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Instantly Transcribe a Whiteboard with Your Cameraphone - Gina Trapani - HarvardBusiness.org
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Mobile phones: Sensors and sensitivity | The Economist
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A good example is InSTEDD (Innovative Support to Emergencies, Diseases and
Disasters), a non-profit group based in California, which promotes the use of
mobile phones to improve developing countries’ ability to respond to disasters.
Launched with seed money from Google’s philanthropic arm and the Rockefeller
Foundation in late 2007, it has just released a suite of open-source software to
share, aggregate and analyse data from mobile phones. Its first test-bed is
Cambodia, where health-workers can send text messages, containing observations
and diagnoses, to a central number. -
Automating the reporting of titbits from remote clinics has already had a
profound impact, says Eric Rasmussen, InSTEDD’s chief executive. Instead of
recording information on scraps of paper, which would sometimes take days to
reach higher-ups and trigger an alarm, the cycle-time has been reduced to days
or even hours. GeoChat has been officially adopted by the six countries which
share a border in the Mekong Basin, including Myanmar and Yunnan province in
China, establishing a flow of real-time disease data from villages in the region
to each country’s health ministry. Authorities can then choose to share this
information with international bodies such as America’s Centres for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) or the World Health Organisation. The aim is to
enable a quick response to any outbreak of avian flu, cholera, malaria or dengue
fever. InSTEDD is helping aid organisations and government agencies deploy its
free tools in other countries, including Bangladesh, Peru and Tanzania.
Cellphones in India - A Pocket-Size Leveler in an Outsize Land - NYTimes.com
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Of course, in so vast a country, India’s nearly 400 million cellphone users
still account for only a third of the population. But the technology has seeped
down the social strata, into slums and small towns and villages, becoming that
rare Indian possession to traverse the walls of caste and region and class; a
majority of subscribers are now outside the major cities and wealthiest states.
And while the average bill, of less than $5 per month, represents 7 percent of
the average Indian’s income, enough Indians apparently consider the sacrifice
worth it: if present trends continue, in five years every Indian will have a
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But it is also that the cellphone appeals deeply to the Indian psychology, to
the spreading desire for personal space and voice, not in defiance of the family
and tribe, but in the chaotic midst of it. - 4 more annotations...
Eduardo Jezierski
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A lot of the discussion did center around how disruptive it would be to have an
open platform (open hardware, open software, open assays, open IP on the test
methods, open reactant formulas and manufacturing) for these tests. -
Just as a $99 iPhone is a red herring for the phone network costs you are going
to pay every year, a cheaper test sensor that becomes widely deployed and relies
on proprietary reactants has a hidden, more insidious cost. - 2 more annotations...
Overheard: @edjez on innovation in mobile - O'Reilly Radar
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Question: When you plug something in do you say “I’m using electricity” or “I’m
using the wall socket”? Sometimes I feel the discussion about innovation in
mobile tech sounds like a discussion of innovation in energy…where the
discussion centers on the design of plugs & sockets.
Technology Review: Sending Cell Phones into the Cloud
The problem with mobile phones, says Allan Knies, associate director of Intel Research at Berkeley, is that everyone wants them to perform like a regular computer, despite their relatively paltry hardware. Byung-Gon Chun, a research scientist at Intel Research Berkeley, thinks that he might have the solution to that problem: create a supercharged clone of your smart phone that lives in "the cloud" and let it do all the computational heavy lifting that your phone is too wimpy to handle.\n\nCloneCloud, invented by Chun and his colleague Petros Maniatis, uses a smart phone's high-speed connection to the Internet to communicate with a copy of itself that lives in a cloud-computing environment on remote servers. The prototype runs on Google's Android mobile operating system and seamlessly offloads processor-intensive tasks to its cloud-based double. Details of the project will be revealed at the HotOS XII conference in Switzerland later this month.
Interview: Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project Winner, CelloPhone | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org
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Our
Wireless Innovation Project describes the development of a revolutionary
high-throughput and compact optical cell counting and characterization platform
termed "Lensless Ultra-wide-field Cell monitoring Array platform based on Shadow
imaging" (LUCAS) that will be used to specifically analyze bodily fluids within
a regular cell phone. -
Likewise, monitoring the white blood cell and red blood cell count is also
critical for assessing drug toxicity for antivirals and the treatment diagnosis
of many other infectious diseases. For such blood tests to be performed in the
field, we need wireless technologies that can capture the micro-scale signatures
of various blood cells even at resource poor settings. And cell phones offer a
great match for this purpose. Our innovative wireless-health technology that
runs on a regular cell-phone would significantly impact the global fight against
infectious diseases in resource poor settings such as in Africa, parts of India,
South-East Asia and South America.
