Johnson & Johnson’s fourth-quarter medical device sales fell by 4.7%, to $6.6 billion, with the biggest drop (7.7%) in the U.S., the company announced this week. Total fourth-quarter sales were down 0.6% year-over-year, to $18.3 ...
Tags: Medical Device Business, Health
Electronic cigarettes and vaporizers belong to a single category of products, but this does not mean they are the same. As viable alternatives to tobacco cigarettes, smokers need to know which between the two products they should get. ...
Tags: Electronic Cigarettes, Vaporizers, Consumer Electronics
NanoMarkets has announced the release of a new report titled, “Smart Coatings Markets 2015-2022,” a report that continues the firm’s coverage of the smart coatings market dating back to 2010. The report shows that the ...
Tags: smart coatings market, construction, energy, automotive
Goccia is the world's smallest wearable devices, it can be used to quantify amount of exercise, sleep and cultivate a healthy lifestyle, etc. Unlike other wearable devices, it is connected to the phone without data line or bluetooth, only ...
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McGill University in Canada claims to have created the first electrically injected rolled-up semiconductor tube laser [M. H. T. Dastjerdi et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p021114, 2015]. Although rolled-up heterostructure lasers have been ...
Tags: optical pumping, tube lasers, Electrical
Microsoft will offer free upgrades to Windows 10. The company will upgrade any devices running Windows 8 to Windows 10 for free, according to Terry Myerson, Microsoft's executive vice president of operating systems. The free upgrade will ...
Tags: Window 10, Window Phone, Smartphone
Posted in Regulatory and Compliance by Nancy Crotti on January 21, 2015 Just in time for the next wave of wearable wellness devices appears ready to roll, FDA has issued guidance statements about wellness products and medtech accessories. ...
Tags: type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, Health
(Nanowerk News) Research by scientists attached to the EC’s GrapheneGraphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of sp2-bonded carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice. ...
Tags: 2D materials, electronic devices, Electrical
Guerrilla RF Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA, which provides monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) to wireless infrastructure original equipment manufacturers for greater coverage area and higher data rates, has introduced a family of ...
Tags: wireless network infrastructure market, receiver dynamic range
Luxembourg-registered synthetic diamond materials firm Element Six (a member of the De Beers Family of Companies) says that its Technologies Group experienced more than 20% growth in 2014, marking its third consecutive year of high growth. ...
Tags: synthetic diamond solutions, emerging markets, Electrical
Princeton Optronics Inc of Mercerville, NJ, USA, which manufactures high-power single- and multi-mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) and VCSEL arrays, says it is working with Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects ...
Tags: 3D space, mobile devices, Electrical
TDK Corporation announces that it has been selected as one of the 2014 Top 100 Global Innovators by Thomson Reuters (headquartered in New York with a Japan office in Minato-ku, Tokyo). This award is based on an analysis of patent ...
In terms of new legislative measures and regulative initiatives that impact – and will continue to impact – the electronics industry, 2014 has been an interesting year. While Conflict Minerals legislation and RoHS2 (Recast) ...
Tags: treatment facilities, monitoring, inspection stands, Electrical
The second patient implanted with a Carmat artificial heart has gone home, opening the way for others enrolled in the French company’s clinical trial to receive the devices. Carmat designed its self-regulated, bioprosthetic heart as ...
Tags: electric system, heart, Health
In an unaudited trading update for 2014, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that it expects full-year revenue to be about £112m (down 11.7% on £126.8m in 2013, but in line with expectations). ...