This morning I read of a fire in Santa Rosa, CA. While it will likely be months before they get to the bottom of it, the limited facts presented by the newspaper article are very concerning.

Such devices are normally monitored via computer 24 hours a day by the Key Biscayne, Fla.-based company, and a laser [...]

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Physician smart phone adoption rates are to reach 81% by 2012, and its likely bluetooth stethoscopes will decline in price by then too. The question then remains, whether the android/Iphone/smartphone tbc, bluetooth implementation will remain lame, or be fully functional. If phone manufacturers finally do get around to a full bluetooth implementation, no doubt there [...]

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Novartis has been looking at RFID technology for quite some time. Back in 2006, they were using RFID in the manufacturers packaging, and including some type of reading device to track compliance. This weeks news indicates they are putting RFID into the individual pills, in combination with a reader mounted on an individuals shoulder.
I can [...]

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A young fellow was asking about building flash dryers a few weeks back. He wanted to build his own flash dryer, and a lot of the screen printing guys were coming down a bit hard on him. Having designed a number of these over the years *, I thought I’d share a few bits of [...]

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No doubt disturbing for the user, but pretty much the norm for an EMC engineer during design. In a nutshell, the PDA is emitting signals such that the Oven is receptive to them, and as such is turning the broiler on high.
Whats interesting about this case, is the two devices worked well for 3 years, [...]

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Twitter is an interesting communications tool for sure. Yet, its efficiency in human communication, as well as relationship building are limited. Some background and bluesky ideas for a voice based twitter are presented.
Relationships
A twitter newbie has an initial barrier to overcome, being they are not known, and that anyone we know, doesnt know them [...]

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Their is a saying in the VC world of eating ones own dogfood. Ie, if your product is as good as you say it is, then by all means you should be totally immersed in it personally, and that includes being  power users. Far too many web designers, and SEO firms do not eat their [...]

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Lots of folks joke about smelling things through the internet… I just saw this one a few minutes ago. Technically, if the range of potential smells is limited, its not that hard to do. It only gets crazy, if one wants true smell, or hundreds of variations, and there in lies the difficulty.
A cursory view [...]

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 After running into MediaError(1231) numerous times, and having Netflix tell me to upgrade(sure…) to Silverlight(junk), I had had enough. Thus it was time to go digging. I couldn’t be the first to run into this problem… And sure enough, folks were running into it on the netflix ning site.
Some additional googling led me to believe it was [...]

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I’ve been reading through numerous patents as concerns electroporation, for two purposes. First to create a low cost open source instrument for DIYbio and educational institutions, and secondly, to see what improvements could be made to the current art.
Electroporation otherwise known as transfection, is a method where a high voltage impulse is applied to a [...]

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