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dimanche 24 février 2013

Une tablette qui diagnostique les commotions cérébrales

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Par L'Atelier - San Francisco 22 février 2013 doctor with an ipad
Les médecins examinent les patients sur base de différents critères de coordination, mais de nombreux facteurs peuvent biaiser le diagnostic. Un appareil mobile capable d'analyser et de traiter les réactions en contexte pourrait accroître la fiabilité et l'efficacité du diagnostic.

Des chercheurs du Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering de l'Université d'Harvard, du Bed Israel Deaconess Medical Center et de l'Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston (BIDMC) ont développé un appareil qui mesure la coordination main – œil pour identifier des défauts neuromusculaires causés par un accident, l'âge ou d'autres conditions. La première étude clinique d'un « nouvel appareil d'évaluation neurologique rapide », au cours de laquelle les sujets suivaient sur une tablette, à l'aide d'un stylet, une cible mobile, a pris fin récemment. L'analyse des résultats des sujets en fonction de leur âge, de leur sexe et de leur latéralité a débouché sur des statistiques sur les différences de réaction, entre individus, aux exercices réalisés sur l'appareil.
Evaluer la performance neuro-musculaire
La plateforme mobile apporte au diagnostic médical les avantages habituels (portabilité, facilité et connectivité) mais le nouvel appareil, actuellement baptisé NeuroAssess, apporte d'autres avantages. Il accélère le processus de diagnostic en mesurant les réflexes et le statut cognitif du patient sans la subjectivité d'une évaluation humaine. Le suivi plus nuancé du NeuroAssess pourrait également servir à identifier un plus large éventail d'affections ayant un impact sur la performance cognitive. « Nous avons prouvé, dans des études précédentes, qu'une perte de complexité peut être associée à un éventail de problèmes de santé chez l'homme, de l'insuffisance cardiaque congestive à l'apnée pendant le sommeil et à l'âge », déclare le membre de la Faculté de Wyss Core Faculty, Ary L. Goldberger, M.D.
Le suivi sur tablette peut trouver sa place dans le processus médical quotidien
Pour l'équipe de recherches, la technologie trouvera sa place à côté du thermomètre et du tensiomètre, comme un outil d'analyse médicale standard. Leia Stirling, Ph.D, Wyss Senior Staff Engineer, estime que « comme la tension est prise lors de chaque visite, le résultat neuromusculaire pourrait être suivi dans le temps pour évaluer l'évolution du rétablissement et de la rééducation. » L'annonce du WYSS Institute suggère que l'appareil pourrait également servir à mesurer les effets neurologiques secondaires dans les essais cliniques sur les humains, et on pourrait facilement imaginer une utilisation routinière, en dehors des cas de traumatisme, pour suivre la performance de base et fournir au praticien les signes précurseurs de développement d'une affection. L'appareil pourrait également permettre de diagnostiquer les affections neurologiques plus tôt et déboucher sur de nouveaux types de traitement ou de prévention.

mercredi 28 septembre 2011

Motorola’s next-gen tablets coming in November, December?

Motorola XOOM 2

At this point it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Motorola is working on two new Android tablets. We’ve seen plenty of pictures of both, and read plenty of leaked details. But it looks like there’s a little new information today, thanks to reports coming out of Taiwan.

Apparently Motorola will build its new 10 inch tablet in-house, but Taiwanese equipment maker Compal Electronics will be responsible for a smaller model. DigiTimes describes it as a 7 inch tablet, although we’ve previously heard that it will have an 8.2 inch display. Between 250,000 and 350,000 units are expected to ship per quarter.

While we’d heard that the tablets would launch in November, it looks like one or both might not be available until December.

Motorola launched the first tablet to run Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb way back in February. That makes it kind of ancient by Android tablet standards, so it’s not surprising to see new models in the works.

While Android smartphones are now outselling the Apple iPhone, Android tablets haven’t gained as much traction in the marketplace yet, and it’s interesting to see companies taking a rather un-Apple-like approach to compete with the iPad.

While the iPad comes in one size only and Apple typically only sells one model at a time (if you want a first generation iPad, you’re going to need to buy a used or refurbished model), Motorola, Samsung, Acer, Asus, Lenovo, and other companies are taking a shotgun-style approach by offering Android tablets with multiple screen sizes, processors, and price points.

I guess the idea is that if you give people enough choices, maybe at least one of the products you offer will turn out to be a hit.

