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Obituary: printf("goodbye, Dennis"); Touchscreen Braille Writer Lets the Blind Type on a Tablet. One group of people has traditionally been left out of our modern tablet revolution: the visually impaired.

Touchscreen Braille Writer Lets the Blind Type on a Tablet

Our slick, button-less touchscreens are essentially useless to those who rely on touch to navigate around a computer interface, unless voice-control features are built in to the device and its OS. But a Stanford team of three has helped change that. New smartphone ultrasound device is (finally) available. In February 2011, Mobisante got the green light from the U.S.

New smartphone ultrasound device is (finally) available

Food and Drug Administration for its mobile, smartphone-powered ultrasound device. It took the medical device startup another eight months to meet the various FDA guidelines, but now its MobiUS SP1 Ultrasound System is finally available for commercial sales starting this month. Submarine Cables / Câble Sous-Marins.