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"Our expectations about the medical tricorder stem from Star Trek and it’s never a good decision to base expectations on science fiction, even though many technologies have become real from science fiction in the 21st century," says Dr Bertalan Meskó, director of The Medical Futurist Institute. And it doesn’t mean we won’t need doctors, Meskó says.

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For example, Sprint uses bands 25, 26 plus 41, and AT&T uses 29 and 30 – none of those are accessible with the Kong 3. Conversely, AT&T also uses band 5, alongside Verizon and U.S. Cellular, and that frequency should work.

Gunpei Yokoi’s philosophy of "Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology" had a lot of merit to it. By using technology they’d already developed and understood when making the Game Boy, Nintendo was able to make it cost effective and reliable. But just because you’re working with old technology, doesn’t mean you can’t improve it. The Game Boy was built off much of the same tech as the NES, but outclassed its older console brother. The handheld was twice as fast despite both systems using 8-bit processors, and the Game Boy had four times as much memory. The lack of color helped.

In short, just too many cost-cutting choices have been made with the Poptel P8, and for less than £20 ($25) more you can buy another Chinese-made waterproof design with four times the storage, twice the memory, a better screen, fast charging and an eight-core processor (namely the Cubot King Kong 3).

I did run some web-based benchmarks using the Edge web browser. The results weren’t great… and they also deviated pretty significantly from results that I’ve seen posted by other websites. So I’m not sure that web-based bechmarks such as Sunspider, Octane, Speedometer, or Kraken provide an accurate, consistent way to measure performance of Windows 10 on ARM devices.

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The Kong 3 projects a very practical persona as it offers a construction quality that exceeded our wildest expectations of what is, essentially, a budget phone.

For all the price-sensitive parts here, there are a few features that we didn’t expect to find included. These include a fingerprint reader just below the rear camera, and the front camera can do face recognition if you prefer that type of security.

Currently, the iQ is selling only in the U.S. But Butterfly Network is in talks with nonprofits, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to bring it to the developing world. In many remote areas, clinicians don’t have access to ultrasound technologies that can be used to, say, detect fetal health issues that cause women to die in childbirth.

A future aim is to sell directly to consumers, adds co-founder Jonathan Rothberg, a serial biotech entrepreneur. In the late 2000s, Rothberg moved DNA sequencing onto a semiconductor chip through his startup Ion Torrent, after pioneering the field of high-speed DNA sequencing at 454 Life Sciences — for which President Barack Obama awarded him the 2015 National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

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