The new tablets are expected to run Google Android 3.2 Honeycomb at launch, and feature IR remote control features. The smaller model is expected to weigh less than a pound while the 10 inch model will reportedly have a 1.2 GHz dual core processor and 1080p HD video recording capabilities.

mardi 20 septembre 2011

Asus launches the Eee Pad Slider tablet in the US and Canada

Asus Eee Pad Slider

The Asus Eee Pad Slider is a 10 inch Android tablet with a slide-out keyboard which hides behind the screen when you’re not using it. Asus has been showing off the Slider since January, but it finally goes on sale in the US and Canada this week.

The Slider is up for order from Amazon, B&H, and Newegg. A model with 16GB of storage will run you $479, while a 32GB version is also available for $579.

I got a chance to check out the Slider recently, and the sliding mechanism is pretty solid… and inexplicably fun to use. I’m a little less enamored with the keyboard. While I’d certainly rather type out long email messages or documents using the physical QWERTY keyboard than the on-screen keyboard you get with most Android tablets the keys are small and cramped and will probably take a little getting used to.

There’s also no trackpad, which means that you can’t quite treat the Slider like a normal laptop computer. You’ll need to reach your hand up to the screen any time you want to tap or scroll. This might not sound like a big deal, but reaching up to the screen instead of moving your hand laterally to a touchpad or mouse is slower, more efficient, and a little more frustrating. The good news is that you can use some keyboard shortcuts to minimize the number of times you’ll need to tap the screen at all.

While the keyboard is the tablet’s stand-out feature, it’s no slouch in the specs department. The Eee Pad Slider has a 10.1 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel IPS capacitive multitouch display made from scratch-and-damage-resistant Gorilla Glass.

You also get 1GB of DDR2 memory, a 25Whr battery (good for up to 8 hours of run time with the screen on), a 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor, and Android 3.2 operating system. There’s a front-facing 1.2MP camera and a rear 5MP camera.

The tablet measures 10.8″ x 7.1″ x 0.7″ and weighs about 2.1 pounds. It’s available in brown or white.

Asus loads up the tablet with some custom apps including software for streaming digital media over a home network and the POlaris Office suite for viewing and editing documents.

lundi 19 septembre 2011

3 things the BlackBerry PlayBook does better than Android tablets

BlackBerry PlayBook

The BlackBerry PlayBook is a tablet with a speedy 1 GHz TI OMAP 4430 dual core processor, an attractive 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, and a new operating system that’s been designed for touch. But the PlayBook hasn’t gotten as much attention as competing tablets running Android or iOS in recent months, and it turns out the tablet’s not selling very well.

That’s a shame, because there are some things that the PlayBook actually does better than many of the other consumer tablets on the market. Joe Pawlikowski takes a look at a few of them in this guest post from the editor of BBGeeks and AndGeeks.

BlackBerry has become something of a punchline in recent years, and they set themselves up for plenty of jokes with their tablet PC. It wasn’t a complete product upon arrival, and even then it seemed long overdue. RIM announced it about a year ago and didn’t release it until this past April. Without native email and without a robust array of applications, it appeared that the the PlayBook was, to borrow a phrase from an analyst, dead on arrival.

Yet the PlayBook has impressed on many levels. It’s incomplete, yes. No one can deny that. But the potential is there. Once RIM releases the necessary upgrades it just might climb the tablet ranks. Until then, here are three things that it does particularly well — better, even, than Android tablets.

Contacts Management

We’ll start with something of a cheapie. The BlackBerry PlayBook actually doesn’t have a contact management system of its own. Oh, it’s coming. RIM has long said it plans to have native email, calendars, and contacts available for the PlayBook in September. That could mean any day now. In the meantime, the only way to manage contacts on the PlayBook is by bridging with an existing BlackBerry smartphone.

But, since 1) almost all PlayBook users are also BlackBerry smartphone users, and 2) native contacts will drop soon enough, we’ll count it among the things the PlayBook does well.

For starters, Android’s contact management system is, to be kind, not good. It syncs with Google Contacts, which might sound great in theory. But it fails in execution. Google records all people you’ve interacted with and places them in your address book.

That makes for an unwieldy experience. When I open up my Google contacts I have 786, and the list starts with dozens of (Unknown) listings. There are ways around this, of course, but by default the address book is borderline unusable. The only saving grace is the Favorites tab, where you can add preferred contacts. It also lists your most frequently contacted people.

