No, not the hoverboard you saw Lexus create last month for a brand activation, but one made by a little company called Arx Pax.
which is to say it doesn't have to float over magnets nor utilize superconductors (like the Lexus hoverboard does).
Massachusetts institute of technology, the brain trust from which CEI was hatched believes using Gan in data servers, electric vehicle inverters
may soon be found in supercapacitors used in electromagnetic propulsion, electric vehicles, defibrillators and other instant quick-discharge devices.
Healthcare research is also moving beyond the lab. Motor vehicle manufacturer Ford is working alongside other organisations to investigate how connected devices can help people monitor
Vodafone Italia's CEO Aldo Bisio has proposed a'newco'should be created, a private-public vehicle in
and automotive industries by 2024--the three major sectors that South korea is currently most profitable in.
The engineered cells contain an antibody-like protein known as a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) which is designed to bind to a protein called CD19 found on the surface of B cells including the cancerous B cells that characterize several types of leukemia.
A signaling domain built into the CAR promotes rapid multiplication of the hunter cells building an army of tumor-killing cells that tests reveal can grow to more than 10000 new cells for each single engineered cell patients receive.
Compartments within a cell are much like different parts of a car explains Vasanth Ramamurthy Phd first author of the study.
in order to power the car's engine proteins need to be in a specific compartment to properly exercise their functions.
It will help us make parts that are stronger lighter and function better for more energy-efficient transportation and energy production applications such as cars and wind turbines.
Seniors living in highly automobile dependent suburbs who lose their licenses can suffer a decreased quality of life as a result.
#Electric vehicle technology packs more punch in smaller package Using 3-D printing and novel semiconductors researchers at the Department of energy's Oak ridge National Laboratory have created a power inverter that could make electric vehicles lighter more powerful and more efficient.
At the core of this development is wide bandgap material made of silicon carbide with qualities superior to standard semiconductor materials.
Power inverters convert direct current into the alternating current that powers the vehicle. The Oak ridge inverter achieves much higher power density with a significant reduction in weight and volume.
which is the heart of an electric vehicle. Specific advantages of wide bandgap devices include: higher inherent reliability;
Building on the success of this prototype researchers are working on an inverter with an even greater percentage of 3-D printed parts that's half the size of inverters in commercially available vehicles.
Figuratively speaking these are genes that are like motor racing cars with a running engine waiting at the start of a race.
The new technology is designed for conventional lithium-ion batteries now used in billions of cellphones laptops and other electronic devices as well as a growing number of cars and airplanes.
But as the electric vehicle market expands and we start to replace onboard electronics on airplanes this will become a much larger problem Zhuo said.
Some electric cars today are equipped with thousands of lithium-ion battery cells. If one battery explodes the whole pack can potentially explode.
Expected to be the next big thing in battery technology this breakthrough has a wide-ranging impact on many industries especially for electric vehicles
This next generation of lithium-ion batteries will enable electric vehicles to charge 20 times faster than the current technology.
With it electric vehicles will also be able to do away with frequent battery replacements. The new battery will be able to endure more than 10000 charging cycles--20 times more than the current 500 cycles of today's batteries.
Ideally the charge time for batteries in electric vehicles should be less than 15 minutes which Prof Chen's nanostructured anode has proven to do.
and is currently developing new types of batteries for electric vehicle applications at the Energy Research Institute at NTU (ERI@N). Commercialisation of technologymoving forward Prof Chen's research team will be applying for a Proof-of-Concept
With our nanotechnology electric cars would be able to increase their range dramatically with just five minutes of charging
which is on par with the time needed to pump petrol for current cars added Prof Chen.
It is our vision for the future that such plants in the urban area are served by tank vehicles
In high-performance machines such as vehicle engines which are designed to run at high rotational speeds energy loss can be reduced by a few percentage points In high-torque electric motors such as those used to operate pumps the reduction in energy loss can be as high as twentyfive
and car factories where they help engineers to determine the characteristics of steel materials analyze their chemical composition
when performing quality assurance in the automotive industry. The first sensor that combines time-and space-resolved measurementsto understand how the scientists were able to miniaturize the instrument to this extent we need to take a closer look at its inner workings.
#Miniature camera may lead to fewer accidents Measuring only a few cubic millimeters a new type of camera module might soon be integrated into future driver assistance systems to help car drivers facing
The little gadget can be built into the vehicle without taking up space. The way it works is particularly reliable thanks to its special encapsulation.
mounted on the dashboard, the miniature system could monitor the cabin of vehicles and send an alarm for microsleep.
