Casio has announced its new EDIFICE collection of timepieces – the ECB900DB – with enhanced features like Tough Solar and Bluetooth Connected technology. The new smartwatch is stylish and comfortable and is designed for both professional and personal lifestyles.

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“The new ECB900DB demonstrates Casio’s aptitude for progressive design and innovation,” said David Johnson, Vice President of Casio’s Timepiece Division. “It is a great addition to the EDIFICE collection providing all of the features consumers know and crave with a fresh design.”

When paired to a smartphone, the watch can be connected via Bluetooth to access the correct time in its current location and for up to 300 cities worldwide, even updating with the latest time zone and Daylight Saving Time information, says a press release.

The ECB900DB has a bold 3D dial and stainless-steel case and band. The new watch also boasts a Tough Solar chronograph with enhanced charging technology that can efficiently store energy for power as well as maintain a charge. Casio’s Tough Solar technology consists of a solar panel system that converts light to electricity and eliminates the need for battery changes. It can even be charged in low or fluorescent light. After a full-charge and without further exposure to light, the timepiece has a battery life of approximately five months.

Additional features include water resistance up to 100 meters, high-brightness double LED light, stopwatch with speed indicator and more.

Casio’s EDIFICE collection reflects a distinct sense of style by providing men with features that are ideal for professional and weekend lifestyles. The collection speaks to upwardly, mobile men whose goals lie anywhere from the boardroom to the ballpark.

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The new EDIFICE will be available this spring in two styles: black watch face with blue accents or black watch face with red accents. Both models will be priced at $200, and will be available at select jewelry and watch retailers nationwide, as well as the company’s website.

Legg-Calve-Perthes disease is a childhood condition that occurs when blood supply to the femoral head of the hip joint is temporarily interrupted and the bone begins to die. Byteflies, a Belgian-American wearable health company, who was exhibiting at the WT | Wearable Technologies Show at MEDICA 2018, developed a wearable device that can effectively monitor movement in children suffering from Legg-Calve-Perthes disease.

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Jules, a 6-year-old energetic boy living with his parents in Belgium, was diagnosed with Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease in 2018. Jules has a blog, where he shares his journey, and his family’s determination to find the best possible way to help him. The blog also aims to shed a spotlight onto such disorders, and how continuous and extensive monitoring with Byteflies Sensor Dots can make a difference for disease progress tracking, reports Byteflies.

Although Legg–Calvé–Perthes Disease can be healed over time, it can still weaken and deform the bone. When the affected child reaches adult age, these issues can increase the risk of developing arthritis. Therefore, most of the treatment focuses on preventing permanent deformation and stiffness by reducing hip movement.

In order to objectively measure the impact of Jules’s activities on his leg and hip, Byteflies has set up a 24/7 home monitoring system with Sensor Dot technology. The Sensor Dot continuously records movement and impact via the IMU sensor. Since December 2018, Jules has been wearing a Sensor Dot to monitor his left leg while he goes on with his play dates.

The device is very small and discreet, so it does not make the child uncomfortable while wearing it at school. The user-friendliness of the Sensor Dot greatly helps in keeping Jules’ life and routine, as well as his family’s, as normal as possible. The device has two parts: A patch that you that you stick to your leg and a magnet that you put on the patch. The patch adheres to the strong very strongly, even for a little kid.

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By continuously tracking how Jules uses his legs with accurate signals and data analysis, Byteflies provides feedback to minimize hip damage, assist in a better recovery, and help to avoid adult bone atrophy. Byteflies will send daily reports to his family so they can directly act on the data from the Sensor Dot.

Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor has developed a Digital Key, which allows users to unlock and start their Hyundai car via their smartphone. The new Digital Key, which may soon replace traditional keys, can be downloaded via an app and used by up to four authorized people.

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“The Digital Key will benefit a very wide range of future Hyundai customers, as well as enabling innovative new schemes for vehicle sharing,” said Ho Yoo, Group Leader of Hyundai Motor Group’s Electronics Development Group. “We are studying other ways to harness this type of connected-car technology to greatly enhance the driving and ownership experience.”

When the user places the authorized Digital Key-enabled smartphone near the car door to open it, its presence is detected by NFC technology, which then opens the door.

The NFC antenna for entry identification is located in the handles of the driver and front passenger’s doors, while the one for starting the engine is located within the wireless charging pad, according to a press release.

The system automatically stores the user’s preferred vehicle settings including the position of mirrors, seats and the steering wheel, as well as controls for the audio, video and navigation (AVN) systems and head-up display, removing the need for the driver to change settings every time they enter the car.

