Virgin Mobile’s newly-announced Broadband2Go service will give customers a contract-free option for portable broadband. Users will receive a pre-paid 3G broadband USB dongle for $150, which they can then pre-load with a certain amount of data useage; $10 for 100MB, $20 for 250MB, $40 for 600MB and $60 for 1GB. Service will expire after 10 days for the 100MB plan, and after 30 days for all others.
[via Engadget]

You’ve probably visited WebMD to answer your health questions. And the iTunes App Store already offers over 200 medicine-related apps, like information on drugs and heart-rate monitoring devices. But two new devices for the new iPhone OS demonstrate just how the iPhone is going to make monitoring your health both more immediate and interactive. One app can control a blood-pressure cuff that plugs in to your iPhone, and Johnson & Johnson revealed a similar app and device that tests blood glucose levels.
PCMag explains the far-reaching implications:
Since an iPhone is always connected via the integrated 3G modem, it could potentially send [...]

Bug Labs, a group of innovative engineers, unveiled their new additions to their Bug product at CES that enables users to create a custom device based on fully programmable “bugmodules” that attach to the “bugbase.”  The unusual product gives knowledgeable consumers a chance to build a device that fits their needs, rather than relying on the marketplace to provide something for them or become burdened by a string of different products. 
The first bugmodules were released in 2007 and included a touch-sensitive LCD screen, a motion and accelerometer sensor, a GPS unit and a digital camera with video capabilities.  At [...]