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Steve Rubel points out two cool sites where you can “slice through the Web 2.0 hype.” DV Guru compares ten of the new video-sharing services that have flooded the Web in recent months, testing each one for video quality, site interface, community features and functionality, plus bloggability, where applicable. And BuzzShout uses the collaborative nature of Web 2.0 itself to “cut through the cruff” and “garner quality reviews that have been shouted by users.” Go there if you want to help shout down the hype.

(Via Clickable Culture.) According to this article in MIT’s Technology Review, the U.S. Army is about to test “a wearable health-status monitoring system” that will beam information about individual soldiers’ health, hydration, sleep and state of mind, among other things, back to a medic with a Microsoft PDA (pictured at left). Some aspects of the system sound very close to the heads-up display (HUD) found in many real-time strategy (RTS) games like Age of Empires.

A medic or commander can also view the information on a battlefield map that shows the location of each soldier and his or her health status: green (okay), yellow (look), red (look now), blue (unknown), or grey (absence of life signs for over five minutes). Or he could zero in on individual soldiers and get information about their vital signs, position, and how much they’ve slept or had to drink.

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