Dyson announces Canadian national James Dyson Award winner

Two PHD students from the University of Toronto have just been named as the national winners for the James Dyson Award. The project Robert Brooks and Justin Wee submitted is called ForceFilm. It’s a patent-pending thin surgical instrument add-on that accurately measures the forces exerted on tissue from minimally invasive surgery, a procedure that has supposedly been on the rise because of less surgical issues associated with it. Brooks and Wee designed ForceFilm to retrofit any standard rigid MIS instrument. The forces that the film detects will be wirelessly sent to the surgeon so he or she gets live force feedback that will let him or her know if dangerous levels of forces are close. The two have been award $3,400 for the win.

They will be heading into the next stage of the James Dyson Award, where a panel of Dyson engineers will shortlist 20 projects from the 23 participating countries. The two are joined by four other teams with three of them also working on medical devices and one an athletic equipment add-on.

New Fujifilm program will offload RAW conversion from your PC to camera

Fujifilm hopes to improve your workflow with a new RAW conversion program the company calls Fujifilm X Raw Studio. What’s unique about this program is it’s designed to offload the conversion of RAW photos from your computer to your camera, making use of its processor. The X Processor Pro will be in charge of working on the files so you can use your Mac or PC to do other work. X Raw Studio can convert single or batch RAW files, preview converted content, and save/load/copy conversion profiles.

What prompted Fujifilm to develop the program was the increasing size of RAW files that are bogging down work for photographers who are doing batch conversions of RAW files. This program will supposedly handle batch conversions much more efficiently. The catch is you can only process RAW files taken with the same camera model as the one connected via USB to the PC. The Fujifilm X Raw Studio will be available for download by late November and it’ll first be compatible with X-T2, X-Pro2, X100F, and GFX50S.

Source: PetaPixel

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Samsung outs Galaxy Tab A (2017)

Samsung just unveiled a new mid-range tablet with a sizable 5,000mAh battery. The second-generation Galaxy Tab A comes with a quad-core 1.4GHz processor, an 8-inch 1,280 x 800 resolution display, 2GB of RAM, and 16GB internal storage that’s expandable up to 256GB via microSD. It runs Android 7.1 Nougat out of the box and comes with LTE support and a single nano SIM slot. Samsung packed in an 8-megapixel rear camera and 5-megapixel front shooter in the Galaxy Tab A (2017). It launched in Vietnam for VND6,490,000, which is around CA$350. There isn’t news yet when the company plans to launch the tablet to other markets.

Source: GSMArena