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Medical Category Winner

Prosthetic Leg Connector Dave King Kelowna, BC, Canada The Medical winner was simply named Prosthetic Leg Connector. Its simplistic name belies the amount of thought and care that went into the creation of a device to...

Honorable Mentions

SwipeSense Yuri Malina and Mert Iseri Evanston, Illinois According to the Centers for Disease Control, the best way to prevent the two million annual cases of hospital-acquired infections is by increasing hand hygiene among...

Most Popular Entries

Virtual Walking Stick for the Visually Impaired Jonathan Tolstedt and Maxwell Tolstedt Fargo, ND Current navigational aids for the visually impaired include global positioning systems (GPS) and other devices using...

Wireless Power Solutions for Medical Technology

In today’s medical technology field, having a reliable and stable power source is a critical requirement for safe operation. Wireless power provides a unique advantage in that a device can now...

Multilayer Construction Offers Functionality and Versatility

The medical area has long required specialized materials be utilized to treat patients, and the processes of drug delivery and fluid handling are no exception. Hospitals across the...

High Power LED Chip Array Packaging

The last few years have seen the development of larger, higher power, higher luminescence light-emitting diode (LED) chips. Prior to this, LEDs were typically 0.020" x 0.020", came in various colors and were...

Projected Capacitive Touch LCD Panels

Renesas Electronics America (Santa Clara, CA) has developed three mid-size color LCD modules based on projected capacitive (PCAP) touch panel technology. The 10.4-inch XGA, 10.6-inch WXGA and 12.1-inch WXGA...

ITE-rated Desktop Switcher Delivers up to 40W

The GT-43006 Series 40W desktop power supplies from GlobTek (Northvale, NJ) can deliver 12V at 3.3A with no minimum load required for output regulation. The Level-V Energy Star RoHS-compliant power...

Dual Check Valves

Qosina (Edgewood, NY) has added several new Dual Check Valves in their catalog of stock components. Dual Check Valves enable injection and aspiration from separate ports of a single connector. They are molded from medical...

Improved Motorized Micromanipulator with Plastic Enclosure

Instrument Co. (Novato, CA) collaborated to improve Sutter’s MP-225 Motorized Micro - manipulator by replacing its metal enclosure with a custom-made plastic one that is lighter...

Lens Design Software

The latest version of OSLO lens design software from Lambda Research (Littleton, MA) is available. The OSLO 6.6 release is now fully compatible with Windows 7. Program improvements include STEP file export, TOPS merit...

MicroSD Extreme Temperature Socket

Ironwood Electronics, (Eagan, MN) introduced a new MicroSD socket (SBTMicroSD- 01) addressing high performance requirements for Speed Class Rating, which guarantees a minimum rate at which data can be written....

Single-Axis Motion Controller

Galil Motion Control, (Rocklin, CA) released its latest drive option for the DMC-30000 Pocket Motion Controller Series. The new DMC-30016 combines a single-axis motion controller with a 1.4A/phase stepper drive in...

Ethernet Gateway for MDrive Serial Products

Machine automation Ethernet systems can now benefit from integrated motion, using MDrive® motor+driver serial products over Ethernet via the new Ethernet Gateway from Schneider Electric Motion USA...

BPL Series of Tubing Connectors

Value Plastics (Ft. Collins, CO) introduces its BPL Series of tubing connectors, an alternative to Luer fittings. These connectors incorporate a quarterturn design commonly used in blood pressure cuffs. Features...

Sigma XY Fiber Laser Cutting System

Miyachi Unitek Corp., (Monrovia, CA) announces its new Sigma XY fiber laser cutting system, which enables high speed precision laser cutting of thin metals using a rigid linear drive, gantry-based motion...

Extended Range of Terminal Enclosures

METCASE (Bridgeville, PA) has extended its UNIDESK range of aluminum terminal enclosures with three new models with external dimensions from 7.87" × 7.87" × 4.01" to 15.74" × 7.87" × 4.01". The front...

Piezoelectric Motor Catalog Available

PI LP, the US operation of Physik Instrumente (Auburn, MA), a leading manufacturer of precision motion control equipment, piezo systems, piezo motors and actuators for bio-nano-technology, semiconductor,...

High-Density 275 W Power Supply

SL Power Electronics (Ventura, CA), has added the MINT1275 to its high-density, single output, open frame AC/DC medicalgrade power supply family. The MINT1275 models are ideal for a variety of medical devices...

Harnessing Stem Cells for Orthopedic Implants

University of Glasgow http://www.gla.ac.uk/ Researchers at the University of Glasgow’s Colleges of Science and Engineering and Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences in Scotland are working to...

Seeing the Light

Bionic Vision Australia http://www.bionicvision.org.au The main cause of inherited blindness is retinitis pigmentosa, which affects 1.5 million people worldwide and is characterized by the progressive loss of vision. To combat...

Catching Sneaky Biofilms Behind the Eardrum

Ear infections are so common that three out of four children have at least one by the time they reach age three, says the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, part of the...

Advances Abound in Medical Robotics: From ‘Nursebot’ to Surgeon

Authors, filmmakers, and television programs have given us visions of robots serving humanity for most of the past 100 years. Some of the most iconic fictional ones include the...

Cardiovascular Applications of Biomedical Materials

Every day, a healthy human heart pumps 2,000 gallons of blood through 60,000 miles of blood vessels. Given this demanding workload, it’s not surprising that people can suffer heart...

Coloring Polymers for Today’s Medical Devices

Competition amongst device companies in the institutional market has energized the use of colors for brand recognition amongst physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers. With the rise in...

The Right Connections Help Medical Equipment Designers Satisfy Demanding Applications

The need to minimize healthcare costs is creating greater demand for medical electronics equipment that, among other things, improves and expands patient...

Fluid Handling in Medical Device Design

Among medical devices, there is a range of fluid management needs, each with its own unique needs and functions. The field of fluidics may broadly be divided into macro- and micro-applications. The former...

Latex-Free TPE Tubing

Kent Elastomer Products (Kent, Ohio) has released its line of Pro-Free™ non-latex tubing as a stock product in four standard sizes and packaged in 50 foot continuous lengths in a poly-lined re-shippable carton. This...

Two-Component Silicone

Master Bond (Hackensack, NJ) offers a two-component silicone MasterSil 153 that is a self priming system, can be cured over wide surface areas, and features easy handling with precise application. MasterSil 153 has a low...