Nobel laureate launches music video for eye health
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus  helped launch a pop music record and video on Tuesday that will  raise money to build eye hospitals in Bangladesh.
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Description: Daisuke Inoue, the inventor of karaoke, was awarded the 2004 Ig Nobel Peace Prize last night, &quot;for inventing karaoke, thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other.
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(InfoWorld) - Koninklijke Philips ElectronicsÂ hopes to dominate the market for electronic healthcare products in much the same way that Apple conquered the ears of consumers with its successful iPod portable music player. With the entertainment segment of consumer electronics likely to remain a high-volume, low-margin business, Philips views healthcare gadgets, targeted largely at an aging baby-boom generation, as a market with great potential, said Rudy Provoost, chief executive officer of Philips' consumer electronics division, in a speech Saturday at the IFA electronics show in Berlin. "Globally, the population of people 60 and older is growing by 2 percent per year, faster than the population as a whole," Provoost said, citing a United Nations report. "The most developed nations already have a higher proportion of 60-plus citizens than children up to the age of 15." As part of its Connect Care product development project, Philips is working on a variety of "body-driven" consumer electronics products that could help improve people's health and well-being. Provoost showed a video of a woman with a small, white iPod-like device attached to her that was designed to monitor her health using a conductive skin response technology. The device, when placed near a special display, shows images of the woman's health status, making suggestions where corrections are needed and also sending alerts where emerging problems are detected. It can also be programmed to help the woman overcome sleeping problems. Even if Philips is looking to healthcare to lift its profits, the company also hopes to squeeze more money out of consumers' pockets with innovative entertainment products. Provoost pointed to the company's Ambilight technology for reducing eye strain on flat-panel TV screens as an example of how to entertain consumers in a more "relaxing and exciting way." At the IFA show Philips, which introduced the world's first flat-panel TV a decade ago, showed a prototype 100-inch flat-screen TV with Ambilight. As part of its Lifestyle Home project, the company is using consumer electronics as a platform to connect diverse technologies, such as electronic paper, gesture-sensitive smart skin surfaces, algorithms that create ambient mood lighting, remote controls and contactless purchase systems for secure in-home payment. A video showed a women pointing a remote control at a movie on the TV and dragging the image over to a flat-panel in another corner and then to picture frames. Provoost made a pitch for "open innovation," calling on companies, universities and research institutes to combine knowledge, efforts and money to develop new consumer electronic products. A go-it-alone strategy in the 21st century, the Dutch CEO said, would be "outright suicidal."
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If a herring asks you to pull his finger, be very afraid. Thatâs one of the lessons derived from this yearâs Ig Nobel awards ceremony, an event that honors offbeat scientific achievements.
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Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai has been formally awarded the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway. Ms. Maathai urged her audience at Oslo&#39;s City Hall to recognize that protecting
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Dr. Roger D. Kornberg of Stanford University School of Medicine won this yearÂs Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has been given a new and important meaning for the 21st century. For the first time, the honor has gone to an African woman, and to an environmentalist.
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Interfering with RNA The 2006 Nobel Prize for Medicine will be shared by MIT's Andrew Fire and Harvard's Craig Mello for their detective work on the phenomenon of RNA interference (RNAi), which has the potential to revolutionise medicine.â¦
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To the beat of African drums, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai received her Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, telling the audience of royals, celebrities and diplomats that protecting the world's resources is ...
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It seems like a cool idea &#151; sunglasses with a built-in digital music player and speakers. No headphone cables to untangle as with most portable players. Music actually riding on your ears. Zero retinal damage from ultraviolet radiation.
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The winner of a $1.2 million prize for his inventions in light and laser technology said Friday he will give away some of his money to promote research at universities and organizations that help developing countries.
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Genetic breakthroughs and an unlikely drug offer hope for a disease ravaging the eyes of an aging population.
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American superstars Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey will host December's traditional Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, honoring the 2004 laureate, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai, organizers told the AP Wednesday.
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The winner of a $1.2 million prize for his inventions in light and laser technology said Friday he will give away some of his money to promote research at universities and organizations that help developing ...
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Science & environment: Connecting doctors with patients via video is not new - but is now the time for it finally to take off?
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Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus received the Nobel Peace Prize on Sunday and urged world leaders to get on with fighting poverty and stop wasting money on wars like the one in Iraq.
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Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai receives the Nobel Peace Prize from Nobel chairman Ole Danbolt Mjos in Oslo City Hall.