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it is a technology that everyone is aware of on their computers and phones, yet not many people choose to use.

This data is transmitted via Bluetooth to users'phones or tablets. With recent advances in technology such as Bluetooth, we are now able to build medical devices that weren't possible just a decade ago#.

once embedded under the skin monitors substances in the blood such as glucose and cholesterol so that chronic diseases like diabetes or the effects of treatments such as chemotherapy can be monitored.

which is sent wirelessly via Bluetooth to an Android app, can be forwarded automatically to doctors. Bluecell is still a few years from commercialisation."

and sends that information directly to an ipad app via Bluetooth. By cross-checking this data against a database

Kenyan mobile tech company Virtual city has developed Agrimanagr an app designed to speed up and automate the flow of information

electronic scales are used to transmit the weight of produce via Bluetooth to a mobile phone which records this in farmers'accounts on a cloud-based server.

#says Virtual city chief executive John Waibochi.""Buyers would tamper with the weight scale.##Going digital and printing receipts"cuts out fraud#and increases the value to farmers 9-13%,#he adds.#

#This system could of course be done without Bluetooth, but being wireless makes it easier.""Out in the rural areas,

Gary Marsden, a computer scientist at the University of Cape town, developed Big board, an electronic notice board that disseminates information wirelessly and for free.

The system displays a series of icons representing information on various topics on a screen.

He also developed Com-Me, a collection of hardware and software components to help people with limited access to electricity

the same types of systems can be implemented in skin-mounted configurations for health/wellness monitors or nonbiomedical devices.

and the industrial partners are incorporating the algorithms and hardware innovations into commercial products. In the longer term, Nicola Bui, the former CEO of Patavina Technologies, a project partner based in Italy,

A fibre-optic grid monitors any deformations in the bag (signs of tearing or folding) during its sea voyage.

The process involves single axis tracking concentrating collectors that essentially orient panels towards the sunlight.

low power consumption wireless sensor network, sending the data to an intelligent web service software application for analysis. Once the numbers are crunched-taking due account for weather and other local parameters-it automatically activates the selected irrigation nodes in the areas

the AMST project is developing a new generation of software. AMST stands for Advanced Multi-physics Simulation Technology, a type of software that can be used for a wide range of such complex processes.

Besides its versatile use, the software main advantage is its independence from any experimental conditions. Despite this, it has proven its ability to predict very detailed results.

Scientists and engineers then analyse the data obtained in great detail in order to unveil the underlying physics of the processes Involved with these theoretical insights complementing the empirical knowledge our understanding of multi-physics has been broadened considerably.

and the German SME inutech with its complementary expertise in designing software for multi-physics applications.

##This could really be a game-changer for a lot of applications including diagnostics##say James Collins who is a professor of biomedical engineering and medicine at Boston University and a core faculty member at Harvard s Wyss Institute.##

Like computer circuits gene circuits usually consist of a sensing component (or##input##)a logic gate and an output but they are crafted from parts of cells rather than wires and transistors.

Using a standard laser printer stocked with special wax-based inks he printed patterns of small dots onto uncoated filter paper.

##But I knew that having that core insight was going to enable the whole thing.#####This was Keith s big insightâ##freeze-drying the circuit##says Collins.##I couldn t believe it worked as well as it did.

MORE EFFECTIVE THAN DRUGS The discovery could spawn a new generation of programmable microimplantsensors to monitor vital functions deep inside the body;

The Intel Science and Technology Center for Pervasive Computing at the University of Washington and the Sloan Foundation supported the work.

Unlike other water splitters that use precious-metal catalysts the electrodes in the Stanford device are made of inexpensive and abundant nickel

professor at Stanford university. his is the first time anyone has used non-precious metal catalysts to split water at a voltage that low.

But scientists have yet to develop an affordable active water splitter with catalysts capable of working at industrial scales. t s been a constant pursuit for decades to make low-cost electrocatalysts with high activity

or mobile devices to harvest solar energy without obscuring the view. Past efforts to create similar materials have been disappointing with inefficient energy production

The technology is featured in the journal Advanced Optical Materials. t opens a lot of area to deploy solar energy in a nonintrusive waylunt says. t can be used on tall buildings with lots of windows or any kind of mobile device that demands high aesthetic quality like a phone or e reader.

The new motor has a core and two arms made of DNA one above and one below the core.

