Two architects invented this low-tech way of collecting dew and turning it into fresh water. It works well for collecting water in virtually any environment
In liquid form, water is heavy and difficult to transport. Plastic bottle made water far more transportable,
Every day, millions of plastic water bottles, cups and containers are transported around the world by exhaust-spewing steamships, trains,
The drought has pushed everyone to look for new ways to save water. So, the The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has joined forces with America beer brewers to change how farmer irrigate their crops.
(or dying) and the new farmers are looking for new and better ways of doing things
this provides a great way to get low-power Internet of things devices to communicate with a large swath of devices around us, Ranveer Chandra,
Where are you a little over a year after it was announced that the first robotic insect took flight?
Users are looking at ways to quietly and privately communicate online. As companies begin to
I think you ll see a growing number of businesses either offering new ways to communicate
or featuring ways to pay to eliminate such intrusions on our privacy, Bakke continues. And I think you ll see more and more internet users willing to pay for such services.
This means the screen controls the way individual light rays emanate from the display, leading to a sharper image without degrading contrast.
The Google vision, where there are no human drivers, is already becoming a reference point#either as a vision of a fun campus of the future,
while, in the latter, a driverless car picks up a passenger and makes its own decision where to Go with no controls to grab,
the passenger just becomes freight. If one had to bet on whether Google s or Baidu s vision is more likely,
even as hands-free parking has gained popularity, the idea of a completely driverless car is already being welcomed in some quarters.
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a weaker signal can indicate that a person is trapped deeper down, giving rescue crews a 3d picture of where to search.
helping rescue crews quickly spot a warm human being among an expanse of trees or snow.
The EPFL team noted its work underscores confidentiality issues with drones as its aircraft can pull phones Wi-fi network names and MAC addresses.
With the ever-increasing pace of innovation, traditional colleges and universities are failing to train and retrain workers quickly enough.##
We have need a huge for some other way of getting people in the world educated, Frey said.
This dynamic works both ways. For example, in the wake of Facebook s purchase of Oculus Rift, the amount of job postings for virtual reality designers skyrocketed,
Jobs are going to transition in lots of different ways that we don t even understand yet, and we need to prepare for that.
In promotional materials, Audi and GM both emphasize 4G LTE service as a mechanism for users to get in-car entertainment, rather than for navigation or safety monitoring.
while Audi emphasizesfaster downloads and high-definition video streaming for up to eight devices used by passengers over the in-vehicle#Wi-fi#hotspot.
Audi is offering drivers their a new and data-intensive navigation system, which feeds the dashboard with information on#nearby gas stations, restaurants,
and all sorts of Google earth overlays. GM, meanwhile, is revamping their previously 2g Onstar system to take advantage of the new data possibilities.
Beyond the obvious use cases of Netflix and#data-heavy navigation systems, 4G LTE service also means drivers can send#SMS#text messages by voice dictation,
While drivers and passengers might not necessarily need#high-speed Internet#in their cars it s arrived on the market
This is not the way it has always beenand this is not the way it has to be.
or right shoe will lead the way. Ducere was started by two Indian engineers who had studied
it cannot tell them which way to face or when to turn. That s where we come in
For example#joggers, mountain bikers or even tourists can plug in their destinations and not have to stop to check their phones as they move
The shoes can be used as a more accurate way to record distance traveled and calories burnt, said Mr. Lawrence.
#China and India race to fully harness thorium for nuclear power Thorium is an alternative to uranium as a way of doing nuclear fission.
preferring to go the uranium route. Critics say thorium was pushed aside because uranium was an easier component for nuclear weapons.
Thorium is an alternative to uranium as a way of doing nuclear fission he told Metro.
He said thorium is safer because an overheating thorium reactor can be switched simply off, avoiding the problem that occurred at Fukushima, for instance.
they re also looking at other ways of generating power. Thorium is not without its critics,
flexible and can encourage the regrowth of healthy bone in the same way as current methods,
Aside from the temperature issue, scaffolds made in this way sometimes retain unwanted binder residues, while during sintering, parts shrink sometimes in an uneven way that can cause cracking.
