tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18825952529940971082024-03-14T00:23:06.882-11:0047 secondsRethink life a little bit in 47 secondsrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-22555410541986856882012-05-16T16:02:00.003-11:002012-05-16T16:03:36.196-11:00[CAD] CalipersDate completed: 09/02/2010
Software: SolidWorks
It's been awhile since I posted a CAD drawing, so here is one. I have these calipers, so decided to make a simple model of it. This assembly has 8 parts in a semi-exploded view.rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-16425330462536399322011-09-05T11:24:00.003-11:002011-09-12T15:39:16.816-11:00Killer massager
So, I read a post about how a machine (specifically, a neck massage machine) is turning against human beings (specifically, killing a person). And, since I work with patents in the kinesitherapy arts (massage devices), I decided to look for the patent.
The post gave the name of the product, but it did not show what the massage mechanism looked like. After some searching on Google, I foundrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-38402131830706228022011-06-26T14:15:00.004-11:002011-09-13T13:29:21.410-11:00Emails to the pointA few times when I sent emails at work, the recipient did not reply to all my questions or may have given me less information that I asked for. This also sometimes happens in personal emails. Noncompliance to emails is also an issue.
Therefore, here are points from HBR's management tip that might help.
1. One idea per paragraph. Start a new paragraph for every new idea or request.
2rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-40680743645791642312011-04-29T04:18:00.005-11:002011-09-13T13:29:16.739-11:00Interesting patentsWhile skimming through patents, I would note the interesting and funny ones. These are from patent publications available to the public. Here are some (Click image to see larger image):
Garment for a baby with a handle to pick them up.
A vibrating rod that you put in your mouth to prevent from falling asleep
Seatbelt for the toilet?! Actually, it's a bowel massager..to help you do rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-49333730110394247342011-03-11T12:49:00.009-11:002011-09-13T13:30:57.716-11:00Finished "Outliers"
I finished reading "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell at work yesterday, while waiting to start the day with a lecture.
Overall, I liked the book. It gave me a lot of insight on how to raise my kids to be "successful." It somewhat seemed like it was too late to practice some of these for myself, but there's still many good lessons learned.
1. In order to get good at something, we need to rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-88178785248131391242011-03-02T14:53:00.000-11:002011-09-13T13:32:59.337-11:00Government shutdown??Lately, I've been keeping up with the federal government budget news and how the 2011 budget has not yet been approved. I've only been keeping up with this because the DoD is affected by this (as are many other agencies) and I'm still waiting for an official job offer from the Army, which is under DoD. There has been talk of a "government shutdown," where the government cannot be funded. However,rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-70628726851381458372011-03-01T15:21:00.007-11:002011-09-13T13:31:03.735-11:00Are you signal or noise?I just read an interesting blog post at TR talking about signal and noise. I was attracted to the article after seeing the title because I have some background (course work) in signal processing.
The author talks about the usefulness of a certain website. However, it's usefulness may have been compromised due to fruitless discussions and straying from the main topic.
Basically, what I rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-77777900911934797722011-02-25T10:35:00.004-11:002011-09-13T13:31:08.867-11:00Anyone can innovateAnyone can innovate.
According to an article in MIT Tech Review, a massive amount of consumers are innovators. They purchase products and customize them to fit their needs. They tinker with things they buy. A survey in the UK showed that there are many more tinkers than those employed as product developers and spend twice as much money when compared to company R&D costs. Even still, many rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-36368300205641033132011-02-22T12:43:00.004-11:002011-09-13T13:31:13.430-11:00Shocking for solutionsVery interesting..
Research subjects who received electrical stimulation of the anterior temporal lobes of the brain were 3 times more likely to come up with the fresh insight needed to solve a difficult, unfamiliar problem than people in a control group, according to Richard Chi and Allan Snyder of the University of Sydney. The researchers say they envision a future when noninvasive brain rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-24763427791696783652011-02-16T15:19:00.008-11:002011-09-13T13:31:20.203-11:00Roseto MysteryI just started reading "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell because the other book I was reading is uninteresting.
There was a group of Italian people in PA in the 1950s with a lower prevalence of heart disease, no suicide, alcoholism and drug addiction, and little crime. Roseto seemed like a perfectly healthy society, death occurring solely due to old age. Dr. Wolf goes there to do some rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-15082702675450668192011-02-14T18:23:00.008-11:002011-09-13T13:31:26.813-11:00FDA reformLately, the FDA reform has been in medical device news; things from the departure of the 2nd-in-command at the FDA to the controversial 510(k) approval of the ReGen Meneflex Meniscus implant scaffold.
Partly due to the latter event, the FDA has decided to reform many of it's practices, including a revamp of the 510(k) process. There did not seem to be a very transparent process for 510(k) rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-11116930757147690912011-02-14T18:00:00.000-11:002011-09-13T13:36:24.473-11:00Social networking in medicineI read two articles today about social networking in medicine. Social networking is in every other industry, why not medicine? Just need to figure out how to use it.
1. TR
2. MDG
From the perspective of manufacturers, social networking can track how influential a medical practitioner is in spreading the use of a technology that they recently started prescribing or using. By mining rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-56929384097321669602011-02-13T18:52:00.000-11:002011-09-13T13:36:33.845-11:00Areas for medical innovation: Telemedicine & PreventionSo, after reading a blog post about telemedicine, I learned that this has a lot of potential.
1. Telemedicine will be a powerful disruptive innovation. Doctors will not need to be physically proximal to the patients that are being screened. A technician (which is much cheaper than a doctor) can gather the data, images, scans, etc. and then upload them onto a server that a skilled doctor can rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-9303417977698845472011-02-12T16:25:00.009-11:002011-09-13T13:36:44.138-11:00A mouth to the slow of speechThis is a testimony about saying thanksgiving grace, btw.
