Australian soldiers posted overseas now have the chance to see their newborn babies within hours of their birth. The soldiers can keep a close eye on their newborn babies in hospital thanks to modern technology. By the click of just one button, new fathers will be to see their son or daughter through a new [...]
People who are deaf are almost twice as likely to experience a mental health problem as people who can hear, and the very nature of the disability creates problems accessing helplines that could offer support in cases of stress, depression or suicidal thoughts.
However, an innovative webcam service that allows deaf people in Scotland to communicate [...]
Are you feeling low? Do you have any health problems? Do you not have the time or are you unable to visit a Doctors office when you are not well?
If your answer to any or all of the questions is yes, the solution to all your problems is the Internet. Yes, it’s true, you can [...]
Technology is helping a little boy with cancer stay in touch with his friends in school. Ian Keisacker is a first-grader at Holy Spirit in Sioux Falls and gets a weekly visit from his classmates through a webcam. Every Tuesday, a group of Holy Spirit first graders get to say “hello” to a friend who [...]
Data security is a hard enough problem to solve on even a heavily regulated corporate network, but it becomes even more difficult when users are out in the wild with PDAs, cell phones and other portable communications devices. A recent PhD project at the University of Twente in the Netherlands has described a user-friendly solution [...]
Camera Mouse is a free program that enables you to control the mouse pointer on your computer screen just by moving your head.
Camera Mouse is designed to help a person who cannot use his hand to control the mouse but who can voluntarily move his head.
To use Camera Mouse 2009 you need a standard USB webcam (for [...]
Thanks to the generosity of the Joe and Nila White Hasler Foundation Wenz fourth grader, Karsyn Worthington, feels like she is still connected with her class as well as the outside world while undergoing weekly chemotherapy treatments.
“Karsyn is undergoing I.V., oral and injection chemotherapy. Her treatments are in five phases with two months to each [...]
The new-look website has a catalogue of hospital consultants working for the Trust, along with their contact telephone numbers and email addresses and the average waiting time to see that consultant.
It also features an A&E webcam – the first of its kind in Europe – which provides regularly updated pictures and waiting times at three [...]
“Doctors are far from being early adopters, so they have just gotten around to publishing a report that webcams help immensely with making the right decision when someone shows up to a rural emergency room suffering from a stroke. Using clot-destroying medications like alteplase is really risky, and it should only be given in acute [...]