The new map is the first to look at the developing human brain specifically the developing neocortex the seat of higher cognitive functions Lein told Live Science.
#Honda Smart Home produces more energy than it uses Wouldn it be great if your house produced more energy than it consumed?
Panasonic Eco Ideas House, with solar, a fuel cell, battery backup and a plug-in Toyota prius, has stood long next to a company headquarters in Tokyo,
In Japan, Toyota is invested also heavily in green communities. Now it Honda turn. The automaker has made a splash with its vehicle-to-grid technology
but now it getting more serious with the Honda Smart Home on the campus of the University of California at Davis
(whose researchers helped develop the property). The house (incorporating elements of Honda's Smart Home System,
below) is furnished fully, and a UC-Davis employee is going to live in it for at least three years.
The company broke ground on the house last year, declaring it to be a"showplace for environmental innovation."
"Honda Smart Home The house design is pleasant enough, but you won see its green features just by looking at it.
and power a Honda Fit electric car. With direct DC fast charging, the Fit can be back on the road in two hours.
Michael Koenig, Honda Smart Home project leader, said that converting DC to AC wastes energy,
UC Davislighting center worked with Honda on a system that mimics the natural circadian rhythms of day and night.
so Honda house is tomorrow dwelling today. Here's a video overview of the Honda Smart House,
and if you want to learn more, explore this infographic which goes into more detail about how the house works e
The first of its kind in the United kingdom Bio-Bus is a 40-seat transit vehicle that runs entirely on fuel generated through anaerobic digestion.
It a new conceptual project driven by Lexus Australia and M&c Saatchi Australia creative tech division.
Although Lexus doesn't plan to add this feature to any current cars, this concept is one step towards a larger goal:
The new vehicle has simple silvery walls seats for up to seven passengers and a set of flatscreen control panels.
After the shuttle's last flight in 2011 though the US became dependent on Russia for transport to the ISS using Soyuz at a cost of nearly $71 million for each seat it requires.
But they saw that in the cafeteria certain people only sat with three other people (at four-seat tables)
while others sat with 11 people (at 12-seat tables). Those who sat at larger tables were 36 percent more productive during the week.
It s very expensive for port security to use traditional robots for every small boat coming into the port says Sampriti Bhattacharyya a graduate student in mechanical engineering who designed the robot together with her advisor Ford Professor of Engineering
co-invented by Anthony Patera, the Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT, and Knezevic and Huynh.
This is a completely intuitive and natural way to move your robotic fingers says Harry Asada the Ford Professor of Engineering in MIT s Department of Mechanical engineering.
Back in December Toyota licensed Witricity technology for a future line of electric cars. Several more publicized
and other connecting components that attach to the powertrains of traditional General motors and Ford cargo delivery and shuttle vans as well as cutaway trucks.
Last month Fast Company ranked the startup No. 35 on its list of the world s 50 most innovative companies and third in energy-specific companies trailing only Tesla motors and General electric.
The trio began grinding away in a garage in Somerville Mass. conducting early trials on the Ford Crown Victoria
and could hoist 250 pounds 50 feet vertically in five seconds a remarkably high power-to-weight ratio exceeding that of a Dodge Viper, the team calculated.
rescuers can store the APA in a seat compartment, as it won compromise the chopper weight capacity.
says Amy Finkelstein, the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT and a principal investigator of the study,
with a wooden seat and a hand-cranked sheller at its side. Cobs are fed into the sheller opening
Automakers have started introducing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles which only emit water when driven. But making hydrogen which mostly comes from natural gas requires electricity from conventional carbon dioxide-emitting power plants.
"said Professor Andrea Ferrari, Director of the Cambridge Graphene Centre.""This is a significant step forward to enable fully wearable and flexible devices.
In 2012 Drs Felice Torrisi Tawfique Hasan and Professor Andrea Ferrari at the Cambridge Graphene Centre invented a graphene ink
Hideki Hashimoto Genki Kobayashi Ryo Sakuma Tatsuo Fujii Naoaki Hayashi Tomoko Suzuki Ryoji Kanno Mikio Takano and Jun Takada.
what you need to make it workmy mum in-law got a fantastic white Cadillac CTS-V Sedan by working part time off of a home computer...
when he was a young engineer working with Rolls-royce as part of a team tasked with developing a reusable spacecraft for British aerospace.
