Course title - Materials. Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century. TED: Ideas worth spreading. David Bismark: E-voting. David Keith's climate change idea. Cheryl Hayashi: The magnificence of spider silk. Juan Enriquez wants to grow energy. George Whitesides: A lab the size of a postage stamp. Myshkin Ingawale: A blood test without bleeding. How It's Made Videos" Solve for X: Anthony Sutera on low power wireless everywhere. R.A. Mashelkar: Breakthrough designs for ultra-low-cost products.
Aaron O'Connell: Making sense of a visible quantum object. Thaw indicator for deep freeze products. Systematic Innovation 2011 / 2012. Adam Grosser and his sustainable fridge. Adam Grosser and his sustainable fridge(持久冰箱) Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover. Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us. Open Source Ecology. The Innovator’s Sweet Spot. For many years innovative organisations have been trying to resolve the conundrum of how to get to bigger impact innovation more quickly and with less investment.
In answer to this, the practice of Open Innovation is increasingly being adopted as the normal mode of operation for leading innovative companies. Open Innovation, applied correctly, offers the opportunity to access leading capabilities from around the world, exploiting complementary technologies and partnerships to short-cut the need for expensive internal activity and to realise innovation strategies faster. Some companies have adapted to this new way of working quickly and relatively painlessly but many organisations have had teething problems, to say the least. We have identified 10 common mistakes which can stop organisations from benefiting from the Open Innovation way of working. 1. With all the talk about Open Innovation, it’s tempting to just give it a quick go. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 6 comments.
Device to fight anaemia in India about to go on sale. An innovation in the fight against anaemia. Saturday, April 7, 2012 Star Health A simple, low-cost and non-invasive test through a device could help in the fight against anaemia.Star Health Desk Being inspired from doctor friends working in rural area, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate Myshkin Ingawale has come up with a solution that would be easy for healthcare workers — often untrained — to use in the field to measure Hb level and degree of anemia.
The device — a pulse oximeter known as TouchHb — is a non-invasive method of monitoring the oxygenation of Hb using light without the prick of a needle. The patient is attached to the machine via a finger clip. Anaemia is the reduction of haemoglobin (Hb), an oxygen carrying molecule of blood. September - Sickle Cell Disorder Awareness month. Gecko Foot Adhesive Gets Stronger, Directional Gripping. Newswise — The race for the best "gecko foot" dry adhesive got a new competitor this week with a stronger and more practical material reported in the journal Science by a team of researchers from four U.S. institutions.
Phase Transition. Add field. Add Substance. Pacemaker powered by your blood. Engineers at Switzerland's University of Bern have been working on tiny turbines; turbines small enough, in fact, to fit inside a human artery.
Working like a blood powered hydroelectric generator, a working prototype - tested in a simulated artery - has been able to produce 800 microwatts of electricity. That's roughly eighty times the power required to power the average pacemaker; such a device could provide independent, sustainable power to neurostimulators, blood-pressure sensors, and other implanted medical gizmos. Researchers are concerned, however, that a blood turbine's adding agitation of blood flow might lead to clotting, and are continuing to tweak and rework the design to minimize this risk.
Similar, but unrelated cardiovascular power designs have attempted to alleviate the concern by doing away with the rotating, fluid powered components, opting to generate electricity by oscillating magnets by utilizing changes in blood pressure. Source: engadget.com. Self-destructing syringe is made to save lives. In these days of reducing, reusing and recycling, it may seem strange that anyone would be going out of their way to make a potentially reusable product disposable.
It all makes sense, however, when that product is a syringe. According to the World Health Organization, every year approximately 1.3 million people die worldwide, due to diseases contracted through the reuse of syringes. Part of this can be chalked up to needle-sharing by users of illicit intravenous drugs, but much of it is due to health care workers (particularly those with little training or in impoverished conditions) using the same syringe to inoculate multiple patients. If a syringe simply ceases to function after one use, however, reusing it is impossible. That's the idea behind Star Syringes' K1 Auto Disposable syringe.
The K1 incorporates a small ring, that is etched onto the inside of the syringe barrel. Flip chip package with warpage control - Altera Corporation. This invention relates generally to semiconductor chip package assembly, and in particular to flip chip package assembly.
05. Before we start this weeks topic, we have some corrections to offer up from IFTLE 48: {*style:<b>Semi and SEMATECH Lets Get it Straight </b>*} A SEMI representative got in touch to let me know that, while SEMI and some people from SEMATECH work together on 3D-IC standards, the two organizations do not have an alliance on TSV. “Both SEMI and SEMATECH are taking key leadership roles in the discussion and promotion of standards for 3D-IC technology. SEMATECH is working with SEMI on assembling standards committees and task forces.
“SEMI International Standards is very involved in 3D-IC manufacturing standards. They also correctly noted that “3D Interconnect Wiki: Stress Management for TSVs” ( ) and the Wiki site ( ) are SEMATECH not SEMI sites. Glad you all are paying attention, thanks for the corrections and I hope that straightens it all out. Mentor Graphics Corporation recently announced their complete Mentor test solution for 3D-IC, Tessent® v9.4 which will be released May 2011 [ link ]. 打針不用針 MIT新發明 - 國際傳真 - 醫藥中心. Envisioning emerging technology for 2012 and beyond (by Michell Zappa)