Apple recently filed a patent for technology that allows users to move an image by moving their hands or body. So instead of using a mouse, you simply turn your head to see behind an object. Beyond saving my wrists from the soon approaching carpel tunnel from typing all day, this technology would be great for doctors viewing X-rays, MRI scans, etc.
To help visualize this, Houston Neal of SoftwareAdvice has put together a clip of this in action. Thanks for the tip Houston.
I know, I’m sick of the Apple tablet rumor mill as well, but I couldn’t let this story slide by. It even brought me back to blog for a day, breaking my 3 month blog hiatus while I work on my Y Combinator startup.
While the whole tech news world sits around waiting to see what the official deal with the Apple tablet is and if anyone is going to buy this thing, Apple has been quietly ensuring the instant success of their tablet device. How? Apple has been going around targeting their first major paying customer for the device, which is not the average consumer, but the Healthcare industry (sorry fan bois, you’re not first priority here). This is a move widely overlooked by the media, since Apple has generally tried to own the consumer arena, and besides the film industry, hasn’t dominated enterprise. Well, now that they own the music, mobile, laptop and every teenager market, the medical industry is the next up to take over. [What's my intel? My Dad plays golf with Cedas-Sanai hospital execs, who say they have been getting frequent visits from Apple about a new device in the last 6 weeks].
Let’s talk this out. First, this makes perfect sense. The iPhone has already served as a great platform for medical applications. Companies like LifeScan have an app for users with Diabetes. Epocrates is another medical app which let’s doctors view continually updated clinical data, check for drug-drug interaction, identify pills by physical characteristics and perform medical calculations such as BMI and GRF (pictured*). Then we have iChart, a “personal medical assistant,” which stores everything from patient data to charts and lists of medications in a streamlined, organized fashion (oh, and it regularly updates with new medical data pulled from healthcare networks). The problem with the iPhone is that it is too small to handle all of this data, not from a processor standpoint but just overall screen size. The tablet can pave a whole new way for medical applications and the way we interact with our doctors. You can certainly bet the iPhone will interact very well with the tablet, so syncing information back and forth with your doctor via both devices should be a breeze.
Second, there is already a huge market here with real competitors (not just a Microsoft Courier). In 2007, a company called Motion Computing Inc. launched a product called C5, a tablet computer for doctors that claimed to eliminate the clipboard, scanner and cart-mounted computer on wheels often used in hospitals today. The product is widely used today, but it’s dated, weighs over 3 pounds and sells for $2199. Even at the highest speculated price, Apple’s tablet will cost only $1000.
Third, Obama. The President is on Apple’s side here with this one. He has made electronic record-keeping a key feature of his health-care reform effort (hint hint). Electronic records available through Apple’s tablet will save time, mistakes and lives.
Come on. Did you really think Steve Jobs was going to make a grand comeback just so you could play Doodle Jump on a 10 inch screen? Also, Joe Wilcox of Beta News, yes the world IS ready for a tablet.
I’ll let them do the talking: “As the structures of modern society crumble, this video contemplates a set of unexamined assumptions that form the very basis of our civilization. In a beautifully shot 25-minute retrospective, it asks us to reflect on the state of the world and ourselves–and to listen more closely to what is being asked of us at this time of unprecedented global transformation.
It’s 2010….let’s do this right. We need everyone’s help.
Hey all! Sorry we’ve been out for a while, it’s been a hectic few months for both Jason and I. That being said, I figured I’d atleast catch you up on what’s been going on in the world of green over the last month or so. Here we go:
DOE: Steven Chu just announced $620 million in additional stimulus funds for Smart Grid Projects. He does think, however, that we’re falling behind in the global clean energy race, citing the example that China’s spending $9 billion a month on clean energy.
Warren Buffet claimed that all cars will be electric by 2030…oh, no kidding Warren? …take your electric car…by 2030, I’ll be dippin’ in something powered by some form of this.
A123 Systems: Recently released their first earnings report as a public company.
Tesla: Speaking of electric cars, Tesla says they’re 99.9% done finding the place where they’ll manufacture the Model S. Also, there’s been some recent hype about their impending IPO.
GM: Even though they just reported a $1.2 billion loss, it looks like the Volt is still a go, what with the announcement that California will be the first to launch it.
Fisker: Same ish, different company…Fisker has delayed it’s Karma launch to September 2010….can’t say that wasn’t expected.
Vectrix: Hey, they’re recovering from the recent bankruptsy. Great!
Longyuan Power Group Corp: Asia’s largest wind energy generator is planning a huge IPO in a few days that’s expected to raise $2.2 billion.
Recently, a hacker leaked thousands of emails and documents from the University of East Anglia’s (UEA) Hadley Climate Research Unit which point toward Global Warming being a hoax.
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let’s doctors view continually updated clinical data, check for drug-drug interaction, identify pills by physical characteristics and perform medical calculations such as BMI and GRF (pictured*). Then we have iChart, a “personal medical assistant,” which stores everything from patient data to charts and lists of medications in a streamlined, organized fashion (oh, and it regularly updates with new medical data pulled from healthcare networks). The problem with the iPhone is that it is too small to handle all of this data, not from a processor standpoint but just overall screen size. The tablet can pave a whole new way for medical applications and the way we interact with our doctors. You can certainly bet the iPhone will interact very well with the tablet, so syncing information back and forth with your doctor via both devices should be a breeze.
Third, Obama. The President is on Apple’s side here with this one. He has made electronic record-keeping a key feature of his health-care reform effort (hint hint). Electronic records available through Apple’s tablet will save time, mistakes and lives.
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