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#Toward tiny, solar-powered sensors The latest buzz in the information technology industry regards he Internet of thingsthe idea that vehicles, appliances, civil-engineering structures, manufacturing equipment,

and even livestock would have embedded their own sensors that report information directly to networked servers,

an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and first author on the new paper. e need to regulate the input to extract the maximum power,

at very limited input power levels 10 nanowatts to 1 microwatt for the Internet of things. The prototype chip was manufactured through the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's University Shuttle Program.

Nanoparticles made from these polymers have a hydrophobic core and a hydrophilic shell. Due to molecular-scale forces

BPA, another endocrine-disrupting synthetic compound widely used in plastic bottles and other resinous consumer goods, from thermal printing paper samples;

and computer screens may seem worlds apart but they're not. When associate professor Qi Hua Fan of the electrical engineering and computer science department set out to make a less expensive supercapacitor for storing renewable energy he developed a new plasma technology that will streamline the production of display screens.

For his work on thin film and plasma technologies Fan was named researcher of the year for the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering.

His research focuses on nanostructured materials used for photovoltaics energy storage and displays. Last spring Fan received a proof-of-concept grant from the Department of energy through the North Central Regional Sun Grant Center to determine

Applied Nanofilms and Wintek a company that makes flat panel displays for notebooks and touch screens in Ann arbor Michigan provided matching funds.

Through this project Fan developed a faster way of treating the biochar particles using a new technology called plasma activation.

The technique that treats biochar electrodes for supercapacitors can also be used in making displays explained Fan who was a research scientist at Wintek more than 10 years ago.

and carbon thin films for the company's displays. Plasma processing is a very critical technology in modern optoelectronic materials

The high-energy plasma can deposit highly transparent and conductive thin films create high quality semiconductors and pattern micro-or nanoscale devices thus making the display images brighter and clearer.

"said Elena Rozhkova, chemist at Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials, a DOE Office of Science (Office of Basic energy Sciences) User Facility."

The key according to UCSB professor of electrical and computer engineering Kaustav Banerjee who led this research is Mos2's band gap the characteristic of a material that determines its electrical conductivity.

This result could be the basis for next-generation flexible and transparent computing, better light-emitting diodes,

and integrate it with cells and cellular networks at the whole-tissue level. This could get around a lot of serious health problems in neurodegenerative diseases in the future."

His team has made ultrathin nanowires that can monitor and influence what goes on inside cells.

ultraflexible electronics into the brain and allow them to become fully integrated with the existing biological web of neurons.

Each different part of the graphene oxide has a unique electronic signature. Using the synchrotron Hunt could measure where electrons were on the graphene

#Supercomputers reveal strange stress-induced transformations in world's thinnest materials (Phys. org) Interested in an ultra-fast unbreakable and flexible smart phone that recharges in a matter of seconds?

A Columbia University team used supercomputers at the U s. Department of energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory to simulate

of which can be compared directly to experimental data said Chris Marianetti a professor of materials science at Columbia University and coauthor of the study.

Testing all the different atomic configurations for each material under strain boils down to a tremendous amount of computation Isaacs said.

which was designed to inject DNA into mouse zygotes (single-cell embryos consisting of a fertilized egg)."

From the project site: The Open source Beehives project is a collaborative response to the threat faced by bee populations in industrialised nations around the world.

The project proposes to design hives that can support bee colonies in a sustainable way to monitor

Each hive contains an open source sensory kit The Smart Citizen Kit (SCK) which can transmit to an open data platform:

Smartcitizen. methese sensor enhanced hive designs are open and freely available online the data collected from each hive is published together with geolocations allowing for a further comparison and analysis of the hives.

If you're a professional beekeeper or hobbyist and handy with electronics you get a double-whammy:

and you can find the source code for the hives at the project site.##Boing Boing t

#Device Could Harvest Wasted Energy From Wi-fi, Satellite Signals A wireless device developed by researchers at Duke university that converts microwaves into electricity could eventually harvest Wi-fi or satellite signals for power according to its creators.

It could also one day be built into cell phones to let them charge while not in use they say.

