It is, in fact, amazing that anyone over the age of 20 is still somehow alive.
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Wearable sweat analyzer
Coach, your generation and the generations that came before are truly heroes for surviving despite not having wearable technology to tell you when you're thirsty.
http://www.psfk.com/2014/11/electroz...at-sensor.html
The strip analyzes the chemical composition of the wearer’s sweat to tell them when to replenish lost electrolytes, when to rehydrate and when to stop to avoid heat exhaustion. It delivers real-time feedback and tailored advice, helping the wearer to avoid injury, reduce tiredness and optimize their performance.
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It is, in fact, amazing that anyone over the age of 20 is still somehow alive.
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If only someone could invent a device that lets me know when I need to make a poo.
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Welcome to my world, guys. Here's how this stuff works:
1. Guy out of college optimistically goes to grad school in engineering and needs a project.
2. It's a biomedical lab, and the prof has an ongoing grant for designing a biosensor. (Sensors are very common in chemical / biochemical / biomedical engineering because of the low barrier to entry.) No one really knows what the sensor should do, but hey, it's just academia, so who cares.
3. This dude uses what tools and limited funds he has available to make a crude prototype. It measures sweat probably beacuse his lab did not have the resources, money, IRB, etc. to measure fluids that matter, namely, whole human blood. So he probably used saline or something similar, and later realized it was close enough to sweat. Or he can do what a guy in my lab did: sit in a sauna and sponge that shit up.
3a. Anyone who pushes the whole "it's so disposable and cheap" angle the way this guy is doing does it because the device doesn't work as well as existing, non-disposable devices. So they go for this backup "advantage."
4. Now he's nearing the end of grad school and being a postdoc sounds lame. To make it worse, his research has limited industry application. Finally, he has contracted Steve Jobs-itis, that nasty disease in which nerds entertain narcissistic fantasies of going on stage dressed in a flashy take on business casual and talk about how his tech is revolutionizing the world. Blowjobs to follow.
5. He gathers 500+ LinkedIn friends, does a bit of market analysis, talks to the tech transfer office, and maybe some folks from the business school, and realizes that yuppies will pay for anything. Now he can call himself a CTO and "experienced researcher." The result is this steaming pile of bullshit OP found.
Epilogue: All my more annoying grad school colleagues are self-declared CEOs and "experienced technological entrepreneurs" of startups valued at $4,000. The good ones have a Kickstarter; the bad ones only seem to exist when the "founder" wants to bang a stranger in a bar.
PPS Note that "experienced technological entrepreneur" is redundant: there was already a term for these guys and that term is douchebag.
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Fixed it.Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe
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Indeed a wonder, given how much margarine we all consumed.
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Brawndo is the thirst mutilator. Brawdo has electrolytes.
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making the world a better place4. Now he's nearing the end of grad school and being a postdoc sounds lame. To make it worse, his research has limited industry application. Finally, he has contracted Steve Jobs-itis, that nasty disease in which nerds entertain narcissistic fantasies of going on stage dressed in a flashy take on business casual and talk about how his tech is revolutionizing the world. Blowjobs to follow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-GVd_HLlps
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