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Protect Your Bubble Share Insight Into The Soon To Launch Sony Xperia Z Smart Phone
(PRWEB UK) 6 March 2013
Sony is better known for gaming and televisions, its prominence in the mobile market is relatively slim, but Sony is not a company to stand around idle. The Xperia T did well in its five months on the market and the Z is rumoured to hit the market relatively soon. Protect Your Bubble, mobile phone insurance provider, takes a good look at the top five elements that make the new Xperia a mobile to consider.
1. Hardware
Like the Apple iPhone, removal of the battery is not possible. The upside of this is an incredibly slim and light phone. The phone comes in standard black or white and there is a purple option available for those who want some colour in their lives. The 5-inch screen could feel more like the Galaxy Note II than a mobile, but the phone still slides neatly and easily into pockets.
Another positive feature many will appreciate is its water resistance to a full meter. There is no impact on how the phone looks but to access the slots for the microSD card and headphone sockets, sealed covers with a rubber lining must be moved.
The exteriors only bump in what is an incredibly streamlined phone is the power button which is strangely similar to the Playstation Vita button. Although the exterior look isnt impacted by the waterproofing the trade off is a lack of a camera button.
2. Display
With the Xperia Z smart phone Sony are wisely brought to the market one of the first mobile phones to have not only a 5-inch display but also 1080p with a deep and rich 443 pixels per inch. Users should expect sharper fonts, deeper hues in pictures and crisper video.
The Mobile Bravia Engine 2 is to thank for some of the increased picture and video quality. Dark regions are even darker and sharpness is improved because of the filter. This feature if not being used can be turned off to conserve battery life.
3. Camera
The Exmor RS sensor is new in the Xperia Z and offers up to 12 megapixels and improved processing. The new auto function auto i+ setting gives results as good as with the High Dynamic Range option. The auto function for the majority of pictures works excellently by adjusting the ISO for great results. HDR video is standard but also a range of lighting is available for video capture.
4. Software
The operating system is Androids Jelly Bean 4.1.2. Google Now arrives on the Xperia Z, along with Spotify both available from the lock screen. It has a Rolodex gallery widget and expandable power management widgets which take a fair bit of space and may not be required. Other pre-installed software includes Walkman audio player widget and the Entertainment Network.
Walkman audio player is the musical app; it has a couple of free tracks from Music Unlimited. There is also the option of a premium account at a cost of
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WPI Team Awarded $1.2 Million to Develop Smart Phone Application for Advanced Diabetes and Wound Care
WPI Team Awarded $ 1.2 Million to Develop Smart Phone Application for Advanced Diabetes and Wound Care
Worcester, Mass. (PRWEB) December 12, 2011
An interdisciplinary research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has received a $ 1.2 million award from the National Science Foundation to develop a smart phone application that will help people with advanced diabetes and foot ulcers better manage their disease. The four-year project will be organized through WPI’s Healthcare Delivery Institute (HDI) in collaboration with diabetes and wound care specialists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
The proposed application, currently dubbed “sugar” would be installed on a smart phone and integrated wirelessly with a personal glucose meter and scale. The application would track and archive blood sugar levels and weight, and use the phone’s camera to capture and analyze images of lesions known as foot ulcers, which are potentially dangerous complications that affect people with advanced, uncontrolled diabetes.
“This is an ambitious project that we hope will create a useful tool for people who are dealing with advanced diabetes,” said Diane Strong, PhD, one of the project’s leaders, who is a professor in WPI’s School of Business and a health information technology expert. “We appreciate the National Science Foundation’s support for our approach to combine technology development and clinical expertise into a unified team to address this challenge.”
The importance of managing weight and blood sugar to control diabetes is well known, and the application will have embedded data and algorithms drawn from clinical experience that will prompt patients with specific messages based on their weight and blood sugar readings over time. The application will also track the progress of a patient’s foot ulcers, which are often caused by neuropathy and reduced circulation to the extremities, common complications of advanced diabetes.