Its energy harvesting capabilities come courtesy of a metamaterial a synthetic material engineered with characteristics not found in nature like the ability to bend light the wrong way

This is a science website and people here justifiably mock you. Your views are childish illogical nonsense that should be deplored in any civilized forum.

If you do a Google search for pictures of Dolly the clone sheep you will find many.@

In this single proof displays we should not toy exploit human embryos and make a commodity of embryos for they are full human life.

Not to mention the potential applications of stem cell-derived organs in toxicology screens for new pharmaceutical compounds

#Google Already Testing Delivery Robots In Australia In rural Australia a drone delivers dog treats to a farmer.

The robot is a proof of concept part of#Project Wing by Google X. The program is designed to show that delivery drones are possible

#Next for Google: figuring out the path from proven#prototype to everyday utility. The drone is a tail-sitter taking off vertically with its body perpendicular to the ground.

Google s driverless car program is an obvious touchstone for this project but it s a limited one.

Still Google s development and prior experience with cars is a strong sign that this work will continue and ultimately yield fruit.

Michael Toscano CEO of#the Association for Unmanned Vehicle systems International said thatit s worth noting that Google tested this technology in Australia first.

P. S. P. S. Popular Science Postscript: How can a process that produces carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, help reduce global warming?

The most defining feature of the system on display at the company showroom in Yokohama is its 3-dimensional use of space. his is tiered a 5 cultivation system.

an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and biological engineering. hese bacteriophages are designed in a way that relatively modular.

the researchers combed through databases of phage genomes looking for sequences that appear to code for the key tail fiber section, known as gp17.

and Professor Lennart Lindfors, of Astrazeneca, Sweden, have mapped out'in diagram format the actual movements made by chemical molecules on their breeding journey using computer simulations.

T. C. Chang Professor of Computer science at Columbia Engineering, has invented a prototype video camera that is the first to be fully self-poweredt can produce an image each second, indefinitely, of a well-lit indoor scene.

They designed a pixel that can not only measure incident light but also convert the incident light into electric power.

who directs the Computer Vision Laboratory at Columbia Engineering. He notes that in the last year alone,

Digital imaging is expected to enable many emerging fields including wearable devices, sensor networks, smart environments, personalized medicine,

and the Internet of things. A camera that can function as an untethered device foreverithout any external power supplyould be incredibly useful."

At the heart of any digital camera is an image sensor, a chip with millions of pixels.

The key enabling device in a pixel is the photodiode, which produces an electric current when exposed to light.

This mechanism enables each pixel to measure the intensity of light falling on it. The same photodiode is used also in solar panels to convert incident light to electric power.

The photodiode in a camera pixel is used in the photoconductive mode while in a solar cell it is used in the photovoltaic model.

Nayar, working with research engineer Daniel Sims BS'14 and consultant Mikhail Fridberg of ADSP Consulting, used off-the-shelf components to fabricate an image sensor with 30x40 pixels.

each pixel's photodiode is operated always in the photovoltaic mode. The pixel design is very simple,

and uses just two transistors. During each image capture cycle, the pixels are used first to record

and read out the image and then to harvest energy and charge the sensor's power supplyhe image sensor continuously toggles between image capture and power harvesting modes.

such as a phone or a watch. Nayar notes that the image sensor could use a rechargeable battery and charge it via its harvesting capability:"

Professor Shu Kobayashi's group at the Graduate school of Science has developed highly active immobilized catalysts (heterogeneous catalysts)

and demonstrated simple and highly efficient synthesis of (R)- and (S)- rolipram by an eight-step continuous flow reaction using multiple column reactors containing the immobilized catalysts.

Professor Kobayashi's application of flow chemistry techniques to the production of fine chemicals using heterogeneous catalysts has resulted in simple method to synthesize (R)

and without purification of products from catalysts. Professor Kobayashi says"This new technology can be applied to not only other gamma aminobutyric-acids acids and medicines but also various chemicals such as flavors, agricultural chemicals,

This research outcome potentially allows for great flexibility in the design and optimization of electronic and optoelectronic devices like solar panels and telecommunication lasers.

