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Wireless Healthcare Opportunities and Challenges
Wireless Healthcare Opportunities and Challenges

Healthcare costs are representing an increasing percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) for many countries, and it’s growing. This rising trend has created an urgent need for many countries to put in place an innovative and cost-effective method for delivering healthcare. With several technological advances achieved in recent years within the wireless industry, healthcare providers are more inclined to integrate wireless healthcare as part of the global healthcare system.

ICs Reduce Switching Regulator Output Ripple and Harmonics by 60 dB at High Frequencies
ICs Reduce Switching Regulator Output Ripple and Harmonics by 60 dB at High Frequencies

The ground-breaking new MIC94300 /MIC94310 were developed to provide more efficient noise suppression for today's highly sensitive data and image capturing systems. The MIC94300 integrates a low-R DS(ON), current-limit switch and a low-pass filter that

SMPS Controller IC Enables Ultra-low Standby Power at No Loads and Enables EuP Lot 6 Compliance
SMPS Controller IC Enables Ultra-low Standby Power at No Loads and Enables EuP Lot 6 Compliance

NXP Semiconductors N.V. unveiled the GreenChip SPR TEA1716 switched-mode power supply (SMPS) controller IC. Designed for use in 90-W to 500-W power supplies, the smart power resonant (SPR) TEA1716 combines

Energy Harvesting for Wireless Sensors: 1.6 Million Units in 2011. Where Next?

In 2011 the market for energy harvesters reached US$700 million, with the majority of the value going into consumer electronic applications, where energy harvesters have been used for some time.

Make Your Tablets and Smart Phones Smarter – Add Serial Capability for Seriously Remote Data
Make Your Tablets and Smart Phones Smarter – Add Serial Capability for Seriously Remote Data

To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumors about the demise of serial ports are greatly exaggerated. Too many people have too much invested in serial-equipped devices for the standard to disappear any time soon.

Sprint investors in purgatory until 2013

Sprint Nextel (S.N), like its bigger rivals, is expected to report a steep decline in fourth-quarter profit margins due to its launch of the costly Apple Inc (AAPL.O) iPhone.

Siemens on look-out for new CEO for NSN

Siemens is on the look out for a new Chief Executive for its mobile phone network equipment joint venture unit Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), Siemens supervisory board member Sibylle Wenkel said on Friday.

Dynamic Signal Analyzers Feature 625 ksamples-sec Data Rates
Dynamic Signal Analyzers Feature 625 ksamples-sec Data Rates

VTI Instruments introduced its Sentinel EX Series of “Smart” Dynamic Signal analyzers (DSA). This series features measurement performance of 625 ksamples/sec/channel data rates, true differential inputs with

Miniature Audio Hub Minimizes Power Consumption, Maximizes Volume for Tablets and Smartphones
Miniature Audio Hub Minimizes Power Consumption, Maximizes Volume for Tablets and Smartphones

Wolfson Microelectronics plc has announced the WM1811, the company’s loudest, smallest Audio Hub. This new ultra-low power stereo audio hub is designed to deliver

Antenna Integration and Selection
Antenna Integration and Selection

The single most important factor in designing a radio-based product – be it GPS, cellular or an ISM-band device – is the antenna plan. Not just the antenna itself, but the whole plan. What kinds of antennas make sense for the product based on size...

Dungeons and Dragons Dice Gauntlet
Dungeons and Dragons Dice Gauntlet

Feb 3

The D&D bracer is a fairly quick, fun, nerdy LilyPad project. The final product is a wearable bracer with a display that will randomly generate numbers between 1 and 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, or 100 in response to arm movement, so it can effectively replace all of the dice in your bag for a D&D session.

Sustainable?
Sustainable?

Feb 2

I'd like some genius to define sustainable. Could we count something that we can keep doing for 100 billion years - beyond the death of the Universe as we currently understand such things - as sustainable? How about a billion years?

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