October 16 Webcast Will Focus on Heat-Shrink Tubing
Deciding what heat-shrink tubing to use can be a critical decision for medical electronics designers. An upcoming MED Webcast sponsored by Arrow Electronics and TE Connectivity seeks to help you choose the product for your application. The free event takes place this coming Tuesday, October 16, 2012, starting at 2 p.m. EST. Titled, "How to Choose the Right Heat-Shrink Tubing for Your...
iPhone 5 May Move More Medical Devices to Bluetooth
Last week Apple brought the world to a standstill (again) for a few hours when it announced the latest iteration of the iPhone. Some rumors were dispelled with the new phone, others were confirmed. Among the latter was the announcement that Apple is ditching the 30-pin, micro USB connector dock that has been standard in the iPhone for a new, slimmer, and sexier 8-pin dock that has been dubbed the...
Is Medical Device Data a Civil Right?
Hugo Campos. Photo credit: Laura A. Oda, San Jose Mercury News Guitar in hand, Hugo Campos launches into a variation of the classic protest song “It Isn't Nice” by Malvina Reynolds. Not a professional singer, his voice is nonetheless calm, not self-effacing, “That's not right / I've told you twice / It isn't nice, it isn't nice...” But Hugo is talking about the...
Alliance Forms to Enable Devices with Enhanced Imaging Capabilities
Machine vision, or the ability for a computer to read an image, is vital in many industries and application spaces, with medical devices being at or near the top of that list. Imaging devices play a key role the medical/health care space, and that will only increase moving forward. To help facilitate such a movement, a new industry group has been formed, the Embedded Vision Alliance. Made up of...