Many BlackBerry users have synchronized their Google contacts with their devices, which would seem to make the same kind of unwieldy list. But this is not the case.

The PlayBook contacts program is laid out very well. I has an alphabetical tab list to the left, making for easy browsing. A search bar atop the list makes it easy to find contacts with just a few keystrokes. The card next to the list means you can find contact information as quickly as possible. It is how a contact list should look. It might not be possible on a smartphone, because of the view. But on a tablet it works perhaps better than any other.

(To be quite frank, I like the contact management system better on the PlayBook than on the iPad, so it’s not just a distaste for the Google contact system.)

Multitasking

Make no mistake: The Android platform does handle multitasking well. This stands in stark contrast to the iPad, which provides the bare minimum in multitasking. Why Apple left that out of their OS for so many years, and why it still lags behind other platforms, is a mystery to the modern tech geek. Yet it remains one area that they’re weak. On the complete flip side, the PlayBook multitasks with the best in the industry.

With Android, each open application remains open, which allows you to flip among apps without any of them closing (as they might in iOS). This is convenient for many functions, especially listening to music while playing games and other similar functions.

But with the PlayBook multitasking is right in front of you, as though you’d hit a permanent ALT+TAB. Users can flip through these open panels with ease, browsing among all open apps. The multitasking panes disappear when pulling up the full applications menu, but they reappear after minimizing it.

The multitasking system on the PlayBook is more accurately compared to webOS, which runs on HP’s TouchPad. They both feature the easy-to-browse panels that make for a true multitasking platform. The only wonder here is how quickly Android adopts something similar. It feels like an intuitive inclusion for a tablet.

Document Creation and Management

Here we get to the main difference between the PlayBook and Android tablets: purpose. Android tablets can serve different purposes; that’s the beauty of the platform. But they mostly target the consumer market. While RIM has attempted to lure the consumer market with both its smartphones and its tablet, it remains a more attractive product for business users. One of the reasons is the ease of document creation and management.

A few years ago, when RIM launched the BlackBerry Bold 9000, they partnered with DataViz to put basic Documents ToGo softare onto BlackBerry smartphones, with an option to purchase the full version. But with the PlayBook that has changed.

The full version comes standard on all new PlayBooks, meaning that the most powerful mobile document application is part of the package. Documents ToGo is available on the Android platform, but it does cost money. That there gives RIM the leg up.

That’s not to say that document creation and management is dismal on the stock Android. Google has come a long way with the mobile version of Google Docs, and tablet users are starting to get more out of that. But Documents ToGo is simply a more powerful application at this point. That it comes standard on the PlayBook is a big advantage. And, given the differences between the tablets overall, RIM will gladly take that.

The Overall Difference

While RIM’s product does come out ahead in these three regards, it generally trails most Android tablets by a considerably margin. It might have a leg up, or several legs up, on the lower end Android tablets, but the ones that are starting to hit the market now have serious advantages.

RIM will help bridge the gap with its October update, which will include the ability to run some Android apps. But it will not bring access to the full Android Market, which will leave the PlayBook a step behind these new, more powerful Android tablets.

When it comes to multimedia, perhaps the most popular feature of any tablet, Android comes out ahead. With streaming services such as Netflix, it stays ahead of the PlayBook. It also offers more games, more apps, better web browsing options, and a more friendly development environment than the PlayBook.

Given all that, combined with the variety of tablets on the Android platform, it’s easy to see why it comes out ahead of the PlayBook. But that shouldn’t sell RIM’s product short. It’s lacking now, but it will be a much more viable consumer and business product following its October update. It still won’t match the Android, but it can still excel — at least in the three areas described.

Joe Pawlikowski edits both BBGeeks and AndGeeks, blogs that provide users information on how to get the most out of their BlackBerry and Android devices.

vendredi 16 septembre 2011

Asus Eee PC Slider tablet coming this month

Asus Eee Pad Slider

The Asus Eee Pad Slider is a 10 inch Android tablet with a built-in keyboard. It hides away behind the display when you’re not using it, and when you want to do some serious typing, you just pull out the keyboard for a little QWERTY action.

Asus first unveiled the tablet at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, but the company has taken its time bringing the Slider to market. Now it’s finally expected to ship in the US soon… by the end of September, in fact. A few days ago pre-order pages even started popping up, although a few of those have been pulled down since then.

