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INSIDER: Aerospace
Researchers with Singapore's A*STAR Aerospace Programme are working on over 50 multidisciplinary projects to pioneer manufacturing techniques, safety inspection devices, and analytical...
INSIDER: Aerospace
For the second time in as many years, NASA researchers are using a DC-8 and other aircraft to study the effects on emissions and contrail formation of burning alternative fuels in jet engines. The...
News: Automotive
A Cummins-Peterbilt SuperTruck demonstrator notched 10.7 mpg with a fully loaded tractor-trailer, representing a 75% fuel-economy increase and a 43% greenhouse gas (GHG)...
News: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Powertrain engineers love understatement—as well as a bit of deception. That was made clear recently when Chrysler announced that its new "Hellcat" Hemi V8 will be SAE J1349-rated at 707 hp...
News: Transportation
In the year 2030, more than 80% of newly registered cars and light trucks will still have an internal combustion engine on board and the number of diesel engines is...
News: Power
Reducing the cost of catalytic converters through design, and reducing engine-out emissions using advanced turbocharging and combustion techniques, are the focus of...
Videos: Test & Measurement
Researchers at MIT and the University of Vienna have created an imaging system that reveals neural activity throughout the brains of living animals. This technique,...
Question of the Week
Will Robots Make Good Caregivers?
An EU-funded program, called the GiraffPlus Project, uses robotics to help elderly people who want to remain at home. The GiraffPlus robot is part of a system that includes environmental and physiological sensors, which feed back information about the inhabitants' movements and health. A recent Pew Research poll...
News: Software
OPAL-RT Technologies offers a suite of tools to make field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based simulation accessible to engineers developing controllers for electric drives. First, a set of real-time motor models,...
News: RF & Microwave Electronics
Gone are the days when cars were only used to commute and had a radio or a CD player in the name of multimedia. Today's cars have the capability to be connected to devices both inside...
Videos: Software
Economically viable and reliable building systems and tool sets are being examined and tested by NASA for extraterrestrial habitat and infrastructure buildup. This NASA...
News: Aerospace
This past November, NASA launched the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission in the hope of understanding how and why the planet has been losing its atmosphere over...
News: Imaging
Over the past three years, researchers in the Camera Culture group at the MIT Media Lab have steadily refined a design for a glasses-free, multi-perspective, 3-D video screen, which they hope could...
News: Manned Systems
In a deal that will create the world's largest automotive interiors company, U.S.-based Johnson Controls is forming a joint venture with China-based Yanfeng...
News: Electronics & Computers
A car maker setting up its own cloud server may seem like taking on a problem-prone task that could better be left to one of the many specialty companies, as other car manufacturers do....
News: RF & Microwave Electronics
Whether design teams are trying to cram more features and functions into dashboards or striving to increase efficiency, design groups want chips that save space and reduce weight. Maxim...
News: Automotive
Toyota and Honda are better than the traditional domestic Big 3 at involving suppliers early in the product development process, according to results of...
News: Automotive
Visteon's Horizon cockpit concept blends three emerging technologies—including 3-D gesture recognition—to transform the way a driver controls features such as interior temperature, audio, and navigation....
Videos: Medical
Stanford University electrical engineer Ada Poon has invented a way to wirelessly transfer power deep inside the body, and then use this power to run tiny electronic medical...
News: Defense
Since the dawn of aviation, airplane designers and engineers have sought elegant ways to smoothly change the shape of aircraft wings in flight like birds or bats do. Rather than using jointed flaps,...
INSIDER: Medical
Implantable Cuff to Lower Blood Pressure
A team of microsystems engineers and neurosurgeons at the University of Freiburg in Germany are working to develop a new implantable cuff equipped with electrodes that, they say, can lower blood pressure without causing side effects. While doctors usually prescribe drugs against high blood pressure, in...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Super Fast Robotic Arm Catches Moving Objects
A robot developed by researchers at the at the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA) at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) can react on the spot, grasping flying objects thrown at it with complex shapes and trajectories in less than five hundredths of a second.
Industry News: Medical
May 2014 Mid-Month Industry News
Here is the latest batch of news from the medical products community. Please click the link for more.
INSIDER: Medical
A clinical study at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, found that patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) have significantly lower risk of death and...
Videos: Motion Control
A robotic arm developed in the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne is capable of...
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
A credit-card-sized anthrax detection cartridge developed at Sandia National Laboratories makes testing safer, easier, faster and cheaper. Bacillus anthracis, the bacteria that causes...
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
Heliophysicist Antti Pulkkinen of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and his team are installing scientific substations beneath high-voltage power transmission lines to...
INSIDER: Aerospace
Scientists studying the behavior of the world's ice sheets — and the future implications of ice sheet behavior for global sealevel rise — may soon have a new airborne tool that...
Technology Report: RF & Microwave Electronics
The Visteon- and Cisco-developed OASIS (Optimized, Adaptable, Secure, Intelligent, Seamless) concept makes secure car-to-cloud communications the prerequisite for unlocking vehicle network...
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Eric Dietsch on the Benefits of Nitinol Wire
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Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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.