Using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication, users can lock and unlock the vehicle, activate the alarm and start the engine. In addition, once the vehicles with autonomous parking features are commercialized, such features are also expected to be remotely controlled.

The vehicle owner can preset the duration of vehicle use or limit the use to only certain features when renting the vehicle. For instance, it can even be used to enable a courier to open the trunk to deliver a parcel.

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In the future, the company wishes to further enhance the Digital Key to alarm a trigger when the vehicle exceeds a defined speed or travels outside a designated area.

For cases such as using a valet service or visiting a repair shop, where handing over a digital key is not feasible, conventional smart key and card type key are also provided.

Hyundai Motor Group aims to gradually implement the technology in its new production cars, starting with next generation Sonata which is to make its U.S. debut in the New York Motor Show.

iVascular, a Barcelona, Spain-based catheter maker, won CE Mark for its new microcatheter called Navitian. The microcatheter can be used to facilitate, guide and support a guidewire while accessing the coronary system, the exchange of guidewire and injection of radiopaque contrast media or saline solutions.

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Navitian was specifically designed to achieve a desirable navigation in cases of CTO (chronical total occlusions).

It stands out for its superior crossability and exceptional penetration capacity due to the internal and external conical transition. Other key features of Navitian include:

• Complete braided pattern that provides exceptional flexibility, pushability and resistance to kinking
• Hydrophilic coating HYDRAX PLUS having high trackability for small and tortuous arteries
• Internal PTFE layer facilitating the movement of the guidewire during exchange
• Sizes 135 and 150 cm, guidewire compatibility 0.014”

“At iVascular we work continuously for the improvement of today’s therapies, to achieve the best benefit for the patient,” said Lluis Duocastella, CEO of iVascular S.L.U.

The device was developed to help address chronic total occlusions, which are especially difficult to treat. With the braided design, the catheter maintains strength while being pushed through tortuous anatomy and during penetration of occlusions, reports MedGadget.

Founded in 2010 in Barcelona, Spain, iVascular is a fast-growing company with an aim of developing advanced medical devices and therapies for the treatment of disorders of the cardiovascular system. The team that started iVascular owns more than 20 years of experience in the field of cardiovascular devices, being responsible of achieving one of the first CE marks for a drug eluting stent more than 12 years ago.

iVascular is an international project, founded by 5 industrial companies based in Spain and Canada with focus in chemical engineering, pharmacy, metallurgy and medical devices. All together they support iVascular with more than 2.100 employees, 1.150 million euros of revenue and potential presence in more than 100 countries.

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The company is commercially active in more than 66 countries including Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, UK, Italy, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE and others.

Researchers at the University of Kansas, The University of Kansas Cancer Center and KU Medical Center, developed a device that could allow doctors to detect cancer quickly from a droplet of blood or plasma, leading to timelier interventions and better outcomes for patients.

The device, reported in Nature Biomedical Engineering, detects exosomes – tiny vesicles that may can carry biomarkers pointing to the existence of the tumors. Because of their extremely small size, it’s hard to filter out exosomes from blood. This new microfluidic device with nanoscale patterning, separate exosomes from blood and identify whether they carry a cancer biomarker.

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“Historically, people thought exosomes were like ‘trash bags’ that cells could use to dump unwanted cellular contents,” said lead author Yong Zeng, Docking Family Scholar and associate professor of chemistry at KU. “But in the past decade, scientists realized they were quite useful for sending messages to recipient cells and communicating molecular information important in many biological functions. Basically, tumors send out exosomes packaging active molecules that mirror the biological features of the parental cells. While all cells produce exosomes, tumor cells are really active compared to normal cells.”

The key innovation on this lab-on-a-chip device is a 3D nanoengineering method that combines and senses biological elements based on a herringbone pattern commonly found in nature, pushing exosomes into contact with the chip’s sensing surface much more efficiently in a process called ‘mass transfer,’ reports KU.

To develop and test their pioneering microfluidic device, Zeng teamed with a tumor-biomarker expert and KU Cancer Center Deputy Director Andrew Godwin at the KU Medical Center’s Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, as well as graduate student Ashley Tetlow in Godwin’s Biomarker Discovery Lab. The collaborators tested the chip’s design using clinical samples from ovarian cancer patients, finding the chip could detect the presence of cancer in a minuscule amount of plasma.

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According to Zeng, with the microfluidic chip’s design now proven using ovarian cancer as a model, the chip could be useful in detecting a host of other diseases.