Now, researchers in the U s. have developed a new way of printing in calcium phosphate that can be done at relatively low temperatures which results in a scaffold that is mechanically strong
biologically compatible with human bone and stays close to the original dimensions of the design being used.
In other words, in the same way that game recognizes game, (to borrow a phrase from LL COOL J),
and has to be protected in ways that add size and bulk. While zinc is more stable, the water-based electrolytes in conventional zinc batteries cause zinc to form dendrites,
He has even found a way to sterilize the paper models for use in the operating room.
This is just one way of how Mcor is consistently innovating their already unique technology. More details on Mcor can be found on their#website
Mr. Ro says he iscasually dating a lifestyle decision that fits into his busy schedule the same way hisindependent cat fit in previously.
It s also a challenge for CAISO and the other state agencies tasked withcoming up with ways to value storage
when lots of distributed solar generation pushes midday energy use way down, then fades away just as a steep rise in evening energy usage sets in.
High-speed rail (HSR) will connect not only cities, states and countries in the future, but also far-reaching continents. In about 15 to 20 years from now, one could travel seamlessly from London, UK to Beijing,
China and even have a detour within the Gulf countries using the global high-speed rail network.
Some of these lines are designated passenger lines (PDL), while others are also capable of carrying freight, known as high-speed logistics.
The total cost of Chinese HSR ambitions is billed at around $300 billion USD when completed.
What is defined as high-speed rail in the US (speeds of 120 kilometers per hour) is considered figuratively similar to the speed of a bull-drawn cart in 19th century China.
2013, Elon musk, chief executive of Tesla motors TSLA+2. 28%and Spacex, revealed details of a new super fast mode of transportation called the Hyperloop.
500 kilometers or 900 miles apart and is based on the principle of transporting high-speed transport capsules in a dedicated tube (partial vacuum).
it is still a significant breakthrough in high-speed mass transportation because the technology and intellectual property has been floated to the public as an open source transportation solution.
Yet the Hyperloop is not the only radical transport solution currently in development, the Canadian firm Magnovate aims to commercialize Magline, a proprietary magnetic levitation transport solution.
Magline further improves on system economics by utilizing apacket switching model that enables offline stops without slowing traffic on the mainline.
This enables more vehicles that are connected not to one another to run more often on the network.
A project is being developed to connect the cities of Edmonton and Calgary with one of their tracks.
Meanwhile, in about 15 years the Japanese will have inaugurated the Chuo Shinkansen Maglev train between Tokyo and Nagoya.
With the top speed of a these trains just 25 percent less than the average speed of a commercial airplane (which travels at about 800 kilometers per hour), one can travel faster between city center to city center
and the need to travel outside of cities to reach airports hours in advance. By 2027
next-generation rolling stock and signal upgrades are expected to raise high-speed rail services in the excess of 320 kilometers per hour.
For example, phase 2 of the Haramain High-speed rail Project in Saudi arabia (450 kilometers connecting Mecca and Medina) was awarded to a Saudi-Spanish consortium.
operating and finally transferring railway systems to the rest of the world l
#Bag2go smart luggage that will text you when it gets lost Bag2go It can take hours
or even days to hear from someone at an airline to tell you where your lost luggage has ended up
and even contacting airlines directly when they get lost. The jumbo jet maker Airbus introduced a concept design for smart luggage at the Paris Air Show last year.
and can weigh itself to ensure that it meets airline requirements. AT&T unveiled a similar concept at a demonstration of itsnext-generation technologies in May.
The ultimate plan is to for the luggage to work with airlines IT systems, contacting the carriers directly and arranging for delivery to your home or hotel.
U s. airlines mishandled over 141,000 bags in April, according to government statistics, or about three bags for every 1, 000 passengers.
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#The ongoing newspaper crisis by the numbers Publishers have failed to adequately respond to the new ways that consumers get information.
