Saturday, July 19, 2014

Smart Technology and Dumb Mistakes

ABC7 has a really interesting online story about a new technology for dealing with epileptic seizures. Not only can it detect the onset of a seizure before the patient is aware of it, but also it can emit an electrical pulse to counteract the seizure before it has time to take effect. The only problem with the story is the headline:
IMPLANTABLE DEVICE USED AT CPMC LESSONS SEIZURES
I suppose writing for television news means that you only have to worry about getting it right phonetically. To add insult to injury, I was able to determine that the same spelling error went into the metadata for this article, probably because it was harvested from the headline!

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