European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing
A new website, the "Marketplace for Innovative ideas" has been launched as part of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing. The Marketplace is an interactive website designed to help those that are interested and involved in the Partnership to work together and develop their innovative ideas.
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Scientists Develop a Software Tool for Estimating Heart Disease Risk
University of Granada researchers have developed a software tool that makes an accurate estimation of the risk that a person has to suffer a heart disease. In addition, this software tool allows the performance of massive risk estimations, i.e. it helps estimating the risk that a specific population group has of suffering a heart condition.
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Call for Innovative Health Technologies and eHealth Solutions for Low-Resource Settings
Medical devices and eHealth solutions have the potential to improve lives. However, too many people worldwide suffer because they don't have access to the appropriate health technologies. This call highlights the importance of these innovative technologies towards improved health outcomes and the quality of life.
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The Hunt is on for Local Digital Inclusion Champions: E-Inclusion Awards 2012 Now Open for Entries
Everyone's online right? Wrong, almost a quarter of Europeans aged 16 and over have never used the internet. If you've supported other people to get online through a project, service or product, we want to hear about it and the benefits it has provided.
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IT Security for Less than 1 Cent
An increasing number of everyday devices such as car keys, smart phones and even medical implants need protection from hackers. The encryption method PRESENT is the smallest cipher for such cost and energy constrained applications.
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Valentine's Day - Time to Hug your Favourite Robot?
On St. Valentine's Day, we want to be close to the ones we love. Researchers from Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK are testing whether one day that special person in our life could be a robot. Experiments have shown that children, for example, can become extremely attached to a robot playmate, but can the robot in turn can develop a bond with a human being?
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NFC Aid for the Visually and Hearing Impaired
As the proportion of senior citizens grows, their special needs are gaining momentum. Human eyesight, for example, weakens with age. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has been developing new NFC-based applications that make life easier for the visually impaired.
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