If offices have thermostats, they re often fake, so people don t end up fighting with each other over the right setting
Tracking of patients data through wearables and biometric sensors.##Healthcare providers can tell if the health of a patient at home is declining,
and potentially from Intel, too, depending on who HP chooses to fabricate its new chip. Last year, Whitman called out Microsoft and Intel as competitors.
#Ostendo Technologies chip to bring holograms to smartphones Ostendo chip that can produce a hologram Virtual reality won t require strapping a bulky contraption to your head in the future.
Or look down at a smartwatch and#see virtual objects float #and bounce above the wrist,
A patchwork of chips, laid together, can form far larger and more complex images. The first iteration of the chip,
which is scheduled to begin shipping next year, will only project 2-D videos, but the next version, expected to follow soon after will feature holographic capability,
a set of six chips laid together that beamed a 3-D image of green dice spinning in the air.
Ostendo s chips are at about 5, 000 dots per inch. Ostendo which says it has several opportunities with major handset manufacturers,
It also expects to begin manufacturing the second version of the chip, with 3-D capability, in the second half of 2015.
The cost to the consumer should be about $30 a chip, Ostendo estimates. Dr. El-Ghoroury said the company still needs to improve the 3-D product
the larger vision is to have Ostendo s chips everywhere electronic displays are needed, whether it is a glasses-free 3-D television screen, a smartwatch,
or tables that can project hologram-like images. So what happens in a world where 3-D
The researchers also found that the new semimetal material exists in a sturdy 3d form that should be much easier to shape into electronic devices such as very fast transistors, sensors and transparent electrodes.
They use an air-electrode capable of breathing ambient air and extracting the oxygen from it.
Phinergy batteries use a porous electrode with a large surface area that captures the oxygen from ambient air.
The electrode also contains a silver-based catalyst that doesn t let CO2 interact with it.
carbonization caused by CO2 permeating the electrode. To make the aluminum-air battery even more economical they are produced in areas where electrical energy capacity
for backing up renewable power sites, for electronic devices and for industry and defense. Via World Future Society Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorat o
The second paper presents designs that show how to build electrical components (such as resistors, inductors, capacitors, sensors and actuators) with self-folding laser-cut materials.
and connect the electrodes. Take a peek after the break to see the video in question
These sensors then measure the electrical potential of the eye movement; changes in voltage are collected then into data that is measured for parameters such as alertness or fatigue.
In addition, the MEME also comes equipped with a six-axis motion-tracking sensor built into the frame that calculates different body movements,
The island itself will be glistening from the massive net studded with billions of tiny rectifying antennas designed to convert microwave energy into DC power Next to the antennas is a large substation that sends vast amounts of power through an underwater cable to Tokyo,
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,
The first one involves a huge square panel (measuring over 1 mile per side) that is covered with photovoltaic receptors on the top and transmission antennas on the bottom.
Sensors, Food, Automation and Engineering. Sensors help agriculture by enabling real-time traceability and diagnosis of crop, livestock and farm machine states.
Food may benefit directly from genetic tailoring and potentially from producing meat directly in a lab. Automation will help agriculture via large-scale robotic
Sensors Air & soil sensors: Fundamental additions to the automated farm, these sensors would enable a real time understanding of current farm, forest or body of water conditions.
Scientifically viable in 2013; mainstream and financially viable in 2015. Equipment telematics: Allows mechanical devices such as tractors to warn mechanics that a failure is likely to occur soon.
Crop sensors: Instead of prescribing field fertilization before application, high-resolution crop sensors inform application equipment of correct amounts needed.
Optical sensors or drones are able to identify crop health across the field (for example, by using infrared light).
Scientifically viable in 2015; mainstream in 2018; and financially viable in 2019. Infrastructural health sensors:
Can be used for monitoring vibrations and material conditions in buildings, bridges, factories, farms and other infrastructure.
Coupled with an intelligent network, such sensors could feed crucial information back to maintenance crews or robots.
With satellite imagery and advanced sensors, farmers can optimize returns on inputs while preserving resources at ever larger scales.
Further understanding of crop variability, geolocated weather data and precise sensors should allow improved automated decision-making and complementary planting techniques.
