| Viking Systems, Inc. Announces Sale of the Viking 3Di Digital ...
SAN DIEGO, April 16, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Viking Systems, Inc. (OTCBB:VKSY), a designer, manufacturer and marketer of high-performance laparoscopic vision systems for use in minimally invasive surgical procedures, has sold one of the Company's proprietary surgical technology devices, the Viking 3Di Digital Vision System ("Viking 3Di"), to Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC), the United States Army's premier medical center on the east coast of the United States. Col. (Dr.) Ernest Lockrow, director of the Telerobotics and Minimally Invasive Surgery Center at Walter Reed, recently used the System's 3-D capabilities to successfully perform a hysterectomy, becoming the military's first surgeon to use the new 3-D minimally invasive surgical technology at WRAMC. .
NeuroPower acquires PriMetrica Asia Pacific
San Diego-based NeuroPower has completed the acquisition of Asian direct marketing and database solution provider PriMetrica Asia Pacific from PriMetrica. Headquartered in Singapore, NeuroPower’s new subsidiary will operate as PriMetricaAsia (PMA) with offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and San Diego.PMA will continue to provide a full range of direct marketing, database management and solutions, data analytics, and lead generation services to its clients in the region. The company plans to invest in improvements and expansion of the proprietary CorporateAsia™ marketing database of approximately one million key decision makers and influencers and 300,000 enterprise profiles throughout Asia. The new division will also expand its offerings to take advantage of NeuroPower's software technology in artificial intelligence, search and experts systems development.
Sunken Greek cruise ship's "black box" retrieved
ATHENS, April 14 (Xinhua) -- The Voyage Data Recorder of the sunken Greek cruise ship Sea Diamond was successfully recovered by a professional diver on Saturday afternoon from the shipwreck at an approximate depth of 85 meters. The black box will be turned over to the Naxos prosecut or who launched legal proceedings against the captain of the ill-fated Sea Diamond that sank off near the Aegean island of Santorini at dawn on April 6. The black box's contents -- a recording of all data particularly during the ship's collision with a charted reef -- will be examined by prosecutors with the assistance of an expert and representatives of the Cyprus-based ship-owner and its insurance companies. Two passengers out of the roughly 1,500 people on board -- a French man and his daughter -- went missing after the boat sank and are still unaccounted for.
Computational thinking research centre
Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University have announced the creation of the Microsoft Carnegie Mellon centre for Computational Thinking. The centre was made possible through a three-year, $1.5 million grant from Microsoft. The centre represents a long-term collaboration between Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon's Computer Science Department and will support research in emerging areas of computer science, particularly those that can influence the thinking of other disciplines. .
Hobbyist One-Ups Sandia Labs
An anonymous reader writes "A robotics hobbyist has created what he claims is the world's smallest autonomous robot. The robot is half the volume of the robots produced by Sandia National Labs in 2001, moves quite a bit faster, and was made using techniques and supplies accessible to anyone." While Sandia Labs has had some time to improve on their original designs, it's still pretty cool to see what one can do at home as well. .
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