Rolls-royce and The british government doubtful that an easy and economical solution existed canceled the program's funding.
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#Sewer Sensors Detect Homemade Bombs As They're Being made Could the secret to finding illicit explosives labs before they harm anyone be hiding in a city's poop?
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The ULCV is in essence a turbo jeep. It will carry a full nine person infantry squad along with their equipment up to 3200 pounds total.
and out requires an ability to fold oneself into the low seats. It s a maneuver reminiscent of climbing in and out of Nascar stock cars through the window:
Some car companies have created already and sold high beams that appear dimmer to other carss. Although they seem to be illegal in the U s.)Those adaptive high-beams work in much the same way aiming many beams of light at the world
Harley-davidson Project Livewire Engine: Clutch-less electric motor Horsepower: 74 Fuel economy: n/a Price: n/a Range:
92 mph Car News You Should Care About 1) Ford will add adaptive steering into some models in 2015.
and adding stability at high speeds. 2) Toyota has donated 208 used Camry Hybrid batteries to Yellowstone national park,
and enables semi-autonomous driving on highways. 4) Honda has started using 3-D visualization technology co-developed with tech firm 3dx CITE for crash simulations.
combination of fibers and yarns with electrical propertiesworked into the fabrics of the seat cover
so perhaps Harken is leaving it to the auto manufacturers to figure that out a
#MERS Virus May be Able To Spread Through The Air Research strongly suggests that camels carry Middle east Respiratory Syndrome (MERS),
With a product launch that has many in the industry on the edge of their seats Dyson is positioning for a leading part in the coming automation of the home and a major slice of the ripening consumer robotics market.
The preeminent country for robotics patents is Japan with 31%of patents published the majority from Toyota.
For example Google and Honda are contained very self in contrast to other automotive companies. Most of the patents in the UK dataset are in the field of autonomous vehicles includingâ road vehicles unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned underwater vehicles.
) Isis Innovation Limited Qinetiq Limited and Rolls-royce Plc. Finally the rate of change in robotics patent publishing in the last 10 years is very interesting with China showing significant growth from a China to become one of the strong sources of inventions e
and is modified not a conventional Toyota. The as yet unnamed car is very small (looks smaller than a Smart)
It was also a two-seater (loosely based on a Fiat 500) but its main feature was the interior where similarly to Google car no manual controls were present
#Honda automatic driverless valet parking system Honda has developed a low-cost automatic valet parking system that uses parking lot surveillance cameras to help park cars automatically.
Honda sees a lot of potential in a system such as this especially if it is implemented in the large parking lots of suburban shopping centers. f a store introduces this system customers can drop their car off in front of the store
So we think this kind of system will become increasingly necessary. s cars equipped with rear cameras only are the most common type in Japan Honda decided to use them in this first prototype.
Honda believe that this system could be practical by or before 2020 y
#Is drone delivery really a robot startup? Australian startup Zookal is making news today with their claims to be the worldâ#first drone delivery company.
This style of product (as well as supervised highway cruising) is the first thing that car companies are delivering (though they are also delivering various parking assist
As such a full auto traffic jam assist should be the first product we see form car companies.
The Delphi car a modified Audi SUV has no fewer than 6 4-plane LIDARS and an even larger number of radars.
"The Google car uses the same technology as its fleet of Lexus SUVS which has logged some 1. 6 million kilometers (one million miles)."
Daimler is the parent company of Council Lead Partner Mercedes-benz, which also is working on next-generation vehicles,
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cars and fleet vehiclesnd sold it to fleet operators and car makers like Porsche. Those companies, in turn, typically made it available through smartphone apps or dashboard consoles.
which use a matrix with embedded copper wire (often in seats or in the steering wheel), are power-hungry.
Many car manufacturers are responding by concentrating efforts on improving the product itself, incorporating new features from semi-autonomous driving modes to interior scent release.
"said senior researcher Peter Ford Dominey. Nao plays the role of the scientist's assistant by following his directions, bringing or holding parts of the card during repair.
He has installed four Microcubes on the roof of a Ford C-Max Energi electric car, generating what he estimates will be 2,
The company is a worldwide leader in the manufacurting and retailing of graphene and other advanced materials, with clients such as NASA, Ford motor, Apple, Samsung, Harvard and Stanford.
