Medical News
Rolls-Royce Seeks to Build World's Fastest All-Electric Aircraft
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jan 2019 22:21
News A specialized team recruited by Rolls-Royce is hard at work building an all-electric aircraft set to make history. Although it currently sits in a hangar at Gloucestershire airport in South West England, its destiny...
Quantum Chemistry on Quantum Computers
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jan 2019 18:06
News Quantum computing and quantum information processing technology have attracted attention in recently emerging fields. Among many important and fundamental issues in nowadays science, solving Schroedinger Equation (S...
Bomb Disposal Squads Receive Haptic Feedback Robots
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jan 2019 17:49
Article Imagine a job where a day is spent deactivating bombs. Constant danger and fear of safety are commonplace for the men and women who dispose of hazardous bombs. Thanks to the Harris Corporation, the British Army h...
Wireless IoT Location System Adds Real-Time 3D Tracking and Mobile User Interface
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jan 2019 22:38
Product Announcement WISER Systems, Inc. will showcase new features of its wireless IoT location system at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The company will conduct live demonstrations of its new real-time 3D as...
AI, Robotics, Automation: The Fourth Industrial Revolution Is Here
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jan 2019 22:33
News For Chinese guests at Marriott International hotels, the check-in process will soon get easier. The hotel giant announced last summer that it's developing facial recognition systems that will allow guests to check.....
Engineering Researchers Hit Record with 17 Payloads on the International Space Station
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jan 2019 22:31
News The SpaceX CRS-16 launched its resupply mission to the International Space Station on Dec. 4 and carried four Polars and the Rapid Freezer developed by the University of Alabama at Birmingham's engineers... Contribu...
FCC Returns to 5 Members with Starks, Carr Confirmations
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jan 2019 22:06
News The FCC's five seats are full once again, with the U.S. Senate confirming Geoffrey Starks to the Commission and approving Commissioner Brendan Carr to a full term. Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher Topics: Communications
First GPS III Satellite Successfully Launched
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jan 2019 21:04
News The Air Force and its mission partners successfully launched the first Global Positioning Systems III satellite Dec. 23 from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The Lockheed Martin-...
Deep Learning for Electron Microscopy
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jan 2019 21:01
News Finding defects in electron microscopy images takes months. Now, there's a faster way. It's called MENNDL, the Multinode Evolutionary Neural Networks for Deep Learning. It creates artificial neural networks--computa...
Tiny, Implantable Device Uses Light to Treat Bladder Problems
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jan 2019 17:00
News A team of neuroscientists and engineers has developed a tiny, implantable device that has potential to help people with bladder problems bypass the need for medication or electronic stimulators... Contributed Author...
Long-term trauma outcomes heavily impacted by gender and education level
EurekAlert! - 3 Jan 2019 09:00
(Brigham and Women's Hospital) Researchers find sociodemographic factors more predictive of worse outcomes than injury severity.
A World's First: China Lands Rover on Far Side of the Moon
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jan 2019 19:39
News After launching December 7, 2018, China's unmanned Chang'e-4 lunar probe made a historic touchdown Thursday, January 3, 2019, becoming the first spacecraft to perform a successful soft landing on the far... Staff Au...
Waning iPhone Demand Highlights Chinese Consumer Anxiety
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jan 2019 19:33
News The iPhone is Apple's biggest product, accounting for about 60 percent of its revenue in the July-September quarter, the latest reported. Its stock fell 9 percent in early trading Thursday. Contributed Author: Joe M...
NYPD Surveillance Fly's Drone Over Times Square on New Year's Eve
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jan 2019 18:33
Article Ringing in the New Year is a simple and joyous occasion for many. But that isn't always the case for NYPD officers working security at Times Square on New Year's Eve. For the first time, a police drone was used t...
New Feature in Chromebooks Make Computers More Secure
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jan 2019 18:31
Article Computers and laptops are the gateways to our everyday lives. We pay bills, shop, work, and communicate all through digital platforms that can use our personal information and history against us. The minds at Chr...
Metamaterial With Inherently Robust Sound Transport
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jan 2019 18:27
News Researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York and at the City College of New York (CCNY) have developed a metamaterial that can transport sound....
Image Sensor Provides Cost-Effective 16 MP Upgrade for Rear- and Front-Facing Cameras on Mainstream Smartphones With Thin Bezels
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jan 2019 18:17
Product Announcement OmniVision Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of advanced digital imaging solutions, today announced the OV16A, an affordable 16 megapixel image sensor that enables smartphone cameras to capture...
1/3-inch 13-MP Image Sensor for Mainstream and Entry-Level Smartphone Cameras
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jan 2019 18:15
Product Announcement OmniVision Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of advanced digital imaging solutions, today announced the OV13B image sensor--the latest addition to the company's 13-Megapixel (MP) sensor family ...
LG to Commercialize CLOi SuitBot
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jan 2019 17:46
Article One of the reigning electronic goliaths, LG, is set to debut a revitalized version of their CLOi SuitBot at CES 2019. With commercial availability just on the horizon, people are excited to see the new upgrades.....
Student Developed Device Alerts to Opioid Overdose
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jan 2019 17:37
Article The opioid addiction in the United States has grown exponentially over the past several years with more than 115 opioid related deaths per day. In 2017 alone, there were 72,000 drug-related overdose deaths with 3...
Wireless 'Pacemaker for Brain' Could Offer Treatment for Neurological Disorders
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jan 2019 17:00
News A new neurostimulator developed by engineers can listen to and stimulate electric current in the brain at the same time, potentially delivering fine-tuned treatments to patients with diseases like epilepsy and Parki...
Leg Nerves Activated by Light Offer New Path to Restoring Mobility
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jan 2019 17:00
News For the first time, MIT researchers have shown that nerves made to express proteins that can be activated by light can produce limb movements that can be adjusted in real-time, using cues generated by the motion of ...