Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
A carpet developed by researchers at University of Manchester could help prevent older people from falling by mapping changes in their gait, an article from the Engineer reports. By identifying such changes, the carpet could provide family members and caretakers with warnings of when an elderly person is more likely ...
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
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A team who developed an app capable of generating data from urine won first prize in the Health Hack Day, which took place last week in Stockholm. During the event, 10 different teams competed to develop ...
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Monday, November 14th, 2011
Today at Medtech Week Recap, we don't only look back at the past week, but also ahead into the future of medical technology, which is starting to look fascinatingly similar to a science fiction movie. In a concept similar to the technology illustrated in the Avatar movie, a Japanese researcher ...
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
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A new technology for the monitoring of brain aneurysms developed at University of British Columbia could allow patients to monitor aneurysms at home with an handheld RF reader, according to a university press release. ...
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
A new kit developed by British and South African researchers enables people to record and analyse their heart sounds with a cell phone and send the recordings to their doctor, according to a University of Oxford press release.
Thomas Brennan of University of Oxford’s Department of Engineering Science and Bongani Mayosi ...
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Monday, August 8th, 2011
A project led by the Centre for Rural Health (Inverness, Highland, UK) aims to implement transnational telemedicine solutions into everyday practice in Northern Europe. Titled "Implementing Transnational Telemedicine Solutions" (ITTS), it will start in September of 2011 and end in December of 2013. The project is part of the Northern ...
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
A new kind of prosthetic arm has the potential to one day change the way amputees experience the world. The device is using neural decoding, brain control and tactile sensory feedback to create a prosthetic arm as natural as possible, according to a Rice University press release. The four-year project ...
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Monday, July 25th, 2011
Tension between US FDA and the medical device industry is rising, noted an article on IVD Technology last week. The article focused on a report published last week by US FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health. The report places most of the blame for the increased review time for ...
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
Rofin and Raydiance have extended their partnership agreement for an additional three years. The initial agreement, which started in June of 2010, was for one year. The collaboration between Rofin, a manufacturer of laser solutions for industrial material processing, and Raydiance, a developer of ultrafast laser technology, allows for the ...
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
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Kontron today announced a new single-board computer (SBC) with an Intel Core i7 processor and up to eight GByte of soldered ECC memory. The VM6050 has an Intel QM57 controller hub and Intel hyperthreading. ...
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
The approach that enabled IBM's supercomputer Watson to defeat Jeopardy stars has been used to create Artemis, a software to monitor babies in the intensive care unit. Researchers at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology developed the software, which is currently being tested at the Hospital for Sick Children ...
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Friday, April 1st, 2011
German injection moulding equipment maker Arburg displayed its wares at the 2011 Arburg Technology Days on 23 to 26 March. More than 5000 visitors attended the event at Arburg's headquarters in Lossburg. Highlights included the world premier of the Allrounder electric Edrive machine series and a celebration of 50 years ...
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