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Features: Electronics & Computers
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...
Applications: Manufacturing & Prototyping
When engineers at a Swiss medical device company began designing an implantable low-flow pump to treat the condition known as ascites, or peritoneal cavity fluid, they knew they were on the...
Applications: Regulations/Standards
Selecting an adhesive is often a difficult task because it involves give and take between the end-use and manufacturing requirements. When it comes to bonding applications in the medical...
Applications: Medical
Global population aging is unprecedented: the global population of children under age five is expected to fall by 49 million by midcentury, while the number of people over...
Global Innovations: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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...
Global Innovations: Materials
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...
Mission Accomplished: Photonics/Optics
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...
Products: Medical
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...
Products: Medical
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...
Products: Medical
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...
Products: Medical
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...
Products: Medical
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...
Products: Medical
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...
Products: Medical
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....
Products: Electronics & Computers
Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, has introduced the 33500B Series waveform generators. The eight one- and two-channel models, which generate waveforms up to 30 MHz, incorporate...
Products: Medical
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...
Products: Medical
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...
Products: Medical
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...
Products: Medical
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,...
Products: Medical
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...
Products: Medical
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...
Articles: Software
In our annual poll of executives at leading analysis and simulation software vendors, we found that more widespread use of the cloud, mobile devices, and touchscreen interfaces will be major...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Create the Future Design Contest 2012
The 2012 Create the Future Design Contest — sponsored by COMSOL, Nordson EFD, and Tech Briefs Media Group (publishers of NASA Tech Briefs) — recognized innovation in product design in seven categories: Con sumer Products, Electronics, Machinery & Equipment, Medical, Safety & Security, Sustainable Tech...
Articles: Software
Mark Wagner, Ben Madoff, and Mark Rudolph Sensorcon, Buffalo, NY
What if sensors, meters, and instruments were just apps instead of single-purpose, bulky, expensive equipment? Sensordrone is a first step towards making this...
Articles: Lighting
LumEN: Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Sustainable, On-Demand Electricity Production
Gianmarco Griffini, Massimo Micocci, and Francesca Ostuzzi, Politecnico di Milano, Milan,...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Grid-X Cloud and Smartphone Accelerator
James Awrach SeaFire Micros, Beverly, MA
Supercomputers are linked worldwide, creating ultra-highperformance cloud, utility, and grid...
Articles: Materials
Thermal Stir Welding Process
Jeff Ding NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama
The patented thermal stir welding process is a new solid-state (meaning the weld metal does...
Articles: Medical
Prosthetic Leg Connector
Dave King Synergy Tech, Kelowna, BC Canada
This is a device to aid those who wear prosthetic limbs. The current state of the art is a multilayer system that...
Articles: Medical
LIFE PACK Hypothermia Prevention
Floatation Device Dwight and Jane Cushman, Village Memorial, Portland, OR
Even with floatation gear, when a person who is not prepared for the...
Top Stories
INSIDER: Medical
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From the Editor: Medical
From The Editor: Charting the Technologies That Will Shape Medtech in 2026
INSIDER: Medical
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Features: AR/AI
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Ask the Expert
Dan Sanchez on How to Improve Extruded Components
Improving extruded components requires careful attention to a number of factors, including dimensional tolerance, material selection, and processing. Trelleborg’s Dan Sanchez provides detailed insights into each of these considerations to help you advance your device innovations while reducing costs and speeding time to market.
Webcasts
Podcasts: Medical
How Wearables Are Enhancing Smart Drug Delivery
Podcasts: Medical
Developing Sustainable Drug-Delivery Devices
Podcasts: Design
Smarter Pathways for Precision Drug Delivery in Cancer Care
On-Demand Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Understanding Testing and Compliance Requirements for Wireless Medical Devices
Podcasts: AR/AI
Personalized Medicine and Drug Delivery
Podcasts: Green Design & Manufacturing
Inside Story
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.