smart diapers Smart diapers bring obsessing over infant health to a new level by letting you check up on your baby’s vital stats with your smartphone. The diaper has a small patch that tests urine and gives you all kinds of pee information to overreact about and bother doctors with. Oh, and it can detect early signs of infection and diabetes, so that’s good.

Of course, doctors monitor all of these things at regular checkups, but the smart diapers aim to track a baby’s health more accurately, since there’s a big difference between getting results from a doctor once in a while and getting consistent results from several diapers a day. The patch on the diaper works by changing colors in different areas due to urine content, and then an app on your smartphone uses its camera to survey the results.

There’s always the danger of false positives with the urine test patch, which could unnecessarily alarm already stressed parents, so the diapers will undergo testing at the Benioff Children’s Hospital at the University of California, San Francisco. They must also be approved by the FDA, so hopefully they’ll be reasonably accurate by the time they make it into your home.

The diapers are being developed by Pixie Scientific and funded on Indiegogo, and though they’re already extremely close to their goal, you can still support and help them with the last little bit. Donors of $25 or more get to help test the diapers in October.

Diapers? You are on notice. We don’t need you stressing parents out anymore than you already do. Please be informative and accurate about baby pee. It’s about time you started pulling your weight. While we’re at it, diaper makers, you’re also on notice. If you want to improve diapers, make them self-changing. That is all.

Via http://www.geekosystem.com/smart-diaper/

Gillette, the world leader in system shaving blades, will have to face some competition from a new startup called Dollar Shave Club. The startup seeks to provide consumers with $1 razors shipped to their homes (plus $2 for shipping and handling) only in the USA.

Like most good ideas, The Dollar Shave Club started with two guys who were pissed off about something and decided to do something about it… So… they teamed up with one of the world’s leading blade manufacturers and created signature 2, 4, and 6 blade razors. They’ve got everything you need in a shave: stainless steel blades, lubrication bars, and pivoting heads.

Dollar Shave Club is aptly named: You pay a dollar and you get a month’s supply of twin-blade razors shipped to you. That’s right. $1. A few more dollars and you get a few more blades. The top of the line is the “executive” where you get a month’s supply of six blade razors for $9 a month.

According to Michael Dubin, CEO and founder of Dollar Shave Club, the vast majority of that is going to marketing, as companies like Gillette and Schick work hard to hang onto marketshare in a massive industry, paying athletes and actors exorbitant endorsement contracts. Dollar Shave Club is stripping all that out.

It all started during 1988 or 1989 (cannot remember exactly), when i read a book called Made in Japan by Akio Morita who became an idol for a young boy who wanted to make it big in this world. Morita was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony Corporation along with Masaru Ibuka.

Sony was a big name in the electronics world and was proudly making all their products in Japan and announcing it also very proudly on all their products, and i still remember one of the TVs we got at our parents home with that big sticker on the front, that you had to remove and which remained in your head that you are buying pure Japanese quality.

That also brings me down the memory lane, with my 1st Sony Walkman, which gave me exactly the same excitement people are having for the last decade every time Apple was and is still launching a new product.

So what happened to Sony? Why happened to the world leader who never managed to catch up with the rest of competition, on TVs, music players, tablets, digital cameras, game consoles and the full other line of products which most of the production moved outside Japan in order to cut cost and be competitive?

Why the new Walkman is an iPod, the TV a smart Samsung TV, the tablet a Kindle, the camera a Fuji? And why they never learned from the Betamax experience since 1975?

Sony announced net losses of 159 billion yen ($2.04 billion) for the third quarter on Thursday, while Sir Howard Stringer defended his record as CEO as he handed over the reins to Kazuo Hirai, the company blamed the floods in Thailand, unfavorable foreign exchange rates and a failed venture with Samsung for its woes.

Sony became the old heavy sick company, while Samsung is prevailing as the new global leader of electronics. An example about it, Procter & Gamble was the No.1 FMCG supplier of Carrefour stores in the UAE for many consecutive years, in 2011 Samsung got on top of the list pushing P&G to No.2