Trimble, a California-based developer of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and software processing tools, announced a new wearable hard hat compatible device to improve worker safety. The Trimble® XR10 with HoloLens 2 will enable workers in safety-controlled environments to access holographic information on the worksite. Trimble made the announcement with Microsoft at MWC Barcelona.

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The Trimble XR10 with HoloLens 2 integrates the latest spatial computing technology into a certified solution for use with a hard hat for worker safety. With a wider field-of-view, improved usability and a unique, flip-up viewscreen, the Trimble XR10 with HoloLens 2 combines state-of-the-art mixed reality and safe operation in restricted access work areas, said a press release.

Front-line workers will be able to have greater accessibility to 3D models with the full solution. Field-oriented workflows enable broad adoption of mixed-reality for jobsite activities to improve efficiency, productivity and quality of work. Trimble Connect™ for HoloLens is a cloud-based collaboration platform, which the companies are continuously developing to enable field workers to get more value from constructible 3D models and transform daily work such as assembly and inspections.

“Microsoft has provided both the vision and execution needed to stay at the forefront of the mixed-reality evolution,” said Aviad Almagor, director of Trimble’s Mixed-Reality Program. “We’re excited to extend our collaboration with Microsoft in producing a safety-first mixed-reality solution that can be used in production environments such as construction, where workers are building, monitoring and inspecting products and services that deliver tangible value every day.”

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Alex Kipman, technical fellow, AI and Mixed Reality at Microsoft, believes interactions with holographic content has inspired visualization, collaboration, and production workflows in enterprise markets. “For people that spend their days on the work site, the Trimble XR10 with HoloLens 2 and Trimble’s portfolio of software unlocks the power of mixed-reality to help them get more work done,” Kipman said.

Vocera Communications, a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, delivered its first shipment of Vocera Smartbadges to Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Georgia. The Smartbadge, which combines smartphone usability and hands-free operation, is intended to improve clinician agility and accelerate patient care.

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The Vocera Badge is used in nearly 1,600 healthcare facilities around the world. Comfortable to wear, the Smartbadge is ideal wherever caregivers need to use their hands for patient care while still being able to communicate, reports Business Wire.

“We have been using Vocera technology for more than 10 years and are thrilled to be the first hospital to receive the Smartbadge,” said Evelyn M. Olenick, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. “Our clinicians are looking forward to having more contextual patient information at their fingertips with the new, larger touchscreen while still being able to communicate hands-free.”

Phoebe Putney Memorial is one of the busiest and most advanced hospitals in the Southeast. The 691-bed teaching hospital is nationally recognized for clinical excellence and innovative community health programs focused on providing the best possible patient care for more than 107 years. In conjunction with hands-free communication, the hospital uses Vocera technology for secure text messaging and clinical alert and alarm management. Phoebe will start by piloting the Smartbadge across clinical areas and with nurse managers in nursing units, and then will evaluate alerts and alarms on the new device over time.

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“It is an honor to celebrate this milestone with a long-time, innovative customer like Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital,” said Brent Lang, president and CEO of Vocera. “We look forward to hearing how the Smartbadge enhances clinical communication, workflows and patient care.”

Visa and Planeta Informatica launched a new technology that enables public transit operators worldwide to implement contactless payments faster and easier than ever, and for a much lower cost. Transit operators using the new Visa Secure Access Module (SAM) will find it easier to start offering riders the ability to tap to pay with a contactless card, phone or wearable device, without the need to replace current turnstiles or terminal hardware.

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In major cities around the world, contactless payments are shaping the future of mass transit, helping riders save valuable time by eliminating the need to stand in line to buy or re-load a ticket. Transit operators who have invested in turnstiles and terminal readers recently, won’t need to install new turnstiles or hardware. Instead, the Visa SAM, which is based on secure EVM contactless technology, can be installed directly into the existing system, says a press release.

“This is a transformational development for public transit operators that want to improve their customers’ journeys and reduce their operational costs by removing the need for tickets or topping up fare cards,” said Nick Mackie, Global Head of Urban Mobility, for Visa. “Through our work with Planeta Informatica, we have pioneered a way to accelerate the shift to contactless transit that is scalable and highly secure, while generating time and cost savings for transit operators by removing the hurdles of replacing potentially thousands of transit readers across the transport system.”

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Artur Costa, CEO of Planeta Informática commented:

“The new Visa SAM technology combines 15 years of our experience in public transportation with the Mass Transit Transaction (MTT) framework, a state-of-the-art payment framework released by Visa in 2017. We worked diligently with Visa to build the best technological solution for adding EMV contactless acceptance on top of any existing closed-loop payment system without necessarily replacing the entire electronic ticketing infrastructure.”

