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We’ve seen all manner of medical robots ’round these parts, from bloodbots to surgical cyborgs. And now Dr. Thomas M. Hemmerling from McGill University Health Centre (who also helped develop the McSleepy anesthetic android) has created the world’s first intubation robot. Called the Kepler Intubation System (KIS), it’s a robotic arm with a video laryngoscope that’s controlled via joystick — allowing MDs to get their Dr. Mario on while sliding an endotracheal tube into any passed-out meatbag with minimal fuss and maximum safety. The first procedure using the device on a real, live human was a success, and clinical testing continues. We’re not big on bots shoving anything anywhere (even if it does help us breathe while under the knife), but that’s better than android appendages lobbing grenades our way.

Intubation bot lets doctors safely shove tubes down unconscious human throats originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 16 Apr 2011 12:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on December 22, 2006 by CyberNet.

I think people are starting to go patent crazy and the latest move by Microsoft is just proof of that. CNet was able to scrounge up some patent information that shows how Microsoft is trying to patent the use of feed readers!?! This patent covers:

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: presenting a user interface having a subscription control to enable a user to subscribe to a feed; receiving, via the user interface, a user selection of the subscription control; and responsive to receiving the user’s selection, initiating a feed subscription process.

8. A computer-implemented method comprising: storing a list associated with feeds that are offered by one or more web sites; maintaining state information associated with the list; ascertaining, from the list, whether a web site has any new feeds; and providing user-perceptible indicia to distinguish any new feeds.

15. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a user selection in a reader to launch a web browser to view an item in a feed; launching a web browser; making the item available for viewing using the web browser; and using the web browser to make other feed-associated items available for viewing, without requiring the user to return to the reader to make subsequence item selections.

Now I understand that there can be a lot of value in a patent, but feed readers have been around for ages and Microsoft didn’t submit this patent until June 2005. There might be some underlying information that I don’t completely understand but it sure looks like this isn’t headed in a good direction. Dave Winer, a self-described co-inventor of RSS, said “Presumably they’re eventually going to charge us to use it. This should be denounced by everyone who has contributed anything to the success of RSS.“

So you better hold on to your underwear, because you never know who will be coming after that!

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With NFC payment systems just starting to roll out in the US, it’ll be awhile yet before you can cut up those credit cards for good. But in the present, at least, you can use your handset to make sure you don’t get stuck with a $100 bar tab… again. Discover just announced that it will let its cardholders send money to people in 60 countries — so long as they have either a cell phone number or email address. As AllThingsD notes, Visa and American Express have hatched similar plans, though Discover is the first of the bunch to partner with PayPal. While people sending money don’t need PayPal accounts, people receiving moola do — or, at least, they must be willing to create one. For senders the service is free and, in fact, they get 0.25 percent cash back for the first $3,000 exchanged. As for Discover, a smaller player than Visa and MasterCard, it hopes some of PayPal’s 230 million customers will sign up for a shiny new credit card while they’re at it.

Discover cardholders can send money to anyone with a cell phone, email address originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 16 Apr 2011 08:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on January 03, 2008 by CyberNet.

The big “digital broadcasting switch” which we’ve mentioned before will be here in the U.S. sooner rather than later.  It’s scheduled to take place no later than February 17, 2009 which means at this point, those who still use rabbit-ears or a roof-top antenna need to do something a bout it. Nielson Co. has estimated that around 13 percent of television households in the United States still rely on conventional TV broadcasting which is why the government has decided to help.  If you fall under the “analog” TV category and don’t intend to upgrade to digital before the FCC’s given date, you’re eligible for a $40 coupon.

In all, the government has set aside $1.5 billion for the program. Part of it is to educate people on the change coming up because many don’t even know it’s going to happen, but part of it is also going to be used for the coupons.  A total of $33.5 million has been set aside specifically for those who need to buy a converter box.  The first 22 million coupons will go to people who make a request for one.  They’re using the “honor system” (hard to believe, I know) – and so anybody can go request a coupon. If you have one digital TV and another TV in the house in which you use rabbit ears, you qualify for a coupon and can request one. The rest of the coupons will go to those who don’t subscribe to any type of cable/satellite/or other paid service.

To apply for a coupon to purchase a TV converter box, or learn more about the Digital TV transition, go here.

Source: Lifehacker

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