July 2014

No doubt you have heard of apps such as Uber and Lyft. They’re both mobile apps that connect passengers with drivers of vehicles for hire and ridesharing services. These have both picked up in popularity and have reached every major city in the United States. It’s easy. You click a button that you want a cab and then one shows up in as quickly as a few minutes. What if you could do this with a doctor? This is just what a few companies are working on developing. Having a doctor make house calls was commonplace over a century ago, … Continue reading  

Everyone wants the perfect selfie right? Now there is an app for that. There is a free iOS app called Beauty Mirror which reshapes an image of your face in real-time which would show you what certain features of your face would look like if they were shaped differently. There are four looks or fourteen filters that adjust parts of your face to make you look “better”. The creators are working with fashion and cosmetic labels to bring this to more consumers. What do you think about an app such as this? Would this compel you to have certain procedures … Continue reading  

Wearable tech in medicine is a cool idea. We’ve already got google glass and many physicians are using them in hospitals. Everyone will soon see them in hospitals and clinics worldwide. But what if you could harness the power of wearable monitoring yourself? We’ve seen it before in futuristic sci-fi movies where you can see your heart rate and respiration rate on a virtual heads up display which you can only see. Google announced on Tuesday that they would partner with Novartis to develop a wearable contact lens that could monitor blood sugar levels. The future is closer than you … Continue reading