There’s a lot of attention paid to why people don’t take prescribed medications or other treatments. Joseph Kvedar, director of the Center for Connected Health, thinks one reason is often underestimated: people just plain old forget. To that end, his organization (a division of Partners HealthCare), has studied text messaging, among other methods, as a [...]
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Syria is rolling out an electronic food voucher scheme for Iraqis after a successful pilot phase. The initiative, which WFP Syria says is the first of its kind using mobile phone technology, will reach 9,600 families, comprising around 32,500 refugees, across Syria. “After successful implementation in Damascus, we [...]
Quietly over the last decade, phones that make text messaging easy have changed life profoundly for millions of deaf people. Gone are the days of a deaf person driving to someone’s house just to see if they are home. Wives text their deaf husbands in the basement, just as a hearing wife might yell down [...]
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working on software that will get to know you as well as your best mate – and even offers you advice. Two MIT scientists, Nathan Eagle and Sandy Pentland, are working on the ‘mind-reading program’, according to New Scientist and are currently running the software on [...]
Chatty teenagers could be the world’s next renewable energy source. Scientists from Korea have turned the main ingredient of calamine lotion into a tiny material that converts sound waves into electricity. The research could lead to panels that can charge a cell phone from a conversation or provide a boost of energy to the nation’s [...]
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In cities across Africa, being an entrepreneur requires no office, business card or investors. All it takes is a cell phone, according to Adele Botha, a researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa.More than a convenience, cell phones have become a means of livelihood and information for people in [...]
