Jun 27, 2010
As you know, I use my little Huawei E5 pocket on an almost daily basis, keeping it in my pocket, and thus letting my WiFi only iPad connect to the internet from pretty well anywhere I happen to be. During the week Huawei came to town with a showcase of devices, including an upgraded E5, some other similar pocketable 3G modem/routers, video phones, and the...
Jun 27, 2010
What happens when you cross some brilliant researchers at Harvard with some dedicated professionals at the Boston Children’s Hospital? You get a “Lung-on-a-chip”! Combining lung and blood vessel cells with microchip technology, these people have created a gadget that, apparently, behaves like real lung tissue. The implications of this are...
Jun 27, 2010
The MIT has developed an attachment of mobile phones that allows them to perform eye tests. Costing just a couple of dollars to manufacture, this small device clips onto the phone, and then the patient interacts with the phone to get red and green lines to intersect. After just a couple of minutes, the device and software is able to diagnose vision problems, and...
Jun 27, 2010
Meanwhile, here in Australia, if you ask your mobile phone provider about them, you’re lucky if you get a “huh?” as your response. We’ve spoken in the past about femtocell technology: devices that act as a small mobile phone cell, perhaps right in your own living room. These devices connect as a part of your local intranet connection, but...
Jun 27, 2010
There are some reports that, in transferring your images from your iDevice to your computer, the down-sampling routines are a little too enthusiastic, causing your images to lose some clarity. This is happening after upgrading your OS to iOS4. I’ve not seen this myself, but then again, I try to take photos with a camera, rather than a phone, whose lens may...
Jun 27, 2010
It’s a sad time in the world of photography, as the final nails in the coffin that once was the Polaroid Corporation are driven home. NPR in the US are reporting that there will be an auction of the Polaroid Collection, an archive of more than a thousand images by many of the world’s greatest photographers, including people like the great Ansel...