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by Bruce Brown | February 22, 2019 | Enabling Tech
Worldwide, patients have more than one million plus pacemakers and 200,000 plus defibrillators implanted each year. Current technology requires follow-up surgery to replace batteries as needed, typically every five to 10 years. In the past four years, we’ve...
by Bruce Brown | January 15, 2018 | General News, Medical
In the past two decades, 3D printing progressed from plastic novelties to prototype parts to wide-ranging additive manufacturing applications. Today, for example, GE Aviation is already producing FAA approved parts for aircraft engines. The health and wellness...
by Bruce Brown | September 19, 2017 | General News, Medical
Medtronic announced a ground-breaking development for its Intellis neurostimulation platform today, September 18, 2017. The FDA issued clearance for managing the pain relief technology with a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 tablet device. Neurostimulation for pain management...
by Bruce Brown | July 12, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
The ultimate success of wearable Health Tech devices depends in large part on their ability to do more using less power. Better batteries can help device run longer between charges, such as the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science work with...
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by Bruce Brown | August 12, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Imagine having the equivalents of a gatekeeper, a multilingual translator, an air traffic controller, and a bouncer in your nervous system. Now imagine that this team can modulate and redirect signals from the brain and the rest of your nervous system to other systems...