Krystyn Van Vliet, Lead Investigator, SMART Biosystems and Micromechanics (Biosym) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG. The research entitled'Multivariate biophysical markers predictive of mesenchymal stromal cell multipotency'will be published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week.
NIST researchers demonstrated the range by scanning footprints in soil vegetation such as cactus (imaging individual spines) and complex mechanical devices such as a piston for a motorcycle.
and why stem-cell treatments now in clinical trials are not as effective as they could be says Krystyn Van Vliet an MIT associate professor of materials science and engineering
but many of the cells that you're putting in are not Van Vliet says.
but you also can't use fewer than these three Van Vliet says. We now have a triplet of characteristics that identifies populations of cells that are going to be multipotent
what is known already about stem cells Van Vliet says. Compared with cells that have committed already to their final fate immature cells have genetic material that moves around inside the nucleus producing more fluctuations of the nuclear cell membrane.
Creating more pure populations of such cells should lead to more effective stem-cell treatments for tissue injuries Van Vliet says.
Van Vliet and Poon also hope to begin a clinical trial of the osteogenic cells isolated in this study
"One can now think of using these films in automobile glass as an invisible deicer, and even in skyscrapers,"Tour said."
This thinness translates to weight savings on the vehicle. So the NRL-developed nanocrystalline spinel brings improvements in hardness window thickness and weight and cost.
Beyond the use for a harder spinel in armor windows there could be other potential Dod and civilian applications in better/stronger office windows smartphones and tablets screens military/civilian vehicles
"Tittel said smaller QEPAS device will be added this year to the mobile monitoring van currently carrying out a Rice university of Houston survey of pollutants in the city.
the researchers pass a suspension of B cells and target antigen through tiny, parallel channels etched on a chip.
A positive-pressure system moves the suspension through these channels which gradually narrow, applying a gentle pressure to the B cells.
Friction is all around us, working against the motion of tires on pavement, the scrawl of a pen across paper,
Every time the field flips, the polarity of the bars reverses, drawing the magnetized droplets in a new, predetermined direction, like slot cars on a track.
#Deriving Power Directly from Evaporation Eva, the first evaporation-powered car, rolls along, thanks to a moisture mill a turbine engine driven by water evaporating from wet paper strips lining its walls.
and a rotary engine that drives a miniature car. When evaporation energy is scaled up the researchers predict,
The researchers next built a small toy car, powering it with the Moisture Mill and were successful in getting the car to roll on its own,
powered only by evaporation. In the future, Sahin said, it may be possible to design engines that use the mechanical energy stored in spores to propel a full-sized vehicle.
Such an engine, if achieved, would require neither fuel to burn nor an electrical battery.
In this so-called low battery, the electrodes are suspensions of tiny particles carried by a liquid
such as in electric vehicles. Another advantage of this approach, Chiang says, is that factories using the method can be scaled up by simply adding identical units.
The latest buzz in the information technology industry regards he Internet of thingsthe idea that vehicles, appliances, civil-engineering structures, manufacturing equipment,
or CAR, in blood-forming stem cells. Blood-forming stem cells are capable of turning into any type of blood cell,
and mutates too rapidly for T cells to fight against the virus. The researchers inserted a gene for a CAR into blood-forming stem cells in the lab. The CAR,
The CAR-modified blood stem cells were transplanted then into HIV-infected mice that had been engineered genetically with human immune systems.
The researchers found that the CAR-carrying blood stem cells successfully turned into functional T cells that could kill HIV-infected cells in the mice.
The findings strongly suggest that stem cell-based gene therapy with a CAR may be a feasible and effective treatment for chronic HIV infection in humans.
immunology and molecular genetics in the UCLA David Geffen School of medicine and a co-author of the study. ith the CAR approach,
Kitchen said the CAR approach is more flexible and potentially more effective because it could theoretically be employed in anyone.
one to get on the bus, subway or train and another at a kiosk to pay for their pass or put more funds on the card.
and they know what car he drives, they can see where the car has been in recent days and months.
Investigators can map crime history both by location and time to reveal trends. And if a radiation alarm goes off,
Car thefts are down 17%.%Robberies are down 16%.%The Foothill area of Los angeles actually went an entire day without serious crime last year,
and maybe even homes and electric vehicles. Sustainable Business reports the short stretch of bike path has produced already more power than anticipated.