Ultrasound imaging now possible with a smartphone
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William D. Richard, Ph.D., WUSTL associate professor of computer science and
engineering, and David Zar, research associate in computer science and
engineering, have made commercial USB ultrasound probes compatible with
Microsoft Windows mobile-based smartphones, thanks to a $100,000 grant Microsoft
awarded the two in 2008. In order to make commercial USB ultrasound probes work
with smartphones, the researchers had to optimize every aspect of probe design
and operation, from power consumption and data transfer rate to image formation
algorithms. As a result, it is now possible to build smartphone-compatible USB
ultrasound probes for imaging the kidney, liver, bladder and eyes, endocavity
probes for prostate and uterine screenings and biopsies, and vascular probes for
imaging veins and arteries for starting IVs and central lines. Both medicine and
global computer use will never be the same. -
You can carry around a probe and cell phone and image on the fly now," said
Richard. "Imagine having these smartphones in ambulances and emergency rooms. On
a larger scale, this kind of cell phone is a complete computer that runs
Windows. It could become the essential computer of the Developing World, where
trained medical personnel are scarce, but most of the population, as much as 90
percent, have access to a cell phone tower - 2 more annotations...
Digital Media and Learning Competition
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Participatory
ChinatownParticipatory Chinatown seeks to transform the planning practices shaping
Boston's Chinatown from disjointed transactions between developers and
communities to a persistent conversation shaped by participatory learning.
Marrying physical deliberation, virtual interaction and web-input, Participatory
Chinatown encourages residents of all ages without prior urban planning
experience to participate in the collaborative design and development of their
own public spaces. Participants sit side-by-side in physical space and
simultaneously co-inhabit a 3D virtual space where they engage in rapid
prototyping and testing of urban design proposals. Participatory Chinatown
enables communities to articulate their vision and strengthen their internal and
external bonds to produce better neighborhoods. Participatory Chinatown is a
collaborative effort of the Asian Community Development Corporation, Emerson
College New Media faculty, and the Boston Metropolitan Area Planning
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DevInfo GameWorks:
Changing the World One Game at a TimeOver one billion people on our planet live on less than $1.00 a day. More
than 115 million children are denied the right to go to school. 30,000 children
die each day from preventable diseases. Through the development of a software
gaming engine that supports the creation, exchange, and play of games based on
robust UN development data, DevInfo GameWorks brings wide-ranging information on
the condition of humanity to young people in an engaging, social way. DevInfo
GameWorks puts learners in the position of game creators, blurring the line
between teacher and learner to provide opportunities for higher-order thinking
and creative collaboration that expand the ways in which young people learn and
engage with this global information. - 1 more annotations...
Alexander Calder
Mobiles:\n\nMobile, a type of moving sculptural artwork developed by Alexander Calder in 1932 and named by Marcel Duchamp. Often constructed of colored metal pieces connected by wires or rods, the mobile has moving parts that are sensitive to a breeze or light touch; it can be designed to hang from the ceiling or stand free on the floor. Mobiles became popular in the 1950s for interior decoration. Infoplease.com
Virtual Calder Mobile at Math Cats
lexander Calder was an artist who created huge, beautiful mobiles that hang today in many museums. He once said, "To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may be poetry." Calder's mobiles inspired Zack Simpson to create a Virtual Calder mobile which he has kindly shared with Math Cats.
State of the Art - Goodbye, Sticky Notes; Hello, Reqall - NYTimes.com
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Reqall
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Ribbit announces winners of its “killer” mobile apps competition » VentureBeat
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— In the Media, Advertising and Entertainment category, Lucid Viewer combines
video, street view, and calling services to give users a new mapping and
communication experience. For example, when you go to the company’s web site,
you can scan a city street — just as you would in Google Street View — only now,
you can see the identity of the stores and restaurants, and you have the ability
to call or text them over the web with one click. -
Sugared Frog — In the Business and Productivity category,
Sugared Frog swept in with its hybrid of Ribbit and SugarCRM, allowing users to
dictate notes with their voices and have them automatically sent in text form to
their email inboxes or over SMS. The most obvious function of the service is to
send voicemails to recipients in written form. You can view a demo of the service
here. The login and password are both ‘jim.’ - 1 more annotations...
Mobile Phone Development » Blog Archive » Rhomobile Cross Platform Ruby Framework
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iPhone, Windows Mobile and Blackberry. The Symbian version should become
available at about the same time as the Symbian Partner Event next month. -
Licensing is free if you open source your code. If you don’t open source then
you will need a commercial license. I have been told that Rhomobile are
committed to being very aggressive on pricing. At the moment, the model is
5%, whether its upfront license fees or per app shipped - 3 more annotations...
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