LifeLens: A smartphone app that can detect malaria

According to the World Health Organisation’s 2010 World Malaria Report, there are more than 225 million cases of malaria each year killing 781,000 people each year, the majority affecting young children. In fact in Southeast Asia, South America and particularly Sub-Saharan Africa, an estimated 90% of pediatric deaths are caused by the mosquito-borne disease. Lifelensis a promising new smartphone application that lets a user snap a photo of a blood sample to determine if it’s affected with malaria....

5 min · 904 words · Mary Chan

Lifepath: If only everyone’s life looked as beautiful as this. [invites]

I came acrossLifepathvia a random tweet; “this is interesting…” it said. Clicking through, as you would, I was greeted with an astonishingly beautiful timeline of the tweeter’s life from birth to death. Everything from first words to puberty and even a heart attack, had a place on this person’s timeline and bizarrely it even included the person’s date ofdeath. The timeline, or “Lifepath”, was a work of art. Every minute detail seemed as if it had been given days of attention: colors, gradients, fonts, the metamorphosis of the person, from fetus to old man, above the timeline....

4 min · 709 words · Billy White

Light your room in a whole new way with these color-changing LED bulbs at about $7 each

TLDR:Change up the vibe in your room, save energy, and save money with this GoSund 75W LED Smart RGB Color Changing Light Bulbs package. If you’ve been quietly going about your business and hoping that the move away from the standard incandescent light bulb toward light-emitting diode (LED) models would somehow change course, we hate to break it to you, but…it’s not gonna happen. After slowly infiltrating the lighting market over the past 20 years, LEDs now represent close to half of all light sources in the world today....

3 min · 489 words · Kenneth Johnson

Lightbox’s connected camera might be the best Android app yet

Android users and devotees have long felt the pain of a lack of quality applications for the platform. One of the areas that has been a bit more sorely lacking than others is that of photography. While there are solid options on the market such as Camera360 and PicPlz, it’s still hard to compare with the quality that we see in leading iOS apps. Thai Tran, the CEO and founder of a new Android-specific photoapp called Lightbox, thinks that it’s high time for that to change....

5 min · 950 words · Fred Franco

Like Facebook, Twitter announces more detailed permissions for third party apps [Updated]

Twitter hasannouncedthat they are going to begin giving users more control over what information they share with third party apps. The new permissions details will give users a more accurate idea of what features of their account the app will be allowed to access and it began as of Tuesday.Updated with response from Twitter. Any apps that you use to access your Direct Messages in particular will need to ask for that permission again....

4 min · 694 words · Trevor Cuevas
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