Gps Watches The Result Of Technologys Innovation
Its quite amazing how gadgets continue to evolve these days. Before, watches are only used for letting people know the current time. Later, it evolved into alarms and stop watches. Today, watches have already evolved into high end gadgets. They are already multi-purpose. Take for example GPS watches. These watches do not only provide people with regards to what time is it already, but also helps people calculate the distance they have traveled.
GPS watches use the latest technology called Global Positioning System. GPS calculates the exact position and timing of a subject. This is also the same system used by the military to locate the position of a person. Often, GPS watches are also categorized as sports watches. This is because these watches are being used by sports enthusiasts and athletes in measuring the distance that they have traveled. For instance, bikers would calculate if how long have they already traveled from one point to another.
People who also use to jog are using GPS watches. Often, these GPS watches also come along with a Heart Rate Monitor. Individuals who use these GPS watches with Heart Rate Monitors (HRM) find them very useful in calculating the distance they travel as well as checking their vitals. Aside from calculating distance, GPS watches are also being used by parents who want to keep track of their childrens location. They let their children wear a GPS watch and then keep track of their whereabouts with the use of a tracking device.
It is really amazing how technology keeps on discovering new and enhanced gadgets. Aside from GPS watches, there are also watches that have built in radios, flashlights, lighters, calendars, calculators, chronographs, altimeters, remote controls, and even communication devices. With the constant innovation in technology, expect more amazing gadgets to come that can provide individuals with almost everything they want to know or monitor.
LG Mobile Phones- the name for technology and style
LG has created a brand name in the segment of mobile phone industry. It is known for its vast features which include high technology, great design and style that has been unparalleled ever since its creation. The users of LG mobile phones are among the most trendy and fashionable people who believe in high performance and great durability in terms of technology and comfort. This South Korea based multinational company has been able to deliver extraordinary performance and technology among its wide customer base.
The company has been reputed for producing one of the most highly sophisticated phones which have a large range to choose from. The phones vary from the most simple and basic models to the ones which have been serving the needs of the business class as well. With the introduction of phones such as LG Invision, LG Chocolate, LG KG800, the brand just seems to be moving ahead with no looking back.
The LG KG920 is again one of the most versatile options that the company has for you. With its outstanding multimedia features and great entertainment aspects, the phone seems to be a leader in its segment. The model featuring a 5 MP camera with 4x optical zoom adds a joy to your usage experience. Such mobile phones can be counted as a landmark in the history of this worldly recognized company.
LG produces handsets that can be available on leading mobile phone deals. The phones come out as a sim free phone and as well as in the contract deals. Going for the LG mobile phones you get various options of exciting deals by the network providers where you benefit on cheap or free line rentals, good tariff plans and exciting gifts that the network providers have to offer you.
If you are a technology lover who wants to add a style in the professional and personal world, LG is guaranteed to be one of the best options for you.
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[Top]Modern Technology – Connecting Or Hurting Humanity
The marvels of modern technology is what makes our present society possible. All these cool new gadgets and fancy devices have developed the standard of living for humanity so much that we simply cannot live without them as the are impact technologies. Institutes of technology and management have become citadels of learning and hope. Examples of these star technologies include the cell phone, the television, and comfy, sleek new modern vehicles. These gadgets make life so much easier, but it doesn’t mean that we could not live without them. For all it’s wonders, technology also has a downside, which is that fact that as it advances; people will become and will continue to become more lazy.
As observed already, modern technology has been such a huge impact that it has become engrained the in fibre of all of human society but it has brought a terrible precondition with it. Modern technology can make people lazy, selecting to sit on their butts looking at an electron screen for hours rather than doing something outside or physical exertions. The internet is a spring of information but it has become more obvious over the last few years that people tend to go to communities that have similar ideologies and opinions and avoid those with differing thoughts. What is created is homogenized online communties with no divergence and a large subverting of the foundations of democracy. The various institutes of technology & management will just go on about how great anything technology is.
Travelling by vehicles like cars or buses are a necessity in the modern world, but these habits are what makes the world look so unengaged nowadays. Many people now are too lazy to even commit themselves to taking a walk around the block to your destination. Now a days everyone possesses a car that they can and do take all over, even if it’s just a tiny walking distance down the street or around the corner. I am not trying to appear as a luddite as technology has evidently made cars and almost everything in life much safer to be in or close to. Car companies love to brag about how their newest vehicle have higher crash test ratings, and numerous of air bags which is something to be proud of. So while the new innovations in cars may make people more aloof, cars are essential in life so maybe the innovations in safety are more serious then the lazy element.
One of the essential innovations, cell phones have attached humanity closer than ever before. Cellphones have allowed anybody, anywhere to call anyone, anywhere with a touch of a few buttons (assuming the signal is great and you are willing the pay additional fees). Cellphones have however led to the growth of the ‘texting’ culture and it’s execrations of our language and conversation skills but it’s just a small price to pay for the networking of the human race.
Video games have congealed themselves in modern culture as a great outlet for amusement, learning and refreshment. Despite what you hear from soccer moms about video games and violence and videogame addiction, videogames actually have an effect like to those movies you see in theaters. They admit you to become someone else and experience things from a brand new perspective which is great for personal maturation. Videogames are also great for interpersonal gatherings and encountering people. Studies from ICT technology show that videogames have no correlation between increased aggressiveness.