The hypothetical combination of dozens or hundreds of agricultural robots with thousands of microscopic sensors,
Last year, Lewis and her students showed they could print the microscopic electrodes and other components needed for tiny lithium-ion batteries.
Other projects include printed sensors fabricated on plastic patches that athletes could one day wear to detect concussions and measure violent impacts.
and detail to atmospheric sensors used in many of Google s applications, such as Google maps. It is still early days
says co-author Ido Bachelet of the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials at Bar Ilan University. nlike electronic devices,
and the city now has fibre networks and thousands of sensors on buildings, vehicles and the ground.
Smart sensors installed across the city will also provide real-time information and services on weather, traffic, entertainment, tourism, emergency services and flights.
and the Gear 2 smartwatch. ith the growth of wearable devices, Spritz patent-pending technology will enable Samsung device users to read emails comfortably
They are also working on a fatigue detector and a detector for other states like distraction.
The technology opens the door to any number of mobile electronic devices which have so far been held back by limited battery lives. he idea of eliminating cables would allow us to redesign things in ways that we haven yet thought of,
Using a microphone, they mapped how the waves responded and produced videos of them traveling through the air.
The bulk of those batteries 23 gigawatt hours were for consumer electronics, like our laptops and cell phones.
You probably have your smartphone, maybe a tablet or e reader. You may also have a fitness band or even a second smartphone.
from the filament in a light bulb to the silicon in a computer chip. Whether we 3d print them
It gathers data from sensors placed throughout fields that measure the temperature and moisture levels in soil and surrounding air.
blow up underwater mines or set sensors in the ocean.""The research was published online today (April 8) in the journal Bioinspiration & Biomimetics s
The team developed flexible sheets of light sensors, containing a temperature-sensitive dye, that can automatically sense
They developed flexible sheets consisting of color-changing elements on top of a white reflective surface with moving devices and light sensors.
and the light sensor acts like structures that contain opsins, which are involved light-sensitive receptors in vision.
The MIDAS Library also makes it simple for engineers to deal with intelligent electronic devices (IEDS) for protection and control of the electrical system.
and therefore more accurate, is an optical system using a laser directed at a MEMS sensor.
and the need to precisely align the laser with the tip of the tiny MEMS sensor.
or very few MEMS sensors at a time. By contrast Panorama Lumimems Reader is a portable, robust and autonomous readout system
In addition, a chip that has several hundred MEMS sensors can be read simultaneously by one Lumimems Reader,
It has been estimated there are already 50 MEMS sensors in a modern car. The MEMS market is estimated to be $14 billion in 2014,
#Flolevel Technologies launches acoustic level interface transmitter Flolevel Technologies, an innovator of level measurement products, has launched a new self-cleaning acoustic level interface transmitter for Flotation Cells.
The level interface transmitter tracks liquid to liquid interface, liquid to paste interface and liquid to granular interface.
It is powered a hi Ultrasonic self-cleaning transmitter that is not affected by conductivity and dielectric of the solution.
which cause implosions that generate high energy levels. ith over 30 years of experience from many different applications in the mines we have developed a level transmitter that will optimise the mineral recovery in Flotation Cells
and sensors into a desirable geometry with 5d data reconstruction Enhancing fracture determination from seismic data with improved full azimuth imaging
Using the new XFLASH V5 LE SDD detector, the S2 RANGER X-ray spectrometer achieves superb light element performance and analytical precision for applications in cement, minerals and mining, petrochemistry, and research.
With a larger detector area the spectrometer achieves higher sample throughput and lower detection limits.
#New remote control solution can help mining in hazardous areas TORC Robotics has provided a remote control solution for a 40 cubic yard shovel
The remote control systems provided by TORC allows the mine operators to quickly increase production that would have stalled due to the hazardous recovery.
Once the operator is in the remote control room the vehicle is driven remotely into the hazardous zone.
allowing seamless transitions for the workers between manual and remote control. This allows the mine to continue working without putting personnel into risky and dangerous situations t
#IBM's new computer chip can think like a human brain IBM's latest brain-like computer chip may not be"smarter than a fifth-grader,
Researchers for the computer hardware giant have developed a postage-stamp-size chip, equipped with 5. 4 billion transistors,
individual chips can be connected together like tiles, similar to how circuits are linked in the human brain.
