Just as John Stuart Mill argued that there were both simple and higher levels in the realm of pleasure, we continue to see many uses for cell phone technology beyond “Mice Love Rice” ringbacks.
This is especially true when it comes to healthcare. A few days ago, we presented the possibility of patient monitoring by way […]
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Cell Phones Continue Trend Towards Healthcare Utility Belt
May 2nd, 2008 by Forest
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Location Based Services Enable “Virtual Caring”
April 30th, 2008 by Allison
In the vein of Samsung’s mobile patient monitor, Myrimis, a “real-life” location based social network (LBSNS), launched a mobile version last week. Available for free on internet-enabled phones, the previously desktop-only service allows you to display the location of your family members, friends, pets, photos taken and even your personal assets (like a car or […]
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Mobile Patient Monitoring in Korea
April 29th, 2008 by Allison
Samsung Electronics Co. has established an internet-based mobile communication system for hospitals which allow doctors and nurses to monitor patients’ conditions with their cell phones, according to the Korea Herald.
The new system has been installed at the recently-opened cancer clinic of Samsung Medical Center in Seoul and is the first hospital in Korea to have […]
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Full Web-browsing, Haptics Booming in Korea
April 24th, 2008 by Allison
The Korea Times reports that mobile internet is the hottest issue among early adopters in Korea. The three most popular handsets these days according to online community Cetizen are all touch-screen phones specializing in Web browsing: Samsung’s Haptic, Pantech & Curitel’s CanU and LG’s Touch Web Phone.
These models, all capable of full web-browsing, are […]
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Ontario College of Art’s “Mobile Experience Lab”
April 7th, 2008 by NGT
There has been some interesting experimentation with mobile applications in Canada thanks to the Mobile Experience Lab. Started in 2005 at the Ontario College of Art (OCAD), the Lab aims “to pursue research projects that bring together art practice, design and research methodology with software and hardware engineering capabilities.” They focus on the areas […]
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