Medical News
Comcast Business Eyes Federal Government Sales for Growth, Creates New Segment
Medical Design Technology - 1 Apr 2019 20:28
News The new segment is led by Kenneth Folderauer, Comcast Business' recently-appointed VP of federal government sales. Folderauer previously led Oracle's National Security Group's Communications Services Division, and s...
Nokia, Qualcomm Power up 5G Industrial IoT Use-Cases
Medical Design Technology - 1 Apr 2019 19:50
News Nokia is powering a live over-the-air 5G network at Hannover Messe 2019, as companies including Bosch Rexroth and Festo use Qualcomm mobile test devices to show off future connected factory applications like 5G-enab...
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Calls for More Outside Regulation
Medical Design Technology - 1 Apr 2019 19:45
News In an opinion piece in The Washington Post, Zuckerberg said governments and regulators rather than private companies like Facebook should be more active in policing the Internet. Contributed Author: Mae Anderson, AP...
World First 3D-Printed Feet
Medical Design Technology - 1 Apr 2019 18:15
News t's gory, sticky and undoubtedly on the nose, but a blend of icing sugar, chicken stock and flexible resin is proving to be the just the right recipe for creating realistic foot ulcers as part of a world-first podia...
Five Tips to Pass Your FDA or ISO Audit with Confidence
Medical Design Technology - 1 Apr 2019 18:00
Article An FDA or ISO audit is a necessary and potentially difficult part of doing business for any medical device manufacturer. For startup medical device manufacturers, the first audit of your processes can be as nerve...
Part 1: At AAOS Companies Delve Into Their Products
Medical Design Technology - 1 Apr 2019 18:00
Blog While attending the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2019 annual meeting, I had the opportunity to sit down with a few companies who were excited to share their new products and provide insight on upcoming m...
Bringing AI to the Edge
Medical Design Technology - 1 Apr 2019 18:00
News In a little over a decade since researchers uncovered novel techniques to improve its efficiency and effectiveness, deep learning has become a practical technology that now underpins a number of applications that ne...
3D Printing Companies Present Market-Ready Solution for Orthosis and Prosthesis
Medical Design Technology - 1 Apr 2019 18:00
News Shapeways, a manufacturer of 3D printed goods, has become one of the first suppliers in the industry that is able to offer and supply market-ready orthosis and prosthesis to designers and businesses of all sizes... ...
Adhesive Formed From Bee Spit and Flower Oil Could Form Basis of New Glue
Medical Design Technology - 1 Apr 2019 18:00
News Researchers are looking at a mixture of ingredients, including bee spit and flower oil, as a model for a bioinspired glue because of its unique adhesive properties and ability to remain sticky through a range of con...
U.S. Military Gets Help From Plywood Drones
Medical Design Technology - 1 Apr 2019 18:00
Videos Logistic Gliders has created drones made from plywood that they hope will resupply ground-moving military forces. Currently, the gliders have completed 12 prototype flight tests... Staff Author: Tierney King Topic...
You Can Help NASA by Measuring the Height of Trees with Your Smartphone
Medical Design Technology - 1 Apr 2019 17:04
Videos You, yes you, can help NASA with an investigation just by using your smartphone. Forests take up carbon from the atmosphere. Through satellite and airborne missions, NASA studies how carbon moves through... Staff ...
Astronauts Continue Battery Replacements on the International Space Station
Medical Design Technology - 1 Apr 2019 17:02
Videos NASA's Anne McClain and Nick Hague swapped out aging nickel-hydrogen batteries with a set of more powerful lithium-ion batteries during a spacewalk March 22, 2019. A week later, and another spacewalk... Staff Auth...
Polymer Technologies Launch Guide to 3D Molded Foam
Medical Design Technology - 1 Apr 2019 17:00
Product Announcement Polymer Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of energy management materials, published a new resource on their website to help original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) choose the right material solutions...
Scientists Discover Potential Sustainable Energy Technology for the Household Refrigerator
Medical Design Technology - 1 Apr 2019 17:00
News While many advancements have been in improving its efficiency, the refrigerator still consumes considerable amounts of energy each year. Researchers hypothesized that using part of the cold loss to cool the fresh fo...
NASA's Mars Helicopter Completes Flight Tests
Medical Design Technology - 1 Apr 2019 16:58
News Since the Wright brothers first took to the skies of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, Dec. 17, 1903, first flights have been important milestones in the life of any vehicle designed for air travel. After all, it's ...
Autonomous Weed Control via Smart Robots
Medical Design Technology - 1 Apr 2019 16:50
News Driving across Iowa, Hendrik J. Viljoen, distinguished professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Nebraska, noticed that soybean fields were becoming increasingly infested with weeds... Co...
ThingMagic EL6e Smart Module: An All-in-One Embedded RFID Solution
Medical Design Technology - 1 Apr 2019 16:46
Product Announcement JADAK announces the availability of ThingMagic® EL6e UHF RFID smart module for OEM customers. The EL6e is the ideal all-in-one embedded RFID solution for short- to mid-range applications that requir...
How to Make Self-Driving Cars Safer on Roads
Medical Design Technology - 1 Apr 2019 16:45
News It's a big question for many people in traffic-dense cities like Los Angeles: When will self-driving cars arrive? But following a series of high-profile accidents in the United States, safety issues could bring the....
Challenges Facing Rugged Embedded Technology
Medical Design Technology - 1 Apr 2019 16:45
Article Rugged embedded systems designed for sectors such as defense, aerospace, and industrial (oil and gas, utility, and mining), need to perform reliably in harsh conditions with extreme temperatures, high radiation.....
Ferromagnetic Nanoparticle Systems Show Promise for Ultrahigh-Speed Spintronics
Medical Design Technology - 1 Apr 2019 16:44
News In the future, ultrahigh-speed spintronics will require ultrafast coherent magnetization reversal within a picosecond -- one-trillionth of a second. Spintronics centers on an electron's spin and magnetic moment... C...
New Approach Could Boost Energy Capacity of Lithium Batteries
Medical Design Technology - 1 Apr 2019 16:42
News Researchers around the globe have been on a quest for batteries that pack a punch but are smaller and lighter than today's versions, potentially enabling electric cars to travel further or portable electronics... Co...
Global microbial signatures for colorectal cancer established
EurekAlert! - 1 Apr 2019 08:00
(Università di Trento) Researchers from EMBL, the University of Trento, and their international collaborators have analysed multiple existing microbiome association studies of colorectal cancer together with newly gener...