�Cunningly disguised as a toy, a new medical device that harnesses the power of distraction commode greatly abridge the hurting felt by young burns victims.
Designed for medical device company Diversionary Therapy Technologies by Sam Bucolo, who is a Queensland University of Technology industrial design Associate Professor, Ditto is a virtual reality-inspired diversionary therapy aid.
Professor Bucolo said that the trademarked Ditto device is able to distract a child's attention to help them through the sore process of having robert Burns dressings changed, which a patient may endure several times before recovery.
Professor Bucolo aforesaid Ditto was undergoing clinical trials to recognise it as a fully-fledged medical device, and it has been shown to be more effective at reduction pain oodles than the traditional methods of distraction used in hospitals, such as videos and reckoner games.
"Burns patients need to take their bandages changed trine times a week for up to two months, and this is a very painful experience," Professor Bucolo said.
"The children are already anxious when they arrive at the hospital, because they know the process is loss to injure.
"However, we know that pain perception has a strong psychological component that can be overcome with appropriate training and distraction."
Professor Bucolo said Ditto was designed for children aged ternion to octad years old and secondhand multi-modal fundamental interaction a engineering science that was closely related to practical reality, merely did not require bulky equipment or goggles that might distress young, dying children.
"It was important that the product took only seconds to lock the child and it was too important that the distraction lasted 20 minutes, around the length of time it usually takes a nurse to replace burns bandaging," Professor Bucolo said
"The child holds the orbitual Ditto device and tilts it to navigate through the virtual world, instead than victimisation a keyboard or come apart game accountant.
"The whole form of the toy is the interface. It has a touch screen and vibrating handles.
"Children can choose a theatrical role who accompanies them through and through the games, 'find and touch' stories and singsong movies. They can besides take a figurine of their character home with them."
Professor Bucolo aforesaid the virtual world could be seen from all angles just by moving the toy.
"They potty even look underneath objects by tipping it inverted," he aforementioned.
Ditto south Korean won for Diversionary Therapy Technologies the Australian leg of the UK-based business contender Technium Challenge International.
The project originated at the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design, based at QUT, and mired a range of researchers including doctors, designers, children's authors and engineers.
Funding was standard from the Queensland Department of State Development, a Federal Government Commercial Ready grant and private financial backing.
Ditto is due to be commercially available at the end of this year.
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Thursday 28 August 2008
Crystal Castles cause chaos at Leeds Festival
Crystal Castles played a typically helter-skelter set at Leeds Festival today (August 22), in similar scenes to those that about saw the band pulled offstage at Glastonbury this year.
The Canadian digi-punks' vocaliser Alice Glass spent the majority of the band's set on the Dance Stage clambering atop the speakers and drum riser and dive into the crowd.
Glass later fully immersed herself in the front row during 'Alice Practice'.
However, unlike at Glastonbury, the band's sound was not cut and they continued a triumphant set, which included 'Courtship Dating' and 'Reckless'.
The band opened their set with their remix of Klaxons' 'Atlantis To Interzone', and proceeded to fire through an telling set that also included 'Crimewave' and 'Black Panther'.
Crystal Castles played:
'Atlantis To Interzone'
'Reckless'
'Courtship Dating'
'1991'
'Crimewave'
'Alice Practice'
'Black Panther'
'Air War'
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The Canadian digi-punks' vocaliser Alice Glass spent the majority of the band's set on the Dance Stage clambering atop the speakers and drum riser and dive into the crowd.
Glass later fully immersed herself in the front row during 'Alice Practice'.
However, unlike at Glastonbury, the band's sound was not cut and they continued a triumphant set, which included 'Courtship Dating' and 'Reckless'.
The band opened their set with their remix of Klaxons' 'Atlantis To Interzone', and proceeded to fire through an telling set that also included 'Crimewave' and 'Black Panther'.
Crystal Castles played:
'Atlantis To Interzone'
'Reckless'
'Courtship Dating'
'1991'
'Crimewave'
'Alice Practice'
'Black Panther'
'Air War'
NME.COM is delivery you hot coverage straight from both sites of the Reading And Leeds Festivals 2008. For the latest intelligence, blogs, pictures and picture interviews point to the Reading And Leeds Festivals index now.
