Ultrasound imaging smartphone is now possible with

The engineers at Washington University in St. Louis, the minimalist approach to health care and information technology by coupling the ultrasonic probe USB technology with a smartphone, so that a compact platform, mobile computing and medical imaging device that fits in the palm of the hand .

William D. Richard, Ph.D., WUSTL associate professor of computer science and engineering, and David Zar, a research fellow at the Institute for computer science and engineering, have the commercial ultrasonic probes USB compatible with Microsoft Windows Mobile smartphones, thanks a $ 100000 grant Microsoft in 2008. Ultrasonic sensors to deliver the work with USB smartphones researchers optimize every aspect of the probe in the design and operation, energy and data transfer rate for the formation of image algorithms.

Therefore, it is now possible, smartphones compatible with USB Ultrasound probe images of the kidneys, liver, bladder and eyes, the probes endocavity of prostate and cervical cancer screenings and biopsies, and probes for imaging vascular veins and arteries for the formation IVs and central lines. The world of medicine and the use of computers will never be the same.

"You can wear a sensor and a cell phone and the image on the fly now," said Richard.

"Imagine these smartphones in ambulances and emergency rooms. In a larger scale, this type of mobile phone is a computer that runs Windows. It could be the core of the computer in developing countries where trained medical personnel are scarce, but most of the population, less than 90 percent has access to a cellphone tower.

"Twenty-first century medicine, the medical imaging," Zar said. "But 70 percent of the world's population has no access to medical imaging. It is difficult, a MRI scanner, or a rural community without electricity."

The decline in electronics, more than 25 years

Zar said the vision of the new system is to provide people in remote areas of the Third World, based on data with the phone and send them to a central unit for many miles, or half a world from where experts analyze the image and make a diagnosis. Czar, says the phone software and firmware for the probes, Richard came with the probe of low-power electronics design. He started working on the design of the ultrasound system 25 years ago, and that he came from the electronics firm, for the size of a small printed circuit board a tariff of three inches. Typical portable ultrasound system could cost up to $ 30000. Some of the USB-based sensors for sale for under $ 2000 with the objective of price as low as $ 500

Another promising application is for the careers of patients with Duchene muscular dystrophy. A degenerative disease that often strikes boys and takes them to their lives through their late 20s, DMD is a degenerative disease for which there is no cure. The treatment of the slowing its development is a daily dose of steroids. Often, some patients suffer from side effects of steroids, which are related to dose. These side effects are behavioral disorders and weight gain. Researchers now know that physical changes in the muscles, the effectiveness of corticosteroids. Measure these changes in the muscles and can be achieved with ultrasound can allow researchers to optimize the dose of steroid to achieve maximum effectiveness while reducing side effects.

"The idea is that the nurses who otherwise would transport a young person, often a wheelchair, a hospital or a clinic at regular intervals for the test, can be trained to the ultrasound to monitor the condition of the muscles," says czar. "This could be the height of the lowest effective dose for improving the quality of life of patients and the carer and hopefully prolong life. We are very pleased about that application. Carer would be only a minute to scan the data collected at the clinic, and the results back to the caregiver. A group at the WUSTL School of Medicine study of Duchene muscular dystrophy is very interested in our products, and hopes to include them in their research plans. “
Field trials in the Third World

Richard Tsar and about a possible collaboration with researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the field of integration of their probe smartphone concept in a series of field tests for medical applications in developing countries.
"We are at the point when it comes to use what we have done with this technology and find as many applications as possible," said Richard.

Such a request may be his way to the army. Physicians could rapidly diagnose the wounded soldiers and the small, mobile and sensor to detect the side of the shrapnel injury to the decision for the transportation of soldiers and the treatment he has the box.
Richard and Zar showed fully functional smartphone USB ultrasound probe at Microsoft Research Tech Fest in February 2009, Tsar and technology at the 2009 World Health Care Congress in Washington, DC, April 14-16.

Hulu application for the iPhone soon

Silicon Alley Insider reports that Hulu dedicated application is indeed on the way to the iPhone and should be here in a few months.

SAI said the application will run on Wi-Fi AT & T's 3G network, which means that users can view anywhere in connection with programming information quickly.

Rumors suggest that the iPhone version of Hulu swirl around this time last year, however, that preceded the launch of the App Store, and refuse to have worked flat Hulu.

This time, however, is much more plausible, with the upcoming iPhone OS 3.0 software update, allowing developers the means to cook in their applications. For Hulu, meaning that advertising can be trapped in the flow of motivation and that users can watch videos without leaving the application.

