From Dr. Kendall Ho, Director of the eHealth Strategy Office, University of British Columbia, there’s a balanced overview of – and good introduction to – technology in personal health/wellbeing, with some sensible tips at the end. Modern technology allows users to take charge of their health. Vancouver Sun.

Haven’t we all wanted to invent THE killer lost key/purse/anything system? But it looks like the designers of StickNFind have beaten us to it. Another Gizmag piece: StickNFind system uses your phone and coin-like tags to find lost items.

A pointer to the future? Scientists successfully treat Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice Gizmag item.

Pulse IT carries excellent coverage by Kate McDonald of a report presented at the Australian Global Telehealth conference* concerning the effect of satellite transmission latency for videoconferencing via broadband. As one of the commenters points out there are also coder/decoder latency issues too. The point of the report by Dr Sarah Dods and colleagues from CSIRO was, it seems, a plea to take these matters into account when designing systems and not to assume that because a system works over a landline it will be equally good by satellite. Telehealth over satellite broadband confronts the issue of latency.

* Storified Twitter posts from the conference.