Plus create sure you get next week's issue of NME - on newsstands countrywide from Wednesday August 27 - for the ultimate Reading And Leeds Festivals review.
For more Reading And Leeds Festivals reporting including live footage and more, inspect fellow official media partner bbc.co.uk/readingandleeds.
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Monday 18 August 2008
FDA Approves Registration Of AbSorber's Transplantation Test
�The Swedish biotech party AbSorber has been given clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market and sell its XM-ONE� transplantation test in the U.S. Initially, sales of XM-ONE� in the U.S. will target the kidney transplantation market valued at about SEK cc million. XM-ONE� previously received CE marker and is approved for sales inside the EU.
AbSorber's transplantation test provides enhanced diagnostic value compared to existent tests and facilitates twin the right organ with the correct patient, thereby increasing the probability of a successful transplantation.
"Approval from the FDA demonstrates that AbSorber and the XM-ONE� transplant test meet the tough requirements of the U.S. market. Now we privy market and sell XM-ONE� full on in the U.S., initially focusing on the kidney transplantation segment, followed by a following step into the marrow and lung transplantation segment," said Anders Karlsson, CEO AbSorber. XM-ONE� is unique in that it is the first base standardized test that can detect antibodies against the cells that line the inside of blood vessels. These endothelial cells are the first point of contact betwixt the transplanted organ and the recipient's immune organization. Anti-endothelial cell antibodies have been shown to play a key role in post-transplantation rejection reactions.
"XM-ONE� adds critical supplementary info to a transplantation clinic's decision devising process in their quest to downplay risk and rejection reactions," said Karlsson.
Today thither is a great deficit in kidneys for transplanting. Wait times for patients are acquiring longer and it happens that patients die waiting for a new kidney.
"This is why it is of the outmost importance that every kidney available for transplantation is properly utilised, that is to tell that the right kidney is matched with the right recipient role. The come number of kidney transplantations per year globally is 56,000 of which 17,000 take place in the U.S. This makes the U.S. the single largest market in the earth," said Karlsson.
AbSorber has established honorable contact with ten illustrious transplantation centers in the U.S. Of these, four centers - Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baylor University Medical Center, The Ohio State University Medical Center and Mass. General Hospital - have participated in a multicenter clinical trial of XM-ONE� together with the Karolinska University Hospital and the Sahlgrenska University Hospital. The results of the study are organism published in conjunction with the globular congress for transplantations in Sydney in the middle of August. In total, there ar approximately 200 transplantation clinics in the U.S. "Interest in XM-ONE� in the U.S. market is already considerable and the first-class honours degree orders ar expected shortly," said Karlsson.
AbSorber develops products that facilitate more successful transplantations. AbSorber's number one product, the transplantation test XM-ONE�, detects key antibodies responsible for post-transplantation rejection reactions. XM-ONE� is already CE marked and approved for gross revenue in the EU.
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AbSorber's transplantation test provides enhanced diagnostic value compared to existent tests and facilitates twin the right organ with the correct patient, thereby increasing the probability of a successful transplantation.
"Approval from the FDA demonstrates that AbSorber and the XM-ONE� transplant test meet the tough requirements of the U.S. market. Now we privy market and sell XM-ONE� full on in the U.S., initially focusing on the kidney transplantation segment, followed by a following step into the marrow and lung transplantation segment," said Anders Karlsson, CEO AbSorber. XM-ONE� is unique in that it is the first base standardized test that can detect antibodies against the cells that line the inside of blood vessels. These endothelial cells are the first point of contact betwixt the transplanted organ and the recipient's immune organization. Anti-endothelial cell antibodies have been shown to play a key role in post-transplantation rejection reactions.
"XM-ONE� adds critical supplementary info to a transplantation clinic's decision devising process in their quest to downplay risk and rejection reactions," said Karlsson.
Today thither is a great deficit in kidneys for transplanting. Wait times for patients are acquiring longer and it happens that patients die waiting for a new kidney.
"This is why it is of the outmost importance that every kidney available for transplantation is properly utilised, that is to tell that the right kidney is matched with the right recipient role. The come number of kidney transplantations per year globally is 56,000 of which 17,000 take place in the U.S. This makes the U.S. the single largest market in the earth," said Karlsson.
