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Caltech develops robot with digital camera to study sight restoration

That's not Wall-E, but Cyclops, a four-wheeled robot developed by Caltech scientists for studying possible forms of sight restoration with the help of a digital camera planted in the eye of the robot. According to CNET, the movements of the digital camera eye could "help refine...

Tags: California Institute Of Technology, Digital Camera, Camera, Retinal, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Robots, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Emerging Technologies, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Retinal implants may soon restore lost vision

Retinal implants may soon restore lost visionThe question is...Will anyone except the Rich be able to afford it.Very interesting...Even if I'm blind on my left eye and have vision on my right eye, I really don't think I need the implant, because I don't think I have retina disease. The...

Tags: Vertical industries, Insurance, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, cab, bus schedule, vision, Retinal

Discussion threads 2006-04-04

Additional Resources

i2k Align Retina 1.3 (Windows)

This is an advanced version of i2k Align that includes special-purpose algorithms to align and montage a variety of retinal images, including color, red-free, fluorescein angiography, and indocyanine green angiography. Users can mix and match images from different modalities as long as they are of the same eye of the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Image, DualAlign, UI

Software downloads 2009-10-08

Latest MIT retinal implant to see human trials by 2013

Led by an MIT professor, a team with 20 years of retinal implant research announced a prosthesis that could one day help restore a useful level of vision to certain groups of blind people. by Chris Jablonski

Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Team Management, Strategy, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-09-23

Microsoft-Nokia: A dog of a deal born from weakness

AnalystsAnalysts keep repeating that Windows Mobile is old news. In the current state 6.1 is far behind the competition, except the skinned versions like HTCs TouchFlo interface. The thing that they don't tend to discuss is the fact that Microsoft has owned up to just about negelecting WinMo and they're...

Tags: Leadership, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Nokia Corp., WinMo, Microsoft Corp., leader, mobile

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

Poor Man's Aberrometer 1.0.1 (Mac)

For some people small letters viewed from a sufficiently large distant have a bit fused shape and may be surrounded by some halos, glares or wings. The reasons of those distortions are so called HOAs (Higher-Order Aberrations), which can slightly modify the human perception. The Poor Man's Aberrometer is a...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, F.U. ONTIX Stanislaw Ciszewski, Poor Man, Aberration, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-07-25

Handbook of Retinal Screening in Diabetes (retscrdb) (Mobile)

Handbook of Retinal Screening in Diabetespowered by Skyscape Publisher: Wiley This resource, a successor to the highly popular Practical Guide to Polaroid Retinal Photography, describes the essential components of a retinopathy screening programme, including the criteria for referral to an ophthalmologist, drawing upon the experience of the Newcastle system over...

Tags: Mobile, Diabetes, Skyscape Inc., Retinal Screening

Software downloads 2008-06-07

Rapid Reference for Nurses: Nutrition (NurNutr) (Mobile)

Rapid Reference for Nurses: Nutritionpowered by Skyscape Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc. Includes clinical "Do''s" and "Don''ts" for a variety of conditions enabling the user to find the information in a rapid and convenient manner!Portable and concise, this resource equips nursing students and health professionals with the facts and...

Tags: Nutrition, Mobile, Skyscape Inc.

Software downloads 2008-05-21

Websense: Microsoft Live Hotmail CAPTCHA hacked in 6 seconds

Websense: Microsoft Live Hotmail CAPTCHA hacked in 6 secondsYahoo is implementing CAPTCHA at the send...level. So every mail you send requires you enter a capycha response. Totally not acceptable.This is why large networks like Google, MS Live, etc. will simply not serve the enterprise like all the bloggers think.It is...

Tags: web computing, CAPTCHA, Microsoft Live Hotmail CAPTCHA, Websense Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-14

Stop the Kindle hype!

The current meme about the Kindle is that Amazon's e-book reader is a monster success and is heralding the end of the hardcopy paper book. If that notion wasn't strange enough, some industry observers point to Amazon's purchase of Audible as another boost for its content platform. The fly...