Proprioception is the sense of the relative position of one’s own parts of the body and strength of effort being used in movement. Because of proprioception we are able to walk down a sidewalk without looking down on our feet, throw a ball without with our eyes closed or talk without mumbling. Proprioception lets us know how our hands and feet are moving or what our mouth is doing. But people who use prosthetic devices do not have proprioception. Now, researchers at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland (EPFL), the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and the A. Gemelli University Polyclinic in Rome, have developed new prostheses that can relay their position to the user, enabling amputees to regain a very subtle, close-to-natural sense of touch.

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“The new device allows patients to reach out for an object on a table and to ascertain an item’s consistency, shape, position and size without having to look at it. The prosthesis has been successfully tested on several patients and works by stimulating the nerves in the amputee’s stump. The nerves can then provide sensory feedback to the patients in real time – almost like they do in a natural hand,” reports EPFL.

With the currently available prostheses, patients can regain voluntary motor control of their artificial limb by exploiting residual muscle function in the forearm. But as there is no sensory feedback they have to rely heavily on visual cues. This can prevent them from feeling that their artificial limb is part of their body and make it more unnatural to use.

Several research groups recently were able to provide tactile feedback in amputees, leading to enhanced function and prosthesis embodiment. But this latest study has taken things one step further.

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“Our study shows that sensory substitution based on intraneural stimulation can deliver both position feedback and tactile feedback simultaneously and in real time,” explains Silvestro Micera, a professor of bioengineering at EPFL’School of Engineering and the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies. “The brain has no problem combining this information, and patients can process both types in real time with excellent results.”

The findings of the study were published in the journal Science Robotics.

Nubia, a Shenzhen, China-based smartphone maker, unveiled its groundbreaking dual-screen smartphone, the Nubia Alpha at the MWC Barcelona. The smartphone, which combines the features of a smartphone and a smartwatch, received several “best of CES” awards at CES Las Vegas in January.

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Flexible Display

The display in Nubia Alpha is the largest wearable flexible screen in the industry (up to 230% larger than standard wearable displays). Custom-engineered for brilliant visuals and durability, the panoramic, 4-inch, wrap-around screen lets you see more, control more, and experience more, said Nubia in a press release.

Phone that You Can Wear on Your Wrist

The flexible display allows you to wear it on your wrist. With Bluetooth, Wifi, and eSIM technologies, the Alpha allows you to send texts, make calls, and access the internet without the need for a separate smartphone. The phone is also equipped with a 5-megapixel camera with clever UI shortcuts.

Anodized Stainless Steel Body

The Alpha is crafted from the most premium materials and available in both black and gold colors. Constructed from anodized stainless steel, the gold variant features a band plated in real 18k gold. In regards to durability, the Alpha is water-resistant, and the flexible display is coated in heat-resistant Polyimide.

Powerful Hardware

Powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2100 platform, the Alpha provides a smooth day-to-day experience. Boasting 1GB of RAM + 8GB of onboard memory, it provides advanced mobile processing power, amazing connectivity, and impressive battery life.

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Innovative Software

An all-new, custom-made wearable OS improves ease of use with air gestures, voice commands, and convenient multi-touch control. Visually striking, our new wearable OS is a new way to interact with what you care about most.

Price and Availability

The nubia Alpha will come in two versions:

1. Bluetooth version: For global market; available in April 2019; Price 449 euros
2. eSim version (4G): For market in China; available in April 2019; Color Black; Price 549 euros, 649 euros for the 18K Gold Plated. Available in Euope in Q3 2019. Available in North America in Q4 2019

As technological advancements are creating modern cities with well-planned roads and highways, all over the world, there still remain numerous railroad crossings. In the United States, there were about 155,370 railroad crossings in 2000. According to an estimate by Angels on Track, railroad crossing accidents caused 249 deaths and 954 serious injuries in 2013.

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Many railroad crossing accidents happen because drivers simply do not know the rules around railroad tracks. Operation Lifesaver, a not-for-profit in Canada unveiled its new Train to Drive program, featuring virtual-reality (VR) videos designed to test whether drivers know how to safely approach railway crossings and respond in life-or-death situations.

“Collisions at railway crossings can happen in a split second. Train to Drive allows drivers to make choices in real time around virtual railway tracks and trains, and to see the results — good and tragic — in the safety of that VR environment,” said Sarah Mayes, National Director of Operation Lifesaver Canada.

