Toshiba's Viamo is the tablet your doctor has been dreaming of

Convertible tablets are a dime a dozen in the laptop space, but very, very few of them can save your life. Toshiba's Viamo is the one that could -- when used by someone who knows how to control it, that is. It's a portable ultrasound device that has some tactile knobs and buttons for the old-school practitioners, but can be entirely controlled by that touchscreen, which folds flat. Sure, it isn't as portable as other ultrasound machines we've seen before, but it certainly looks quite a bit more advanced, and this one mounts on a pole for easy wheeling around your busy ER -- important when helicopters crash into your roof, ambulances explode out front, and two doctors madly in love need to make a little room. Viamo is newly approved by the FDA and so is now available in the US at a cost that we wouldn't hazard to guess at.

[Sarcasme Posted Feb 5th 2010 8:25AM]

Yes but can it show Flash?

[mocax Posted Feb 5th 2010 8:35AM]

does it have built-in defibrillator?

[thunderbollock Posted Feb 5th 2010 8:41AM]

I'd buy one if it had an app store..

[thunderbollock Posted Feb 5th 2010 8:42AM]

@thunderbollock
...and I could IM while I ultrasound

[MatthewJ Posted Feb 5th 2010 8:45AM]

Tricorder anyone?

[randomopt Posted Feb 5th 2010 8:48AM]

@mselver Yeah, my english is a little rusty

[DTJ Posted Feb 5th 2010 9:09AM]

Knobs aren't old school. You need them to contol the machine In the dark or without looking.