One of the things that prevent the conclusion of this rumor is that water is in direct competition with Hulu Apple iTunes business. Users can see Hulu ad support, long-term television and movies on their personal computers for free, instead of paying Apple to download a copy offline.

If such an application are available on the iPhone, but also offers mobile TV and see the movie, something that does not yet offer its own mobile application from Apple iTunes, which is limited to video podcasts. In the past, cases of this, the company simply refused to podcaster applications through the application approval process, to run in the first part of the functionality later.

Moreover, some of its competitors Hulu have already received a foot in the door, including CBS and Joost TV.com property, which has its own content in the flow of the iPhone application in pieces. In addition, Google YouTube, whose application is preinstalled on the iPhone, has recently concluded an agreement with major studios including Sony Pictures, Lions Gate Entertainment and CBS (the editor of CNET News), offers visitors long, with TV movies .

Hulu withdraw advertising if not in food, using this system would be simple enough to force users to move through the advertising clips.

Lenovo Thinkpad X200

This outstanding notebook PC offers all the features of performance, great battery life and a good keyboard.

Equipped with the new Centrino 2 processor, Lenovo ThinkPad X200 looks like an ultra-light, but can jump and charge a single job. Its battery life is phenomenal, and the keyboard is huge. In short, it is much better than the ThinkPad X61 notebook, which it replaces, and a sure winner for the term executives.
Because they have fewer model, one can imagine that this is a less potent version of the ThinkPad X300, X200, but reality has a newer processor. The X300 has a 13.3-inch screen, however, while the X200 has a 12.1 inch screen. Ah, but what you see when you fire this baby!

In just under 3 pounds with its lightest battery, the X200 weighs a few oz. less than the ThinkPad X61, despite offering the same 12.1-inch wide screen and larger keyboard. The bright little screen has an easy to read, 1280-by-800-pixels resolution, which makes it very comfortable to work on the fly. And integration of the camera keeps you in visual contact with their colleagues.

The new keyboard is as big as the members of the Lenovo ThinkPad T Series, and has all the same services: resistance to spills, and the page devoted to the keys, and important ThinkVantage button. The ThinkVantage application suite offers access to the card user's manual and recovery, security, and other essential public services. A fingerprint reader completes the set. What is missing: a touchpad. Many ThinkPad offers a touch and aneaserhead as pointing devices, but not the X200.

The review unit Lenovo sent us came with 2GB of RAM and a 2.4-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P8400, and notched WorldBench 6 score of 88, which is only 14 points behind the fastest laptop we've tested to date. As expected, the X200 integrated graphics can handle only simple games. But the battery life of the new X200. Lenovo has expanded its line of battery options to three, dominated by the powerful nine-cell model that our X200 carried. Despite this battery extends the back of the computer for about half an inch and the unit weight of 3.7 pounds (adapter not included), the gain of nearly nine hours of juice on a single charge.

Unless you already have a USB port into the optical drive, you'll pay $ 219 additional for installment Lenovo UltraBase docking for an internal drive bay. (Blu-ray an optical drive costs even more). On the positive side, the modular bay accepts other devices like a second battery or second hard drive. However, the portion of coupling also offers some nifty new connections, including a place to charge an extra battery and a DisplayPort display interface that combines high-definition audio and video in a single connector.

Of course, ultraportable ThinkPad notebooks have always used the space they save by omitting a form of optical drive for laptops add many features that are not within the competence of the same size. The X200 has three USB ports, headphone and microphone ports, a VGA port and an Ethernet connection. You can choose a modem with a five on a memory card slot, or a less expensive configuration offering an SD card slot but no modem.

The X200 feels tough as nails, with a magnesium alloy lid and beyond. An accident-proof solid-state 64GB hard drive is optional (we have a plateau of 160 GB hard drive-based standard, however). For the future improvement of the X200 two slots for memory chips are in a bottom compartment for easy access, and the hard drive can be removed from the right side of the device after a low to unscrew the screw.

A full range of wireless communication is based on 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, WWAN, and even GPS. Later this year, Lenovo offers WiMAX - and a compressed version of the X200. But if all you need is the world's best travel laptop right now, you're looking for in this area.

Little House on the Moon? First robot created Project

Mälardalen Luna Construction University works with the multi-artist Mikael Genberg to create a robot to send to the moon to build a house. The house on the Moon is a project to bring home a reading on the moon as a symbol of what man can achieve. Genberg robot deployment of the cabin space rocket, to find a vacant building stable and the construction of the first planet.

"We want to train students to think creatively, to work together, using the latest technologies, and to dare to above. The most important thing is not always reach the goal. If you aim for the stars in at least reaching to the tops of trees, or even the moon, "says Lars Asplund.

