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#Why Bluetooth use is on the rise Bluetooth has been with us for around 15 years.

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

Now however, with the rapid growth in the use of mobile and sensing technologies along with the release of an updated version of the system,

Earlier this year, a Silicon valley-based start-up called Scanadu sought to raise $100, 000 on the crowd-funding site Indiegogo.

making it the most funded project in the site's history. The product description may have helped:

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#.

#at an affordable price using existing infrastructure of smart phone telecoms#says Scanadu's CEO Walter de Brouwer."

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.

Users take a picture of an icon they are interested in with their phone and send it via Bluetooth to a nearby device which sends them the information they want.

and the internet create and share content. This includes a solar-powered phone charging station and a Bluetooth-based local version of Dropbox

designed to allow off-grid communities to share and store information in a variety of formats.

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#Generating Electricity While Remaining See-through New Energy technologies Inc. NENE), developer of see-through Solarwindowt coatings, capable of generating electricity on glass and flexible plastics,

and their collaborators, offers the possibility that such devices may soon be as small as a typical smartphone.

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Available as a smartphone app, it a breakthrough that could save harvests, as well as trillions of litres of water wasted in world farming every year.

which is developed why we a smartphone app. Thanks to sensors planted across the field, the Waterbee system can continuously monitor water movement in the root zone.

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

An independent laboratory that tests cell phones says that the system falls well below the danger exposure levels for human safety

Medical screening Elhaik coauthor Tatiana Tatarinova developed a website making GPS accessible to the public. o help people find their roots,

I developed a website that allows anyone who has had their DNA genotyped to upload their results

With our web page and source code others can download and build their own power harvesters. dditional researchers from University of Washington

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.

and their collaborators, offers the possibility that such devices may soon be as small as a typical smartphone.

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hours a day searching the internet for images and doing its best to understand them on its own.

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.

A Google Image search for instance might convince NEIL that inkis just the name of a singer rather than a color. eople don t always know how or

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:

With this robotic milker, the farmer needn't come any closer to the action than a readout on a smartphone,

Using their smartphone, a farmer can access their network of FLOW-AIDS over the internet,

to check the moisture and nutrient levels of their soil. The system will notify them

which point they can start their irrigation system remotely via their phone. As soon as they see that sufficient moisture levels have been restored

they can use their phone to turn the irrigation back off. The system also incorporates software that takes location-specific factors such as plant properties,

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 a few components that can be cheaply sourced over the internet. This means that a decent DSLR will be the most expensive part of the setup,

but they suffered a loss of active site surface area. Panasonic has found a way to bind the Tio2 to another particle zeolite (a commercial adsorbent and catalyst)

which solves that problem by enabling photocatalysts to maintain their active site. And the method requires no binder chemicals

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#3d printed meat may be coming sooner than you think Modern Meadow is developing technology to provide instant meat.

##so named because Google s founder Sergey Brin bankrolled it. have heard you of Modern Meadow, though?

for one of Modern Meadow s main backers is#Facebook s Peter Thiel. Though Modern Meadow is not a publicly traded company,

the project s website says. Harvard s Kevin Ma spoke to Business Insider about the team s progress in building the bee-size robot since publishing its Science paper last year.

Set up by two former Google employees, it used remote sensing and other cartographic techniques to map every field in America (all 25m of them) and superimpose on that all the climate information that it could find.

when each technology will be scientifically viable (the kind of stuff that Google, governments and universities develop),

#$150 smartphone spectrometer can tell the number of calories in your food If you wanted to look up the calorie content of a specific food you are eating you could take it to a lab and run it through a spectrometer.

The SCIO is a handheld device that pairs with a smartphone through Bluetooth LE being developed by Consumer Physics

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

In a few seconds, the associated smartphone app will take the spectrometer reading, send it to SCIO servers,

It closer to the size of a smartphone camera module, and could one day be included in a variety of forms,

Gates himself describes the waste-to-water process on his Gates Notes blog: I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyer belt and drop into a large bin.

And the cloud-based interfaces let him collaborate with doctors in Israel without worrying about repeatedly transferring data on slow Internet connections."

#Beating battery drain Stream video on your smartphone or use its GPS for an hour or two and you ll probably see the battery drain significantly.

As data rates climb and smartphones adopt more power-hungry features battery life has become a concern.

Now a technology developed by MIT spinout Eta Devices could help a phone s battery last perhaps twice as long

The primary culprit in smartphone battery drain is an inefficient power amplifier a component that is designed to push the radio signal out through the phones antennas.

Prepared to send sizeable chunks of data at any given time the amplifiers stay at maximum voltage eating away power more than any other smartphone component and about 75 percent of electricity consumption in base stations#and wasting

This means smartphone batteries lose longevity and base stations waste energy and lose money. But Eta Devices has developed a chip (for smartphones)

and a shoebox-size module (for base stations) based on nearly a decade of MIT research to essentially switch gears to adjust voltage supply to power amplifiers as needed cutting the waste.

