Development
Survive the Post Apocalypse with Artificial Organs
Jun 26, 2012
Image copyright Bryan Christie/ Takram When Japanese design studio Takram was tasked with designing a better water bottle, it instead opted to...
This Week in Devices [6/22/12]: Is the Real Money in Medical Devices in Sales? Faulty Surgical Clips Lead to FDA Concerns, Student Develops a Chemical Circuit, Re-thinking the Artificial Human Heart
Jun 22, 2012
 Medical Sales > Medical Practice A recent survey conducted by MedReps.com shows that top salesmen of medical devices, equipment, and disposables are...
This Week In Devices - [6/15/12]: 200 Years of Surgery, Artificial Pancrease Breakthrough, Fake Thermometers, and the scariest scene from Prometheus
Jun 15, 2012
 This Week in Devices [6/15/12]   200 Years of Surgery We've truly come a long way in even a comparatively short time. A historical overview of the...
The Norton Report: Getting the Right Work Bench
Jun 11, 2012
As a busy design engineer, your principle focus is creating innovative electronic products that exceed your customers’ growing expectations. A big part...
This Week In Devices - [6/8/12]: House Repeals Medical Tax; RIP Ray Bradbury; Choose Wisely Asks Patients to Rethink Healthcare
Jun 08, 2012
This Week in Devices: [6/8/2012] House Repeals Medical Device Tax Ding-dong the tax is dead! At least in the House of Representatives as Republicans and...
Drug Injection, Without a Needle
May 30, 2012
 Image via MITnews In the late 19th century, Hendrick Lorentz, a Dutch physicist, described what later became known as the Lorentz force....
FCC Poised to Open Wireless Spectrum for Medical Devices
May 17, 2012
FCC chairman Julius Genachowski has announced at a press conference today that the FCC will consider opening segments of the wireless spectrum for monitoring...
Five Factors to Success in Product Development
May 16, 2012
  No one ever said product development is easy. Medical device development in particular is a very complex and variable process with threats to success...
This Week in Devices [5/4/2012]: Facebook Organ Donation; A Visit to Bloomington, IN; Medtech Should Invest in R&D, Saving Small Companies From the Device Tax
May 04, 2012
  This Week in Devices [5/4/2012]     “Like” This if You’re an Organ Donor After a San Diego man found an organ donor via...
tCoil, Wireless Cardiac Charger Holds New Promise for Heart Failure Patients
May 03, 2012
The tCoil device uses an alternating magnetic field on the exterior unit to create alternating current on a second coil under the skin. That, in turn...