Formula One driver Sebastien Buemi was in Japan at a Red Bull F1 Exhibition when a fan attempted to jump over his moving race car with predictably disastrous results. [Jalopnik] More »
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Idea For Graduation Project
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i want to help me in idea of graduation project combining (hardware and software) and tell me about courses i must take to have experience
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The Craziest Low Pass Flyby I’ve Ever Seen [Video]
A Spanish pilot friend of mine sends me this stunning video of a low pass flyby in Argentina. I just can't believe the mad man who was flying this jet got it so close to the ground. More »
Take Note: MacDefender Malware Now Calls Itself Mac Shield [Blip]
New name, same headache. The MacDefender malware we've told you about in the past has morphed into a similarly fake anti-virus application that is still attempting to trick unsuspecting users into a download. Be wary, but don't panic. [MSNBC] More »
Your Baby Is Not Safe Until Its Butt Is Planted In Baby Bjorn’s New $300 Miracle Chair [Video]
Baby Bjorn has gone and done it. They've managed to create a baby high chair that's so full of itself and overpriced that I actually find myself hating something as innocent as a baby high chair this afternoon. More »
Hassell High-Speed Concept Train Serves Australian Luxury at Ludicrous Speed [Video]
With its double-decker design and posh interior perks, this concept train from Australian firm Hassell could one day zip the denizens of the land down under across the outskirts of their island continent at hundreds of miles per hour. More »
Apple Market Value Bests Intel and Microsoft Combined [Blip]
As the market closed on Friday, something pretty remarkable (but believable) happened: Apple's market value was more than Intel and Microsoft, combined. More »
Flowmeter
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These are the Big Games of E3 2011 [E3 2011 Preview]
As Spirit Fades Forever, Mars Opportunity Rover Reaches New Distance Milestone [Space]
Even as its twin goes dark, Opportunity soldiers on unabated: The plucky NASA Mars rover, on planet for seven years now, just passed an impressive 30-kilometer milestone. More »
ExplosionProof Pressure Transmitters For Deep Well Drilling, Oil Processing
American Sensor Technologies, Inc. (AST) has enhanced its AST4600 and AST46HA Series of Explosion Proof Pressure Transmitters with new pressure ranges, materials and options.
The pressure transmitter upgrades enable AST to better address customer demands and applications in a variety of industries.
The World’s Coolest Super Hero Grandma Is Scaling Buildings Now [Heroes]
Remember Super Mamika, the alter ego of 91-year-old Frederika? Well she's back, and the world's coolest super grandma is bigger and badder than ever—and she's brought a friend! More »
This Pirate-Themed Home Theater Should Serve Nothing But Expensive Rum [Theaters]
The pics are renders, yes, but this elaborate pirate theater is very much a real thing being constructed in one luxurious Palm Beach, Florida home. More »
"Automatic Download" iTunes Leak Hints at Wireless iOS App Updates, Less Syncing [Rumors]
Corvette Rumor Watch: Small V8 Turbo for C7?
Have you heard the latest rumor that's buzzing out of thin air about the next-generation Corvette? Citing unspecified whistle-blowers such as "a very senior GM executive" and "several well-placed sources," The Detroit Bureau claims that the C7 will be getting a small-displacement, overhead-cam
Are you interested in presenting at the 2011 Pathology Visions Conference?
If so, click here to submit Individual Oral or Individual Poster abstracts.
Sessions within the clinical, education and research tracks will consist of a series of 25 minute talks, immediately followed by questions. Researchers interested in presenting as part of these sessions should submit a 200 - 250 word abstract through the DPA website.
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2011
MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR 2011 PATHOLOGY VISIONS
The annual meeting of the Digital Pathology Association (DPA) will be held October 30 - November 2, 2011 in beautiful San Diego.
Pathology Visions brings together attendees from around the world to share best practices and learn about innovations in digital pathology. Pathology Visions features leaders and early adopters of digital pathology as well as stimulating presentations on major topics. Enrich your conference experience through hands on workshops, scientific poster sessions, digital pathology demonstrations and networking events.
If you are involved or interested in the exciting world of digital pathology, Pathology Visions is the conference for you. Click here for more information.
