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Detection system capable of diagnosing Alzheimer’s long before symptoms appear wins coveted SXSW ‘innovation’ prize
Technology capable of diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease long before its symptoms appear won a coveted honor for innovation Tuesday at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival. Neurotrack, which uses eye tracking to achieve a claimed 100 percent success rate, took the health technologies category in the SXSW Accelerator competition as the…
New female-friendly dating app promises to be better ‘mousetrap’
Not long after her husband left her “to live in a van down by the river” in Idaho, as she puts it, Elissa Shevinsky thought it was high time for a better mouse trap. Or rather, a better dating website. The thirty-something app developer who divides her time between New…
Airbnb founder touts being ‘homeless’ as product testing
On any given night, up to 60,000 people stay in places they found on Airbnb. One of them is always the guy who co-founded the fast-growing online travel lodging service. “In June 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since, off and on,”…
Music Fridays: Spring Is In The Air Edition
It’s been warm and then cold again, but gradually getting away from winter-cold temperatures. Between this and returning from SXSW, I feel that it’s officially spring and time to take the time to enjoy it a little. And it’s a perfect time to Panda Party! So join us. I should…
Music Fridays: One Day Will Finish SXSW Post
Yes, I’m aware that the long list of videos I meant to include last week for cool bands I’d seen at SXSW got mostly eaten. I will be trying to figure that out, but in the meantime I’m traveling again. This time to Syracuse, to speak at the university about…
Quick round-up on recent stories ignored for SXSW
I’ll be traveling today, but completely back tomorrow for normal working and blogging. Thanks to everyone for hanging in! It’s funny, but it does seem that when I’m traveling and away from blogging, it’s when a whole bunch of stuff goes down that I could probably comment on but don’t…
Music Fridays: SXSW MUSIC Edition
Good morning! I’m still at SXSW and so blogging is slow, but I thought I’d check in share some stuff with you, as well as invite you to Panda Party. I’ve seen a lot of awesome bands so far, but the biggest is probably Gossip. The good news is that…
Homeless people turned into Wi-Fi hotspots at SXSW
A global advertising firm used homeless people as roving Wi-Fi hotspots, sparking controversy among technology trendsetters at an interactive festival in the United States. Debate over whether the stunt by Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) was helping or misusing the homeless spread from the streets of Austin onto the Internet by…
SXSW Day Three: Juxtapositions Edition
We started off the day going to Flatstock, which is a collection of concert poster artists hawking their wares, and is well worth dropping in, even if just to look or buy postcards. I did buy two Devo posters, from La La Land Posters, but the poster that cracked me…
SXSW Day Two: Ladies!
PBR was giving away free beer at one party we went to. I don’t, as a general rule, drink PBR, but I figured it was funny in light of all the recent anti-hipster haterade out there. Stop hating, people! Without over-the-top hipsters, people-watching during down time at SXSW wouldn’t be…
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