Technology is awesome, it has changed humanity for the better and improved the standards of living for everyone in ways that we couldn’t even believe were possible. Every human on the planet now has their own cool shiny gadgets or devices that make their lives more efficient. Modern cutting edge technology has some faults but for all the good it has done, it is more than worth it. Tools for social networking, better safety for everything, entertainment and much more, technology is outstanding as long as you maintain a level of will power.
[Top]Exporting Technology To Africa To Save Lives
A chance phone call from the Clinton Foundation in Mozambique has changed ours and their lives dramatically. It shows the power of creating appropriate and well constructed websites describing a companys services and products.
What was the problem and then the solution:
Delayed test results have often meant that HIV patients in Mozambique have failed to get timely treatment, particularly for preventing Mother to Child transfer (MTCT) of HIV on birth. However, having introduced and developed our new SMS printer technology with the Clinton Foundation and the Mozambique Ministry of Health the need to send tests to far away laboratories has reduced and has dramatically speeded up test results and HIV treatment for Mothers, Mothers-to-be and their newly born. After a successful 2009 pilot Mozambique has nationally rolled out our SMS printer technology and gateway, with Clinton Foundations help. This GSM network based printer and gateway technology transmits the results of mother and infant HIV tests electronically from two central reference laboratories in Maputo and the northern provincial capital, Nampula, to more than 275 health centres across the country. Previously, test samples and results took, on average, three weeks and up to several months to be transported to and from clinics via various means in remote parts of the country.
How did Sequoia and Clinton Foundation meet?
Because of this serious delay in test results the Clinton Foundation in Mozambique looked around for a technology based solution. They ended up contacting us in Reading having seen our website and enquired about using our SMS printer technology for sending health test data over the GSM network to speed up the time taken. After hearing what the program was about and the disastrous pass through rate from Mother to child for HIV we, at Sequoia, could only say yes to help with the program. Two years of concentrated work with the Clinton Foundation on the hardware and the required gateway software produced a successful pilot program. Subsequent research conducted by the Ministry of Health of Mozambique and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), after our SMS printer technology and gateway had been installed, showed that the time it took for clinics to receive test results from reference labs had dropped from an average of about three weeks to about three days after the printers were introduced. Research presented by the Ministry of Health and CHAI at the International AIDS Conference 2010 in Vienna, Austria, showed that this, in turn, reduced the time it took to start infants (and /or mothers to be) on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment by about 4 months. This is now part of the national prevention of mother-to-child (PMTCT) HIV transmission service within Mozambique. The number of infants starting treatment also increased by 60 percent.
How the SMS printer technology and gateway works:
Clinics across the country collect dried blood spot samples from infants and / or mothers to be and transport them to the nearest reference lab, where lab technicians conduct the HIV tests. Results are entered into the SMS printer database at the reference lab and then uploaded onto the Sequoia Technology online server (in Reading UK). The Sequoia gateway then uses the local MCEL GSM phone network to transmit results back to the appropriate clinic. Each clinic has a small thermal paper, GPRS enabled printer that receives the patient test data and prints out the HIV test results alongside a patient identification number. With interruptions in electricity and wireless network signal, the system has been designed to ensure 100 of the data is received by the appropriate printer completely intact – if printers are offline, results are safeguarded in an online gateway queue until the printer is available. The Sequoia Technology gateway shows the status of every printer whether on or not and the number of messages sent or in a queue waiting to be printed. The printer’s small size also makes storage easy in space-constrained clinics, which must also ensure that the printer is kept in a secure room to guarantee patient confidentiality.
Greater efficiency The introduction of SMS printers to clinics has not only meant that babies who test HIV-positive can be started on ARVs sooner – a potentially life-saving intervention – but has also reduced the numbers of new mothers who disappear from the clinics PMTCT program during the, previously, long wait times or after having spent time and money on multiple clinic visits to check for results. According to Mozambiques 2010 report to the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS), about 30 percent of babies born to HIV-positive mothers contract the virus, but only about 14 percent of these babies are tested for HIV before the age of 18 months. Without treatment one-third of HIV-positive babies will die in their first year of life, and almost half by the age of two. With our SMS printer technology in place now the clinics are being able to get to and test mothers-to-be ?for HIV and be able to prescribe AVR drugs in enough time to reduce the likelihood of mother to child transfer of HIV. Additionally further testing after childbirth can check the mothers viral load to ensure the right drugs are given when the mother is breastfeeding an additional way of MTCT of HIV. With our technology in place now, throughout Mozambique, the 30-40 or less if the pre and post birth testing and drug application takes place.
Our SMS printer technology and gateway is then a fast and accurate way of transmitting confidential health data to any remote location but crucially can be used for any disease Malaria, TB, HIV in fact anything that needs to be diagnosed in a lab. This technology forms a low cost and serious platform for countries to transmit diagnostic information quickly and accurately. Additionally, the gateway consolidates all information and therefore gives statistical data about disease spread and location and the quality of the health care across a complete country. Sequoia engineers took 2 years to perfect the gateway software with CHAI and MCEL to produce 100 full data quality and with printer / server buffering and handshaking to ensure the quality of data. Extensive testing took place in pilot phase of this project. Any authorized person can log on to the SMS2printer.co.uk website and retrieve the full data and visual map of where each printer is and the stats of how many messages have been sent / received / pending at each location.
Partnership – We continue to develop more capable GPRS enabled printers and are now working with CHAI in Kenya for potentially deploying a similar system in other African countries for the same health diagnostic transmission platform. Our association with the Clinton team in Mozambique continues and has become more of a partnership and further roll outs are planned as a result of the success so far.
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