Another busy summer week here in the 6SL offices.
6SensorLabs in the News!
There was a terrific profile of CEO Shireen Yates in TechRepublic this week and 7x7 called us one of five foodtech startups who will change how you think about food.
The team participated in a really cool allergyhour chat on Twitter, in advance of our webinar next week. BTW, if you've not registered yet, you totally should!
VP of Marketing, Carla Borsoi, was quoted in this Engadget article about Foursquare and Swarm.
So what was the team reading?
Health & Food
OpenTable released a great deck of information about what consumers want from tech when dining out. Almost 1 in 5 want restaurants to know about their food allergies. Well worth the read.
We also read up on the economic impact of childhood food allergies - guess what? It's a whopping $24.8B in the US - or about $4184 per kid. We hear this a lot from parents -- and this research from the NIH bears it out.
This BBC article on ways of cooking rice to eliminate arsenic raised our interest. We know that a lot of gluten-free folks eat rice and that arsenic is a cause for concern. The article suggests cooking in a coffee maker as a way to cut down on it.
A good backgrounder on CRISPR and DNA editing. Wired covers some of the early players and basics of what you can do.
This rug helps asthma sufferers by killing mites. We'll want to hear how this works out for folks.
Food tech isn't just for the end consumer, lots has been happening in agtech. Fortune sums up some recent Silicon Valley action in this area.
We were impressed with these double-peel bananas. Don't know if we'd eat them since there are some banana-haters in the office, but still interesting. More useful is this guide by Swig to gluten free drinking!
Business & Technology
Perfect Pitch Decks are an art and this article covers the best examples and reiterates how little time you have to grab someone's attention and tell your story.
A fairly unpleasant Mac OS exploit. A $9 Magnetic Adapter for your devices is up on Kickstarter.
Interstitials to try and encourage people to download your app evidently turn everyone off. To which we say, but of course. Luke Wroblewski writes about dropdowns. It's always a tough UI call with long lists, but he provides some excellent examples of alternatives.
Random
- We all sorta want this French Fry necklace.
- Data viz on James Bond kills, drinks, and women. Appropriate in the wake of our James Bond movie marathon last weekend. Also, we all agree, Mr. Bond needs to get with the program and be a little more progressive.
- The Dodo provided some doses of cute this week, including perfectly timed dog photos and this bulldog with only half a body.
- Technology not working the way you want? You may want to reach out to this Wiccan for a little extra help.
- The threadscreen is awesome.
Next Week
We've been challenged to a game of soccer against office-mates Compology. We'll report back next Friday as to who wins. We do know who's bringing the gluten-free snack box!