If you don’t subscribe to our daily email newsletter or our RSS feed, you might have missed one of our reviews or news items. Don’t worry, you can catch up fast by checking out this handy list of everything we posted this past week. Reviews SRS Labs iWOW 3D Audio Enhancement Adaptor Review Seagate GoFlex [...]
The FDA approved BIOTRONIK’s Estella MRI conditional and Effecta pacemakers, as well as Vp (ventricular pace) Suppression feature in the Evia line. Evia and Estella pacemakers are compatible with BIOTRONIK’s Home Monitoring technology for reporting device readings directly to the physician. From the press release: The Evia family combines the industry’s smallest wireless remote monitoring [...]
Research In Motion (RIM) has either accidentally posted the new BlackBerry Bold Touch on their front-page today or pulled a PR teaser trick. Whatever it was, it was quickly removed, but not before folks got a good screenshot of the page, which detailed the company’s new touchscreen smartphone likely to be unveiled at next week’s [...]
Exactech out of Gainesville, Florida has announced full market release of the Equinoxe Fx Plate. The fracture plate is used in shoulder reconstruction and is designed to reduce humeral head collapse. Additionally, surgeons can inject bone void filler after the plate has been positioned to improve outcomes. From the product page: The contoured plate is [...]
MAQUET received FDA approval for its CARDIOHELP extracorporeal life support system. The company claims this is the world’s smallest and lightest heart-lung machine and can be used in both ground and air ambulances, as well as for cardiopulmonary support during surgery. From the announcement: The individual operating modes and disposables of the CARDIOHELP System make [...]
If you have an HBO subscription, then you’ll now be able to take it with you on the go. Today, HBO officially launched its HBO Go app, which has been in the works since last year. The app will allow you to stream a variety of premium movies and original HBO series content to your [...]
I-O Data today launched the I-O Data HDCA-UT3.0K external HDD. The storage device provides a 3TB of storage space and a USB 3.0 port, which is backward compatible with the USB 2.0 interface. The I-O Data HDCA-UT3.0K is compatible with the Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS. What makes this drive more interesting is that [...]
Scientists from Tyndall National Institute at University College Cork in Ireland developed an electronic microchip that can detect a person’s respiratory rate without having to make contact with the skin. The team believes the new chip can be used for monitoring of respiratory patterns in ICUs and postoperative units, prevention of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, [...]
Fraser Spowart, a product design student at University of Dundee in the UK, has built a prototype dumbbell curl counter that can tweet your exercise patterns to friends and competitors. We can see a miniaturized version of the Tweet_Fit adapted for other repetitive exercise routines. From the designer: The device has two main functions, an [...]
Here’s a short thought-provoking and bloody documentary, by German filmmaker Falk Peplinski, about the latest dentistry advances happening on the sidewalks of Jaipur, India: Medgadget