Strap This Thing on Your Head to Sleep Better

My friends over at Kru Research have been busy distributing the many TED Talk-style videos Bauser Media put together from the two days of footage we taped at last year's e-Patient Connections. Today they released this talk from Ben Rubin, CTO and co-founder of Zeo, about the Zeo Personal Sleep Coach device.

This talk definitely caught my attention because even though I don't suffer from a sleep disorder, I am definitely guilty of not getting enough sleep. I'm always looking for better ways to sleep and sometimes resort to using sleep masks and ear-plugs. I was definitely envious of all the attendees who received a Zeo in their conference swag bag and have been thinking about picking one up for myself ever since.

On the video geek side, I really like how these videos came together from the two cameras we had running in the conference hall, a Sony PDW 700 XDCAM working from a riser and a Sony PMW-EX3 with the most energetic camera op I know running around the ball room to get nice cutaways. A great looking venue and quality staging didn't hurt either.

Here's another (shorter) video I found about the Zeo on YouTube which shows it in action.

What do you think? Would you sleep with one of these on your head?

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Math, Math, and More Math

Conducting interviews with Princeton High School students at the 2010 M3 Challenge.

It's turning out to be a mathy year at BMG.

In April, I was back in NYC to cover the finals of the Moody’s Mega Math Challenge. This year, the six finalists (including Princeton High School) battled it out over the best way to conduct the U.S. Census. If you’re dying to know who won, you can check out the final standings, but since the videos are set to be released any day now, I’m not going to give any spoilers here. 

The Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom at the 2010 SIAM Annual Meeting

But the math doesn’t stop there. Last week, I was invited to Pittsburgh to cover the 2010 SIAM Annual Meeting.

According to their website: SIAM’s Annual Meeting provides a broad view of the state of the art in applied mathematics, computational science, and their applications through invited presentation, prize lectures, minisymposia, and contributed papers and posters.

Translation: More than 1,200 brilliant people get together to share brilliant ideas and talk about how everything is math and math is everything.

Pilot Girl, Sonja Stark, captures some b-roll from the roof of the Pittsburgh Convention CenterBeing a non-mathematician, I have to admit  that most of the time I didn’t understand much of what was being discussed, but it was still enlightening to see the many applications of math including neuroscience, green building design, and the creation of virtual patient populations. One of the best attended and most entertaining sessions was Dmitri Tymoczko’s community lecture, “The Geometry of Music” where the composer and Princeton professor showed the audience how music theory relates to geometry. Orbifolds, 3D graphics, music. Neat stuff.

While we were only at the week-long meeting for a little over a day, we managed to cover a lot of ground, shooting about 7 hours of footage and conducting about 30 interviews. The material will be used to create a series of short films for SIAM’s website.

Embedded e-Patients in Motion

The actual reason for this post is because I needed to see what a Dailymotion video looked like when it's embedded in a blog. The side benefit is that I get to share this is clip from the e-Patient Connections Conference where I did a ton of interviews back in October for a mini-documentary that's currently in post.

Pharma’s First Branded Tweet

Along with the documentary, I'm also editing a bunch of these speaker presentations and panel discussions. Since most of them are longer than the 10 minute YouTube duration limit, we've been posting them on DailyMotion which allows up to 20 minutes per video.