�Cunningly disguised as a toy, a new medical device that harnesses the power of distraction can greatly reduce the painfulness felt by young burns victims.
Designed for medical device company Diversionary Therapy Technologies by Sam Bucolo, who is a Queensland University of Technology industrial design Associate Professor, Ditto is a virtual reality-inspired diversionary therapy aid.
Professor Bucolo aforesaid that the trademarked Ditto device is able to distract a child's attention to avail them through and through the irritating process of having burns dressings changed, which a patient may endure several times in front recovery.
Professor Bucolo aforementioned Ditto was undergoing clinical trials to recognise it as a fully-fledged medical device, and it has been shown to be more effectual at reducing pain heaps than the traditional methods of distraction used in hospitals, such as videos and computer games.
"Burns patients need to feature their bandages changed three times a week for up to two months, and this is a very painful experience," Professor Bucolo said.
"The children are already anxious when they go far at the hospital, because they know the operation is going away to ache.
"However, we know that pain perception has a strong psychological component that can be overcome with appropriate preparation and distraction."
Professor Bucolo said Ditto was intentional for children aged triad to eight-spot years quondam and secondhand multi-modal interaction a engineering science that was closely related to practical reality, only did not require bulky equipment or goggles that might distress young, queasy children.
"It was important that the product took only seconds to lock the child and it was besides important that the distraction lasted 20 minutes, about the length of meter it commonly takes a nurse to replace nathan Birnbaum bandaging," Professor Bucolo said
"The child holds the circular Ditto device and tilts it to navigate through the virtual world, kind of than using a keyboard or part game comptroller.
"The solid form of the toy dog is the interface. It has a touch screen and vibrating handles.
"Children can choose a lineament who accompanies them through the games, 'find and touch' stories and singsong movies. They can likewise take a figurine of their part home with them."
Professor Bucolo aforesaid the virtual world could be seen from all angles plainly by moving the toy.
"They can even look underneath objects by tipping it upside-down," he aforementioned.
Ditto won for Diversionary Therapy Technologies the Australian leg of the UK-based business challenger Technium Challenge International.
The project originated at the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design, based at QUT, and involved a ambit of researchers including doctors, designers, children's authors and engineers.
Funding was received from the Queensland Department of State Development, a Federal Government Commercial Ready grant and private financing.
Ditto is due to be commercially available at the end of this year.
Queensland University of Technology
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008
Mp3 music: Manolo Caracol
 Artist: Manolo Caracol: mp3 download Genre(s): Latin Other Manolo Caracol's discography:  Una historia del cante flamenco Year: Tracks: 22  Grabaciones Discos Pizarra Year: Tracks: 22  Copla y Cante Year: Tracks: 23  Antologia de cantaores flamencos. Vol.8 Year: Tracks: 14 Manolo Caracol (born Manuel Ortega Juarez) was one of the sterling vocalists in the chronicle of flamenco music. His many recordings and film appearances made him one of Spain's top side artists of the mid-20th century. An highly passionate singer, he attracted attending at a very edward Young historic period. Affectionately known as Nino de Caracol, he acquired a solid reputation for his vocalizing at local fiestas. At the age of 13, he placed offset in a vocalizing competition, the Lorca Cante Jondo competition, in Granada. Although the Spanish Civil War prevented him from acting at world fiestas and theaters, he continued to seem at private functions. Caracol reached his vertex after meeting and falling in dearest with flamenco dancer/singer Lola Flores in 1943. Pooling their talents, Caracol and Flores toured the creation and appeared in several movies. Their wedlock began to melt subsequently they received an invitation to appear in American films. Although Flores lobbied for accepting the invitation, Caracol refused and they uninvolved. Their disjoin was the low power train abrogation of a canonic union in pro-Franco Spain. Although he well-tried to form another couple, including one with his little girl, Luisa Ortega, Caracol was unable to find the momentum of his early calling. Much of Caracol's afterwards sprightliness sentence was devoted to his club, the Basket Makers, which he ran until his February 1973 expiry in an machine accident. |
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Thursday, 7 August 2008
The All-For-Nots
The All-for-Nots seem like your middling indie-rock band: They enlistment the East Coast in an old van, equipt with a clueless only optimistic manager, all the while engaging in a slew of conflicts both internally and with each other.
The only catch is that they're not a real band, per se. They're actors who play music.
Would-be indie-rock darlings the All-for-Nots�"fans" refer to them as AFN�are the invention of film producers Kathleen Grace and Thom Woodley, founders of Dinosaur Diorama Productions and co-creators of Web series "The Burg." The band and its music are featured in "The All-for-Nots" online series that chronicles the Brooklyn-based quintet's scripted mishaps on the road, revealing the cast's quirky, ironic and even pretentious tendencies.
