The new technology uses implanted sensors sending wireless signals to the artificial limb's built-in computer, enabling subconscious, real-time control and faster, more natural responses and movements.
It works by laying sensors on the skin of the vestigial limb, which picks up electrical impulses that control, for example, an artificial arm.
these sensors pick up electric impulses from more than one muscle. This degrades performance, requires a lot of practice to operate properly,
One answer to this is to use more precise sensor arrangements that make the limb, for all practical purposes, mind-controlled.
#New process prints electroluminescent layers directly onto three-dimensional objects Electroluminescent (EL) panels are found in many electronics applications, particularly as backlighting for LCD displays, keypads, watches,
Essentially the equivalent of a capacitor when used in an AC (Alternating current) circuit, EL panels encase their light-emitting material between two electrodes.
In standard panels, one electrode is generally clear glass or plastic coated with a transparent conductive coating,
while the opaque rear electrode is made generally from a reflective metal foil. In the KIT/Binder EL panel,
Prakash and Stanford graduate student Georgios Katsikis constructed assortments of miniscule iron blocks on glass slides to act as physical logic gates.
a video camera is used to capture the exchanges between individual droplets, and to observe fluidic computation in real time.
we've demonstrated that we can make all the universal logic gates used in electronics, simply by changing the layout of the bars on the chip,
"says Katsikis.""The actual design space in our platform is incredibly rich. Give us any Boolean logic circuit in the world,
Given that the new system is also physically strong compared to electronic devices and adheres to universal design rules,
including electrodes and copper circuits. The process is distinct from micro laser sintering or direct metal laser sintering,
including electrodes and copper circuits. The process is distinct from micro laser sintering or direct metal laser sintering,
liquid containing bacteria can be used to power a paper-based sensor, which could be especially useful in areas
At the moment, the paper sensors need to be used with hand-held devices to conduct analysis on the data they gather,
Now, using the sensors and hardware that let the car park itself, Jaguar land rover has demonstrated a very nifty remote control app that lets you get out of your car,
stand beside it and drive it using your smartphone. It's an incredibly handy way to get this huge thing in and out of tight parking spots,
whether the car's collision avoidance sensors will stop you from running it into a pole.
The car uses its ultrasonic sensors to look for hazards in the environment and then autonomously executes an about-turn in as many steps as is necessary, from a simple 3-point turn towell, presumably to one of these.
and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) created the device using tiny filaments of graphene attached to metal electrodes,
"This new type of'broadband'light emitter can be integrated into chips and will pave the way towards the realization of atomically thin, flexible,
and graphene-based on-chip optical communications.""Interestingly, the ability of graphene to reach such elevated temperatures without melting
either the underlying substrate or the metal electrodes is because, as graphene is heated up, it is less able to conduct heat away from itself.
A pulse generator inserted under the skin below the collarbone provides electrical signals that create a lesion,
which involves low-level current being passed through electrodes on a patient's head. Like deep brain stimulation, it affects electrical activity in specific areas of the brain,
Lastly, there's the option to use HDMI for connecting an external device. As far as lifespan is concerned,
#Compound discovery sets stage for speedier electronic devices A discovery at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids could pave the way for further leaps forward in the speed of electronic systems.
paving the way for these materials to be used for biodegradable sensors and medical implants. But the applications of a highly-conductive graphene ink could be
along with cameras and sensors that monitor the plants bunches of basil (used to make Liguria's iconic pesto sauce) growing either in hydroponics or in soil.
with smartphones repurposed as blood-scanning microscopes, HIV testers and sleep apnea detectors. The latest advance in this area comes in the form of a fiber optic sensor for smartphones that monitors bodily fluids,
a tool that could be used for biomolecular tests such as pregnancy or diabetes monitoring. Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is a process where a stream of light is directed onto a metallic film, with most,
The team says the sensor's readings could then be processed by a smartphone application to turn out real-time results."
"So, surface plasmon resonance sensors could become ubiquitous now.""The research is published in the journal Optics Express.
According to the researchers, the vanadium flow battery works especially well with their hybrid electrode, allowing them to boost the electric current,
the scientists assembled a thin, flat rectangle-shaped transmitter. While their original power transmitting system employed two magnetic coils placed in parallel,
There's also a built-in LCD screen that displays the current being delivered to a connected device.