By working together, students go from concept through construction and planning to finally have a real robot. "We are here for Mälardalen University," says Professor Lars Asplund, the main inventor of the robot and a good model in the program.

The aim is that the robot - which has the working name of Roony - to set the hut on the moon in 2012.

Mikael Genberg is an artist of Västerås, which is best known for their alternative livelihood. Today Carpenter Hotel is 13 meters high above the trees in the park in Västerås Vasa. In Lake Mälaren, one kilometer from the port, there is a building with a living room under the name Otter Inn Hotel. The little house on the moon is barn red with white cut-off - after all, the first on the moon, this period will be Swedish.

from:sciencedaily.com

Apple iPod Shuffle third generation

The runt of the litter, the pampered youngest child, the little clip on a tie is random trick that none of his brothers and sisters can handle most popular. He can talk. Yes, the world smallest MP3 player with an impeccable lineage, but the power of words between the 3rd generation of all other random music player.

Trick? Well, not most of the conversation, talking, but all, all dancing is random "speak" of information on monitoring and battery life to you at the touch of a button on the headset lead with a new feature called VoiceOver. Stan Ng, Apple product manager, said that the T3 and eliminates the need for a heavy power LCD screen and gives the user a maximum of 10 hours of music - a feat that we have tested on a long train journey to the weekends.

This also means you can hear other options from the menu and navigate with ease. Continue to strengthen the hull to drive and had read all your playlists, eliminating the pressure in the head and the playlist you choose to start playing. "This eliminates the need for a lot of buttons too rough" said Ng T3, further improving the design philosophy of Apple.

One point of disagreement we have with VoiceOver is that the voice depends on whether the random synchronization to a PC or Mac. Mac voice is quite acceptable for an electronic voice, but the PC returns to ballot shame. Ng When asked the difference between the two, he just laughs and says that the PC is the voice of Microsoft standard auto-generated voice, and nothing to do with Apple.

Anything you find in the little man himself escape the random and the smallest LED we have seen is a headphone jack that accepts any plug 3 mm. Here is the trick, though - due to the lack of buttons on the body of the Shuffle, which are locked in using the supplied headphones for Apple (or the first outbreak). Anyone who has a pair of headphones that do not work the paddle in the head to discover that you can not control the music - can not adjust volume or skip songs or change playlists. They have certainly not be able to turn on VoiceOver.

This is where the main fault lies with the Shuffle. The hull is good for Apple buds that are never very Saturday in his right ear, until Apple releases an adapter, you can not use the Sennheiser / Bose headphones. Think of it as the DRM, but in hardware form. It will not be long until the third part of the ecosystem Apple comes to action, but Ng said "pay attention to the third party headsets and adapters position in this way, I saw with Klipsch helmet and there will be random more "Even if any, shall require authorization by Apple to market.

However, we believe that anyone who chooses to spring £ 59.99 on an iPod shuffle is not too much on audio quality, or if you can use other brands of phones. Anyone who has a better quality helmet that provided by Apple is not very likely to choose a random or a more expensive iPod Nano.

May the size was halved, but somehow the iPod shuffle has doubled the capacity of 4 GB and the sound quality is very accurate and powerful. What future for all-singing and dancing in the iPod? Voice recognition? Let's wait and see.

from:t3.com

This range of Xploder Sony car audio

Simply slot in your music collection

Anyone who has a long commute or a job in the way knows the importance of music to keep in reasonable spirits. But how all of you with its collection of all time? This should be possible with the car Xploder range of Sony.

It goes beyond having "just" or USB connectivity for iPod, which offers a USB cable for 1-feature that translates into more separate ports for different types of portable players. Therefore, you must use the device (USB memory drive, iPod, iPhone or any other brand of MP3 player), all connected through the USB port, and if necessary, get a load too. You can even transfer control of all in the head of the main unit as well. If only it was designed with such ease.

All offer CD/MP3/WMA/AAC Sony music playback with more advanced digital (Advanced + DM), and rapid technology Zappin browser to find the tracks, the track selection to adapt and improve their quality of mind Playback of digital formats.

Specifically, the CDX-GT930UI offers a top-down, detachable face and a large 4-line fluorescent display. Or has integrated Bluetooth and the MEX-BT5700U MEX-BT4700U MEX-BT3700U, the flow of calls (and music from your phone) on the speakers, music automatically pauses when a call comes in Thursday MEX-BT4700U also adds a directory access profile (PBAP) option, the transfer of your telephone directory information from your Bluetooth phone to your computer screen with 4 lines.

Available now, prices vary for all models to check the extent of your local Sony.

from:t3.com