Medical News
Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Awards ModalAI Contract to Develop Next-Generation UAS (Drone) Technology
Medical Design Technology - 15 May 2019 14:50
News The U.S. Army, through the Department of Defense's Defense Innovation Unit, has awarded ModalAI, Inc. a contract to design the hardware architecture for Group 1 Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) for use by... ModalAI Co...
WOW to Offer Philo Streaming TV Service to Broadband Subs
Medical Design Technology - 15 May 2019 19:46
News The $20 per month Philo service, which features popular cable networks like A&E, AMC, Discovery, HGTV, Lifetime, MTV, and Nickelodeon, among others, will be available starting mid-year to WOW broadband customers in ...
FCC Proposes Allowing Service Providers to Block Robocalls by Default
Medical Design Technology - 15 May 2019 19:37
News The FCC has proposed taking action to directly combat robocalls that spoof legitimate phone numbers by allowing voice providers to block these nuisance calls by default, rather than requiring consumers to opt-in. St...
Huawei Exec: Possible US Market Curbs Have Little Impact
Medical Design Technology - 15 May 2019 17:34
News A Huawei executive said Wednesday that possible new U.S. restrictions on market access will have little impact on the Chinese tech giant due to its global reach. Contributed Author: Emily Wang, Associated Press Topi...
Nielsen's Top Programs for May 6-12
Medical Design Technology - 15 May 2019 17:33
News Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for May 6-12. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership. Contributed Author: Associated Press Topics: Cable
Clinicians could prescribe fitness apps to help cancer survivor's exercise
EurekAlert! - 15 May 2019 06:00
(University of Surrey) Fitness apps could be prescribed by clinicians to help patients recovering from cancer increase their physical activity levels, new research in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship reports.
From the Waiting Room to the Living Room
Medical Design Technology - 15 May 2019 16:00
Videos Using Penn State's entrepreneurial resources, recent alumnus Sherveen "Shevy" Karbasi is bringing complete blood count testing out of the clinic and onto a smartphone... Contributed Author: Penn State News
Walmart's Robot Zips Along in Tech Revolution, Raising Big Questions for Workers
Medical Design Technology - 15 May 2019 16:00
News When an autonomous floor scrubber was rolled out in Walmart's Bonney Lake store last month, shoppers mistook the teal blue scrubber zipping down the aisles for a runaway machine, said manager David Klein. "Some cust...
In Robotics Classes, Armenian Teens Dream of High-Tech Future
Medical Design Technology - 15 May 2019 16:00
News Armenia's tech sector has been booming over the past decade, boosting hopes that one day the resource-poor country can become a global IT powerhouse. Tumo is a cutting edge, after-school learning center, where aroun...
Mercedes Wants to Abandon Combustion Engines by 2039
Medical Design Technology - 15 May 2019 16:00
News German giant Mercedes-Benz said Monday it wants to stop selling traditional combustion engine cars by 2039 and plans for its new vehicles sold worldwide by that time to be carbon-neutral... Contributed Author: AFP T...
Electric Skateboards Integrate Bendy Batteries for Better Turns
Medical Design Technology - 15 May 2019 16:00
Videos Evolve's electric skateboards have impressed many with their unique designs and ability to take chances. Now, the GTR Series of skateboards will contain many features Evolve's other models have, but with one twist...
CMR Surgical Completes First Set of Robotically Assisted Surgical Procedures in Humans
Medical Design Technology - 15 May 2019 16:00
Videos CMR Surgical Ltd, the company behind the next-generation surgical robotic system Versius, announced that it has successfully completed its first series of surgical procedures in humans... Contributed Author: CMR S...
Measuring the Strongest Winds of Intense Tropical Storms from Space
Medical Design Technology - 15 May 2019 15:02
Videos ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite has been in orbit for almost 10 years. As its name describes, SMOS collects soil moisture and ocean salinity data to increase knowledge about the water cycle...
A New Sensor for Light, Heat and Touch
Medical Design Technology - 15 May 2019 14:56
News Inspired by the behaviour of natural skin, researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linkoping University, have developed a sensor that will be suitable for use with electronic skin. It can measure... Co...
10 Years Ago, Hubble's Final Servicing Mission Made It Better Than Ever
Medical Design Technology - 15 May 2019 14:52
Videos Astronaut Mike Massimino floated next to the Hubble Space Telescope's cylindrical body and began to remove the screws that fastened a handrail to one of the telescope's instrument panels. The first three... Contri...
AI Develops Human-Like Number Sense - Taking Us a Step Closer to Building Machines with General Intelligence
Medical Design Technology - 15 May 2019 14:45
Blog Numbers figure pretty high up on the list of what a computer can do well. While humans often struggle to split a restaurant bill, a modern computer can make millions of calculations in a mere second. Humans... Contr...
Illinois Research Team Introduces Wearable Audio Dataset
Medical Design Technology - 15 May 2019 14:44
News Researchers studying wearable listening technology now have a new data set to use, thanks to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign graduate student Ryan Corey and his team. Debuting at the International... Cont...
Groundbreaking Driverless Car Project Showcases Vision for a Connected Transport Future
Medical Design Technology - 15 May 2019 14:42
Videos The multi-organisational team behind the £5.5 million FLOURISH connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) project is today [Monday 13 May] celebrating the completion of three years of collaborative research... Contri...
Army Research Supports Communications in Smart Cities
Medical Design Technology - 15 May 2019 14:40
News The U.S. Army is researching how to leverage smart cities of the future where networks of sensors will be used to enable services for civilian and government use, such as environmental monitoring or traffic... Contr...
Ultra-Compact EMI/RFI Shield Clips for Modern Space-Constrained Electronic Designs
Medical Design Technology - 15 May 2019 14:32
Product Announcement Covering a surface area of just 2.3mm x 1.2mm and with a 2mm height, Harwin's S0911-46R shield can clip is the smallest surface mount EMI/RFI shield clip currently available on the market. Consequent...
A Smart Radar System for Gesture Recognition and Non-Contact Vital Signs Monitoring.
Medical Design Technology - 15 May 2019 14:25
News This week, at FutureSummits 2019, imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, presents a compact highly-sensitive 140GHz MIMO... Contributed Author: imec Topics: Ra...
UnitedSiC Adds Seven SiC FETs to 650 V Product Portfolio
Medical Design Technology - 15 May 2019 14:25
Product Announcement UnitedSiC has added seven new TO220-3L and D2PAK-3L device/package combinations to its UJ3C (general purpose) and UF3C (hard switched) series of 650V SiC FETs. These new devices provide new levels......