�Cunningly masked as a toy, a new medical device that harnesses the power of distraction canful greatly reduce the pain felt by young george 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 aforementioned that the trademarked Ditto device is able to distract a child's attention to help them through the irritating process of having burns dressings changed, which a patient may endure respective times ahead 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 effective at reducing pain lashings than the traditional methods of distraction used in hospitals, such as videos and reckoner games.
"Burns patients need to receive their bandages changed three times a week for up to two months, and this is a very painful experience," Professor Bucolo aforementioned.
"The children are already anxious when they arrive at the hospital, because they know the operation is leaving to hurt.
"However, we know that pain perceptual experience has a strong psychological component that can be overcome with appropriate preparedness and misdirection."
Professor Bucolo said Ditto was intentional for children aged three to eight years old and used multi-modal interaction a applied science that was closely related to to virtual reality, merely did non require bulky equipment or goggles that might distress young, anxious children.
"It was important that the product took only seconds to enlist the child and it was too important that the distraction lasted 20 minutes, around the distance of time it unremarkably takes a nurse to replace george Burns bandaging," Professor Bucolo said
"The child holds the round Ditto device and tilts it to navigate through the virtual world, rather than using a keyboard or separate game accountant.
"The unharmed form of the plaything is the interface. It has a touch screenland and vibrating handles.
"Children can opt a character who accompanies them through the games, 'find and touch' stories and singalong movies. They can also take a figurine of their character home with them."
Professor Bucolo aforementioned the virtual world could be seen from all angles just by moving the toy.
"They can even look underneath objects by tipping it inverted," he aforementioned.
Ditto won for Diversionary Therapy Technologies the Australian leg of the UK-based business contest Technium Challenge International.
The project originated at the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design, based at QUT, and involved a range of researchers including doctors, designers, children's authors and engineers.
Funding was standard from the Queensland Department of State Development, a Federal Government Commercial Ready grant and private funding.
Ditto is due to be commercially available at the end of this year.
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Friday 29 August 2008
Mp3 music: Stakka Bo
 Artist: Stakka Bo: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Pop Dance Stakka Bo's 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 care their generation Stereo MC's. Supermarket, their 1993 debut, contained the minor shoot single "Here We Go." The ringing released their second record album, The Great Blondino, in December of 1996. |
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Tuesday 19 August 2008
Download Boston mp3
 Artist: Boston: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Pop: Pop-Rock Rock: Hard-Rock Discography:  Corporate America Year: 2002 Tracks: 10  Greatest Hits Year: 1997 Tracks: 16  Walk On Year: 1994 Tracks: 10  The Neverending Story Year: 1993 Tracks: 11  Third Stage Year: 1986 Tracks: 10  Don't Look Back Year: 1978 Tracks: 8  Boston Year: 1976 Tracks: 8 The domain rock mathematical group behind unitary of the fastest-selling debut albums in history, Boston was fundamentally the fomite of studio zoom along Tom Scholz, born March 10, 1947, in Toledo, OH. A john Rock winnow passim his stripling old age, he began writing songs while earning a master's academic degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After graduation, he began work for Polaroid, and eventually coupled a local band lED by guitar player Barry Goudreau. Though Scholz signed on as a keyboardist, he likewise began acquisition guitar, and his quick control of the instrument shortly allowed him to train full control of the band. At the like prison term, Scholz set or so constructing his possess 12-track recording studio in the basement of his home plate, where the group -- now dubbed Boston and including Goudreau, vocalist Brad Delp, bassist Fran Sheehan, and drummer John "Sib" Hashian -- recorded the demos that earned them a contract with Epic in 1975. Although some transcription and overdubs were later done in Los Angeles, the 1976 release of Beantown consisted largely of Scholz's original basement tapes; spawning leash hit singles ("More than Than a Feeling," "Long Time," and "Peace of Mind"), the LP injection immediately to the top of the charts, and remained the best-selling pop debut effort in history before it was supplanted by Whitney Houston's low gear album in 1986. Scorn the record's consuming success, Scholz spent over iI age on the job on the followup, 1978's number one hit Don't Look Back; a perfectionist, he alone then released the album because of intense tag imperativeness for product. Unsatisfied with the results, he swore to give rise the adjacent album at his have pace; as a termination, the chart-topping Third Stage did not appear until 1986, at