About ten years after the commercial debut of the Internet, America s newspapers posted record high advertising sales of $49. 4 billion in 2005.
it is clear that publishers have failed for the better part of a decade to adequately respond to the new ways that consumers get information
It s the largest-ever college, by enrollment, to be shut down in this way. It all started in January
if it successfully gets candidates elected in its 2014 pilot campaign it plans to raise orders of magnitude more money to elect an an more pro-campaign finance reform congress in 2016,
by offering a practical way to make both smaller and faster transistors, he says. In 1998, researchers at IBM made one of the first working carbon nanotube transistors.
but so far it hasn t found a way to position the nanotubes closely enough together,
There is a new field of affect computing coming your way that will give entrepreneurs and marketers a real unfair advantage.
#Skytran an on-demand levitating monorail Skytran There are many people who advocate for public transportation but there are also those who are accustomed to being able to move about in an individual manner with cars.
However, a futuristic on-demand 500m monorail test loop being built at the#Israel Aerospace industry (IAI) campus#in Lod,
and might have you thinking differently about transit.####Skytran, which was developed by Stanford Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering graduate Douglas J. Malewicki,
has big plans to bring its transportation idea to markets in the United states, India and Europe but will it catch on?
Skytran is based a maglev monorail, a combination of technologies that has the potential to evoke both admiration (due to Japan s blazingly fast#maglev train system) and derision (due to the infamous Simpsons episode#Marge vs
. the Monorail). A unique physical aspect of this particular combination of the systems is that it s#suspended 20 feet above#the ground,
allowing it to take advantage of an unused, and therefore less congested, part of the urban landscape.
Privacy is a key pivot point of Skytrain s case for itself in a different way
however, because unlike most mass transit, it s meant to be a personal system. Instead of large vehicles that run on a schedule,
The system s automated nature, transit expert Joe Dignan told#BBC News, could be a good test of
It s also a test of whether anti-train elected officials actually hold such views for practical reasons,
Of course, it wasn t an easy road for either company. Both had to survive significant regulatory scrutiny and approval by the SEC,
and Fundly are giving people and businesses an easier way to test, build and fund their products, invest in businesses,
To those startups that aim to fundamentally change the way we transact for the better,
and home-based fashionistas disrupting the way we make and buy clothes like Martin Starr's character Gilfoyle disrupted that hotel bathroom in Silicon valley.
Drive is a way to get started, you don t have to change your existing workflows. To that end,
In addition to encryption in transit and between data centers, which was already in place.)Overall, the improvements are an important indication that Google has given not up on the enterprise.
The findings, reported in the journal Science, could lead to cheaper and greener cars, planes and electronics.
thermosets are used throughout modern cars and aircraft, often mixed with carbon fibers to form composites. Some 50%of the new Airbus a350 jet, for example, will be made from composites.
Yet until now, none of this thermoset plastic could be recycled. The potential impact here is said phenomenal
The system is an ingenious way to work around the typically tricky process of building a full-color 3d printer,
But Oak ridge and 3d Systems are proving that there are other ways, and in the future other techniques could trickle down to desktop 3d printers.
Nonlethal solution Mr Kieser said that he now planned to invite potential clients to see demonstration flights that would be held in Africa, Europe and The americas over the coming months.
including Personal Rapid transit Systems, costing literally trillions of dollars and employing hundreds of millions of people.
But a number of retailers are looking for ways to leverage technology to get shoppers excited about buying in store again.
tiles and taps will look together. Step into the Holoroom, where they will be displayed in augmented reality.
similar rooms will make their way into many stores. All told, Lowe s boasts 15 million customers every week.
With a larger population of people insured, the ultimate goal and the only way to keep costs down is to improve the health of the overall population.##
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So that way you maintain compatibility for apps. What if we build a version of Android?
and technology giants try to find new ways to bring content to life. Microsoft corp. and Advanced micro devices Inc. are both working on their own virtual reality rooms
every way you retrieve data, he said. Via Wall street Journa i
#Smart rifle uses Google glass to let you shoot around corners Google glass-equipped smart rifle. Trackingpoint is the company behind the U s army s new#smart rifle.
as if you were piloting an Air force jet and then aim your weapon where it tells you to.
and zinc become the primary storage devices for transportation, for backing up renewable power sites, for electronic devices and for industry and defense.
so it requires designing the edges in such a way that the right geometric structure is created ultimately.