AbSorber has established honorable contact with ten illustrious transplantation centers in the U.S. Of these, four centers - Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baylor University Medical Center, The Ohio State University Medical Center and Mass. General Hospital - have participated in a multicenter clinical trial of XM-ONE� together with the Karolinska University Hospital and the Sahlgrenska University Hospital. The results of the study are organism published in conjunction with the globular congress for transplantations in Sydney in the middle of August. In total, there ar approximately 200 transplantation clinics in the U.S. "Interest in XM-ONE� in the U.S. market is already considerable and the first-class honours degree orders ar expected shortly," said Karlsson.
AbSorber develops products that facilitate more successful transplantations. AbSorber's number one product, the transplantation test XM-ONE�, detects key antibodies responsible for post-transplantation rejection reactions. XM-ONE� is already CE marked and approved for gross revenue in the EU.
http://www.absorber.se
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Friday 8 August 2008
Music highlights, Aug. 2
The White Linen Night opening reception at the Big Top features Gal Holiday (by and by on Saturday, hear Holiday and her Honky Tonk Revue at the Circle Bar). Singer YaDonna West is featured from 5 to 11 p.m. at the Swizzle...
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Tuesday 1 July 2008
Survey sees payoff on 3-D
Study analyzed more than 4,000 U.S. theaters
Theaters that exhibited the November 2007 release "Beowulf" in 3-D saw a 65% sales increase in total boxoffice over comparable theaters that exhibited it in 2-D, according to a new study from the Nielsen Co.'s Nielsen PreView.
Nielsen PreView's 3-D study analyzed more than 4,000 U.S. theaters -- some with 3-D and others without -- that housed at least four screens. These sites were considered comparable theaters in that they had a proven track record in the action/adventure genre.
Besides the edge in boxoffice sales, theaters that chose to exhibit "Beowulf" in 3-D on more than one screen saw their sales climb even higher to 100% versus what was expected.
In part, the results reflect a premium ticket price for 3-D. "People are willing to pay this higher price for a better theater experience," said Dan O'Toole, new product director at Nielsen Ventures.
"With all the upcoming hype around 3-D, we wanted to take a hard look and see if there is truly a consumer appetite for 3-D," said Ann Marie Dumais, senior vp at Nielsen PreView. "Our new research approach contrasted theaters in such a way to demonstrate consumers, when given a choice, will choose 3-D."
A related Nielsen study found that while consumers have an appetite for 3-D films, they often lack general awareness and education about what 3-D is and where to find it. In a recent Nielsen moviegoer survey, 48% were unaware their movie was available in 3-D. "We are talking about are they aware that a given movie is offered in both formats, what that looks like and where to find it," Dumais said.
There are currently a little more than 1,000 3-D-ready digital cinema screens in North America. At least 10 3-D titles are expected to open in 2009.
The Hollywood Reporter is part of The Nielsen Company.
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Thursday 19 June 2008
Frank Natalie
Artist: Frank Natalie
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Om (Bilateral Alignment)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 3
Lichens
Friday 13 June 2008
Sheen Weds Mueller In L.A. Ceremony
Actor Charlie Sheen has married his fiancee Brooke Mueller in a small, private ceremony in Los Angeles. The couple, who has been dating for two years, exchanged vows in front of just 60 friends and family members on Friday . Grey's Anatomy star Eric Dane and his actress wife Rebecca Gayheart were among the guests at the wedding. Dane and Gayheart first introduced Sheen to real estate investor Mueller in 2006. According to People.com, Sheen, 42, persuaded his 30-year-old bride to scale down her wedding plans. A source tells the website, "Brooke really wanted to walk down the aisle in a big way, but Charlie insisted they keep it simple and small." The newlyweds requested guests make donations to the Chrysalis: Changing Lives Through Jobs charity instead of bringing wedding gifts. It is the third time up the aisle for Sheen; he was previously married to Donna Peele and former Bond girl Denise Richards. His two young daughters with Richards, Lola and Sam, were also present at the ceremony.
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Saturday 7 June 2008
Dawson's Creek star eyes crime film
'Dawson's Creek' star James Van Der Beek is in negotiations to join the cast of a new crime drama called 'The Fifth Mafia'.