The team used its"Truenorth"chip, described on Aug 7 in the journal Science, to perform a task that is very challenging for conventional computers:
Modha gave an analogy to explain how the brain-like chip differs from a classical computer chip.
In contrast, IBM's new chip architecture resembles that of a living brain. The chip is composed of computing cores that each contain 256 input lines
or"axons"(the cablelike part of a nerve cell that transmits electrical signals) and 256 output lines, or"neurons."
The researchers connected more than 4, 000 of these cores on a single chip, and tested its performance with a complex image-recognition task.
10 Coolest DARPA Projects After the team constructed the chip, Modha halted work for a month and offered a $1,
The new chip is not only much more efficient than conventional computer chips, it also produces far less heat,
"the camera sensor becomes the computer, "he said. Building a brain IBM researchers aren't the only ones building computer chips that mimic the brain.
A group at Stanford university developed a system called"Neurogrid"that can simulate a million neurons and billions of synapses.
But while Neurogrid requires 16 chips linked together, the IBM chip can simulate the same number of neurons with only a single chip,
Modha said. In addition, Neurogrid's memory is stored off-chip, but the new IBM system integrates both computation and memory on the same chip,
which minimizes the time needed to transmit data, Modha said. Kwabena Boahen, an electrical engineer at Stanford who led the development of the Neurogrid system,
called the IBM chip"a very impressive achievement."("Several of Boahen's colleagues on the Neurogrid project have gone on to work at IBM,
The IBM team was able to fit more transistors onto a single chip, while making it very energy efficient,
IBM created the chip as part of DARPA's Synapse program (short for Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics.
The current chip contains more 4, 000 of these cores. Still, the IBM chip is a far cry from a human brain,
which will knock out the sensors or control systems on an enemy drone or vessel. If the adversary still doesn't get the hint,
or electronic device without obstructing the view. It's possible, thanks to Michigan State university researchers who have developed a completely transparent solar concentrator, reports Phys. org.
"It can be used on tall buildings with lots of windows or any kind of mobile device that demands high aesthetic quality like a phone or e reader.
The researchers say this could be used as a self-healing adhesive to repair defective semiconductor chips, for example.
The DEKA Arm System, developed by the company DEKA Integrated Solutions in Manchester, New hampshire, uses wireless signals from sensors in the user's feet and other inputs to control the arm's multiple joints.
including the miniaturization of motor parts, computer controls and sensors and manufacturing that uses lightweight but strong materials.
#'Astroskin'smart shirt monitors astronauts'health in Antarctica Remember that pivotal scene in the movie"Apollo 13"in which crewmembers rip the biomedical sensors off their bodies?
and is embedded with wireless sensors. From the ground, doctors can see an astronaut's vital signs,
Whiskers are hairlike tactile sensors used by certain mammals and insects to monitor wind and navigate around obstacles in tight spaces lead researcher Ali Javey of Berkeley Lab's Materials sciences Division said in a news release.
In tests these whiskers were 10 times more sensitive to pressure than all previously reported capacitive or resistive pressure sensors.
The researchers say this is at least 10 times more sensitive than any other previously developed resistive pressure sensors.
or even wearable sensors that would measure things like heartbeat and pulse rate. The e-whiskers were composed of
meaning that the technology could potentially be mass-produced using the same sort of equipment currently used for chip manufacturing.
Electronic devices can also be made more waterproof than ever before and touchscreens could be made that resist finger grease and other similar causes of smudges.
The project would deploy a fleet of 648 microsatellites capable of providing low-latency high-speed Internet access directly to small user-based terminals all around the world.
The cluster which would be the world's largest satellite network will then talk to receivers on the ground measuring a tiny 36 centimeters by 16 centimeters
a complete computer that runs Windows 8. 1 (or Linux) that you can plug into the HDMI port of your big TV.
#Graphene electrode promises stretchy circuits: Nature News A transparent, flexible electrode made from graphene could see a one-atom thick honeycomb of carbon first made just five years ago replace other high-tech materials used in displays.