Collisions at road-rail crossings are tragically common in Canada. In 2018, there were 167 such incidents which killed 19 people and seriously injured another 42, said a press release.

“Our hope is that individuals, driver training companies, school boards and even governments will use this program, and that OL’s ‘Look. Listen. Live.’ rail safety message will resonate with drivers — new and experienced.”

Right now, the Train to Drive program includes two different training scenarios aimed at all drivers. In the first, the weather is clear, but the “driver” has to contend with congested traffic near a railway crossing. The second video features nighttime conditions, poor weather and in-vehicle distractions. Operation Lifesaver plans to expand the Train to Drive program in 2019 to include new training scenarios designed specifically for bus and truck drivers.

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Anyone wishing to experience Train to Drive can do so by visiting TraintoDrive.ca. The website also provides instructions on how to view the videos on other devices such as mobile phones or tethered headsets, and offers rail safety tips to use next time you’re behind a real wheel.

When the human body rejects a transplanted organ, it receives serious injury and it is often a biopsy that reveals the rejection. Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a new screening method that uses sensor particles and a urine test to detect rejection much earlier, more comprehensively, and without a biopsy needle.

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In the new method, the nanoparticle sensors accumulate in transplanted organs and detect immune rejection. Upon detecting rejection, they release molecules that turn the urine of the recipient fluorescent. Doctors can then use a simple urine test to assess if the organ has been rejected, potentially replacing invasive biopsy needles.

“Before any organ damage can happen, T cells have to produce granzyme B, which is why this is an early detection method,” said Gabe Kwong, a co-principal investigator in the study and an assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.

“This is sensitive enough to possibly detect budding rejection before you see significant injury to the transplanted organ and that could help clinicians treat early to prevent damage,” said Dr. Andrew Adams, co-principal investigator and an associate professor of surgery at Emory University School of Medicine. “Right now, most tests are aimed at organ dysfunction, and sometimes they don’t signal there is a problem until organ function is below 50 percent.”

The nanoparticles consist of an iron oxide in the core. It is coated with bristles made of amino acids that stick out from the iron ball with fluorescent “reporter” molecules attached to their tips.

When T cells release a specific enzyme involved in the early stages of immune rejection in the area of a nanoparticle, it cleaves the bristles and releases the fluorescent molecules, which travel through the bloodstream and end up in the urine, reports MedGadget.

The system has been tested in mice that received small skin grafts. This test could allow clinicians to accurately adjust the dose of immunosuppressants to control the immune response.

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“Adjusting the dose is very difficult but very important because heavy immunosuppression increases occurrence of infections and patients who receive it also get cancer more often,” Kwong said.

The results of the study were published in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering.

Just a few hours from now, mobile operators and mobile industry executives from all over the world will be descending on Barcelona for the world’s largest exhibition for the mobile industry: The Mobile World Congress (MWC).

Just like any other tech conference, buzzwords at this year’s MWC will be Wearables, IoT, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. Among the hottest innovations presented this year will be 5G and advanced foldable smartphones.

After Samsung unveiled a foldable phone, called Galaxy Fold this week, Huawei plans to launch its own version of a folding smartphone – a 5G phone called Mate X.

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A photo posted to Twitter show workers at MWC 2019 in Barcelona installing a billboard for Huawei’s Mate X.

The Twitter photo suggests the Mate X will open up from a smartphone-size gadget to become more of a tablet-size device. But unlike the Galaxy Fold, the Mate X’s larger screen appears to wrap around the outside of the gadget, instead of being enclosed like a spread in a magazine, reports CNET.

Other companies working on foldable phones include LG, Royole (with its Flexpai), TCL and Xiaomi.

TCL’s patent image showed the company is planning on a foldable phone that can you can also wear as a smartwatch on your wrist. The image shows five different devices with flexible displays, including two tablets, two smartphones and a flexible phone that could curve into a smartwatch.

Even before most smartphone manufacturers have introduced their first 5G handsets, Qualcomm is already thinking about a second-generation modem. The company just announced its Snapdragon X55 5G modem, its follow-up to its first 5G modem, the X50. Snapdragon X55 is a 7-nanometer single-chip integrated 5G to 2G multimode modem that supports 5G NR mmWave and sub-6 GHz spectrum bands with up to 7 gigabits per second (Gbps) download speeds and 3 Gbps upload speeds over 5G, and Category 22 LTE with up to 2.5 Gbps LTE download speeds, according to Qualcomm.

