Archive for the ‘Technology’ category

Medically Speaking

January 17th, 2011

In medical terms, being deaf is more accepted to be called hearing impaired; this particular condition arises from several factors that we really need to consider for the most. Commonly, hearing impairment may be a product of two usual things including hereditary and environmental causes… Hereditary is credit for the larger fraction of the cases of hearing impairment that includes those who are born deaf and those other particular ages that a person starts to lose his or her ability to hear sharply as before. On the other hand, environmental factors involves a lot of causes including some of those traumatic experiences that may have damaged the internal or external unit of hearing, another reason could be insertion of some harmful materials, side effects of certain drugs, a part of a huge illness continuum, and a lot more of these to consider.

Though Elite Asset Protection is not a medical institution that can cater for these kind of cases and would promise to bring your hearing back, for the most, they have made huge efforts to make devices solely intended for the hearing impaired the most. Hearing Impaired Telephones are invented for any individual needing extra considerations over using telephones; the device has special adjustments all according to the specific severity or the needs of its users so to speak.

Status Updates Through Mobile Phones

October 14th, 2010

There are various apps and medically aligned innovations made possible all through technological development and advances itself. Some applications include the digital stethoscope, a blood sugar monitoring diary, a personal fertility watch calendar, expression help app for the blind and deaf, mute children and some other applications to date. Medical and technology mixture seem not to be a bad collaboration after all.

To this date, technology has again brought ease and comfort to everyone in the concern of health and its well fare. Introducing, the newest type of wireless body area network, BAN in other terms as an essential tool that could give human body its details like an own IP address, and some set of techniques that could place a dongle into the SD card slot allowing streaming of data from the sensors to the gadget devices accurately; all demonstrated in the IMEC based in Eindhoven. The technology is introduced by Dutch reporters wanting to make body condition monitoring possible for the human race just like the huge unconventional materials used in the hospital so to speak. With this new invention, the software enables transfer of data through a nRF24L01+ radio wireless standard rather than the old Bluetooth ways all operating through Android OS.

Technologically related Insomnia

September 2nd, 2010

Even children of the youngest ages oriented to the world of technological advances couldn’t get enough of their Xbox games as they argue over with their parents just to have one more hour of extended play; how much more for the older ones? ABC news displays a reliable research saying “more and more young people are becoming sleep-deprived” just because of little techie devices. The article featured Gabby Gomez, a 19 year old workaholic college student from California Lutheran University and also works in Thousand Oaks full-time and full-time at a public relations firm. She confessed how sleep becomes no less than a basic need in her world conquered by electronics and latest tech advances and openly admits that she is a BlackBerry addict.

Though in Gomez’s case, these gadgets help her work wise, other more young and busy students are becoming insomniac day by day in a more negative sense just because of their obsession over certain mobile applications, over online games, social networking arenas, and other matters aside from work and total communication necessity. Kim Carollo, the article author also shared a video with points out and concludes how this technology caused sleep deprivation can be very seriously detrimental to every body’s health.