Applications of these devices include advanced microscopes, displays, sensors, and cameras that can be mass-produced using the same techniques used to manufacture computer microchips. hese flat lenses will help us to make more compact and robust imaging assemblies,

said Mahmood Bagheri, a microdevices engineer at JPL and co-author of a new Nature Nanotechnology study describing the devices. urrently,

Manipulating the polarization of light is essential for the operation of advanced microscopes, cameras and displays;

the control of polarization also enables simple gadgets such as 3-D glasses and polarized sunglasses. f you think of a modern microscope,

which are relatively open. sing mouse models, the researchers tested their sunblock against direct ultraviolet rays and their ability to cause sunburn.

The relentless advance of computing power over the past half-century has relied on constant miniaturization of field-effect transistors (FETS),

Transistors act like switches that flick on and off to represent data as zeroes and ones. A key challenge that FETS now face is reducing the power they consume.

UCSB Banerjee suggests that potential applications for these new TFETS may include ultra-low-power electronics and computing,

longer battery life or lower power consumption in data centers to reduce their costs and greenhouse gas emissions, and ultra-sensitive and low-power biosensors and gas sensors to enhance the Internet of things.

However, Banerjee cautions that TFETS are designed not for speed or high performance. hey are desirable for low-power electronics,

#Airware Launches Its Commercial Drone Operating system Drones could save businesses big money by doing dull, dirty,

Commercial businesses can now license Airware Flight Core autopilot technology, Ground Control Station for dispatching drones,

and its cloud platform for customizing missions and collecting data. With well over $40 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins,

Airware integrated hardware software, and cloud system lets enterprises customize drones to check on gas pipelines,

survey farm land, inspect cell towers, patrol property, or do search & rescue, Now wel see just how many businesses will pay a monthly subscription for Airware to power their drones for industrial inspections, agriculture management, anti-poaching, and more.

Consumer drone makers are growing fast as quadcopters become the hot new toy for kids and adults alike.

But long-term, theyl likely be commoditized as hardware makers around the globe clone and undercut each other on price.

Whatever companies makes the software that runs these drones would make serious profits for years to come.

Following a brief introduction by Airware CEO Jonathan Downey, CTO Buddy Michini demonstrated Airware core technologies:

the Flight Core autopilot system, which provides the brains to each drone that Airware powers,

the Ground Control Station that lets a single user operate a fleet of drones from a Windows laptop or tablet,

and then painstakingly dump the data back to your servers, Airware can handle the whole process.

enhance it with cloud widgets to customize their drone to the day use case, and the data flows back automatically.

Operators can just trace a flight path on a map instead of driving the drone in real-time.

and dig sites using flight plans generated Airware Ground Control Station. Users simply draw out a geofence for the drone to stay within

and give it parameters like required altitude. It wasn the flashiest demo wee ever seen with a drone after taking off

After several similar demos, Drone America CEO Mike Richards spoke about using his company larger drones with Airware software for missions outside of traditional industrial uses.

000 square acres rather than the 100 acres a quadcopter can handle. It was easily the most exciting flight of the day,

which lets customers create widgets for the Ground Control Station in the C# programming language. These widgets are actually the main reason Airware is sticking with Windows for its tablet app.

Instead of requiring customers to build their own app with the exact drone interface needed, building on Windows will allow them to download the same app to each tablet

but provide different interfaces by simply checking off which widgets should be available to different workers in the field on the cloud backend.

Michini was excited also to talk about the App Core which will provide a full-on Linux computer for developers to work with in addition to the standard Flight Core autopilot and Ground Control Station integration.

When it rolls out to select Airware partners this summer, this new system will let customers take advantage of more advanced sensor

and image processing tools without sacrificing an interface that actually usable for operators in the field.

Essentially, third-parties will be able to develop plug-ins to let drones handle even more niche missions. Little Copters, Big Business This is

Airware can roll out new products like App Core without having to find new companies to sell to or upsell its current customers.

It just added investment from Intel capital to the money from GE, A16z, Kleiner, First Round, Google Ventures,

monitor farm land, and survey big tracts of land. Planes and helicopters can be terribly expensive for collecting this overhead video and measurement data, though.

