(image source | Sindya N. Bhanoo via The New York Times)
Remember when you didn’t have to leave your house when you were sick because your doctor made house calls? Yea, well I don’t either, but I saw it in a movie once. However, getting to a doctor is a routine part of many individuals lives, especially the elderly. Many need to have weekly tests performed to manage health conditions. Beyond the inconvenience of constantly needing to visit your doctor and adhering to their appointment hours, many who experience severe difficulties with their mobility simply cannot make these trips without help and/or more suffering. Beyond the burden on the patient, this routine visits incur financial and administrative strains on doctors and hospitals, raising health care costs and delaying service for everyone. As a solution Denmark is pioneering in “telemedicine”. The NY Times recently ran an article in regards to the evolution of electronic medical records into home medical tests. Through the use of technologies and a few computer accessories individuals can take certain exams in the privacy of their own home and electronically submit the information gathered to their physician. Prescriptions can even be electronically sent to pharmacies to be filled, and if that pharmacy delivers, well you get the point about how these technologies can be a great benefit for all. Be sure to read The New York Times article after the jump for a personal take on this emerging technology.
With so many app’s available the few really great ones can get lost in the shuffle. To help showcase some of the best produced and designed iPhone app’s comes the app.itize.us website. As the site says “app.itize.us is a painstakingly curated presentation of the best of the best designed iPhone apps that are available via the app store (for free or paid). it is intentionally a very small hand picked selection compared to what is currently available via the app store (now upwards of 140k) due to the fact that its very difficult to find many of these apps since they are not part of any of the top rated/grossing lists.”
This is the third year of Fuse Project’s One Laptop Per Child program. The program does just what it sounds like, getting cheap computers into the hands of children in developing nations around the globe. The current modeled, billed as the $100. computer actually sells for $172. and the hope is to offer the XO-3 for $75. To date over 1 million computers have been distributed in an effort to meet the programs mission of “providing education and access to information for all”. Slated for release in 2012, the latest design of a cheap computer is a tablet screen that would allow children to use their XO-3’s for both learning and play.
While I am not able to yet get a Droid phone until my sentence has been served with AT&T, I impressed with the features and capabilities of the new Google phone. Personally I do not care for slide out keyboards and I feel the styling is lacking in comparison to the iPhone I currently have, I do believe with this next generation of phones Google is starting to create a name for themselves in the smartphone market.
A demonstration of Google Maps Navigation (Beta), an internet-connected GPS navigation system that provides turn-by-turn voice guidance as a free feature of Google Maps on Android 2.0 phones.
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