Qualcomm will make the new modem available to its partners in the coming months.

Samsung also announced its next generation 5G mmWave chipsets. The chipsets are comprised of Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFICs) and Digital/Analog Front End (DAFE) Application-specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) – supporting 28GHz and 39GHz bands.

Abbott Laboratories, an American healthcare company, signed a deal with the Danish multinational pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, to make diabetes management easier by linking technologies of the two companies. The deal will allow integration of insulin dose data from Novo Nordisk‘s pre-filled and connected pens with its FreeStyle Libre mobile app and cloud-based system.

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Although, neither of the companies said when this feature would be available for users, they said that they are “working hard to bring these integrated solutions to patients as soon as possible.”

“Lack of reliable information is a cause of huge frustration for many people with diabetes and their doctors,” said Anders Dyhr Toft, corporate VP of commercial innovation at Novo Nordisk, said in prepared remarks. “Together with partners like Abbott, our connected pens will give healthcare professionals a better understanding of a patient′s individual diabetes management and can help people with diabetes feel more confident in their treatment.”

Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) system reads glucose levels through a sensor that can be worn on the back of the upper arm eliminating the need for routine finger pricks. Through the FreeStyle LibreLink app users can capture and view their real-time glucose levels, their eight-hour glucose history, and how their glucose is currently changing on their smartphone. Prior to the mobile app, people using Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre CGM had to use a separate device to connect data from the sensor to their phones, reports Drug Delivery.

“It is our aim at Abbott to continuously provide life-changing technology to people living with diabetes,” Jared Watkin, SVP of Abbott’s diabetes care division, added.

“Diabetes is a time intensive condition to manage. People with diabetes must make a variety of decisions every single day about their glucose monitoring, nutrition, insulin and medication intake. By enabling insulin dosing data from Novo Nordisk′s connected pens to be shared with our digital health tools, we′ll be able to help further eliminate those daily hassles for people, so they have more time to live a fuller, healthier life,” Watkin said.

In November last year, Abbott won FDA approval for a mobile app that is designed for the company’s FreeStyle Libre continuous glucose monitoring system.

Royole Corporation, an America-based Chinese company known for flexible electronics, will be showcasing its full line of fully flexible display and flexible sensor technologies at the upcoming Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona. These advanced technologies are part of the company’s Flexible+ platform, and are ideal for numerous applications in a variety of product categories, including Consumer Electronics, Sports & Fashion, Office & Education, Smart Home, and Robotics.

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Among Royole’s flexible products to be demonstrated at the MWC 2019 is FlexPai, the company’s commercial foldable smartphone with a flexible display, said a press release.

Other products to be showcased at the show are a first-of-its-kind flexible display integration with high-definition fashion wearables – including a top hat and shirt, and its RoWrite Smart Writing Pad, designed to accurately create, capture, store, and share all manner of real-time, conventionally written material on standard paper for digital application.

“Royole’s Flexible+ technologies have squarely put us in a leadership position in today’s ever-evolving consumer technology industry,” stated Royole’s Senior Director of Marketing, Michael Williams. “We are currently working with over 220 business partners worldwide to implement flexible displays and sensors in a variety of products that will reshape the world of consumer technologies. The total number of improved consumer experiences is restricted only by our imaginations, and that is the very essence of the Royole Flexible+ platform.”

Royole’s patented flexible displays are thin, lightweight, and bendable, creating unique functionality and new applications. They feature high-resolution and high-color saturation for stunning image clarity and quality.

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Flexible Sensor Technology

Royole has also developed and mass-produced flexible sensor technology that delivers high-precision, linearity, and sensitivity. The company is well known for its ability to provide customers with diverse products and solutions, fast turnaround time, short production cycles, large-volume production capabilities, and low costs. Royole sensors are fully compatible with flexible and traditional applications and deliver a bending radius of just 1~3mm that is operational even after 200,000 bends.

OneLife, an Illinois-based medical software/data collection company, is offering AT&T LTE-M certified medical wearable. The wearable, in the form of a smartwatch, is the first AT&T LTE-M certified medical device offered by any company. With LTE-M certification, an IoT device can connect independently to a 4G network, without needing a smartphone or other device as a gateway.

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The OnePulse smartwatch features step tracker, heart rate monitor, activity tracker, sleep tracker, reminders, and alert technologies. Powered by AT&T wireless connectivity, the advanced wearable securely and independently transmits certain critical medical and health data to the cloud. This allows clinicians, patients and their caregivers to monitor user status and well-being, reports Nasdaq.

