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"After an alcohol induced blackout, I made self-aware glowing ice-cubes that beat to the ambient music. The electronics inside the ice-cubes know how fast and how much you are drinking. The cubes change color from green to orange to finally red as you keep drinking beyond the safety limit. If things get out of control, the cubes send a text to your close friend using your smartphone. dhairyadand.com"

"Instead of waiting for doctor visits, Aetna's new CarePass app will correlate all your health data to try to give you a picture of your health and what you can do to make it better." Much technological disruption to the health care industry has come from startups with an outside perspective: for example, ZocDoc, which has transformed the way people find new doctors; InQuicker, which lets people reserve a spot in line at an emergency room; Mango, which gamifies the routine chore of taking daily meds, and countless other new startups and apps that we've profiled (and tens of thousands more that we haven't). However, a new tech initiative at Aetna is an example of innovation and disruption from within. The company recently announced its plans to offer a health care app called CarePass which would help its customers monitor their own health care data.

"Check / Mate is a visual novel game where the core mechanic is trust, which is built between the characters through the players' actions. The point-and-click controls are meant to emulate physical interaction. For example, scrolling with the mouse results in gentle actions, while clicking on the center button on the mouse leads to harsh actions. What players can do with a character depends on the trust between their avatar and the character."

"The Worldwide Health Organization declared Air Pollution a Group 1 Carcinogenic, in the same dangerous ranks as asbestos and cigarette smoke. With over 6M premature deaths a year, a resulting decrease in life expectancy and 1 out of 3 children living with respiratory or allergy issues, air pollution is an invisible hazard. Given the amount of time we spend inside and the control we have over our offices and homes, we have full ability to change our behaviors for better living. With indoor air measured to be 5 to 8 times more polluted than our outdoor environments, this is a large problem, but an invisible one."

"The largest association of doctors in the US has voted to change its definition of obesity, in a move that could catalyze major changes in insurance coverage, research funding, and public perception of the condition. In a vote held yesterday by the American Medical Association (AMA) at their annual conference, association delegates agreed that obesity - primarily characterized by a body mass index above 30 - ought to be treated as "a disease, requiring a range of medical interventions." Research increasingly indicates, as the AMA noted, that obesity is a complex condition whose causative factors - like genetics or environment - are often beyond an individual's control. Previously, the AMA and other medical organizations had all defined obesity as a "major public health problem.""

"The importance of algorithms in our lives today cannot be overstated. They are used virtually everywhere, from financial institutions to dating sites. But some algorithms shape and control our world more than others - and these ten are the most significant."

"Fashion brands are deploying mannequins equipped with technology used to identify criminals at airports to watch over shoppers in their stores. Retailers are introducing the EyeSee, sold by Italian mannequin maker Almax SpA, to glean data on customers much as online merchants are able to do"

"Le rapport d'ON World insiste sur la place prépondérante que les appareils mobiles sont amenés à prendre dans le cadre de la santé. 60% des produits analysés par les auteurs de l'étude ont été lancés en 2012, et 43% d'entre eux sont consacrés à la surveillance du taux de glucose dans le sang, des signes vitaux d'une personne ou encore font office d'électrocardiogramme. Une autre étude liée d'ON World auprès de consommateurs américains indiquait par ailleurs que de plus en plus de consommateurs se déclarent intéressés par la gestion de leur bien-être et de leur suivi sportif. 40% des consommateurs seraient ainsi tentés par l'achat d'une montre intelligente, et la moitié d'entre eux le ferait dans un but de monitorage de leur santé, plus particulièrement pour calculer leur pression artérielle et leur rythme cardiaque."