Healthcare Technology Good Medicine for Michigan

By Peter Haapaniemi

Healthcare technology plays a large and growing role in the field of medicine —and today, it is doing much the same in the Michigan business landscape.

what's cooking in wireless tech

Jane Gleeson

Imagine pulling out your electric mixer and using it anywhere on the kitchen counter you choose — with no cord to restrict your options. Or operating a toaster, blender or coffee maker in the most convenient spot —any spot — in your kitchen.

Medical minds at work

By Howard Lovy

Bruce Barrett President and CEO, Somanetics Corp. Somanetics' main product continuously monitors changes in patients' blood oxygen levels in the brain and elsewhere in the body.

Delphi Medical Systems
A New, Inspired Course

By Howard Lovy

The ancient Greeks, it is written, would gather around the Oracle of Delphi not to see into the future but rather to soak in the intellectual atmosphere that pervaded the crowds. In the modern age, the name Delphi Corp., for some, conjures up images of a suffering automotive supplier, but take a closer look and you can see the innovators of the 21st century gathering around it, picking up the broken links and discovering new directions.

Life Lessons
New Detroit Science Center charter school hopes to help students develop a lifelong love of science and math.

Khristi Zimmeth

Dillon Dixon, a 12-year-old University Prep Science and Math Middle School (UPSM) student from Detroit, wants to pursue a career in medicine some day. In the meantime, he enjoys digging into class projects such as "Make It, Don't Bake It," a hands-on math experiment that helps students work with fractions through a five-ingredient, no-bake brownie recipe. "We made chocolate mint dazzle," Dillon says of the messy but ultimately satisfying results. "It looked pretty bad but it tasted good."