allaboutsymbian
February 5th, 2010, 15:05
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/02/toshiba-viamo-20100205-421.jpg (http://medical.toshiba.com/news/press-releases/2010/02/04/600/)
Convertible tablets (http://www.engadget.com/tag/convertibletablet) are a dime a dozen in the laptop space, but very, very few of them can save your life. Toshiba's Viamo is the one that could -- when used by someone who knows how to control it, that is. It's a portable ultrasound device that has some tactile knobs and buttons for the old-school practitioners, but can be entirely controlled by that touchscreen, which folds flat. Sure, it isn't as portable as other ultrasound machines (http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/ge-vscan-portable-ultrasound-earns-the-leonard-mccoy-seal-of-app/) we've seen before, but it certainly looks quite a bit more advanced, and this one mounts on a pole for easy wheeling around your busy ER -- important when helicopters crash into your roof, ambulances explode out front, and two doctors madly in love need to make a little room. Viamo is newly approved by the FDA and so is now available in the US at a cost that we wouldn't hazard to guess at.Toshiba's Viamo is the tablet your doctor has been dreaming of (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/toshibas-viamo-is-the-tablet-your-doctor-has-been-dreaming-of/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
Permalink (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/toshibas-viamo-is-the-tablet-your-doctor-has-been-dreaming-of/) http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/post_label_VIA.gifMedGadget (http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2010/02/toshibas_viamo_ultrasound_now_available_in_us.html ) | http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/post_label_source.gifToshiba Medical (http://medical.toshiba.com/news/press-releases/2010/02/04/600/) | Email this (http://www.engadget.com/forward/19346226/) | Comments (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/toshibas-viamo-is-the-tablet-your-doctor-has-been-dreaming-of/#comments)
More... (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/toshibas-viamo-is-the-tablet-your-doctor-has-been-dreaming-of/)
Convertible tablets (http://www.engadget.com/tag/convertibletablet) are a dime a dozen in the laptop space, but very, very few of them can save your life. Toshiba's Viamo is the one that could -- when used by someone who knows how to control it, that is. It's a portable ultrasound device that has some tactile knobs and buttons for the old-school practitioners, but can be entirely controlled by that touchscreen, which folds flat. Sure, it isn't as portable as other ultrasound machines (http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/ge-vscan-portable-ultrasound-earns-the-leonard-mccoy-seal-of-app/) we've seen before, but it certainly looks quite a bit more advanced, and this one mounts on a pole for easy wheeling around your busy ER -- important when helicopters crash into your roof, ambulances explode out front, and two doctors madly in love need to make a little room. Viamo is newly approved by the FDA and so is now available in the US at a cost that we wouldn't hazard to guess at.Toshiba's Viamo is the tablet your doctor has been dreaming of (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/toshibas-viamo-is-the-tablet-your-doctor-has-been-dreaming-of/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
Permalink (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/toshibas-viamo-is-the-tablet-your-doctor-has-been-dreaming-of/) http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/post_label_VIA.gifMedGadget (http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2010/02/toshibas_viamo_ultrasound_now_available_in_us.html ) | http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/post_label_source.gifToshiba Medical (http://medical.toshiba.com/news/press-releases/2010/02/04/600/) | Email this (http://www.engadget.com/forward/19346226/) | Comments (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/toshibas-viamo-is-the-tablet-your-doctor-has-been-dreaming-of/#comments)
More... (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/toshibas-viamo-is-the-tablet-your-doctor-has-been-dreaming-of/)