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- How about a wheelchair that is also an exam table?
- How about a wheelchair that is also an exam table?Great Idea will hospitals buy it thoughThe chair seems like a great idea but i wonder if hospitals will put the puse before the nurse.I don't know...That's the great thing about entrepreneurship. There must be some facilities who can afford these...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Entrepreneurship, wheelchair
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- For the blind the Web is one step forward, two steps back
- For the blind the Web is one step forward, two steps backIf there's a demand for......new assistive technologies, someone will hack them together--we don't need yet ever more of the intrusively heavy hand of government "allowing" or disallowing this or that. That is your proposal isn't it? That...
- Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Channel management, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Major Corporations, Americans with Disabilities Act, Web, wheelchair
- Discussion threads 2007-08-29
- Photos: Stephen Hawking's zero-gravity flight
- The physicist gets an "amazing" experience of weightlessness and a rare moment out of his wheelchair. His next goal: "Space here I come."
- Tags: wheelchair, physicist, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-04-27
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- Cybercriminals syndicating Google Trends keywords to serve malware
- In an underground ecosystem that is anything but old fashioned when it comes to abusing legitimate web services, cybecriminals have started exploiting the traffic momentum, and by monitoring the peak traffic for popular search queries using Google's Trends, are syndicating the keywords in order to acquire the traffic and direct...
- Tags: Google Inc., Blog, Malware, News Story, Blogging, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Hurricane Ike and some class acts
- Although the Citrix analyst bash was interesting, informative and a wonderful opportunity to re-connect with old friends both at Citrix and in the analyst community at large, getting back to my office became quite a challenge. Continental Airlines, in preparation for Hurricane Ike, canceled our flights and did little to...
- Tags: Analyst, Citrix Systems Inc., Pharmacy, Compay, Public Relations, C/C++, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-14
- How about a wheelchair that is also an exam table?
- The chair seat has a latch at the bottom which helps convert it to a table that can hold up to 600 pounds. This means patients don't have to be lifted, even obese patients. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Patient, Chair Seat, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Are you underinsured?
- Are you underinsured?The problem is costs.Being uninsured is not the problem. It is a symptom. It is the cost of medicine. It is so expensive, that we cannot afford the insurance no matter who handles the policy. The profit margins on all the suppliers of medicine are absurd. A push...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Being Uninsured, Insurance deductible, health care, insurance, national healthcare
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- TSA is failing us, let my associated ranting begin thusly
- TSA is failing us, let my associated ranting begin thuslyHand Sanitizer Bombinterestingly enough, it's probably completely possible to build a bomb out of a can of hand sanitizer and a lighter. well... maybe not a bomb persee... but enough of a distraction i'm sure.i know i'm not giving away...
- Tags: Transportation Security Administration, F'ing
- Discussion threads 2008-06-09
- Airport security part 2: TSA is failing us, let my associated ranting begin thusly
- I want to start out by saying that I take great personal risk of getting black listed before my flight to K.C. tomorrow morning, but I thought I'd talk about an article by Rafal Los on how the TSA is failing us again. This actually reminds me of an older article that...
- Tags: Airport Security, Transportation Security Administration, Rafal Los, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Samba 3.2 reflects open source project's ambivalence toward Microsoft
- Samba 3.2 reflects open source project's ambivalence toward MicrosoftSamba 3.2 reflects open source project's ambivalence toward MicrosoftLets see if there is a way to get rid of Samba completely. Perhaps Microsoft could make a protocol to work on all machines and thus eliminate the need for Samba."Leading a panel"Indeed...
- Tags: Samba, Jeremy, Samba 3.2, ambivalence, Microsoft Corp., open source project, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-05-08
- Is it Google or China censoring Carrefour?
- I guess either way, the answer is ultimately China, but this latest news on Google's censorship in China is a bit strange. Chinese people are very upset with the French due to an attack on a wheelchair bound Olympic torch carrier. The act caused many Chinese people to...
- Tags: China, Google Inc., Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Before there was ModBook...
- ...there was the Gemini Special Edition clamshell iBook. This graphite iBook conversion by Assistive Technologies may be the first ever tablet Mac. Long before the advent of Axiotron Modbook. Gemini is known as an Augmentive and Alternative Communication AAC device. It originally sold for US$6,914. ...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iBook, Notebooks, Gemini, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- How will HTML 5 change the Web?
- How will HTML 5 change the Web?Not quite so[i]Pages will display similarly regardless of which brand of software you use.[/i]That's only true if the makers implement 100% of the specification. The problem has always been incomplete implementation, which resulted in hacks and work-arounds. Obviously Microsoft is guilty of this the...
- Tags: Web browsers, Obviously Microsoft, HTML, HTML 5, Web browser, CSS 3, CSS, Microsoft Corp., Web
- Discussion threads 2008-01-23
- Stephen Hawking: Humans will fall behind AI
- Stephen Hawking: Humans will fall behind AIno new warnings expectedWhen Hawking made his statement, I sent him an email suggesting that at some future date, he'd have a press conference to announce a new warning. But as he maneuvered his motorized wheelchair toward the conference area, it would take...
- Tags: E-mail, Stephen Hawking
- Discussion threads 2007-11-03
- OpenOffice bug hits multiple operating systems
- OpenOffice bug hits multiple operating systemsOpenOffice bug hits multiple operating systemsOpenOffice has bugs? No surprise. I've been saying that all along. Its just not a good office suite. I remember so many people on here trying to promote it and saying we have to use it because...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Linux, OpenOffice, operating system, OpenOffice bug, multiple operating system, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-09-25
- Can High Tech Ever Be Really Hip?
- The tech blogosphere is often a place where great ideas about society and politics intersect with technology, and the tech industry and society are usually the better for it. But I was reminded recently about how much the perception of hip and progressive and cool is in many ways a...
- Tags: Tech, Disability, Tech Blogosphere, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- Microsoft to take the wraps off 'PlayTable'
- Microsoft to take the wraps off 'PlayTable'This is unpossibleThis is not possible. Everybody knows Apple invented the multi-touch interface when they unveiled the iPhone.Apple even patented their innovation. You must all be lying/confused/brainwashed.[/sarcasm]Funny how some of these technologies only exist after Apple baubalizes them. This is a perfect...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Research & Development, PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Corp., PlayTable, Jeff Han, stove
- Discussion threads 2007-05-25
- Vonage customers: Finding a new VOIP provider may be tricky
- Vonage customers: Finding a new VOIP provider may be trickySkype Might be An Excellent Alternative but ....Skype has been a boon to some independence to my wheelchair-bound son. He has his own number for under $70 this year so that he can call whoever he wants whenever he wants.However, being...
- Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, GLOBALINX, Skype Technologies S.A., Vonage Holdings Corp., phone, VoIP
- Discussion threads 2007-04-06
- On endangering your cat
- On endangering your catI say kudosto the tyre slasher! Good on this person! My feelings about people on the phone while driving... well I have no tolerance for it. Ironically this morning I was almost in yet another accident because some idiot was on the cell phone, didn't bother to...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone, cell phone
- Discussion threads 2007-03-09
- Vista voice exploit - cry wolf?
- Vista voice exploit - cry wolf?Cry wolf because they themselves didn't find it?They're professional pen testers and they didn't find this? That's just pathetic and this is petty. SANS Institute shot that down. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=420Let's use the 100% reliable exploit standard from now on"Is it likely to work...
- Tags: voice, headset, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2007-02-02
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