WPC leads the way, and its open platform theoretically offers the easiest path for companies planning new product development that supports wireless charging options.
Clearly, driving continues to trend downward--travel on all roads and streets was-1. 4 percent in February 2013 compared to one year earlier.
states making it difficult to get a driver's license; young people living near transit, in denser communities;
and technology lessening the need for a car. So is this a trend we can expect to continue?
and that s in a highly disposable way. You have this polymer that s made from carcinogenic compounds like benzene
But if this material gets put in your garden or on the side of the road, it starts breaking down like a seed husk within three months to a year.
The question is what s the best way to do it. There s a lot of places where we can just replace Styrofoam.
According to the Stern report, keeping forests intact is one of the most cost-effective ways to cut carbon emissions."
and are greater than those of all cars, trucks, planes, ships, and trains worldwide.""The program is in testing right now,
1. The intercity bus was the sole major long-distance passenger transportation mode that grew appreciably in 2011.
a 32.1%increase. 3. Passenger traffic on curbside operators grew by approximately 30%.%In absolute terms, we believe this represents the largest expansion of passenger traffic on curbside operators
since the sector emerged as a significant transportation mode in 2006.4. Evidence suggests that the two largest Megabus. com hubs,
Chicago and New york, are now profitable, indicating that the core business model is financially sustainable. This is a significant rise.
and more intercity routes people are taking more trips, period. The interesting thing we need to note as Felix Salmon in Reuters notes here,
Bolt Bus and Limoliner have jumped into the market offering cheap routes, Wi-fi, higher safety standards,
More traffic in existing hubs in New york, Chicago and Philadelphia is also bolstering growth, said Bryony Chamberlain,
and brings the long-distance, intercity buses to a new market, Chamberlain said in a telephone interview. t much nicer to be sitting there being driven somewhere than sitting in traffic.
As Salmon notes in his piece the travel industry has to improve current Wi-fi access in hotels, planes,
that the mobile web is actually changing the way we travel from city to city. via Reuters t
#Smart Highway: Solar power Bike path Opens In Netherlands This Week On November 12, 2014, The netherlands will proudly open up the world first public solar powered road.
The smart highway connects the Amsterdam suburbs of Krommenie and Wormerveer. According to the Guardian, nearly 2000 cyclists ride the bike path every day.
Now, in addition to providing an easy path for commuters, the bike path will also provide energy to the town.
Collective-Evolution notes that the solar panels embedded in the concrete bike path are not as efficient as panels installed on homes
because they cannot be adjusted to the position of the sun. Of course, the solar panels on the smart highway cover about 75 yards of roadway which is slightly more than you can fit on a roof.
The netherlands TNO research institute also gave the road a nonadhesive finish and built it at a slight tilt
in order to keep it clean and give the road maximum exposure. The road will be expanded to a little over 100 yards by 2016
and will be able to produce enough energy to power three homes. The smart highway, officially called Solaroad by TNO, is just the beginning of Netherland solar transition.
The institute said that about 20%of Netherland roads could be converted to smart highways. The Solaroad may be the first solar-powered bike path
but it will soon have company. In 2009, two US engineers, Julie and Scott Brusaw, received a contract from the Federal Highway Administration to build a prototype in the United states
. If you happen to speak Dutch, you can check out a video about the Solaroad here.
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#New'Twin peaks'Episodes To Air On Showtime In 2016 Yep, it true. David lynch is bringing Twin peaks back to television.
The award winning director caused Twitter mayhem last week when he sent out a cryptic tweet about some amn good coffee.
It been a little while since Twin peaks has been on the air so don feel bad
if you don get the joke. Lynch was referencing special agent Dale Cooper who loved himself a amn fine cup of coffee.
This new U s.-Cuba relationship is being called a way to ormalize diplomatic relations with Cuba.
#Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 Shot Down Over Ukraine Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crashed today over the Ukraine.
The Boeing 777 was carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew members when it left Amsterdam on its way to Kuala lumpur International airport.
According to the Russian news agency Interfax Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over Eastern Ukraine after it failed to enter Russian airspace.#
Interfax agency says Malaysian passenger airliner was shot down at altitude of 10 km above Eastern Ukrainereuters Top News(@Reuters) July 17 2014malaysia Airlines has confirmed not the cause of the crash.
The airline did say in a Facebook post that it lost contact with flight MH17 over Ukraine airspace.//
and an official with the Russian Emergency Ministry told Gawker that bodies from flight#MH17 were scattered over a 10 mile radius.#BREAKING:
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#Spacex Postpones Cargo Launch Daring Rocket Test to Saturday Spacex has delayed its next robotic cargo launch toward the International space station
2, 270 kilograms) of food, scientific experiments and spare parts on its way to the orbiting lab
Spacex holds a $1. 6 billion contract with NASA to complete 12 cargo runs to the space station.
