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Products: Medical
Micronor Inc., Newbury Park, CA, announces its MR330 series Fiber Optic Absolute Position Sensor System now features 14-bit single-turn resolution. Its enhanced performance is accomplished via improved...
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Products: Medical
Tech-Etch, Inc., Plymouth, MA, has released its 2014 catalog, which details all standard and custom EMI/RFI shielding product options. Its easy-to-use PDF format lets the user download interactive sales...
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Products: Medical
ADLINK Technology Inc., San Jose, CA, introduces its new offering, the cExpress-HL COM Express® Type 6 Compact size computer-on-module (COM), which uses a mobile 4th generation Intel® Core™ processor to...
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Products: Medical
IPG Photonics Corporation, Oxford, MA, announces the IX-200-F, an advanced fiber laser micromachining system for general purpose, R&D, and batch-scale production applications. The multi-function system...
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Products: Medical
Bodkin Design & Engineering, Newton, MA, introduces a new, advanced medical imaging system that enables researchers to pinpoint data and analyze complex microscopic samples in real time. The VNIR-90...
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Products: Medical
ON Semiconductor, Phoenix, AZ, has added two new devices to its RHYTHM™ family of preconfigured Digital Signal Processing systems designed for use in hearing aid devices. RHYTHM R3920 is a...
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Products: Medical
Element Six, Santa Clara, CA, has developed an all-diamond packaging solution for electroanalytical sensing applications. The solution is comprised of Element Six’s Diafilm EA grade, a freestanding, boron doped...
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Products: Medical
VARTA Microbattery Inc., Rye, NY, presents the new power one wireless approved mercury-free Type 13 and 312 hearing aid batteries designed for the latest generation of wireless devices and hearing aids, as...
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Products: Medical
Cirris Systems Corp., Salt Lake City, UT, introduces Smart-Lights, inexpensive devices that provide intelligence to fixtures and mating cables, enabling “plug in anywhere” functionality. Smart-Lights utilize a...
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Products: Medical
EM Microelectronic, Marin, Switzerland, announces the EM4237, the first high-secure ISO/IEC15693 compliant device offering unequalled RF performances and enabling efficient and secure solutions for...
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Products: Medical
igus, Inc., East Providence, RI, introduces the world’s first plastic filament for 3D printers enhanced with tribological, or low friction, properties. The material,...
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Products: Medical
Molex, Inc., Lisle, IL, launched its innovative HOZOX™ Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Absorption Tape and Sheets. The technology utilizes a unique dual-layer design to maximize EMI...
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Products: Medical
Intelligrated®, Cincinnati, OH, introduces a new software model from its subsidiary, Knighted®. Knighted fulfillment execution system makes automated, real-time decisions based on constant analysis...
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Technology Leaders: Medical
If your application demands a reliable, time-tested, low cost motor, then brushed DC motor technology may be what you’re looking for. The key here is simplicity. A brushed motor is...
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Mission Accomplished: Medical
In a 1962 speech, President John F. Kennedy said, “We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because...
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Technology Leaders: Medical
There are so many motors on the market today, from heavy-duty AC motors to tiny DC brushless and stepper motors. To choose a motor, users must have a full understanding of the application...
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From the Editor: Medical
From the Editor — Interesting Times, Indeed
There’s an old saying “May you live in interesting times.” While it is meant to sound like a blessing, some say that is actually an ancient curse. Ancient or not, the saying was included by the late Robert F. Kennedy in a 1966 speech to students in Cape Town, South Africa. I was reminded of his...
R&D: Materials
A team of engineers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, have demonstrated thin, soft stick-on patches that stretch and move with the skin...
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R&D: Electronics & Computers
An interdisciplinary research team from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Arizona, Tucson, has developed a flexible medical implant that...
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R&D: Robotics, Automation & Control
A team of mechanical and materials engineers at Duke University, Durham, NC, have devised a way to improve the efficiency of lithotripsy—the crushing of kidney stones using focused shock...
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R&D: Medical
Scientists at the University of Buffalo, NY, are exploring the use of PoP-liposomes or nanoballoons to get chemotherapy drugs where they need to go. They then blast the balloons with red...
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R&D: Medical
Exciting news was reported by an international team of life scientists at the University of Louisville, KY; UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; and the Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Saint Petersburg, Russia; who...
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R&D: Electronics & Computers
Researchers at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, say that they have developed a new, stretchable antenna that can be incorporated into wearable technologies, such as health monitoring...
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Features: Materials
The plasticizers used to render PVC flexible constitute about a third of the vinyl compound by weight and have a significant effect on overall properties and performance. The most widely used...
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Features: Medical
In the US, many high-volume tubing suppliers have moved production facilities overseas to low-cost producers like China or Mexico. Minimum buys are now the rule, leaving many US...
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Products: Medical
Active Controls, LLC, Sewell, NJ, has introduced the new JoyBar®II, the second generation of the original JoyBar that revolutionized electric wheelchairs with intuitive control capability. The new JoyBar II has been...
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Products: Medical
Pfeiffer Vacuum, Hingham, MA, introduces the first vacuum leak detector with quartz window sensor technology to detect helium. Weighing only 11 lbs., the MiniTest 300 is well suited for mobile leak detection...
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Products: Medical
SunTech Medical, Inc., Morrisville, NC, announces its new Vinyl BP Cuffs feature a tapered end for easier application and color coding to simplify size selection. They feature size indicators on both the interior and...
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Products: Medical
Advantech, Irvine, CA, announces PCE-3028, a PICMG 1.3 half-size system host board with Intel® H81, and compatible with 4th generation Intel® Core™ processors. The PCE-3028 supports a range of...
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Ralph Bright on the Power of Power Cords
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Understanding power system components and how to connect them correctly is critical to meeting regulatory requirements and designing successful electrical products for worldwide markets. Interpower’s Ralph Bright defines these requirements and explains how to know which cord to select for your application.

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Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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Eurofins Medical Device Testing (MDT) provides a full scope of testing services. In this interview, Eurofins’ experts, Sunny Modi, PhD, Director of Package Testing; and Elizabeth Sydnor, Director of Microbiology; answer common questions on medical device packaging and sterilization.

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