Tags: Subway, Device, Apple iPod, Audible Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Audio Book, Kindle, Digital Music, E-books, Digital Media, Podcasts, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Internet, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-02-13

Rapid Reference for Nurses: Nutrition (NurNutr™) (Mobile)

Rapid Reference for Nurses: Nutritionpowered by Skyscape Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Includes clinical "Do's" and "Don'ts" for a variety of conditions enabling the user to find the information in a rapid and convenient manner!Portable and concise, this resource equips nursing students and health professionals with the facts and figures they...

Tags: Nutrition, Mobile, Skyscape Inc., Food & Beverage, Manufacturing

Software downloads 2007-12-17

Predicting drug side effects

It would certainly be nice for the pharmaceutical industry to identify potential side effects of a drug before it starts to be tested on humans. Now, a research team at the University of California, San Diego UCSD might have found a solution. They have developed a new computational technique to...

Tags: Technology Review, Protein, Drug, Molecule, UCSD, Philip Bourne, Tamoxifen, Team Management, Productivity, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-16

Handbook of Retinal Screening in Diabetes (RetScrDb™) (Mobile)

Handbook of Retinal Screening in Diabetespowered by Skyscape Publisher: Wiley This resource, a successor to the highly popular Practical Guide to Polaroid Retinal Photography, describes the essential components of a retinopathy screening programme, including the criteria for referral to an ophthalmologist, drawing upon the experience of the Newcastle system over...

Tags: Mobile, Diabetes, Skyscape Inc., Retinal Screening

Software downloads 2007-09-03

Handbook of Retinal Screening in Diabetes 10.0.7 (Mobile)

Concise resource on retinal screening, well structured and written - provides excellent background to those entering the new profession of retinal screening! This resource, a successor to the highly popular Practical Guide to Polaroid Retinal Photography, describes the essential components of a retinopathy screening programme, including the criteria for referral...

Tags: Mobile, Resource, Skyscape Inc., Retinal Screening, Team Management, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-08-28

By 2010, will Windows 'Seven' (or any desktop OS) really matter?

By 2010, will Windows 'Seven' or any desktop OS really matter?it's 2007 and it doesn't really matter...whatever desktop OS. I guess that's why I keep hearing, "there's no new killer app to upgrade to. so I'll stay with xp, os x, etc. that I use now."what gets me lately is,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Desktops, Google Inc., PC, Acer Inc., operating system, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, desktop OS, desktop

Discussion threads 2007-07-23

Army creating extensive database of Iraqi citizens

In a lawless country at war, do privacy concerns matter? In Iraq, they don't. The U.S. military has added to its counterinsurgency effort an extensive program of cataloging fingerprints and eye scans from thousands of Iraqi men,reports USA Today.As people are stopped at checkpoints and other locations, U.S. troops are...

Tags: Privacy, Defense

Blog posts 2007-07-13

Devices of the Soul: Can Technology Make the Handicapped Whole?

If, along the passage to a tolerable, technology-permeated future, there lies a single narrow stretch where one will have to sweat drops of blood in order to stay the course, surely it will be that stretch peopled by "The handicapped." Here is where, no matter how radical or uncertain or...

Tags: O'Reilly Media Inc., Technology

Book chapters 2007-04-01

Vista hit by Patch Tuesday shrapnel

Vista hit by Patch Tuesday shrapnelVista Hit By Patch Tuesday ShrapnelThis is a non-issue......meh....it's not even worth the effort....No SuprisesWell of course Vista has been hit by vulnerabilities. Did anyone seriously believe the "Most secure ever" routine? That's been standard issue PR since Windows 95. Now that AAACS content protection...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, SECURITY, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista, vulnerability, operating system, Linux, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-02-14

State officials oppose repealing Real ID Act

State officials oppose repealing Real ID ActBiometrics will always be problematicThere will always be exceptions to foil biometrics, simply because humans and the human condition are so varied. Fingerprints? What to do with amputees that have no fingers? Retinal scans? Won't work if you're blind. ...

Tags: Biotechnology, Authentication/Encryption, Smart cards, SECURITY, DNA, biometrics, smart card, Real ID Act

Discussion threads 2007-02-09

The secret of our stable vision

The world we see is usually stable. Still, our eyes are continuously moving, making two to three saccades per second. For over a century, scientists have tried to explain why we saw a stable world. Now, two U.S. researchers have found why our shifty eyes dont drive us crazy. In...

Tags: Health &, Medicine, Science &, Nature

Blog posts 2006-11-13