Tag: smartphones
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New Fitbit bands may soon double up as mobile wallets
Fitbit users could soon make payments with a flick of the wrist, as the maker of the simple yet hugely popular fitness bands races to pack in more features in its products. Fitbit Inc said on Wednesday it bought wearable payment technology assets from Silicon Valley startup Coin, which makes devices that use near-field communication…
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An Earthquake Strikes? A Flood Hits? Grab the Insulin!
Wars. Terrorist attacks. Earthquakes. Floods.They are the stuff of front-page news, the kinds of stories we associate with a scramble for health care workers whose expertise is emergency medicine – people who know how to stitch up lacerations, set bones, transfuse blood.Until recently, the more mundane health needs typically associated with…
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Email interventions may offer a way to better wellbeing
By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – An email-based program may help decrease stress and increase confidence and feelings of gratitude, according to an unusual study from Finland. It’s not clear how interesting these findings are, said Dr. Giovanni A. Fava of the University of Bologna and the State University of New York at Buffalo, who…