Grace and Woodley's concept for "The All-for-Nots" is now backed by former Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner, whose production company Vuguru is behind the series. Eisner also brought in major advertisers to sponsor the webisodes chronicling the band's travails. It's no coincidence that the All-for-Nots "tour" in a Chrysler brand vehicle. Every time the band makes travel arrangements, it's completed through Expedia.
"It's a very different experience for us now that we've got product placement and advertising," Grace says.
The series is distributed on the Web through Veoh, YouTube, Bebo and other online channels. Verizon Wireless distributes the show in a mobile capacity on VCast, while Vuguru has partnered with HDNet to bring the series to TV.
Each member of the cast is a triple-threat actor/comedian/musician, though the majority of the music is written by Woodley, who also plays the angst-ridden keyboardist, and other composers. "When we started, we weren't sure we would have a band that couldn't do anything but pretend to play music," Woodley says. "But everyone in the band is very dedicated to making it as real as it can be."
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The only catch is that they're not a real band, per se. They're actors who play music.
Would-be indie-rock darlings the All-for-Nots�"fans" refer to them as AFN�are the invention of film producers Kathleen Grace and Thom Woodley, founders of Dinosaur Diorama Productions and co-creators of Web series "The Burg." The band and its music are featured in "The All-for-Nots" online series that chronicles the Brooklyn-based quintet's scripted mishaps on the road, revealing the cast's quirky, ironic and even pretentious tendencies.
Grace and Woodley's concept for "The All-for-Nots" is now backed by former Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner, whose production company Vuguru is behind the series. Eisner also brought in major advertisers to sponsor the webisodes chronicling the band's travails. It's no coincidence that the All-for-Nots "tour" in a Chrysler brand vehicle. Every time the band makes travel arrangements, it's completed through Expedia.
"It's a very different experience for us now that we've got product placement and advertising," Grace says.
The series is distributed on the Web through Veoh, YouTube, Bebo and other online channels. Verizon Wireless distributes the show in a mobile capacity on VCast, while Vuguru has partnered with HDNet to bring the series to TV.
Each member of the cast is a triple-threat actor/comedian/musician, though the majority of the music is written by Woodley, who also plays the angst-ridden keyboardist, and other composers. "When we started, we weren't sure we would have a band that couldn't do anything but pretend to play music," Woodley says. "But everyone in the band is very dedicated to making it as real as it can be."
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Monday, 30 June 2008
Die Krupps
Artist: Die Krupps
Genre(s):
Industrial
Rock: Electronic
Electronic
Metal
Alternative
Rock: Pop-Rock
Pop: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Paradise Now
Year: 1997
Tracks: 13
Foundation (Best Of, Compilation)
Year: 1997
Tracks: 13
Fire
Year: 1997
Tracks: 4
Black Beauty White Heat
Year: 1997
Tracks: 3
Metalmorphosis Of Die Krupps '81-'92
Year: 1996
Tracks: 15
Scent
Year: 1995
Tracks: 4
Rings Of Steel
Year: 1995
Tracks: 17
Isolation
Year: 1995
Tracks: 3
Iii: Odyssey Of The Mind
Year: 1995
Tracks: 13
Fatherland
Year: 1995
Tracks: 5
Tho The Hilt
Year: 1994
Tracks: 3
The Final Remixes
Year: 1994
Tracks: 16
Germaniac
Year: 1994
Tracks: 3
The Power
Year: 1993
Tracks: 3
The Final Option
Year: 1993
Tracks: 11
Stahlwerksinfonie and Wahre Arbeit Wahrer Lohn
Year: 1993
Tracks: 5
Ii: The Final Option
Year: 1993
Tracks: 11
Entering The Arena
Year: 1993
Tracks: 10
Die Krupps
Year: 1993
Tracks: 10
Crossfire
Year: 1993
Tracks: 3
A Tribute To Metallica
Year: 1993
Tracks: 9
Metal Machine Music
Year: 1992
Tracks: 5
I
Year: 1992
Tracks: 10
Metal Machine Music
Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
Volle Kraft Voraus
Year: 1982
Tracks: 12
Stahlwerkssinfonie and Wahre Arbeit - Wahrer Lohn
Year: 1981
Tracks: 5
Odyssey Of The Mind
Year:
Tracks: 10
Along with Front 242, the German chemical group Die Krupps stands as one of the innovators of the subgenre of Euro-rock dubbed body music, a sound characterized by its dim electronic make-up as comfortably as its coarse, visceral murder. Die Krupps came together in 1981 as a pair comprised of vocaliser, guitar player, keyboardist, and mouthpiece Jurgen Engler, erstwhile of the German punk rock outfit Male, and ex-Propaganda member Ralf Dorper. Over the course of the group's first three records -- 1981's Stahlwerksinfonie, 1982's Volle Kraft Voraus, and 1984's Entrance the Arena -- Die Krupps continued to refine its lyrically bare, synth-based sound. (A two-record retrospective cover these three LPs, Metalle Maschinen Musik 91-81 Past Forward, appeared in 1991.)
