Author: Erik Williams

One might not normally think of a Formula 1 racing team as being at the forefront of medical device development but the Mercedes engineers at Brackley have managed to do just that. In an impossibly short time-frame, the engineers along with clinicians in London reverse-engineered a CPAP unit and have designed a even better replacement they can put into mass production to the tune of 1,000 units per day assuming the 40 prototypes do well.…

After three weeks of the outside unit being down thanks to a buggered contactor that had fused (so the unit wouldn’t shut down unless you pulled the fuse), it was nice to finally get the replacement part and install it. It was pretty much a drop-in replacement moving the wires one at a time and now the heat pump is back in working order just in time for a near 90 degF day! :) The…

Just one more hour until the cabbage goes in…love Irish cooking, hate having to practise Irish patience… :)

The dawn of a new age is upon us… ;)

The Fed and other central banks just blew a massive load of liquidity all over the markets and dumped the key interest rate on the deck. The markets responded by another massive sell off to the tune of nearly 3,000 points on the Dow! If that’s not the clearest indication the market has zero confidence in the government’s ability to respond to this crisis, I don’t know what is. Maybe the administration might try for…

So President Trump tells the nation that he’s taken the COVID-19 test given his contact with people who have tested positive for the virus. But then he’s waiting 1-2 days for the lab to report the results?!? How is it possible that the most powerful leader in the world or at least his CDC chief can’t be bothered to fast-track those results given how much interest there is from the media? I’d understand if someone…