Category Archives: Mobile

Posted in Mobile on February 4th, 2011 by Mark Hollander

iPads In Hospital: A Wicked Case of Tablet Fever

iPads 2011: The Year of Mobile Medical Media

Stacey Homan, marketing specialist at AtriCure, blogged that 70% of Hospitals are going to deploy iPads in 2011. This makes sense, as more than half of physicians are already using a healthcare application on a smart phone. Personally my own physician uses an iPhone. And when I get back home, I look up drug-drug interaction using Epocrates, (which once prevented a potentially fatal prescribing error).

iPad fever has also spread to thought leaders like read more…

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Posted in Mobile on January 22nd, 2011 by Mark Hollander

The Ultimate e-Patient: Why Pharmaceuticals Should Pay Attention to Steve Jobs

What a roller coaster of a week it’s been for Apple CEO Steve Jobs. On Monday he announced another medical leave. On Tuesday Apple reported quarterly earnings of $26.74 billion and a record net quarterly profit of $6 billion. According to apple that’s a 71% revenue growth and 78% earning growth.

Now the CEO who brought you the iPhone, the iPad and record earnings embarks on a personal mission for health. He represents “the ultimate” e-Patient chasing medical information in a read more…

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Posted in Mobile on September 16th, 2009 by Mark Hollander

Augmented Reality Applications For Health Care

Augmented Reality is the process of superimposing metadata onto a video feed. When that video feed comes from a smart device like Android or the iPhone things get interesting. The technology marries GPS, local maps, a digital compass and specialty “data layers” to produce real time images featuring clickable highlights for shopping, banking, transportation and other information.

Seeing is Believing

One of the quickest ways to grok augmented reality is with this short video clip by Layar, a Dutch company producing a read more…

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Posted in Mobile on July 11th, 2008 by Mark Hollander

iPhone 2.0, Epocrates and Apps, Apps, Apps55

So I jumped the gun a little bit. Found the putative secret link to the iPhone 2.0 software update ahead of schedule. Through some good luck happened to download the update just before Apple pulled the link. The install was smooth enough, though doing a manual upgrade was a bit nerve wracking. To brick or not to brick that is the question.

Seeing absolutely no reason to buy the new 3G iPhone

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Posted in Mobile on July 5th, 2008 by Mark Hollander

The Great Soocial Promise of Contact Sync

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That’s not a typo, that’s Soocial, a web service that syncs your contacts amongst all your connected devices and web applications. It promises a “one address book solution to contact management” syncing data from mobile phone to Google address book to all your home and work computers. All quietly in the background.

If this sounds a lot like Plaxo or (gag) Mobile-Me, you’re right. But Plaxo can’t decide what it wants to be since they’ve been acquired by Comcast. Soocial on read more…

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Posted in Mobile on May 16th, 2008 by Mark Hollander

Using iPhone Photos to Create a Video

My friend was wondering what would happen if he took a bunch of photos he shot with his iPhone while in Santiago, Chile and created an iPhone video. So he grabbed the top 20 pictures and set them to music as a “proof of concept.” You can see the 2-minute video below.

Interestingly enough, he was ambushed and mugged for his iPhone. They got the earbuds but he kept the device (stupidly) suffering a couple of fractured ribs and a few read more…

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Posted in Mobile on May 8th, 2008 by Mark Hollander

Shooting video on an iPhone

So “My Friend” figured out how to shoot video on an iPhone using Polar Bear Farm’s ShowTime. The recording time is limited to 5 seconds and motion capture is a bit weak. But the concept is rock solid. Imagine what happens when every iPhone is a mobile video studio. [video test results below]

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