New York City is preparing for the worst and hospitals are exploring options to support more patients in critical condition than they’ve ever had to handle before. One option that is getting a lot of press is the idea of ventilator sharing, or configuring one machine to handle two or more patients simultaneously by splitting it. This is what we are down to. Splitting ventilators, and facing serious dilemmas like choosing who will be actually ventilated when everybody should. , bloody seriously.Never thought it was so bad. Thx to for the inspiration and tips. — marco garrone (@drmarcogarrone)
Today there are several strong deals to be had on Dell PCs, including the company’s powerful and popular Alienware Aurora gaming desktop. Dell’s Alienware Aurora pairs a fast Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super graphics card with an powerful Intel Core i5-9600K processor that can be overclocked to unleash extra performance. The system also comes with a 256GB SSD, a 1TB HDD, and 16GB of DDR4 RAM. This system typically retails for $1,864.98, but you can get it from Dell for just $1,449.99. This handy stylus was designed to work with Apple’s iPads and incorporates the same technology as Apple’s Pencil.
Note: While the ExtremeTech publishing system only allows us to list one author per story, sometime-ET author Jessica Hall also spent significant time with the Surface Laptop 3 and contributed her own experiences, thoughts, and evaluation of the laptop to this review. The Surface Laptop 3 is the third iteration of Microsoft’s “standard” laptop and one of the all-around nicest systems I’ve ever used. I’ve on the Surface Laptop family in the past because I didn’t think the hardware deserved the price premium. I was curious, however, to see what kind of additional value Ice Lake could bring to the system.
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All team sports are canceled due to coronavirus, but you can still go for a solitary run. However, the physical impact of running is too much for some people. In a bid to increase physical activity and perhaps create a new mode of transportation, Stanford University engineers have developed a that can boost speed and lower energy usage while running. Many of the exoskeletons designs we’ve seen aim to help workers lift heavier objects. These devices work, but they’re bulky and have to attach to various points across the body. The ankle-assist exoskeleton designed at Stanford is much smaller.
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A lot of tech companies are pulling back in the wake of coronavirus, but it seems that OnePlus won’t be among them. New leaks suggest the company’s OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro smartphones are still launching soon, and . We’ve got the most information about the OnePlus 8 Pro, which will come in this lovely seafoam green color. It’ll also have all the latest hardware, as is OnePlus’ custom. The render of the OnePlus 8 Pro is important for a few reasons. First, it confirms this great green color, which is much more fun than all those boring black and gray slabs.
As the pandemic continues to worsen, medical centers around the world have started running short of vital supplies like masks, gloves, and disinfectants. Hospitals are also running critically low on ventilators, which can keep COVID-19 patients alive if the disease becomes severe. An MIT team has developed an open-source ventilator called the MIT E-Vent that . The E-Vent is based on a project that started almost a decade ago as part of the MIT Precision Machine Design course. Unlike the expensive mechanical ventilators at hospitals, this is a manual ventilator that personnel would need to operate by hand. Students designed the device for use in rural areas and developing nations where mechanical ventilators were not available or reliable.
A Ph.D. student from the University Ca’ Foscari in Venice has made an astonishing discovery. While visiting a monastery/museum on the island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni, Vittoria Dall’Armellina recognized one of the small blades on display as being far older than the medieval period it was believed to represent. The weapon is actually much older — at 5,000 years old, it’s one of the earliest bronze age swords ever found. Prior to the discovery of metal smelting, weapons were constructed from stone, bone, or wood. Humans figured out how to make stone hand axes by at least 1.5 million years ago and the earliest examples of a hafted axe date to ~6000 BC.
