Matt Kirkland

Royskopp

Smarter Homes, fewer wires

http://www.unplggd.com/

Google pwns healthcare

It’s starting…Google is offering an online electronic health record management tool.

Associated Press and Mashable both recently reported on their pilot Google Health program in Cleveland, and the Google blog announced it a day or two later.  And today they just posted some screen shots from the new app…

So who will people trust more…Google Health or Microsoft HealthVault?

SQL and big biz

Adobe Lightroom, my photo library management program of choice, harnesses the power of SQLite, an open-source database project. Yesterday Adobe Systems announced it is helping to fund the project by joining the SQLite Consortium. In other news, Sun Microsystems acquires the open-source databe company MySQL. What the relationship is, and what implications, if any, I don’t know, but this news correlation peaked my interest.
Found on Underexposed  

Rescue/shelter product concept

Bedu: A complete rescue shelter/survival kit packed into an oil drum.  Pretty cool, but doesn’t exist yet.

Like most good things, found it through gizmodo.

Track your pet shark

The Evolution of Tech Company Logos

Nice blog and interesting article (unrelated…)

Interesting article about cancer/behavioral studies using devices…

And a really nice blog to look through called Strange Maps

New I/O toolkit

These folks in Berkeley are making a product called Soft I/O that has TCP/IP control as well as a bunch of multi-purpose I/O pins run through a 25 connector. Nice!

Soft I/O site

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