{"id":663,"date":"2013-04-18T01:37:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T00:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/typepad.thalamus.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/04\/18\/kickstarter-digitalfork-jacques-lepine\/"},"modified":"2013-04-18T01:37:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T00:37:06","slug":"kickstarter-digitalfork-jacques-lepine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typepad.thalamus.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/04\/18\/kickstarter-digitalfork-jacques-lepine\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantified Self, Connected Objects, Crowdfunding, Kickstarter, Intelligent Fork #doctors20 #eatingslowly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/typepad.thalamus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/6a00d83453d41269e2017eea5800fb970d-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SlowControlDigitalFork\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83453d41269e2017eea5800fb970d image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/typepad.thalamus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/6a00d83453d41269e2017eea5800fb970d.webp title=\"SlowControlDigitalFork\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;<strong>Digital&quot;<\/strong> gets lots of attention for sure. But one underplayed impact of digital is the new vocabulary it generates. <strong>Quantified Self<\/strong> refers to self-measurement by individuals interested in understanding the data our body produces. Quantified Self goes along well with <strong>connected objects<\/strong>. The connection between the objects is digital of course; the objects are connected to the web to transport the data. An example is the <strong>intelligent fork<\/strong>, invented by Jacques Lepine of SlowControl.com &#8212; the fork that knows when we eat too fast (HAPIfork)<\/p>\n<p>Next along comes <strong>crowdfunding<\/strong>, a second generation method for getting financed, thanks to the <strong>wisdom of the masses<\/strong>. It&#39;s also CGU but the &quot;c&quot; is for contribution generated by the user ;-), if I may. Since many of these connected objects come from start-ups, some financing model has to be found. <strong>Kickstarter<\/strong> is a leader in the area of crowdfunding, and so it was normal that the <strong>intelligent fork <\/strong>would benefit from this great platform for a campaign running through May 31. <\/p>\n<p>And then one week later, the intelligent fork will be present at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctors20.com\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Doctors 2.0 &amp; You<\/strong>, <\/a>June 6-7 in Paris, which is one of the reasons why I&#39;m posting this information. Jacques Lepine and Fabrice Boutain travel the world, but they&#39;ll be together in Paris. So, if you can&#39;t see them in the US or Asia, try to make it to Paris, the world&#39;s conference center. We&#39;ll be waiting there for you. And that&#39;s not virtual.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1273668931\/hapifork-the-smart-fork-that-tracks-your-eating-ha-0\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"480\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctors-2-0","category-health-2-0","category-quantified-self","category-video-webtv","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/typepad.thalamus.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/typepad.thalamus.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/typepad.thalamus.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typepad.thalamus.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typepad.thalamus.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/typepad.thalamus.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/typepad.thalamus.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typepad.thalamus.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typepad.thalamus.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}