Monday, July 11th, 2011
The medtech industry is changing, and some of the most interesting developments are the increasing influence of patients' opinions on device design and selection and a rise in awareness of the possible downsides of outsourcing to countries like China. Several blogs and articles last week reflected on changes in the ...
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Monday, April 4th, 2011
Just days after the debut of the iPad 2, the intriguingly named Room4 announced that its multiplatform virtual slide application was demonstrated on the upgraded tablet. The demo happened during a lecture at a CATAI/UNESCO meeting regarding the use of iPhone and 4G mobile phones in telemedicine.
The application ...
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Monday, March 14th, 2011
In a new, free-access paper in PloS one ("Cell-Phone-Based Platform for Biomedical Device Development and Education Applications"), researchers propose to take advantage of the rapid improvements in commercial CMOS sensors and microscopic optics driven by the cell phone industry to develop two common biomedical devices, a microscope and spectrometer, that ...
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Here's some uplifting news amid the tragedy that is Haiti. According to a story filed by MSNBC and picked up by Wired, a US filmmaker who was buried under a pile of rubble owes his life to an iPhone app.
Dan Woolley was shooting a documentary about the impact of poverty ...
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