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Verily Study Watch

Back in Oct 2016 I listened to Dr. Insel's talk at a seminar jointly hosted by the Blackdog Institute, UNSW and USYD via podcast All in the mind, about 'Humans and Machines: A quest for better mental health', and in it he also talked about the role of the institute he's working at, Verily , which was previously called Google Life Science, focusing on how technology can assist human society in dealing with mental health issues. After listening to the talk I had an idea, based on the talk, I was wondering what could we use with Google's current product lineup in helping society's current health or any other issue.  So I thought about Android Assisted Care, obviously from the idea where Android Wear and other Android Devices could provide a lot of data and assistance needed. At the time I had the idea like this: Country Setting: Japan Target Users: Ageing Population Living alone (Sources: 1 , 2 ) or for people who need to take care of their elderly par...

Back into blogging or writing or whatever this is...

Been trying to get back to blogging or some kind of longer-than-tweet/facebook post writing for a while. After watching movies, tv series, comics and playing PC games such as Star Craft 2, Diablo 3, Heroes of the Storm, and Overwatch as main leisure activities for the past few years I found myself unable to read books or write anything long or think anything ... probably also because I don't have much time left after helping wife taking care of our two sons...but that shouldn't be an excuse to do anything. So when you listened to so many inspiring stories of how people achieve things, passed their obstacles on podcasts, start writing again shouldn't be much of a trouble really. So I HOPE I will start writing more often...so I hope...