Archive for the ‘Electronics’ Category
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
A tiny terahertz (THz) transmitter developed at the Technische Universität Darmstadt Institute for Microwave Technology and Photonics achieves the highest frequency on record for a device of this kind and can operate at room temperature.
Typically used to nondestructively inspect materials, THz transmitters have found limited adoption because of their cost ...
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Monday, January 16th, 2012
Last week, the Consumer Electronics Show took place in Las Vegas. At the show, Qualcomm introduced a US$10 million competition through its X Prize Foundation. The foundation offers this prize to anyone who develops a device similar to the Tricoder featured in Star Trek, a device used to diagnose medical ...
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
Researchers at Kyoto and Osaka universities have co-developed an artificial cochlea that operates without an external power supply. The team led by Kyoto University’s Takayuki Nakagawa and Osaka University’s Satoyuki Kawano created the MEMS-based, piezoelectric acoustic sensor, or Bionic Auditory Membrane (BAM). The device generates electrical potentials in response to ...
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
A new app for burn patients has recently been registered with UK MHRA as a medical device. Mersey Burns is the first app to be registered with the agency as a Class I medical device, according to a blog post on the website of d4, a UK nonprofit organisation.
The app calculates ...
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Monday, January 9th, 2012
A group of scientists from France, Switzerland, the United States and Brazil are investigating the use of low-intensity electromagnetic fields to treat cancer patients, according to an article from the Guardian. The research could eventually result in the development of new cancer therapies.
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
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Amid the flurry of year-end lists and predictions that have landed in my inbox in the past few days, 12 Predictions for 2012 in the Medical Electronics Industry from market research firm InMedica caught my eye. It's a mixed bag—what isn't these ...
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
At Compamed in Düsseldorf last week, imec presented its new technology for wireless ECG monitoring. I spoke to Julien Penders, Program Manager at imec/ Holst Centre about imec's new ECG System-on-Chip (SoC) for ECG monitoring with high processing power at very low energy consumption. "The SoC uses a blootooth low energy ...
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Monday, November 21st, 2011
In a recent press release, MAZeT GmbH announced that the development and production of electronics for medical equipment is becoming increasingly important in the market orientation of the German development and production service provider for embedded computing solutions and optoelectronics. To meet customer demands, MAZeT is increasingly required to depict ...
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Sunday, November 20th, 2011
Despite what publicists and copy writers would like us to believe, fundamental technology breakthroughs are few and far between. Bringing incremental improvements and assembling existing, sometimes decades-old technologies to fix persistent problems is the more common scenario. That describes the home health hub (HHH), which semiconductor company Freescale introduced at ...
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Monday, November 14th, 2011
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Cambridge Consultants has announced a collaboration with start-up company EBR Systems on what is said to be the world’s first wireless pacing system. The Wireless Cardiac Stimulation system (WiCS) uses a leadless electrode to convert mechanical energy, wirelessly transmitted from an ultrasonic pulse ...
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Monday, October 31st, 2011
Electrical implants that shut down excessive activity in brain cells hold great potential for treating epilepsy and chronic pain. Likewise, devices that enhance neurons' activity may help restore function to people with nerve damage. A new technology developed at MIT and Harvard Medical School may overcome the primary drawback to ...
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Thursday, October 13th, 2011
One of the most exciting developments in the field of medical technology is the research into brain computer interfaces that can help people control prosthetic devices with their minds. Recently, such research allowed 30-year-old Tim Hemmes, who is paralysed, to move a robotic arm with his mind, according to a ...
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