Abstract: An audio output device is disclosed. The audio output device may be a speaker system. The system may include a cabinet and a spring roller disposed at a cabinet bottom surface facing away from a cabinet top surface. The cabinet may house a speaker. The system may further include a base plate attached to cabinet side surfaces such that the base plate may be parallel to the cabinet bottom surface. The system may further include an exchangeable electronic unit that may removably slide and insert between the cabinet bottom surface and a base plate top surface. The spring roller may apply a downward force on the electronic unit when the electronic unit may be inserted between the cabinet bottom surface and the base plate top surface.

Abstract: A consumer product cabinet is disclosed. The consumer product cabinet may be a speaker cabinet. The cabinet may include a plurality of planar side surfaces. Each planar side surface may be attached to adjacent planar side surfaces at a predefined angle along a planar side surface height. The predefined angle may be 90 degrees. The cabinet may further include a plurality of support members. Each support member may be disposed at an intersection of the adjacent planar side surfaces. Further, each support member may be configured to generate recesses along the planar side surface height. Furthermore, the cabinet may include a plurality of replaceable exterior panels configured to removably attach to the plurality of planar side surfaces via the recesses. A recess depth may be equal or equivalent to a replaceable exterior panel thickness.

Abstract: A consumer product cabinet is disclosed. The consumer product cabinet may be a speaker cabinet. The cabinet may include a plurality of planar side surfaces. Each planar side surface may be attached to adjacent planar side surfaces at a predefined angle along a planar side surface height. The predefined angle may be 90 degrees. The cabinet may further include a plurality of support members. Each support member may be disposed at an intersection of the adjacent planar side surfaces. Further, each support member may be configured to generate recesses along the planar side surface height. Furthermore, the cabinet may include a plurality of replaceable exterior panels configured to removably attach to the plurality of planar side surfaces via the recesses. A recess depth may be equal or equivalent to a replaceable exterior panel thickness.

Abstract: A method of determining the presence of bacteria expressing cytochrome c oxidase (‘the bacteria’), the method comprising: —providing a sample suspected of containing the bacteria; —providing a compound that has two redox states: a reduced state and an oxidised state, wherein cytochrome c oxidase can convert the compound from its reduced state to its oxidised state; —contacting an electrode either with (i) the compound in its oxidised state in the presence of the sample, then applying a reductive potential and measuring the current at the electrode; or (ii) the compound in its reduced state in the presence of the sample, then applying an oxidative potential and measuring the current at the electrode; and—comparing the magnitude of the current produced by the reductive potential or oxidative potential in the presence of the sample suspected of containing the bacteria with the magnitude of the current produced under the same conditions, but in the absence of the sample suspected of containing the bacteria, where

Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a coated, substrate for use as an electrode, the coated substrate comprising a substrate that is at least partially coated with a layer comprising a polymer and a redox active substance, wherein the polymer is a cation exchange polymer, and wherein the redox active substance is present in both an oxidised and reduced state. A method for making the isolated coated substrate, and an electrochemical apparatus using the electrode as a reference electrode, is also discussed herein.

Abstract: Multiplexed transdermal extraction and detection devices and systems for non-invasive monitoring of substances, such as glucose, are disclosed, as are methods of using these devices for substance monitoring in subjects.

Abstract: Herein is disclosed a method for detecting a material comprising a thiol group (e.g. homocysteine, cysteine, glutathione) in a sample, the method comprising: •providing an electrode comprising a carbon material; •contacting said electrode with said sample in the presence of catechol or more generally a precursor of ortho-quinone; •performing cyclic or square wave voltammetry to convert catechol to ortho-quinone and wherein said ortho-quinone reacts with the material comprising a thiol group to form an electrochemical reaction product.

