Medical News
Troubleshooting Radio Links in the Era of the "Interference of Things"
Medical Design Technology - 10 Dec 2018 20:20
Blog Over the past decade there has been a dramatic increase in the population of wireless transmitters found in the world. The Internet of Things (IoT) has fueled demand for... Contributed Author: Xiao Li, Tektronix Top...
Engineers Produce Smallest 3-D Transistor Yet
Medical Design Technology - 10 Dec 2018 19:35
News Researchers from MIT and the University of Colorado have fabricated a 3-D transistor that's less than half the size of today's smallest commercial models. To do so, they developed a novel microfabrication... Contrib...
PTC's ThingWorx for Remote Monitoring and Service of Medical Imaging
Medical Design Technology - 10 Dec 2018 17:00
News SuperSonic Imagine, a company focused in ultrasound medical imaging devices, has deployed PTC's ThingWorx Industrial IoT Platform for the remote monitoring and service of its market-leading patient diagnostic device...
Nearly $1 Million NSF Grant to Bolster Cyber-Physical Systems Security
Medical Design Technology - 11 Dec 2018 01:18
News A team of Missouri University of Science and Technology researchers has received a National Science Foundation research grant of nearly $1 million to develop stronger safeguards for a wide array of complex... Contri...
Robust Power Connectors and Cable Assemblies
Medical Design Technology - 11 Dec 2018 01:12
Product Announcement In keeping with the company's core objective of providing elevated levels of performance in the most compact of components, Harwin's expansive M300 family comprises robust cable-to-board, board-to-bo...
Terahertz Laser for Sensing and Imaging Outperforms Its Predecessors
Medical Design Technology - 11 Dec 2018 01:04
News A terahertz laser designed by MIT researchers is the first to reach three key performance goals at once -- high constant power, tight beam pattern, and broad electric frequency tuning -- and could thus be... Contrib...
We're One Step Closer Toward an Optical Quantum Computer
Medical Design Technology - 11 Dec 2018 00:57
News An optical quantum computer has the potential to streamline energy-efficient techniques and engineer new drugs, according to Australian National University (ANU). Now that technology is one step closer... Staff Auth...
Topological Matters: Toward a New Kind of Transistor
Medical Design Technology - 11 Dec 2018 00:51
News Billions of tiny transistors supply the processing power in modern smartphones, controlling the flow of electrons with rapid on-and-off switching. But continual progress in packing more transistors into smaller... C...
NASA InSight Lander 'Hears' Martian Winds
Medical Design Technology - 11 Dec 2018 00:41
News NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport InSight lander, which touched down on Mars just 10 days ago, has provided the first ever "sounds" of Martian winds on the... Contr...
Why You Shouldn't Worry Too Much About Designer Babies
Discover - 10 Dec 2018 22:46
Babies to order. Andrew crotty/Shutterstock.com When Adam Nash was still an embryo, living in a dish in the lab, scientists tested his DNA to make sure it was free of Fanconi anemia, the rare inherited blood disease from...
Execs Focus on 5G at Snapdragon Summit
Medical Design Technology - 10 Dec 2018 22:10
Blog Carrier partners lit up live 5G networks on-site at the Grand Wailea in Maui during Qualcomm's third annual Snapdragon Summit, and there was no shortage of 5G talk from executives alike. Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher...
Verizon Says 10,400 Managers Accept Buyout Offer
Medical Design Technology - 10 Dec 2018 22:01
News Verizon says 10,400 U.S. managers have accepted a voluntary buyout offered as the company seeks to trim costs to invest more into its push into the next-generation network known as 5G. That's about 7 percent of its ...
China Pressures US, Canada Ahead of Huawei Hearing
Medical Design Technology - 10 Dec 2018 22:00
News China raised the pressure on the United States and Canada as a bail hearing for a top Chinese technology executive was set to resume Monday in Vancouver, British Columbia. Contributed Author: Jim Morris, Rob Gillies...
Supercomputers Without Waste Heat
Medical Design Technology - 10 Dec 2018 20:10
News Generally speaking, magnetism and the lossless flow of electrical current ("superconductivity") are competing phenomena that cannot coexist in the same sample. However, for building supercomputers, synergetically......
China Launches Rover for First Far Side of the Moon Landing
Medical Design Technology - 10 Dec 2018 20:07
News China launched a rover early Saturday destined to land on the far side of the moon, a global first that would boost Beijing's ambitions to become a space superpower, state media said. The Chang'e-4 lunar... Contribu...
Students Lead Learning During STEMposium
Medical Design Technology - 10 Dec 2018 20:04
News A massive supervolcano erupted in Germany, leaving a path of death and destruction for hundreds of miles and a total shutdown of roads, emergency services, electricity and other city and federal services... Contribu...
New Traffic Rules in 'Graphene City'
Medical Design Technology - 10 Dec 2018 20:01
News In the drive to find new ways to extend electronics beyond the use of silicon, physicists are experimenting with other properties of electrons, beyond charge. In work published today (Dec 7) in the journal... Contri...
Bringing Advanced Microelectronics to Revolutionary Defense Applications
Medical Design Technology - 10 Dec 2018 19:55
News Today's critical Department of Defense (DOD) systems and platforms rely on advanced electronics to address national security objectives. To help tackle obstacles facing a half-century of electronics advancement... C...
Bluetooth Sensor Harvests Energy to Control Lighting Systems
Medical Design Technology - 10 Dec 2018 19:54
News Wireless company EnOcean has unveiled a solar-powered occupancy sensor for Bluetooth lighting control systems. Reportedly the first on the market, the sensor integrates the company's established energy harvesting te...
Friendly Electromagnetic Pulse Improves Survival for Electronics
Medical Design Technology - 10 Dec 2018 19:20
News An electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, emitted by a nuclear weapon exploded high above the United States could disable the electronic circuits of many devices vital to military defense and modern living. These... Contrib...
Cantel's ADVANTAGE PLUS Pass-Thru AER Wins 2018 ESP Award
Medical Design Technology - 10 Dec 2018 18:41
News The winner in the Infection Control category generated the greatest interest among Surgical Products readers. Staff Author: Daniel Seeger Topics: Surgical Products
2018 ESP Awards -- Infection Control Runner-Up
Medical Design Technology - 10 Dec 2018 18:12
News Tru-D SmartUVC claims the runner-up spot in a very competitive category. Staff Author: Daniel Seeger Topics: Surgical Products