GE’s First Global “Pathology Innovation Centre of Excellence” Opens in Toronto
New MaRS Global Centre Builds on GE's $6 Billion healthymagination Commitment to Improve Access, Quality and Cost and GE's MOU with Ontario Government TORONTO-MAY 31, 2011- Today, GE opened its first global "Pathology Innovation Centre of Excellence" (PICOE), located at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto. In this new research and development centre, GE will collaborate with its digital pathology joint venture, Omnyx™, along with funding partner, HTX (Health Technology Exchange) and numerous clinical partners to create best practices and technologies to address current pathology challenges. This new centre has the potential to revolutionize pathology through digital innovation. Developing products and processes to increase patient access to skilled pathologists and to empower pathologists with tools for more efficient, consistent and accurate examination will be part of the Centre's focus. By tackling issues of cost, quality and access of pathology services, the Centre is a core component of GE's healthymagination business strategy. PICOE builds on a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) GE signed with the Ontario government in September 2009 to partner and invest long-term within the province. GE was attracted to Canada because of the expertise and leadership in digital pathology adoption in centres like Toronto, as well as the innovative and collaborative culture. MaRS, a leading innovation centre, serves as an ideal hub for PICOE given its close proximity to hospitals, highly skilled pathologists, clinical partners and academia. The new 2,150-square foot centre includes a digital lab where GE will conduct training, research and development on Omnyx™ IDP (Integrated Digital Pathology) platform with clinical collaborators. The lab will house Omnyx's Pathologist and Histology Workstations, as well as showcase Omnyx's VL series of high-resolution scanners which will digitize glass slides.
QUOTES "PICOE's opening is one way GE is investing and innovating with collaborators to find new ways to address costs, quality and access barriers to health for individuals and entire healthcare systems," said Peter Robertson, Vice President & General Manager of GE Healthcare Canada. "PICOE will create 15 new highly skilled jobs over the next three years and give pathologists and clinical partners the resources to accelerate research and development and testing for new digital pathology solutions. " "PICOE is an integral component of our strategy to ensure customers get the full value of their adoption of Digital Pathology." said Gene Cartwright, CEO of Omnyx. "We are excited to be part of the vibrant community surrounding the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto." "We are absolutely delighted to welcome GE Healthcare to the MaRS Centre. GE is a global innovation leader, and their arrival at MaRS affirms their commitment to Ontario and to furthering collaboration with the outstanding science, tech and social innovators in our ecosystem. This decision is timely, as a number of health innovation initiatives in the MaRS community are showing exceptional promise, offering unique opportunities for collaboration and partnership," said Dr. Ilse Treurnicht, CEO of MaRS Discovery District. "The opening of PICOE and hiring of staff are exciting initial milestones, and we look forward to watching the Centre develop quickly" said John Soloninka, President and CEO of HTX - the Health Technology Exchange. "We have already received enquiries about how companies can collaborate with PICOE, and how other Multinational Enterprises can take advantage of the innovation ecosystem that GE has seen in Ontario. This is a very positive step for Ontario medtech commercialization, and one HTX is very pleased to support." "The opening of this Centre of Excellence is great news for Ontario; digital pathology will help reduce costs and give Ontarians faster and more accurate diagnoses, regardless of their location, " said Glen Murray, Minister of Research and Innovation. "PICOE will also help position Ontario as one of the world's top imaging clusters, attracting new companies and creating high-paying jobs." QUICK FACTS- Challenges Facing PathologyToday
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About GE GE is Imagination at Work - a diversified technology, media and financial services company focused on solving some of the world's toughest problems. With products and services ranging from aircraft engines, power generation, water processing and security technology to medical imaging, business and consumer financing, media content and advanced materials, GE serves customers in more than 100 countries and employs more than 300,000 people worldwide. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.ge.com. About GE Healthcare GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our broad expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies, performance improvement and performance solutions services help our customers to deliver better care to more people around the world at a lower cost. In addition, we partner with healthcare leaders, striving to leverage the global policy change necessary to implement a successful shift to sustainable healthcare systems. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employees are committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit http://www.gehealthcare.com
About healthymagination Healthymagination is GE's $6 billion commitment that was launched in May 2009. Our "healthymagination" vision for the future invites the world to join us on our journey as we continuously develop innovations focused on reducing costs, increasing access and improving quality and efficiency around the world. For more information, visit: http://www.healthymagination.com
About Omnyx Omnyx, LLC is a joint venture of GE Healthcare and The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center with locations in Pittsburgh, PA and Piscataway, NJ. The company is developing an enterprise platform to transform the scope of pathology to an all-digital workflow. Omnyx will sell its digital pathology platform to clinical labs and offer an enterprise software platform for image management, workflow automation, image analysis algorithms and system integration along with its high speed whole-slide scanners. Close collaboration with pathologists at UPMC and other institutions along with their relationship with GE Healthcare allows Omnyx to focus its innovation on the needs of anatomic pathologists worldwide. Omnyx digital pathology products are currently in development and have not yet been cleared by the US FDA or licensed by Health Canada.