which meter only Scholz and Delp remained from the original lineup. Scholz exhausted the next respective years in the court: first gear, he was sued by Goudreau, world Health Organization alleged that Scholz had discredited his solo recording career (they colonized out of court); next, he won a seven-year struggle against Epic, which claimed Boston had reneged on its contract by taking so long between releases. When the stria resurfaced over again in 1994 with Walk On, Scholz was the sole odd member; Delp and Goudreau had reunited in 1992 as RTZ, cathartic the album Regress to Zero. Unlike previous returns, Walk On was a noted failure. Radio and MTV unheeded any attempts at singles or videos, and the minimalist approaching taken by the popular alternative artists of the epoch made the crystalline production and lengthy recording meter seem like an egotistical practice. Compounding the trouble was the poor songwriting, which could no longer be hidden with sheeny production techniques. Scholz still hit the road to support it, just upon his turn back to the studio he knew he had to overture his situation other than. Taking another vIII geezerhood to work on the adjacent criminal record, he targeted the Internet push first by cathartic a undivided to world Wide Web.MP3.com in the summertime of 2002. The trail became the site's figure one download, and word of their unexampled album spread apace. Secondly, Scholz localise his lyrical sights on political targets, passing so far as to title the record Incorporated America as he emphasised his condescension for the organization he had been a vital voice of at one time. After cathartic the disk in the accrue of that class, Boston embarked on a term of enlistment that took them into 2004. In 2006 it was announced that a new album was in the works with Scholz, Delp, and Goudreau all mired. This novel jut remained unreleased when Delp passed away dead and unexpectedly on March 9th, 2007. In plus to his renown as a musician, Scholz also base success as an artificer and man of affairs. In 1981, he formed Scholz Research & Design, Inc., a company founded to create high technology medicine equipment. After number one developing the Power Soak, a volume-control device, SR&D introduced the Rockman, a small and cheap guitar amplifier with headphones. The Rockman proved phenomenally popular with other musicians, and the washington generated from its gross sales helped fund Scholz's further musical ambitions. |
Saturday 9 August 2008
Nikka Costa
Artist: Nikka Costa
Genre(s):
Other
disco
Discography:
Can'tneverdidnothin'
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Everybody Got Their Something
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
Here I Am... Yes, It's Me
Year: 1989
Tracks: 12
Nikka Costa (natural: June 4, 1972) is no stranger to the music byplay. Having been raised inside some of the well-nigh influential social circles during her puerility, Costa was shaped for beau ideal in her possess proper. She's the daughter of illustrious arranger/producer Don Costa (Saul Anka, Dinah Washington, Tony Bennett), not to reference the goddaughter of Frank Sinatra. Her low gear melodious gig was at age five-spot, opening for Don Ho. Two days by and by she wowed ccc,000 Police fans in Chile. Nikka Costa was a natural.
Rib went back and forth between Los Angeles and Europe, maintaining a shrill childhood sentiency patch mold a sophisticated medicine career. By age seven-spot, she panax quinquefolius "On My Own" with the Don Costa Orchestra in Milan. From there, her smart persona was captured on track record. She released several albums passim Europe, Israel, Central and South America, to the highest degree of them going away pt. Whirlwind success, all the same, was not consuming. Costa's early days exhausted in her father's recording studio apartment, encounter Quincy Jones, Sly Stone, and Sammy Davis Jr., perfected this inspiring singer/songwriter into the menial individual she's turned out to be.
Her late teens were spent on the top of the German charts and by the time she reached her twenties, she called Australia plate. She became a favourite among the Outback, landing a mete out with Mushroom Records and issuing Butterfly Rocket in the mid-'90s. It garnered a nomination for "Best New Artist" at the annual Australian Recording Industry Awards.
The new millennium sparked a modern scene for Costa. Now a maturate woman with a fiery spark of determination and passion, this redheaded siren's songwriting expanded into an tempting artistic production. Her urban vocalic stylings sashayed with a raw amativeness, so far with division. She signed with the Aussie label Cheeba Sound, plate to soon-to-be labelmate D'Angelo. The sultry exclusive "Care a Feather" pronounced Costa's well-nigh unheeded debut in fall 2000 when the cut was used in a Tommy Hilfiger give ear. Virgin Records took posting though, right introducing Nikka Costa to the public in spring 2001 with the full-length release of Everybody Got Their Something. She returned in May of 2005 with Can'tneverdidnothin' and supported the album by touring with i of its guest stars, Lenny Kravitz.
Tuesday 1 July 2008
Wayne Rooney, Coleen McLoughlin Hire �40m Yacht For Wedding
The happy couple are flying 50 friends and family to Italy tomorrow and have hired the yacht, worth �40million ($80m), to take their friends on the night of their lives following the couple's intimate wedding ceremony.