Orbital's first two flights went well, but the third was lost in late October when Antares exploded shortly after liftoff y
such as on ships and planes,"says Adams
#Monitor Diabetes From Your Smart Watch My son, Evan, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in August 2012.
Dexcom own Windows software was pulling data in this way, and fortunately, Dexcom supplied an API (application programming interface) library as part of its software installation.
and captured the USB traffic as it flowed between my computer and the receiver. With this data,
Why not tap into the GPS sensors in people phones and navigation systems, he says. GPS-equipped cellphones are ubiquitous in developing countries,
but they often sounded worse because of the way they compressed speech to squeeze more calls into the limited mobile spectrum.
because speech and music are compressed in different ways. Voice compression typically relies on algorithms called code-excited linear prediction (CELP),
#Knitted Supercapacitors to Power Smart Shirts Researchers from Drexel University in collaboration with the U s. Naval academy, have invented a way to embed activated carbon particles into different types of yarn to form a knitted textile that can store
the robot is going to have to just find some way of continuing to operate as best as it can without any direct human assistance.
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.
The only way to match it is by growing or implanting new insulin-secreting cells in the patient body.
Efforts in that direction have achieved scattered successes since the development, in the 1970s, of ways of controlling tissue rejection.
even though it will never duplicate the human body. e know an airplane isn better than a bird,
One way to speed the insulin effects is to implant a pump right inside the abdominal cavity,
A machine that senses which way your blood sugar is going and keeps it on the right trackow hard could it be?
because there are a lot of different ways that a heavy object (like a big crate) can be shoved.
and receiver chips made this way perform as well as their silicon or Gaas counterparts. ctually, our work was inspired by the IEEE Spectrum article,
and will pave the way towards the realization of atomically thin, flexible, and transparent displays,
#A Better Way for Brains to Control Robotic Arms Erik Sorto had been paralyzed for 10 years
Donoghue says. here something we still haven detected about the way the brain does movement.
When combined, they create a metamaterial, capable of bending light in unusual ways. The team also varied the height of the cylinders by a small amount,
Keuka will likely face a long road to acceptance by the notoriously risk averse utility industry.
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.
on small aircraft, it would power air conditioners and refrigeration systems. In addition to lowering CO2 EMISSION, the units produce little noise, making them suitable as mobile electricity generators in places, like field hospitals,
having arrived at the ISS thanks to a Spacex Falcon 9 rocket launched in April. ur team is developing the technology that will enable humanity to create an off-planet economy that will fundamentally change the way we live on Earth,
The asteroid mining firm formed in 2012 with the purpose of figuring out an economical way to mine platinum
and oxygen gives you access to a completely carbon-free energy source for transportation. But so far, the efficiency of the process has been a bit disappointing,
which could lead to a more sustainable way to create sophisticated energy storage devices, scientists in China and Germany say.
One way to overcome this problem is to make silicon porous enough to accommodate the expansion.
In research published in the journal Science, the team describes how they devised a method for wrapping electrically conductive sheets of carbon nanotubes around the rubber core in such a way that the fiber's resistance doesn change when stretched,
The hope of spintronics stems from its use of the spin of electrons to encode information rather than the transport of electrical charge of electrons.
In this way, just like an electrical current is a stream of electrons moving through a conductor,
when taxis became tech companies, just wait until it happens to colleges n
#American Re-Urbanization Drives More On-Demand Innovation Editor Note: David Hirsch is a cofounder
2. 3 million more people moved into metro areas than in 2012, driven by the demands of America two most powerful demographics.
Mcdonald s has said that 50 percent of its NFC-based tap payments are already Apple Pay as of November
and advocating their alternatives. 50 percent of tap-to-pay transactions even at a large-scale national chain like Mcdonald s still doesn t amount to a huge number of payments relative to the general pool;
See, Digit wants to change the way users think about saving cash, by helping them to put money away without having to think about it at all.
In and of itself, that runs counter to the way most financial apps operate, in that it doesn overburden the user with too much information
the way a normal savings account would. That will no doubt cause some skeptics to complain that any Digit user would be better off just putting aside the money themselves into their own savings account.
Since launching its pilot in earnest over the summer, Digit has saved more than $600, 000 for the users who have signed up, according to CEO Ethan Bloch.
or a PA SYSTEM and for buskers or live players who are looking for an interesting way to modify a standard guitar.
by way of encryption. Or hell, even a password. That not to say the files couldn have still been hacked,
SOPA efforts failed by working with state attorneys general and major ISPS like Comcast to expand court power over the way data is served.
