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Flow restrictors may reduce young children's accidental ingestion of liquid medications
Nevertheless, over 500,000 calls are made to poison control centers each year after accidental ingestion of medications by young children, and the number of…
Robotic insects make first controlled flight
In the very early hours of the morning, in a Harvard robotics laboratory last summer, an insect took flight. Half the size of a paperclip, weighing less than a…
Infrared digital holography allows firefighters to see through flames, image moving people
Firefighters put their lives on the line in some of the most dangerous conditions on Earth. One of their greatest challenges, however, is seeing through thick…
‘Electronic Nose’ Prototype Developed
Research by Nosang Myung, a professor at the University of California, Riverside, Bourns College of Engineering, has enabled a Riverside company to develop an…
An Intelligent Watch for Comfort and Safety
A field test has now begun, in which 35 apartments of older people were outfitted with these systems for a number of months. An important part of the system is…
Tai Chi wheelchair brings mobility, self-esteem, better health to practitioners
An innovative 13-postures Tai Chi designed for wheelchair users is described in the current issue of Technology and Innovation- Proceedings of the National…