Extreme Tech reviews six 22” LCD monitors; the Samsung 225BW gets the highest rating. Follow the link below for the whole article.

Samsung SyncMaster 225BW By John R. Delaney Rate it Yourself
Some people want monitors that offer the highest resolution and come with all sorts of bells and whistles. For others, a monitor that does the job is more than enough. The Samsung SyncMaster 225BW ($399.99 list) is geared toward business users, but its fast motion performance, image quality, and support for HDCP video make it good choice for home users as well.
22-inch LCD Monitors to Take Home - Samsung SyncMaster 225BW 22-inch LCD Monitor Review [1].

[1] http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2190968,00.asp

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If you collect business cards, you’ll want a way to organize their information—and typing it into a database by hand doesn’t cut it anymore.
By M. David Stone No matter what you do for a living, odds are that if you meet with clients or prospective customers, you exchange business cards and slowly (or not so slowly) build a list of contacts. You may even have a stack of cards sitting on your desk right now, waiting for you to type the names, addresses, and phone numbers into your contact database. Or maybe you don’t let them accumulate—probably because you’ve already discovered the joys of having a business card scanner.Business card scanners, and the software that comes with them, aren’t perfect, but they speed up the job of converting business cards into searchable contact information. Some of the more expensive models, notably the CardScan Executive, come with software that does an excellent job of recognizing text and parsing the information into the right fields in your database. But even the less accurate—and less expensive—packages are good enough to make the process of scanning plus correcting errors faster than typing. They’re also a big improvement over using a flatbed scanner, which can confuse the software if two cards are touching, and is a pain to use.
Biz-Card Scanning to Go - Biz-Card Scanning to Go - Review by PC Magazine [1].

[1] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2176491,00.asp

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Dental lasers are used for more than 20 applications, and some say they have revolutionized dentistry. If you’re curious about adding a laser to your practice, you need to explore products, certification, and training so that you can fully understand what you’re getting in to!
Gail S. Siminovsky, CAE, executive director of [...]

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Paper charts don’t just appear in the office for free. The paper folder and all the other papers cost about $2.50 each. If you have 2500 charts they cost you at least $6,250 to create and every time a new patient walks in it’s another two-fifty; cha-ching.
Other chart contents, like x-rays and photographs can be even more costly. A set of bitewings with film, processing and mounts can be a dollar or two. A photo printed from the intraoral camera is $1.50 or more. It is reasonable to add at least another $2.00 to the cost of each chart for these contents adding another $5,000 to the cost.
Storing the records isn’t free either. A typical office with 2500 charts will need three or four full size lateral files to hold them all. Depending on how nice the files are they will cost about $4,000 and could be a lot more. They will take up office space costing another $550 per year. Plus all the “inactive” charts stashed away somewhere else?
So far our inexpensive paper files are costing us $15,800, but that’s not the total cost. There is the human effort to make the chart, type the label, arrange the contents, file new bits when they arrive in the mail, write the notes, pull the charts every day and then re-file them. And of course there is the daily ritual of the lost chart, which no one can find only to have it turn up days later either misfiled or hiding in a stack on the doctor’s desk. The human cost is at least $11,520 per year.
What we have is a paper chart system that is really quite expensive costing $15,800 to create and $11,520 per year to maintain for a total of $27,320.

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