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MIT Builds An Open-Source Platform For Your Body
MIT Media Lab's 11-day health care hackathon pulled students and big companies together with a common goal: Healing a broken industry. [...] The goal is to jump-start an open source platform where apps that track all different aspects of your bodily health can exchange information. Read More »
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New Crowdfunding Site Seeks To Protect Backers Of Industrial Design
Entrepreneur Jamie Siminoff wants to build more credibility into crowdfunding — so he’s launching a new platform that takes responsibility for ensuring the viability of new projects. Read More »
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New Smartphone App Promises Easy Eye Testing Worldwide
The team behind a smartphone-based portable eye examination kit have just launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for new innovation...
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Open Source And Linux In 2014
In today's open source roundup: Looking back at open source and Linux in 2014. Plus: Switching from Apple laptops to Chromebooks, and the best gaming mouse for Linux?...
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Open Source Hardware Relies On Creative Commons And Crowdfunding
Open hardware enthusiasts seem to prefer the crowdfunding site Indiegogo, instead of Kickstarter. If you are interested in promoting and support open hardware crowdfunding efforts, be sure to check out Indiegogo and search for open source hardware.
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Open Source Wearable Angel Shuts Down
Angel, a company that has been working since 2013 on an open source wearable tracker that could be programmed for different use cases, has shut down the project and, likely, the company. The company announced the news via a large banner on its website reading "This project is no longer active". Angel executives did not respond to MobiHealthNews's request for an interview. Bob Troia, known as "Quantified Bob" in quantified self circles, spotted the announcement and posted about it on Twitter and on the Quantified Self forum...
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Rock Health: Digital Health Funding Breaks $2.3B In First Half of 2014
Digital health funding totals $2.3B in the first half of 2014 according to recent 2014 Midyear Digital Health Funding Report by Rock Health.
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The Growing Trend Of Clinical Research Crowdsourcing
The trend of open collaboration has led to innovation across multiple industries. For decades, big pharma has been known as conservative and slow to change. Today however, there is a growing movement toward open access and crowdsourcing scientific information to accelerate research and development. Open-source platforms have let developers create multiple crowdsourcing applications, that are further enabling the crowdsourcing trend in the life sciences industry, as well.
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This $5 Lamp Is Powered By Gravity (And Just Destroyed Its Funding Target On Indiegogo)
A lamp for $5 that does not require any electrical power source? It may sound like an impossible dream, but two designers in London have built functioning prototypes of GravityLight, a cheap way for people in developing countries t0 light homes, recharge batteries, or power a radio. Read More »
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This Scientist Is Using Open Sourced Software Techniques To Turn Bugs Into Patent-Free Drugs
Chemist and “semi-recreational” codemonkey Isaac Yonemoto is running a crowdfunding campaign called Project Marilyn to create open sourced, patent-free cancer drugs. Yonemoto proposes a $75,000 stretch goal to fund an experiment he hopes will prove we can use a compound sequenced from microscopic bug cultures to treat cancer...
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Transparent Civic Improvement With Crowdfunding Platform Neighbor.ly
There are two processes in the public sphere that we all depend on but that few of us really understand. And what's worse is that both are in trouble.
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University Of California Researchers To Fund Citizen-Sensor Project For Revolutionizing Global Health
Enterprising researchers and students at the University of California, San Diego are looking for funding to complete a “citizen-sensor” project that, they hope, will revolutionize global health and environmental monitoring — especially in remote and undeveloped areas of the planet. Read More »
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Using Crowdfunding To Start A Company With A Cause
Two sisters, Kara Gorski and Kristin Gembala, have developed a bra designed to help breast cancer survivors who have had mastectomies and reconstructive surgery. So far, the sisters, who invested $25,000 from their savings, have designed and patented two styles and built a Web site. Currently, they are trying to raise money to begin manufacturing through a new crowdfunding platform. Read More »
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VITA-FX: The Most Flexible and Open Health Network that Connects Patients and Doctors, is Officially Launched
Juan Arellano, CEO and Founder of VITA FX, is pleased to announce the official launch of VITA-FX: The Most Flexible and Open Health Network to date. As a company spokesperson noted, VITA FX is a new and open health network that is designed to connect patients, healthcare professionals, and office staff in one, easy-to-use and secure platform. The creation of VITA FX was inspired by Arellano's family experiences with cancer in the healthcare system in Chile...
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Why Crowdfunding Is Set To Explode In Size Over The Next Few Years
The type of social-driven lending that helped fund flashy startups such as virtual reality goggles maker Oculus VR could more than double over the next few years, according to research from the Tabb Group. Oculus was scooped up by Facebook for a cool $2 billion less than a month ago after receiving its original funding through the crowd-funding company Kickstarter.
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