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Most software firms, of course, promise to make their clients more efficient. But NuTech claims that its products--developed by using AI technologies such as neural networks, fuzzy logic and evolutionary computing--can monitor each player continuously in a supply-and-demand equation, consider the millions of ways each player's decisions impact the business and then suggest the best ways to fine-tune a client's operations. "All our products have the common characteristic of increasing profits and decreasing costs," especially in the targeting of prospective customers, says Matthew Michalewicz, 26, NuTech's chief executive...
...blood pressure. Nor is he. At its peak two years ago, Ho's blood pressure clocked in at 140/90, slightly above normal but not high enough to elicit a pill or much alarm. But when he went to see Dr. Ting Choon Meng, the Singapore general practitioner decided to monitor Ho's blood pressure with a black plastic wristwatch he had designed and named the BPro. The device, worn for 24 hours, revealed a wave pattern showing how fast and hard his heart was beating, as well as worrying patterns in Ho's pressure. Ting put Ho on blood-pressure...
...targeting them with his wrist monitor, which has the potential to not only cut heart attacks and stroke globally but also collect remarkable amounts of data. One in four American adults suffers from high blood pressure, according to the American Heart Association; a third in that group are unaware of having the condition. "One's body is a very poor monitor of high blood pressure," explains Dr. Philip Wong, research director at the National Heart Center in Singapore, citing the absence of visible symptoms...
...reason high blood pressure is so diabolical, Ting says, is that it seems so simple to understand. "Every doctor takes blood pressure," says Wong, but very few doctors bother to monitor it on a 24-hour basis to detect dips during sleep or spikes in the first hours after waking. That's important, Ting explains, because "nondippers have three to five times the risk of stroke" and because strokes often occur within three hours of waking, which Ting traces to a "morning surge" in blood pressure...
...concept of transmitting data across a power grid isn't new, but until recently the technology could handle only tiny streams--enough to monitor a few substations but not enough to support high-speed surfing by multiple users. Now new modems and other advances are prompting dozens of utilities around the country to start testing BPL in earnest. Manassas was first out of the gate with Zplug, its commercial service, but others aren't far behind. Cinergy, a utility based in Cincinnati, Ohio, started enrolling BPL customers in late April; the service should be available to 50,000 Ohio homes...