A pioneering partnership between private sector companies and the health service to develop groundbreaking Irish healthcare products and research and use them to benefit of Irish patients has been set up by the Government. Minister for Jobs Richard Bruton and Minister for Health Leo Varadkar have announced €5 million in funding over five years for the Health Innovation Hub. The […]
Here’s part 2 of our chat with Pat Divilly at OMiG (Online Marketing in Galway) December meeting. He’s built a successful business on social media and content marketing, so we asked him about his approach to content. [youtube]http://youtu.be/x24YWd0j2f8[/youtube] Part 1 of the conversation is here. Blacknight is sponsoring OMiG’s first Galway Digital Summit tonight at the Ardilaun Hotel. […]
“The combined power of the world’s internet users is enough to beat HIV” That’s the claim of dotHIV, the charity running the first Top Level Domain to serve a social cause. Yesterday we published a 15 minute audio interview with Carolin Silbernagl who is coordinating the project, but if you want the quick version, try […]
Today’s podcast (16:34; 9MB; MP3) is an interview with Carolin Silbernagl, project coordinator of the dotHIV Top Level Domain project. “Dot-HIV is the first and the only TLD that is designed to serve a social cause”, she says. That certainly makes it unique, and it could also be the key to its success as a new and innovative way […]
An Irish company has a unique new take on wearable computing which could revolutionise how we work out and relax. Lumafit is the brainchild of Darran Hughes and Steven Hughes who realised that the wrist is the wrong place to monitor exercise: there’s just too much going on there. Instead, the Lumafit is worn behind the ear, tracking the movement […]
We try to exercise, but the fact is that many of us spend a long working day in a constant sitting position, and that brings health problems of its own. The way the body deals with sugars and fats when sitting down has been linked to increased risk of diabetes and heart disease, and with […]
Plaster casts have certainly changed since I broke my arm as a kid; now it seems plaster itself could be on the way out – and that’s not the only innovation on the way. The Osteoid looks like Borg technology, but because it can be 3D printed to a custom fit for every patient it’s actually […]