I dread speaking publicly.
I can speak with a decent volume (even though it may not be dynamic), but the flow of content is often choppy. In the past, I blank out in the middle of speaking and proceed to say something very generic or butchered. I would stutter, say words that don't fit into the sentence or just be silent. One time, rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-87511129568890653272011-02-10T15:09:00.007-11:002011-02-10T15:11:55.669-11:00[Healthcare] "The Velluvial Matrix," Stanford School of Medicine Commencement Speechby: Atul Gawande (yes, I searched his name on The New Yorker to read all these articles)
This is an excerpt near the end:
You are joining a special profession. Doctors and scientists, we are all in the survival business, but we are also in the mortality business. Our successes will always be restricted by the limits of knowledge and human capability, by the inevitability of suffering and death.rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-42873499000585292002011-02-10T11:29:00.003-11:002011-09-13T13:36:53.137-11:00"Letting Go" by Atul GawandeIf you couldn't tell, I enjoy reading Dr. Gawande's writing.
"What should medicine do when it can't save your life?"
This article discusses the issue of continued treatment on terminal patients. He talks about many cases of how some patients opted to try every possible treatment or even experimental and untested treatments to battle disease, while others chose to cease treatments that resulted rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-52195961930035677192011-02-09T17:44:00.005-11:002011-02-18T04:34:04.231-11:00[Career] Interview with USPTOToday, I had a phone interview with a supervisory patent examiner in the imaging and diagnostics field of the biotechnology division. It was a very nice conversation. I asked him plenty of questions about working for the PTO and since he has been there for ~9 years, he knew all the answers. We even talked about the Vibram five fingered shoes.
Some things that stood out to me during our rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-27930246763389225092011-02-09T14:18:00.003-11:002011-02-09T14:47:31.002-11:00[CAD] 3D GoogleTalkDate completed: 04/21/2010
Software: SolidWorks
I wanted to post something today, so here's a 3D creation of GoogleTalk. I did this just for some creative fun. All the dimensions are relatively accurate and every button, name and icon are separate parts in this assembly, a total of 43 unique parts.
I blurred out the names to protect their identities.rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-44998943095679442922011-02-08T15:22:00.005-11:002011-02-09T12:35:40.086-11:00[Life] Trimmed the filamentous biomaterial that projects from my scalpSo, after a long time of not cutting my hair, getting complaints about my hair, little kids making fun of my hair and being a focal point of attention, I finally cut my hair. As always, I cut it by myself. Here are before and after pictures.
Before:
I look like a delinquent in this picture; I'm not. I try to be a good person that contributes to society. =)
After:Of course my rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-36165193225981701812011-02-08T13:40:00.013-11:002011-06-27T12:58:06.318-11:00[Entrepreneurship] Ideas already done..Laptop triple screen
So a few years ago, I had this idea of extending the laptop screen by having a flip out monitor or a panel that extends out. However, after telling some friends and they did some research, it was already done. One innovative idea dashed. Here are a few existing ones.
Shoe accelerometer
So, a few days ago I thought, why not put an accelerometer into a shoe and it'll know howrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-25881502823253564592011-02-08T04:33:00.004-11:002011-02-10T02:46:21.792-11:00[Business] Good, Cheap and Fast?Dear Customer, you can have any of the following, but pick any 2.
- Good
- Cheap
- FastIf you want Good and Cheap - it won't be Fast.
If you want Cheap and Fast - it won't be Good.
And, if you really want Good and Fast - no way will it be Cheap.I like this comment that was left on a blog for the book "Do More Faster" (Source: AVC.com)rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-63512547345621745492011-02-07T16:16:00.016-11:002011-09-19T13:32:59.259-11:00God, the Solution to All ProblemsThe other day, I felt unsettled and it left me feeling like my heart dropped. I called a friend of mine and told this person that I was feeling a bit down. I didn't need any comfort, I didn't need someone to vent to. I just wanted to tell this person how I felt. I already knew the solution. Then, I went on to say that after this phone conversation, I will kneel down to pray and I'd feel comfortedrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-48050664152117702722011-02-07T11:48:00.003-11:002019-07-12T19:32:55.023-11:00[Life] What I Got in the Mail TodayOddly, there were more letters addressed to me than anyone else in my family. So, 2 items received are notable.
1. From Cambridge Who's Who
These people asked me to be part of a directory. Here are scans of the letter and application.
So, I looked this up online and apparently, it's a scam.
Source: Article by Ryan Kopf
Remember, don't commit to anything you've never rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-77336059329863445362011-02-07T09:44:00.010-11:002011-02-16T01:50:24.999-11:00[Healthcare] "The Hot Spotters" by Atul Gawande
"Can we lower medical costs by giving the neediest patients better care?"
In places like Camden and Atlantic City, they're changing the execution of health care. Doctors like Jeffrey Brenner (Camden) and Rushika Fernandopulle (AC) open clinics that focus on high-cost patients due to complicated chronic illnesses worsened by patient noncompliance ("hot spots"). Their clinics are stationed in rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882595252994097108.post-49785364918449824652011-02-07T06:28:00.004-11:002011-02-14T05:26:44.100-11:00[Career] No experience, no problemThis is an interesting idea you can mention during an interview if you are starting your career with little/no experience or entry-level.
Arkadi Kuhlmann, founder and CEO of ING Direct USA, has invented a whole new approach to retail banking. Over the past decade, as he has recruited thousands of employees to his organization, he has made it a point not to look to his competitors as a rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02731545347203861820noreply@blogger.com