The power of a modern cell phone is changing how many things are done today. For example I recently heard that the once CPU taxing program Myst was now available for the iPhone. I think I had to upgrade my video card to play that game years ago. Thanks to a Microsoft grant some software was developed to display data from a USB Ultrasound device. This technology allows for cheap portable medical diagnosis. See the full presentation here (PDF).
"Futures *Ultra-low-cost probes »There is a development project underway to bring the probe cost down to <$400. *Collaborative Research »Invited to Microsoft Research TechFest2009 »Microsoft Research White Paper »Application specific probes *Open Source USB Probe Software »A group at Washington University in St. Louis has begun a semester-log project to produce an open source imaging suite. *A website for these developments is at http://ultrasound.engineering.wustl.edu"
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