As it moves along a carbon-nanotube track it continuously harvests energy from strands of RNA molecules vital to a variety of roles in living cells

The core is made of an enzyme that cleaves off part of a strand of RNA. After cleavage the upper DNA arm moves forward binding with the next strand of RNA

#Computer gets smarter by looking at online pics 24-7 Carnegie mellon University Posted by Byron Spice-Carnegie mellon on November 26 2013a computer program called the Never Ending Image Learner (NEIL) is running 24

As NEIL s visual database grows the computer program gains common sense on a massive scale. NEIL leverages recent advances in computer vision that enable computer programs to identify

and label objects in images to characterize scenes and to recognize attributes such as colors lighting and materials all with a minimum of human supervision.

In turn the data it generates will further enhance the ability of computers to understand the visual world

and with NEIL we hope that computers will do so as well. computer cluster has been running the NEIL program

since late July and already has analyzed three million images identifying 1500 types of objects in half a million images and 1200 types of scenes in hundreds of thousands of images.

and catalogued. hat we have learned in the last 5 to 10 years of computer vision research is that the more data you have the better computer vision becomesgupta says.

But the scale of the Internet is so vast##Facebook alone holds more than 200 billion images that the only hope to analyze it all is to teach computers to do it largely by themselves.

what to teach computershe says. ut humans are good at telling computers when they are wrong. eople also tell NEIL what categories of objects scenes etc. to search

It can be anticipated for instance that a search for pplemight return images of fruit as well as laptop computers.

The program runs on two clusters of computers that include 200 processing cores. The Office of Naval Research and Google Inc. support the project.

The research team will present its findings on Dec 4 at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision in Sydney Australiasource:

and linked wirelessly to computers allows growers toâ ontrol the precise moisture of blocks of land based on target goalssays Vinay Pagay who helped develop the chip as a doctoral student in Lakso s

Stanford university rightoriginal Studyposted by Tom Abate-Stanford on September 27 2013engineers have built a basic computer using carbon nanotubes a success that points to a potentially faster more efficient alternative to silicon chips.

and computer scientist at Stanford university who co-led the work. ut there have been few demonstrations of complete digital systems using this exciting technology.

and entice them to explore how this technology can lead to smaller more energy-efficient processors in the next decaderabaey says.

and generate more heatâ##all in a smaller and smaller space as evidenced by the warmth emanating from the bottom of a laptop.

Many researchers believe that this power-wasting phenomenon could spell the end of Moore s Law named for Intel Corp. cofounder Gordon Moore who predicted in 1965 that the density of transistors would double roughly every two years

The Stanford team used this imperfection-immune design to assemble a basic computer with 178 transistors a limit imposed by the fact that they used the university s chip-making facilities rather than an industrial fabrication process.

It runs a basic operating system that allows it to swap between these processes. In a demonstration of its potential the researchers also showed that the CNT COMPUTER could run MIPS a commercial instruction set developed in the early 1980s by then Stanford engineering professor and now university President John Hennessy.

beyond silicon. hese are initial necessary steps in taking carbon nanotubes from the chemistry lab to a real environmentsays Supratik Guha director of physical sciences for IBM s Thomas J. Watson Research center

most of the work is supervising the system by means of a remote dashboard on a computer

The system also incorporates software that takes location-specific factors such as plant properties, soil characteristics and water rationing limits into account.

Epler's thesis project for NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, the Kinograph uses software to stabilize a series of captured images and extract optical sound.

and embedded Linux on a Raspberry Pi, while Opencv, Processing, and AEO Sound applications are used for image and audio processing, with batch processing of crop rotation and color correction all possible.

#Will 3d printing bring space-based solar power to reality? Spiderfab 3-D robotic printer Since the 1970##s, space-based solar power has been a futuristic fantasy

but the advent of 21st#century 3-D printing may bring it a step closer to reality.

Video)##The overall vision is to create a satellite chrysalis with compact, durable software DNA assembly instructions,

and the ability to fabricate space system components on-orbit instead of building them on the ground,

Inc. TUI has won two rounds of funding for its Spiderfab 3-D robotic printer from the#NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts#(NIAC) program.