Eta Devices has entered also conversations with major manufacturers of LTE-enabled smartphones to incorporate their chips by the end of next year.

Dawson says this could potentially double current smartphone battery life. Besides battery life Dawson adds there are many ways the telecommunications industry can take advantage of improved efficiency.

Eta Devices approach could lead to smaller handset batteries for example and even smaller handsets since there would be less dissipating heat.

and Twitter to name a few. In the mobile marketeta Devices commercial success is in part a product of engineering ingenuity intersecting with business acumen at MIT.

At the time I was suffering as everyone else was from my iphone running out of battery at lunchtime Astrom says.

The iphone was only a year old but you could see how much data traffic would explode.

A few major smartphone manufacturers are now using envelope tracking (ET) which adjusts voltage to power amplifiers on the fly.

#Untangling how cables coil The world fiber-optic network spans more than 550,000 miles of undersea cable that transmits e-mail, websites,

A rip or tangle in any part of this network can significantly slow telecommunications around the world.

pulling it slightly toward the leak site. That distortion can be detected by force-resistive sensors via a carefully designed mechanical system (similar to the sensors used in computer trackpads),

Depending on several site factors, this produces anywhere from 30 to 400 kilowatts of electricity. Treated wastewater exits the reactor with 80 to 90 percent of pollutants removed,

Ecovolt, on the other hand, is applicable to a range of sites, and has demonstrated a more robust treatment process,

which excites electrons that flow through the thylakoid membranes of the chloroplast. The plant captures this electrical energy

#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,

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

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.

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

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#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.

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:"

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

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

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

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

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,

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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.

#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.

Nikola Labswill Zell explains in the video below how the phone case is able to turn radio waves into electricity.

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

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

and debates and become part of the discussion on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.+The views expressed are those of the author

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

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Sun powered cell phone chargers woven into the fabric of backpacks. A new generation of organic semiconductors may allow these kinds of flexible electronics to be manufactured at low cost,

When the understanding of complex networks such as the brain or the Internet is applied to geometry the results match up with quantum behavior September 13th,

When the understanding of complex networks such as the brain or the Internet is applied to geometry the results match up with quantum behavior September 13th,

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and charge to some part of another molecule--such as the binding site of a human protein involved in some physiological process that goes awry in a given disease.

Yet, attaching a functional handle specifically at the para position of benzene has been challenging due to multiple reactive sites on the ring.

Nonetheless, introducing a boryl group at a specific position on the 6-membered benzene ring has been rather challenging due to the presence of several reactive sites.

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

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

Delivering OT using a novel reath Powerednasal device previously shown to enhance deposition in intranasal sites targeted for nose-to-brain transport,

We have demonstrated for the first time experimentally that liquid droplets can be highly mobile when in the Wenzel state."

it can sometimes be pointing in the wrong direction to provide a picture of a site of concern.

and mobile phones, Gan has efficient light emission capability, something silicon cannot duplicate. But silicon remains the defacto material of choice semidconductors

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July 28, 2015-If you are a regular reader of this blog then you have read about the importance of our research into stem cells and their therapeutic value.

offers the possibility that such devices may soon be as small as a typical smartphone.

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

or her field using a mobile phone, personal digital assistant or PC. Information that is collected includes temperature, humidity, and soil nutrients.

#Google maps goes underground"in Japan's radioactive zone"This is not a place you'd want to hang around for too long Google is producing underground street maps of Japan's nuclear exclusion zone.

The radiation levels near the Fukushima site are spiking to record levels, but that hasn't stopped Google's Streetview from entering one area of the forbidden'zone.

The images are from 17 cities within Japan's Iwate and Miyagi prefectures, which were damaged heavily by the 2011 tsunami,

Google has catalogued also the interiors of over 70 flood-damaged buildings in the region. The panoramic images are an update to ones taken shortly after the disaster.

Google says that it has a higher social purpose. Our digital archiving project aims not only to make a record of the disaster's wreckage,

and Miyagi Prefectures for the first time since we#published the first panoramas back in 2011, Google's group product manager,

Kei Kawai, wrote on the team's#blog. By releasing this new imagery on Google maps

we hope people in Japan and from all around the world can virtually explore what these towns currently look like

Google is not the first nongovernmental entity to enter the exclusion zone. Organizations including#Animal Friends Niigata

Google maps, David Worthington) Related on Smartplanet: What the NRC really knew about Fukushima Fukushima ocean radiation could pose sleeper threat Nuclear meltdowns nearly made northern Japan uninhabitable do need we to worry about radiation in our milk?

