Archive for October, 2009
Monday, October 26th, 2009
Described as one of the smallest low-profile packages on the market, the Nova Pressure Amplified (NPA) pressure sensor series from GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies is a fully signal conditioned component suited for medical device applications. The small outline integrated circuit (SOIC) package eliminates the need for external components, thus ...
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Sunday, October 25th, 2009
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As anyone who followed the 2000 presidential election in the United States can tell you, hanging chads can cause a world of hurt. They can also have serious consequences for a patient if they ...
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Nanowerk Spotlight has reported another medical advance involving spider silk, a biopolymer that is stronger than steel and more elastic than rubber. Most of the world's 40,000 species of spiders produce a silken thread with a unique combination of mechanical properties: strength (its tensile strength is about five times as ...
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Axiom Manufacturing Services’ facility in Newbridge, Wales, UK, is holding a workshop led by electronics consultant, Bob Willis, who will explain the major space-saving and processing speed advantages of PoP technology.
PoP can eliminate circuitry to reduce the board space required by up to 43% and enable higher-speed processing, given that ...
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Last year, Luca Angelani and other researchers from the University of Rome came up with the idea for a bacteria-powered motor. Their idea was to place a cog with asymmetric teeth into a bath of moving bacteria and wait for the bacteria to start spinning it.
Now, the researchers have announced ...
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
The day before Med-in-Ireland kicked off at Croke Park in Dublin on Tuesday, Steripack invited a group of customers and members of the media on a tour of its scintillating facility in the pastoral setting of Clara in Co. Offaly. Over a bountiful lunch, group sales director Barry Moore recounted ...
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
TÜV Product Service’s Active Medical Device Service has been designed to give UK manufacturers complete flexibility in how their products are tested, says the company. Manufacturers can choose to use an off-site service where testing is conducted at TÜV’s laboratories, or an on-site service at the customer’s own site. This ...
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
GE’s $250 million “GE Healthymagination Fund” has a global focus and will make investments in highly promising healthcare technology companies. The formation of the fund is part of the company’s $6 billion Healthymagination initiative, a global commitment to deliver better healthcare to more people at lower cost. The fund will ...
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
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From the Wire: Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a remote-controlled robot that is able to simulate the "visual" experience of ...
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
It was standing room only for the Med-in-Ireland opening conference this morning at the stunning Croke Park complex in Dublin. The conference space—sandwiched between two exhibition rooms—was packed, and the noise filtering in from the rooms on either side sometimes drowned out the speakers. That did not take anything away ...
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
Time flies, especially if the real-time clock (RTC) on your device guzzles power. Switzerland-based Micro Crystal AG has introduced an SMD package RTC that draws just 130 nA at 3 V. Applications include blood glucose meters and a broad array of battery-powered handheld devices.
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
Hofmann Innovation AG, a toolmaker for the plastics industry located in Lichtenfels, Germany, will present what it claims is the world’s largest selective laser sintering (SLS) system for medical and pharmaceutical applications at the Euromold show in December. With a usable volume up to 1500 x 500 x 500 mm ...
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