Remove Articles Remove Motors Remove Organization Remove Personal
article thumbnail

A New Treatment for Arthritis: Vagus-Nerve Stimulation

Cars That Think

Koopman led a landmark 17-person trial that tested whether modulating the nervous system’s electrical-signaling patterns could tamp down inflammation and joint pain in RA. The SetPoint implant is inserted beside the patient’s vagus nerve, which travels down from the brain to innervate the spleen and other vital organs. Chris Philpot.

article thumbnail

How a motor’s operating speed, torque and control strategy affect its efficiency

Charged EVs

Second only to power output, efficiency is one of the most fudgeable ratings that applies to traction motors for EVs (right up there with capacity and cycle life claims for Li-ion batteries…). When a motor is supplied by a variable frequency drive, however, determining its efficiency becomes a far more difficult task.

Motor 123
article thumbnail

IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

Cars That Think

Census, the mainframe computer, legitimizing the person computer, and developing the software that beat the best in the world at chess and then Jeopardy. Joining me to talk about it—and IBM's other pivots, past and future—is a person uniquely qualified to do so. Steven Cherry Jim, IBM wasn't the first to personal computers.

Personal 137
article thumbnail

Evolution of in-car display tech: From instrument clusters to pillar-to-pillar screens – ET Auto

Baua Electric

OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) displays, known for their vibrant colours, high contrast ratios, and faster response times, are gaining popularity in infotainment systems. Touchscreens, ranging from 7 inches to a massive 31 inches on the BMW i7 or even more, are now becoming a commonplace in modern vehicles.

Auto 40
article thumbnail

Millimeter Wave Radar System Keeps Drivers Safe on the Road

Cars That Think

A recent study on the causes of motor vehicle accidents found that fatigue and medical emergencies were the top reasons. WISe takes the driver’s readings daily to discern what the person’s normal range is and displays the data on the car’s infotainment screen. The system is encrypted to protect the driver’s personal data from hackers.

article thumbnail

UNECE: claim that diesel on-road vehicles are the cause of increased lung cancer is misleading

Green Car Congress

A discussion paper published by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) asserts “ with a high degree of reliability that it is misleading to claim that people’s exposure to diesel engines of road motor vehicles is the cause of increased risk of lung cancer. ”. Diesel Engines Exhausts: Myths and Realities Discussion Paper.

Diesel 247
article thumbnail

The Brain Implant That Sidesteps The Competition

Cars That Think

So Stentrode was a really organic term that we just started using within the group. So yeah, this first product is in a large blood vessel that only gives a constrained amount of access to the motor cortex. These patients who are suffering with severe paralysis or motor impairment may not have the capacity to train for weeks to months.