In 87 Bounces by HOTU Studio, a man named Jean goes to try out his new basketball but when he shoots, he completely misses the basket and sends his ball into the scenes of 24 different movies such as Goodfelllas, The Shining, Trainspotting, The Big Lebowski and The Wolf of Wall Street, just to name a few. The ball moves seamlessly from scene to scene until it finally bounces back to the original basketball court where it all started.
Blocks, the company currently working on modular smartwatches that will one day work with iPhone and Android handsets, is getting closer to launching its first gadget. The company has announced an exclusive membership program that will let 1,000 interested users be the first to preorder version 1 the Blocks smartwatch for the cheapest available price.
Let’s be honest: Healthcare on the internet still doesn’t work. Two decades since the dawn of the web, you’d think the best tool ever invented for connecting people with information—and each other—would offer better ways to practice medicine. Instead, a Google search for nearly any health issue results in a cascade of SEO-optimized link bait—symptom […]
But that’s nothing compared to the track record claimed by fertility app competitor Ovuline, which launched it’s app, Ovia before Glow, in June, 2012.
Ovia has now been downloaded about 1 million times, and has helped about 175,000 women get pregnant, according to recent stats the company shared with Business Insider
Ovia is currently helping women get pregnant at a rate of over 20,000 a month, it says. These stats come from when users of the app report pregnancies.
Some of these apps continue to be helpful during pregency, too. For instance, Ovia can alert a woman if things are normal or not. For instance, it can suggest she get tested for anemia if she reports feeling really tired. It also collects data from a bunch of other fitness devices like Fitbit, the Aria smart scale, or the Withings blood pressure monitor. And Glow offers Glow Nurture, which helps pregnant women track their health, too.
But these apps are beginning to do even more to turn your smartphone into a birth control device.
Fertility app maker Kindara has gone to the next step. Instead of asking women to manually enter data an app, it is about to launch a basal body temperature thermometer called Wink, which automatically links with the phone and the app.
A rise in a woman’s basal temp, taken when she wakes up in the morning, indicates the time is right to start a family … or to avoid starting one.
Wink is expected to ship in Spring 2015 for about $129, though women can pre-order it now for $79.
