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Young African Invents Touch Screen Medical Tablet



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Here’s an example of African innovation at its finest.

Arthur Zang, a 24 year-old Cameroonian engineer, has invented the Cardiopad, a touch screen medical tablet that enables heart examinations such as the electrocardiogram (ECG) to be performed at remote, rural locations while the results of the test are transferred wirelessly to specialists who can interpret them. The device spares African patients living in remote areas the trouble of having to travel to urban centers to seek medical examinations.

According to Zang, the Cardiopad is “the first fully touch screen medical tablet made in Cameroon and in Africa.” He believes it is an invention that could save numerous human lives, and says the reliability of the pad device is as high as 97.5%. Zang says he invented the device in order to facilitate the treatment of patients with heart disease across Cameroon and the rest of Africa. So far, several medical tests have been carried out with the Cardiopad which have been validated by the Cameroonian scientific community.

Young fang-BETI /Ekang brain at work.not the fraud you call emegwali

CAMEROONPRIDE: known. By who?
I will give that to Hausa , and Senegalese( don't know the tribe)

senegalese

igbos are found everywhere in Africa doing business and doing well

Ugh.

Black Kenichi: Is thread going to turn into a Igbo vs Whatever bantu speaking ethnic group biggest d1ck contest?

Igbos are in the same league with yorubas,hausas,etc......they cant be put in the same basquet with bantus!Igbos are local champions who achieved zero in their entire history!Igboland is 30,000skm2,the size of a bantu village
Lets not derail this interesting thread!

onila: senegalese

igbos are found everywhere in Africa doing business and doing well

anyway I can't tell , never been in another African country.

onila: senegalese

igbos are found everywhere in Africa doing business and doing well

the first tablet I have been created by a Bantu -Ekang .

alanmwene:
Igbos are in the same league with yorubas,hausas,etc......they cant be put in the same basquet with bantus!Igbos are local champions who achieved zero in their entire history!Igboland is 30,000skm2,the size of a bantu village
Lets not derail this interesting thread!

Which Bantu ethnic group? The Kikuyu? Xhosa? Zulu? Ndebele? Ovimbundu? Makua?

Check up Enugu,the greatest Igbo city ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guz6qNt1NMg
For sure igbos are the smartest Africans!hehe!

shymexx:

Who're these "Anu" people?

However, I think Igbo's are mostly bantu's. You can check the physical similarity between them and central Africans, from Cameroon to Congo and Gabon.

The problem is that most people often use linguistics to groups people, however, that's a tad bit simplistic IMO. There are people out there who aren't classified into the same linguistic groups, but they're genetically similar.

The Anu were the forerunners of the ancient Egyptians that dwelt around the Nile, hence, they were Nilotic. They were a religious group and farmers who lived in walled cities pre-3000 BC. They later migrated into lower and upper Egypt and brought a lot of social and religious change. The Anus are credited to have written the book of the dead, introduced the cult of Osiris and introduced the advanced farming methods into lower Egypt. The Anus are reputed to have spread their culture into Middle-East, Southern Europe and North Africa.

CAMEROONPRIDE: we have, dances, music, food, some rituals. the "look" etc . now let's get closer. what's the difference between a Xhosa and a Zulu ?
or a baynakole and Hutu?
what's the difference between a fang and a Beti?
of course if you take a Bantu(farmer from the centre) and compare with a bantu living in the mountain/cattle rear , u sill more differences than similarities it still doesn't change the fact that they are the same.
another great example is the Fulani. we know there are the nomadic Fulani and the non nomadic aren't they all Fulani? don't they have the same culture? Fulaman will sed more light but I heard and I know some non nomadic Fulani I mean most are now mixed and have adopted dfferent habits. let's take the case of food . whatare the chance that a nomadic Fulani knows about spices/salt? or even fish? does it mean that now that the non nomadic who know love fish or bush meat more than cows aren't anymore Fulani ?