Fortunately, through their work with Local Motors, to develop the crowdsourcing auto manufacturer electric roadsters, Oak ridge had the Big Area Additive manufacturing (BAAM) machine.
Based on current projections the ticket price will be about three times more expensive on average than current business-class subsonic tickets One estimate puts the cost at#5, 000 (£3, 700) per seat for a Brussels to Sydney one-way trip.
In Europe, Steelant team tested their 300-seat design albeit a 1: 120 scale model, at speeds of Mach 8 within a wind tunnel.
according to research by Airbus and the Japan Aircraft Development Corporation. he estimated ticket price for Tokyo to Los angeles is the same as that of an existing first-class seat,
For example, last summer, it filed a patent to bicycle-style seats on planes that would make it possible to cram more passengers in the same amount of space.
The Danish exercise bikes with no seats as none is needed in gravity-free conditions were launched in 2001
#Porsche, Audi unveil all-electric models to challenge Tesla Tesla will soon face competition in the luxury all-electric car segment after Porsche
and Audi unveiled new all-electric models at the Frankfurt Auto Show. Audi unveiled the concept car for its"e-tron quattro"vehicle, a sporty SUV, with a range of more than 500 km.
Porsche showed the prototype of its first battery-powered sports car, titled"Mission E."Similar in appearance to its iconic 911,
it has an 800-volt electric powertrain with 600 horsepower that can accelerate to 100 km per hour in 3. 5 seconds."
we knew it had to be a real Porsche, "chief executive Matthias Müller said in an interview on the eve of the Frankfurt Motor Show."
"Neither Porsche or Audi will have these models to market until 2018. Tesla's first luxury electric crossover, the Model X, starts delivery on Sept. 29, giving it a head start.
But with such high-profile names, with established reputations as luxury automakers, entering the all-electric market, they could pose competition for Tesla down the road.
Both Porsche and Audi are owned by Volkswagen, the world's biggest automaker, and the move to all-electric could boost the credibility of the concept and thus help Tesla."
That could help open doors for Volkswagen as many consumers are waiting for suitable infrastructure to be developed.
#Poland's Ideabank Turned Four BMW i3 EVS Into Mobile ATMS ATMS were considered once a revolution in convenience,
That's why Poland's Ideabank turned four BMW i3 electric cars into mobile ATMS, dispensing cash to customers via a mobile app, reports Carscoops.
The Nissan leaf for example, holds 24 kilowatt-hours, while an average house will use 30 kilowatt-hours per day,
Google says it begun discussions with most of the world's top automakers in a bid to get self-driving cars on the road by 2020.
This effect is achieved by using spinning gyros embedded in the vehicle beneath the seat. A spinning disk-also known as a gyro-can keep its balance where a stationary disk would fall flat, just like a bicycle wheel.
#Audi, Mercedes and BMW hit back at Google and Appple: Firms buy Nokia's map business in bid to beat tech firms with self driving cars and navigation German carmakers BMW,
Audi and Mercedes, will pay around 2. 5 billion euros ($2. 8 billion) to buy Nokia's maps business,
beating out high-tech rivals for location services seen as key to the future of self-driving cars.
The purchase allows automakers to offer new premium features, like autonomous driving, in luxury cars, shaking up the pecking order between car makers,
'With the joint acquisition of HERE, we want to secure the independence of this central service for all vehicle manufacturers,
'There is a risk that the other automakers will be pushed further into the arms of Google, 'said Richard Windsor an independent financial analyst who tracks major tech players.
Law firm Hogan Lovells advised the overall automaker consortium and Daimler specifically. Self-driving and connected car services could become a $50 billion market analysts at Exane BNP PARIBAS have estimated.
It shows a self driving Lexus stopping at a junction in Mountain view near the firm's HQ-then being rear ended by the car behind.'
One of our Lexus vehicles was driving autonomously towards an intersection in Mountain view, CA.'The light was green,
and they'll drive using the same software that our existing Lexus vehicles usehe same fleet that has driven self over 1 million miles
Brin insists Google doesn't aspire to be a car company, but wants its technology to be adopted by automakers.'