“Enabling AT&T connectivity for our devices is a major step in launching our ‘Hub-of-Care’ concept in becoming a leading Population Health Platform with our innovative wearable having the ability to connect patients to their caregivers, virtually in near real-time, almost anywhere in North America,” stated Robert Wagner, CEO of OneLife Technologies, Corp. “We all want the best healthcare possible – in an emergency, as we age, for our loved ones, or to maintain a healthy lifestyle.  Now, that level of service is available with the AT&T-connected OnePulse medical and health smartwatch.”

OneLife’s proprietary Bluetooth protocol allows it to connect to other health and medical devices. For example, blood pressure cuff, glucometer, SPo2 monitor, weight scale, etc. can connect for collection and transmission of additional health data tracking. This provides the clinician and patient a wide-ranging view of overall health.

The benefits offered by OnePulse include:

• 24/7 monitoring with near real-time alerts for family and/or doctor
• Medication reminders and auto prescription refills
• Fall detection
• A customizable suite of services, for specialty conditions
• Fully encrypted medical records that can be accessed via a cloud-based dashboard.
• Artificial Intelligence analytics and predictive analysis
• Open API allows connection to any system including Electronic Health/Medical Record platforms

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OneLife Technologies is a mobile medical software/data collection company with a suite of proprietary, patented, medical grade wearable tracking technologies designed to provide patients, physicians, nursing homes, and hospitals with 24/7 real-time centralized, personal, comprehensive health data.

For medical students, it’s important to have operating room (OR) access in order to learn new and updated procedural techniques from top experts. However, ORs are highly restricted areas, where only patients and doctors are normally allowed.

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GIBLIB, is a streaming media platform with the largest library of on-demand medical lectures and surgical videos in 4K and 360-degree virtual reality. Today, the company announced the launch of the first VR app for an immersive operating room experience to enhance surgical education. Through the app, medical students and practicing physicians can enjoy the most immersive and accessible OR experience anywhere, reports GIBLIB.

The app supports GIBLIB’s direct-to-consumer offering, which requires consumers only have a subscription to the Company’s streaming media service and an Oculus Go headset or Oculus Rift System. GIBLIB exclusively partners with leading academic medical centers, Cedars-Sinai and Stanford Children’s Hospital, to provide engaging and informative content from the best surgeons and physicians in the world, which is now accessible through the VR app that connects to the Oculus Store.

Each video is filmed with studio-quality 4K resolution to be both visually descriptive and informative. GIBLIB leverages precise camera angles from the surgeon’s point of view and 360 spherical panorama, in addition to intuitive digital overlays, ensuring practicing physicians and surgeons receive the most authentic media-based OR experience. Supporting medical staff in ORs, including nurses and surgical assistants, can also gain important insights into how to best conduct themselves during procedures and use the most up-to-date surgical and robotic equipment.

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“The latest surgical techniques and procedural best practices are advancing faster than ever before, and the ability to gain access to educational content that keeps surgeons up-to-date needs to meet demand,” said Brian Conyer, CEO and Co-founder of GIBLIB. “Our goal is to bridge the gap between medical professionals and the knowledge they need in order to enhance their techniques in a way that is universally accessible and retains the authenticity of the learning experience.”

Biobeat – The medical smart monitor from Biobeat Technologies is ready to take the lead. They are the winner of the GORE Innovation Center Prize in the 10th IOT/WT Innovation World Cup®. Dr. Anik Eisenkraft, the Chief Medical Officer of Biobeat Technologies is here with us to share his team’s ambition of enabling innovative healthcare for patients and doctors worldwide:

1. WHAT IS THE TECHNOLOGY BEHIND BIOBEAT?

The patented technology behind Biobeat is based on reflective photoplethysmography (PPG). The use of several LED, wavelengths and our specialized algorithms would allow a full monitor of the blood pressure and the heart rate anytime, anywhere. This smart tool could assist both in-hospital and homestay patients. Accordingly, an alarm could be set against the warning limit. Moreover, it applies a real-time transmission system that information could be uploaded on the Cloud and shared with the medical healthcare center. Doctors can thus constantly check the patients’ conditions from afar and provide early treatment.

2. WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT THIS PRODUCT?

The Biobeat’ sensor could be integrated into any wearable devices like watches, wristlets, and patches. For instance, our company introduces a Biobeat’ s sensor watch that battery could last up to 3 days. Another version is a single-use patch with a lifespan up to 10 days.

