Eye Tracking for Mobile Control May 31, 2010
It’s hard sending a text message with arms full of groceries or while wearing winter gloves. Voice control is one alternative to using your fingers, but researchers are also working on other hands-free ways to control mobile devices. A team at Dartmouth College has now created an eye-tracking system that lets a user operate a smart phone with eye movement.Eye tracking has been used for years, primarily as a way for people with disabilities to use computers and to enable advertisers to track a person’s focus of interest. “The naturalness of gaze interaction makes eye tracking promising,” says Email This Post
Andreessen Horowitz Makes Strategic Investment In Mobile Payments Platform Boku May 28, 2010
Recently-launched mobile payments startup, Boku, has announced that they have received a strategic investment from VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. Boku has declined to reveal the funding amount from this round, but to date the company has raised a whopping $38 million since its launch a year ago. As part of the deal, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz will also take on an advisory role for Boku.order acompliaorder proscarorder brand cialisorder brand viagraxenicaldiflucanpaxileffexorlexapropropeciawhere buy cialishow to buy cialisbuy cialis next day deliverypurchase cialis …
Email This PostChildren ‘more likely to own a mobile phone than a book May 27, 2010
Almost nine-in-10 pupils now have a mobile compared with fewer than three-quarters who have their own books in the home, it was disclosed.
The study by the National Literacy Trust suggested a link between regular access to books outside school and high test scores.According to figures, some 80 per cent of children with better than expected reading skills had their own books, compared with just 58 per cent who were below the level expected for their age group.The disclosure follows the publication of a study found that found keeping …
How apps, texting can improve your health May 21, 2010
Before iPhones, Foursquare and Facebook, B.J. Fogg envisioned a mobile fitness device that coaches the user, tracks her location, and shows her friends also exercising at that time. The concept appeared in Fogg’s 1997 dissertation about how computing and psychology can merge to change behavior, and people thought the idea sounded “Star Trek-ish.” He went on to found Stanford University’s Persuasive Technology Lab, where he began work on mobile applications long before most phones in wide use could support them.Today, Fogg’s ideas that once seemed like science fiction are in widespread use. Anyone can develop a smart phone …
Email This PostSolar Powered Trash Cans send text message May 18, 2010
Fourteen new trash cans at Lodi parks do far more than just serve as garbage receptacles.Through solar power, they compact trash after it’s collected. They even send text messages to city workers when the cans are full and need to be emptied.A single Big Belly solar compactor costs about $4,000, but Lodi officials said the cans were bought through federal stimulus dollars. They also said the cans can help the city save money.Read more: ABC News
Email This PostTelephone therapy for depression May 11, 2010
Treating clinical depression on the telephone is nearly as effective as face-to-face consultations, a new Brigham Young University study finds.The trial run included 30 people newly diagnosed with major depression. Instead of eight scheduled visits to the clinic, the participants covered the same material during a series of phone calls with the therapist. Calls varied in length, ranging from 21 to 52 minutes. The patients did not receive antidepressant medication.Read more: Science Daily
Email This PostApple recruiting health care providers at their retail stores May 6, 2010
When I recently walked into my local Apple store to buy an iPad accessory, I saw a group of about 20 people huddled around a large LCD screen while an Apple employee was giving a workshop.When I saw the LCD screen full of medical applications (picture on the left), I was shocked. This wasn’t your run of the mill “how to use your iPhone” workshop.
The people gathered for the workshop consisted of healthcare professionals in medicine, dentistry, and other fields. About a third of the group consisted of physicians.
The workshop was focused on how the iPhone and iPad can be …
Email This PostUS physicist ‘predicted about SMS in 1909′ May 4, 2010
LONDON: Texting may be a boon in today’s world, but the concept was visualised more than a century ago.And, it was a pioneering American physicist who had predicted about the portable messaging service, like the SMS
, via a hand-held device in the ‘Popular Mechanics’ magazine in 1909, its Technology Editor Seth Porges has claimed.Nikola Tesla, the physicist and a mechanical engineer, whose name lives on at the electric car maker Tesla Motors saw wireless energy as the only way to make electricity thrive, according to Porges.Read more: Economic …
