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Sunday, April 26th, 2009
Along the lines of an earlier post here on the interfaces emerging between mobile devices and medical technology, Diabetes Device & iPhone.
Popgadget reports:
AT&T has just launched new technology in partnership with Mednet which monitors heart patients' health and transmits the results to their cardiologists via Bluetooth.
[via - More medical applications for mobile ...
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Saturday, April 25th, 2009
A report released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare earlier this month comes to what to me, and I suspect many, would think obvious.
Disabled people often poor
Thursday, 02 April 2009
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Economic hardship can be both a cause and a result of disability, according to ...
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
Reuters reported last month on Apple ordering larger touch screens:
Taiwan touchscreen specialist Wintek already makes small screens for Apple iPhones, and has received orders for the larger ones that are roughly the same size as those used in mini PCs - [http://www.wintek.com.tw/]
I bet you'll still need skin!
Source [Apple orders ...
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
My ex-boss, when talking about the language of disability, always used to tell people that "wheelchair bound" should refer to those who do not use a wheelchair, as they're potentially headed there and we've already arrived!
Well, now take a look at this experimental vehicle from Segway. See, he was right!
The ...
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
ReadWriteWeb reports on iPhone app that wirelessly connects to a Bluetooth-enabled glucose meter.
A good example and model of technology assisting health and well-being.
I think lots more work on hardware device interfacing needs attention allowing software <-> hardware interactions as these types of things tend to foster possibilities for environmental control.
[Diabetes ...
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