Gogogagarin

After reading it for 2 years, finally get to be in it - excited for our first feature on TechCrunch:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/26/mozilla-and-the-national-science-foundation-challenge-developers-to-build-apps-from-the-future/

Long-Term Monitoring and Crisis Management System
Amr Ali, Biomedical Engineer and Dmitri Boulanov, Software Engineer, Boston University 2010
Ubiquitous sensors plus high-speed networks can revolutionize healthcare.
This app would allow you and your doctor to aggregate and analyze your health data in realtime, detecting and preventing potential crises before they occur.

"...And researchers, including George Whitesides at Harvard University, are trying to use mobile phones to bring medical care to remote corners of the world where people otherwise would have to walk for a day or more to see a doctor or nurse. Whitesides' group has been working on a paper chip that could be touched with a drop of blood and then photographed and text messaged to a clinic that could analyze it and offer a diagnosis...."

People with sleep disorders could certainly use something like this to establish a history of their sleep cycles over a few weeks, enabling them to perhaps correlate certain weekly or monthly events that, as part of their lifestyle, may be negatively or positively affecting their sleepcycles and thereby their very health. Perhaps an exploration of these events and the behavior leading up to them, with a doctor, may be more effective, in terms of cost and time, than a one-time sleep study at a specialist center.

Technology Review: The Authority on the Future of Technology
http:/mobile.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/37606/

Such scenarios can and must be repeated en masse in the States. Kudos to the young scientist. Now America needs to replace the standardized and outdated math and science teams prevalent throughout its high schools with more focused and relevant bioscience efforts, teams and competitions...all to get a leg up on foreign competition in the technology education and high tech start-up space. We just need to introduce the subjects to the students and get them excited about the potential of this scientific space. Mr President, this is the tech space which may hold achievements as significant as a man walking on the moon and where the young generation should look forward to and be excited about, not the saturated Internet startup space with its tiny (if any) impact on benefiting civilization. Watch for more detailed proposals in future entries...
Original source:
http://www.livescience.com/14138-teen-cystic-fibrosis-drug-cocktail-contest.html

Yahoo!:
http://m.yahoo.com/w/ygo-frontpage/lp/story/us/91432/coke.bp%3B_ylt=A0WTc44vPc1N0gUArB4p89w4%3B_ylu=X3oDMTFxMXEydTBhBGNwb3MDOARjc2VjA21vYmlsZS10ZARpbnRsA3VzBHBrZwNpZC05MTQzMgRwb3MDMQRzbGsDdGh1bWI-?ref_w=frontdoors&view=today&.tsrc=yahoo&.intl=US&.lang=en