But normadic fulani and city fulani speak the same language just in different dialects. Just as you have the manding people who speak different dilects in different countries. Unless, you want to tell me that Basaa and Shona are the same but just spoken in different dialects. Is basaa mutually intelligible to shona?

I am confused, is bantu now being referred to as an ethnicity? There are different facial characteristics amongst people from ethnicities who speak the bantu languages. No one ethnicity be it from the bantu group or niger congo looks the same but if you want to take a bird's eye view you can easily tell by region not by language. People have been using the word bantu to describe others in a negative manner making it seem like it's a disease to come from that language group(onila).

Yes, southern africans have a certain look so do east west and central when broken down there are certain looks within that southern, central, east or west. So, there is no such thing as looking bantu. We are different and we should embrace our differences as one. I mean, if anyone wants to be we are one and the same. Nothing wrong with that either. We are from the same continent are we not?

I was watching a video yesterday of these somali singers msdarkskin posted and I thought the video was shot in somalian because of the people features but read comments saying it was shot in kenya. To me as an outsider they had the features I will consider somalian but many said they looked kenyan. Saw a picture of some rwandan women, they had somali features but I an sure a somali or rwandan can tell they are not somali.


My families languages include the atlantic languages, if we were classifying looks to languages, as onlia is doing with bantu I look nothing like the limba or fulani. In fact, I don't even know what I look like because no one else can ever tell. I'm bloody all over the place.

kandiikane:

But normadic fulani and city fulani speak the same language just in different dialects. Just as you have the manding people who speak different dilects in r different countries. Unless, you want to tell me that Basaa and Shona are the same but just spoken in different dialects. Is basaa mutually intelligible to shona?

I can't tell but I wouldn't b surprised .however bassa and shona have been separated for a longer period of time have , lived or are living near different ethnic groupso bassa or shona may have been altered to the point that it is very difficult for them to understand each other. Also people tend to downplay the influence of foreign languages on our own languages

Sybellah:

what sculpture

French sculpture of how Ancient Egyptians looked like, it was a completely eurocentric sculpture

onila:

igbos are the most successful ethnic group in Africa

best believe that

How do you measure success?

CAMEROONPRIDE: known. By who?
I will give that to Hausa , and Senegalese( don't know the tribe)

Senegal has 3 major ethnic groups:

Wolof, Fulani, Serer

Fulaman198:

Senegal has 3 major ethnic groups:

Wolof, Fulani, Serer

I meant I don't know the tribe that is thriving in trading

CAMEROONPRIDE: I meant I don't know the tribe that is thriving in trading

Wolof and Fulani are in Senegambia, the Serer have some bright people though. I am not a big fan of his, but Leopold Sedar Senghor was Serer.

CAMEROONPRIDE: I can't tell but I wouldn't b surprised .however bassa and shona have been separated for a longer period of time have , lived or are living near different ethnic groupso bassa or shona may have been altered to the point that it is very difficult for them to understand each other. Also people tend to downplay the influence of foreign languages on our own languages

What about shona and xhosa?

onila:

igbos are the most successful ethnic group in Africa

best believe that

How is that? Please elaborate. There are things igbos are good at and there are things other groups are good at. I don't think they are more successful than other groups.

Tony Spike:

For example, Njoku (Core Bantu) - Ndlovu (Zulu Nguni) are the words for Elephant. Njoku as a word is also found in Igbo, but with different meaning. How did some of these words get into Igbo language if there were no Bantu interactions?

Err...Igbo language like many languages in the world uses the alphabetic writing system. So finding words that are similar but with different meanings shouldn't come as a surprise.

e.g: Morena (Maori) - morning
Morena (Sotho) - king
Morena (Spanish) - dark skin

^^^ Does this now mean this three have had interactions in the past - No.

I saw your other thread and I couldn't help but notice how hard you were trying to find similarities between Igbos and Southern African Bantus, especially Zulus...

Tumisang:

Err...Igbo language like many languages in the world uses the alphabetic writing system. So finding words that are similar but with different meanings shouldn't come as a surprise.

e.g: Morena (Maori) - morning
Morena (Sotho) - king
Morena (Spanish) - dark skin

^^^ Does this now mean this three have had interactions in the past - No.

