Smart I Pill Dispenser

MEDSense: A Portable Pill Dispenser

According to Dr. Holger Shlutter, Vice President of Trumpf, the nation’s leading producers of solid state lasers, one of the best aspects of the American technology system is its liberal-minded acceptance of “failure.” Dr. Shlutter argues that while many countries such as Germany (his home country) have nothing but contempt for failure, the U.S. has an uncanny tendency to view failed attempts o...

Construction of a Smart Medication Dispenser with High Degree of Scalability and Remote Manageability

We propose a smart medication dispenser having a high degree of scalability and remote manageability. We construct the dispenser to have extensible hardware architecture for achieving scalability, and we install an agent program in it for achieving remote manageability. The dispenser operates as follows: when the real-time clock reaches the predetermined medication time and the user presses the...

The General Dispenser

Traveling with a Pez Dispenser

MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS) [6, 11] is routing model proposed by the IETF for the Internet, and is becoming widely popular. In this paper, we initiate a theoretical study of the routing model, and give routing algorithms and lower bounds in a variety of situations. We first study the routing problems on the line. We then build up our results from paths through trees to more general gra...

Bubble dispenser in microfluidic devices.

This Brief Report presents experimental and computational results on bubble formation in microfluidic devices. Bubbles are generated at the right-angle intersection of four identical square microchannels. When the pressure gradient generated by the liquid flow dominates the pressure gradient generated by gas flow, the length of the produced confined bubbles follows a law based on the channel si...