It could even be used instead of silicon in electronics. Byung Hee Hong from Sungkyunkwan University in Suwon, Korea,
etched into the shape needed to make an electrode, onto pieces of polymer. The polymers they used are transparent,
Thinner is better The team made the electrodes by using nickel as a catalyst on
the resulting electrodes are transparent, and Hong says that makes the material ideal for use in applications such as portable displays.
His team is also looking at using the graphene electrodes in photovoltaic cells. Easing the pain
But the electrodes are less likely to be used in bendy electronics at least in the short term
Traditionally, chlorine production has used a mercury electrode in the electrolysis of sodium chloride, but alternatives are increasingly being used.
with the cylindrical conducting tube lining the machine functioning as a waveguide for a signal transmitted by an outside antenna.
The detectors need to be a similar size to the sample and the magnetic coils usually used cannot easily be made smaller than a few micrometres.
In 2006 Baraniuk and his colleagues made the first optical camera that produced multi-pixel images with a single-pixel sensor.
the Duke system uses a stationary metamaterial aperture, a strip that guides microwaves to a single sensor.
Today s millimetre-wave airport scanners physically move an array of multiple sensors around a person.
Near the backlight of a liquid-crystal display (LCD), for example, temperatures can be around 100#C. At this temperature,
His optimism will be tested this spring with the company s quantum dot debut in Sony LCD televisions,
Conventional LCDS use a high-intensity blue LED backlight whose glow is converted by a phosphor coating to create a broadband,
The film is layered between the LCD s stack of light filters, diffusers and polarizers, and similarly converts raw blue light into white light made up of pure colours.
using 11 sets of observations recorded between 2003 and 2011 using the Hubble space telescope s Fine Guidance Sensors,
and in the ultra-small cavities of photonic crystals#components of chip-based lasers and light-emitting diodes."
and with the help of satellite imaging and undersea sensors, researchers have discovered a long-elusive source for the deep ocean streams of cold water that help to regulate the Earth's climate.
the researchers used satellite sensors to hunt for polynya regions where ice formed particularly rapidly.
The Argus II includes a small video camera, a transmitter mounted on a pair of eyeglasses, a video processing unit and a 60-electrode implanted retinal prosthesis that replaces the function of degenerated cells in the retina,
the membrane lining the inside of the eye. Although it does not fully restore vision,
this setup can improve a patient s ability to perceive images and movement, using the video processing unit to transform images from the video camera into electronic data that is wirelessly transmitted to the retinal prosthesis.
Retinitis pigmentosa#which affects about one in 4, 000 people in the US and about 1. 5 million people worldwide#kills the retina s photoreceptors,
The company s technology is a three-by three-millimeter microelectronic chip (0. 1-millimeter thick) containing about 1, 500 light-sensitive photodiodes,
amplifiers and electrodes surgically inserted beneath the fovea (which contains the cone cells) in the retina s macula region.
The chip helps generate at least partial vision by stimulating intact nerve cells in the retina. The nerve impulses from these cells are led then via the optic nerve to the visual cortex where they create impressions of sight.
The chip s power source is positioned under the skin behind the ear and connected via a thin cable#no glasses or camera required.
These sensors detect light, and control the output of a pulsed electrical current. Patients would wear goggles that emit near-infrared pulses that transmit both power and data directly to the photodiodes.
The chip converts images that come into the eye into streams of electrical impulses, and the mini-projector then converts the electrical impulses into light impulses that are sent to the brain.
Rather than increasing the number of electrodes placed in an eye to capture more information
Their giant but crude microwave receiver saw the radiation as being the same in all directions,
Its high-frequency microwave detector is cooled to just 0. 1 degrees above absolute zero which enables it to detect temperature variations as small as a millionth of a degree.
as in an ordinary LCD screen#the display can also produce moving images. Figuring out how to modulate the LCD screen to produce the views is orders of magnitude easier than working out the complicated interference patterns needed to make a moving hologram visible from any direction,
says Fattal. And because each circular diffraction grating is just 12 micrometres across, the system is suited ideally to mobile technologies,
a voltage at the transistor s gate terminal allows current to flow through a semiconductor inside the device.
These can form a tangled network that connects two electrodes some 30 micrometres apart. Roughly 5%of the gold nanoparticles have defects that prevent current from flowing from one electrode to the other.