I saw your other thread and I couldn't help but notice how hard you were trying to find similarities between Igbos and Southern African Bantus, especially Zulus...

I am not trying hard to find similarities between Igbo and Bantus because the Bantu migration path is well-documented in history. The Igbos are located in Eastern Nigeria which is one of the points/areas the Bantu group passed while journeying. What I am trying to say here is that there is a huge possibility that ancient Igbos interacted with the migrating ancient Bantus.

Your examples seem out of place because the three groups (in your examples) did not at anytime share geographical space. In our case, the forerunners of the Bantu families did stay around Eastern Nigeria at some time in history. Thanks for correcting the Ndlovu. I just found out that the umbrella Bantu group is Nguni, with Zulu as a subgroup, interesting! I can see you're Sesotho though...

CAMEROONPRIDE: Don't mind the dumb azz

Young African Invents Touch Screen Medical Tablet



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Arthur Zang With The Cardiopad

http://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2012/02/09/young-african-invents-touch-screen-medical-tablet/




Here’s an example of African innovation at its finest.

Arthur Zang, a 24 year-old Cameroonian engineer, has invented the Cardiopad, a touch screen medical tablet that enables heart examinations such as the electrocardiogram (ECG) to be performed at remote, rural locations while the results of the test are transferred wirelessly to specialists who can interpret them. The device spares African patients living in remote areas the trouble of having to travel to urban centers to seek medical examinations.

According to Zang, the Cardiopad is “the first fully touch screen medical tablet made in Cameroon and in Africa.” He believes it is an invention that could save numerous human lives, and says the reliability of the pad device is as high as 97.5%. Zang says he invented the device in order to facilitate the treatment of patients with heart disease across Cameroon and the rest of Africa. So far, several medical tests have been carried out with the Cardiopad which have been validated by the Cameroonian scientific community.

Young fang-BETI /Ekang brain at work.not the fraud you call emegwali

Wicked.
Here's another very recent invention by a bantu.
Bantu invents the world's first digital laser , no imeagwali frauds.

Referred to as "technology which may change the status quo", researchers at the South African CSIR have created the first digital laser.

Researchers at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) on Tuesday announced they had developed the world's first digital laser, which the researcher responsible for the breakthrough describes as a "disruptive technology" that could change traditional manufacturing, communications and electronic devices.

In a traditional laser, the laser beam is shaped inside a box with two mirrors – the curvature of these mirrors determines the size and shape of the beam. If a researcher, company or manufacturer requires a different beam, they either have to replace one of the mirrors in the laser or manipulate the beam once it comes out of the laser using a spatial light modulator. Lasers cost thousands of rands, and altering them is a lengthy and costly exercise.

The CSIR team, which is part of the National Laser Centre, has shown it is possible to alter the beam from inside the laser by replacing one of the mirrors with a computer interface. The research was published in scientific journal Nature Communications last month.

The computer interface is "like a television which displays the image you're watching", said Professor Andrew Forbes, chief scientist and research group leader in the National Laser Centre's mathematical optics group, at the press briefing at the CSIR campus in Pretoria. "The basic idea is to digitally create the desired hologram," which acts as a spatial light modulator, he said.

To build a laser, you require "a medium that can amplify light, something to excite the medium and a box made of two mirrors that bounces the light back and forward", said Forbes. "We replaced one of the mirrors with our little television set."

With the digital laser, it does not cost anything to alter the laser beam shape or size.

Intellectual property
Sandile Ngcobo, a PhD candidate in the research unit, was the one who realised it was possible to digitally manipulate a laser beam from inside the laser. "I believe the digital laser will be a disruptive technology. This is technology which may change the status quo and which could create new markets and value networks in the next few years."

Forbes said the intellectual property sits with the CSIR, although he mentioned that under South African law, part of it belongs to the inventor.