Abstract: A method of determining the presence of bacteria expressing cytochrome c oxidase (‘the bacteria’), the method comprising: —providing a sample suspected of containing the bacteria; —providing a compound that has two redox states: a reduced state and an oxidised state, wherein cytochrome c oxidase can convert the compound from its reduced state to its oxidised state; —contacting an electrode either with (i) the compound in its oxidised state in the presence of the sample, then applying a reductive potential and measuring the current at the electrode; or (ii) the compound in its reduced state in the presence of the sample, then applying an oxidative potential and measuring the current at the electrode; and —comparing the magnitude of the current produced by the reductive potential or oxidative potential in the presence of the sample suspected of containing the bacteria with the magnitude of the current produced under the same conditions, but in the absence of the sample suspected of containing the bacteria, wher

Abstract: A pharmaceutical device for electric-field assisted administration of Tapentadol and/or of a physiologically acceptable salt thereof, the device comprising at least one pair of electrodes consisting of an active electrode and a counter electrode (1a and 2a and/or 1b and 2b), optionally at least one additional electrode as an auxiliary electrode, at least one drug reservoir (3) containing at least a portion of the Tapentadol and/or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof, and means (4) for applying the device to skin (5).

Abstract: Multiplexed transdermal extraction and detection devices and systems for non-invasive monitoring of substances, such as glucose, are disclosed, as are methods of using these devices for substance monitoring in subjects.

Abstract: Herein is disclosed a method for detecting a material comprising a thiol group (e.g. homocysteine, cysteine, glutathione) in a sample, the method comprising: •providing an electrode comprising a carbon material; •contacting said electrode with said sample in the presence of catechol or more generally a precursor of ortho-quinone; •performing cyclic or square wave voltammetry to convert catechol to ortho-quinone and wherein said ortho-quinone reacts with the material comprising a thiol group to form an electrochemical reaction product.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical device for electric-field assisted administration of Tapentadol and/or of a physiologically acceptable salt thereof, the device comprising at least one pair of electrodes consisting of an active electrode and a counter electrode (1a and 2a and/or 1b and 2b), optionally at least one additional electrode as an auxiliary electrode, at least one drug reservoir (3) containing at least a portion of the Tapentadol and/or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof, and means (4) for applying the device to skin (5).

Abstract: An electrochemical method for measuring temperature, the method comprising •determining, at a temperature of interest, a first potential at which a first electrochemical reaction of a species occurs, •determining, at the temperature of interest, a second potential at which a second electrochemical reaction of the species occurs, •determining the difference between the first and second potentials, •converting the difference between the first and second potentials to a value of temperature. •Further provided is a temperature sensor for carrying out the method.

Abstract: A display including an electroluminescent layer, a liquid crystal layer, a barrier layer arranged between the electroluminescent layer and the liquid crystal layer to restrict migration of liquid crystal from the liquid crystal layer to the electroluminescent layer, and a first electrode and a second electrode arranged such that the electroluminescent layer and the liquid crystal layer are disposed between the first and second electrodes and arranged to apply an electric field across both the electroluminescent layer and the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: A display including an electroluminescent layer, a liquid crystal layer, and a first electrode and a second electrode arranged such that the electroluminescent layer and the liquid crystal layer are disposed between the first and second electrodes and arranged to apply an electric field across both the electroluminescent layer and the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: According to the present invention, phenols may be detected using an electrochemical sensor comprising a first compound, a working electrode and an electrolyte in contact with the working electrode, wherein the first compound operatively undergoes a redox reaction at the working electrode to form a second compound which operatively reacts in situ with the phenol, wherein said redox reaction has a detectable redox couple and wherein the sensor is adapted to determine the electrochemical response of the working electrode to the consumption of said second compound on reaction with the phenol. The phenol may be, for example, a cannabinoid or a catechin compound.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for burning comprising a combustible body having an exterior surface and an axis extending between opposed top and bottom surfaces. The body has an interior surface defining a cavity extending from the top surface and a first blind bore extending radially from the cavity to the exterior surface wherein the interior surface includes a plurality of slots extending longitudinally therein.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for providing services such as provided by Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) with an IP network that is not the IMS. According to one embodiment, a system for providing communication services can comprise a communication network, one or more subsystems communicatively coupled with the network and adapted to provide one or more telco functions, and one or more applications communicatively coupled with the network and adapted to utilize the telco functions.

Abstract: A composition comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable group (2, 4, 12, 13 or 14) metal compound for the treatment of a dermatological condition involving an abnormal decrease in the cell-to-cell adhesion between epithelial cells in the epidermal barrier.