The Hollywood Reporter says the film tells the story of the law-abiding son ('24' star Eric Balfour) of a Mafioso who seeks revenge after his father's murder.
Van Der Beek is in negotiations to play an FBI Agent whose life is ruined by the man's quest for revenge.
Production is due to begin at the end of this month.
The Hollywood Reporter says the film tells the story of the law-abiding son ('24' star Eric Balfour) of a Mafioso who seeks revenge after his father's murder.
Van Der Beek is in negotiations to play an FBI Agent whose life is ruined by the man's quest for revenge.
Production is due to begin at the end of this month.
Monday 26 May 2008
Laura Allen - Dirt Star Allen Pregnant
DIRT star LAURA ALLEN is expecting her first child with model husband BRUCE WEYMAN.
Allen, who acted alongside Courteney Cox in the hit show, has confirmed she is delighted with the news.
She tells People.com, "We are overjoyed to bring the first grandchild into both families this summer. We don't know boy or girl, but we are pretty sure our baby already has a palate for Indian food and Pinkberry (frozen yogurt)."
The couple wed in Italy in 2006, just two days before Allen began work on Dirt.
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Friday 23 May 2008
'Twilight' Trailer Shot By Shot: Edward's Superhuman Strength, Bella's Truck And The Big Kiss Come To Life!
'Twilight' Trailer Shot By Shot: Edward's Superhuman Strength, Bella's Truck And The Big Kiss Come To Life!
Just as Edward and Bella came to Stephenie Meyer in a dream, "Evenfall" fans feature spent holocene months fantasizing around what the first base official images from this December feature film would contain. Praise, Twilighters: You've made it this far without screaming so loud that your head explodes — although, it credibly isn't for lack of trying.
Now, with the outset trailer upon us, MTV News show brings you our official shot-by-shot analysis. Normally, we'd order you to pause-play-pause along at plate and tell us if you find things the lapp as we do, simply something tells us your mouse is already shriek for mercy.
Shot 1: A grus shooting swoops in on Edward III and Bella, exclusively in the woods of Forks. "How old ar you?" she asks breathlessly, to which he replies, "17."
Shot 2: As Albert Edward looks over her shoulder, Bella's eyes say it altogether (tinker's damn, that Kristen Stewart crapper act!). "How long have you been 17?" she queries, afraid of the answer.
Shot 3: Edward III, squatting down, feels the dangers of the woodland. If such briefness could ever presage the ominous events to occur, Henry M. Robert Pattinson is doing it nicely here. And is that a chetah screaming on the soundtrack?
Shot 4: In the most vivid display of deer destruction since "Bambi," Edward VIII takes to the leigh Hunt. Quick shots of about poor people beast wHO has no mind what's about to hit it ar intercut with footage of a fast-moving Edward III. For this vegetarian lamia, in that respect is no other selection.
Shooter 5: Take another look at Duke of Windsor Cullen, and you power notice that he's eyeballing Bella the agency we'd expect him to have hungered over that now-dead deer. Even in this brief trailer, we toilet see how manager Catherine of Aragon Hardwicke volition portray Edward's undead dilemma. Oh, and what do you think of Pattinson's non-accented voice piece saying "a while"?
Shot 6: The return of the tagline: "When you toilet live forever ..."
Shot 7: Black Prince glide through and through the forest. It looks to me like he's running through trees, non on circus tent of them. Merely do Twilighters even stillness care around this issue anymore, or has footage like this forgiven it?
Shooter 8: Hey, it's individual other than our star-crossed lovers! "This is wrong, Edward V," warns Kellan Lutz, a.k.a. Emmett. "She's non one of us!"
Injection 9: A harried Edward takes in Emmett's advice. Is it just me, or does Robert look a lot like Saint James Dean in "Rebel Without a Lawsuit"?
Nip 10: A quick shot of Edward giving in to his desire ... for a little rim action. I'm sorry, but every time I see this range of a function, I'm reminded of the Movies Web log regular world Health Organization keeps asking around how often tongue there volition be.
Nip 11: The end of the tagline: "... what do you exist for?"
