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Embossed seats?


26th June 2008 12:04

I guess I don’t give a second thought to the seat in a car unless there’s a problem (say, related to driving position) or it’s unfathomably comfortable. And the way the seat looks isn’t really a consideration for me unless it’s really bad taste plastic beige or something - but even then, I’m not fussed by the aesthetics. If the seat meets minimum comfort requirements, I’ve pretty much forgotten about the seat I am in.

But some people are more interested in such things and seats are becoming a part of the trend towards greater vehicle customisation.

On the Fiat 500, seat covers are ‘embossed with patterns that have the appearance of decorative stitching’. That could perhaps be something that catches on. Can we devise our own patterns? 

I guess we’ll eventually be able to submit our own interior and seat cover designs - imagine giving people free rein to put their own images on seat covers and where that could go?

RESEARCH ANALYSIS: Review of seating technology

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NY Times

With electronic health records seen widely as a way to make medical care better and possibly cheaper, it is disturbing how slowly they are being adopted by American physicians. If this country does not accelerate the conversion from paper to modern technologies, many of the gauzy promises of health care reform made by politicians and health planners will become irrelevant.

The bad news about electronic health records was gathered in a survey of 2,700 practicing physicians led by researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital, with financial support from the federal government and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The results were published online by The New England Journal of Medicine.

The study found that a paltry 4 percent of the doctors had a “fully functional” electronic records system that would allow them to view laboratory data, order prescriptions and help them make clinical decisions, while another 13 percent had more basic systems.

This is a startling contrast with other industrialized nations.

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