'We want to partner to bring self-driving to all the vehicles in the world, 'Brin told a group of journalists
For now the traditional automakers are pursuing their own self-driving technology, but with less ambitious timeline of 10 to 15 years for a truly driverless car.
friendly looking prototype-his young son thinks it looks like a koala because of the nose-like black laser on the front-is a good bridge between the company's current test fleet of 20 specially outfitted Lexus SUVS
The prototype cars-assembled in suburban Detroit by Roush Industries-have the same array of radars, lasers and cameras as Google's fleet of Lexus SUVS,
one of Google's Lexus SUVS seemed momentarily confused when a mail truck partially blocked its path.
Mercedes-benz Infiniti and other brands already have advanced driver assistance systems, like lane keeping and adaptive cruise control,
that can pilot the car on the highway with minimal input from the driver. Unlike Google, automakers think self-driving cars will arrive feature-by-feature instead of all at once,
giving people plenty of time to adapt to autonomous driving. But Urmson says that approach is'fundamentally wrong.''
or sell its technology to automakers. Brin says the company is still refining its plans for self-driving cars
French car seat manufacturer Faurecia claims its concept seat unveiled at the IAA show in Frankfurt, is a world first.'
'What we basically do is to monitor respiration rate and heart rate in the seat, and we derive stress
'The seat has taken five years to develop and the team's aim was to make drivers feel better after their journey than
The sensors in the seat are built by American company Hoana Medical and used exclusively by Faurecia.'
The team claims despite all the technology in the seat, it doesn't affect comfort, or look noticeable.
The seat is designed to work alongside fitness device, such as the Fitbit, so it can use data collected before the driver got behind the wheel to understand how energised they may be.
The seat could be fitted in new cars from 2020, but no indication of price has been given.
Last year, Ford's European Research and Innovation Centre in Aachen, Germany and Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen University debuted a conceptual seat with six embedded
The Ford heart rate monitoring seat performs much like a traditional ECG, except the sensors are placed on the surface of the car seat instead of being attached directly to the driver.
and are able to use the driver's natural contact with the seat to maintain a reading in most cases.
Ford's car seat may in some cases detect increased heart activity before the driver notices they are having a heart attack,
Existing Ford systems such as Lane Departure Warning, Lane Keeping Aid, Active City Stop, Driver Alert and Speed Limiter could potentially be activated
when the Ford heart rate monitoring seat senses an attack is imminent, mitigating the consequences of a driver losing control because of a heart-related episode.
While the seat is a concept, it could be ready to be fitted in cars in 2020.0
the number of an approaching bus and any empty seats on it. The system, being tested by 1,
the american electric automotive company went beyond cars to create a battery system centered on household consumption needs. the tesla owerwallis not only described as a game changing innovation
but the seat reclines for stretching and its cushion can be removed for access to a toilet.
#Blackberry introduces Porsche Design P983 Graphite at Rs 99,990 in India Blackberry has launched the Blackberry Porsche Design P983 Graphite smartphone in India at a price of Rs 99,990.
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#Google Project Ara modular smartphone delayed to 2016 Google had announced earlier this year, that it will unveil the modular smartphone in Puerto rico as part of a pilot program that will allow people to choose their own hardware based on their needs and interests.
Authors Sivak and Schoettle suggest automakers can design self-driving cars specifically to help reduce the inherent proclivity for car sickness,
and orienting seats and displays so that riders are facing forward. Mercedes-benz recently showed a prototype driverless car that featured deeply tinted windows
and rear-facing front seats, which would apparently be a no-no in this regard. Alternately, riders prone to the malady could always take anti-nausea medications,
though this is not a particularly practical solution for various reasons. Beyond that, riders could take a nap,
Whichever automaker becomes the first to market a fully autonomous vehicle might take heed to place one important item on the standard equipment list a barf bag
Oncor is using a small battery developed by Tesla motors. Microgrids are getting the attention of utilities, not as potential threats but as a possible complement to their business models.
physician Ford Vox last year noted that Amazon customers could easily order illegal steroids, stimulants,
By fitting its Highway Pilot self-driving system to a Mercedes-benz Actros truck and steering it down a stretch of Autobahn 8 near Stuttgart,
Daimler's Highway Pilot system first debuted on the open road last year aboard the Mercedes-benz Future Truck 2025 a concept vehicle intended to demonstrate what a future of autonomous trucking might look like.
