Health care and aeronautics industries agree that FCC should set aside bandwidth for dedicated remote patient monitoring system

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/21/health-care-and-aeronautics-industries-agree-that-fcc-should-set/

Mobile body area network (MBAN) technology has the potential to be a boon to the healthcare system of the future by enabling remote patient monitoring through disposable wireless devices -- meaning fewer doctor visits for everyone and great news for latrophobes. Until now, MBAN was opposed by the Aerospace & Flight Test Radio Coordinating Council (AFTRCC) because it utilizes the same radio bands that aircraft manufacturers do when they're testing new planes. AFTRCC didn't want all that medical chatter "polluting their spectrum" but decided to get on board with MBAN when the health care industry promised to create a way to stop signals that disrupt aeronautical traffic. MBAN is a part of the FCC's National Broadband Plan and purports to use short-length radio waves (not unlike Bluetooth) in the 2300 and 2400 MHz range to transmit physiological info to treating physicians -- as opposed to other patient monitors that use web-based communications. MBAN would initially be used in hospitals but could later find its way into residential use by employing home entertainment systems (Wii Fit integration, here we come!) to collect and transmit data. With the FCC expected to decide on the final rules for MBAN later this year, the Intel Health Guide may have some company in the at-home patient monitoring business. We can only hope that the next time the aeronautic and health care industries combine forces, it will take the form of jetpack-wearing doctors making house calls.

Health care and aeronautics industries agree that FCC should set aside bandwidth for dedicated remote patient monitoring system originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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AMD ships 1.3 million Fusion APUs, 35 million DirectX 11 GPUs, says it has 'momentum'

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/22/amd-ships-1-3-million-fusion-apus-35-million-directx-11-gpus-s/

Hey, this interim CEO thing doesn't seem to be too hard at all. Thomas Seifert, the temporary solution to the problem created by Dirk Meyer's departure from AMD's top spot, has had a pretty comfy ride reporting the company's latest quarterly results. The pecuniary numbers themselves ($1.65b revenue, $375m net income) were tame and unexciting, but Seifert got to make a pair of juicy milestone announcements. Firstly, on the mobile and ever-so-efficient front, he noted that 1.3 million Fusion APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) have been shipped to partners since AMD started deliveries in November, and secondly, in terms of discrete graphics chips, he disclosed that the Radeon HD 5000 and HD 6000 series DirectX 11 GPUs have surpassed the 35 million units shipped mark. To give you some perspective on what that means, sales of Nintendo's bestselling Wii console are hovering somewhere around the same figure. So yes, AMD, your wagon has momentum, but shouldn't it have a driver too?

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Just sayin' ... Groupon could be the biggest pump-and-dump scheme of all time, maybe even bigger than Madoff - http://bit.ly/f6BcA5

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An Attractive Case Mod You Can Actually Buy [Case Mods]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5739607/an-attractive-case-mod-you-can-actually-buy

Case mods provide some giggles, sure, but how many of them that we've seen previously would you have actually bought? If I were in the market for one, this Hammerhead HMR98902 would be top of my list.

Designer Matthew Kim is selling them for $2,899, and as he makes them himself (by hand), orders understandably take a while to fill—two weeks, to be exact. Specs include:

Blue CNC brushed and anodized aluminum frame
Supermatte White Ecoresin panels with Mil-Spec quick release system(motherboard side only)
2.8Ghz Intel Core i7-860 cpu
4 Gb ram
1 40 gb Intel solid state disk drive
1 640 Gb front loaded "hot-swappable" hard drive
1 extra hot-swap tray for a second hard drive
nVidia ENGTX460 graphics card
Optical CD/DVD drive
Kingston 750W modular power supply
Windows 7 64-bit Home premium

But you can obviously swap them out for your preferred choice. This particular one comes affixed with blue LEDs, but two more models, the HMR98903 & HMR98904, are available in black brushed anodized carbon, and quattro carbon trim. [Darwin Machine via Case Mod Blog via Technabob]

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Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant will get Froyo tomorrow, says T-Mobile CMO

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/20/samsung-vibrant-will-get-froyo-tomorrow-says-t-mobile-cmo/

Sorry, gents, but your conspiracy theories are wholly kaput -- not only is a Samsung Galaxy S getting Android 2.2 stateside, but the speedy software update will start rolling out tomorrow on T-Mobile USA. That's the word direct from T-Mo chief marketing officer Cole Brodman, who tossed the news to PC Magazine this afternoon, saying that the delay was a "quality control and timing issue." Apparently, there's extra work involved in skinning the operating system and adding exclusive apps like WiFi calling -- though he didn't confirm either would specifically appear in the Vibrant's build of Froyo. Here's some more welcome news, though: the gentleman promised that in general, Android updates on T-Mobile will be more prompt from now on, as the firm's shooting to update all phones to new versions within five months of Google making source code available. Does that mean we should expect some Gingerbread men by May? We're not totally sure, but we imagine that T-Mobile's rivals aren't sitting still -- we'll probably hear some fascinating, captivating and totally epic news about Froyo any minute now.

Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant will get Froyo tomorrow, says T-Mobile CMO originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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