European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 the stars and stripes computers tuesday june 21, 1994 catapult entertainment inc., a Small technology firm backed by blockbuster entertainment corp., has. Introduced a h plus Modem and Ubhi phone service that will let people play video games with friends in other Homes and neighbourhoods. The $50 device wont go on Sale until this fall and will be available first in Jaryc cities such As new York los Angeles and Atlanta. Catapult will charge $5 to $10 per month for people to subscribe to the phone service that links video game players. The catapult service will work with popular titles of the Sega and Nintendo game systems. While the game playing in different locations could tie up phone lines those with a Call waiting feature will get an interrupt message allowing a person to hang up the game and take the Call. A the new York times started an interactive news service on America online which is available to anyone with a personal computer and a Modem. The service features articles from the newspaper and reviews and information on cultural arts and Leisure activities in new York City. It also includes an electronic bulletin Board for subscribers to discuss topics with each other. The service is available free to. Anyone who pays America online a monthly $9.95 subscription charge. On line systems provide personal computer owners with Access to vast amounts of data and allow them to communicate with the data providers and other subscribers. A. Geffen records said it will release Aero Smith a new single on Compuserve making it the first major record Label to unveil a new song on an electronic information service. The Rock bands never before released song head first will be available exclusively on Compuserve information service for a limited time beginning june 27, Geffen said Compuserve a estimated 2 million users will be Able to download the Aero Smith single for free but it is expected to take up to 90 minutes to Transfer the song to their computers. From wire reports virtual Anatomy course universities team with computer firms for cadaver software by Vicki Cheng the associated press Raleigh . A for decades medical students have used cadavers to study the human body. Soon they May be using their computers. A new medical research and education program uses computer graphics based on hundreds of photographs to allow students to View body parts in detail and from a variety of angles. A consortium of University departments and software companies a including two in Raleigh a is developing the program with funding from Glaxo inc., the drug giant that has its . Headquarters in North Carolinas research Triangle Park. By 1995, users of the program called Glaxo virtual Anatomy should be Able to Call up photo realistic three dimensional images from a real Many a Thorax the Region Between the neck and the Abdomen.  be Able to View everything from the skin Bones lungs and heart to the arteries and veins from All angles. A students can take the cadaver to their computers at Home and dissect them Over and Over again a said or. David Alciatore an assistant professor at Colorado state University. A it can be taken anywhere in any  future phases include the head and Abdomen. Virtual Anatomy differs from an already available program called Adam which offers simulated dissection of the entire body using animated computer images. With virtual Anatomy users can study the Thorax by rotating the parts with a computer mouse to get different perspectives. In some ways the computer offers More flexibility than traditional dissection. A you have total control a Alciatore said. A you can remove the skin and Bones but still leave the  or. Marc Nelson assistant Dean of medical education at the Stanford University school of Medicine in Palo Alto calif., said that electronic cadavers Are convenient because they offer students flexibility. In addition a real cadaver which software is making it easier to Sec human body parts on computers providing Anatomy lessons through virtual reality. Costs the University about $600, is often hard to come by. Often students have to share parts such As hands Heads and eyeballs. A a it a easier to get a computer than a body a Nelson said. One of the drawbacks however is the reduced student teacher Contact he said. Quot personal Contact is important a he said. A a there a always a student who asks a question you can to  another drawback says or. Gerry Oxford a professor of physiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is that computers dehumanize the study of Anatomy a seeing things in 3-d is not the same As feeling them in 3-d,�?