Within the smartphone space, China Xiaomi made its way into the top five for the first time with a sharp rise over a year ago,
But put another way, neither of these two, big mature markets are keeping up with overall sales growth of smartphones
#Nokia s Here Will Power Maps For Baidu Outside China To Cater To China s Globetrotters Search giant Baidu has made no secret of its ambitions to expand its business outside of China by way of mobile services.
Nokia mapping and navigation business Here says that it will now power maps for Baidu outside of China,
Mapping and navigation have long been hot areas for platform companies looking for strong positions in mobile.
Here offers maps for nearly 200 countries, with turn-by-turn navigation for 118 of them.
The program recruits and trains teachers and assistants, provides the curriculum, recruits the girls, curates guest speakers, manages field trips and offers mentorship to the girls during the course of each summer session.
Waze uses user-submitted traffic data to recommend the fastest driving route, which adjusts in real time as the user drives.
It uses predictive analytics from the way a patient interacts on their smartphone to detect warning signals in behavior.
releasing pilots on its streaming service and then choosing what to greenlight based on audience response and viewing behavior.
it also planting the flag for an entire ecosystem of startup companies engaged in overturning the ways in
and Applepie Capital looking to lend to would-be restaurant franchisors. e see the lending club IPO as a bellwether for a major structural shift in the way that consumers
and changing the ways that parts of the market work. Shaky Beginnings The success of the lending business wasn always so certain.
The Fueloyal Is A Smart Fuel Cap For Truckers Breaker breaker 10-4 good buddy.
Now if they can just keep truckers from getting road hypnosis or getting picked up by Smokey than we might have something special e
and continue product development such as finding a way to integrate Instagram, which is hugely popular for commerce but offers a very limited API.
you may be interested to hear that the company has jumped on the bitcoin wagon. The Redmond-based tech giant is now accepting bitcoins for buying games
And now Sidecar a perhaps lesser mentioned competitor in the taxis-that-aren-actuallyaxis arena that wee come to call idesharingfollows suit.
but the passenger gets to pick the driver based on the calculated trip price (or whatever other factor they care about,
There were plenty of other ways to share photos before Instagram. There were plenty of other ways to filter photos too.
But Instagram took something people already liked to do made and it so simple and delightful they fell in love l
and pave the way for increased business profitability, competitiveness and security, while mitigating organizational energy waste.
In short but not-so-simple terms, qualifying businesses are required to a) measure total energy consumption, accounting for 90 percent of usage across all buildings, transport and industrial activities;
Callas previously told Techcrunch the store could##include##different security review tiers for apps as a way for users to navigate the risks of running third party content.
who can use this as a way of shifting items that may have more flexible pricing,
This is one more way to connect customers to a merchant and once you are on a product page the merchant may choose to recommend other items he/she is selling that you might like to buy.
but also continuing to look at other ways of extending its sales platform. Recent developments have included adding private label home essentials, by way of Amazon Elements, restaurant takeout and delivery,
as well as bike messenger delivery trials t
#Didi Dache One Of China s Two Dominant Taxi App Firms Closes $700m Series D Round Another large sum of money is going in Asia taxi
app space following Softbank $250 million investment in Grabtaxi and Uber latest Asia-focused $1. 2 billion raise.
That because Didi Dache, one of China two dominant taxi app firms, announced that it has closed a whopper $700 million Series D round.
Singapore Temasek Holding which invested in Rocket Internet Lazada last month led the round, which included participation from existing investors DST Global and Chinese internet giant Tencent.
Didi Dache claims to have over 100 million registered users and more than 1 million taxi drivers on its platform.
Between them, the two are estimated to account for close to all of the taxi app bookings made in China.
Didi Dache core offering is a taxi booking service. It integrates with Tencent Wechat, China hugely popular chat app,
leaving it with a huge challenge to break their dominance in the country. idi will continue its commitment in providing mobile-based transportation services to more users,
The company believes in its mission of making transportation easier for everyone through mobile Internet
Namely the way the enterprise and team messaging app ties into a growing list of third-party services in a way that significantly reduces the time it takes to look up link to and reference external information such as a document calendar entry or code repository update.#
and services on a much deeper more integrated and intuitive way than our competitors#says Fasbender.#
#From the very beginning we knew we had to take a different route if we wanted to add value to this market.
no matter how many ways you break down a single machine resources, it just not going to suffice anymore.
you create a single pool of resources that you can manipulate any way that you like
and according to head of Innovation and New Ventures Steve Yankovich, his is not a pilot for us.
While the original idea behind SDN separating the control from the data plane in network switches has turned out to be just one of many architectural approaches that have emerged
they already show promise as a way to simplify network operations and reduce both operating and capital expenses.
as well as a way to drive standardization ahead of slower-moving standards bodies. Many different open-source projects have evolved over the last few years that affect networking.
