Medical Design Technology

A study led by a researcher at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital has found that women who are depressed may be at increased risk of stroke. The six-year study, published in the current issue of “Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association”, found that women with a history of depression had a 29 percent higher […]

U.S. venture capital funding for the life sciences sector increased 37 percent during the second quarter of 2011, with $2.1 billion invested in 206 deals, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) called “High-dollar deals.” This is the seventh best quarter since 1995, when the PwC/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree Report with data from […]

Nippon Pulse America introduces their smallest linear servomotor, the 4mm Linear Shaft Motor. The 4mm shaft diameter, a small forcer size (10mm x 10mm), a total weight of 9 grams, and strokes as long as 40mm make the 4mm Linear Shaft Motor a suitable replacement in piezo type applications. The 4mm Linear Shaft Motor is […]

METCASE, the metal enclosures division of OKW, has developed an all new range of instrument enclosures – the UNIMET-PLUS series. These modern and versatile housings have been designed for desktop and portable OEM electronics equipment. Typical applications will include test and measurement equipment, medical and wellness technology, industrial control, interfaces, peripherals, communications and laboratory equipment. […]

Swiss sensor manufacturer Sensirion is launching a flow sensor for flow rates below 2 cc/sec (120 ml/min) with hydrocarbon-based liquids such as photoresists and solvents. Designed for use in high-purity fluid handling applications in the semiconductor, PV and flat panel display industries, the new SLQ-QT105 sensor features a short measurement response time of approximately 40 […]

Featuring up to 97.4 percent power efficiency and a highly efficient design using nearly 30 percent less material, the new VPT Series Toroidal Power Transformers from Triad Magnetics provide an innovative green power electronics solution that is also smaller and lighter than traditional transformers. Compared to conventional EI transformers, toroidal construction inherently helps reduce stray […]

The International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI), with support from MEMS Industry Group (MIG), is planning a MEMS workshop immediately following the European Microelectronics and Packaging Conference (EMPC), September 15-16, in Brighton, England. The workshop, which is open to industry, will discuss the challenges of developing and adopting MEMS technologies plus set priorities and direction for […]

Cree announced the new XLamp XT-E Royal Blue LED that delivers 525 mW of radiant flux, and targets remote-phosphor solid-state-lighting (SSL) applications. The company will match that LED with a remote-phosphor patent licensing program that will allow lamp and luminaire designers to accelerate the SSL design cycle. SOURCE SOURCE

Biomonitoring electrodes have progressed quite a long way from early research into how they function during the 19th century. With ongoing innovations in both sensor and medical technology, as well as further understanding of the human body, these devices continue to evolve. This article briefly looks at the history of ECG sensors through to their […]

The “intrinsic stretchabilty” of these devices is said to be unlike today’s conventional inorganic electronic devices that are brittle, and while they have a certain flexibility achieved using ultrathin layers of inorganic materials, these devices are either flexible, meaning they can be bent, or they are stretchable, containing a discrete LED chip interconnected with stretchable […]