About HTX From Invention through to Innovation to International Invoice, HTX supports emerging and established Ontario-based companies to develop, produce and commercialize innovative market-leading advanced health technologies. HTX is funded by theGovernment of Ontario through the Ministry of Research and Innovation. For more information about the Health Technology Commercialization Program, please visit http://www.htx.ca. HTX is a member of the Ontario Network of Excellence http://www.oneinnovation.ca.
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Digital Pathology Consultants and BioInformatics LLC Team Up to Provide Unprecedented Market Insight on Digital Pathology
Digital Pathology Consultants LLC (DPC) and BioInformatics LLC announced today a partnership to provide digital pathology companies unprecedented market insight about their customers, products, and brand.
Broomfield, CO (PRWEB) May 26, 2011
Digital Pathology Consultants LLC (DPC) and BioInformatics LLC announced today a partnership to provide digital pathology companies unprecedented market insight about their customers, products, and brand.
BioInformatics LLC has served the life science, medical device, and pharmaceutical industries for the past 17 years as a leading market research and advisory firm. Digital Pathology Consultants, a premier consulting firm, is a trusted advisor to the digital pathology industry, healthcare, and pharmaceutical markets. The collaboration between DPC and BioInformatics LLC combines extensive industry knowledge with an accomplished team of market research experts to provide digital pathology companies with the vital market information necessary to grow their business and remain competitive.
Amanda Lowe, President of Digital Pathology Consultants said, “We are excited to work with BioInformatics LLC, an excellent firm with an outstanding track record. Their skilled staff of experts will provide my clients with the right information to make good business decisions.”
Bill Kelly, President of BioInformatics LLC, said, “In order to provide comprehensive solutions to leading medical technology companies, advisory firms must respond in a collaborative, innovative way. We are excited to join forces with Digital Pathology Consultants, an organization that brings a deep knowledge of the digital pathology industry and an understanding of best practices to each engagement.”
In 1997, BioInformatics LLC established a professional online community, The Science Advisory Board, which has grown in number to over 60,000 scientific consumers. Members network on this social media platform to voice opinions, share protocols and collaborate with colleagues around the world. According to Kelly, “Over the past year, we have been actively recruiting scientists in the pathology and molecular diagnostics fields to our online panel in anticipation of continued growth in these markets.” Members agree to participate in market research surveys and focus groups, which will be a valuable resource to Digital Pathology Consultants and will support our collaborative efforts to reach out to scientists in the digital pathology industry.
About Digital Pathology Consultants, LLC
Digital Pathology Consultants, founded by Amanda Lowe, is a leading provider of digital pathology consultation services. Our services assist businesses, and medical and biopharma professionals with market research, business planning, and step-by-step through the selection, implementation, and validation of digital pathology solutions. Knowledge, trust, and an open exchange forum shape the foundation of Digital Pathology Consultants. Delivering results is our promise, exceeding your expectations is our guarantee.
About BioInformatics LLC
BioInformatics LLC, is the premier research and advisory firm serving the life science industry. By leveraging our professional social network of more than 60,000 life scientists, we have supported more than 300 companies and provided insights that lead to better business decisions. Our assignments include assessing the size and attractiveness of markets, optimizing product configurations and pricing, validating corporate acquisitions, measuring customer loyalty, and evaluating brand strength and positioning.
Morbid Anatomy Presents at Observatory This Week: The Hyrtl Skull Collection and Victorian Bell Jar Show and Tell!
This Week at Observatory: An artist's investigation into the Mütter Museum's famous Hyrtl Skull Collection! Meditations on the allure and history of the Victorian bell jar featuring a show and tell from an amazing private collection!
Full details follow; hope very much to see you there.
The Hyrtl Simulacrum
An illustrated lecture with artist Jeanne Kelly
Date: Tuesday, May 31
Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: $5
Presented by Morbid AnatomyThe Hyrtl Simulacrum is a multimedia, interactive augmentation to the museum experience that makes curiosity contagious and infects others with a sense of wonder. It uses museum artifacts as the foundation for creative historical fictions. These fictions are discovered through digital forensic facial reconstructions and analog interaction with story machines.