##3-D printing and robotic construction of components on-orbit would allow a smaller, less expensive launch rocket that will##improve performance per cost by orders of magnitude,

Once#in space, TUI s Trusselator, the first step in the Spiderfab architecture, would use 3-D printing techniques

First, the 3-D printer would build a carbon fiber truss structure that would act as a frame for the system.

With the reductions in volume and mass promised by 3-D printing, those launch costs could be reduced significantly,

##and Lobbyists who protect#other energy sources subsidies#who would be##out of their jobs###The term 3-D printing has become a catch-all for a number of purposes

#For now, it is focusing on synthetic meat made with 3d printers.####Artificial food seems to have a particular attraction for young tech barons,

A small Photo Voltaic solar panel provides power for the micro controller, sensors, various valves, etc.

it reduces the role of discretion and skill in farmingheir core competence. However, the bigger problem is that farmers distrust the companies peddling this new method.

you probably think about electronics products like televisions and computers. Thanks to its CT and other diagnostic imaging machines and technology, Toshiba has made a name for itself in the healthcare industry, too.

which together would monitor, predict, cultivate and extract crops from the land with practically no human intervention.

Synthetic biology is about programming biology using standardized parts as one programs computers using standardized libraries today.

Consumer Physics will offer both Android and iphone apps, and also hopes to develop a platform upon

send it to SCIO servers, analyze it and compare it to a database of known spectral signatures,

Developer kits available through the Kickstarter for $200 offer barebones SCIO modules and come with CAD designs for 3d printers.

in addition to developing the hardware, is also populating the first databases and apps that work with the SCIO,

#New 3d printed materials lighter than water and as strong as steel A Nanoscribe 3d printer can print models of the Empire state building in a space the width of a human hair using precision lasers.

Watching the machine build through thelens of an electron microscope is otherworldlybut the printer s potential runs beyond microscale model making.

believe such 3d printers may help craft a new generation of materials lighter than water and strong as steel.

Now, there s the Nanoscribe 3d printer. The printer s mirror-focused laser shines on and hardens a droplet of liquid plastic on a slide.

A computer moves the plate under the laser, selectively hardening it, layer by layer, to match a digital 3d model.

Once complete, the excess liquid is washed away, leaving a pristine structurewith features a few millionths of a meter across.

Microscale 3d printing is still new, but it s quickly progressing. In 2012, researchers at the Vienna University of Technology 3d printed a race car and cathedral smaller than a dust mite.

it may not be the only new computer-enabled approach to materials research. In a recent article, Scientific American predicted supercomputerswill yield a Golden age of materials science.

The article went on to note that the powerful modeling capabilities of supercomputers and the principles of quantum mechanics are together allowing scientists to build virtual materials atom by atom.

from the filament in a light bulb to the silicon in a computer chip. Whether we 3d print them

#Precision farming Gains Global Foothold (Op-Ed) Lloyd Treinish leads the environmental science team in the Industry Solutions Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research center.

A co-developer of IBM's Deep Thunder precision agriculture system he contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:

At IBM we developed a precision agriculture weather-modeling service using Deep Thunder our Big data analytics technology for local customized high-resolution and rapid weather predictions.

A supercomputer processes the combined data and generates a four-dimensional mathematical model derived from the physics of the atmosphere.

condom-reinventing Microsoft cofounder didn actually drink human excrement Sedro-Woolley-produced sewage sludge at its finest.

and operated using a micro-entrepreneurial model where local residents would benefit economically from the facilities. he processor wouldn just keep human waste out of the drinking water;

Nature News A transparent, flexible electrode made from graphene could see a one-atom thick honeycomb of carbon first made just five years ago replace other high-tech materials used in displays.

and Hong says that makes the material ideal for use in applications such as portable displays.

and his colleagues used computer simulations to create a model of the protein shell of the virus that causes the disease,

But it would be dauntingly expensive to maintain servers and staff to analyse the data

So Jalas, the centre s director of genetics resources and services, has outsourced parts of the analysis. He uploads his clients sequencing data to cloud-computing software platforms

and software to make sense of those data.""It s a huge unmet need, says David Ferreiro, a biotechnology analyst with investment bank Oppenheimer & Company in New york,

and analysis software that by 2016 could top $4#billion per year, according to BCC Research, a market-research company in Wellesley,

which provides genetic analysis software on its cloud-based platform and allows users to upload and run their own algorithms.

