Category Archives: digital

MouthWatch, An Oral Health Camera

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Every time I'm about to go to the dentist, I truly wonder if I absolutely need to. Everything feels okay, so why go to the dentist to look for trouble.

I know that what I just said doesn’t make sense, but for some reason many folks feel the same way. Now there is a mouth camera that allows patients to actually see plague buildup plus other conditions that will force them to go the dentist on a more regular basis.

Brant Herman, chief executive of startup MouthWatch, said his company makes Intraoral, or mouth cameras, that are priced at $199 (the competition is priced at $2,000) so patients can buy them from their dentist. The whole purpose is to let patients see what dentists see. Yuck!!

I just found out that about 600 dental practices use the cameras. My dentist, Bruce Blau, reads DigiDame. I’m curious to find out what he thinks. I will let you know.
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Love It, Or List It

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My friend, Dr. Williams Lucena, gave me a gift that I have been looking for over 20 years. I know that you don’t believe me, because what could I have been possibly looking for so long? It’s called a digital task manager. It’s actually a “things to do” list.

After carefully listening to my needs, Williams identified Wunderlist as the task manager that could present my lists in the ways I needed them to show up. Williams, a mental health counselor (he was a psychiatrist in his hometown of Caracas) and a sex therapist, also uses lists to help organize his practice. He was able to pinpoint the task manager I needed after looking at the ones he recently used. For some crazy reason, I didn’t know about Wunderlist.

There are many “things to do” lists available, but none of them offer a specific feature I needed. Most of the time, I was forced to use pen and paper because I could never find a task manger that allowed me to create one master list and then take each item and put them into separate client folders. The ability to have one master list, and then be able to categorize them into groups, is a type of organization tool I need to work on 15 to 20 projects at the same time. I know that this feature may seem pretty routine, but trust me, task managers don’t offer this kind of flexibility. Wunderlist allows me to be organized my way.

Thank you Williams. It’s comforting and wonderful to know that you were willing to take the time to find this golden treasure for me.

No Internet Last Night

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I’m not sure what happened last night but my Internet was not working. No Internet, no DigiDame. I wrote my daily blog post, but the email blast never went out, I can see by the stats that most of you just went to the DigiDame website to see if I wrote something.

I did write a post and it is important that you read it on “God’s Bankers, A History of Money and Power at the Vatican.” This book is getting a lot of attention because of its subject matter. All you have to do is scroll down to read what I wrote.

I think I will also use this opportunity to post some recent photos.

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New fashion designs at Art Wynwood.

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A panel of gallerists at Books & Books talking about collecting art.

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Announcing Eliot Hess Photography Website

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It was totally weird writing Eliot’s bio for his new photography website. I never realized how much he accomplished. When I finished writing it, I started to chuckle, “Wow, who is this guy?” I didn’t recognize Eliot even though every word in his bio is totally true. The URL is http://www.eliothess.com. I have a feeling that this website is going to keep re-introducing us to a creative eye none of us really ever knew. The site was conceived and established by Whitney Hess and Fredrick Selby.

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Eliot’s bio
Eliot Hess is a collected lifestyle and travel photographer, currently exhibiting at Williams McCall Gallery in Miami Beach. His work reveals the culture, history and beauty of Cuba, Cartagena, India, Morocco, Peru, Croatia, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere throughout Europe. He lives in New York and Miami and travels frequently to photograph.

Eliot is also the co-owner of HWH PR, a leading high tech public relations agency, and author of bestselling The Munchies Eatbook published by Random House. He is also an investor in two upcoming Broadway projects and is one of the largest mystery book collectors in the United States. He and his wife Lois Whitman-Hess have an extensive contemporary art collection including works by Hung Liu and Jefro Williams.

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Hackers Can Take Control of Your Car

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Picture this. You are driving down the highway at 60 miles an hour when all of a sudden your car speeds up to 90 and you start swerving from lane-to-lane. You try to slow the car down but you have lost all control over the vehicle.

Welcome to the world of connected technology. It seems that all of the computer bells and whistles that you fancied your car up with, is now a field day for hackers,

A report was issued today by Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, that said, “There is a clear lack of appropriate security measures to protect drivers against hackers who may be able to take control of a vehicle or hackers who wish to collect and use personal driver information.”

There were several stories about this today in The New York Times, CNBC, and The Washington Post.

