Category: Technology
Table Salt Discovered to be Key in Water Purification Method
Queen’s University researchers have developed a new process to make drinking water safer by using table salt. This development may be especially beneficial for developing countries where 80 per cent of disease is due to poor water quality and sanitation. “The need for clean water for drinking, hygiene and sanitation purposes in developing regions is [...]
Queen’s University Eye Specialist Honoured for Teaching Innovations
The Ontario Medical Association has recognized Dr. Sanjay Sharma, of Ophthalmology and Epidemiology at Queen’s University, for his innovative education methods that include the use of short videos to instruct students on how to diagnose and treat eye conditions. “To receive this recognition is really an honour,” Dr. Sharma, who is also a retina specialist [...]
Locally Designed Device Improves Laser Accuracy in Surgeries & Manufacturing
A Queen’s University physicist and a PhD student have created an innovative device to control the depth of a laser cut, enabling pinpoint accuracy during surgeries and avoiding complications that can occur when cuts are made too deep. “The issue of depth control has always been a problem in laser surgery,” said professor James Fraser. [...]
Bombardier Opens Factory in Brazil, Kingston to Build & Test Train
On Friday, Bombardier Transportation inaugurated a new, state-of-the-art monorail vehicle manufacturing facility in Hortolândia – São Paulo, Brazil. The new production site design and construction is based on technology transferred from Bombardier’s manufacturing and engineering hubs here in Kingston – where one of Brazil’s trains will also be built and tested – as well as [...]
Instagram App Now Available for Android Smartphone Owners
The Instagram photo app, after a long wait, is now available to Android smartphone users beginning this week. With almost 30 million Apple iphone and iPad users, the much anticipated Android version of the photo app is now available to smartphones running version 2.2 (or later) of its operating system. With Instagram, owners can take [...]
Oxygen Detected in the Atmosphere of Saturn’s Moon
By analyzing data collected by the Cassini spacecraft in April 2010, during its flight over one of the 62 satellites of Saturn, U.S. scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have discovered oxygen molecules in the exosphere of Saturn’s moon Dione (pictured) – which coincidentally was discovered by Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1684. The presence of [...]
City of Kingston Redesigning Website, Seeks Suggestions from the Public
For the first time since 2001, the City of Kingston website is being redesigned to make it more useful for all users and optimized for new mobile devices that include smartphones and tablets. And the public is being asked to make suggestions on how they would prefer to access City information, services and programs online. [...]
Danish Researchers: Omega-3 for Women in Their 30s to Protect Heart
According to researchers in Denmark, women in their thirties should eat fish rich in omega-3 to prevent heart problems in the future. The Copenhagen study indicated that the risk of cardiovascular disease was halved in women who consumed fish regularly, particularly if they began when they were younger. In comparing those who ate fish rich [...]
Kingston Jump+ Store Opens, Offering Full Line of Apple Products
A new Jump+ store – offering Apple’s full line of innovative products, including iPad 2, iPhone 4S and the updated MacBook Air – will be opening this Saturday December 3, 2011 at 11:00 am. Located at 272 Princess Street, the grand opening will include giving away a $500 in-store credit as well as gift cards [...]
Kingston’s Performance Plants R&D to Boost Chinese Cotton Yields
Kingston’s Performance Plants Inc. (“PPI”) – a leading global agricultural biotechnology provider – and Biocentury Transgene (China) Co. Ltd. have signed a commercial license agreement giving Biocentury the exclusive rights for PPI’s Heat and Drought Tolerance Technology (“HDT™”) in cotton in China. The agreement was signed on November 10th in Shenzhen, China. With this agreement, [...]
