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Jaymee C

(A Note from the Editor) Healthcare for the Poor? There's an App for That (EMDM archive... - 0 views

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  • Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), have turned a smart phone into an imaging device that can identify and track diseases.
  • Many developing countries lack access to clinical-quality microscopes necessary for even basic diagnostics. The CellScope essentially leapfrogs this technology by allowing health workers to take high-resolution images using a tube-like extension that attaches to the mobile phone’s camera.
  • The research team in Berkeley has successfully imaged malaria and tuberculosis using the CellScope system.
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  • “If we are to improve healthcare in the developing world,” says Fletcher, “rather than buy big microscopes and put them in local health centres, which often don’t exist in those countries, we can use technology to leapfrog and make microscopy portable.”
  • “A Doctor in Your Pocket,”
  • Project Masiluleke uses a form of texting to blast millions of messages each day urging people across the country in their local language to get in touch with the national AIDS hotline.
  • mobile phones are very personal: a message on your phone forces you to think and maybe act in a way that a billboard or radio ad does not.
  • Jaymee C on 02 Oct 09
     
    "Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), have turned a smart phone into an imaging device that can identify and track diseases."
T Graham

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cell_phone_challenge cell phones environment

shared by T Graham on 04 Oct 09 - Cached
  • SM, NOKIA partner for cellphone waste collection
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      T Graham on 04 Oct 09
       
      This is an interesting topic because the actual cell phone providers are helping to recycle their own products. Usually it's a private group or organization.
  • promote promise of electronic recycling.
    • T Graham
      T Graham on 04 Oct 09
       
      Promotion is the key because it educates large numbers of people, making it easier to enforce the movement. Promotion from large companies makes it eaiser to reach the stakeholders.
  • She said this activity is in support to the earlier tie up of SM Supermalls where collaboration was made with concerned institutions and entities last September 2007
    • T Graham
      T Graham on 04 Oct 09
       
      With the large coporations and the concerned private groups joining together they will make a bigger difference. The coporations can easily pitch recycling ideas to their costumers and the organizations will provide information and ideas.
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  • "This we can say that SM is no longer just a business enterprise but is a partner in helping the environment," she added.
    • T Graham
      T Graham on 04 Oct 09
       
      This is where business and environment fuse together, to create an extremely helpful supercause. The business is not just making money its making money and saving the environment.
  • As we use, lose, abuse, and eventually upgrade our electronic tools we are leaving behind a massive transistor-filled leftover known as e-Waste. Thousands of mobile phones and all its accessories goes along with other e-Waste
    • T Graham
      T Graham on 04 Oct 09
       
      E-waste can affect our water, air and soil. The waste that comes from cell phones can also takes hndreds of years to completely disentegrate.
T Graham

AFP: Taiwan unveils hydrogen-powered mobile phone chargers - 0 views

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  • Taiwanese researchers said Friday they have developed hydrogen-powered mobile phone chargers
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      T Graham on 04 Oct 09
       
      Hydrogen is a natural resource, it can be used over and over again. Hydrogen also doesn't give off any pollution in the air or give off any toxic waste.
  • "We will continue to improve the invention. We hope the hydrogen-powered device can replace current cell phone recharge systems in 2012."
    • T Graham
      T Graham on 04 Oct 09
       
      Do they mean for all people who use cellphones, or just the users in Taiwan?
  • The charger will be key to the Taiwan government's endeavour of carving out a space for itself in future energy generation
    • T Graham
      T Graham on 04 Oct 09
       
      Taiwan is mixing this technological move with its business endeavors and profit potential. This is mix of business and employment and environment.
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