Technology

FreeStyle InsuLinx Blood Glucose Monitoring System Receives CE Mark

  Approximately 55  million people in Europe are living with diabetes and many require insulin to manage their condition. For people who use insulin, managing diabetes can often involve challenging calculations to determine an appropriate mealtime insulin ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - May 13 2011 - 10:47am

Telematics And The Drive Towards A Crash-Free Future

Driver safety technology is a key factor in preventing accidents and creating a crash-free future for drivers, says Andy Yeoman, managing director of Trimble Mobile Resource Management (MRM) in Europe, a provider of telematics technology.   Studies have s ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - May 13 2011 - 10:40am

Stretchable Sensors!

Is someone sitting in the passenger seat of the car?   If so, are they leaning forward and can be damage by the airbag?    Did a person enter the danger zone in front of an industrial machine? Debuting at  the Sensor+Test trade fair in Nuremberg from June ...

Article - News Staff - May 13 2011 - 5:43pm

Beetlebutt for a Fire Engine?

There is always a degree of sadness in reading the obituary of a great scientist.  Today, following up Bombardier Beetles, I came across this one: Thomas Eisner dies at 81; entomologist who studied insect chemistry   ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - May 14 2011 - 10:16am

Horus Help Us- Diagnosing Heart Disease From 1580 B.C.

Whole body computerized tomography (CT) scanning has helped diagnose the earliest confirmed case of coronary artery disease in history. The Egyptian princess Ahmose-Meryet-Amon, who lived in Thebes (Luxor) between 1580 and 1550 B.C.,  lived on a diet rich ...

Article - News Staff - May 17 2011 - 11:05am

MindGenius Version 4 Now Released

GLASGOW, Scotland, May 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/-- MindGenius Ltd has now released Version 4 of its popular mind mapping software, MindGenius. MindGenius 4 boasts new ways to brainstorm and present ideas and information, and adds improved analysis, task and p ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - May 27 2011 - 1:47pm

Hello...?

Hello. Well, I guess that’s a fairly appropriate word to begin my first blog post. However, it’s a specific type of ‘hello’, the careful, tentative kind that is uttered by a young child that enters a dark room after the inner battle between his (or her, n ...

Blog Post - Gunnar De Winter - May 29 2011 - 8:00pm

Machines of Tender Loving Grace (1)

I’ve watched the first of three films in an interesting series.  The main title is: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace A series of films about how humans have been colonised by the machines they have built. Although we don't realise it, the ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - May 29 2011 - 3:32pm

Machines of Tender Loving Grace (2)

I’ve now watched the second of three films in the series.  To recap, the main title is: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace A series of films about how humans have been colonised by the machines they have built. Although we don't realise it, ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - May 31 2011 - 5:44am

Future Attribute Screening Technology- Detecting Crime Before It Happens

In 1956, science-fiction author Philip K. Dick wrote a short story for Fantastic Universe called "Minority Report", about a futuristic world where precognitive mutants can predict crimes before they can happen.    The ethical concerns about encro ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 1 2011 - 10:08am