I got a chance to spend some time with the Slider last night, and it seems like Asus did a great job of working out some of the kinks that were evident earlier this year. The sliding mechanism seems very solid, which is good, because I suspect some users may pull out that keyboard thousands of times over the life of the tablet — and at least a few dozen times when they first take the tablet out of the box and marvel at the design.

The keyboard itself is nothing all that special. The keys are kind of cramped and there’s no trackpad of any sort. I could definitely touch type on the keyboard, but because the keys aren’t as large as those on a typical notebook, or even those on most 10 inch netbooks, expect to make a few typing errors while you get used to the keyboard.

The thing that surprised me the most about the Slider is just how well it seems to work without the keyboard. The tablet is a little heavier than most 10 inch Android tablets thanks to the keyboard, but weighing in at about two pounds it’s not that much heavier than the Motorola XOOM or Toshiba Thrive, which are around 1.6 to 1.7 pounds. The Slider is pretty well balanced and feels pretty good whether you’re holding it in one hand or two.

Aside from the keyboard, the Slider is a pretty typical tablet with a 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor, a 1280 x 800 pixel Gorilla Glass IPS display, and Google Android 3.2 Honeycomb. It’s expected to run around $479 and up when it hits stores in late September.

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mercredi 14 septembre 2011

First look at Windows 8 tablet prototypes

Windows 8 tablets

Windows 8 is designed to run on computers with ARM-based processors as well as x86 hardware from Intel, AMD, or other chip makers. While the prototype tablet Microsoft has been sending to tech journalists for review purposes is basically the Samsung Series 7 slate PC with an Intel Core i5 processor designed for Windows 7, today at the Build developer conference Microsoft showed off the OS running on three other tablets:

  • A tablet with an Intel Atom processor
  • A tablet with a TI OMAP4430 chip
  • A tablet with an NVIDIA Tegra 3 Kal El quad core processor

The user interface seems quite snappy on all three devices. It remains to be seen whether apps will run as well on ARM systems as they do on x86 devices.

Microsoft has also built support for a variety of new sensor types into the operating system, including gyroscopes, acceleremeters, magnetometers, and NFC (Near Field Communication) devices.

In other words, Windows 8 isn’t Microsoft’s volley against OS X… it’s Microsoft’s answer to Android, iOS, OS X, and pretty much every operating system that runs on anything larger than a smartphone.

Two of the things that have put Windows tablets at a disadvantage when compared with other mobile tablets are the lack of instant-on capabilities and the increased power draw. Windows 8 deals with both of those things, first by supporting low power ARM chips, and second by introducing a new “connected standby” mode.

In connected standby, the computer doesn’t actually shut down. But most processes are paused while the computer just polls occasionally for incoming communications so you don’t miss any important messages. It also supports “instant on” capabilities, allowing you to press a power button and start using the computer almost right away.

When a window is open but not running in the foreground, it also goes into a “suspended” mode, where it uses virtually no resources to help improve battery life.

Microsoft is giving 5,000 Samsung tablet prototypes to developers today, but while this is the first tablet to be available with Windows 8, it may not ever ship to the public. Instead, the Samsung Series 7 will ship with Windows 7, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the company has a new model ready by the time Windows 8 goes public.

lundi 12 septembre 2011

Sony Tablet S tablet now available from HSN


Sony Tablet S

The Sony Tablet S is the first Android tablet from Sony, and it stands out from the crowd with a few distinctive features including a wedge-shaped design, a 9.4 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display, and Sony’s custom software running on top of Google Android 3.1 Honeycomb. That includes software for downloading and playing Sony Playstation video games.

Sony is taking pre-orders for the tablet with prices starting at $499.99, but it looks like HSN is the first retailer actually promising to ship the tablet. The Sony Tablet S is now available from HSN for $599.99 (or 4 payments of $149.98).

That’s about $100 more than the price Sony charges for the 16GB tablet, but it looks like HSN is also throwing in 100 free music downloads from the Sony store.

The Sony Tablet S features a 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor, 16GB of storage (although a 32GB model will also be available), a 5MP rear camera and VGA front-facing camera, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, and a 5000mAH battery. The tablet measures 9.5″ x 6.8″ x 0.9″ (at its thicket point) and weighs about 1.3 pounds.

via Electronista

Ricoh eQuill ePaper business tablet hits the FCC


At first glance the Ricoh eQill looks like just another eReader with an E Ink display. But it’s actually an enterprise tablet designed to fit into a paperless (or at least paper-less) office. The idea is that the eQuill connects to your server over WiFi or 3G and lets you read and sign documents without wasting any paper.