An ultrasonic rear sensor provides a warning when cars approach from behind, both via the handlebars and the accompanying Mode:
and has added since a smartwatch extension. The new smartwatch app includes a"no sweat"mode,
which adjusts output of the bike's electric drive based upon the rider's watch-read heart rate,
#First 7nm node test chips developed IBM Research has created successfully the first 7nm node test chip with functioning transistors,
the new manufacturing technique has the potential to see a whopping 20 billion transistors packed into a chip the size of a fingernail.
The smallest transistors in use on chips today are 14 nm wide although 10 nm chips are in development by the likes of Intel and Samsung.
The team also used extreme ultraviolet lithography, or EUVL, for etching. Current chips are etched using an argon fluoride laser,
which has a beam that is 193 nm wide. EUV beams are only 13.5 nm wide,
We probably won see any 7 nm chips on the market for at least a few years because of how expensive they are to produce,
Using an implantable glucose-monitoring sensor is one alternative, although it must be installed surgically and subsequently removed for replacement.
while researchers at Google, Fraunhofer and Microsoft are developing noninvasive sensors that measure glucose content in tears or sweat.
the terminals of the switch are separated only by around 30 atoms. Once that number drops to single digits these transistors will become inoperable as quantum mechanics starts getting in the way,
and wirelessly transmitted to electrodes implanted onto the surface of the retina. Providing the implant works as intended,
#Silk-based functional inks put biosensor data on your fingertips Although we've seen"bio-inks"that allow sensors to be drawn directly on a person's skin
the other in 2014) that involved surgically implanting an electrode array on the spinal cord. This time,
which involves strategically placing electrodes on the skin of the lower back. While receiving stimulation, the men's legs were supported by braces that hung from the ceiling.
Instead of hydraulics, electronic sensors or other high-tech goodies, the prototype knee designed by mechanical engineer Amos Winter operates mainly via a spring and two dampers.
Then, sensors that measure pressure are placed on the bottom of the prosthetic. The sensors essentially relay pressure points through a stimulator in the shaft of the prosthetic
which touches the end of the stump. The nerves send signals to the brain, and, miraculously, the prosthetic toes have touch.
#Nest Thermostats Now Link Up to Products From LG Philips Whirlpool and Others Last June, Nest announced some big names in the first round of integration with its thermostat,
which acts as the hub for its smart home platform. This week at the Consumer electronics Show 2015, the list of names has gotten bigger.
LG, Whirlpool, Lutron, Osram and Philips are just some of the companies that have announced integration available now
when the Nest thermostat senses that the house is occupied. Door locks such as Chamberlain garage doors or the August Smart Lock can set the Nest thermostat to its"home"setting as soon as the doors are unlocked.
Safety features are also part of the integration for devices such as Philips'LED Hue bulbs and Beep, a Wi-fi-connected music dial.
thermostats, pool pumps and water heaters), the savings could be considerable for many regions like Texas,
Chargepoint is one of the companies that also announced it is integrating its residential EV charger with the Nest thermostat h
which its inverters will trip offline, as well as extending how long each inverter waits for disruptions to correct themselves before switching off,
Enphase CEO Paul Nahi said in a Monday interview. This is the kind of basic mart inverterfunctionality that Germany has introduced already for its solar-impacted grid.
In the United states, Hawaii and California are the furthest along in putting together advanced inverter features to be included in new solar installations.
But Enphase already has nearly 8 million inverters worldwide, all designed with software-defined functionality to provide flexibility in how theye used,
and ask inverters to provide reactive power or ramping mitigation as a irtual power plant, all from the company Petaluma, Calif. headquarters,
Enphase is far from the only player in the distributed solar universe that had the foresight to connect its inverters to a two-way communications network.
and Department of energy researchers to show that smart inverter technologies can allow more solar per circuit--an important concession for HECO,
theye likely to look to the inverters already installed as possible tools for managing the resulting disruptions,
and grid sensors out to all kinds of remote devices--including those that aren plugged into the power grid.
and more processing power and memory for its Silverlink Sensor Network-enabled devices. All of these networking advances are built on Silver Spring use of the IEEE 802.15. 4g specification,
Adding low-power sensors to the mesh also allows Silver Spring to potentially get its network into areas that point-to-point wireless systems might have a hard time reaching,
trash bins and traffic detectors, or air or water pollution sensors, to name a few of the systems most often talked about in the context of networking municipal assets and services.
