If you have a webcam, you can make free video calls on WebcamCallFree and let your contacts see you as well as hear you. Webcam Call Free works well with most webcams, but if you experience any problems, follow these steps to test whether your webcam works with Webcam Call Free. – Install your webcam, follow the instructions that [...]
With the grand opening of the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine less than three months away, work is wrapping up on the new stem cell research center located in the heart of the Torrey Pines Mesa research cluster. You can see the progress live on this webcam set up by the consortium, which is made [...]
A new training method using a desktop webcam to improve ergonomic posture and reduce the risk of musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) among office workers using computers has been developed. A multidisciplinary team at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev imparted both office training and an automatic frequent-feedback system that displayed a webcam photo of a worker’s current sitting [...]
Nurses who are required to communicate with people who are deaf have been urged by a charity to consider using an online interpreter. Satisfaction levels among death people over the healthcare they receive are lower than those experienced by hearing people, the 2011 GP Patient Survey revealed when it was published earlier this year. Steve [...]
Bad winter weather, choked highways, overbooked schedules – these are all reasons more and more doctors are relying on webcam technology to keep an eye on patients. On January 2, health news website MyHealthDaily reported on the trend, citing a range of practitioners, from plastic surgeons to psychiatrists, relying on video conferencing technology to keep [...]
Someone invented online therapy… As if that AIM bot we played with as kids was not helpful enough? The company is called Mentaline, and according to their Web site they will help you find a therapist or life coach online by browsing a directory organized by ailment and then let you talk to them about [...]
Using an off-the-shelf digital camera, Rice University biomedical engineers and researchers from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center have created an inexpensive device that is powerful enough to let doctors easily distinguish cancerous cells from healthy cells simply by viewing the LCD monitor on the back of the camera. The results of the [...]
Roseburg’s Mercy Medical Center Emergency Room has a new way to connect local patients to out of area specialist doctors through a new internet connected webcam program. Equipped with high quality cameras microphones and speakers on a fully pivoting head, the machine is called an “InTouch Robot.” A doctor from a remote location can dial [...]