Stick your baby in the cloud
Taking a baby鈥檚 temperature can be an ordeal. The 拢20 iPacify dummy, which contains a thermal sensor and a Bluetooth radio, will sound the alarm when a hike in body temperature suggests that your child may be falling ill. A smartphone app creates a temperature graph and allows parents to add the times they give medications. Developed by London-based Blue Maestro, the app will also be able to store readings in the cloud, letting parents access data remotely.
鈥淲e do not believe this was an individual sitting at a machine and downloading this much material in sequence鈥� A US National Security Agency official says whistleblower Edward Snowden used cheap software, which should have been easily detected, to automatically 鈥渟crape鈥� data from its websites
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Cryptocoins for everyone!
It could be the first national cryptocurrency. A Bitcoin fan who goes by the assumed name Baldur Odinsson is launching a digital currency to combat inflation.
Auroracoin is based on Bitcoin technology and Odinsson plans to distribute it to all of Iceland鈥檚 330,000 citizens, using the country鈥檚 national ID database to assign 31.8 auroracoins to each person on 24 March. Auroracoin鈥檚 mysterious founder says the initiative is designed to bypass the strict money laws in Iceland that, he says, have 鈥渟tifled economic growth鈥�.
Video game will play on your fear
Game designers want to make a game that gets harder when you get scared. Nevermind started as the thesis project of Erin Reynolds at the University of Southern California. Players venture through the memories of fictional trauma victims while a chest strap monitors heart rate. When their hearts beat faster, the game gets tougher.