The mid-'80s marked a fallow point for the band, and it was not until the 1992 button of the album One that it became clear precisely what Die Krupps had been doing all over the preceding eight age -- fundamentally, hearing to Metallica and other metallic element innovators. Both One and its 1992 follow-up Metal for the Masses Part II -- A Tribute to Metallica constitute the group's signature sound augmented by metallic element guitars, which enabled Die Krupps to bilk over to hard rock audiences spell soundless maintaining its electronic music fanbase.
1993's Die Krupps Box, a three-disc box arrange, preceded the same year's button of The Final Option, which constitute Engler and Dorper joined by ex-Heathen guitarist Lee Altus and drummer Darren Minter. In 1994, a remix album, titled The Final Mixes, featured contributions from artists like the Sisters of Mercy's Andrew Eldritch, Nitzer Ebb's Julian Beeston, Gunshot, and Jim Martin, erstwhile of Faith No More. A year by and by, Odyssey of the Mind constitute the chemical group moving fifty-fifty further from its electronic roots. Isolation, a accumulation of Odyssey of the Mind remixes and live tracks, appeared in 1996.
Ivan Noble
Thursday, 12 June 2008
Winehouse confirmed for Mandela gig
Amy Winehouse has been confirmed for Nelson Mandela's birthday gig in Hyde Park.
The singer will perform on June 27 at the 46664 Concert, which pays tribute to the former South African president.
Tim Massey, International Director of 46664 said: "We are delighted that Amy will be appearing at Hyde Park to celebrate Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday.
"Amy joins an illustrious list of names showing their support for 46664 and the fight against AIDS."
Other acts on the bill include Leona Lewis, Queen, Annie Lennox, Simple Minds, Razorlight and Sugababes.
Gordon Brown, Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Robert De Niro and Lewis Hamilton are among the celebrities who will appear at the event.
Tickets are still available for the concert.
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The singer will perform on June 27 at the 46664 Concert, which pays tribute to the former South African president.
Tim Massey, International Director of 46664 said: "We are delighted that Amy will be appearing at Hyde Park to celebrate Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday.
"Amy joins an illustrious list of names showing their support for 46664 and the fight against AIDS."
Other acts on the bill include Leona Lewis, Queen, Annie Lennox, Simple Minds, Razorlight and Sugababes.
Gordon Brown, Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Robert De Niro and Lewis Hamilton are among the celebrities who will appear at the event.
Tickets are still available for the concert.
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Tom Hanks - Hero Hanks Rescues Bride
Hollywood actor TOM HANKS played a real life hero this week (09Jun08) by halting filming on his new movie to help a stranded bride reach her wedding.
Hanks is currently filming Da Vinci Code sequel Angels and Demons in Rome, Italy and the crew were shooting outside the Pantheon church in the city when the actor spotted the stricken woman.
The bride, in her traditional white dress and veil, had arrived at the church - only to find her access blocked by the film crew, causing her to panic.
But Hanks immediately halted filming and rushed over to help - taking the woman on his arm, he escorted her and her father across the set to meet her groom at the altar.
The star even gathered the train of her dress, to stop the long gown dragging on the floor. And after his good deed was done, Hanks allowed the crew to complete the scene, reports America's Hello magazine.
The new movie is due for release next year (09).
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Stakka Bo
Artist: Stakka Bo
Genre(s):
Rock
Pop
Dance
Discography:
Jr.
Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
The Great Blondino
Year: 1995
Tracks: 11
Supermarket
Year: 1993
Tracks: 10
Here We Go
Year: 1993
Tracks: 4
Stakka Bo is a dance-pop ring that fuses hip-hop with house and pop, a lot like their contemporaries Stereo MC's. Supermarket, their 1993 debut, contained the minor hit single "Here We Go." The ring released their second record album, The Great Blondino, in December of 1996.
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Bonnaroo Kicks Out the Jams
One hundred acts on 700 acres can mean only one thing.
It's time for Bonnaroo, dude.
The four-day festival of music, art, movies and comedy kicks off on Thursday in...
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