There’s an experimental necklace developed by the Georgia Institute of Technology that reminds you to take your medicine. Users must first ingest a special pill, along with your other pills, that contains a small magnet, which then activates the necklace. The necklace then records when, exactly, you swallowed the pills. That way, your nurse or […]

There’s an experimental necklace developed by the Georgia Institute of Technology that reminds you to take your medicine. Users must first ingest a special pill, along with your other pills, that contains a small magnet, which then activates the necklace. The necklace then records when, exactly, you swallowed the pills. That way, your nurse or caregiver can know when, or if, you’ve taken your medicine.

See? Not all tech is silly.

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Gimme an i! Gimme an M! Gimme an A! Gimme a… the Apple Store is down right now, worldwide. Yes, it’s not Tuesday, but there will be announcements this day. Or so the usual suspects say. Your bets after the jump.

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A small device, implanted in the chest, can potentially treat depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder in most patients. The device, produced by Medtronic, prevents recurring feelings of depression or obsession by shocking the brain consistently. Seventeen patients, diagnosed as having major depressive disorder, were followed for a year and demonstrated overall improvement in mood as well as […]

A small device, implanted in the chest, can potentially treat depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder in most patients. The device, produced by Medtronic, prevents recurring feelings of depression or obsession by shocking the brain consistently.

Seventeen patients, diagnosed as having major depressive disorder, were followed for a year and demonstrated overall improvement in mood as well as social and occupational functioning, he said.

The technique, called Deep Brain Stimulation, stimulates the neural circuits which control mood and anxiety.

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A half-way home between a digital watch and those crazy do-it-all multimedia watches, the digital pic frame watch may actually appeal to more people. The built-in memory can store 60 photos and it can superimpose the time in analog or digital format over the top. And that’s all it does: simple. It charges through USB, lasting about 8 hours —its main drawback, perhaps— and is Mac and Personal computer compatible. In leather and stainless steel, it’ll set you back $99.95. [EverythingUSB]

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The main complaints about the current Nike+ Gear aren’t that it doesn’t do a good job keeping track of how far you run, it’s that it doesn’t measure stuff like heart rate, body temperature and other factors runners care about. Nike hears you. Their latest patent for upcoming Nike+ gear expands on the current concept and features all kinds of sensors over a person’s body, even possibly adding a GPS receiver so you can automatically map out the path you took on your run.

What’s even superior for people who live in cold places or don’t like to run outside (me) is that there are sensors for speaking to exercise machines to fetch data. The only downside? Nike’s slow-ass development cycle means you’re not going to see this for another year or two. Seriously. Some of these leaked Nike products back from January 2007 still haven’t been released. [iPodNN]

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The picture is all we have to go on, so what we can tell is this; it looks like an iPhone, but that probably isn’t a real touchscreen. Sadly, we doubt it will be making any calls either. You know what they say; if it walks like a duck and it speaks like a duck, chances are it is a duck. Well, in light of that information, we can rule out the possibility that it is a duck. I think we can slowly eliminate stuff it isn’t in this fashion, eventually we’ll get our answer. Alternatively, Eric, if you’re reading, drop us a line and let us know what the hell’s going on, buddy. [Flickr via Unplugged via winandmac]

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Is it a single serving pod espresso brewer or Jar Jar Binks in effigy? You decide. Jay Brewer runs SingleServeEspresso.com — the #1 resource for all things single, serving, and espresso — and he forwarded this along. Cute, right? Right?

Is it a single serving pod espresso brewer or Jar Jar Binks in effigy? You decide.

Jay Brewer runs SingleServeEspresso.com — the #1 resource for all things single, serving, and espresso — and he forwarded this along. Adorable, right? Right?

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Scott Steinberg, one of the superior gaming journos out there, is producing a bunch of videos about on the web gaming for DigtialTrends called “Players Only.” The coverage is fairly basic but there are lots of cool interviews and ideas presented. Wake up and quit playing with yourself: Today’s hottest games can be found on the web! This week on […]

Scott Steinberg, one of the better gaming journos out there, is producing a bunch of videos about on the internet gaming for DigtialTrends called “Players Only.” The coverage is fairly basic but there are several cool interviews and ideas presented.

Wake up and quit playing with yourself: Today’s hottest games can be found on the internet! This week on Players Only, we discover why massively multiplayer online (MMO) titles - persistent virtual worlds designed for thousands to simultaneously interact with and enjoy - and social networks are exploding in popularity. Also explored: On the internet culture, ways games can help build personal relationships and just what it takes to create the Internet’s most popular 3D worlds…

Take a gander. Unless you’re playing GTAIV. Then carry on.

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College Humor is running a parody of Steve in Keynote mode, we know it isn’t the first or won’t be the last, but it has some of the Steve’s actions, crowd reactions and the overall atmosphere pretty much down to perfection. On top of all that, it does a good job at making us laugh—just look at the damn product description! The sketch even includes a commercial demonstration, and the whole clip is quality through and through. Hit the link for the video and then let us know if you’d be first in line to purchase the i. We definitely would—hey, it’s chromy, glassy and shiny. [College Humor]

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A MacFixIt reader had a very interesting email exchange from Psystar’s support, who told him that they don’t want customers installing Leopard themselves. Here’s the quote from the support team:

We completely do not support customers attempting to install the Leopard operating system on our Open Personal themselves. This is due to a difficult process that we go through to get Leopard to function on our computers. We encourage you to buy an open computer, and select the option to have Leopard Pre-installed. Currently, (shipping the personal back to us) is the only option available. If the HDD dies, you can ship it to us for $50 plus shipping, so we have the ability to replace it for you.

If we look at the only viable way to install a Leopard on a vanilla OS X machine right now, which is using a hacked version of the OS, this decision makes sense. Psystar can’t very well distribute hacked versions of Leopard with each personal. The most they have the ability to do is give out duplicates of the real Leopard, which is uninstallable as-is. But that’s not what they stated before.

Back when we first heard about them, they claimed this:

The highly extensible OpenMac is a configuration of PC hardware capable of running unmodified OS X Leopard kernels. If you purchase Leopard with your OpenMac we will not only include the actual Leopard retail package with genuine installation disc, but we also include a Psystar restore disc for your OpenMac and we’ll preinstall Leopard for free so you can start to use your personal right out of the box.

What happened here? Are they still going to include a restore disc? If so, that might run afoul of Apple and/or the guys who came up with the hacking method in the first place. If you’re going to have to mail your hard drive in each time there’s a problem, this might be too much trouble for the money you save. [Macfixit]

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