Silver Spring is just one of the many smart meter players targeting this nascent field, of course.
and cameras, parking sensors and other devices that do need them, Reeves said. Silver Spring says its Milli 5 platform can achieve decades of operation in the field without sacrificing network security
SMA launched its Sunny Boy Smart energy PV inverter and battery system. Sharp followed suit at the end of last year by offering a solar-and-storage device that uses Samsung batteries.
Bosch is hoping for certification of a solar-storage inverter next month and various other solar players, such as Renesola of China, seem to be clamoring to enter the U k. market.
a connected thermostat company that has been selling the devices since 2007, and announced a Homekit certified thermostat last week.
Christian science monitor: Not All Call Dealers Hate Tesla's Direct Sales Several large car-dealer groups are"quietly supporting"Tesla, according to Marketwatch.
the battery will also use other inexpensive elements, such as carbon electrodes. He also cites the fact that quinones are natural
semisolid electrode material into a revolution in how lithium-ion batteries are designed and built. Back then, cofounder and Massachusetts institute of technology professor Yet-Ming Chiang described a lean sheet of paperapproach, combining concepts from flow batteries and fuel cells,
And by using a fluid-like set of electrodes that can be formed into a working cell in one step,
During 24m early days, Chiang and startup cofounder and fellow MIT professor W. Craig Carter saw its semisolid electrode material--dubbed ambridge crudefor its MIT roots--as a material to be used in flow batteries,
The startup received early funding from the Department of energy ARPA-E program to explore the potential uses for this material. e originally conceived of using this type of electrode in a flow battery,
he said. ut what we realized upon forming the company was that this semisolid electrode capability had a much better home--reinventing how lithium-ion batteries are made.
He referring to the inactive material that layered between the super-thin electrodes that allow today lithium-ion batteries to charge
and discharge quickly. aving a thin electrode means that the distance the lithium ion has to travel is short--and in the beginning,
he said. ut our semisolid electrode design allows you to get around this problem, and to create a battery that has much thicker electrodes,
and thus much less inactive materials. p until now, it has not been possible to create electrodes that are this thick
and still allow the lithium to be transported fast enoughto provide fast charge-discharge characteristics, he said. 24m seeks to solve that problem through combination of the physical arrangement of the charge material within these electrodes,
and the material we actually use, he said. he key technical concept is reducing something called tortuosity,
like the semisolid materials that 24m forms into anodes and cathodes. hat we do is provide more line of sight paths for the lithium ions to get out of the electrode,
but it also permeates both of the electrodes. It infused into both the cathode and the anode.
and then layers liquid nk or painton it to form its electrodes, he said. That coated metal foil then has to be dried in a series of ovens,
including the use of solvents that have to be recovered for reuse on the next round of products. e bypass all that by starting with a wet electrode that has need everything you in it,
At the same time, hese electrodes do not have any exotic costly components in them, he said. verything they use is already in the lithium-ion supply chain.
That in contrast to 24m process, in which hat goes into the electrodes is just
much simpler than the processes used to make lithium-ion batteries today. he formulation process for making these electrodes is spent exacting,
are less expensive data carriers than RFID chips. And RFID chips have higher read-failure rates than bar codes."
"Proximity reads are an advantage when I want to read everything that is in a kit, as opposed to handling
In other words, they can read the chip through the sheets, for example. However, if two patients are side-by-side
if RFID chips will ever displace barcodes on drug packages any more than on cereal boxes in grocery stores.
"A universal shift from bar codes to chips seems as likely to me as the US converting to the metric system,
But I think people are going to continue to push the envelope to see how the chips could be leveraged.