A source reveals, "The main ceremony will be low-key and very intimate, so they wanted a really spectacular reception and afterparty. The yacht is the perfect party venue and really luxurious.
"It comes with a jacuzzi, honeymoon suite, chess room and helicopter pad.
"The bathrooms are all marble with gold plated taps. It really is special.
"The yacht even boasts a baby grand piano which Wayne has joked he'll use to serenade his bride!
"At midnight, �50,000 ($100k) of fireworks will be released and guests will toast the newlyweds with pink champagne.
"It's going to be a fantastic evening - and the plan is for it to continue long into the next day."
The couple, who have been engaged for four-and-a-half years, are expected to exchange vows in a Catholic civil ceremony earlier this week.
The main do will be at the Castello Brown, near the picturesque village of Portofino, a favorite of celebrities, reports Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper.
After a brief champagne toast in the grounds of a 700-year-old former abbey, guests will be transported to the yacht.
Here, they will be served a four course feast before the entertainment begins.
It has been rumored that Irish boyband Westlife will be performing -- although the Manchester United star is said to have favored a hip-hop artist. The couple is expected to jet off to their secret honeymoon destination on Saturday.
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Tuesday 24 June 2008
UNKLE Sounds
Artist: UNKLE Sounds
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ICR
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Stewart: 'Newman Is A Phenomenal Creature'
Lifestyle queen Martha Stewart insists people are making far too much fuss about a photo of ailing Paul Newman she posted on her website earlier this month . The picture of a gaunt and frail Newman refuelled rumours the movie icon is dying of cancer. But Stewart, who posed with her pal in the shot, insists details of Newman's health crisis are being overblown by the media. She says, "He's 83 years old and he's a phenomenal creature. I mean, my God, he's still racing cars. "(The photo caused) a big uproar because a lot of people haven't seen him, I guess. "But he is non-stop and he was just as lively and enthusiastic about everything he does."
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Adam Sandler To Star In Judd Apatow Movie About Stand-Up Comics
He's one of the brightest bulbs in the comedy firmament, but if you miss a punch line in the newest Judd Apatow film, the still-untitled "Adam Sandler Project," don't worry, co-star Seth Rogen told MTV News: There will be a lot more to come. No, we seriously mean a lot.
"[The plot will center on] stand-up comedians," Rogen revealed at Friday's screening of "Pineapple Express," where he was on-hand to close out MTV's first-ever Sneak Peek Week.
Apatow, Sandler, Rogen and Leslie Mann in a comedy club? It's a setup Rogen called "hilarious by default." So what's not to like?
"I've got to write an act again. It's been a long time. I haven't done stand-up in, like, 10 years. Even more," Sandler said. "That's why I want to kill Judd Apatow right now. I was so much happier doing nothing!"
For the 41-year-old star of "You Don't Mess With the Zohan," who will be named MTV's fourth-ever Generation Award winner Sunday night at the MTV Movie Awards, accepting the role of a stand-up comedian means having to do something he hasn't done in, well, a generation.
And if you're lucky enough to be at the right comedy club this summer, you can join in the misery, Sandler teased.
"You will see me bomb for 15 minutes and walk off [the stage] and punch Judd," Sandler joked of his plans to return to the hot lights of L.A. comedy clubs.
But while the two main characters are both comics, the overarching tone of the movie won't be entirely comical, Sandler cautioned, calling the film "pretty heartbreaking" in parts.
"It's very, very funny. [Me and] my friends who have read the script, all of us were baffled how funny it is," Sandler said. "But there's a lot of stuff going on in the movie."
Indeed, his film about comics might be the most "adult" thing he's ever written, back in March.
"It's a comedy, but it has more drama in it. A hilarious drama is what I'm going for," Apatow said. "Every movie, I'm trying to find a way to go deeper, to tell stories about subjects that are important and make them less and less broad while making them equally as funny. [This film is] another step in that progression.
According to Rogen, the film is scheduled to begin shooting in September.
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Tatum O'Neal Arraigned Following Drugs Bust
Following her drugs bust in Sunday night, Oscar-winning actress Tatum O’Neal has been arraigned in a New York court.
The former child star, who chronicled her recovery from a heroin addiction in her 2004 book A Paper Life, was arrested by police after she was spotted by a narcotics team exchanging money with a man three blocks from her home in the Big Apple.
The actress, daughter of actor Ryan O'Neal, initially told cops she was "doing research for a part", according to a police source.
She was arraigned on one misdemeanour charge of criminal possession of a controlled substance in Manhattan Criminal Court on Monday morning.
She has been released on her own recognisance and is next due in court on 28 July, reports TMZ.
