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Haptics for stroke victims

If you think of haptics at all, it's likely in terms of force-feedback joysticks. It's a game. But it's not a game for stroke victims. A Rice robotics team under Marcia O'Malley right is harnessing haptics to promote faster stroke recovery and more accurate measurements for therapists. The...

Tags: Therapist, Joystick, Marcia O'Malley, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-07

Another gap in digital education: ergonomics

The "oh-my-aching-back" complaint has usually been relegated to the middle-age set; that is, until recently. The kids who spend hours sitting with their computers and PlayStations have doctors and physical therapists worried about the onslaught of repetitive stress injuries in the next generation of computer users, according to News.com...

Tags: ergonomic, physical therapist, therapist, computer

Blog posts 2006-05-31

Stress Management (exe)

Computer Home therapy has made the PC into an excellent tool for therapy. This stress herapy program uses light and sound which means visual stimulation through the use of pictures, colors, and live imagery music and narration from therapists. The computer program uses numbers, words, music and narration by Relaxation...

Tags: Therapist, Stress Management, Therapy, Music, Computer Home Therapy, Treatment Session, Productivity

Software downloads 2004-09-15

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The ultimate earmark in Wall Street bailout

There is no clear line in mental health leading from diagnosis to cure, as there is in physical health. A patient must accept the need for a cure, or the therapist must work in just the right way. It's not something you can take a pill for. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-10-06

The key barrier to health care reform

The key barrier to health care reformReducing residenciesHey, at least Georgia [b]has[/b] residencies. Arizona's University Hospital has, thanks to Andrew Weil, turned all of its general practice residencies into NCCAAM-funded "alternative health care" training programs.If you think it's bad now, wait until your insurance only covers "therapeutic touch" and...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, barrier, health care, residency, physician

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

VR game to help burn patients

The Loyola University Medical Center in Illinois will be one of the first hospitals in the U.S. to use a virtual reality game to help burn patients. By using SnowWorld, developed at the University of Washington, patients recovering from severe burns will enter a virtual 'polar landscape of gently falling...

Tags: Game, Patient, Loyola University, University Of Washington, Snowball, SnowWorld, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-25

MindMentor, the first robot psychologist

MindMentor, the first robot psychologistFirst? robot psychologist?The claim of "first" in the headline in patently false. Everyone knows that Joe Weizenbaum built the first one -- "ELIZA" in 1966. You should do some fact checking...RE: MindMentor, the first robot psychologistWhy would you do a whole article on this...

Tags: Robots, robot, MindMentor, first robot

Discussion threads 2008-03-11

Skype's future plans may include sampling, selling of eBay digital content

That's what Business Week writer (and fellow Portlander, I might add) Olga Kharif seems to think.In an article she posted earlier today, Olga says that Skype -owner eBay isn't giving up yet. Citing sources, Olga maintains that the next major Skype software upgrade, anticipated early next year, could...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Digital Content, Olga, Corporate Communications, Software Upgrade, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-11-29

Hey, Vonage, what part of "it's over between us" don't you understand?

Hey, Vonage, what part of "it's over between us" don't you understand?Now we know.......where the guy from AOL went after he got fired for making a customer hound him for 45 minutes (while being taped, no less) to cancel the account.RE: Hey, Vonage, what part ofI haven't had any problems...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Vonage Holdings Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-11-15

Beyond a shadow of a pornographic doubt, don't rush to judgment

Have you seen this man? Known only as "Vico," Interpol is apparently looking for him. According to the Register: Interpol says he appears in about 200 photographs of child abuse taken in Vietnam and Cambodia. His face had been "swirled" in the...

Tags: Declan McCullagh, Web, Interpol, Termination, PC, Story, Computer, No., Productivity, Workforce Management, Web Site Development, Human Resources, Internet, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-08

Gateway One vs. Apple iMac: which is the better buy?

Gateway One vs. Apple iMac: which is the better buy?plus the iMac comes with iLife and the Gatway comes full of crapware....i think most people don't realize just how useful and valuable the iLife Suite is it not like the crap you get with most Windows PCs.the iMac is already...

Tags: Desktops, iSuite, Apple iMac, Apple iLife, headach, Apple Inc., Gateway Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-09-27

Best jobs #17: Massage interviewer

Reza Behforooz, self described massage expert and software engineer, was asked one day to do a massage interview. "It sounded Googley," Reza writes, so "I decided to help." Now Reza is a regular.What exactly is a massage interview, you might ask? "I sit in a massage chair and receive a...

Tags: Google, General

Blog posts 2007-05-21

Vista Home Basic on 512MB? Hey, it works!

Everyone knows Windows Vista is a resource hog. Everyone says it doesn’t even get out of first gear without a gigabyte of RAM, and it takes 2 GB before it stops stuttering and stammering with each mouse click. Everyone says Vista Home Basic is the black sheep of the family,...

Tags: Windows Vista

Blog posts 2007-05-09

ClinicDirector 2006 (exe)

Take the headache out of managing your clinic or mobile business Unleash the power, flexibility, and user friendliness of ClinicDirector 2006 today. Whether you run a multi-modality clinic (Massage, Podiatry, Chiropractic, and Physiotherapy), multi-therapist clinics, or single therapist mobile massage operations, the wealth of features available to you make ClinicDirector...

Tags: Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2006-12-22

Bricked Xbox 360 leads to $5M lawsuit against Microsoft

Bricked Xbox 360 leads to $5M lawsuit against MicrosoftI think there is a problem hereIs it possible, when staging a vote with 2 possible choices, for one choice to have 100% and the other 30%? Once again this proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that this site is littered...

Tags: Game players, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, console

Discussion threads 2006-12-11

Is handwriting dead?

In the age of the computer keyboard, why teach young children handwriting? A Daily Telegram article ponders this question and finds that the age-old school activity has definite benefits even in today's high-tech classrooms. More and more elementary schools use computers in classrooms, but some school districts...

Tags: handwriting

Blog posts 2006-09-25

Off-topic: bring on the freak olympics

I'm not much of a sports fan. For whatever reason, the sports appreciation part of my brain never fully developed, except perhaps for an enjoyment of Irish Hurling, which, as a combination of soccer, baseball, rugby, hockey, and spoon racing, is probably the weirdest - and fastest...

Tags: athlete, substance

Blog posts 2006-08-04

Macs see growth spurt

Macs see growth spurtErrata...Apple has been using dual-core G5s for about a year, not two.The POWER4 is really two dual-core processors on one chip. IBM's 'multi-chip modules' are multiple POWER4s in a single package.And the POWER4 was the first dual-core microprocessor in a single die.Many consumers, especially Mac owners,...

Tags: Desktops, Processors, IBM POWER4, IBM Corp., Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Apple Macintosh, Equanimity

Discussion threads 2006-07-19

Microsoft irons out security patch

Microsoft irons out security patch"In a world without walls and fences, who needs winodws and gates."Personally , I'm getting tired of all the attention microsoft is getting . {NOT}NOw you know who you can trust>patch would not be offered to users if the initial update failed to install. In certain...

Tags: Patches, Davy Jones, security patch, security, Microsoft Corp., Disney Corp., Gates IS

Discussion threads 2006-07-19

Why the time is right for the Rich Internet Application

On Monday I counted down 10 reasons to embrace the RIA, and the post generated some good comments. When I talk about RIAs, I often get a few of the same responses as to why my view isn't possible, and I understand where that comes from. But I...

Tags: RIA

Blog posts 2006-07-12