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Bringing industry partners like Philips and traditional-clothing and -textile companies together with university researchers from across the E.U. and Switzerland, E.C.-funded teams have already produced prototypes with limited commercial availability, such as a tank top that wirelessly monitors cardiac patients and sports clothes that keep track of breathing. Other projects include fabrics that look and feel normal but are embedded with microcomputers, solar panels and energy-harvesting systems, as well as fabrics that measure blood oxygen levels and track biochemicals in sweat and bedsheets that monitor depression...
...turmoil of constant local wars and foreign invasions prompted Jaipur's ruler, Jai Singh II, to begin building Jantar Mantar in 1724. The astronomical observatory would allow soothsayers to monitor cosmic shifts so as to better divine auspicious dates for royal enterprises, and to predict the fate of ruler and ruled. Nestled in the heart of New Delhi, Jantar Mantar today is mainly a tourist attraction, although it continues to function as an observatory of sorts - a window into what the writer V.S. Naipaul called "India's million mutinies...
...Representatives from a growing cadre of participatory democracy sites gathered last week in New York City at the Personal Democracy Forum, a national conference on the intersection of technology and politics. They demonstrated an array of new tools that enable voters to annotate and edit prospective legislation, monitor congressional speeches and trace links between political contributions and voting patterns. Some of the still nascent tools blend the advantages of crowd-powered sites like Digg and Reddit with the social networking of Facebook and LinkedIn...
...health care is delivered before the study findings can be instituted. For one thing, relying on Web-based systems could potentially widen the gap in access to health care between wealthier patients and those who can't afford computers. In addition, not every physician will want to monitor e-mails or conduct virtual exams without being reimbursed for his or her time and expertise. "Our overall health-care system is poorly designed for prevention," says Jones. "We need to look again at the whole system to find effective and efficient ways to deliver this kind of management for chronic risk...
...thing: What's the goal of raising kids? It's to produce an independent, autonomous adult, right? It doesn't happen overnight. There's a long march towards independence, and it begins at birth. Parents have to continually let out the leash. You quietly from the sidelines monitor your kids, see whether they're ready for the next step. That kid was giving every sign that he was ready for the next step...