Medical News
Joint Replacement with a Robotic Assist
Medical Design Technology - 7 Sep 2018 14:00
News Orthopedic surgeons at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, are offering patients an innovative option for partial knee, total knee and hip replacements--Stryker's Mako Robotic-Arm Assisted Surgical System... Contr...
Report: Head of Verizon's AOL, Yahoo in Talks to Depart
Medical Design Technology - 7 Sep 2018 22:41
News The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Verizon's media and advertising chief, Tim Armstrong, is in talks to leave. Contributed Author: Associated Press Topics: Video
Verizon, Nokia Achieve First 5G NR Data Transmission on Commercial Network
Medical Design Technology - 7 Sep 2018 21:29
News Verizon and Nokia notched another 5G first this week, announcing the successful completion of an over-the-air, end-to-end data transmission on a commercial 3GPP 5G NR network over commercially deployed Nokia radio e...
Holography, Light-Field Technology Combo Could Deliver Practical 3-D Displays
Medical Design Technology - 7 Sep 2018 20:08
News While most interaction with digital content is still constrained to keyboards and 2-D touch panels, augmented and virtually reality (AR/VR) technologies promise ever more freedom from these limitations. AR/VR... Con...
DARPA Invests $2 Billion to Develop Next-Gen Artificial Intelligence
Medical Design Technology - 7 Sep 2018 19:38
Blog DARPA is seeking the next wave of artificial intelligence (AI) technology by announcing a multi-year investment of more than $2 billion toward the "AI Next" campaign. The announcement was made during... Staff Author...
Basic Switch with Reduced Dead Break
Medical Design Technology - 7 Sep 2018 19:37
Product Announcement OTTO announces the new B2D basic switch with reduced dead break. The B2D is a single break, snap action, subminiature basic switch with reduced dead break designed for pressure transducers, level sen...
Qualcomm, Ericsson Claim First with 5G Call on Mobile Form Factor Device
Medical Design Technology - 7 Sep 2018 18:41
News Qualcomm and Ericsson on Thursday announced another achievement in the ongoing parade of 5G firsts, with the successful completion of a 5G NR call made using a smartphone form factor mobile device. Staff Author: Bev...
Long-Endurance Aircraft Aces First Flight with Autopilot
Medical Design Technology - 7 Sep 2018 18:23
Blog The Elektra Two Solar Optionally Piloted System (OPS), a long-endurance aircraft developed by Germany's Elektra Solar, has successfully demonstrated its new autopilot system. A pilot was on board as a safety... Staf...
Key Internet Connections and Locations at Risk From Rising Seas
Medical Design Technology - 7 Sep 2018 18:02
News Despite whimsical ads about computing "in the cloud," the internet lives on the ground. Data centers are built on land, and most of the physical elements of the internet - such as the cables that connect households....
Watch a Bee-Inspired Robot Pollinate Flowers
Medical Design Technology - 7 Sep 2018 16:24
Blog To help with the population decline of the world's natural pollinators, a team from West Virginia University (WVU) has created BrambleBee--an autonomous robot inspired by bees. The robot is tasked with... Staff Auth...
Army Research Takes Proactive Approach to Defending Computer Systems
Medical Design Technology - 7 Sep 2018 16:23
News A team of researchers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in the Republic of Korea have taken a step... Contributed...
New Internet of Things Protocol to Transform Hotel Experience
Medical Design Technology - 7 Sep 2018 15:58
News Hotel guests could soon access their rooms and control the lighting, temperature, television and coffee maker through their mobile phones thanks to an innovative protocol for internet of things (IoT) devices... Cont...
Multi-Camera FMC Module Extends Embedded Vision Capabilities
Medical Design Technology - 7 Sep 2018 15:44
Product Announcement Avnet announced the new Multi-Camera FMC Module, an UltraZed-compatible device designed to help engineers more quickly and efficiently develop custom video systems using Xilinx MPSoCs, and in turn......
High Performance Wireless Infrastructure Module
Medical Design Technology - 7 Sep 2018 15:38
Product Announcement VadaTech announces the AMC541. The AMC541 couples Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ XCZU19EG MPSoC FPGA with the TCI6638K2K communications KeyStone SoC to provide a high performance wireless infrastructure... ...
Writing Code for a More Skilled and Diverse STEM Workforce
Medical Design Technology - 7 Sep 2018 15:15
News The ability to program computers is crucial to almost all modern scientific experiments, which often involve extremely complex calculations and massive amounts of data. However, scientists typically have not been......
California: A Healthcare Laboratory With Mixed Results
Medical Design Technology - 7 Sep 2018 15:09
Article New report detail the highs and lows of California's programs implemented in the ACA era. Contributed Author: Anna Gorman, Kaiser Health News Topics: Surgical Products
New Study Introduces Approach That Can Roughly Double Success Rates Of Kidney Transplants
Medical Design Technology - 7 Sep 2018 14:59
News The enhancement centers on a new concept called "failure-aware" matching. Contributed Author: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Topics: Surgical Products
Researchers Diagnose Crowdsourced Hospital Ratings
Medical Design Technology - 7 Sep 2018 14:49
Article On quality of care and safety as measured on Hospital Compare, the Google, Yelp, and Facebook ratings were not accurate. Contributed Author: Indiana University Topics: Surgical Products
Scientists Develop New Way To Identify Telltale Markers For Breast Cancer Tumors
Medical Design Technology - 7 Sep 2018 14:20
Article Potentially life-saving breakthrough for women devised by USC-led research team takes big step forward from biopsies and microscopes. Contributed Author: University of Southern California Topics: Surgical Product...
CBRS Alliance Touts OnGo Interop Success
Medical Design Technology - 7 Sep 2018 14:05
News Industry organization the CBRS Alliance touted its first OnGo interoperability test event as a major success this week and a significant milestone toward commercial deployments. Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher Topics: ...
Square Off's Chessboard has Magical Moving Pieces
Medical Design Technology - 7 Sep 2018 14:00
Videos Artificial intelligence is not new to the world, but what about a chessboard that uses AI? Square Off, a seemingly ordinary chessboard, is shocking players with its self-moving pieces... Staff Author: Tierney King...
Large Sensing Window Makes Monitoring 100 A Circuits Easy
Medical Design Technology - 7 Sep 2018 14:00
Product Announcement NK Technologies released the AGT-FD Series, new ground fault sensors that detect faults to earth from 0 mA to 100 mA and produce an output signal of 0-10 VDC in proportion to the amount of current pa...