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Technology Leaders: Motion Control
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Features: Electronics & Computers
Technology Leaders: Medical
Technology Leaders: Medical
R&D: Wearables
A recent study shows that wearable accelerometers — mechanical sensors worn like a watch, belt, or bracelet to track movement — are a more reliable measure of physical activity and better than...
Technology Leaders: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Value engineering (VE) is an organized/systematic approach directed at analyzing the function of systems, equipment, facilities, services, and supplies for the purpose of achieving their...
Briefs: Medical
The increasing demand for miniaturized electronics and Internet of Things (IoT) devices has created new challenges for the specialists who design microdevices such as...
Features: Medical
Imagine learning the news that you have cancer. Stage Four, metastasized to multiple areas, roughly six to eight months to live — if you’re lucky. Then, imagine finding out your diagnosis was...
Features: Test & Measurement
The Luer connector is arguably one of the most important developments in the biomedical industry. Because it is reliable, simple to use, and economical to produce, the Luer connector...
Features: Design
As the medical device and engineering industry grows, there is also demand for better devices and equipment. Trends such as smaller and more...
R&D: Medical
Landmark test results suggest a promising class of sensors can be used in high-radiation environments and to advance important medical, industrial, and research applications.
Features: Electronics & Computers
The medical device and engineering industry continues to grow and evolve year over year. As technology improves, the population expands, and...
Features: Materials
Artificial dental implants are the most reliable restoration option available for mature tooth loss. Despite their long potential lifespan, poor integration into the...
Technology Leaders: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Medical devices require sensors that are miniaturized, highly reliable and integrated, cost-effective, hermetic, and biocompatible. By combining thin film technology...
R&D: Medical
A research team has created wearable displays for various applications including healthcare. Integrating organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) into fabrics, the team developed highly...
R&D: Robotics, Automation & Control
Researchers Improve Magnetic-Field Detector
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology team has developed a new, ultrasensitive magnetic-field detector. The device could lead to miniaturized, battery-powered devices for medical imaging.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The need to image nanostructures and chemical reactions down to nanometer resolution requires a new class of x-ray microscope that can perform precision microscopy experiments using...
R&D: Design
Studying How Power Prosthetics Fail
While powered lower limb prosthetics can greatly improve the mobility of amputees, errors in the technology can also cause users to stumble or fall, say researchers at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. They are examining what happens when these...
Features: Test & Measurement
Reliability test plans are critical to the success of any new electronic medical device or technology. The tests selected must be stressful enough to identify defects but...
Briefs: Medical
Principles, Techniques, and Applications of Tissue Microfluidics
The principle of tissue microfluidics and its resultant techniques has been applied to cell analysis. Building microfluidics to suit a particular tissue sample would allow the rapid, reliable, inexpensive, highly parallelized, selective extraction of chosen regions of tissue for...
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Self-Powered Ingestible Sensor Opens New Avenues for Gut Research
Briefs: Wearables

Designing Feature-Rich Wearable Health and Fitness Devices
Briefs: Medical

Extrusion Process Enables Synthetic Material Growth
INSIDER: Wearables

COVID-19 Smart Patch Vaccine Measures Effectiveness
INSIDER: Medical

Wearable Electronics: Starch Prevents E-Waste
Features: Medical

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John Chandler on Achieving Quality Motion Control

FAULHABER MICROMO brings together the highest quality motion technologies and value-added services, together with global engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing, to deliver top quality micro motion solutions. With 34 years’ experience, John Chandler injects a key engineering perspective into all new projects and enjoys working closely with OEM customers to bring exciting new technologies to market.
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Webinars: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Developing the Ultimate Medical Sensor Technology
On-Demand Webinars: Medical

Precision Pulsed High Voltage: Electroporation Enabling Medical and Life...
On-Demand Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping

Product Development Lifecycle Management: Optimizing Quality, Cost, and Speed...
Webinars: Materials

Medical Device Biofilms: Slimy, Sticky, Stubborn, and Serious
On-Demand Webinars: Medical

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Making Medical Devices Smarter
On-Demand Webinars: Sensors/Data Acquisition

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Rapid Precision Prototyping Program Speeds Medtech Product Development
Rapid prototyping technologies play an important role in supporting new product development (NPD) by companies that are working to bring novel and innovative products to market. But in advanced industries where products often make use of multiple technologies, and where meeting a part’s exacting tolerances is essential, speed without precision is rarely enough. In such advanced manufacturing—including the medical device and surgical robotics industries — the ability to produce high-precision prototypes early in the development cycle can be critical for meeting design expectations and bringing finished products to market efficiently.
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Technology Leaders: Manufacturing & Prototyping

Smaller, Smarter, Electronic, Connected: The Next Generation of Drug-Delivery...