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Measuring heart-rate with microwave sensors

News: Sensor Technology    November 10, 2010
The idea of using microwaves for human body sensors may be just a bit unsettling – think of the microwave oven. However, the device created by Atsushi Mase and Daisuke Nagae of Kyushu University (Japan) uses very low radiation microwaves. It’s a form of RADAR, RF (radio frequency), or Doppler sensor…common enough technology. What’s unusual [...]
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Cell phones and cancer: Another inconclusive round of study

Spun: May 18, 2010
Here we go again. Sometime today (May 18, 2010) a report from a massive study by the Interphone International Study Group of the potential cancer causing effects of using cell phones will be released in the International Journal of Epidemiology. This $24 million United Nations sponsored study spanning a decade and 13 countries was the [...]
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