The former child star, who chronicled her recovery from a heroin addiction in her 2004 book A Paper Life, was arrested by police after she was spotted by a narcotics team exchanging money with a man three blocks from her home in the Big Apple.
The actress, daughter of actor Ryan O'Neal, initially told cops she was "doing research for a part", according to a police source.
She was arraigned on one misdemeanour charge of criminal possession of a controlled substance in Manhattan Criminal Court on Monday morning.
She has been released on her own recognisance and is next due in court on 28 July, reports TMZ.
TV review: Sorry, but I am completely Lost
Lost is increasingly aptly named, as there by now cannot be a viewer left who isn't thoroughly at sea with it. I love it to bits, but these days I'm only watching it as a chore.
Having enthusiastically invested so many hours in it, I'm bloody-mindedly determined to hang on in there, as maddening as Lost now is, because I've become obsessed with getting an answer to at least the first of the many puzzles of the story: what the bloody hell was a gigantic polar bear doing galumphing about on a tropical island?
How did it get there, did it have a wife and cubs, how many mad scientists had it eaten, and didn't the temperate climate play merry hell with its fur?
That damned bear, in the pilot episode four years ago, was the first indicator that what we were looking at was not your standard "castaways on a desert island" adventure soap, but some seriously original science fiction.
But the suspense is no longer killing me. It's annoying me. The dastardly Lost writers are proposing not to give us answers till the year 2010. By then, even I will have probably forgotten the bear.
Last night's season final was as disorienting as usual, coming without the usual finale frisson. Yes, yes, there was a cliffhanger. We see John Locke lying in a coffin.
Locke is one of our very favourite characters. We have even wondered whether he is meant to be some sort of Jesus substitute.
We've always known they were going to kill characters off, but hated to think it would be Locke.
But by now, the thought is sneaking upon us that some fictional euthanasia might bring us closer to the answers quicker. And anyway, on Lost, dead doesn't mean gone. Or even dead.
Instead of gasping, "No! He can't be dead in his coffin," this long-suffering fan thought: "Ho hum, what's the bet he's not really there, or only dead in some metaphysical sense?"
Because Lost, as its followers know, does not treat life or death or geography or matter as anything other than metaphysical constructs capable of being manipulated by Lotto numbers.
Locke could well be simultaneously lying in a coffin, back on the island hewing more pointed sticks, on the operating table donating another kidney to his unscrupulous father and back sitting in his wheelchair doing clerical work as in episode one.
The volley of non-sequiturs in Lost has come so thick and fast, most of us have given up trying to keep up with developments, let alone analyse or second-guess them, because nothing is capable of being made sense of. On the contrary, we are blatantly lied to.
For this season, we've had much time-forwarding to "the Oceanic Six", who are supposed to be the only survivors of that plane crash. But I've counted more than six who've made it back to the real world. There's Jack, Sayid, Ben, Kate, Hurley, baby Aaron, Jin, Sun and young Walt.
And I've probably left out a few, because why would you bother trying to run an accurate tally? The Oceanic Six - or Nine or 11 - are now cropping up all round the world. I fully expect to see Victor the labrador and the giant polar bear wandering up the Champs Elysees together in a forthcoming episode. It'd be about as logical as anything else.
The most stressful thing about Lost is that no one connected with the production has ever been able to confirm that its creator, JJ Abrams, knew what the answers were, or where the story was heading, when they launched Lost.
It's possible he may still not know what it's all about, but is just writing his way in and out of knots till someone thinks of something plausible that allows him to stop.
You can see some of the joins. Charles Widmore, the apparently crazed gazillionaire, was introduced part way through as some sort of key to the plot. He has been rather awkwardly projected back and forwards into the plot.
The gist seems to be he will do anything to possess the secret of the island, and rat-faced Ben will do anything to keep it from him. What are the hopes, then, of any of us poor viewers getting a hold of it?
Anyway, last night, Ben plumbed the depths of the island's most ominously significant vault - and again, I've lost count of the number of hatches, chambers and vaults discovered on the island, each more significant than the last - and did something to something which caused the island to disappear. Poof. Finito. No more.
But like millions of other poor fools, I'll be there waiting for it to reappear out of whatever orifice when the next season comes to air.
*What did you think of the season finale of Lost? Post your comments below.
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Swedish jazz pianist Esbjorn Svensson dies in diving accident at 44
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Swedish jazz pianist Esbjorn Svensson has died in a diving accident outside Sweden's capital.
He was 44. His manager Burkhard Hopper says Svensson died Saturday, but further details of the accident were not immediately available. Svensson and his band, the Esbjorn Svensson Trio, became world renowned with their 2002 album "Strange Place for Snow."
