Chad Ledford

First let me rant. The iPad is a magical and revolutionary device that fails on too many levels to make it desirable. As everyone already knows, it’s basically a large iPhone without flash, a camera, and the inability to multi-task on the internet. Now that I got that out, this is how I think smart phones should function:

The only electronic device that most everyone has with them at all times is their phone; it’s a fact, Google it. A phone should function as a communication and electronic device that does everything a computer can do. The iPhone, Nexus One, and other smartphones are getting close to accomplishing this but they are missing a few key details. Everything should be an extension of the phone. I’ll describe a day with this dreamy device. It’s all bluetooth btw, cords are so 2008.

8:00am - Your alarm goes off via your phone, the lights turn on, and the weather / news pops up on your touchscreen tv as you make your way into the shower. Whatever you want to happen when you wake up can be programmed into your phone and sync’d to your house.

9:30am - You leave the house and get into your car where everything on your phone can be operated hands free via the cars interface; gps, music, phone calls, voicemail, etc.

10:00am - You get to work, sit at your desk, and your phone acts as the brain of your computer replacing everything but the monitor, keyboard, and mouse:

1:00pm - You have a flight to Hawaii (dream job) so you unplug your phone, grab your tablet device (iPad 2.0) and head to the airport. Now you can use your tablet device to check e-mail, read a book, video conference, or do anything your computer can currently do from a touch screen interface.

7:00pm - Your flight arrives and you make your way to the hotel where you plug your phone into your pillow because it’s so wonderful and does everything you could ever imagine.

I think Apples’ view on technology (build everything ourselves because no one else is as awesome as Apple) is probably too closed-minded to develop a phone like this that interacts with anything and can serve as a mini computer for any device. Someone (Google?) however has a great opportunity to make a device (free?) that is used in almost every aspect of our lives.

Stumble It!

A 2cm long fish apparently found it’s way into the penis of a 14-year-old boy from India. This lead doctors to further investigate and write a case study on the findings.

image taken from practicalfishkeeping.co.uk

Case Presentation:

“A 14 year old boy came to us with complaints of pain, difficulty in voiding with dribbling of urine and subsequently developed acute urinary retention of 24 hours duration. On further questioning he gave an interesting history. While he was cleaning the fish tank in his house, he was holding a fish in his hand and went to the toilet for passing urine. While he was passing urine, the fish slipped from his hand and entered his urethra and then he developed all these symptoms. . Plain X ray KUB was normal. Abdominal Ultrasonogram showed normal kidneys, bladder was full and a 1.5 Cm echogenic object found inside the bladder without any after shadow.”

Conclusion:

“Introduction of foreign bodies into the bladder may be through self-insertion, iatrogenic means or migration from adjacent organs. Extraction should be tailored according to the nature of the foreign body and should minimize bladder and urethral trauma. Complete extraction should also be confirmed by panendoscopy at the end of the extraction procedure. The possibility of an intravenous foreign body should be considered in any patient with chronic unexplained lower urinary tract symptoms.”

The boy claimed that the fish slipped into his penis while he was cleaning his aquarium at home. RIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!

He was later admitted into counseling to help him overcome any trauma.