Monthly Archive for January, 2010

Wireless health hits the big stage at CES International 2010.

January 8, 2010

As noted in coverage by the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Eric Topol's live demonstration of digital medical devices like GE's handheld ultrasound Vscan was a real cause for optimism. “Consumers have been concerned about the economic crisis” in medicine, Topol said. “But we can innovate out of that.”. Watch Dr. Eric J. Topol highlight a variety of mhealth solutions, including the first live demo of GE’s Vscan technology. It's no wonder consumers will have a tremendous impact on transforming healthcare..

via Videos – CES 2010 – West Wireless Health Institute.

Later this week, Steve Jobs, the black-clad begetter of the iPod, iMac and iPhone, and arguably the coolest man in the history of circuitry, will launch a product so new and exciting that a better word than “revolutionary” will be needed to describe how revolutionary it is.

Given that Steve's company, Apple Inc, attaches a particular virtue to not telling potential customers what it has in the works, the precise nature of the new gizmo remains mysterious. But the froth of expectation bubbling up in the tech world largely centres on it being a tablet-sized computer that will browse the internet, play games, movies and music, make phone calls, secure the future of the written word, reshape the way we live, work and think, keep the rain off, and double up as a chopping board. All this for a launch price of $900 (£560), which includes the kudos of being the first to whip one out of your shoulder bag.

via Apple’s Tablet: a gizmo to save the world – Telegraph.

In December 2009, Patently Apple presented one of Apple's most exciting patents of the year which took us into the futuristic world OS X-3D. The patent presented us with a view of a sophisticated head tracking system that would allow the user to view different angles of a graphic, simulation model or even a chart using Apple's iWork based 'Numbers' application. Then last week in a posted report covering Intel's CES Keynote 2010, I presented the possibility that Apple would likely update their iLife Application suite applications iPhoto and iMovie in concert with the release of Apple's futuristic OS. The work at Intel's labs definitely sparked that idea, specifically in creating Avatars using iMovie. Today, I was presented with two simulations of what Apple's futuristic OS could look like working with medical and engineering applications. The simulations were done on an iMac and I think that you'll find them to be absolutely fascinating. As long as you know that they're simulations and not secret tests that I've discovered, we're okay with a little fun on a Friday: Check it out!

via Simulation: Using OS X 3D in Medical & Engineering Applications – Patently Apple.