The stories begin with 8 of the 138 human skulls that combine to make up the Hyrtl collection, found in the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, PA. Durning the late 1800's Dr. Joseph Hyrtl wrote what he knew about each person directly onto their skulls. The Hyrtl Simulacrum grew from these short stories written directly on bone. A famous Viennese prostitute, a tight-rope walker who died of a broken neck, a child murderer and a Tai bandit are only a few of the very real people chosen from the collection to become characters in this new narrative.
Combining her love of artistic anatomy, conceptual visual narrative, history, science and good story telling, the project has grown to include high-resolution CT scans of the original skulls, vintage photography, a variety of forensic reconstruction techniques, digital painting and image editing, large wooden interactive curiosity cabinets with miniature handmade dioramas inside and much more.
You can catch a preview of The Hyrtl Simulacrum at the Kellen Gallery at 2 West 13th St., where it will be on view through May 23rd.
Jeanne Kelly is an award winning conceptual artist, designer and all around creative. Research as design, scholarship as artistic medium, institutional insertion, collective narratives, public interventions and scripted spaces are the focus of her current work. In the creation of her own work and in collaboration with others, she has utilized everything from welding, painting and wood carving to flash animation, video projection and 3d modeling. Focusing over 20 years experience in the arts, she aims to enhance the current ideas of curation through the augmentation of the museum experience through fine art, interaction and narrative. Jeanne received her BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University and her MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons The New School for Design.
Under Glass: A Victorian Obsession
An Illustrated Lecture and Show and Tell with with Glass Parlor Dome Collector John Whiteknight
Date: Thursday, June 2nd
Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: $5
Part of the Out of the Cabinet: Tales of Strange Objects and the People Who Love Them Series, presented by Morbid Anatomy and Morbid Anatomy Scholar in Residence Evan MichelsonA smoking monkey dressed as a Marquis, a Wild West scalping scene created in beeswax, a cemetery scene made from the deceased's hair, and stuffed pug dog puppies, all under glass domes!!!!!
The bell jar, or glass parlor dome, is synonymous with our memory of the Victorian Age (1837 - 1901). During the 19th century, these blown glass forms were referred to not as domes but as shades, and graced nearly every parlor, protecting a broad variety of treasures--including miniature tableaux, waxworks, natural history specimens, taxidermy of exotic birds and pets, automatons, and delicate arrangements of hairwork, featherwork, and shellwork--from dust and curious fingers.
Tonight, join parlor dome collector, scholar and author of the upcoming book Under Glass, A Victorian Obsession John Whitenight as he shares treasured objects from his more than 30 years of collecting, traces the art and history of the parlor dome in an illustrated lecture, and muses on the peculiar allure of the glass parlor dome, that extraordinarily thin bubble of glass which is at once barrier and invitation, creating an enchanted world which teases the viewer by saying, “ look at me, study me and enjoy me, but do not touch."
John Whitenight has collected antiques since he was a young boy. Along with his fever for collecting came a thirst for knowledge and a love affair with all things involving the Victorian era. Currently,his private collection consists of over 175 domes from four inches high to well over three feet high. As voracious for information as for new specimens, he has, over the years, become something of a scholar on domes and the various art forms beneath them. Feeling that this is an area that has been grossly overlooked in the study of 19th century decorative arts, Mr. Whitenight has decided it was time to put these wonderfully whimsical and eccentric Victorian concoctions into the spotlight where they belong; to this end, he is hard at work on a lavishly illustrated book on the topic entitled Under Glass, A Victorian Obsession.
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Favorite Fantastic Artists of H. P. Lovecraft
I must confess that I have never actually read any H. P. Lovecraft's works, though I am, of course, well aware of the strong cult following he has engendered with many like-minded folk. Today I came across a link to an article about his favorite artists, and it reads--perhaps not surprisingly--like an illustrated who's who of my favorite historical artists of the fantastic and the grotesque--including Gustave Doré, Henry Fuseli and Francisco Goya--with a few great artists that I had never heard of thrown in for good measure, including John Martin, whose fantastic "The Great Day of His Wrath" (1851) you see above.
This article--by illustrator and graphic designer John Coulthart--is a terrific resource for aficionados of the gothic and fantastic in art; you can read it in its entirety (which I highly recommend!) and see lots of great images not included in this post by clicking here.
Found via i09.