The challenge was to develop a surface strong enough to withstand the weight of large vehicles such as buses
and trucks while at the same time capable of resisting dirt and skids. The engineers are now working on improving the glass layer to prevent it from shrinking when temperatures change.
which is used for everything from tires to hot-melt adhesives. Genencor pegs the market for isoprene at 11 billion pounds by the year 2012.
Genencor has teamed up with Goodyear to create concept tires using Bioisoprene. From a chemical standpoint, we are making the same chemical,
It will take some time for these tires to actually hit the commercial market. Genencor and Goodyear are in the process of building a small-scale facility to really validate the process
and ensure that Bioisoprene doesn't in some way change the performance of Goodyear tires. Yes what they are doing could be good for the environment,
For an idea of the impact, consider that approximately 50 percent of consumer tires are made from polymers
as the company looks toward guaranteeing a cost-effective supply of the raw materials for its tires for many years to come e
The closest printer to me, for example, is a Prusa Mendel I2 that uses#ABS Plastic in numerous colors.
--which seats about 150--it was already over half full. The event was standing room only and
They are such powerful connectors of people that they are literally replacing their need and desire for cars.
As Steve Pendleton pointed out in a New Statesman piece about Britain reaching peak cars: But young people aren't simply swapping cars for buses or bikes;
they are choosing to own and use other technology instead, such as smartphones and tablet computers. It's not merely that the two trade off economically;
while travelling by bus, train or as a passenger in a car, only 10 per cent of them said they did so
while driving a car. Now think about where mass transit works best--where young people, retirees and even families are able to simply abolish their use of cars.
Especially in the U s. nowhere else but cities is this even possible. As young people turn away from cars--a phenomenon so powerful that it has had the marketing departments of car companies running scared for years--they are left with no other option than mass transit,
and that means increased density, urbanism, walkability and everything else required to bring our way of life in line with planetary boundaries.
Millennials aren't just fleeing the automobile; they're also explicitly fleeing Mcmansions and the suburbs.
literally represents a wealth transfer from the old economy--cars, oil, long commutes--to a new one built on a desire to capitalize on virtual connectivity by recapitulating it in the real world.
who are making decisions every day to buy an ipad instead of a new car, or to move closer to work
have a two-car garage and enslave yourself to lawn care? Who's aspiring to that t
electric scooters and more Can this polystyrene pedal-powered plane break world records? Solar group to World bank:
especially big items like automobiles that are used only roughly 8 percent of the time. While it took Zipcar about six years to build up to 1, 000 cars in its network,
it the U k.-based Whipcar about six months to build up to the same number, she said.
That, in turn, causes people to think at least twice before a big-ticket purchase like a car that sits idle for 92 percent of the time.
they aren't just for big houses and cars anymore. Increasingly, Sarah Goodyear reports for The Atlantic cities, suburbs throughout the United states are investing in bicycle infrastructure.
and could be embedded in surfaces ranging from car dashboards to household floors to kitchen countertops.
and the inside surfaces of some new car models. Toyota announced in December that the 2013 Toyota Avalon Limited will be the first car to offer wireless charging with a Qi-powered console included under the dashboard.
Bas Fransen, chief marketing officer and head of business development for Convenientpower, a wireless power technology company,
Doug Short takes a look at the latest data (PDF), on vehicle miles traveled, from the U s. Department of transportation.
And that's on top of the troubling trend for the automobile industry that driving dropped for people between 16 and 34 years old by 23 percent.
car ownership costs rising (high gas prices, insurance, etc.;states making it difficult to get a driver's license;
and technology lessening the need for a car. So is this a trend we can expect to continue?
but in the future you may see it on your TV or in your car. I called Bayer Monday at his office in Green Island, NY.
Chief scientist and cofounder Gavin Mcintyre just won a half a million dollar proposal to adopt this same platform for automobile interior trim parts and cushions.
Towards that goal, we've driven our Street view cars throughout the Tohoku region again over the past months.
and dodge security to enter no-go exclusion zones. Several media outlets, including TIME have documented also cities within the exclusion zone.
and are greater than those of all cars, trucks, planes, ships, and trains worldwide.""The program is in testing right now,
#Huge spike in bus riders because of Wi-fi? Everyone is taking the curbside bus . Or at least 30%more of us are.
As you can see from the results of this recent study out of Depaul University:
1. The intercity bus was the sole major long-distance passenger transportation mode that grew appreciably in 2011.
Daily bus operations expanded by 7. 1, %a marked increase in the annual growth from previous years. 2. urbside operators, led by Boltbus
Some say that it new Wi-fi enabled busses that is luring people to leave cars behind
Others say it just that with cheaper busses and more intercity routes people are taking more trips, period.
is that the rock-bottom priced Chinatown express busses were never part of the Depaul study. What has contributed possibly to the spike in bus riders are new brands that have popped up that mimic the cheap and easy Chinatown busses.
