Sanovas has filed Vas Zeppelin Smart Catheter's application with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval. The miniaturized interventional catheter, which the company claims is the smallest interventional catheters ...
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LG Electronics (LG) today announced an all-new Magic Remote for its CINEMA 3D Smart TV lineup in advance of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The redesigned device adopts enhanced speech recognition capabilities that make ...
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Members of the glass and window industry gathered in Washington, D.C., Jan. 7, for the Building Enclosure Technology and Environment Council Symposium, Fenestration: A World of Change. The event, hosted by the National Institute of Building ...
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CIO - There's no question, we're at an inflection point in the digitization of our world. In every domain and dimension, the substitution of digital for analog is racing ahead. A couple recent examples illustrate the power of this trend. ...
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One day, pharmaceutical companies might not have to test new drugs on animals or even humans. Instead, drugs could be tested with organ-on-a-chip technologies. These are not silicon chips that simulate organs or organisms, mind you; they ...
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1. What's "guanxi"? Guanxi is regarded as the central idea in Chinese society with long historical and cultural roots. It is understood and utilized by virtually every Chinese person in greater or lesser measure. Understanding how the ...
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Analyst firm IHS published an important study last week. It predicts that, for the first time ever, PC shipments would drop year-over-year; for 2012, total shipments will drop 1.2 percent. IDC and Gartner agree, noting that third quarter PC ...
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A new government study is warning that the Federal Communications Commission's standards for testing cell phones for exposure to radio-frequency energy may have fallen out of step with the latest scientific studies, calling on the agency to ...
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CIC biomaGUNE is a non-profit research organisation created in 2006 to promote scientific research and technological innovation at the highest levels in the Basque Country. Dr Ralf Richter leads Laboratory 3 in the Biosurfaces Research Unit ...
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May 22,-May 2012, by MCDOWELL's luggage for meadows planning "has bags design innovation fund meadows" official start, the fund aims to encourage and promote domestic bags &luggage enterprise and bags from personnel of innovation ...
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Images courtesy of MIT Around the campus of MIT,something new is popping up around the Killian Court.What looks like something straight out of Tron is actually an interactive solar charging lounge chair,called the SOFT Rocker.The ...
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Harvard University scientists are working on an Iron Man-like smart suit that could improve soldiers' endurance in war zones. The university received a $2.6 million research grant for the project from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research ...
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With a history of 2000 to 3000 years, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has formed a unique system to diagnose and cure illness. The TCM approach is fundamentally di‑ erent from that of Western medicine. In TCM, the ...
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Ceretec has launched a nitric-oxide (NO) lung diffusion gas mixture, NO-Diff, for use in membrane diffusing capacity (DLNO) testing in pulmonary function laboratories in the US. The gas product, classified as Class 1 medical device by ...
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Computerworld - When one talks of computers today, he or she could be referring to a laptop, a desktop or maybe even a smartphone. Sergey Brin, CEO and co-founder of Google, wears Google Glasses during a product ...
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