Channel 4 is embarking on a groundbreaking project with Digital Goldfish, the Dundee-based developer. “You Booze You Lose” will be an iPhone/iTouch game that enables players to track their weekly, monthly and yearly alcohol consumption. The game will then display the effects of your habits, such as weight gain, liver disease and the financial and emotional impact…..

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4ip - a new initiative to encourage innovation on digital platforms and reinvent public service media for the digital age.

Interesting interview about Lifescan which was amongst the features demonstrated at the iPhone 3.0 update announcement. The announcement was important for developers because applications can be more effective as the user no longer has to remember to click on the app to get reminders - they can now be “pushed” to the phone like a text message.

In the interview Dave Detmers discusses the company’s demo at Apple’s event and fleshes out the background story on its Bluetooth-enabled blood glucose monitor that synchs up with the iPhone 3.0 OS. LifeScan is a Johnson & Johnson company focused primarily on diabetes monitoring devices and software.

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Runkeeper is a great little application (free or paid for) that allows you to log the time and length of how far you have run, walk, or ridden. Utilising the GPS feature of the iPhone it allows you to easily track your speed, pace, and elevation, record and map routes (using GPS) and even share your fitness activities and progress with friends.

Easy to use and contrary to some reviews it hasn’t eaten into my iPhone battery too much so far. Great stuff !

Runkeeper Site

A Consolarium project involving Professor Layton and the Curious Village on Nintendo DS supporting learning in a school in the Orkney Islands (lets hope they’re doing better on it than I am at the moment !) …..

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The Educause Horizon Report for 2009 has just been published. It makes predictions about the emerging technologies that are likely to have a significant impact on education. This year’s predictions are: mobile devices, cloud computing, geo-everything, the personal web, semantic-aware applications, and smart objects.

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Source : Iamlearn Mailing List

Take a walk on the fun side with Nintendo’s latest lifestyle game, which comes with two very special Activity Meter pedometers! Walk with me! Do you know your walking routine? helps you work out if your activity rhythm is up to scratch and provides valuable insight on how to set up a regular routine – the healthiest way to live!

Release date: 20/02/2009

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Recently seen out and about in the shops….

My Health Coach: Stop Smoking brings Allen Carr’s method to Nintendo DS. Developed in conjunction with Allen Carr’s experts, the game hopes to make users understand all the illusions about smoking that prevent them from quitting through powerful facts brought by experts and fun games……

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Time to coin a catchy title for these sorts of developments - what I am now going to call M-Learning For Health (ML4H)

A short case study report on our Nintendo DS and Brain Training/Big Brain Academy/Opera Browser TechDis projects has now been published on the HEA Social Policy and Social Work Subject Centre Website…

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Well we didn’t win on the night but had a great time at the Handheld Learning Awards in October (which seems ages ago now). JISC TechDis have just issued a press release about the event which provides a nice coda and I’ve also submitted a precis of our findings as a SWAP case study which should soon see the light of day…..

JISC TechDis Press Release

Various links about the use of twitter with diabetes sufferers. First off, in 2007 to increase awareness of Diabetes and raise money for the ADA Scott Hanselman twittered his diabetes…..
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Tu Diabetes has Success with Twitter

Sugarstats & Twitter Integration

Twitter: Smaller than a blog, better than Instant Messaging