Biomedical Multimedia Unit News

So a new player is emerging on the social networking/filesharing horizon. Called Scribd (because of course as a web 2.0 site, it has to drop a vowel) this page utilises the Flash paper format (a streamlined web competitor to PDF) and allows users to tag, share and even download the document – in MS Word [...]

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I confess that I had never thought about the home entertainment value of my medical imaging records until I read this account of how to “geek out with your own body”.   Is this a new twist on an evening of watching someone’s travel slides, do you think? Thanks to Quinn Norton and others in Wired’s biotech [...]

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… and you find yourself wanting to doodle, try this out:
http://www.squidsoup.org/doodle

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In the three months since Gregor posted about that Amazing Interface, it seems that a company named Perceptive Pixel has taken the technology and run fill-tilt with it.

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Health information technology meets modern parenthood, in this example of an item  that might interest some BMU colleagues personally as well as professionally: Upgrade Your Baby. Courtesy of Dale Hunscher, a self-defined “socio-geek” working in clinical research informatics at the University of Michigan Medical School.

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Following the entry on 20 Nov 2006 “Amazing Interface”, Billy’s noticed the multi-touch interface in Apple’s iPhone. While it’s still early, since no one’s had a chance to play with an iPhone yet, it’s interesting to note the initial concerns for accessibility that are popping up.
Advances such as this raise questions about accessibility for [...]

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