Offering rates like New york to DC for $20 makes such busses highly attractive. So Megabus
Bolt Bus and Limoliner have jumped into the market offering cheap routes, Wi-fi, higher safety standards,
and an added bonus of fewer live chickens. Apparently they have succeeded in taking market share from the Chinatown busses.
So an interesting theory behind the rise is that there is no rise at all. Just a movement in the service, that went unrecognized by the study.
In other words, the Depaul data is consistent with total bus ridership actually staying constant, with the recognized curbside buses simply taking ridership share from unrecognized Chinatown operators.
In reality, I suspect that bus ridership is growing. Just not nearly as fast as the Depaul paper would have you believe.
from a truck going byr felt elsewhere. If the latter, the system will calculate a hypothetical epicenter for the earthquake, the original time of the event,
The development of the technology has proceeded by measured steps, much like the progress toward the driverless carirst antilock brakes, next GPS navigation, then adaptive cruise control and self-parking.
Although several options to store hydrogen as a fuel for cars have been investigated, a practical and affordable way to store
and distribute hydrogen is still the biggest hurdle to the wide deployment of green, CO2 EMISSION-free cars.
"The researchers say that the system could generate between 3 and 10 kw of power in trucks;
because Baidu Maps will be able to integrate Uber This is similar to Google maps Uber integration after Google Ventures invested in the car-calling app.
With Airbnb flourishing, the whole market is on the verge of being opened up from sharing what in your closet (Threadflip, Rent the Runway) to your car (Flightcar, Lyft.
and that was one of the key components in a reported investment deal that Baidu is making in car service Uber.
This robotic fuel cap essentially keeps track of the fuel poured into your vehicle independently of the truck itself
the system fits into your Class-A truck gashole and tracks the gallons poured. The system is tamper-proof
and measures the gas poured into the vehicle and prevents siphoning. ompany owners can install it on the fuel tank in less than a minute.
#Sidecar Follows The Competition Starts Charging A $1##Ridesafe##Fee Last year, Uber introduced a afe Ridesfee that added a $1 charge to uberx fares.
was meant to help them cover the cost of background checks, vehicle screenings, and he development of safety features.
And now Sidecar a perhaps lesser mentioned competitor in the taxis-that-aren-actuallyaxis arena that wee come to call idesharingfollows suit.
Starting tomorrow, Sidecar will charge $1 more per ride for what they call the idesafefee.
-A $1 million insurance policy on each ride (as personal auto insurance generally doesn cover commercial use)- Background checks-Regular vehicle records checks Sidecar is taking on Uber et al. with an interesting tactic:
like type of car or estimated time of arrival) before they get in the car. The new fee will automatically be tacked on to that trip price up front
Box specifically has been keen to stress its more than 300000 seat roll out to the General electric client base.
If so Box s long-delayed IPO could kick its tires before the end of the first quarter of next year.
which designs, builds and sells vehicles through the use of co-creation and microfactories in Chandler, Ariz.,
If we bring manufacturing of big hardware (home appliances, vehicles) within 100 miles of the most densely populated areas in the world,
This second industrial revolution was refined by Toyota Kaizen process of continuous improvement and, later, lean manufacturing and Six Sigma process control.
and exchange ideas on vehicle innovations. GE Appliances is building a microfactory called Firstbuild with the goal of speeding appliance innovations to market by opening up the process to the brightest minds from around the globe.
while tracking everything from road conditions to building health to cars to industrial equipment. The Internet of things is a term that being bandied about with increasing frequency these days.
It found that 70 percent of trucks arrive too early, whether the ship is ready to receive the cargo or not.
track school busses and use cases we probably haven even imagined. These sensors will add information to an ever-growing network of connected devices producing mountains of data.
And at CES last week Nvidia spent most of its keynote discussing how it uses deep learning to classify objects that a camera on a car may see in order to further its research in autonomous driving o
Big brands like Walmart, BMW and Nike have taken videos using drones. Video production companies have been very quick to use drones to get difficult-to-reach shots.
or safety belts or airbags. Drones could spur demand for lighter batteries or a different kind of power source.
#Ford#s Applink Will Soon Support Third-party Navigation Apps Most carsbuilt-in navigation systems tend to be compared a bit clunky to modern smartphone apps like of Google maps.