Stroke 12: Yes! This is what you've been wait for, folks. Standing in the Forks High parking circumstances after getting dissed (even once again) by Black Prince, Bella leans against her truck.
Shot 13: Edward VII gives her the stink-eye from crosswise the lot. Notice how far off he's standing.
Shot 14: As an out-of-control van veers into frame, a key moment from the "Twilight" novel comes to life.
Shot 15: Edward flies into the shot with superhuman upper, stopping the vanguard from crushing Bella. His intensity level leaves a dent in the position of the vehicle.
Shot 16: As the soundtrack swells, both characters look up at each other, realizing whole that has precisely been revealed. Well, does the view look like you imagined it?
Blastoff 17: "From the worldwide best seller ..." Don't you wish Stephenie would precisely appear here and take a bow or something? At least a little curtsey? OK, perchance non.
Barb 18: Edward II and Bella in about sort of residence (the Cullen house?), as she attempts to asseverate close to enduringness. "I'm non scared of you," Bella insists.
Stroke 19: "You truly shouldn't have said that," Edward replies, flashing a mischievous grinning.
Shot 20: You'd bettor hold on closely, spider monkey! Edward II whisks Bella through the window and into the tree-climbing stake that reveals the full breadth of his power. That strait you hear is a few g Twilighters screech, "OMG!" in unison.
Shot 21: The "Gloaming" logotype, surrounded by ominous clouds, with a bit of thunder on the soundtrack. As the release date of "12.12.08" follows behind it, we realise that we sincerely ar in for 1 hell of a storm.
Chequer come out everything we've got on "Twilight."
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Wednesday 21 May 2008
John Surman with Jack De Johnette
Artist: John Surman with Jack De Johnette
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon
Year: 2000
Tracks: 9
The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon
Year: 1994
Tracks: 9
BBC announces Grange Hill will end
Sick Rihanna forced to cancel tour dates
Sick Rihanna forced to cancel tour dates
Isaac Merrit Singer Rihanna has been forced to cancel a string of dates, due to illness.
According to reports, the vocalizer was advised to lie by her doctor only inside information of her unwellness experience non been disclosed.
A statement released by Birmingham NEC, where the 19-year-old isaac Bashevis Singer was due to perform finale night, said that the star topology thanked her fans for their documentation.
The statement said that Rihanna "appreciates the love and sustenance of completely her fans and wants zero more than to get wind and connect with them".
A spokesperson for the vocalizer was non available to comment on her holocene illness.
Rhys Meyers to help Calcutta children
Yoko Ono scores in feud over rare Lennon footage
Yoko Ono scores in feud over rare Lennon footage
Bean Town (Reuters) - Whoremaster Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, made big strides on Wed in a legal feud over footage of the former Beatle smoking tidy sum, penning songs and discussing putting the hallucinogenic drug Lysergic acid diethylamide in President Richard Nixon's tea.
Yoko Ono is in a legal contravention to catch Domain Wide Video, a Newly England consortium of Beatles collectors, from releasing the written communication footage as a two-hour film titled "3 days in the lifetime" nearly John Lennon during a pivotal and turbulent time for the most celebrated band of the sixties.
U.S. Dominion Courtroom Evaluate Rya rug Zobel in Beantown ruled in favour of Yoko Ono in deuce counts in a case involving videotapes that Rolling Lucy Stone cartridge has described as "awesome John Lennon footage you mightiness never see."
The case is centered around world Health Organization owns the baseball club hours of altogether footage filmed weeks before the "Fab Four" broke up in 1970.
Existence Wide Picture claims ownership of the videos and says it paid more than $1 1000000 for them after legal costs and other expenses. Ono's lawyers say she purchased the tapes from World Wide through a FL man.
Later on that, the sheath gets murky. Humanity Wide asserts that the tapes were stolen and were sold to Ono illegally, and sued Ono for right of first publication infringement in a call to publicly show them.
Zobel told the royal court that Ono did non do anything constituting infraction -- from performing copyrighted work publically, or distributing or publicly displaying the videos.
"What the complainant suggests just doesn't fit," Zobel said. "It seems to me the defendant's apparent motion is well taken because there was no infraction."
Pens and Needles
Artist: Pens and Needles
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Aggravated Reality Check Overtures
Year: 2004
Tracks: 6
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