Left untreated, foot ulcers can develop into serious infections and lead to amputation. According to the American Diabetes Association, some 70,000 people with diabetes have lower-limb amputations each year, accounting for more than 60 percent of all non-traumatic lower-limb amputations in the United States. Nearly 80 percent of foot and leg amputations in patients with diabetes are complications from foot ulcers.
“The application will provide relevant, personalized feedback for the patient that encourages them to make good decisions,” said Bengisu Tulu, PhD, assistant professor at WPI’s School of Business, a health information technology expert and one of the leaders of the project. “The reality is that nearly all the management of a person’s diabetes is done by the patient, away from a doctor’s office or clinic. So we envision this new application as a way to help these patients achieve better outcomes.”
Strong and Tulu are founding members of HDI. Also working on the “sugar” project are HDI executive council member Emmanuel Agu, PhD, associate professor of computer science at WPI, who will lead the software development for the new application, and Peder Pedersen, PhD, professor of electrical and computer engineering at WPI, who will work with the HDI team and direct the image processing component of the application. Throughout the project, WPI students will participate in the research and development. “This is wonderful opportunity for our students to work together on teams with senior researchers and clinical partners, to help develop an exciting application that meets a real medical need,” Agu said.
Currently, treating chronic foot ulcers is a significant challenge because walking on ulcerated feet causes further trauma. Even the action of having affected patients come to a physician’s office for an examination can cause additional injury and stress. A novel aspect of the application would give patients more control over the care of their foot ulcers. The patient, or someone else in the home, would photograph the ulcers on a regular basis then use embedded tools in the application to monitor the ulcers’ status.
The application would deliver prompts with objective measures of the progress of their ulcers to help patients decide if staying home and dressing the wounds is sufficient or if a doctor’s visit is needed for further assessment. “If the new application can provide helpful feedback to the patient, letting them know the ulcer is healing, or at least is stable, then it could limit the number of times these patients need to be transported to a doctor’s office or clinic, which is better for everyone involved,” Pedersen said.
The WPI team will work closely with four colleagues at UMass Medical School: David Harlan, MD, professor of medicine and pediatrics and Co-Director of the the Diabetes Center of Excellence at UMass Memorial Medical Center; Raymond Dunn, MD, professor of surgery and chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery at the medical center; Ronald Ignotz, PhD, adjunct professor of cell biology and research scientist in the Department of Surgery; and Sherry Pagoto, PhD, associate professor of medicine and a licensed clinical psychologist at the UMass Memorial Weight Center.
“Many with diabetes will tell you that managing their illness is like a second and demanding full time job. And that is especially true if complications, like foot ulcers, arise,” Dr. Harlan said. “All our clinical care delivery efforts are designed to support the patient so that much of their care can be delivered in the patient’s home, when it is convenient for them with their busy lives. Until we can eliminate any of our patients from suffering wound ulcers, which is our ultimate goal, we’re terrifically excited by the work we’re doing with the WPI team to facilitate proper wound care and thereby avoid amputations.”
The first two years of the project are slated for technology research and development, leading to a prototype for refinement. If the development phase proceeds as planned, the second two years of the project will test the new application in a clinical trial at UMass Medical School.
About Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Founded in 1865 in Worcester, Mass., WPI was one of the nation’s first engineering and technology universities. Its14 academic departments offer more than 50 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science, engineering, technology, business, the social sciences, and the humanities and arts, leading to bachelor’s, master’s and PhD degrees. WPI’s world-class faculty work with students in a number of cutting-edge research areas, leading to breakthroughs and innovations in such fields as biotechnology, fuel cells, information security, materials processing, and nanotechnology. Students also have the opportunity to make a difference to communities and organizations around the world through the university’s innovative Global Perspective Program. There are more than 25 WPI project centers throughout North America and Central America, Africa, Australia, Asia, and Europe.
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