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Category Archives: Health
Stress-Busting 2020 and Smart Glasses
This time, Nora Young continues the conversation about living smarter in 2020 with this Fast Company article on handling stress better as a key to resiliency. She also refers to Kelly McGonigal's book The Upside of Stress.
Meanwhile, Cathi Bond talks about Bosch's upcoming smart glasses, which offer an augmented reality display that aims to be non-intrusive. Use cases include cooking with recipe instructions in front of you, instead of referring to a book, or driving directions. Cathi points out how distracting today's car dashboards are.
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Netflix Experiments with Badges; Deluxe At-Home Spin Classes
On this podcast, Nora Young talks about a text Netflix has been conducting: offering kids virtual badges for watching certain episodes of kids' programming (via Engadget). Cathi mentions her latest DVD purchase, Sabrina.
Cathi Bond talks about Peloton (via PSFK), which is basically gym spin class as a service. You buy the bike for your home, and a membership, and you participate virtually in a class, alongside other spinners.
Nora mentions this review of Peloton at the excellent review site, The Wirecutter.
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Health Trends: Apps for Recovery and Tech for Mobility
In this podcast, Nora Young talks about Triggr Health, an app designed to support people in recovery from substance abuse (via Technology Review). It reminds her of Onward, an app to help people manage 'overuse' that her show Spark covered recently.
Nora also mentions Cathi's fabulous story in the new collection, Any Other Way
Cathi Bond talks about a fascinating Manual Standing Wheelchair that users can manipulate to raise themselves to a standing position (via MedGadget)
Here it is in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I_OTUS9heQ
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Tagged addiction, health apps, Manual Standing Wheelchair, mobility, recovery, recovery apps, standing wheelchair, Triggr Health
