James Dyson is the inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner and other consumer products, including the Airblade hand dryer, an ultrasonic humidifier […]
Posts Tagged ‘Design’
Patients Held to Ransom
Imagine this scenario. You have just been diagnosed by your cardiologist with a heart arrhythmia and she advocates the implantation […]
CapeRay Awarded a UK Patent
Cape Town, South Africa, 12 June 2020. CapeRay is pleased to announce the award of a UK Patent (GB2566942) entitled, […]
A New “Killer App” ?
In 1839, Gustav Rose discovered a novel mineral in the Ural Mountains of Russia which he named “perovskite” in honour of the […]
Failure of the Next Big Thing
When we think of technology companies like Apple or Google that have emerged from Silicon Valley, we normally associate them […]
You’re Never Too Old
By tradition, Nobel Laureates receive their gold medals from the King of Sweden on 10 December, the day that Alfred Nobel died […]
Disrupting the X-Ray Market
It’s been more than 120 years since Ivan Puluj and Wilhelm Röntgen conducted their groundbreaking experiments leading to the discovery of X-rays. […]
A Breakthrough from Cape Town
Earlier this week, a woman with severe aortic valve stenosis was operated on successfully at Groote Schuur Hospital by Jacques Scherman, […]
QT Ultrasound Launches Imaging Centres
Five years ago, Delphinus announced it had received 510(k) clearance from the FDA and was able to begin marketing its whole breast […]
False Positives and False Negatives
There are two statistical measures to consider when the success of a screening programme is measured: sensitivity and specificity. In any […]