He says that they will have to prove that their products are better than freely available software

Bina Technologies in Redwood City sells a server that can sit in a customer s own data centre

and is optimized to run genome-analysis software. Knome of Cambridge Massachusetts, announced last year that it plans to sell $125, 000 genome-analysis machines for use in customers labs (see Nature 490,157;

Hadrian begins by using computer-aided design (CAD) to determine the precise placement of every brick in a given structure to within one hundredth of an inch.

The feed relays to a control station, where a human surgeon operates it using joysticks.

i-Teams draft the two professors earned a Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation grant in 2009 allowing for the first demonstration of the hardware showing a 77 percent gain in efficiency over standard systems.

#Spinning out a company has been the best way to validate the technology especially with novel power-electronics hardware Dawson says.

In introducing new hardware you not only have to be better than the product of today

along with computer scientists at Columbia University, have developed a method that predicts the pattern of coils and tangles that a cable may form

At Columbia, computer scientists adapted a source code used for simulating animated hair and, incorporating the parameters of the MIT experiment,

has developed a platform hardware, software, and cloud services that lets manufacturers pick and choose various components

and application-specific software to add to commercial drones for multiple purposes. The key component is the startup Linux-based autopilot device,

a small red box that is installed into all of a client drones. his is responsible for flying the vehicle in a safe, reliable manner,

and acts as hub for the components, so it can collect all that data and display that info to a user, says Downey, Airware CEO,

who researched and built drones throughout his time at MIT. To customize the drones customers use software to select third-party drone vehicles and components such as sensors, cameras, actuators,

and communication devices configure settings, and apply their configuration to a fleet. Other software helps them plan

and monitor missions in real time (and make midflight adjustments), and collects and displays data. Airware then pushes all data to the cloud,

where it aggregated and analyzed, and available to designated users. If a company decides to use a surveillance drone for crop management, for instance,

it can easily add software that stitches together different images to determine which areas of a field are overwatered

or underlying hardware, they just need to connect their software or piece of hardware to the platform,

viewing companies that monitor crops and infrastructure with drones that require specific cameras and sensors as potential early customers.

even though you could change the software, Downey says. A five-year stretch at Boeing as an engineer for the U s. military A160 Hummingbird UAV and as a commercial pilot put Downey in contact with drone manufacturers, who,

he found, were still using black boxes or open-source designs. hey were basically facing the same challenges we faced as undergrads at MIT,

the development of a standard operating system for drones is analogous to Intel processors and Microsoft DOS paving the way for personal computers in the 1980s.

Before those components became available, hobbyists built computers using software that didn work with different computers.

At the same time, powerful mainframes were only available to a select few and still suffered software-incompatibility issues.

Then came Intel processors and DOS. Suddenly engineers could build computers around the standard processor and create software on the operating system,

without needing to know details of the underlying hardware. ee doing the same thing for the drone space,

Downey says. here are 600 companies building differing versions of drone hardware. We think they need the Intel processor of the drones,

if you will, and that operating system-level software component, too like the DOS for drones.

The benefits are far-reaching, Downey says: rone companies, for instance, want to build drones and tailor them for different applications without having to build everything from scratch,

he says. But companies developing cameras, sensors, and communication links for drones also stand to benefit,

he adds, as their components will need only to be compatible with a single platform. Additionally, it could help the Federal aviation administration (FAA) better assess the reliability of drones;

Congress recently tasked the agency with compiling UAV rules and regulations by 2015. This could also help promote commercial drone use in the United states,

and every drone has different software and electronics, it good for the FAA if all of them had reliable and common hardware and software,

he says. e think it valuable for everybody. n

#A new way to model cancer Sequencing the genomes of tumor cells has revealed thousands of mutations associated with cancer.

To investigate the potential usefulness of CRISPR for creating mouse models of cancer the researchers first used it to knock out p53 and pten

Many models possiblethe researchers also used CRISPR to create a mouse model with an oncogene called beta catenin

That distortion can be detected by force-resistive sensors via a carefully designed mechanical system (similar to the sensors used in computer trackpads),

which houses computers for automation and control, and expandable 20,000-gallon treatment units. In these units, microbes called xoelectrogensexecute a unique process, electromethanogenesis which is being used for the first time ever in treating wastewater.

But the core technology began as a bit of aerospace ingenuity and has since found its way back to space.

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

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.

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

#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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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,

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;

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