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[4 Jun 2009 | No Comment | 6 views till today]

Balafilcon A is a silicone hydrogel used basically in the industry of lenses. Bausch&Lomb the world famous manufacturer of lenses, produces a line of contact lenses - PureVision - made of Balafilcon, with 36% of water, which adapt better to correct human vision problems such as Presbyopia and Myopia.
In a basic level, the lenses are put over the surface of the cornea and redirect the rays of light to focus appropriately into the retina of the eye. That is same principle applied to the conventional lenses to help correct the …

Applied Technology, Hardware »

[15 Apr 2009 | 2 Comments | 42 views till today]

noise cancellation,noise
reduction technology

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[9 Apr 2009 | One Comment | 12 views till today]

Diamonds are possibly the oldest stone that you’ll ever possess. Diamonds are formed through fossilized strata of carbon, submitted to the high pressure of the inner layers of the Earth crust for about 3 billion years. At such conditions, the hardest material over Earth is formed and kept in relatively close locations.
As everybody knows, the diamonds are used as finest pieces of jewelry as much as in the industry in general. If it is considered that it is material capable of cutting the hardest of the crystals, the efficiency of …

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[19 Mar 2008 | No Comment | 1 views till today]

Global Positioning System is a well known technology, whose origins date back to the past century and derived from a project of the US Department of Defense: the NAVSTAR GPS.
Based on a fleet of about 25 satellites (medium earth orbit), it send signals to GPS receivers to establish the Geographic location, time and some other spatial variables.
Though developed to fulfill military uses, it was released to the public in 1983 and since then the commercial and scientific applications of GPS are almost countless. In fact, being GPS the only …

Applied Technology, Medicine »

[26 Jan 2008 | One Comment | 7 views till today]

UltraSound Tech is a risingly popular technique in the field of Medicine. Basically, ultrasound is any sound produced at a frequency of 20 Khz, beyond the umbral of human hearing.
In the Nature, ultrasonic waves are common among some marine mammals, such as the dolphins and whales and also in the case of the bats. These animals use ultrasound as a way of recognizing the terrain and geoposition themselves in their environments.
The application of ultrasound techniques to the medicine, has been recognized as of practical use. In fact, although the technique …