Sant Cugat: Deemed Most Transparent Municipality in Spain

Yesterday, the Sant Cugat del Valles, a strategic member of Living Labs Global and a Showcase Award Partner, was awarded a prize for transparent public management in by Transparency International Spain. The mayor of Sant Cugat, Lluis Recoder, received the award yesterday in Madrid; he commented that this award is the result of years of [...]

The ‘Grythyttan’ of Texas? Maybe…

A while back Living Labs Global reported on the Swedish mining town of Grythyttan: a town which on its last legs reinvented itself as a global center for gastronomy, exploring all aspects of restauranteering and using new technologies to boot. Here is the original post. Marfa, Texas, of all places, seems to be experiencing its [...]

Interesting Articles this Week

1. A car that runs on Air: Deflating the Air Car 2. Exploring cell phone pricing schemes in American Markets: Is there a Method in Cellphone Madness? 3. Public Transport Woes in Malaysia: Coordination is the Best Solution 4. Democratizing Maps, mapmakers today: Online Maps: Everyman Offers New Directions

Worried about the Flu?

Are you anxious about H1N1? Well, Harvard Medical School developed an app called teh HMSMobile Swine Flu Center, giving you real-time updates on the outbreak, the virus and geographically relevant information about the flu near you. There’s a quiz too for those curious about swine flu symptoms and their own late-autumn bug. Here is an [...]

The Open Prosthetics Project

Jonathan Kuniholm, founder of the Open Prosthetics Project, believes that ‘Prosthetics shouldn’t cost an arm and a leg’; And, that’s why he launched an initiative to foster, design and produce innovations in the field of prosthetics and freely share the designs.

Reinventing Detroit

Another gem via Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution: Aaron Renn of the NewGeography.com writes about urban regeneration in Detroit in his article entitled Detroit: Urban Laboratory and the New American Frontier This article is worth reading for the images and metrics alone. And it’s not to be missed, if you’re curious about urban farming movements, [...]

HSR potential in the US

Via Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution, here’s a very good article discussing the potential for high-speed rail development in the US. Most interesting sentence in the article: American Intercity rail service is slower today than it was in the 1940s.

Turn your cell phone into a microscope!

For the tune of ten dollars, you can turn your mobile phone into a microscope. Researchers at the California Nanosystems Institute at UCLA have developed a method for transforming a normal cell phone into something capable of diagnosing diseases. Using a patchwork of off the shelf hardware and their own software, they developed an electronic [...]

Americans Want Mobile Health Services

Following months of hype grinding, partisan-politics, Obama’s healthcare bill was just barely passed in the House of Representatives this past weekend, getting American just a little bit closer affordable healthcare. As the bill moves forward (it still needs to be put to the Senate floor), and as it (hopefully) reshapes American healthcare, it will be [...]

Adidas Addendum: Tracking Marathon Runners

For two consecutive years, Adidas succeeded in extending the scope of their London marathon sponsorship by creating real value for users while galvanizing its own role as an active wear brand. Moving beyond the splash and wear logo model of competing sponsorship models, it launched the Adidas Runner Tracker application, allowing families and friends to [...]

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