We’ve been tracking Professor Zhong Lin Wang’s flexible nanogenerator here on Medgadget for quite some time now. In case you forgot, Wang, a professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, created the nanogenerator, a flexible chip with millions of tiny piezoelectric wires that can use body movements [...]
This NO Sign somehow manages to merge two fads of the early eighties into something that is still contemporary. The fads I am referring to is that negation sign that was already on a lot of road signs before it made Ghostbusters the most recognizable logos in all of movie history. That film came out [...]
Like it or loathe it, fuzz distortion effects units have been an integral part of rock music ever since a Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone made a guest appearance on Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones. Early fuzz boxes had rather limited scope for shaping tone, but that’s something the new Photon Fuzz from Fea Labs certainly doesn’t [...]
Intubating a difficult airway, such as a trauma patient, or a patient with anterior larynx, or an individual who is status post radiation therapy to the neck, often presents a life and death challenge. To offer an alternative to the popular McGrath Series laryngoscopes, marketed by LMA, a couple nurse anesthetists decided to develop their [...]
A common problem for clinicians these days is constantly logging in and out of EMR computers around the clinic. Not only is time wasted, but one’s train of thought gets interrupted just before entering patient data and looking up older records. Proxense out of Bend, OR is now offering its ProxAccess system that uses wireless [...]
With 3D the Next Big Thing in mobile devices, it comes as little surprise that Apple should be considering the technology, at least as far as patents are concerned. A new Apple patent application, “Systems and Methods for an Imaging System using Multiple Image Sensors” has been spotted, describing using separate luma, chroma and depth/distance sensors [...]
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J&J’s Advanced Sterilization Products (ASP) is now offering the EXPRESS Cycle as a new option for their popular STERRAD 100NX low temperature sterilization system. The 24 minute cycle will sterilize da Vinci 3D endoscopes, rechargeable batteries, and various other devices. The EXPRESS Cycle is a feature upgrade that customers can purchase for their new or [...]
The editors of Medgadget would like to wish all the docs out there a happy Doctor’s Day! The holiday commemorates the day when Dr. Crawford W. Long of Jefferson, GA performed the first surgery under anesthesia on March 30, 1842. James Venable, the patient, received a dose of ether before having a tumor in his [...]
Singularly University, the renowned Silicon Valley playground for interdisciplinary thinkers and doers, has placed its crosshairs on medicine with the launch of FutureMed, an executive education program exploring how exponentially improving technologies will change the future of health and medicine. FutureMed is a five day immersive program taking place at NASA’s Ames Research Park in [...]