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There is an overwhelming amount of information out there about Covid-19, more than anyone can read. Bill Gates wrote in his Gates Notes a post he calls “The first modern pandemic“. It is quite long and parts of it are technical. However, it is the best article I have seen. Gates breaks the needed innovation […]
3-D Printing with Steel
The LulzBot TAZ 5 3-D printer in my shop (in photo above) prints using a roll of filament which feeds into a heated nozzle. The nozzle moves back and forth and up and down to print objects such as the blue ball bearing race on the printer table. (When it was finished printing, the newly printed […]
Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2016
Some amazing things are happening in the medical arena of healthcare. Each year the Cleveland Clinic’s Medical Innovation Summit looks at hundreds of innovations and publishes a list of what they believe to be the top ten. At the top of the list is vaccines to prevent public health epidemics. The Ebola crisis brought a lot […]
Drones in medicine?
A drone delivers medicine from a nearby pharmacy to the Deutsche Post headquarters in Bonn, Germany. The possibilities are many according to Cornelius Thiels, a general surgery resident who wrote in KevinMD.com. He said drones will not replace provider care, but perhaps they could deliver: Blood to a hospital that’s running low Medical supplies to mass […]
The Rolltop Laptop
If you have not yet seen the video of the Rolltop computer, click here, and I guarantee you wil be impressed, as I was. The amazing concept came from a team of Germans with backgrounds in areas of IT, design and business administration who share a vision regarding the future of portable computers. They started […]