Meanwhile, sending humans around in trucks or dangling them in climbing harnesses can be slow and risky.

#Nikola Labs Launches iphone 6 Case Which Harvests Electricity From The Air Nikola Tesla pioneered the transmission of electricity over wires.

and the audience as the Wild Card choice from Startup Alley launched a device that converts radio frequencies into DC power,

a case for an iphone 6. It converts the wasted 90 percent of energy the phone produces trying to pump out a cellphone signal,

and puts it back into the phone, thus powering it for up to 30 percent longer.

Essentially it is harvesting back the ambient RF energy already being produced by the phone. They aim to bring the product to market within one year, in partnership with Ohio State university,

medical devices and Internet of things devices anything that doesn require massive amounts of electricity. It will be launching on Kickstarter in one month for $99,

2015 By Alecengineers are increasingly employing 3d printers to solve complex issues in the field of robotics,

This ocktail-party problemhas been around in the artificial intelligence business for a while, and computers have struggled simply to continue to pick out your voice

when nearby people are talking simultaneously. Some proposed solutions revolved around complex algorithms or equipping robots with a large number of microphones focused on various positions in the vicinity,

but neither have proved very successful. But as they explain in an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,

3d printing offers a fantastic solution. What they have essentially come up with is a large thick, 3d printed plastic disk, featuring 36 openings on its side,

our proposed method is a unique hardware-based approach by exploiting carefully designed acoustic metamaterials,

but the algorithm used for the sensor can almost always tell which direction it comes from.

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#3d printed Tadpole Endoscope device can improve cancer diagnoses Sep 15, 2015 By Kiratadpoles. Very recently, we reported on 3d printed icrofishrobots that can be injected directly into our blood to perform complex medical tasks.

By observing the transmitted video on a TV monitor, doctors can get a firsthand view of the patient organs

While similar devices, known as wireless capsule endoscopes, have been created in the past, the TE is notable for its soft tail,

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#Graphene 3d files patent for low-cost, toxic-free process for producing high grade graphene for 3d printing Sep 29,

2015 By Kiragraphene 3d Lab has filed a non-provisionary patent pertaining to a new method for the preparation and separation of atomic layers of graphene nanoplatlets (GNP),

which would dramatically increase the potential for large scale production of high grade graphene, one of the most groundbreaking and highly-sought out materials in 3d printing manufacturing.

graphene is considered a sort of oly grailin 3d printing and manufacturing materials. Made from carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal sheet only one atom thick, graphene offers extraordinary properties:

including 3d printing services. The honeycomb structure of graphene"The business implications associated with this filing are significant and near term.

"The Calverton, New york-based Graphene 3d Lab is already well-known for the development of proprietary graphene-based nanocomposite materials for 3d printing,

the widespread commercial availability of high grade graphene is sure to impact 3d printing manufacturers, allowing more and more companies to innovate

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#3d Printed Micro-Fish to Explore the Oceans of Our Bodies In the exponentially vital industry of nanoengineering,

3d printing is now being utilized to make sure the inner workings of our bodies are running swimmingly.

Two professors of nanoengineering from the University of California San diego are utilizing advanced 3d printing technology to produce icrofish fish-shaped microrobotic devices geared towards traveling

The microfish were manufactured with microscale continuous optical printing (COP), an advanced, high-resolution form of 3d printing that was created in Chen laboratory.

The COP printer functions at a rapid pace, and is able to produce hundreds of their microfish within seconds of printing.