#Classcraft a new way to teach students by turning the classroom into a giant role-playing game Classcraft Shawn Young,
It goes both ways. As the Games master, you buy into that, but then when they die they get these horrible consequences.
he tried various ways of getting kids to collaborate better in class, something he believes is important in a 21st century that s proving a boom time for sharing, not least through social media.
That way, pupils can still access the customizable features, but it will be the teachers who hold the keys to the gold.
at its core, a challenge to the school budgeting system and a way of making Classcraft available to all, according to Young.
or freemium pay models are the only way his class can keep using Classcraft. I would love to say my principal would purchase the premium access for us,
it does provide an innovative and unique way of capturing those pupils that might otherwise shrug their way through school.
Video games in a very short time, have become this common cultural reference point that everybody knows,
In the next stage of the experiment, the research team demonstrated the ability to weaken this circuitry by stimulating the same nerves with a memory-erasing, low-frequency train of optical pulses.
scientists found they could reactivate the lost memory by re-stimulating the same nerves with a memory-forming, high-frequency train of optical pulses.
noted that the beta amyloid peptide that accumulates in the brains of people with Alzheimer s disease weakens synaptic connections in much the same way that low-frequency stimulation erased memories in the rats.
You could even tap into a large group of strangers to help you track down a stolen bike.
the suitcase is equipped also with a GPS navigator, a burglar alarm and a horn. Weighing about 15 pounds, Mr. He ulti-functional suitcaseis powered by a lithium battery
The model captures the electrical and mechanical behavior of the heart in one of the most realistic and vivid ways yet to be seen.
Just the way the wave is formed and the power behind it, he tells me. t going to be a game-changer, both from a coaching point of view and a surfing point of view.
Andrew Cotton from Devon recently surfed one of the largest recorded waves around 24m (80ft) off the coast of Portugal. t a good way to get people in to surfing.
Some doctors bristle at the fact that many patients now shop for physicians in the same way they shop for restaurants and plumbers:
when they get down to the job of examining the patient in a scientific way. Also, new technology in doctors offices may not help matters.
and other parts of medical life. t way too early to tellif Glass will become standard in medical schools,
Last year, Princeton physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed was analyzing the formulas in search of a better way to simplify these quantum calculations.
#he discovered#a new kind of geometric shape called an amplituhedron one that hints at a new way of seeing the universe.
providing a possible way to imagine a world not woven of this fabric. The new shape is intriguing,
If wee moving down this road of increasing autonomy in robotics and that the same as Google cars as it is for military robots, we should begin now to do the research to how far can we get in ensuring the robot systems are safe
the country has installed an astonishing amount of solar photovoltaic (PV) power setting multiple solar power generation records along the way.
lithium ions travel from the anode to the cathode through the electrolyte, creating a chemical reaction that allows electrons to be harvested along the way.
Other companies are looking at ways to engineer carbon to make batteries better. Energ2 is one of those startups,
while they want to do some early pilot line production themselves, they know they need a large manufacturing partner
Later down the road, they could try to tackle electric cars. An electric car with a battery pack of dual-carbon batteries could charge much faster and last much longer on the road, giving it a higher resale value.
Currently the team is supplying batteries for a Go-cart in a transportation proof-of-concept partnership.
Vibrating and pulsing its way all the way to the bottom of your hamper the Luna Wash finishes its cycle by blowing your#fresh-cleaned#clothes dry with hot air.
Oleg Rogynskyy, thought there was a better way. He saw that by putting Lexalyticstechnology in the cloud,
Since then, technology has advanced in countless ways, not only making it doable, but for Japan, making it the best available option for controlling its own destiny.
peering out over Tokyo Bay and seeing a man-made island in the harbor that is 2 miles across.
Wireless power transmission Space transportation Construction of large structures in orbit Satellite attitude and orbit control Space-based power generation Power management Of these six challenges,
William C Brown, the inventor of the cross-field amplifier, used a remote control helicopter to demonstrate his breakthroughs using wireless microwave power on the Walter Cronkite 6: 00 pm news. Citing Tesla same logic,
or delayed flights It can be hard to a book flight on an airline website,
canceled or overbooked flights. Meet Airhelp, the startup that will save you all the hassle and claim money for you.
we search for your flight itineraries and figure out how much you can claim. If youe been delayed on a flight for the last three years,
you can claim money for that. But how much exactly can you claim? For a delayed, canceled
or overbooked flight in Europe, you can get up to $800 per flight. In the U s.,you could end up with $1,
300 for an overbooked flight. That why airlines will fight you very hard not to give you your money back.