It won a string of jazz awards, including the Guinness Jazz in Europe Award and best international act in the BBC Jazz Awards.
In 2005, it became the first European jazz band to be featured on the cover of Downbeat jazz magazine in the U.S.
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Audrey Hepburn - 50s Star Mel Ferrer Dies At 90
Mel Ferrer, whose chiseled good looks helped bring him numerous starring roles in
the 1950s, including ones in The Brave Bulls, Lili, War and Peace, The
Sun Also Rises, has died at age 90 at a convalescent home in Santa Barbara, CA.
He starred in and later produced and directed several films with his third wife, Audrey
Hepburn.
04/06/2008
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Bikini girl chasing big-screen dream
Las Vegas is "everything you see in the movies", says Mission Bay's Hannah Matthews.
And it is in the movies where the model wants to seek her fortune.
She started in television adverts but it was through a bikini competition that she ended up at an international competition in Las Vegas.
Hannah, 23, won Miss Hawaiian Tropic New Zealand 2008 in May which qualified her to compete for the international title.
She was 12th overall, the best result yet for New Zealand in the competition.
Hannah enjoys yoga, running, gym, and can rollerskate. "I like trying new things. I’d do anything at least once."
Her preparations for bikini competitions included a 10-day detox programme.
After the whirlwind week in Vegas she finds New Zealand "tiny, and very quiet".
"You have to be prepared to be more than you are for this. So I am about to learn snowboarding."
Hannah entered her first bikini competition on a whim.
"I thought I had nothing to lose and so much to gain, so why not? And here I am."
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"Hulk" adds $1 million in box office muscle to debut
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comic book movie "The Incredible Hulk" added about $1 million in box office muscle to its debut weekend, pushing the film's total domestic ticket sales to $55.4 million, according to final studio figures on Monday.
"Incredible Hulk" opened at No. 1 on box office charts with estimated Friday-through-Sunday ticket sales of $54.5 million, exceeding studio expectations but falling short of its 2003 predecessor that earned $62 million in its debut weekend.
The earlier movie, "Hulk," received mixed reviews when it was released and failed to excite core audiences of mostly young male moviegoers and comic book fans.
As a result, its box office dropped quickly, and "Hulk" ended its theatrical run with just over $130 million, prompting industry analysts to view it as a disappointment for backers at Universal Pictures and Marvel Studios.
The "Hulk" revival was produced by Marvel Studios, part of Marvel Entertainment Inc, and distributed for a fee by Universal Pictures, which is a unit the NBC Universal media division of General Electric Co.
Elsewhere, the weekend's No. 2 film, animated "Kung Fu Panda," made by DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc and distributed by Viacom Inc's Paramount Pictures, saw its North American weekend tally revised down slightly to $33.6 million from $34.3 million. "Kung Fu Panda" opened at No. 1 the previous weekend.
This week's No. 3 film, director M. Night Shyamalan's supernatural thriller "The Happening," saw its box office basically unchanged from Sunday's estimate to Monday's final figure, at $30.5 million. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox, a unit of News Corp.
(Reporting by Bob Tourtellotte; Editing by Steve Gorman and Braden Reddall)
"Incredible Hulk" opened at No. 1 on box office charts with estimated Friday-through-Sunday ticket sales of $54.5 million, exceeding studio expectations but falling short of its 2003 predecessor that earned $62 million in its debut weekend.
The earlier movie, "Hulk," received mixed reviews when it was released and failed to excite core audiences of mostly young male moviegoers and comic book fans.
As a result, its box office dropped quickly, and "Hulk" ended its theatrical run with just over $130 million, prompting industry analysts to view it as a disappointment for backers at Universal Pictures and Marvel Studios.
The "Hulk" revival was produced by Marvel Studios, part of Marvel Entertainment Inc, and distributed for a fee by Universal Pictures, which is a unit the NBC Universal media division of General Electric Co.
Elsewhere, the weekend's No. 2 film, animated "Kung Fu Panda," made by DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc and distributed by Viacom Inc's Paramount Pictures, saw its North American weekend tally revised down slightly to $33.6 million from $34.3 million. "Kung Fu Panda" opened at No. 1 the previous weekend.
This week's No. 3 film, director M. Night Shyamalan's supernatural thriller "The Happening," saw its box office basically unchanged from Sunday's estimate to Monday's final figure, at $30.5 million. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox, a unit of News Corp.
(Reporting by Bob Tourtellotte; Editing by Steve Gorman and Braden Reddall)
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