New smart phone offers ultrasound imaging.

• Marrying ultrasound technology with a smart phone, computer ecperts have created a compact, mobile, palm-sized medical imaging device. The commercial ultrasound probes is compatible with Microsoft Windows mobile-based smart phones.
• The new smart phone with ultrasound imaging is a hand held device that can image the kidney, liver, bladder, and eyes, endocavity probes for prostate and uterine screenings and biopsies, and vascular probes for imaging veins and arteries for starting IVs and central lines. It can potentially help caregivers of patients with Duchene’s Muscular Dystrophy, and find applicications in the military as well.

Instant phone backup

How annoying is changing phones and having to get all your contacts onto your new handset? Moving all your contacts onto your phone memory or SIM, taking phones apart, swapping SIMS (if your new handset’s not locked), yadda yadda. It’s got a lot quicker with the use of software and a computer but don’t you just wish it could be instant? Well now, thanks to this little gadget, it is.