Month: June 2014

Android Microsoft Mobile

Android Likely To Get Touch-Friendly Office Before Windows

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As reported on TechCrunch.  by Alex Wilhelm  #SatyasMicrosoft Earlier today, ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley reported that the tablet-touch build of Office for Android will land before the touch-ready build for Windows. Yes, this is the real world. Microsoft declined to comment. Keep in mind that Microsoft building an Office suite for Android tablets isn’t news. This is a timing issue. Of course, Microsoft already offers an app for Android that includes Office capabilities, but Office Mobile — which existed for iOS…

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Health HealthCare

Life-saving vest shocks wearers’ hearts to keep them alive

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As reported on Engadget. BY MARIELLA MOON Apparently, 20 percent of patients who need to wear defibrillators don’t actually keep them on at all times — even if they mean the difference between life and death. So, a group of biomedical engineering students from the John Hopkins University designed a new type of wearable defibrillator, which is unobtrusive and comfortable unlike traditional harness designs. The undergrads’ version takes on the form of a stretchable, waterproof vest fitted with sensors. Also, instead…

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Space

NASA readies Mars ‘flying saucer’ for risky hypersonic flight test

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As reported on Engadget. BY STEVE DENT The wispy atmosphere of Mars is 99 percent thinner than Earth’s — not great for slowing down space ships or metorites. NASA’s testing a way to make it work, however, using a helium balloon, rockets and a Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) vehicle, which looks suspiciously like a UFO. The plan is to launch the LDSD to 120,000 feet using the balloon, then push it to the edge of space (180,000 feet) with…

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