--- title: %title% description: Get ready for clinical trials on your iPhone, how the default setting rules our lives and more. canonical: https://time.com/4426199/get-ready-for-clinical-trials-on-your-iphone/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-27T16:03:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:40.481Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Get Ready for Clinical Trials on Your iPhone og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4426199/get-ready-for-clinical-trials-on-your-iphone/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Get Ready for Clinical Trials on Your iPhone twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Get Ready for Clinical Trials on Your iPhone by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 27, 2016 4:03 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 27, 2016 4:03 PM UTC **1\.** [**Get ready for clinical trials on your iPhone.**](http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/18/12211970/apple-GlaxoSmithKline-researchkit-first-study) By James Vincent in the Verge **2\.** [**Do you let the default setting rule your life? Probably.**](https://www.propublica.org/article/set-it-and-forget-it-how-default-settings-rule-the-world) By Lena Groeger in ProPublica **3\.** [**Yes, Facebook could help swing an election — by getting out the vote.**](https://psmag.com/how-to-use-facebook-to-increase-voter-turnout-6902d1e38950#.6g9hmcidg) By Tom Jacobs in Pacific Standard **4\.** [**Soon, we’ll enjoy 3D movies without those annoying glasses.**](http://news.mit.edu/2016/glasses-free-3d-larger-scale-0725) By Adam Conner-Simons at MIT **5\.** [**How GMO eggplants could spur a farming revolution.**](http://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2016/gmo-eggplants-aubergines-bangladesh/#2208) By Hidde Boersma, Philip Fountain and Karsten de Vreugd at Al Jazeera English  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4426199/get-ready-for-clinical-trials-on-your-iphone/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4426199/get-ready-for-clinical-trials-on-your-iphone/"},"headline":"Get Ready for Clinical Trials on Your iPhone","datePublished":"2016-07-27T16:03:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:40.481Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4426199/get-ready-for-clinical-trials-on-your-iphone/","keywords":["Innovation","Technology","facebook","iPhone","GMO","3D"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4426199/get-ready-for-clinical-trials-on-your-iphone/","name":"Get Ready for Clinical Trials on Your iPhone"}}]}] ```