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by Bruce Brown | March 20, 2019 | Enabling Tech
Most people routinely pick up hundreds of objects during a typical day, and they never give a second thought. For mechanical devices — such as robots or powered prosthetics — gripping objects of different sorts can pose a serious challenge. And if the...
by Bruce Brown | March 19, 2019 | Enabling Tech
We constantly seek ways to achieve the highest usable output with the lowest power consumption. No matter how far engineers and scientists push the limits of knowledge chasing optimal net ROE (return on energy), there will always be room for improvement. Space travel,...
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by Bruce Brown | March 18, 2019 | Medical
The quacking Aflac duck continues to serve the supplemental insurance company well, putting smiles on faces today just as it did on New Year’s Day 2000 when now-iconic duck first appeared in an Aflac television commercial, “Park Bench.” Over the...
by Bruce Brown | March 15, 2019 | Medical
We humans are sadly deficient in our sense of smell. Dogs, for example, have 50 times as many olfactory receptors in their noses, as humans and the portion of a dog’s brain dedicated to analyzing smells is 40 timesproportionally larger. Law enforcement and...
by Bruce Brown | March 14, 2019 | Fitness, General News, Health, Medical
We follow several global market research firms and consider IDC one of the most trusted. Near the end of 2018, we wrote about reports from IDC and the Gartner Group in which both organizations predicted that smartwatches would drive the wearables market for the next...