#Tunable voltage-controlled liquid metal antenna North carolina State university (NCSU) researchers have created, using electrochemistry, a reconfigurable,
voltage-controlled liquid metal antenna that may play a role in future mobile devices and the coming Internet of things.
and indium that can change its shape allows us to modify antenna properties such as frequency more dramatically than is possible with a fixed conductor,
Although antenna properties can be reconfigured to some extent by using solid conductors with electronic switches,
which the antenna operating frequency can be tuned. ur antenna prototype using liquid metal can tune over a range of at least two times greater than systems using electronic switches,
which the antenna and RF front-end must operate. This combination will create a real antenna design challenge for mobile systems
because antenna size and operating bandwidth tend to be conflicting tradeoffs. his is why tunable antennas are highly desirable:
they can be miniaturized and adapted to correct for near-field loading problems such as the iphone 4 well-publicized eath gripissue of dropped calls
Liquid metal systems ield a larger range of tuning than conventional reconfigurable antennas, and the same approach can be applied to other components such as tunable filters,
In the long term, Adams and colleagues hope to gain greater control of the shape of the liquid metal in two-dimensional surfaces to obtain nearly any desired antenna shape. his would enable enormous flexibility in the electromagnetic properties of the antenna
and allow a single adaptive antenna to perform many functions, he added. Image and article via Kurzweila o
and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) that have demonstrated for the first time ever an on-chip visible light source using graphene, an atomically thin and perfectly crystalline form of carbon,
They attached small strips of graphene to metal electrodes, suspended the strips above the substrate,
Wang Fon-Jen Professor of Mechanical engineering at Columbia Engineering and co-author of the study. his new type of roadbandlight emitter can be integrated into chips
and graphene-based on-chip optical communications. Creating light in small structures on the surface of a chip is crucial for developing fully integrated hotoniccircuits that do with light
what is now done with electric currents in semiconductor integrated circuits. Researchers have developed many approaches to do this but have not yet been able to put the oldest and simplest artificial light sourcehe incandescent light bulbnto a chip.
This is primarily because light bulb filaments must be extremely hothousands of degrees Celsiusn order to glow in the visible range
and micro-scale metal wires cannot withstand such temperatures. In addition, heat transfer from the hot filament to its surroundings is extremely efficient at the microscale,
making such structures impractical and leading to damage of the surrounding chip. By measuring the spectrum of the light emitted from the graphene,
or the metal electrodes is due to another interesting property: as it heats up, graphene becomes a much poorer conductor of heat.
Brain waves associated with speech processes can be recorded directly with electrodes located on the surface of the cortex.
An electrode array was placed on the surface of the cerebral cortex (electrocorticography (ECOG)) for their neurological treatment.
and Projects group (ATAP), provides an enticing example of the type of powerful motion controller that could actually change how we interact with everything from smartwatches and tablets to appliances and other everyday objects.
Since Soli sensors can capture motion at up to 10,000 frames per second, it is much more accurate than camera-based systems,
he talked about Project Soli mainly in the context of smartwatches. As displays shrink, he said,
Even the most responsive smartwatch displays can be difficult to navigate in some situations. But Soli utility isn limited to wearables at all.
In its current form, its radar tech lives in a single tiny chip that can be embedded in about any type of device,
even objects that don have a traditional display. t in chip form, since there are no moving parts involved it can be embedded inside devices,
Soli sensors can detect motion at a range of about two to three feet, Schwesig says,
But the size and flexibility of the chip itself leaves many, many more possibilities open. In hands-on demos at Google I/O, ATAP focused more on displaying Soli gesture-recognizing capabilities rather than specific implementations.
A prototype I saw used visualizations to show how the chip was able to detect
#Researchers invent super-elastic conducting fibers to make artificial muscles, sensors, and capacitors A University of Texas at Dallas research team has made electrically conducting fibers that can be stretched reversibly to more than 14 times their initial length and
Fibers and cables derived from the invention might one day be used as interconnects for super-elastic electronic circuits
morphing aircraft, giant-range strain sensors, failure-free pacemaker leads, and super-stretchy charger cords for electronic devices.
Wrapping carbon nanotube sheets into fibers In a study published in the July 24 issue of the journal Science,
the researchers made strain sensors and artificial muscles in which the buckled nanotube sheaths serve as electrodes
and the thin rubber layer is a dielectric, resulting in a fiber capacitor. These fiber capacitors exhibited the unrivaled capacitance change of 860 percent
And now the company has added self-driving capabilities that use a range of sensors to drive safely and more efficiently.
But the company has added now an array of sensors, including a laser scanner, several video cameras and ultrasonic and radar sensors.