It looks like Ford is among the first car manufacturers to acknowledge this. The next version of Applink its system for connecting smartphone apps to its SYNC infotainment system will allow third-party navigation apps to project their maps from the phone onto the built-in screens in its cars.
Ford will roll out the latest (and much improved) version of SYNC later this year but Applink 3. 0 will only become available at a later date (SYNC can be updated over Wifi and through a connected smartphone).
The company is already working with Alibaba to bring its navigation and music services to its in-vehicle screens.
Chances are other companies will jump on board as well though it worth noting that Ford has to explicitly whitelist applications to run on Applink.
There no reason to believe the company will stop Google Microsoft Telenav or Here from offering its mapping services on its platform though.
but with Glympse it has featured long a location-sharing service As well as Ford notes Applink 3. 0 will use the Genivi alliance open-source Smartdevicelink service
The members in the Genivi alliance besides Ford include the likes of BMW Honda Nissan renault Volvo and John Deere as well as chip manufacturers like Intel Qualcomm and Nvidia and plenty of aftermarket manufacturers.
Earlier this month the Genivi Alliance also announced that it would offer open source middleware to support Android Auto integration into car infotainment products r
The company said in July that it sees consumer spending go up 30%after a customer adopts a Paypal credit vehicle,
With Ubercargo, a van arrives wherever you want it to be in minutes. You can load your items in the back of the van yourself
or request the driver assistance if you need an extra hand. Deliveries can easily be tracked in real-time through the app,
The busy city-state is already a thriving market for van rental services. Two ber for logisticsstartups already exist there,
so don be surprised to see its van service rapidly expanding into Southeast asia and China, and potentially other markets, soon.
As members of Michigan Autonomous Aerial Vehicles the APRIL laboratory and the autonomous boat team at the university of Michigan Skyspecs founding team met.
#Automatic Launches Its SDK, Turning The Car Into An App Platform Automatic, a startup whose sensor-and-software combo has been described as itbit for your car,
is today rolling out a software development kit and new hardware that turn your car into a platform for apps.
which has been updated to accommodate streaming real-time data from a car computer and sensors to apps running on your phone.
The apps draw relevant data from a car computer via the OBD port letting you do things like feed the exact mileage from a particular drive into Concur to expense a work trip
There are also apps for those looking to get peak performance from their cars, offering up stats on engine output
#Rentecarlo Launches U k. Peer-to-peer Car rental Marketplace Rentecarlo, the U k. startup and graduate of accelerator Ignite100, is officially launching today with a peer-to-peer car rental marketplace that lets anybody rent out their own car.
is that car owners can make money on their car inactivity while providing car renters with a more convenient option. here is a growing tendency in our society,
which is need the for on-demand services that allow for access rather than ownership, says Rentecarlo cofounder
and CEO Jacob Aleksander. e want to be at the intersection of car sharing, car ownership and car rental,
by giving access to a wide selection of cars rather than ownership and thereby making better use of cars.
At the same time, sharing your car can take 10 cars off the streets, which counteracts the increasingly crowded roads, traffic and pollution.
Anybody can apply to list their car for rental, although Rentecarlo vets all car renters listed on its platform.
The car owner then determines the rental price describes the car and uploads photos of the vehicle.
All bookings are made through the site, with the startup handling the required insurance and offering 24/7 road assistance cover in the event of a breakdown. ur insurance setup allows car owners to list their cars in less than a minute
and renters to instantly sign up, provide their information on our website and rent a car as soon as the car owner approves the request,
explains Aleksander. urthermore, we also allow citizens from all EU and Commonwealth countries to use the service for hiring cars when on vacation in the U k. or similar.
Of course car pooling in its many forms from taxi-style services like Uber to ridesharing are a plenty.
Rentecarlo cites easycar Club in the U k, . and Drivy and Gomore in Europe, as competitors with the closest business model.
There are also pay-as-you-go car clubs like Zipcar. And we shouldn forget traditional car hire companies, which Rentecarlo and similar startups in the U s,
. such as Getaround and Relayrides, are surely going up against. Not so fast, according to Ignite100 Paul Smith, citing a supply side problem in the car rental industry that sees 15 per cent of car rental requests go unfulfilled because of problems with supply
or out-of-hours access. hat means there a real opportunity for Rentecarlo to tap into an established market without cannibalising existing players.
What made Rentecarlo interesting is validated that they a market of individuals willing to provide supply
and offer their personal cars for hire, he says. To that end, Aleksander says weekly traffic
The startup launches with more than 1, 000 signups and almost 300 cars ready to be hired, the majority
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