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Thanks to the accellerated diffusion of smartphones, the number of mobile healthcare apps has been growing exponentially in the past few years. Applications now exist to help patients managing diabetes, sharing information with peers, and monitoring mood, just to name a few examples. Such “applification” of health is part of a larger trend called “mobile health” (or mHealth ), which broadly refers to the provision of health-related services via wireless communications. Mobile health is a fast-growing market: according to a report by PEW Research as early as in 2011, 17...

Via KurzweilAI Congenitally blind people have learned to ”see ” and describe objects, and even identify letters and words, by using a visual-to-auditory sensory-substitution algorithm and sensory substitution devices (SSDs), scientists at Hebrew University  and in France have found. SSDs are non-invasive sensory aids that provide visual information to the blind via their...

Gaggioli A., Riva G., Milani L., Mazzoni E. Networked Flow: Towards an understanding of creative networks Springer, New York, 2013.   Identifying ‘networked flow’ as the key driver...