I have friends who are still in denial about global warming. These card-carrying members of the Flat Earth Society believe concern about global warming is just a conspiracy by liberals and tree huggers to subvert free trade even though the evidence convincingly shows that green house gasses are melting the ice caps. Indeed, a segment on Sixty Minutes last night showed how much of the O'Higgins Glacier in Patagonia, Chile, has melted away as has a lot of the ice that sustains Penguins in the Antartic. And in a rebuke of the Bush Administration, which recommends membership in the Flat Earth Society, the Supreme Court issued two rulings favoring clean air advocates and proponents of cutting green house gas emissions.
So I want to pose a question: what products do you or your company produce that will help cut down on green house gases? What ideas do you have for products and how strongly do you believe or disbelieve that global warming is a problem?
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Thanks to embedded electronics, medical devices are getting smaller and smarter than ever. Pacemakers and implantable defibrillators are now able to call physicians. MRIs, CT scanners, and ultrasound machines are gaining mobility. And the venerable Band-Aid may soon be able to detect illnesses ranging from fevers to heart arrhythmias. On February 21, join Design News senior editor Charles Murray for a wide-ranging discussion, "Embedded Angles for Medical Products," which will explore the latest developments in medical electronics. The discussion will examine advances in medical device technology and offer an inside look at the embedded electronics behind it.
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