Medical News
Innovative Power Rail Probe Resolves Measurement Challenges
Medical Design Technology - 16 Jan 2019 20:38
Product Announcement Tektronix is introducing two new products, the TPR1000 and TPR4000 power rail probes that merge with the 12-bit 5 or 6 Series MSO mixed signal oscilloscopes, offering the lowest system noise out of a...
Hubble's Camera to Resume Operations By End of Week
Medical Design Technology - 16 Jan 2019 18:00
News The Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 automatically suspended operations January 8. NASA now reports the camera was brought back to operations mode, edging closer to once again conducting... Staff Author:...
House Republicans Question Telecoms on Location Tracking
Medical Design Technology - 17 Jan 2019 01:24
News Several House Republicans asked T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon and Sprint how they share their users' cellphone location data, citing a recent report that telecoms are selling that information to shadowy companies without ...
Sinclair Launches Ad-Supported 'Stirr' Streaming Service
Medical Design Technology - 17 Jan 2019 01:16
News Sinclair Broadcast Group has debuted its ad-supported streaming service that features a local news channel with curated programming based on a viewer's location, as well as certain national and digital-first channel...
Verizon, Sprint Offer Up New Rewards and Perks
Medical Design Technology - 17 Jan 2019 00:08
News With pricing wars tempered, carriers are instead appealing to customers by adding value with more perks and rewards. Both Verizon and Sprint this week announced new offerings that could help lure or keep customers. ...
Ericsson Marketing Chief to Depart
Medical Design Technology - 16 Jan 2019 22:31
News Helena Norrman, Ericsson's head of marketing and communications, will exit by the end of June to "pursue opportunities outside the company." Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher Topics: Devices
Making Technology Accessible
Medical Design Technology - 16 Jan 2019 21:17
News Many zany and futuristic gadgets made their premiere at last week's CES 2019. While much of the technology debuted at the show was geared toward luxury and progress, numerous cutting-edge innovations were... Staff A...
MSU Spartan Pride Scrub Hats and Bouffant Caps
Medical Design Technology - 16 Jan 2019 20:32
Product Announcement Healthmark Industries has announced the addition of Michigan State University Scrub Hats and Bouffant Caps to its Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) accessory line... Contributed Author: Healthmark ...
A Cybersecurity System That Learns From the Hackers Themselves
Medical Design Technology - 16 Jan 2019 20:29
News To fortify the integrity of the United States' energy grid, systems must be able to hold their own against destructive hackers. Sometimes, the best approach is to learn the ways of the enemy, beating them at their.....
Extended Range of Ball Plungers
Medical Design Technology - 16 Jan 2019 19:50
Product Announcement JW Winco, Inc., A Ganter Company, now has available GN 615.5 Ball Plungers in A4 Stainless Steel, with Ceramic Ball, GN 615.8 Ball Plungers in Stainless Steel or Steel, with Friction Bearing, with Sl...
Cars of the Future at CES 2019
Medical Design Technology - 16 Jan 2019 19:48
News CES 2019 went off without a hitch. Hundreds of companies showed up to dazzle visitors with their technology of the future. One dominant area of the show was autonomous vehicles. Cars of the future are emerging... St...
Custom Battery Packs Satisfy Robotics OEM Requirements
Medical Design Technology - 16 Jan 2019 19:44
Product Announcement Custom battery packs that are designed and built to meet specific robotics environmental, performance, and physical requirements have been introduced by Aved Electronics, Inc. of North Billerica, Mas...
Pfannenberg's Kinetic System Series Air to Air Heat Exchangers
Medical Design Technology - 16 Jan 2019 19:39
Product Announcement Introducing a new way to cool electrical enclosures, Pfannenberg's PKS Series Air to Air Heat Exchangers use a next generation cooling technology (Pfannenberg Kinetic System)... Contributed Author: P...
"First-Ever" Battery-Free Bluetooth Sensor Harvests Energy from Radio Frequencies
Medical Design Technology - 16 Jan 2019 18:48
Videos Semiconductor developer Wiliot has created what they call the "first-ever sticker-sized Bluetooth sensor tag" that powers its ARM processor by harvesting energy from ambient radio frequencies. The chip only needs....
Dual-Radio Bluetooth®/LPWAN IoT Development Kit from STMicroelectronics Enables Creatively Connected Smart Devices
Medical Design Technology - 16 Jan 2019 18:12
Product Announcement By supporting concurrent communication over Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) and Sub-1GHz wireless, the STMicroelectronics STEVAL-FKI001V1 dual-radio development kit gives unrivaled flexibility to envisi...
Meet Marty, the Googly Eyed Robot
Medical Design Technology - 16 Jan 2019 18:06
News Robots are getting a friendly makeover. The newest employee to a popular supermarket chain is Marty, a soaring gray robotic assistant coming to Giant Food Stores. The grocery chain has locations in Virginia, West Vi...
Silicon-Based Lithium-Ion Batteries with 10 Times More Charge Capacity
Medical Design Technology - 16 Jan 2019 17:58
News Thanks to chemists at the University of Alberta (U of A), we're one step closer to silicon-based, lithium-ion batteries with a charge capacity 10 times greater than existing cells. "We wanted to test how different.....
Light up Logic: Engineers From UTokyo and RKEN Perform Computational Logic With Light
Medical Design Technology - 16 Jan 2019 17:55
News For the first time, researchers performed logic operations -- the basis of computation -- with a chemical device using electric fields and ultraviolet light. The device and the pioneering methods used open up... Con...
Fortifying the Future of Cryptography
Medical Design Technology - 16 Jan 2019 17:52
News As a boy growing up in a small South Indian village, Vinod Vaikuntanathan taught himself calculus by reading books his grandfather left lying around the house. Years later in college, he toiled away in the library.....
Technology Aiding in Preserving Holocaust Survivor Testimony
Medical Design Technology - 16 Jan 2019 17:44
News The Holocaust is a harrowing time in history, with millions of innocents murdered, countless treasures stolen from people and their homes, as well as the mortifying end many souls faced. We can hardly imagine the......
Algorithm Gives Robots an Instinctive Understanding of How to Use Tools
Medical Design Technology - 16 Jan 2019 17:35
News A*STAR researchers working with colleagues in Japan have developed a method by which robots can automatically recognize an object as a potential tool and use it, despite never having seen it before... Contributed Au...
Make it Extreme Tinkers with DIY E-Bike Battery
Medical Design Technology - 16 Jan 2019 17:00
Videos Make it Extreme, notorious for their DIY tinkering product designs, has honed into the electric vehicle world by creating a custom E-bike battery... Contributed Author: Make it Extreme and Design Group Topics: Des...