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#Google New Health Wearable Delivers Constant Patient Monitoring Often when we think of the wearable tech category,

Google has unveiled a new niche device that designed to do serious work in a specific setting,

is the product of Google X, the experimental group within the search giant that is responsible for some of its more noteworthy oon shotprojects,

Testing for the medical band begins this summer, according to Google, and it going to pursue regulatory approval for its use in medical contexts in partnership with academic institutions and drug companies, per Bloomberg.

This isn Google first move in building medical hardware; Google X is also creating contact lenses that can monitor blood glucose level to help in managing conditions like diabetes.

The competition is also eager to contribute to the medical research community pple has introduced Researchkit,

which allows studies to use iphones and ipads to gather participant data from a wider potential user pool, for instance o

#The Latest Chat App for iphone Needs No Internet connection Mobile app stores are stuffed with messaging apps from Whatsapp to Tango and their many imitators.

But Firechat released last week for the iphone stands out. It s the only one that can be used without cellphone reception.

Firechat makes use of a feature Apple introduced in the latest version of its ios mobile software ios7 called multipeer connectivity.

This feature allows phones to connect to one another directly using Bluetooth or Wi-fi as an alternative to the Internet.

Micha Benoliel CEO and cofounder of startup Open Garden which made Firechat says the app shows how smartphones can be set free from cellular networks.

He hopes to enable many more Internet-optional apps with the upcoming release of software tools that will help developers build Firechat-style apps for iphone or for Android Mac and Windows devices.

so that data can hop between two iphones out of range of one another via intermediary devices.

or community-controlled communications networks (see Build Your Own Internet with Mobile Mesh Networking). Apps built to exploit such device-to-device schemes can offer security

and privacy benefits over those that rely on the Internet. For example messages sent using Firechat to nearby devices don t pass through any systems operated by either Open Garden

This method of communication is immune to firewalls like the ones installed in China and North korea says Mattt Thompson a software engineer who writes the ios and Mac development blog NSHIPSTER.

Recent revelations about large-scale surveillance of online services and the constant litany of data breaches make this a good time for apps that don t rely on central servers he says.

Open Garden s main product is an app that allows Android devices to share their Internet connections (see Could You Spare Some Internet access?.

However Benoliel says that won t be coming to the iphone anytime soon because the feature that Firechat relies on cannot be used to share data connectivity.

Peer-to-peer mobile communications and mesh networks could prove especially important in countries with minimal communications infrastructure.

You can see Google spending billions on fiber and balloons but this is not going to solve the problem of ubiquitous mobile connectivity Benoliel says.

He argues that the spread of cheap Android phones across the world will make mesh networking feasible.

We need to create small Internets that can function on their own and then connect them to the big Internet t

#3d printed smartphone device reads ELISA diagnostic tests accurately and within one minute In remote or developing countries,

the ability to track and diagnose contagious and life-threatening viruses such as HIV, West Nile and Hepatitis b could save thousands, if not millions of lives every year.

Unfortunately, many common diagnostic tools, such as enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay (ELISA), require large and expensive readout instruments that can only be found in well-equipped hospital labs. Now,

smartphone-based device and app that is made with a 3d printer and can read ELISA plates on-the-spot,

but with a small and low-cost 3d printed device that attaches to a smartphone. Known as a olorimtreic microplate reader, the attachment illuminates a 96-well plate with an LED array.

A custom-designed smartphone app then reads the resulting images and analyzes them using a machine-learning algorithm.

the diagnostic results for the entire 96-well plate can be sent back to the phone within one minute, complete with a handy visualization for the user.

and are looking to adapt the basic design of this ELISA cellphone reader to create smartphone-based quantified readers for other important medical tests,

#UCLA Researchers Design Low-cost Smartphone Blood Tester The smartphone is probably the most exciting computing tool human beings have at their disposal.

Like television before it, the smartphone has the potential to be a powerful educational tool.

But unlike most televisions, your smartphone is a computer. It can be programmed. As the price and size of powerful sensors continues to drop

Enter researchers from California Nanosystems Institute at UCLA. Theye created a smartphone-based diagnostic tool that reads blood samples for bacteria

and cost of this diagnostic test using modern smartphones. ELISA testing is performed usually with little honeycomb shaped plates that have 96 tiny wells embedded in them.

The device connects to the smartphone via a 3d printed attachment and hits the ELISA plate with a variety of light-emitting diodes.

The smartphone sends the resulting images to UCLA servers through a custom app. A machine-learning algorithm that the research team wrote analyzes the results.

This isn the first smartphone-related test that Dr. Ozcan has developed. Previously covered on 3dpi

The FDA-approved well-plate readers used in clinical labs today were compared with the team handheld smartphone diagnostic in a UCLA clinical microbiology laboratory.

and are looking to adapt the basic design of this ELISA cellphone reader to create smartphone-based quantified readers for other important medical tests,

Though I don think anyone would want to take a selfie with that particular smartphone, I glad researchers are creating something that could democratize diagnostic testing for bacteria

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