MEDOLOGY
- This Tiny Ingestible Health Tracker Is Powered by Stomach Acids
- Engineering Team Seeks to Help Solve the Growing Refugee Crisis
- You Can Access Google's Records of Everything You Do on the Internet
- How to Be Productive in 7 Easy Steps, Even If You Are an Engineer
- Tesla Will Fix Model S for Man Who Used His Car to Save Another Driver
- India Breaks Record After Launching 104 Satellites on One Rocket
 Researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have designed and built a small voltaic cell which is sustained by stomach acid. The cell generates power from the acidic fluid found in the stomach. The power generated by the voltaic cell is sufficient to run a small sensor or a drug delivery device. The device is able to remain in the gastrointestinal tract for an extended period of time as a result of its power source. This breakthrough offers a safer and more cost-effective alternative to the traditional powering method which uses batteries. [Image Source: Nature Biomedical Engineering] "We need to come up with ways to power these ingestible systems for a long time," says Giovanni Traverso, a research affiliate at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.  |
 The growing refugee crisis around the world has become not only a humanitarian crisis but an engineering one as well. One group of college seniors are working to design and engineer an affordable shelter for refugees across the world. [Image Source: Composite from University of Cambridge and SafeHome] The engineering team at LeTourneau University in Texas have spent the last 7 months trying to find the best solution to shelters for refugees in Greece. The effort is part of a national competition held jointly by John Brown University and Samaritan's Purse.  |
 Every year, over 3 billion people access the internet for various purposes. To this day, the Internet comprises the largest bank of knowledge of peoples' everyday activities. Its contents can be explored almost everywhere around the world almost every day of the year. About 80 percent of those people use Google as their search engine. [Image Source: FirmBee via Pixabay] Never in the history of time has human life been recorded with such unprecedented detail. In a short 50 years, humanity evolved from heavily relying on physical copies to the massive data empire which contains the traces of over one billion people on the planet.  |
 So you want to learn how to be productive? Why do you want that in the first place? Do you have lots of homework or extensive projects to work on? Is your design portfolio incomplete? Does it really matter that you are not productive? If you are an engineer in school or recently graduated, the answer will most likely be "yes" to all those questions. Learning how to be productive matters a lot! You slack off, and you lose credibility; you become productive and you gain. [Image Source: steinchen via Pixabay] So how do you ensure that every single day is a productive day?  |
 On Tuesday, a man driving a Model S saw another driver swerving around on the Autobahn. The 41-year-old Model S driver named Manfred Kick took action rather than whizzing by the driver of the Volkswagen Passat. Local news reported that the Tesla driver called the fire department before taking action himself. Kick drove his Model S in front of the Passat. Once the Passat tapped on to his bumper, he slowly hit the brakes. The two cars stopped, and officials arrived shortly after to save the driver who reports said suffered a stroke. [Image Source: Feuerwehr Muenchen] The Model S driver not only risked his $75,000 car, but he potentially risked his life on the high-speed Autobahn.  |
 India recently launched a record-breaking rocket with a massive payload containing 104 satellites. India's space agency is lighting up the skies again with another record-breaking rocket. On its thirty-ninth flight, the PSLV-C37 carried 103 nano-satellites into space along with the much larger Cartosat-2 series satellite. The mission beat Russia's previous record of 37 satellites back in 2014. Although it is not a competition, the mission instilled the competence of the ISRO's space technological capabilities. [Image Source: ISRO] The satellites onboard the record-breaking mission originate from many countries including Kazakhstan, Israel, the Netherlands, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates (UAE) with a majority of 96 from United States of America (USA), as well as two Nano-satellites from India. |
Comments
Post a Comment