JooJoo Now Available To Unsuspecting Europeans [Joojoo]
Perhaps JooJoo will be one of those things—you know, like David Hasslehoff or cheese fondue. Big in Europe. Maybe they’ll even sell more than 64? Available to France, Germany and the UK now, for €359.00/£319. [JooJoo via Blogeee] More »
Posted: April 28th, 2010
at 7:04am by Kat Hannaford
Topics: Europe, Fusion Garage, Fusion garage joojoo, JooJoo, Joojoo europe, Tablets, UK, crunchpad, eReaders, france, germany, tablet
New robotic system could let surgeons operate on a beating heart
It may not have been put into practice just yet, but it looks like a new robotic-assisted system could one day let surgeons use a surgical robot (like Da Vinci system pictured at left) to operate on a beating human heart. That impressive development comes courtesy of a group of researchers at France’s Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics, and Microelectronics, and centers on a new 3D modeling system that can track the motion of the heart’s surface as it beats. It can even apparently adjust for things like movement of the patient’s chest wall during breathing, and predict the movements in a single step (unlike previous attempts that resulted in a delay). When paired with a robotic arm, the system would effectively let surgeons operate on a heart as if it were completely still. In addition to being generally amazing, the system could also potentially open up a number of new possibilities for heart surgery, not the least of which is the ability to operate on patients for whom the risks of surgery have previously outweighed the benefits.
New robotic system could let surgeons operate on a beating heart originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: December 11th, 2009
at 9:42pm by Donald Melanson
Topics: Medical, MedicalRobot, MedicalRobotics, Montpellier Laboratory, Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, MontpellierLaboratory, MontpellierLaboratoryOfInformatics, RoboticSurgery, Robotics, Surgery, and Microelectr, france, medical robot, medical robotics, robotic surgery
eviGroup’s Pad is a 10-inch 3G tablet with personality
Time to freshen up the old netbook market with a dash of Windows 7, a pinch of touchscreen functionality, and a generous helping of… Seline10? eviGroup, the crew responsible for the attractive 5-inch Wallet MID, has announced the 10.2-inch Pad, whose pièce de résistance is the Seline10 artificial intelligence software that’s been in development for a decade, if you can believe it. Its purpose is to act as your secretary / assistant, and while the novelty’s good, we all know how well Clippy worked out. Fret not though, it’s just an optional extra and shouldn’t detract from the appeal of a device that offers 3G and a/b/g WiFi connectivity, one VGA and three USB ports, multicard reader, webcam, microphone, and the old faithful 1.6GHz of Atom power. A price of under €500 is being touted, with further details set to emerge over the coming days.
Filed under: Handhelds
eviGroup’s Pad is a 10-inch 3G tablet with personality originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 26th, 2009
at 3:24pm by Vladislav Savov
Topics: 3G, ArtificialIntelligence, EvigroupPad, HandwritingRecognition, InternetTablet, Seline10, Windows7, ai, artificial intelligence, eviGroup Pad, evigroup, france, handheld, handwriting, handwriting recognition, internet tablet, mid, pad, tablet, touchscreen, win7, windows 7
Vodafone puts BlackBerry Storm2 up for 26 October preorder
And it’s out. The BlackBerry Storm2 just made its first official carrier appearance with Vodafone. The promising followup to the much maligned BlackBerry Storm will be free on pay-monthly contracts from £35 on up. Specs include a 3.25-inch 360 x 480 pixel capacitive SurePress (new and improved) touchscreen display, 802.11b/g WiFi and 2100MHz UMTS/HSPA data, 256MB of flash memory (double that of the original Storm), 2GB of onboard memory with microSDHC expansion, 3.5-mm standard headset jack, 3.2 megapixel camera with video recording, built-in GPS, Bluetooth 2.1, and 1400mAh battery giving about 6 hours of 3G talk. BlackBerry OS 5 too, of course, when it lands on October 15th in the UK, Ireland, Germany, The Netherlands, and Spain — France, Italy, and South Africa in time for Christmas.
Update: Now on official RIM page too with a detailed comparison against the original Storm.
[Thanks, James]
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Vodafone puts BlackBerry Storm2 up for 26 October preorder originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 15th, 2009
at 5:34am by Thomas Ricker
Topics: BreakingNews, SouthAfrica, Storm2, UK, blackberry, breaking news, france, germany, ireland, italy, netherlands, rim, south africa, spain, surepress, vodafone
Steve Ballmer Speaks the Language of Surrender, Perfectly [Steve Ballmer]
Oh, of course Steve Ballmer speaks “careful, well-pronounced” French perfectly and France loves him back because he’s “one of us.” [WSJ]