His unit was spinning out a company in related technologies, but he said they were still deciding whether the digital laser should form part of its technology bouquet, or whether it should undergo further development and be spun out into another company.

Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom also attended the announcement of the laser, and said this was proof of the talent in South Africa. "This is an advance in a technology that has a vast array of applications. The digital laser opens a whole new world of opportunity," he said, emphasising that "technological advancements have to improve the lives of our people".

Tony Spike:

I am not trying hard to find similarities between Igbo and Bantus because the Bantu migration path is well-documented in history. The Igbos are located in Eastern Nigeria which is one of the points/areas the Bantu group passed while journeying. What I am trying to say here is that there is a huge possibility that ancient Igbos interacted with the migrating ancient Bantus.

Your examples seem out of place because the three groups (in your examples) did not at anytime share geographical space. In our case, the forerunners of the Bantu families did stay around Eastern Nigeria at some time in history. Thanks for correcting the Ndlovu. I just found out that the umbrella Bantu group is Nguni, with Zulu as a subgroup, interesting! I can see you're Sesotho though...

Funny that the supposed migration was documented by people who weren't even in the continent then.

Anyway, I believe scientists more because they have credible proof (well, at least to me) that humanity's roots lie in South and East Africa.

Tumisang:

Funny that the supposed migration was documented by people who weren't even in the continent then.

Anyway, I believe scientists more because they have credible proof (well, at least to me) that humanity's roots lie in South and East Africa.

Oh well, until we Africans find contrary evidence(s) as opposed to what was earlier documented, we have no option but to accept their hypothesis for now...

kandiikane:


I am confused, is bantu now being referred to as an ethnicity? There are different facial characteristics amongst people from ethnicities who speak the bantu languages. No one ethnicity be it from the bantu group or niger congo looks the same but if you want to take a bird's eye view you can easily tell by region not by language. People have been using the word bantu to describe others in a negative manner making it seem like it's a disease to come from that language group(onila).

I think that the bantu group is more a race than an ethnicity in the same way people talk of the Germanic race,the jewish race,......etc...All Germanic groups don't look the same and don't speak the same language,but there are sufficient linguistical and genetical ties between the different Germanic groups for all these groups to be clustered in the same race.This is also the case with the different bantus groups!What is certain is that bantus started as a single ethnicity.And from that core ethnicity sprung many more ethnicities as the bantus expansion unfolded.

Lol Onila is too dumb .

alanmwene:
I think that the bantu group is more a race than an ethnicity in the same way people talk of the Germanic race,the jewish race,......etc...All Germanic groups don't look the same and don't speak the same language,but there are sufficient linguistical and genetical ties between the different Germanic groups for all these groups to be clustered in the same race.This is also the case with the different bantus groups!What is certain is that bantus started as a single ethnicity.And from that core ethnicity sprung many more ethnicities as the bantus expansion unfolded.

well said Bantu is a race.

alanmwene:
I think that the bantu group is more a race than an ethnicity in the same way people talk of the Germanic race,the jewish race,......etc...All Germanic groups don't look the same and don't speak the same language,but there are sufficient linguistical and genetical ties between the different Germanic groups for all these groups to be clustered in the same race.This is also the case with the different bantus groups!What is certain is that bantus started as a single ethnicity.And from that core ethnicity sprung many more ethnicities as the bantus expansion unfolded.

Sort of. Germanic like Bantu is a linguistical group.

^
So race is according to color right?
Germanic is a race
Bantu is a race

CAMEROONPRIDE: ^
So race is according to color right?
Germanic is a race
Bantu is a race

They are both linguistic groups not races! Either way Germanic peoples like Bantu peoples are hardly united.

CAMEROONPRIDE: Lol Onila is too dumb .

get my name out of yr mouth [size=4pt]f0cking bagger[/size]

shymexx:

I left a post for on the politics section's "beer room" thread. Finna see you e-twerk fi mi today!

I have two tests next week so I have been very busy.

Sorry I have not been able to e-twerk for you.