Category: Technology & Devices
New Apple IPod Touch Helps Adults With Autism Function in the Workplace
Apple iPod Touch benefits people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) function in the workplace, state studies. “Strategies that provide enlightened workplace supports are clearly needed in order to help people with ASD find useful work and perform successfully on the […]
Scientists Develop Wirelessly Powered Cardiac Device
A super-small, implantable cardiac device that gets its power from radio waves transmitted from outside the body has been developed by a team of engineers. The implanted device is contained by engineers from Stanford in a cube just eight-tenths of […]
New CT Scans Accurately Assess Coronary Blockages
New, ultra-fast computed tomography accurately sorts out which people with chest pain need or don’t need cardiac angioplasty, states study. “The CORE 320 study is the first prospective, multicenter study to examine the diagnostic accuracy of CT for assessing blockages […]
Power of New Chip to Diagnose Disease And Analyze Protein Interaction Details In Stanford/Intel Study
Researchers along with Intel Corp. have collaborated to synthesize and study a grid-like array of short pieces of a disease-associated protein on silicon chips normally used in computer microprocessors. The researchers are from the Stanford University School of Medicine. They […]
Cancer Patients in Central Vietnam to Gain Access to Advanced Radiotherapy Treatments
Cancer patients in Vietnam, a country of 88.5 million people, will get expanded access to advanced radiotherapy treatment using technology from Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR) as a result of close cooperation between the company, the US Embassy in Vietnam […]
Bill Gates kicks off search for toilet of the future
SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft co-founder turned global philanthropist Bill Gates on Tuesday launched a search for a new toilet better suited to developing countries. The charitable foundation founded by Gates and his wife kicked off a “Reinvent the Toilet Fair” in […]
Riddle of Congenital Heart Defects Solved By Supercomputer
Currently living with congenital heart defects are about 25,000 Danes. It has been a mystery until know about how exactly the various risk factors influence the development of the heart during pregnancy though it is known that heredity and environment […]
Vietnam puts locally-made medical waste incinerator into use
VietNamNet Bridge – The Bac Kan-based Hoa Tu Long Industry Company officially put the medical waste incinerator (YT30) into operation. This is the first high-tech incinerator made in Vietnam. The incinerator has the capacity of 30-50 kilos of medical waste […]
How Oscar Pistorius Runs
There may be one obvious difference between Oscar Pistorius of South Africa and his fellow sprinters at the London Olympics this year. Nicknamed the “Blade Runner,” Pistorius is the first double amputee to qualify for the summer Olympics. He’s competing […]
Deaf man with new hearing aid hears music for the first time, asks, ‘What I should listen to next?’
Austin Chapman says he was “born profoundly deaf” and has “never understood” music–or the people moved by it. “My whole life I’ve seen hearing people make a fool of themselves singing their favorite song or gyrating on the dance floor,” […]