3. HOW LONG DID IT TAKE YOUR COMPANY TO FULLY DEVELOP BIOBEAT?

Biobeat was founded in 2014. We started the patch project in mid-2018. By now, it has been 6 months – a very fast track!

4. WHAT’S COMING IN THE NEAR FUTURE?

We have started selling Biobeat in Israel, USA, and Europe. The next big step would be collaborating with medical centers and research institutes, taking up pilot studies to ensure the device performance in practice and look at numerous use cases. Additionally, we want to focus more on strategic marketing to make our product available to the public.

5. DESCRIBE YOUR EXPERIENCE IN THE IOT/WT INNOVATION WORLD CUP^® JOURNEY IN A SHORT SENTENCE

It is a very big and interesting event. Perhaps tech start-up and SMEs should be more aware of it, take part in which to extend the network and to gain deeper insight into the industry.

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The success story of Biobeat is inspiring for many techpreneurs in the wearable technologies and innovative healthcare sectors. Learn more about Biobeat and keep up with such a life-changing product.

Yours may be the next to be presented on our IWC series success stories. Do not hesitate to join in the Innovation World Cup® Series ecosystem, extend your business horizon and compete to be the winner of the next 11^th IOT/WT Innovation World Cup®.

Watching a premature newborn in intensive care is heartbreaking and at the same time a helpless experience for parents. Premature babies often have poor sucking reflex, rendering them difficult to feed. Researchers at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital created a novel device called Pacifier-Activated Lullaby (PAL) to help premature babies develop sucking skills.

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PAL, which is now undergoing test at the UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, plays lullaby recorded by the babies’ parents. The device “is empowering parents by helping their babies and strengthening the parental-infant bond when mom and dad can’t be with their child,” reports UCLA Health.

“Babies born before 34 weeks gestation often struggle to feed orally because they have not yet developed the reflex to suck, breathe and swallow,” said Shelly Frisco, RN, a nurse in the NICU at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital. “With the PAL device, babies learn to feed faster and gain weight because they want to keep hearing their parents’ voices.”

Music therapists working in the neonatal intensive care unit help parents write and record a special lullaby. PAL can detect if the baby is sucking on the pacifier, so it plays a song when the baby sucks on it and stops when they stop sucking.

“Hearing their parents’ voices is an incentive to keep sucking,” said Jenna Bollard, expressive arts therapies manager at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, who conducted the research.

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According to the researchers, 70% of babies who use PAL improve their proficiency using a pacifier, a skill that’s important to feeding. This also results in shorter hospital stays, which helps to remove the parents’ stress. “Giving parents a way to be part of their babies’ treatment helps them feel more bonded with their baby and gives them a very important role in their health and development,” said Bollard.

Nanusens, a Spain-based nanodevices company, announced that its proprietary technology can significantly increase the battery life of earbuds by up to 20 percent. This can be achieved by replacing the MEMS sensors in an earbud with a much smaller (up to 10 times smaller), single multi-sensor chip, freeing up space for larger batteries. The company will be announcing this technology solution at MWC 2019.

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Nanusens creates its sensors on the nanoscale within the layers of its CMOS chip that also has the control electronics. As a result, the NEMS (Nano Electro Mechanical Systems) chip is only one cubic millimeter so this will create a saving of three cubic millimeters for every MEMS package that it replaces. In addition, the tiny, single chip requires far less PCB estate compared to the PCB estate needed for several MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) packages. The freed-up space is used to increase the size of the battery or add a supercapacitor to extend the battery life, said a Press Release.

Dr Josep Montanya, CEO Nanusens, explained:

“We are in a unique position of being able to provide more space inside earbuds for designers to use as they wish with our nano-sensors. While some manufacturers want more battery life by using a larger battery or a supercapacitor, others want to use some of this freed-up space for features such as memory so that songs can be stored locally on the earbud. This is another way to extend the battery life as songs would not need to streamed over Bluetooth, again giving longer audio on the go.”

The current earbud market stands at 50 million units a year and is forecasted to grow at a fast pace. The key driver is new thinner designs with more space.

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“New smartphone sales are forecast to be 1.5 billion units a year so as more and more start to ship with a pair of earbuds, our total available market is phenomenal, which is why this is our first target market,” said Dr Montanyà.

Nanusens plans to release its first product – a 2D motion detector for earbuds – in Q4 2019. This will have features like tap and double tap for control, wake-on-movement and sleep-on-rest functions. A 3D accelerometer will be added soon after. A bone conduction sensor for noise cancellation is next to be integrated into the single chip solution.