Medical News
Semiconductors for Higher Efficiency, Comfort and Affordability of EVs
Medical Design Technology - 2 Nov 2018 19:27
News Electric cars are increasingly complex and frequently recalled. But does it necessarily have to be that way? A post-market in-vehicle diagnostics system and semiconductor-based technologies developed under... Contri...
Apple's 4Q, Change in iPhone Sales Disclosure Jar Investors
Medical Design Technology - 3 Nov 2018 00:14
News Apple's faithful customers aren't snapping up iPhones quite as enthusiastically as anticipated heading into the crucial holiday shopping season. Contributed Author: Michael Liedtke, AP Technology Writer Topics: Devi...
CWA Tells FCC T-Mobile-Sprint Deal Would Result in 30K Job Losses
Medical Design Technology - 3 Nov 2018 00:10
News The Communications Workers of America (CWA) union has warned the FCC that T-Mobile's proposed acquisition of Sprint could result in 30,000 employees losing their jobs. Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher Topics: Carriers
Physicists Upgrade Cheap Diode Laser for Use in Precise Measurements
Medical Design Technology - 2 Nov 2018 23:03
News Russian physicists have developed a method for drastically narrowing the emission spectrum of an ordinary diode laser, like that in a laser pointer. This makes their device a useful replacement for the more... Contr...
Air Force Cryptologic Office Evolves ISR Training for Today's Tech Savvy Airmen
Medical Design Technology - 2 Nov 2018 23:01
News The intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance Airmen in today's Air Force are much more technologically savvy than their predecessors, and the Air Force Cryptologic Office at Twenty-Fifth Air Force is... Contrib...
Uber Wants to Resume Self-Driving Car Tests on Public Roads
Medical Design Technology - 2 Nov 2018 22:58
News Nearly eight months after one of its autonomous test vehicles hit and killed an Arizona pedestrian, Uber wants to resume testing on public roads. The company has filed an application with the Pennsylvania... Contrib...
Toward Temperature-Resilient EVs
Medical Design Technology - 2 Nov 2018 22:57
News The OSEM-EV project has come up with an entirely new concept of heat management for electric cars. These advances should enable a new generation of EVs with a greater and more predictable driving range... Contribute...
Bringing Photonic Signaling to Digital Microelectronics
Medical Design Technology - 2 Nov 2018 22:53
News Parallelism - or the act of several processors simultaneously executing on an application or computation - has been increasingly embraced by the microelectronics industry as a way of sustaining demand... Contributed...
Gigabit-speed Broadband Available to 63% of U.S. Households, CableLabs Says
Medical Design Technology - 2 Nov 2018 21:40
Data Focus New data from CableLabs shows that as of June 2018, about 63 percent of U.S. housing units have access to gigabit-speed internet service. Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher Topics: Broadband
DARPA Announces Next Phase of Electronics Resurgence Initiative
Medical Design Technology - 2 Nov 2018 19:45
News First announced in June 2017, DARPA's Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI) - a five-year, upwards of $1.5B investment in the future of domestic electronic systems - is rolling out the second phase of its research...
New Photonic Devices Are Said to Be Poised to Enable the Next Leap in Deep Space Exploration
Medical Design Technology - 2 Nov 2018 19:39
News New directed energy propulsion systems may enable the first interstellar missions, with small, robotic spacecraft exploring neighboring solar systems, according to experimental cosmologist Philip Lubin. He... Contri...
Sensor Gives Farmers More Accurate
Medical Design Technology - 2 Nov 2018 19:35
News A Purdue University professor has built an innovative handheld sensor that gives plant scientists and farmers a more precise way of measuring the health of crops while gathering up-to-the-minute data that... Contrib...
Army Scientist Seeks Enhanced Soldier Systems Through Quantum Research
Medical Design Technology - 2 Nov 2018 18:48
News Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the Joint Quantum Institute have created a pristine quantum light source that has the potential to lead to more secure communications and enhanced... Contributed ...
NASA Team Investigates Ultrafast Laser Machining for Multiple Spaceflight Applications
Medical Design Technology - 2 Nov 2018 18:40
News An ultrafast laser that fires pulses of light just 100 millionths of a nanosecond in duration could potentially revolutionize the way that NASA technicians manufacture and ultimately assemble instrument components.....
Particulate Matter Sensor Now Available Globally
Medical Design Technology - 2 Nov 2018 18:35
Product Announcement The SPS30 particulate matter (PM) sensor is the next technological breakthrough in optical PM sensors. Its measurement principle is based on laser scattering and makes use of Sensirion's innovative.....
FDA Falling Short On Medical Device Cybersecurity, According To New Government Report
Medical Design Technology - 2 Nov 2018 18:30
News The Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General called out the agency in an assessment of safety measures. Staff Author: Daniel Seeger Topics: Surgical Products
Finding Lost Hikers in Dense Forests with Autonomous Drone Fleets
Medical Design Technology - 2 Nov 2018 18:19
News To help search and rescue operations in forest environments, MIT researchers have proposed an autonomous, collaborative drone system. To mitigate the unreliable GPS signals, the drones will solely use... Staff Autho...
Electrical Stimulation Therapy Helps Some Chronic Paraplegia Patients Walk Again
Medical Design Technology - 2 Nov 2018 17:56
Videos Following several months of training, patients were able to take step on their own, without the electrical stimulation. Contributed Author: EPFL Topics: Surgical Products
Kentucky Doctor Convicted Of Fraud Sentenced To Prison
Medical Design Technology - 2 Nov 2018 17:47
News The physician implanted medically unnecessary pacemakers into dozens of patients. Contributed Author: Associated Press Topics: Surgical Products
Machines That Learn Language More Like Kids do
Medical Design Technology - 2 Nov 2018 16:00
News MIT researchers describe a parser that learns through observation to more closely mimic a child's language-acquisition process, which could greatly extend the parser's capabilities... Contributed Author: Rob Matheso...
Atlanta Hawks Collaborates with SyncThink to Implement Brain Health Analytics Platform
Medical Design Technology - 2 Nov 2018 16:00
News SyncThink announced that the Atlanta Hawks are adopting the SyncThink platform. The NBA team will deploy the EYE-SYNC technology to be used by both performance and medical staff to monitor the players for the accumu...
Breaking Borders in Patient-Centric Medicine
Medical Design Technology - 2 Nov 2018 16:00
Article Patient-centric care means faster, more accurate, painless and hopefully, failsafe delivery of medical care to patients with the smallest margin of error possible... Contributed Author: Joyce Laird Topics: Medica...