Livestream’s Livepack is a portable, all-in-one video system that has been self-described as “a satellite television truck in a backpack.” By simply plugging in a camera, users have everything they need to stream HD quality footage directly onto the web.
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April 9, 2009
SickCity: Realtime Disease Detection at the Local Level
DIYcity, an open source platform that enables a community of users to develop technology solutions to common problems faced by cities ranging from transportation to healthcare, recently launched its latest application. SickCity provides realtime disease detection capabilities at the local level by mining popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to find key words such as flu, fever or chicken pox that indicate that an individual is ill, under the guise that increasingly people are turning to these networks to tell their friends how they’re feeling. The results are then plotted on chart showing 30-day trends for a particular [...]
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