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Wall Street Journal's 2004 World Technology Innovation Awards
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| dj_ilan_yosef |
The winners of The Wall Street Journal's 2004 Technology Innovation
Awards competition have been announced. Innovators world-wide were
considered.
The Gold award went to Sun Microsystems Inc of California for a
wireless approach to chip design.
The Silver award went to Given Imaging Ltd of Yoqneam, Israel for
'PillCam', a tiny camera that patients swallow so that doctors can see their digestive tract.
The Bronze award went to InSightec Image Guided Treatment Ltd. of
Tirat Carmel, Israel for 'ExAblate 2000', a nonsurgical way to destroy tumors by focusing ultrasound waves on them.
This is a wonderful achievement for Israel. From a world-wide search, Israel took two of the top three places. An outstanding acievement in light of the current political situation the country has been facing. |
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| tathi |
| and the Israeli that should have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize is Mordechai Vanunu |
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| josh4 |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj_ilan_yosef
The Silver award went to Given Imaging Ltd of Yoqneam, Israel for
'PillCam', a tiny camera that patients swallow so that doctors can see their digestive tract.
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:wtf: thats awesome! |
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| auujay |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj_ilan_yosef
The Silver award went to Given Imaging Ltd of Yoqneam, Israel for
'PillCam', a tiny camera that patients swallow so that doctors can see their digestive tract.
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This looks awsome and a hole lot simpler than a colonoscopy, though this will not replace one anytime soon as long as you can't directly control it and it does not take biopsies. They say it has an improved resolution over a SBFT and if it replaces a "barium swallow" xray then this is a winner in my book; a small bowel follow through is worse than a colonoscopy IMO. |
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