Cognoa’s App Will Evaluate Children’s Risk For Autism From Videos And Other Data

There are life-changing technologies that are being developed at the intersection of health evaluation and diagnosis. For example, Neurotrack has developed a cognitive test to predict and diagnose the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease. And a new startup, Cognoa, is launching to help evaluate children’s risk for Autism.

As CEO Brent Vaughan explained to me, the incidence of autism has risen to 1 in 68 children in the United States, and the incidence of all learning delays in children is now close to 1 in 5. Families are faced with enormous individual challenges to navigate through the complex healthcare ecosystem to understand their child’s risk and how to take action. And the average lag time between an initial warning sign and a diagnosis of autism or other developmental condition is around 13 months, with the average waiting time to see a specialist who can provide a clinical diagnosis around 1 year. By the time children get through the system to the clinical professionals, they’ve lost the time to benefit from intervention programs, which are known to be more effective in younger children. Once the child receives an official diagnosis, families are often left to determine alone how to manage their child’s care and therapy.

Cognoa’s test on the iPhone evaluates the risk for developmental delay and autism for children before the age of 3. The app asks parents set of questions around your child’s behavioral tendencies (i.e. will your child play with peers when in a group with two or more other children), and the app also allows parents to take a home video under 5 minutes showing a child in a simple set of activities.

With this data, Cognoa’s test analyzes the video and answers to the questions and will provide an assessment on whether the child has a risk for autism. The technology on the back-end was developed by Dr. Dennis Wall, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where his lab is developing statistical approaches to decode the complexity of autism spectrum disorder and related conditions. It’s important to differentiate that Cognoa isn’t actually diagnosing, but instead just evaluating whether there could be a developmental risk.

It’s still early days to determine the efficacy of the test but Cognoa has been tested in several studies and over 20,000 times, and is showing accuracy of evolution at and above 90% in children under 4 years old and as young as 13 months.

Dropbox launches Carousel, a new app for organizing your photos and videos

It’s a pretty big day for the folks over at Dropbox. First, they introduced both the desktop and Android versions of their popular Mailbox app, and now they are also bringing us yet another new app called Carousel, this time for archiving videos and images.

Dropbox has had the ability to instantly upload and back-up your pictures for a while now, but Carousel aims to perform the same functionality with a little more flair. Carousel promises a system that automatically groups and organizes everything, while storing all snapped photos and videos at their full resolutions.

As you’ll see in the video below, this means it is easy to look back throughout the years, group various pictures and vids, and share them with others. Speaking of sharing, Dropbox says that Carousel has special tools that all your to share your videos and pictures with any phone number or email address, regardless of whether or not the user has a Dropbox account.

Carousel is a free app, though at the moment it has yet to hit Google Play. Dropbox says the app will be arriving later today, so you’ll want to keep an eye of Carousel.com for more details.

What do you think of the Carousel app, like it or do you feel it was unnecessary for Dropbox to spin off this functionality to a separate app?

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10 Free Android Video Editors To Help Perfect Your Videos On-The-Go

Recording your own video is so much easier now thanks to capable Android devices. Although it’s easy to record something, editing is another matter altogether. A good video editor is quite necessary to transform your boring video recording into something catchy and fun to watch.

We know how hard it is to find a proper video editor for Android, especially for free. But it doesn’t mean that it’s not possible. Here, we share with you 10 Free Android video editors to make video editing on-the-go a reality.

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1. VidStitch

If you ever need an app to create a video specifically for Instagram, look no further. VidStitch combines photos and videos into one beautiful collage and allows you to share it on Instagram with ease. Moreover, you can also use your own soundtrack for the collage that you’re creating.

VidStich allows you to choose from 50 different collage frames for your own video collage. You can also adjust the width of the frame, its color and even the saturation to fit your taste.

2. AndroVid Video Editor

This is a standard Android video editor that’s capable of merging, splitting, trimming and transcoding your videos on-the-go. Furthermore, this app enables you to add text, music, and video effects to further enhance your videos. It has all the necessary features to edit your videos.

Whether the video’s recorded from your smartphone or you ripped a high quality video from somewhere, AndroidVid can easily handle them. If all you need is a good video editor that efficiently does several things, then this is what you’re looking for.

3. WeVideo

WeVideo is a video editing app that allows you to edit your video on your mobile using its very simple interface. You can choose from a variety of themes, ranging from travel journal to a wedding theme, according to whatever suits your video. Next, just add an audio file and you can immediately publish it to the WeVideo server, with the choice of making it a public or private video.

WeVideo ensures that your video exists in its cloud server so that you can further edit it with its cloud editor. And since your video is in the cloud, you can easily access it from anywhere.

4. VidCutter

Videos may not always be the ideal length that you want. Often at times, you might just want a small part of the original video. With VidCutter, you can trim any of your videos easily and quickly without any issue.

All you need to do is set the start and end time at the part of the video that you want to cut and it will save it as a new video right away. VidCutter support formats in 3pg, avi, mpeg, mp4, and wmv thus making it one of the most reliable Android video cutter that you can get for free.

5. KlipMix

Ever wondered how to turn your videos and photos into a nicely edited video of your own? Try KlipMix, an app that’s capable of mixing videos and even photos together with your favourite music to create your own videos. Iff your recording happens to be upside down (mistakes like this can happen), you can fix it easily with KlipMix since it can handle various rotations of all your videos and photos.

Besides that, KlipMix also comes with a feature that allows you to set the duration of each video or photo as you wish. Now, you can have an edited video of your own that’s even free from watermarks.

6. KineMaster

KineMaster is one of the best Android video editors that you can get on an Android device. It has all the features that you will ever need on mobile, such as color, saturation, brightness and even 3D transition effects. There’s a lot of themes to choose from that comes with specific music and visual effects.

However, there’s a downside to using KineMaster, where your videos will be watermarked when exported. Some find that it’s not really a big issue, but if you can’t live with that, just get the paid app for $2.99 to remove the watermark. Doing that will also give you more theme options.

7. Media Converter

Videos comes in many different formats and often you end up with one that may not play too well on your Android device. Well, this is no longer an issue with the Media Converter app. This app allows you to convert any of your videos into formats like mp4, 3gp, avi, mpeg and flv right away.

You can also set the parameter for your video/audio bitrate, resolution and the audio sample rate. The app layout is pretty straightforward, and it even comes with the capability to convert video to audio with ease.

8. VidTrim

VidTrim brands itself as a video editor and organizer on the Android platform. It performs well for tasks like video trimming, video conversion, frame grabbing and much more. Uploading a high resolution video to your favorite social media usually takes up a lot of your time. Instead, you can use VidTrim to scale down your video resolution to help reduce its overall size.

This is made possible because it comes with the transcoder that helps to convert, resize and compress your video on-the-go. So, if you often record videos in high quality and want to share your videos with the world, try out VidTrim.

9. VivaVideo

So far we’ve shared a few video editor apps but VivaVideo is one that works as both a video camera and a video editor. VivaVideo comes with features like themes, filters, video effects, titles and transitions that you can get within the app for free.

There really is no limit when it comes to perfecting your videos with this app, as you can even use it to capture video recordings with all kinds of capture modes like slow-motion, fast-motion, music video and FX.

10. VideoShow

VideoShow is a video editor that can create videos using a mix of videos and photos. It comes with additional features like voice to video recording, multiple text to video with timings, video effects, music, trimming and exporting. You can easily edit your own videos and export it quickly with minimal effort.

VideoShow also allows you to express yourself in your own edited video using any effect, text, or music. You can even feature your own voice with ease, if you want. VideoShow is perfect for people who want to create a short film in a snap without any watermark.

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