News tagged with device


Tailoring physical therapy can restore more functions after neurological injury

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research suggests a tailored approach to physical therapy after a neurological injury such as a stroke, traumatic brain injury or spinal cord injury could help restore a wider variety of functions.


GE unveils handheld ultrasound machine (AP)

GE unveils handheld ultrasound machine

Technology / Hi Tech

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(AP) -- The future of ultrasound technology, as interpreted by General Electric Co., looks a bit like a flip phone crossed with an iPod.


Sagem and Hitachi unveil multi-modal finger vein and fingerprint device

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sagem Sécurité and Hitachi, the engineering and information technology giant will unveil the first ever multi-modal finger vein and fingerprint device at Biometrics 2009 in London, Finger VP.


Neuroscientists find neural stopwatch in the brain

Neuroscientists find neural stopwatch in the brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Keeping track of time is one of the brain's most important tasks. As the brain processes the flood of sights and sounds it encounters, it must also remember when each event occurred. But how ...


Going plasmonic in search of faster computing, communications

Going plasmonic in search of faster computing, communications

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of European researchers has demonstrated some of the first commercially viable plasmonic devices, paving the way for a new era of high-speed communications and computing in which electronic ...


New laryngoscope could make difficult intubations easier

New laryngoscope could make difficult intubations easier

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new tool developed by a Medical College of Georgia resident and faculty member may make it easier to place assisted breathing devices under difficult circumstances.


Quantum Computer Chips Now One Step Closer To Reality

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 0

In the quest for smaller, faster computer chips, researchers are increasingly turning to quantum mechanics -- the exotic physics of the small. The problem: the manufacturing techniques required to make quantum devices have ...


Cost effectiveness of blood pressure device evaluated

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A study conducted by the University of Rochester Medical Center demonstrates that, for certain patient populations, an experimental device that lowers blood pressure may be a cost effective treatment. The implantable device, ...


Bioengineering of nerve-muscle connection could improve hand use for wounded soldiers

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Modern tissue engineering developed at the University of Michigan could improve the function of prosthetic hands and possibly restore the sense of touch for injured patients.


Tech review: Navigating iPhone GPS applications

Technology / Software

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Since Apple Inc. announced it would support turn-by-turn GPS applications for the iPhone, a slew of GPS apps have appeared in the iTunes app store.


Physicists Measure Elusive 'Persistent Current' That Flows Forever

Physicists Measure Elusive 'Persistent Current' That Flows Forever

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (58) | comments 16

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Yale University have made the first definitive measurements of "persistent current," a small but perpetual electric current that flows naturally through tiny rings of metal wire ...


Super-thin flexible OLED from Sony

Super-thin flexible OLED from Sony

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (28) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sony is showing off prototypes incorporating its super-thin, flexible OLED technology at the CREATEC JAPAN 2009 IT and electronics trade show in Makuhari Messe (Chiba) in Japan.


GTRI is developing protocols for testing effects of RFID systems on medical devices

GTRI is developing protocols for testing effects of RFID systems on medical devices

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Radio frequency identification (RFID) systems are widely used for applications that include inventory management, package tracking, toll collection, passport identification and airport luggage security. More ...


US has no good system to track medical implants (AP)

US has no good system to track medical implants

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Three years ago, the maker of a surgical clip called the Hem-o-lok issued an urgent recall notice warning doctors to stop using the fasteners on living kidney donors. It said the clips could dislodge ...


Solar Cell Researcher Explores Nanotech Ideas

Solar Cell Researcher Explores Nanotech Ideas

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A UT Dallas researcher envisions a time soon when plastic sheets of solar cells are inexpensively stamped out in factories and then affixed to cell phones, laptops and other power-hungry mobile ...