Then earlier this year another of the company's concept vehicles, the Freightliner Inspiration, received official licensing to roam the public highways in the state of Nevada.
Onboard the modified Mercedes-benz Actros was Daimler executive Dr Wolfgang Bernhard and Winfried Kretschmann, Minister-President of the state of Baden-Württemberg,
they were transferred then to the Honda Research Institute USA in Columbus OH, where they were compared then with known highly sensitive gas sensors.
Chief Scientist and project leader of Honda Research Institute USA Inc."Our approach combines novel nanomaterials with continuous UV LIGHT radiation in the sensor designs that have been developed in our laboratory by lead researcher Dr
Visit to BMW factory fuels further rumours of possible partnership During the visit executives from the technology company asked detailed questions about tooling and production,
and BMW board members signalled their readiness to license parts, according to a Reuters report that quoted sources at BMW.
Although there are no plans at present for jointly developing a passenger vehicle, according to BMW, one of the sources quoted by Reuters said exploratory talks between senior managers may be revived at a later stage.
Rumours of a possible partnership that would see Apple using the body of BMW's'i'vehicles as the basis for an Apple Car
have been circulating for months. Last year after a visit by Tim cook, Apple's CEO, to BMW's headquarters,
but news of the Leipzig visit only emerged in Germany's Manager-Magazin last week.
According to the Reuters sources discussions between Apple and BMW ended inconclusively. Apple appears to want to explore developing a passenger car on its own,
while BMW is said to be cautious about sharing its manufacturing know-how as it wants to avoid becoming a mere supplier to a software or internet giant.
Since the Leipzig visit, there has been a reshuffle at the top of BMW with Harald Krueger, appointed BMW Chief executive in May, in favour of establishing his own team and his plans for BMW by year end,
before engaging in new projects, a person familiar with his thinking told Reuters. A further complication is the departure of Herbert Diess,
the BMW's board member for development who played a leading role in initial discussions with Apple.
He defected to Volkswagen in December. Apple's car project is named code'Project Titan 'but details remain a closely guarded secret.
a former senior vice-president at the Chrysler Group, joined Apple. The company has hired also Paul Furgale, a researcher on autonomous vehicles, according to a report by The Wall street journal l
#Lexus Hoverboard is real, lets people glide around using magnets and liquid nitrogen Lexus has unveiled the first working hoverboard,
powered by magnets and nitrogen but we won be flying around like Back To The Future just yet.
CEO of one of the companies that helped Lexus make the board, in a statement. he force is strong enough that the rider can stand
Car companies, the aviation industry as well as bridge manufacturers could be next in line. Corrosion resistance isn't the only super-trait of these metals.
Inspired by this result, Michi-To Suzuki and Ryotaro Arita from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, in collaboration with Hiroaki Ikeda from Ritsumeikan University in Japan, investigated the mechanism of electron pairing in 2si2
and orbitals, says Suzuki. he finding urges us to reconsider the mechanism of superconductivity. c
Once fabricated, the researchers sent boron graphene samples to researchers at the Honda Research Institute USA Inc.,Columbus, Ohio, who tested the samples against their own highly sensitive gas sensors.
chief scientist and project leader at Honda Research Institute USA Inc."Our approach combines novel nanomaterials with continuous ultraviolet light radiation in the sensor design that have been developed in our laboratory by lead researcher Dr
On the other hand, the brain is the seat of natural vibrations created by the blood pulsating in the arteries and the circulating cerebrospinal fluid.
In order to advance onboard natural gas storage, Ford motor company teamed up with UC Berkeley on this project, with funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agencynergy (ARPA-E) of the U s. Dept of energy.
Ford is a leader in CNG/propane-prepped vehicles with more than 57,000 sold in the U s. since 2009, more than all other major U s. automakers combined.
According to Mike Veenstra, of Ford research and advanced engineering group in Dearborn Michigan, Ford recognized that ANG has the potential to lower the cost of onboard tanks,
station compressors and fuel along with serving to increase natural gas-powered vehicle driving range within the limited cargo space. atural gas storage in porous materials provides the key advantage of being able to store significant amounts of natural gas at low pressures
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