I just bought this iphone case with built in wireless ecg. Its a little disappointing as I don't get the display thats on the picture. All I get is a notification box that says "normal" with no readouts or gauges, and not even what my heart rate was. Theres an option to turn on prescription mode, but you have to get a prescription from your doctor, scan it, and send it in to the manufacturer. I think this is a good start, but it would be better if it had the option of adding more electrodes and actually showing the user some useful information.

I remember being excited waiting for it to come out, then it turned out to not be a real 3d game. I was so disappointed. Doom and Duke Nukem 3D were the ones that changed gaming.

I agree, everybody should include their location when they post these prices. I posted earlier but didn't include the state. $1200/mo for family group BCBS PPO medical+prescription in Maryland. An equivalent plan through the same BCBS provider but not through a group was $1500/mo. ($10/$20/$50 office/specialist/hospital) $10 generics. $0 deductible. 100% in-network coverage on most thing.

I'm a contractor through a medium-sized employer of about 1000 people. My family of 5 (wife + 3 kids) pays about $1200/mo for our BCBS group medical+prescription PPO. Dental is another $50/mo. No vision coverage -- paid out of pocket for laser surgery about 5 years ago. My employer pays half and I pay the other half. We have no deductible, $10 co-pays, and $10 generics prescriptions. We are a generally healthy family, eat well, and exercise (triathlons!)

We had one kid, it was going well and thought "lets just have one more"... ended up with twins. Our twins were born last year, 10 weeks early due to an emergency c-section after the wife got sick from our oldest kid. It was $10k each for the c-sections (you'd think there would be a discount to get the second one out!) After all the delivery expenses plus wife's week in the hospital the total delivery cost $30k. The girls then had to stay in the Level IIIC NICU for 6 weeks. Total amount that the insurance company PAID ended up being just over $300,000. The providers asked for about $500,000. Only thing they didn't cover was the $500 ambulance ride to the hospital. We spent about 3 months getting them to pay for the c-sections due to an incorrect billing code that neither the provider nor the insurance company seemed to care about fixing.

Overall it seems pretty expensive, but I hardly ever have any problems with them. I've never tested it for anything serious besides the twins, however. When comparing prices, make sure to factor in both the employer and employee payments. I have no idea where these $300/mo plans for a family of 5 are coming from. I looked for an individual health plan 2 years ago when I was thinking about going out own my own and at first BCBS said they wouldn't give somebody an individual plan after they had been on a group plan. Finally they gave us a price of $1500/mo.

I often review the claims when the insurance company sends them to me. It is almost universal that the provider asks for 2x to 4x more than insurance ends up paying. I'm not sure if I'd get a discount or not if I offered to pay cash before a regular visit.

That sounds great for corporate intranets. More security features that make it hard for paying people to get their work done.

Everybody I know has been moving over to LotRO

I was looking for the old dungeons and dragons games a while back and I ran across The Quest, from Redshift. They have it for iOS also. Its very cool and is only $10. They have an expansion pack as well. Also, there are good 3rd party expansions from Zarista Games. Its very fun.

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I got an Acer Aspire Revo with the single core from best buy for $199. It runs windows 7 and boxee just fine. 1080p h.264 videos are flawless over hdmi. I also like the boxee remote control for the iPhone.

There's a show on now that follows Oregon police. I don't remember its name or the channel, but they show regular taser use. The police use the tasers to force compliance to their orders, not to defend themselves. Often the citizen isn't being agressive. So much for being a replacement to the firearm.

You mean just like Saint Joseph the pedophile, husband of Mary the Mother of Jesus. Just seems like you're implying that Islam is unique in this. It was common at the time for girls to marry around 13.

My grandfather was telling me about how he used to walk inside of an old cray with 5 processors like 50 years ago. What happened to the people who used to know how to program those things efficiently? Apparently multi-core programming isn't so new.

A fair profit margin is 100% or more.

I don't know what business *you're* in, but 100% is ridiculous. It looks like the average US corporate profit margin in 2006 was 8.5%.

I'm in a government regulated business and Washington sets our profit at 8% or even 4% sometimes. No reason health care shouldn't get fixed at 4% profit margin too.

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I can't believe its not in the article or been edited to go in the summary.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/14/cashmore.haiti.earthquake.relief.technology/

Also this was on Colbert last night