Greying Singapore taps robots, games in rehab
Six months ago, Singaporean retiree Soon Eng Sam, 70, suffered a stroke that paralysed the left side of his body.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jan 1, 2012
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News tagged with medical equipment
Super graphene can help treat cancer
Silver is often used as a coating on medical equipment used for chemotherapy. The problem is that this silver coating can break down drugs. Now, researchers have found a graphene coating that will help boost chemotherapy's ...
Bio & Medicine
Jul 9, 2015
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War declared on world's growing e-waste crisis
Weighing more than all commercial airliners ever built and worth more than most countries' GDP, electronic waste poses a growing economic and environmental threat, experts said Thursday, as they launched a global initiative ...
Environment
Jan 24, 2019
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Russian humanoid robot boards space station after delay
It was second time lucky on Tuesday as an unmanned spacecraft carrying Russia's first humanoid robot docked at the International Space Station following a failed attempt over the weekend.
Space Exploration
Aug 27, 2019
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Improved smartphone microscope brings single-virus detection to remote locations
Scientists are reporting an advance in smartphone-based imaging that could help physicians in far-flung and resource-limited locations monitor how well treatments for infections are working by detecting, for the first time, ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 25, 2013
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This compact and cheap lidar could steer small autonomous vehicles
Researchers in Sweden have developed cheaper, lighter and more efficient lidar technology that could pave the way for smaller autonomous craft such as drones and robots, and help enable better profitability in the vehicle ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 9, 2019
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Self-powered paper-based 'SPEDs' may lead to new medical-diagnostic tools
A new medical-diagnostic device made out of paper detects biomarkers and identifies diseases by performing electrochemical analyses - powered only by the user's touch - and reads out the color-coded test results, making it ...
Materials Science
Aug 22, 2017
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Researchers control the anomalous Hall effect and Berry curvature to create flexible quantum magnets
Some of our most important everyday items, such as computers, medical equipment, stereos, generators, and more, work because of magnets. We know what happens when computers become more powerful, but what might be possible ...
Condensed Matter
Jul 26, 2023
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Brazil police search Philips office in fraud probe
Police searched the offices of Philips in Brazil on Wednesday and detained two people linked to the Dutch company as part of an investigation into a scheme into fraud involving public health services, authorities said.
Business
Jul 4, 2018
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Sony-Olympus alliance aims for high-tech surgery
(AP)—Sony's new alliance with scandal-tarnished Olympus will focus on producing endoscopes and other surgical tools packed with the Japanese electronic maker's three-dimensional imaging and super-clear "4K" display technologies.
Business
Oct 1, 2012
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