Good luck to all of us.

This Will Make You Cry

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Some DigiDame readers may have seen the above video because it is being widely circulated on the web. It was posted in 2010, but for some reason, it is now going vital. This is a feel good video that I wanted everyone to see. Get your tissues ready.

The father of a bride spent a year learning sign language so he could sign his way through the Heartland song, “I Loved Her First.” This was a surprise wedding dedication to his daughter who is a sign language interpreter. It brought Nicole and her husband to tears.

Now, it will do the same for you.

Is That A UFO?

Singer/actress Lucy Arnaz Luckinbill, (daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz as well as being married to actor/writer Larry Luckinbill) posted the photo below on my Facebook stream the other day. It was taken in Palm Springs. Eerie, isn’t it?

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Anti-Aging Phototherapy Mask

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My Dermatologist in Miami, Dr. Steve Mandy, knows that I love to hear about new technological breakthroughs so he told me about a phototherapy device that reportedly helps to achieve younger looking skin. Called the illuMask, it is a patented technology that delivers all of the benefits of phototherapy in a mask.

Each treatment is 15 minutes. It is priced at $30, for 30 treatments. That includes the cleansing and press powder. A press release for the mask explains that “the infrared light helps to stimulate skin cell turnover and regeneration while increasing the production of collagen and elasticity in your skin.”

If you check out the mask on Google, you will see that many beauty magazines gave it positive reviews. That’s always good news. It was also nominated for 2014 Marie Claire Best of Beauty Award.

Company literature reported that all patients in the clinical trials had “an improvement in the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, better quality and tone of the skin, more even coloring and brighter radiance, and an increase in skin elasticity and hydration.”

If you decide to try the mask, let me know if you see an improvement. Good luck.

Home Disease Detectors

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A few decades ago, you never would have thought a $34 dongle on your smartphone could become an HIV and syphilis .

(Wikipedia defines a dongle as a small piece of hardware that attaches to a computer, TV, or other electronic device in order to enable additional functions such as copy protection, audio, video, games, data, or other services. These services are available only when the dongle is attached).

Engadget, the tech site, said the
dongle is being developed by Columbia University researchers.

When the dongle is completed, it will only take 15 minutes to get the results. This is how it works. The person being tested pricks his or her finger and places a drop of blood on the plate collector. The companion app
releases “the reagents needed for the test.”

We are going to be seeing a lot more diseases being diagnosed by smartphones and apps. We just have to hope they are accurate.

News Tips

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Let me know if there is a mysterious van roaming the streets where you live. Folks in San Francisco and New York have spotted a van sporting all kinds of instruments a number of times.

Look for vans with mounted cameras and LiDAR sensors, remote-sensing technology involving lasers. If you see one, take a photo immediately and email it to me. I will offer it to the highest bidder among photo editors at newspapers and magazines around the nation.

The speculation from USA Today is that Apple is developing a self-driving car and/or a new type of search engine. Apple won’t comment on rumors.

GoPro Becomes A Channel On Roku Player

The wonderment of innovation. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever think GoPro would become a content provider to the likes of Roku.

I’m not sure if Roku approached GoPro or the other way around. All I know is that GoPro’s videos will now be seen by more than 10 million people thanks to Roku.

For more than a decade, GoPro has generated enough compelling content to launch its own channel on Virgin America, Xbox and LG. Now Roku wants in as well. This is a win-win for all because GoPro’s videos are true human interests stories.

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PhoneSoap Charger

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The PhoneSoap was one of my favorite products on Shark Tank. The inventors of PhoneSoap describe their product as a charger that “encases a phone and uses a UV light to kill any bacteria on the device.”

I am a clean freak, but to have to admit that my cell phone is probably just as dirty as the next guy, maybe more so because I use it so much. The inventors, two cousins, Wesley LaPorte and Daniel Barnes, told the Sharks that the average cellphone is 18 times dirtier than a public toilet.

They wanted a $300,000 investment in return for 7.5 percent of their company. Shark Lori Greiner gave them $300,000 in exchange for 10 percent of equity stake in the PhoneSoap company.

The PhoneSoap was created to focus on cell phones, but the inventors said anything you put inside will be safely sanitized. PhoneSoap only takes four minutes to sanitize a phone.

Amazon cells the Phonesoap for $69.00.

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