Fra BBC News Mobile phone tracks heartbeats

Quote: A device that attaches to a normal mobile phone and allows patients to check their breathing and heart rate has been developed by researchers in the US.

The device combines an antenna and sensor which can pick up respiratory and heart activity when connected to a mobile phone and placed in front of a patient.

The information could then be sent to a remote health monitoring centre using the existing telephone network.

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Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 4, Number 21, Week of July 14, 2003

In this issue:

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Falling Water, Crashing Windows: Making Computers More School Friendly

Classroom teachers should not have to put up with the architectural equivalent of leaky roofs. By Mary Burns http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/m_burns_1.html

Economies and Diseconomies of Scale in the Information Society

An assessment by means of Situation Room Analysis By Adamantios Koumpis and Bob Roberts http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/a_koumpis_2.html
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Fujitsu Siemens med 800x600 oppløsning på PDA skjermen
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Denne fant jeg i ITavisen Big Bang var en stor nedlasting

Bits and Bytes May Encode Nature's Secrets

If nature is indeed a set of preprogrammed bits, the Big Bang birth of the Universe may have more in common with a supercomputer downloading gigantic bytes of information than with a massive explosion.

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Newsitem via eLearn Magazine Indian frim develops cheap handheld computer

Mistral Software Private Limited of Bangalore, India, has developed an inexpensive digital handheld device said to be ideal for e-learning applications. It has a color LCD, a 200-megahertz processor, and scalable architecture, and will sell for about $200--less than half the cost of similarly equipped products from Compaq and Palm, the company said.

Quote:It can be used in applications as varied as navigation, health care, games and logistics.

"PDA (personal data assistant) makers the world over have seen a decline in the adoption of their products with cost and functionality being the primary inhibiting factors. This prompted us to design a product with scalable features with significant cost benefits,"

Her kan du lese pressemeldingen fra Mistral Software

Quote:The device has been designed with a scalable architecture, which can enable manufacturers to customize the features by adding modules like GPS, GSM, 802.11a/b, BlueTooth[dot accent], MP3, PC-MCIA, Hard Disk, Camera etc., while ensuring most of the software and basic hardware remains unchanged

The ultra-sleek basic module, at a thickness of 11mm, runs Embedded Linux on a Samsung ARM9 processor

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