A team of South Korean scientists, with the help of some government funding, have been working on an app, that will use the specific capacitative sensitivity of the phone’s touchscreens to diagnose some diseases by using a single droplet of blood, saliva or other, as yet, unspecified secretions. The team, at the Korea Advanced Institute [...]
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Cardiac cell death is an irreversible consequence of a myocardial infarction, often resulting in a chronically reduced cardiac output and symptoms of CHF. German researchers from Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim have been working with Indian scientists to create a scaffold within which cardiac cells can be safely populated [...]
Current monitoring of large structures such as bridges, wind turbines and mines generally relies on time consuming visual inspections that use specialized instrumentation and equipment. Translation: it’s expensive. But if damage can be detected before any structural damage occurs, maintenance bills can also be significantly reduced and safety increased. Researchers at the University of Strathclyde [...]
BenQ is back with its latest short-throw projectors namely the LX 60ST and LW61ST. Designed for the education marketplace, both projectors adopt the company’s mercury-free blue BlueCore light engine to deliver superb energy efficiency. The BenQ LX 60ST and LW61ST also provide a 2000 ANSI lumen brightness, a XGA/WXGA resolution, two built-in 10 Watts speakers, [...]
While Samsung was more than willing to redesign its flagship tablet in the face of the German court’s ruling last year, the higher regional court in Dusseldorf maintains that the original still can’t be sold within its borders. As Samsung and Apple continue their legal fisticuffs worldwide, the claim from Cupertino that the 10.1-inch Android [...]
Barnes & Noble, much like Amazon, has a highly successful line up of tablets and eReaders that fall into under their Nook brand. Most recently they came forth with a touchscreen touting dedicated eReader and a Kindle Fire competitor with the Nook Tablet. Now that both have been on the market for a while it seems that [...]
Last September, Salesforce bought social customer service SaaS startup Assistly for $ 50 million-plus to help expand its service cloud offerings to small businesses. Today, Salesforce is debuting a brand new Assistly-inspired social and mobile customer service platform for small businesses, called Desk.com. As you may remember, Assistly helped companies collect and organize all of [...]
The means by which two seemingly harmless Britons find themselves on locked in the back of a van full of illegal immigrants and drug dealers ought give any Twitter addict pause. It was Byran’s tweet that raised the red flag: Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America? His follow-up tweet, [...]