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 eStadium application brings multimedia sports features to smartphones

eStadium application brings multimedia sports features to smartphones

Technology / Software

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The intimate and spirited quarters of a stadium offer perhaps the most ideal venues to experience an athletic event. Or do they?


Dutch researchers develop technology for pain monitoring

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ten of thousands of patients suffer chronic pain as a result of operations, and this continues even after the wounds caused by the operation have healed. Researchers from the MIRA research institute - the University of Twente’s ...


Modified Bluetooth speeds up telemedicine

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A telemedicine system based on a modified version of the Bluetooth wireless protocol can transfer patient data, such as medical images from patient to the healthcare provider's mobile device for patient assessment almost ...


The Medical Minute: Talk about prescriptions

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Look in your wallet, purse, personal digital assistant or smart phone and you probably have a list of names, phone numbers and addresses. You might even have a file for your passwords or important account numbers, birthdays ...


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Penn State researchers promote pollinator-friendly native gardens

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Across the country, pollinators such as honeybees and hummingbirds are declining due to habitat loss, diseases such as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), pests and excessive pesticide use. Penn ...


Smoking increases potential for metastatic pancreatic cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Smoking has once again been implicated in the development of advanced cancer. Exposure to nicotine by way of cigarette smoking may increase the likelihood that pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma will become metastatic, according ...


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If you're happy, then we know it: Scientists build 'hedonometer'

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (6) | comments 7

In 1881, the optimistic Irish economist Francis Edgeworth imagined a strange device called a "hedonimeter" that would be capable of "continually registering the height of pleasure experienced by an individual." ...


Safely on the move

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How can rescue units be better protected during disaster operations or avalanche victims be found quicker? A new localization system connects satellite-based positioning systems with terrestrial locating aids and situation-dependent ...


New device could benefit treatment of hand injuries

New device could benefit treatment of hand injuries

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of Rice University bioengineering students who invented a device to measure intrinsic hand muscle strength has won two prestigious honors for their patent-pending creation, PRIME. The device could revolutionize ...


In-home health tracking system to deliver alerts to smartphones

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For those who are caring for elderly parents, peace of mind is hard to come by. And, for their parents, dignity is hard to retain. But a team of University of Houston researchers hopes to ease worries and frustrations by ...


Mini beamer in a cellphone or PDA

Mini beamer in a cellphone or PDA

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Looking at photos on a cellphone display can be somewhat arduous. A new mini beamer will make it easier. The beamer is so small that it can be integrated in a cellphone or a PDA. As it does ...


Interactive Data Eyeglasses

Interactive Data Eyeglasses

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- The data eyeglasses can read from the engineer's eyes which details he needs to see on the building plans. A CMOS chip with an eye tracker in the microdisplay makes this possible. The eyeglasses ...


Every move you make: Free smart phone app helps you burn calories

Every move you make: Free smart phone app helps you burn calories

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

What can't the iPhone do? Now, thanks to a University of Houston professor, it can even count how many calories you've burned in a given day.


Drinking water watched by Queensland's seventh sense

Drinking water watched by Queensland's seventh sense

Technology / Engineering

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

One of the major sources of drinking water for south-east Queensland is now under the watchful eye of Australia's largest integrated intelligent wireless sensor network.


PDAs, more education help doctors follow cholesterol treatment guidelines

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine suggests that patients with high cholesterol receive better care when physicians use a variety of tools to learn and apply a clinical practice guideline ...