� he said. A physicians in training need a visceral appreciation of the fact that they will have responsibility for a human  no one working on the $1 million project claims that it should replace real cadavers. Its value developers say lies in supplementing research and education. Virtual Anatomy was born five years ago in two different places at Glaxo where Michael Dutoit vice president of marketing promoted the idea after seeing fold out figures in a human Anatomy Book and at Colorado state where a federally funded team was developing programs to supplement cadaver study. Dutoit initially thought artists would create the three dimensional figures but said that would have Cost $93 million. About a year ago Glaxo found researchers at Colorado state who had been working with a different approach a using photographs instead of drawings. For the photographs researchers turned to the University of Colorado. There or. David Whitlock a professor in the department of cellular and structural biology and or. Vic Spitzer an assistant professor developed the cry microtome an instrument to Cut Cross sections of a cadaver. The process a involves embedding a Block of tissue in a substance like get Atin and freezing it a Whitlock said. The Rock hard Block is then shaved into sheets that Are Only half a millimetre thick. These sheets Are photographed and scanned into a computer by a digital camera. Alciatore said the Thorax Region of the six foot Man required about 900 photographs. An entire body would require about 3,600 photos. The Colorado state team used information from each Cross Section and built it into shapes using mathematical models of the outlines of skin Bones and even blood vessels. In the future researchers at Colorado state envision simulated surgery and biomedical visualization in which an onscreen heart could beat a lung could breathe or a knee could flex. Even an educational Nintendo game is in the works Alciatore said. Dutoit said one of Glaxo a Long term goals is to use computers to simulate the effects of drugs on the body. However he said there Are limits to what computers can do. A can we mimic what happens in the human body a he asked. A we need to find out what the out limitations Are.new device helps users make their Point by Joe Fasbinder United press International log tech has been making mouse pointing devices for along time. Remember the original pc Type computers did not come with a mouse. Macs did and people made fun of macs a at least until they discovered How much easier a mouse could make their lives. Following the mouse came the trackball a a kind of stationary mouse. Log tech made a lot of them too. Then along came a new Type of computer the Laptop which created a lot of pro Olms for the mouse people. Laptop computers arc designed to be used in limited space areas like on air planes. When you re on an air plane you have no real room for using a mouse or even for a trackball in Many cases. So a lot of computers started building the pointing device into the machine itself. But these things gum up eventually and you have to take them apart to clean the mouse bail. That a generally not a problem with a mouse. In fact if you have a mouse on your desktop computer you can buy a replacement mouse for As Little As $7 in some places. But you can to just throw out the computer if the pointing device is built in. And besides a lot of Laptop notebook and subnotebook computers just done to have a pointing device built in. So manufacturers like Microsoft came out with a strange new Breed of pointing devices that Are part trackball and part mouse specifically for the Laptop notebook Market log tech has introduced a new device that fits into that category. Ttys trackman voyager is a Little awkward to use if you re used to a mouse on a desktop computer. For one thing the buttons Are on three sides. The Ball on the thing is right in the Center of the device which is about half the size of a pack of cigarettes. You use that to position the cursor on the screen in programs that use a Pointer like windows programs or virtually All newer Model Dos based programs. When you want to Click on the mouse Button you have three choices on most mouse devices. Two of them generally wont work. A on the trackman voyager you get to choose which one of the three will work in various situations via software. 1 he trackman voyager clips onto your computer whether it i it a desktop Model or a portable. At least it docs most of the time. The device was designed primarily for clip on use. But since portable computers Are used about 80 percent of the time on a desktop or table top the voyager can be detached. In fact it can be used in five positions in front of the keyboard to either Side standing on the desktop similar to a mouse and As a hand held unit for presentations. The clip is ingenious and works with a wide Range of computers. Fully adjustable it does no to look like an adjustable clip. The voyager will work with a desktop computer but it wont look right. First the voyager is a lot smaller than most mouse pointing devices and while virtually All desktop computer components Are beige the voyager is charcoal Gray like most Laptop and notebook computers. Another Factor to consider with the voyager is the fact that the Cord is quite Short a and there is no Extension included in the package. So if you want to use this with a desktop machine you May have a problem getting it into a comfortable position. The trackman voyager comes with a new version of Login Echo a mouse Ware software version 6.4. With this you set the Way the buttons will operate and make the mouse action on the screen even choosing which direction your mouse is going to think of As  Click the one you prefer and the software remembers. A