In the demo, Microsoft showed personalization features that included instant feeds of information from Web-based accounts, including Facebook and Twitter, as well as Microsoft's own cloud-storage system, called Skydrive.
To succeed, wearables must expand from feeds of information to recommendations and other actionable health knowledge.
Real-time feeds of information surface data from within apps so you don't have to open them.
And it garnered a lot of buzz for a good reason: it aimed to speed up traditionally slow feeds of information to realtime.
There's only one other group online as obsessive about constant feeds of information aside from Silicon Valley's power geeks, and that's sports fans.
With so many real-time feeds of information out there, from weather to finance to social, staring at wallpaper or a set of dead icons and folders buries information.
Crimson receives daily feeds of information on biosamples -- mostly blood, but also urine, tissue, cerebrospinal fluid, and bacterial collections -- from patients in Harvard-affiliated clinical laboratories and the pathology laboratory, which includes some 5000 blood samples collected daily at Brigham and Women's and Massachusetts General hospitals.
The serpentine Urgently! parodies how we ingest and frivolously dispose of constant feeds of information, with an LED display snaking out of a waste bin, displaying live RSS feeds from news channels that make the snake's digital skin crawl.
Fortunately, there are easy ways to manage Facebook, Twitter and Instagram so that your brain feels less engorged by feeding tubes of information.
Mr. Swartz, 25, was barely a teenager when he helped create RSS, the computer code that allows people to receive automatic feeds of online information.
