"We can leapfrog expensive data centres, and plug directly into a global computer," he says.
Just yesterday the toy company Leapfrog released data showing that the average British child under the age of 10 spends just shy of one hour every day (58 minutes) using technology.
The beams can travel from one laser transceiver mounted behind a high-rise window, say, to another laser perched behind a window many blocks away, and then on to other buildings, leapfrogging until the data reaches a site with a direct connection to the fiber backbone.
Surrogate endpoints not uncommonly fail to emulate hard outcomes endpoints and leapfrogging from surrogate data cannot substitute for the exposure of patients in clinical outcome studies.
Earlier this year, Leapfrog released the 2012 data showing that the national rate for early elective deliveries is 11.2percentt, down from 17percentt in 2010.
So China Tuna leapfrogged over more recent data to cite a 2011 fisheries assessment that rated Bigeye tuna at a "healthy level of abundance" and "not overfished".
"In 12-24 months, our data business will leapfrog [our legacy focus] and drive this business to multiple-times more revenue," the Mirchandanis told TechCrunch in a recent interview.
When Shields was hired this past February, he said one of his goals was to help the RNC "leapfrog the Democrats' digital and data capabilities".
Wearables can leapfrog access to technology and data in resource-constrained environments; but with great opportunity comes even greater responsibility, especially with devices so intimately connected to the human body.