All of that data is fed into he central driver assistance control unit (zfas), a compact central computer
In the monkey experiment, the three animals were attached together using special sensors that were implanted in their brain
IBM has announced that it has produced an integrated wavelength multiplexed silicon photonics chip, which will allow the bulk manufacturing of 100 Gbps optical transceivers.
Research into ways of boosting the speeds of both processors and interconnects is looking at many different technologies.
while other avenues being explored include server on a chip and IBM Openpower initiative as discussed in Robert Roe second article on Future processing technologies.
and tested a fully integrated wavelength multiplexed silicon photonics chip, which will soon enable manufacturing of 100 Gbps optical transceivers.
This will allow datacenters to offer greater data rates and bandwidth for cloud computing and Big data applications.
IBM silicon photonics chips uses four distinct colours of light travelling within an optical fibre to transmit data in and around a computing system.
IBM CMOS integrated nanophotonics technology combines the essential parts of an optical transceiver, both electrical and optical, on one silicon chip.
are believed to be the most complex superconductor integrated circuits ever successfully yielded. They are fabricated in part at D-Wave facilities in Palo alto,
information from sensor networks and local weather stations, cloud motion physics derived from sky cameras and satellite observations,
and for sensors that detect obstacles while driving so that they can cut development and production costs,
Japanese auto parts makers lag behind Bosch in sensors, with the German giant supplying western as well as Japanese carmakers,
said Yasuhiro Ueda, SVP, corporate executive, senior general manager, Image Sensor Business Division, Device Solutions Business Group, Sony.
Skin View Camera is a measurement device equipped with a CMOS image sensor, optical lens, LED device and Wifi module. oing forward,
The camera takes images of skin with the CMOS sensor and checks the moisture of the skin with a dedicated sensor.
and measuring reflected lights with the CMOS sensor. Based on multiple image data that indicate the states of the surface and inside of the skin,
#Technology IBM unveils'breakthrough'computer chip NEW YORK IBM on Thursday unveiled a powerful new chip
The new chips could help meet demands of future cloud computing and Big data systems, cognitive computing, mobile products and other emerging technologies, according to IBM,
which developed the chip as part of a $3 billion research effort with Samsung and Globalfoundries at the State university of New york at Albany.
Most chips today in PCS and other devices use microprocessors between 14 and 22 nanometers.
but a fully functioning electronic device,"said Voxel8 cofounder Daniel Oliver. At CES, Voxel8 showed off a quadcopter printed with its machine.
The company will also be releasing new printing materials in order to try its hand at printing resistors, sensors and, for future models of its printer, even lithium-ion batteries.
in addition to the custom circuit boards that Voxel8's printers have perfected already.""We're talking about printing out a circuit at your desk in less than 30 minutes,
This represents a vast improvement over earlier options for printing custom circuit boards, a process that,
For example, rather than trying to get a rectangular circuit board to fit inside a curved object,
Light emitting diodes (LEDS) are now everywhere from consumer electronics like smart phones to light bulbs for home lighting.
In addition to testing out different locations for the machine and communicating with local community members about how it works, the Janicki team's trial run in Senegal will also test out a system of sensors
introducing products from solar-charging stations to pollution sensors that put the environment first. Here are some of the coolest green tech products being showcased at CES.
and features a large blue-hued crystal embedded with sensors. Customers can buy a pendant necklace
"We feel that the findings have potential relevance to a wide range of microsystems technologies biomedical devices, optoelectronics, photovoltaics, 3d circuits, sensors and so on."
and antennas for soft electronic devices designed to integrate with the human body, "he said. The scientists detailed their findings online today (Jan 8) in the journal Science n
From sensors that aim to halt asthma in its tracks, to home monitors that warn the family
several new trackers on display at the 2015 Consumer electronics Show are going far beyond older medical alert systems.
three-sensor monitor that will hit the market later this year. It tracks a person's respiration rate
Another device, Onköl, integrates data from several sensors, including a heart-rate monitor, sensors that track when someone got out of bed
or made a phone call. The device then sends text alerts to loved ones. The is useful
The Veta is also full of sensors, and can reassure parents that their kids have the lifesaving device on them
Scientists have wanted long to create a teensy"light bulb"to place on a chip, enabling what is called photonic circuits,
An electrode was attached to the ends of each graphene strip. Just like tungsten, run a current through graphene
"It's also the reason the electrodes at either end of the graphene don't melt.
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