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Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder and Northwestern University have announced the development of a tiny electronic sensor that can measure the vibrations of the human body. The tiny acoustic sensor can be worn or mounted on nearly any surface of the body and captures the physiological sound signals from the body. Resembling a Band-Aid the device weighs less than one-hundredth of an ounce and continuously gathers physiological data.

CU Boulder Assistant Professor Jae-Woong Jeong who is one of three lead study authors compares it to a wearable stethoscope. The device is able to pick up mechanical waves propagating through your body’s tissues and fluids, these include the opening and closing of heart valves, vocal chords and gastrointestinal tract movement. By integrating the electrodes to record electrocardiogram (ECG) signals, the device can measure electrical activity of the heart as well as muscles at rest and during contractions. Easily converted into a wireless device the sensor can be used in remote, noisy places such as a battlefield, and will produce a quiet, high quality cardiology/speech signal that can be read half way around the world in real time. The data can be used by a doctor to diagnose a patient even if they aren’t face to face. The researchers have already tested the device on a group of elderly volunteers at Camp Lowell Cardiology which is a private medical clinic in Tucson, Arizona. The results were remarkable with the researchers able to detect the acoustical signals of blood clots in some of the participants. Here we have a dedicated and expansive array of IoT products. We are your one-stop shop and go destination for a simplified sourcing solution.

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A Super Computer by the name of “The MareNostrum” is being built by the Supercomputing Center in Barcelona. This massive computer is going to be integrated with three different types of at architecture chip clusters: x86, ARM and Power9. This chips will allow the computers power to be able to reach and deliver up to 13.7 petaflops to enhance its performance. Although these chips are cannot be combined alone Linux will be the main supporter of all three clusters to be able to be intertwined and used together. Alongside Linux other interfaces such as Gen- Z and Open CAPI are used to create a multi- architecture structure that allows for them to be used to bring different types of architectures together. Per an email with Scott Tease, an executive director for Lenovo’s Hyper Scale and High Performance Computing group stated that,” the computer will let researchers experiment with all sorts of alternative, cutting-edge computing technologies.” 

Lenovo will be an enormous contribution by providing servers and chips to the production of the MareNostrom 4. ARM and Fujitsu made a high-performance commuting chip design for specifically the production of the MareNostrom 4 last year. The chip extracts “heavy doses of vector processing” that has been a prime attribute that have been implemented in many of these modern super computers. In 2011 the BSC built a series super computers using ARM-based smartphone chips and were believed to enhance the speed and efficiency appose to other server chips such as Intel’s Xeon or IBMs power. These structures have been mounted on Intel’s server cabinets. The production of the super computer is going to be made in parts that will replace previous MareNostrum 3 allowing it to be able to store an approximate 24 petabytes.

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Logitech a current mouse maker for Pioneer has discovered a new line of work without venturing out too far into the computer industry. Despite Logitech 35 years in service in minor computer accessories they have continued to progress and begin working in creating gaming, wearables, home and video controls and mobile music speaker’s division. The person responsible to the sudden upbringing of the new innovations to be added to Logitech is a man by the name Bracken Darrell. Read more >>

The Surface book i7 is ridiculously fast. So fast that it is more than twice as fast as the original Surface Book which itself blew away every other laptop in its day. Boasting a best in class battery life, the Surface Book i7 beats all other laptops that are tested against it for speed and battery life. The second iteration of Microsoft’s convertible laptop, the Surface Book i7 is perfectly proportioned at 13.5-inch tablet with PixelSense screen that has both touch and pen support. A discrete graphics chip is hidden in the keyboard base with two sides being held together by an industrial strength hinge found in the original Surface Book. Read more >>

There has been some rumors about how MacBook Pro, the well-known Apple Laptops, has a laptop RAM capacity of 16GB. It turns out that these rumors are true and the Laptop Hardware does not need it. Apple is not concerned with it, instead they are proud to announce this as an achievement to their state of the art electronics. On the other hand, computer experts are stating that RAM requires a lot of power and creates lots of heat; this can be a disadvantage for laptops because some of the great features of having a laptop is first of all you want it to last as long as possible, and on the other hand you don’t want your laptop to overheat as this can cause damage to the system and to the person who is using the laptop. Especially if they are placing the laptop in the lap when using it. The second reason why a MacBook Pro does not need more than 16GB is because 16GB is plenty on its own. Read more >>