It’s not a device that you’re likely to pick up to read the latest Dan Brown novel, but is instead aimed at health care, police, insurance, and other industries where mobile access to documents is important.

The device has a 9.7 inch, 1280 x 825 pixel E Ink display and 8GB of storage, which Ricoh says is enough storage space for about 25,000 pages worth of content. It gets up to 20 hours of battery life and includes a stylus for text input, a camera, and a voice recorder, as well as a software keyboard.

The device has a TI OMAP 3621 processor, 256MB of RAM, and a 5MP camra. It measures 7.4″ x 9.7″ x 0.4″ and weighs about 1.1 pounds.

Ricoh introduced the eQuill earlier this summer, promising it would launch soon with a starting price of $500 or less. While there’s still no word on the official launch date or price, the eQuill showed up at the FCC this week, which is a pretty good sign it’s inching closer to release.

vendredi 29 juillet 2011

Acer’s 7 inch Android tablet goes up for pre-order

Acer Iconia Tab A100

The Acer Iconia Tab A100 is a 7 inch tablet running Google Android Honeycomb. We recently heard a rumor that Acer was working with Taiwanese device maker Compal to ramp up production and start shipping the tablet globally. Now it looks like US retailers are getting ready to start selling the Iconia Tab A100.

Excaliber PC is taking pre-orders for$329. Negri Electronics has a higher pre-order price tag of $390. Neither has a ship date for the tablet yet though. If you’re willing to pay way too much for the 7 inch tablet you can also try Overseas Electronics, a distributor that promises to acquire devices internationally and ship then to the US. The company is charging a whopping $600 for the Iconia Tab A100.

I’d take all of the pre-order pages with a grain of salt for now. You’ll notice the big players such as Amazon, Buy.com, and Newegg aren’t taking orders yet. Excaliber PC has a long history of creating product pages for computers before they’re officially launched. The retailer’s website for the Iconia Tab A100, for instance, includes at least one picture that shows Acer’s larger 10 inch tablet instead.

Still the order pages give us a few pretty pictures to look at, as well as official spec sheets. The Acer Iconia Tab A100 is expected to have a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel capacitive touchscreen display, a 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor, and Android 3.x operating system (the product listing says Android 3.0, but my money is on the tablet actually shipping with Android 3.2).

The tablet has 1GB of memory and 8GB of storage space plus a microSDHC card slot for expansion. It supports 802.11b/g/n WiFi and has a 1530mAh battery. The A100 measures 7.7″ x 4.6.” x 0.5″ and weighs 0.9 pounds.

Update: Engadget reports the tablet will go on sale in the US in early August for around $300.

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Asus Eee Pad Slider handled on video (in Romanian)

Asus Eee Pad Slider

The Asus Eee Pad Slider is a 10 inch Android tablet with a slide-out keyboard tucked away behind the display. It’s expected to launch in the US this fall, and the tablet recently made an appearance at the FCC.

The last time I actually saw the tablet was way back in January when Asus showed off an early prototype running Google Android 2.x. But the folks at Notebook Italia spotted a new video on YouTube today showing an in-depth look at the latest version of the tablet, complete with Google Android 3.1 Honeycomb.

While the video is in Romanian, it gives a good look at the device, an optional case, and the slide-out keyboard mechanism.

The keyboard looks reasonably large and comfortable to type on — but it lacks a touchpad, which means that you’ll need to reach up and touch the capacitive touchscreen display to launch most applications, tap on links in web pages, or perform many other actions.

You can also find some special function keys on the keyboard including home, back, and menu buttons so that you dont’ need to touch the screen for everything.

Overall the Slider looks like an interesting alternative to the average keyboard-free Android tablet, or even the Asus Eee Pad Transformer which is available with an optional keyboard dock accessory, but doesn’t ship standard with a keyboard.

Unfortunately the Slider has a glossy display and the sliding mechanism locks the tablet and keyboard at a fixed angle. You can’t tilt it forward or back a few degrees to a more comfortable angle — and if you’re sitting by a sunlit window you’ll probably just have to move because there aren’t a lot of options for adjusting the screen angle to prevent glare.

The Asus Eee Pad Slider features a 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor, 10 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel IPS display, 16GB of storage, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, and a 25Whr battery.

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