This is of special interest to me since I'm looking at some casting later in the summer. Too bad it's only a concept. Visit The Verge for a photo.

Coffitivity is a site that creates the ambient noise of a coffee shop so that users can get a creative buzz on even when they can't stop by for a latte. The New York Times reports that researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found that found that a level of ambient noise typical of a bustling coffee shop or a television playing in a living room, about 70 decibels, enhanced performance compared with the relative quiet of 50 decibels. An audio report and a sample at the Times.

I'm giving it a try. You?

NPR tells an interesting story of the success of medical apps and teases it with the headline Patents Lead the Way as Medicine Grapples with Apps. The story contains the expected cautions, reports that Happtique has been founded to" reviews apps and gives those that at least perform correctly a seal of approval, and contains one doctor's opinion that if people are looking at their smartphones a number of times a day they can be put to good use by building a heightened awareness of what's going on with blood pressure or another key indicator. My favorite stories—a woman who has successfully used an app to achieve weight loss and the doctor already mentioned who has used an app to diagnose medical emergencies on an airplane. However the change is driven, it's got to keep coming. 

Food delivery by drone seems inevitable. This report, by CNN this time, brings word of Taco deliveries by a couple of Yelp engineers—complete with fabrication of the drone by 3D printing and an iPhone app. What's new this time is a date. The inventors look forward to making deliveries in 2015.

Boggles my mind:How in 2013 can "we" continue to ask should doctors email w/ their patients? http://t.co/aB0RIN8sLi And that 68% still don't

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) June 21, 2013