by Victoria Milne | Aug 18, 2015 | Blog
Wearable technology is great, obviously, but until now it has lacked a certain bovine component. The University of Calgary – and in particular veterinary epidemiologist Karin Orsel – have obviously been thinking the same way:...
by Victoria Milne | Jul 27, 2015 | Blog
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, along comes iSperm, an “Innovative boar sperm analyser” for your iPad mini. “With iSperm, sperm analysis is easier than ever,” manufacturers chirpily claim. The system uses a microscope to enlarge the contents of the porcine...
by Victoria Milne | Jul 22, 2015 | Blog
Health care is a solemn business and understandably so. For those in mobile health this has important implications: you don’t want an app for cancer sufferers, say, to be anything other than serious and straightforward for risk of trivialising what is an...
by Victoria Milne | Jul 9, 2015 | Blog
Sometimes the ideas that make the biggest difference in technology are the most straightforward ones. Consider, for example, Skype, a concept so simple – free online video calling – you could write it on the back of a matchbox and still have room...
by Victoria Milne | Jul 2, 2015 | Blog
Giving blood is without doubt a noble thing to do. It’s very useful too, with each blood donation apparently capable of saving three lives. But it is also something of a pain to do, both literally and metaphorically: you have to find a blood donation centre,...
