Meet The Italian Engineers 3D-Printing Respirator Parts For Free To Help Keep Coronavirus Patients Alive

Posted on March 20, 2020March 23, 2020 by admin

Christian Fracassi, founder and CEO of Isinnova, an Italian engineering startup, heard the call for help last Friday. The hospital in Chiari, in the Brescia area of northern Italy where the coronavirus pandemic has hit hard, urgently needed valves for its respirators in order to keep patients who required oxygen alive. The manufacturer couldn’t provide them quickly enough and the hospital was desperate. Fracassi immediately started tinkering with his engineers to reverse-engineer a 3D-printed version Read more about Meet The Italian Engineers 3D-Printing Respirator Parts For Free To Help Keep Coronavirus Patients Alive[…]

Apple warns coronavirus will hurt iPhone supplies

Posted on February 19, 2020February 19, 2020 by admin

Apple has warned that disruption in China from the coronavirus will mean revenues falling short of forecasts. The tech giant said production and sales were affected, and that “worldwide iPhone supply would be temporarily constrained”. The iPhone maker is the first major US company to say that the epidemic will hit its finances. Apple, which had forecast record revenues of up to $67bn in the current quarter, did not reveal the likely hit. “We do Read more about Apple warns coronavirus will hurt iPhone supplies[…]