Tag: HOSPITAL

There is plenty of paranoia and weariness surrounding the potential for radio frequency identification tags (RFID) being used by shady governments and corporations to track your every move, or becoming yet another target for hackers with nefarious motives. But they have proven useful for tracking equipment, goods, and patients who may not be fully capable of caring for themselves. Though this ...

Are Sony PSPs going the same way as burning cell phones and batteries? According to WebPro News, a Farmington Hills, Mich., middle school boy felt something warm happening in his pants during band class -- and, just as you suspected (dirty monkeys!) -- it turned out that his Sony PSP was heating up to the point of causing second-degree burns. In an almost cliche-like instance of coincidence, ...

Cellphones are quickly becoming the goto method of illumination for hospitals around the world when power fails. We've reported on an appendectomy in Argentina performed by the light of a mobile handset. Then, in March, Vietnamese doctors delivered a baby via caesarian-section illuminated by cell phones. Now another child has been brought into this world with the help of cell-phone screens. ...