But if an electron settles on a defective nanoparticle it makes it slightly easier for current to flow,
The device can fit about five green algae cells between the electrodes. Shining a light on the cells triggers a cascade of biochemical reactions that transfer electrons along a chain of molecules#and switches the transistor on.
and a detector captures the signals like a viewer watching a cinema screen. The system records activity from the full brain every 1. 3 seconds.
Another limitation is that neither the protein sensor nor the imaging system yet works fast enough to distinguish
The mental remote control, developed by Braingate, will be tested in volunteers possibly within a year. According to a recent post on MTI Technology Review, researchers at Brown University and a company callled Blackrock Microsystems, have commercialized a wireless device that can be attached to a person skull
and wired to electrodes inside the brain. The processor inside the device amplifies the electrical signals emitted by neurons,
and the built-in radio beams this info to the receiver placed within a few meters. From this point the original thought command becomes available as a control signal for computers.
to have an implant with electrodes paired with drug delivery pumps that could sense an oncoming epileptic seizure
which involves attaching electrodes to the surface of the skin. his method allows easy access to the neural connections in the spinal cord below a spinal injury
Will Shanklin of Gizmag first tried Thync at the Consumer electronics Show in January 2015 and has written about it again with the company latest announcement that it's now taking.
#Tiny Radar Chip Gives Devices Gesture Control In the future, we might not have to touch devices at all to control them.
A sensor tracks the movements of hands, which control the input into a device. The team unveiled the new technology recently during its
Photosthe radar technology can fit onto a chip the size of a fingernail and can be produced at scale.
Google wants to put the chip into small electronic devices like smartwatches, along with everyday objects. The release date for the API to Soli has not yet been announced yet. via Business Inside n
and eventually attach integrated sensors and communication devices. Sounds great! You first d
#Rat Limb Grown in the Lab In a first step toward engineering replacement limbs in the lab,
#Needle Injects Healing Electronics into the Brain Researchers have built a tiny mesh-like electronic sensor,
The key finding is that the sensor and mesh combination is so small and bendy that it doesn cause any damage to the surrounding brain tissue, something that often plagues surgical procedures done with a needle, knife or other type of probe.
Lieber said the stiffness of flexible electronic sensor is four to six orders magnitude bigger than current electronics. ells can penetrate through this,
As a result, the sensor doesn provoke a response by the body immune system. The mesh is made of a polymer material with electronics embedded inside.
Brain-Zapping Implant Could Aid Injured Soldiers The authors of the paper say next step is to use the mesh system to deliver living stem cells that may help repair damaged sections of the brain or perhaps a multifunction electronic device
The Muse headband is lined with seven EEG sensors that detect the brain electrical activity and sends information about the user state of mind to a smartphone app, Calm,
Although the technology would only work with devices that have some sort of optical receiver, the concept could provide a big boost to connectivity speeds with the potential to use every light in a building as an Internet transmitter. via Phys. or a
#'Edible Barcodes'Help Fight Counterfeit Drugs Who knew that the answer to fighting the trillion-dollar global counterfeit drug problem rested in a particle the size of a speck of dust?
and have embedded sensors that communicate with the city waste management fleet. The Wireless internet option essentially turns the trash cans into free public Wi-fi hotspots,
The panels of the car connect to body sensors on the driver body. As the driver pulse quickens
and an optical sensor to identify the molecular structure of any given material. Different types of molecules vibrate in unique ways
You can pre-order the SCIO pocket sensor now for $249 or if you want to design your own apps,
#Lab on a chip turns smart phones into mobile disease clinics Smart phones can pay our bills,
one of the four main detectors at the Large hadron collider (LHC), which was behind the find.
Within it, two electrodes are separated by a charge-conducting electrolyte. In the case of SOFCS, the electrolyte consists of a solid ceramic membrane.
In the typical setup, air is fed to the negatively charged electrode, or cathode, where oxygen molecules pick up extra electrons.
In the future he hopes to improve his detectors to sense radiation from a single horizon which could help determine
The hypersensitive methane detector on NASA's Mars rover curiosity is being repurposed to ferret out gas leaks On earth.
Cliff Johnson president of the Pipeline Research Council International says the detector will help find leaks in pipelines before they get large.
Chemical modelling suggests pressure deep inside the planets would crush it into a rain of diamond chips
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