Show Notes for July 10, 2013

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  • Health
    • Back pain
      • LUMO a "belt" with iPhone app that helps you improve your posture, $150
      • Muscle relaxant
        • "commonly prescribed for low back pain or neck pain"
        • "all of them have adverse effects, particularly dizziness and drowsiness"
    • RunKeeper, free app, for iOS and Android
    • Under the skin, a tiny laboratory
      • "EPFL scientists have developed a tiny, portable personal blood testing laboratory: a minuscule device implanted just under the skin provides an immediate analysis of substances in the body, and a radio module transmits the results to a doctor over the cellular phone network. This feat of miniaturization has many potential applications, including monitoring patients undergoing chemotherapy."
  • Technology
    • Bluetooth low energy
      • "merged into the main Bluetooth standard in 2010, when the Bluetooth Core Specification Version 4.0 was adopted"
      • Used by LUMO, see above
      • "The first device to implement v4.0 spec was the iPhone 4S which came out in October 2011."
    • Gmail supports server-to-server encryption (and Hotmail, Yahoo, and AOL do no) (C|Net article)
      • "Google is alone in using strong encryption, known as SMTP-TLS, to fully armor e-mail connections for its users, as long as the other company's server is willing to encrypt as well"
  • Home, food, and cooking
  • Misc
    • Mile by Mile, India Paves a Smoother Road to Its Future, New York Times article from 2005
    • Japan Airlines Flight 2
      • "mistakenly landed the plane in the shallow waters of San Francisco Bay, two and a half miles short of the runway"
      • "The plane came to rest on solid ground 10 feet below the water, leaving the forward exits above the waterline."
    • Arrested development, the sitcom
      • "the series has received widespread critical acclaim, including six Emmy Awards and one Golden Globe"
      • "Despite acclaim from critics, Arrested Development received low ratings and viewership on Fox, which canceled the series in 2006"

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