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6 Big HealthTech Ideas That Will Change Medicine In 2012
Jan 02, 2:57AM
"In the future we might not prescribe drugs all the time, we might prescribe apps." Singularity University's executive director of FutureMed Daniel Kraft M.D. sat down with me to discuss the biggest emerging trends in HealthTech. Here we'll look at how A.I, big data, 3D printing, social health networks and other new technologies will help you get better medical care.GymPact Launches To Help You Keep Your Fitness Resolutions (By Paying If You Don't)
Jan 02, 2:36AM
If you're anything like me, one of your New Years Resolutions may have been to get in better shape. There's no doubt that many of us could stand to live healthier lives, and it's no mistake that devices, services, and tools that help us achieve healthier lifestyles and decreased body masses are on the rise. (See John Biggs' predictions for hot gadgets in 2012 -- you'll notice two fitness gadgets at the top of the list.) Americans spend $50 billion each year on products and services designed to help us lose weight and get in shape. We've seen a host of startups proposing alternative methods to encourage us to stick with out fitness regimens, and today GymPact is launching a website and iPhone app that uses those old behavioral economics to help us to do just that.Uber's New Year's Eve Surcharges Demonstrate The Harsh Reality Of Dynamic Pricing
Jan 02, 1:18AM
I woke up this morning to tweets from Uber customers nationwide who felt taken for a ride, literally and figuratively, after requesting an Uber on one of the busiest nights of the year. Despite the fact the company said as such on their blog and communication channels, riders were apparently not expecting the surcharges to be so exponentially high. In exchange for providing cars on demand, Uber used their system to find equilibrium within a market where demand outstripped supply, especially a few hours before and midnight. (I'm not a frequent Uber customer, but I used them three times over my recent holiday trip, and each time was flawless; I'll continue to use the service when I need to.) Uber's hangover this morning is more of a harbinger for consumers in general, especially when it comes to goods and services delivered online. Uber's "surcharges" last night were a classic example of dynamic pricing, or adjusting the price of something relative to the demand and supply, down to the minute or second. The more data a provider has on these inputs, the more likely they are to leverage that data to extract more value from providing equilibrium between supply and demand. Most every consumer is aware of this through searching for and buying airline tickets online, where fares seem to change magically, even mid-search.Still Looking For A New Year's Resolution? How About Learning To Code …
Jan 01, 10:31PM
After eating something greasy to get rid of last night's Tech Comes To The Real World
Jan 01, 10:00PM
2011 saw many interesting developments in the virtualization of goods. The growth of app stores continued unabated, aided by huge sales of iOS devices and Android handsets, and media of all kinds continued the move to a totally non-physical state for the end user: Netflix, Spotify, and other services make the idea of storing your things, whether on your hard drive or in stacks by the TV, seem very... 2010. Widespread adoption of non-physical media is sparking new industries and setting fire to old ones. But we also are seeing increasing frustration with the limitation of our digital acts to affecting digital things, and vice versa. The cutting edge of technology seems to be confined to the borders of our screens. People don't freak out about the Nest or the Little Printer because they're really such revolutionary devices - they aren't. People are excited because these things portend the fulfillment of the promise technology has unwittingly made: that it will change the way we live, not just the way we consume.It's 2012 Already So Where Are All The Jetsons Flying Cars
Jan 01, 9:39PM
As we enter 2012, shouldn't we all be traveling around in flying cars by now? That was the prediction in the Jetsons cartoon tv show. The futuristic series, first produced by Hanna-Barbera in 1962, was set in 2062, exactly 50 years from today. 2012 is the halfway point, so we've still got some time before we are all driving around in flying cars. But, many other technology advances from the Jetsons are already with us.Weekly Wrist Watch Round Up
Jan 01, 8:46PM
The famous and very iconic Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch get's "Watch What-Iffed" using Photoshop to explore what variations on the core design would look like. A new analog & digital combination watch for pilots was just announced by Hamilton called the Khaki Flight Timer. It has loads of features in a conservative Swiss package.Luxury Car-Sharing Service HiGear Shuts Down Due To Theft
Jan 01, 7:58PM
San Francisco-based HiGear, a peer-to-peer car-sharing service focused on luxury vehicles, is shutting down due to theft incidents involving its members' cars. According to CEO Ali Moiz, the company will send out an email tomorrow to its members with a full explanation. The news may come as a shock to some, given that HiGear was seemingly doing so well in recent months. The company had expanded to L.A. in November, and was planning expansions to additional markets, including Portland and San Diego, by year-end.60beat iPad Gaming Accessory Could Be The iOS Missing Link
Jan 01, 5:43PM
It appears the iPad gamepad of our dreams has finally arrived. The 60beat is a full-sized gamepad designed for iOS devices and it connects to iPads and iPhones via the headphone jack. While there aren't many games that support the technology (yet), the concept is fairly simple. The controller works by sending signals through the devices' microphone jack.
