{"id":457035,"date":"2023-09-03T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/?p=457035"},"modified":"2023-09-03T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:30:00","slug":"ios-week-tech-makes-us-healthier-more-relaxed-and-dependent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/ios-week-tech-makes-us-healthier-more-relaxed-and-dependent\/","title":{"rendered":"IO’s week: tech makes us healthier, more relaxed (and dependent)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Every summer, when I return from holiday, I resolve: I’m going to read more, go outside more, relax more. But when I am lying on the sofa reading, ‘normal’ life soon knocks on the door (I still have to pay that traffic fine, buy a flower for a friend with a new job, get groceries – you know the drill). Relaxation takes work to come to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would be happy to use technology that can help me with that. For instance, Gerard & Anton Award winner Alphabeats has built an app that allows you to train your brain via music to control alpha brainwaves. Alpha brainwaves can be compared to a meditative state. Sounds like music to my ears. Colleague Bart wrote this article<\/a> about it. And here <\/a>you can find an overview of the other ten start-ups that took one of the coveted (flat!) awards to their offices last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alphabeats was also part of our intern Shwet’s article<\/a> about tech solutions – smartwatches, a forest walk with VR – that can help us live healthier lives. Sounds good, but the situation Albert Jan outlines in his cartoon is also contentious. Sleeping better, exercising smarter, relaxing more easily: how bad will it be if we can’t do this without technology in 15 years?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s what else caught our eye this week:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n