Month: November 2008

Google Flu Trends

Google Flu Trends

Google is aggregating their search data to estimate flu activity by state, they say up to two weeks faster than the CDC. We have found a close relationship between how many people search for flu-related topics and how many people actually have flu symptoms. Of course, not every person who searches for “flu” is actually […]

Help make a webcam eye

Help make a webcam eye

Via BB, Kevin Kelly writes: This is Tanya Vlach’s new eyeball. She lost her real one in a car accident a few years ago. I met Tanya at a film festival recently. During our conversation she said she was looking for help in turning her artificial eye into a eye-cam. You know, a mini web […]