A Toast To Technology
Jan 01, 5:18PM
I hold the unpopular opinion that technology - more specifically the proliferation of social media - is not intrinsically "good" in any sense. Social media is, however, important, and I propose we raise our glasses of good cheer to what social media and its related technologies have wrought around the world this past year and the good it will, in real terms, do in the future. The great lie of social technology is that propagandists fear it for its ability to connect us in unified opposition. This is untrue. A status update cannot rally a crowd in flux. There are far superior tools too do this in a protest environment, namely SMS and good old "shouting." Facebook is useless when soldiers are firing into your Google Plus circle. What social media does and has done is reduce the barriers between people and expose the lie that any one place is better than the other. It also shows us, in very real terms, that humans are humans wherever they are. This is what frightens dictators and false potentates the most: the great leveling of human experience.The Internet Is People
Jan 01, 5:00PM
There's always been a tension on the Internet between humans and algorithms. In the early days, Yahoo was a human-curated index, remember? But humans couldn't keep up, and the algorithms took over. Today, the human factor is rising in importance once again with Facebook, Twitter, and countless mobile applications like Instagram. Everything is social. The tension today is between social and search—humans versus computers. Except that it isn't so simple. The Internet is not just billions of linked pages, databases, and (increasingly) mobile apps. The Internet is people. It's you and me.Five Myths Of The Enterprise Startup
Jan 01, 4:08PM
One of two things is going to happen in 2012: either the world is going to end as the Mayans predicted, or people are finally going to start to see enterprise software as cool (which I have long predicted). Now, most people will never think enterprise software is as sweet as I do; I can live with that. Services that help you access the world's music or connect with your entire network of friends will always win the technology popularity contest. But we do spend an awful lot of time talking about coupons, randomized video chat (likely NSFW), and virtual bars. I mean, these are totally cool areas of innovation, but when compared to $3.4B software acquisitions and SaaS stocks up 60%, or over-performing IPOs and more rumored to come, I'm not sure the world of enterprise software is that lacking in spice. And yet, mentioning that you work for an enterprise software company in causal conversation is an instant buzz kill. Try picking up a girl with that opening.Founder And Former CEO Of McAfee.com Lands $1.5M For 'Grokr'
Jan 01, 3:12PM
Srivats Sampath has raised $1.5 million for a new startup called Grokr, an SEC filing shows. Currently an Executive-in-Residence at VC firm U.S. Venture Partners, Sampath is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Mercora, the company behind the (now defunct) music discovery tool Social.fm. He was previously founder and CEO at McAfee.com (now an Intel company).Watch Livestream's Commercial-Free Broadcast Of NYE In Times Square
Jan 01, 2:34AM
At home and want to watch the classic New Years Eve celebration in Time Square commercial free? Well, here you go. Livestream has partnered with the organizers of the Times Square New Year's Eve Celebration to bring you just that: A six-and-a-half hour commercial free webcast of the evening's festivities. The livecast will include a bunch of musical guest, like the Biebs, Lady Gaga, Cee Lo, the Ball Drop, a midnight celebration, etc. You can check out the full schedule here.
Facebook's Mobile App Has A Big Holiday Week On iPhones, Bigger On Android
Jan 01, 2:04AM
Millions of new iPhones and Androids got activated during and after Christmas this year -- and what have people done with their new devices? They've downloaded Facebook's mobile apps, of course. I've been watching this trend for a few years, and the past week has been the biggest yet, based on the numbers visible in the AppData app tracking service. Facebook's iPhone app grew by 4.1 million monthly active users and 1.7 million daily actives, which was beat out by its Android app, which gained 5.2 million MAU and 2.2 million DAU. This follows the ongoing trend of Facebook's Android usage outgrowing iOS, even as both operating systems have surged in recent years.Nearly 20 Million People Read Google's Blog In 2011; @Google Now Has 4 Million Twitter Followers
Jan 01, 1:38AM
In terms of regularly posting news, Google has been one of the more frequent bloggers out of most of the major technology giants, often forgoing releasing press releases in favor of posting on the company's blog. And Google's blog is probably one of the most visited company blogs in general. So it's interesting to see data on how many visitors Google's blog sees and which posts drew the most traffic. In fact, looking back on 2011, Google has been more prolific on its blog than any previous year. The search giant published a number of stats today on how many posts were published via the company blog, number of visits, most popular posts, and most popular posts on Google+. In 2011, Google published 471 posts, which is 17 more than 2010. The company's main blog saw 19,905,679 unique visitors between January 1 and December 31, 2011. The post that saw the most traffic was one that recognized the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001 with 1,731,280 unique pageviews. And this post was linked to from Google's search portal, which helped draw increased traffic.Want To Know How (Not) To Pitch Your Startup? Look No Further.
Jan 01, 1:05AM
In order to get startups and entrepreneurs thinking about the most effective ways to pitch their businesses, Adeo Ressi of Founder Institute has been encouraging his founders to boil their mission statements down to one sentence, using a simple formula. George Zachary of Charles River Ventures asked Ressi to come up with a format for startup pitches, because he has been hearing so many different people pitching in umpteen different ways. Tech bloggers, investors, partners, founders, and many in between are intimately familiar with this: The seemingly infinite permutations entrepreneurs have devised for their pitches. Some work, and many don't.Why Salespeople Make Bad Fundraisers
Dec 31, 8:34PM
Company founders are the quintessential cheerleaders, promoting their vision and company every chance they get. But that doesn't mean that they are necessarily the best at two core functions: selling and fundraising (and many are bad at both but excel at other functions, like technology). While generating revenue and raising capital require a lot of the same traits, in my experience those who are good at one tend to be poor at the other.Late-Stage Web Companies Took In The Largest Tech Investments Of 2011
Dec 31, 8:33PM
One of the defining trends of modern web companies is that the top ones have been choosing to raise giant, private late-stage funding rounds instead of going public. Look at the ten companies that raised the most money last year, in CrunchBase.Gillmor Gang 12.31.11 (TCTV)
Dec 31, 6:00PM
The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — wound up the Old Year and previewed the next one. In fact, we are already well into Social Spring, what with SOPA, Go Daddy, the media scramble, Louis C.K. and the $5 download, Spotify and the independents, Apple AlmostTV, Microsoft irrelevancy, and the end of email.If at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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