Archive for December, 2007

Heart failure

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

 

 
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Realistic simulators help pilots learn how to fly. How about a simulator to help physicians learn what heart failure feels like? We’ll find out more. Today, on Engineering Works!
Congestive heart failure is one of the most common illnesses we face as we get older. It’s the number one reason people over 65 are admitted [...]

Bacteria charger

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

 

 
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If you’re going to talk on your cell phone, you’ve got to keep the battery charged. Engineers and bugs? may help. We’ll see how, today on Engineering Works!
Everybody has a cell phone these days. They’re everywhere. Some places, they’re the only phones there are. Consider Uganda. In rural Uganda fewer than one household in [...]

High tech pets

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

 

 
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Here’s something the inventors of the internet never thought of – petting your chicken. We’ll take a look, today – on Engineering Works!
Computer scientists and engineers in Singapore have come up with a nifty system that you can use to pet your pet chicken without touching it with your fingers. Pretty neat, huh? Well, maybe.
Here’s [...]

Sensor helmets

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

 

 
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It’s Friday Night Lights — a new helmet that may make football safer. Today, on Engineering Works!
Football is supposed to be fun, but sometimes it hurts. One in five high school football players suffer concussions. More than 67,000 every year. Retired NFL players who’d had more than three concussions were 20 percent more likely to [...]

TB scanner

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

 

 
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Engineers are looking into a nasty disease. We’ll look, too. Today, on Engineering Works!
Tuberculosis, or TB, is one of the nastiest diseases there is. If it’s not treated, eventually it destroys the inside of your lungs, and you drown in your own blood.
TB kills between two million and three million people a year, mostly in [...]