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A Foothold For HealthTech: Ultra-Cheap Pacemakers
I read with great interest Vinod Khosla's column two weeks ago that discussed the role of tech in healthcare. But as much as tech has to offer the healthcare institution, its effects are perhaps ...
Wed 25 Jan 12 from TechCrunch
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MIT faculty see promise in American manufacturing
Not long ago, MIT political scientist Suzanne Berger was visiting a factory in western Massachusetts, a place that produces the plastic jugs you find in grocery stores. As she saw on the factory ...
Wed 25 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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Imec, Genalyte report disposable silicon photonics biosensor chips
Imec and Genalyte announce that they have successfully developed and produced a set of disposable silicon photonics biosensor chips to be used in Genalyte diagnostic and molecular detection ...
Wed 25 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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Developing power-over-fiber communications cable: When total isolation is a good thing
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes total electrical isolation is a good thing — and that’s the idea behind a power-over-fiber (PoF) communications cable being developed by engineers at Sandia ...
Wed 18 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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Urban Tree: Groopti Unveils Colorful New Recycled Cardboard Coat Rack
Today Groopti expanded their fun cardboard furniture series with their brand new Urban Tree coat hanger. The design was conceived by Gerardo Belmonte and then selected for production using Groopti’s ...
Wed 18 Jan 12 from Inhabitat Products
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S?oneczna alchemia: Fotokatalizatory oczyszcz? wod?, pomog? odzyska? surowce
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:31:32 GMT
Wed 18 Jan 12 from AlphaGalileo
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Sigma-Aldrich to buy BioReliance Hldgs for $350M
Sigma-Aldrich Corp. said Monday it will spend $350 million in cash to buy biopharmaceutical testing services provider BioReliance Holdings Inc. from Avista Capital Partners.Sigma-Aldrich, which ...
Mon 9 Jan 12 from R&D Mag
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[Kindle Fire Teardown (3)] Custom Part Used to Lower Costs
"Look! This must be a custom part," an engineer said. It was a Micro-USB port that was higher than a normal one. We thought this was for making the port as high as the adjacent earphone jack.
Sat 7 Jan 12 from Tech-On
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High-speed CMOS sensors provide better images
Conventional CMOS image sensors are not suitable for low-light applications such as fluorescence, since large pixels arranged in a matrix do not support high readout speeds. A new optoelectronic ...
Tue 3 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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World's Smallest Mic Makes Wearing a Wire a Lot Safer [Microphones]
Stoolies, rats, and snitches might one day have Bahram Azizollah Ganji to thank for not getting killed. Because he just created the world's smallest capacitor microphone, measuring in at just ...
Wed 4 Jan 12 from Gizmodo
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