Here’s a small bunch of items triggered by references from the Smart Thinking thinker, Guy Dewsbury. You may want to take some time to read through them in the suggested order and respond to the final one, a call for… Read moreCare as an art of dwelling
CES – not Community Equipment Services, as UK readers might suppose, but the Consumer Electronics Show – the huge international showcase for all that is new and cool in consumer electronics held in Las Vegas last week, 7th – 10th… Read moreTelehealth and telecare at CES 2008
Facial recognition technology shows its potential Car manufacturer Volvo is investing in Australian company Seeing Machines with a view to including its facial recognition system into cars to alert drivers when their eye and facial movements are showing signs of… Read morePointers to the future
Further to the item De Montfort University Leicester (UK) ‘invents mobile telecare’, Nov 7, the university announces a new project, to look at the potential role of fuzzy logic in helping analyse monitoring data. BJHC&IM report.
Toyota’s violin-playing robot takes manual dexterity to a new level. See robot item in the video library too.
This is probably the strangest item ever noted on Telecare Aware. A vascular surgeon who developed a touch-sensitive ‘vest’ to facilitate the hands-on part of the examination for remote diagnosis has turned to the video game industry to fund the… Read moreVideo gamers' tactile vest to fund telemed development
Kai Sensors is a Honolulu-based developer of wireless heart rate and respiration sensing technology. Its heart sensing radar technology named LifeReader has the ability to detect and monitor heart and respiration activity of multiple subjects wirelessly. The company hopes that… Read moreKai Sensors Secures US Army Funding for Radar on a Chip
The really interesting pointers to future developments are towards the bottom of this item on wireless sensor networks.
Interesting pointer to the future item from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.
CD technology could be adapted for tests ranging from the measurement of environmental toxins to at-home disease diagnosis, according to scientists in Spain. So when you next put your sample into your DVD player, remember you read it first on… Read moreSpinning A New Role For CDs And CD Players