What makes this printer so efficient is its digital micromirroring array device chip (DMD), containing millions of micromirrors that function separately from one another to cast the desired microfish design onto photosensitive material,

which is solidified then once exposed to UV LIGHT. This advanced process results in these 3d printed microfish, able to swim naturally through liquids,

while being controlled magnetically and propelled by a hydrogen peroxide solution. The nanoengineering team was then able to modify the microfish body with various nanoparticles,

Chen and Wang have conducted demonstrations to show the great potential of combining 3d printing with nanoengineering, installing polydiacetylene (PDA) nanoparticles within the microfish.

helping medical professionals gather their diagnosis from swimming throughout the body with these microfish. 3d printing enthusiasts are amazed oftentimes by

Their innovative Hydrelio Floating PV system allows standard PV panels to be installed on large bodies of water such as:

assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Davis and the paperssenior author. hat happens is the debris in biological samples,

and Ling Wang in the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering at UC Davis were the other authors of the papers.

assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Davis and the paperssenior author. hat happens is the debris in biological samples,

and Ling Wang in the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering at UC Davis were the other authors of the papers.

with internal video screens linked to external cameras instead of windows. And Lockheed martin has a commercial plane, the N+2,

Ceramic panels will have to be used. During tests the heat that accumulated at Mach 8 was up to 30%less than at Mach 5. This hermal paradoxwas a nice surprise for Steelant team,

hydrophilic (water-loving) shell and a hydrophobic (water-fearing) spherical core. he polymers are synthetized to ensure that

its protecting corona is removed and only the hydrophobic core remains. These akedhydrophobic plastic beads are stabilized not anymore

no data exist on the ability of these oxidizing agents to destroy the dangerous chemical, so their value is said questionable,

they only attach at certain putative sites. On the other hand, ubiquitins have a subtle trick up their sleeves they can tag other tags.

lets your smartphone hear in noisy parties People trying to talk to Apple electronic personal assistant Siri in a crowded place may soon no longer have to look like they are about to eat their iphones,

said the paper lead author Abel Xie. his could improve the performance of voice-activated devices like smartphones and game consoles, Xie added.

said Steve Cummer, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke. When a sound wave gets to the device,

the sound is transmitted to a computer that is able to separate the jumble of noises based on these unique distortions.

and also as a cartridge for 3d printing. opo was a joint award winner at the Thought for Food Challenge in Lisbon,

Georgia Tech has the answer Researchers at Georgia Tech have built a tablet-based system that lets people control a fleet of robots with just the swipe of a finger.

when someone swipes the Apple ipad to drag the light across the floor, the robots follow.

If, however, the person puts two fingers in different locations on the tablet the machines split into teams

Georgia Tech says that its algorithm for controlling large teams of robots could be used in areas such as manufacturing, agriculture,

or a million robots by individually programming each one where to go, said Magnus Egerstedt, Schlumberger Professor in Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer engineering, in a statement. nstead,

the operator controls an area that needs to be explored. Then the robots work together to determine the best ways to accomplish the job. eorgia Tech says that its robotic algorithm is flexible enough to let robots hange their minds."

"In a demonstration of the system, each robot is constantly measuring how much light is in its local eighborhood. hen there too much light in a robot area,

and add to the complete diagnostic data Set in testing thus far, the TE has been deployed in both an artificial stomach model and a pig stomach.

It was applied to the surface of mouse and pig hearts that had suffered from attacks and was found to drive tissue regeneration.

#A Smartphone Case That Recharges Your Battery from Thin Air How many times a day do you scramble around looking for a power cord

and outlet to recharge your mobile phone? A new smartphone case promises to top off your battery lifeut of thin air.

The Harvest phone case grabs the power your phone wastes and puts it back into the battery.

About 90%of your phone power is spent pumping out radio waves just trying to keep its wireless connection even

when youe not using it. The case arveststhose stray radio waves and converts them into electric power.

The Harvest case is able to stretch your battery life by nearly a third. Nikola Labswill Zell explains in the video below how the phone case is able to turn radio waves into electricity.

Ohio State university came up with the technology and licensed it to Nikola Labs to build and sell.

available only for the iphone initially, is expected to launch later this month on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter.

It could be useful in data storage, spintronics, or even in sensors that measure magnetic fields. We could even see it used in future computer technology o

querying DNA databases, to also figure out how that process worked. Another technical challenge Smolke's group addressed was maintaining efficiency in the process as they stringed all of the steps together.

in a paper posted on the biorxiv preprint server, suggesting that"additional technical challenges, some

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#Lab-Grown Bones? They Could Make Painful Grafts History (Op-Ed) Nina Tandon is CEO and cofounder of Epibone. com,

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