World changing ideas.

• Autores: Elizabeth Svoboda, Christopher Mims, Sarah Fecht, Morgen Peck, Francie Diep
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 305, Nº. 6, 2011, págs. 40-51
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses 10 technologies that are changing the world. Topics include a system by U.S. medical device developer AliveCor, called the iPhone ECG, that monitors an individual's heart rhythms in real time and sends a signal to family members, patients, and physicians in the event of heart rhythm irregularities, a research program, called SyNAPSE, in which researcher Dharmendra S. Modha and colleagues are trying to develop a microchip modeled after neurons, and a vein biometric authentication device by Japanese technology company Fujitsu, called Palm Secure, that recognizes individuals by the patterns of veins in their palm.