapyard. "In the coming months, we're going to retire two products that didn't catch on the way we would have…
Top 3 FREE computer security tips from Kaspersky Lab's Costin Raiu
This week sees London's Earls Court play host to the InfoSec computer and mobile security conference, where all the major players from the anti-virus and back-up software developing fields come together to tout their wares. We caught up yesterday with…
GreenGoose sensors turn life into a role-playing game for health nuts
Liked playing The Sims? Then you're going to love real life, where you work all day long, pay bills, grow old and die! OK, so that was a rather nihilistic deconstruction of our love of life and video games, but…
Disposable salt grain-sized camera to revolutionize keyhole surgery
I may be a tech fan, but the thought of squeezing a camera into my innards during surgery has never appealed to me. Or probably anyone for that matter. Keyhole surgery may be about to get less invasive however due…
Apple fans' spirits boosted as Jobs / Obama photo finally released
Earlier we reported that concerns were growing over Apple head-honcho Steve Jobs' health after the usually customary White House press shots didn't emerge following his meeting with President Obama and other tech giants. Now, after an agonizing wait, we have…
