It's been a hugely busy week here. First off, our lead scientist, Jingqing, was at the Rapid Detection in Food Safety conference in Bethesda. Our CEO Shireen spent two days at SolidCon in the startup showcase. We sent out a monthly update, which you can read in its entirety.
6SensorLabs at SolidCon
Health
Can Gut Bacteria Explain Your Mood? The team has been avidly following along with popular news stories about the microbiome and this one proves no exception to that. There's still so much we don't know!
Research by Newburn Bakehouse in the UK shows that men are more likely to cheat on gluten free diets, even when under the advice of doctor's to avoid it.
Technology
How It's Made: Beats by Dre. This column by Bolt's Avery Louie takes a look at these popular headphones and literally breaks it down. While our device isn't a wearable, this article about the future of wearables helps us to think about the ways people might be interacting and using a device -- and the benefits of it.
In a version of farm tech, a scientist has been working to create gluten-free wheat. According to this article Diter von Wettstein has created one that is 76% less gluten than traditional wheat.
As we work on our app, we've been spending time looking at a lot of colors - brandcolors.net comes in handy to see how other companies handle it. Plus, a really nice article about design accessibility for the color blind. Speaking of, it's a common lament how bad websites for restaurants are - we'll be sharing some of the things people with food allergies most want out of restaurant info in the weeks to come. Hint: it's not auto-playing music.
Generating electricity from evaporating water and baceterial spores? It has happened. For those who love engineering, understanding the forces a mosquito can handle when hit with raindrops is actually useful.
No matter what, it's hard to control for bad actors, so we're going to be following along with Smyte - helping manage spam, fraud, and harrassment.
Do computers have acid-tinged dreams? Nope. But their pattern recognition and machine learning may yield some trippy images. Last week we wrote about robots to help with diets, this week SoftBank's emotion-sensing robot, Pepper, is for sale (in Japan). Data, we await your arrival.
Random
- So that lamb modified with a jellyfish gene in France - someone ate it.
- Lexus' prototype hoverboard pairs nicely with this hoverbike.
- A lung on a chip.
- A vine of piglets running around while chickens look on.