According to Airhelp, only 0. 1 percent of eligible passengers get their compensation. Not only Airhelp will do the hard work for you,
but it will also generate some substantial revenue at the same time. And this is Airhelp secret sauce every time the company goes through the compensation process
it takes a 25 percent cut. If there is nothing to claim, the startup doesn take anything.
It bets that passengers are willing to give up that much because they wouldn have gotten any compensation without Airhelp. f passengers try
and claim themselves, theyl have to send tons of documents, theyl experience dead links. And if you get through that hurdle,
youe likely to be rejected by the airline saying that it an extraordinary circumstance, Michaelsen said. e auto-generate the legal documents that you should send to the airline.
Digging through all your email could take a while. So after connecting to your Gmail account
Coupled with an intelligent network, such sensors could feed crucial information back to maintenance crews or robots.
including year-round crop production, protection from weather, support urban food autonomy and reduced transport costs. Scientifically viable in 2023;
#Volvo testing self-driving cars on public roads in Sweden Volvo Car Group rive Meproject featuring 100 self-driving Volvos on public roads in everyday driving conditions is moving forward rapidly,
legislators, transport authorities, a major city, a vehicle manufacturer, and real customers. The customers will drive the 100 cars in everyday driving conditions on approximately 50 kilometers of selected roads in and around Gothenburg.
These roads are typical commuter arteries, including motorway conditions and frequent queues. rive Me self-driving cars for sustainable mobilityis a joint initiative between Volvo Car Group, the Swedish Transport Administration, the Swedish Transport Agency, Lindholmen Science Park and the City
of Gothenburg. The Swedish Government is endorsing the project. Volvo Cars will play a leading role in the world first large-scale autonomous driving pilot project in
which 100 self-driving Volvo cars will use public roads in everyday driving conditions around the Swedish city of Gothenburg.
The ground-breaking project rive Me Self-driving cars for sustainable mobilityis a joint initiative between Volvo Car Group, the Swedish Transport Administration, the Swedish Transport Agency, Lindholmen Science Park
and the City of Gothenburg. The rive Meproject is endorsed by the Swedish Government. The aim is to pinpoint the societal benefits of autonomous driving and position Sweden and Volvo Cars as leaders in the development of future mobility e
#Cree LED tubes will make fluorescent lights seem old fashioned In the scramble to replace traditional forms of illumination with greener LED sources,
and rewire anything, just plug the LED tube in the same way the older fluorescents do.
and students who would have worked their way through college a few years ago, and added that many parents in the past paid for college by refinancing mortgages, an alternative no longer available to many families.
she hoped to treat them the same way as materials composed of synthetic particles. That idea might have been a bit naïve, she now acknowledges.
Mu Glove for Music will change the way we make music. The time has arrived! We are making the first Mi.
We feel there could be a better way that is more like the experiences we have with traditional instruments:
We wanted to make a wireless glove that almost any musician could adapt to their way of making music.
and invested in Better to create a powerful way for people to connect with Mayo Clinic in their homes and communities,
At $20 million, Facebook found its way into the drone space for a third of
With the FAA and other civil aviation authorities moving toward policies that allow for the commercial operation of drones in civilian airspace,
Bünger says of the recent acquisitions. don know why in the world Whatsapp was valued the way it was,
while fossil fuel-or battery-powered unmanned aircraft are expensive to run and possess a shorter range.
while also developing advanced algorithms to help the aircraft better traverse wind patterns and flight routes.
and onboard battery storage that allows the planes to fly at night. The drones are huge aircraft the smaller model,
the Solara 50, is actually larger than a Boeing 767 jetliner, boasting a 164-foot wingspan.
The problem with solar planes is that they are limited to smaller payloads, said drone expert Patrick Egan.
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