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Revolutionizing medicine, one chip at a time

In the past several decades, microchips have transformed consumer electronics, enabling new products from digital watches and pocket-sized calculators to laptop computers and digital music players. The next wave of this electronics revolution will involve biomedical devices, say electrical engineers in MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL) who are working on tiny, low-power chips that could diagnose heart problems, monitor patients with Parkinson’s disease or predict seizures in epileptic patients. Such wearable or implantable devices could transform the way medicine is practiced and help cut the costs of expensive diagnostic tests, says Dennis Buss, former vice president of silicon technology development at Texas Instruments.

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Analyze this

Once, if you wanted to become the general manager of a professional sports team, you had to have been a great athlete. For decades, sports teams were almost exclusively run by former players. Times have changed.

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Action needed to save climate, create jobs

Clean-energy technologies offer the promise of revitalizing a dwindling base of manufacturing jobs in the United States while also addressing the problems of climate change and energy security, said Democratic Sen.

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Netbooks: Time to write the obit?

IDC its 2010 PC industry predictions and became the second major research firm to note that mininotebooks, or netbooks, will hit the growth wall and plateau.

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Rumor: Acer podría estar trabajando en un portátil sin marco

Filed under: Laptops Atento, que se trata de un rumor, pero de confirmarse resultar

Nokia registra la patente de una batería autorregenerativa

Filed under: Telefonía Nokia se ha lanzado en plancha a por una buena colecci

Big power from tiny wires

A team of scientists at MIT have discovered a previously unknown phenomenon that can cause powerful waves of energy to shoot through minuscule wires known as carbon nanotubes. The discovery could lead to a new way of producing electricity, the researchers say

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Insulators made into conductors

Most polymers — materials made of long, chain-like molecules — are very good insulators for both heat and electricity. But an MIT team has found a way to transform the most widely used polymer, polyethylene, into a material that conducts heat just as well as most metals, yet remains an electrical insulator.

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Listening in on single cells

MIT researchers have built the first sensor array that can detect single molecules emitted by a living cell. Their sensor targets hydrogen peroxide and could help scientists learn more about that molecule’s role in cancer.

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Juegos de EA Mobile para Palm Pre gratis hasta final de marzo (España)

Filed under: Telefonía , Juegos , Software Palm y EA Mobile han llegado a un acuerdo que permitir

Motorola patenta la combinación de dispositivos para crear una pantalla mayor

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Pixel Qi venderá pantallas para montar en portátiles "poco más difíciles de instalar que una bombilla"

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Vídeo: el robot Kojiro pretende tener músculos

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How UAVs Will Replace The Air Force’s Current Fleet

When unmanned aircraft can refuel one another, their time on a mission will be dramatically extended. The Air Force Research Laboratory is spending $49 million over the next four years to create a system that will allow UAVs to autonomously refuel in the air, as seen in this 2007 RQ-4 Global Hawk test

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How UAVs Will Replace The Air Force’s Current Fleet

When unmanned aircraft can refuel one another, their time on a mission will be dramatically extended. The Air Force Research Laboratory is spending $49 million over the next four years to create a system that will allow UAVs to autonomously refuel in the air, as seen in this 2007 RQ-4 Global Hawk test.

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E Ink prepara el desembarco de sus E-readers a color para principios de 2011

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HP Mini 210 edición Vivienne Tam, ya disponible en España

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iLuv iMM178 Vibe Plus, el despertador que agitará a los perezosos

Filed under: Original , Periféricos iLuv debe haber quedado muy contenta con los resultados de sus anteriores docks para iPhone / iPod con funci

Panasonic filtra las Micro Cuatro Tercios G2 y G10

Filed under: Cámaras digitales Vaya, vaya. Parece que Panasonic ha publicado (“accidentalmente”, claro est

Panasonic filtra las Micro Cuatro Tercios G2 y G10

Filed under: Cámaras digitales Vaya, vaya. Parece que Panasonic ha publicado (“accidentalmente”, claro est