Friday, February 5, 2010

How Manycalories In Homestyle Popcorn

mevoControl: The phone starts to govern the physical world

the mobile device being "always available" par excellence, it is not surprising that little by little you begin to find new uses, some actually do something unthinkable a few years ago . The convergence has led to a camera, camcorder, recorder, calendar and more, all within the same device. But, as processing power grows, they begin to develop applications that involve control of external devices to the mobile.

An application for the iPhone eliminates the need for car keys. Used by a car rental company, the application sends a list of the cars closer to where the user (located by GPS), it targets one of the cars and get into the car, and an application using Bluetooth installed on the iPhone can open the car and then on again. At the end of the rental period, the user just parked the car and from the iPhone itself closes and becomes available for the next user. No need to visit the office because all electronic transactions are conducted via cell phone (including rent).

Home automation refers to the control of home devices using electronics, has existed for some years and is now much easier, more comfortable because there is the possibility of using the mobile device as a master control. Now there are applications that, through SMS, to control the status of household appliances (turning on a light, set to record a program), and there are applications surveillance, to detect suspicious activity, send an SMS or an MMS (with a picture of where abnormal activity is detected). In a field

a little blurry from the legal viewpoint, and cell phones can be controlled from another cell phone (the term in English is called "Bluejack"), with such ability as to activate the microphone without having to be the phone in use (and the person who controls can hear everything they speak).

In conclusion, as we have Web 2.0 Convergence 2.0, where we not only have multiple devices integrated into one, but this integrated device is physically able to control external devices.

The day we use the phone at all?
  • central home automation remote control: TV
    • .
    • Refrigerator. Microwave
    • .
    • water heater.
    • Lights. Etc.

  • Control utility consumption:
    • Water.
    • Light / Electricity.
    • Gas. Etc.

  • Keys to enter the house.
  • virtual wallet to purchase items.
  • Control remoto para el auto:
    • Entrar.
    • Activar/Desactivar seguros.
    • Encender/Apagar el auto.
    • Ponerlo a calentar mientras se está desayunando.
    • Etc.
  • Verificación de identidad.

Monday, February 1, 2010

Vintage Michael Vick Cleats

mevoSalud: Turn your phone into a microscope

Una de las herramientas básicas en todo laboratorio es un microscopio. Este dispositivo juega un papel importante en el diagnóstico de algunas enfermedades como la anemia, la tuberculosis y la malaria. Desafortunadamente son equipos bastante complejos y costosos, y en muchos países del tercer mundo (con presupuestos bastante limitados) tener available microscope becomes a luxury not always available, much less if you're in a place away from a health center / hospital. But that may change in the near future thanks to Dr. Avdogan Ozcan, assistant professor of Electrical Engineering and a member of Nano Systems Institute at the University of California (UCLA), which has created a device that converts a cell phone camera to a microscope.

The process devised by Dr. Ozcan is to use LED (light emitting diodes) to illuminate a biological sample, cells present in the sample interfere with light waves and reflect, the cell phone camera can receive interference pattern and creates a graph called "hologram." The received image is sent wirelessly to a hospital to process the images can be created mathematically identical to those that would be under a microscope. The hardware (electronic components) required is simple and does not cost much more than $ 10.



However, the really important part of this development is that, in the longer term, with the right software installed, the same phones can automatically detect abnormalities in cells and therefore diagnose diseases.

This means that in countries third world where the availability of qualified medical personnel is limited and the population's access to basic health care is also quite limited with this device, any person (without medical training) can go to remote areas, diagnose and help prevention, detection and control of diseases and epidemics positively increasing health coverage with a very small investment. REFERENCES


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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/business/08novel.html?_r=2