Posts Tagged ‘Collaboration’

Application Now Available For IPhone To Track Swine Flu

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
A new iPhone application, manufactured by researchers at Childrens Hospital Boston in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab, permits users to trace and report outbreaks of infectious sicknesses, for example. The application, “Outbreaks Near Me,” builds on the mission and proved capacity of HealthMap, a Web resource that collects, filters, maps and disseminates information about rising infectious illnesses, and offers a new, contextualized view of a user’s precise location locating outbreaks tha

Sports Nutrition Is Now A Worldwide Need

Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Physical fitness is a universal phenomenon. People from all walks of life around the world are now more aware about the need to engage in any physical activity to maintain their health. They are also more aware now that exercise, as a discipline, needs a particular dietary program to go with it. Collaboration among sports scientists from America, Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia resulted in the development of world wide sports nutrition. There is a growing efforts of collaboration among dif

Toyota technology has brain waves move wheelchair

Monday, June 29th, 2009
Toyota develops technology for brain waves to steer wheelchair Monday June 29, 2009 TOKYO (AP) -- Toyota Motor Corp. says it has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command. Toyota's system, developed in a collaboration with researchers in Japan, is among the fastest in the world in analyzing brain waves, it said in a release Monday. Past systems required several seconds to read brain waves, but the ne