ODL offers a flexible way to innovate in network applications across a broad range of infrastructure.
or find a way to shove some ads down your throat. Meet Secret Media, an advertising technology startup specialized in advertising encryption
That meant finding a way to get to that value faster than on-premises would allow by its nature
Apple seems committed to coming up with new ways to protect user devices and data when it comes to theft,
which will allow the case to support larger phablets like the iphone 6 Plus and Galaxy Note line down the road.
Fundamental assumptions need to be reformatted in a new way to win. At my company Local Motors, we have a saying:
Crowdsourcing rapidly taps into a global talent pool of people who can solve any particular engineering challenge faster. 3d printers use less material,
reducing freight and distribution costs and speed time to market p
#Facebook Censors Blasphemous Page To Comply With Turkey#s Demand But Won t Publish It When Google and Twitter receive legal threats from countries to censor controversial content
But continuing to operate can help the country in other ways, such as allowing people to connect with loved ones,
For example the Arc of Northern Virginia an advocacy group has used Specialneedsware technology to create a program to help people with learning disabilities navigate public transportation.
#Malaysia Airlines Site Hacked By Lizard Squad Hacker group Lizard Squad which took down Xbox Live
The site currently displays a picture of a lizard in a top hat and monocle as well as the text 04-Plane Not Found (a reference to flight MH370 which disappeared in March) and acked by LIZARD SQUAD-OFFICIAL CYBER CALIPHATE.
Malaysia Airlines confirmed the attack on its Facebook page: In a tweet however Lizard Squad (which itself was hacked last week) claimed it had taken materials from Malaysia Airlinesservers.
It has shared already a screenshot of an inbox with passenger itineraries. Wee contacted Malaysia Airlines for more information
#YC-Backed Bluesmart Raises $2 Million For Its Self-Tracking Suitcase magine a world where you never lose your luggagesays CEO of Bluesmart Diego Saez-Gil.
which airports the case has been to how many miles traveled and how much time was spent in each country.
I got off the plane they couldn find my luggage. It days before Christmas I called everywhere.
No luggage. he airport did end up locating all his stuff but his family had to wait a week after Christmas for their gifts.
Bluesmart is working on a few distribution deals for its first suitcase particularly in the airports. According to Saez-Gil Bluesmart will be creating more connected travel items in the future.
While the U s. is trying to use economic sanctions as a way of getting Russia to budge on Crimea
it was perhaps inevitable that we would also find ways to capture ourselves, in motion,
Technology brought us new ways to share, which solved some problems but also created new ones.
and it has given way to more than a million GIFS being created and shared amongst its users. According to founder Carlos Whitt, Camoji has mostly found a place in the hearts of teens,
Camoji has imagined new ways for its users to save and share. The app can now be used directly from the smartphone keyboard,
While giving users new ways to share the innovators behind Camoji have ushered also in a new way of discovering GIFS that are of most interest to those who use it.
Users now have profiles which are like portrait galleries of their moving images, and the service has curated collections of GIFS that feature common themes.
now that we have a way to fully capture and share those most important moments of our lives,
the way we think about communicating with others will never be the same n
#The Equil Smartmarker Records Everything You Write It been just over five months since we checked out the Equil Smartpen,
And while biometric alternatives such as fingerprint readers are finding their way onto more consumer electronics devices they are not without their limitations either.
whether the ship is ready to receive the cargo or not. Sensors could let the system know a ship hadn docked yet
and communicate this to truckers before they drive into the port area. This could reduce congestion and pollution around the port.
where it can warn other drivers coming down the same road about the impending danger.
Paper flyers on college campuses are one of the few ways labs sign up human guinea pigs.
as a way of sending data from one Lifi-equipped device to another. Today the startup is disclosing that it raised £1. 5 million in a new round of funding led by Scottish-based angel group London & Scottish Investment Partners (LSIP), with additional funding from the Scottish
Marlinspike knows his way around encryption technology. He started cloud-based password-cracking service Chapcrack
and previously worked at Microsoft Research as well as other computer science researchers like Yann Lecun who are looking for better ways to teach computers how to recognize objects and speech.
as previously helicopters would have had to do this job, at great expense. Companies like Precision Hawk are developing software
These kinds of drones could be useful for cities with dense traffic. A drone like this could fly across heavy traffic
and deliver lifesaving equipment in under three minutes. For places with no roads to speak of,
companies like Matternet are creating drones that will deliver medicine. Then there are drones that will deliver life vests to drowning victims,
as the cost of running helicopters is compared very high to sending up a drone for a short period of time.
Transportation The idea of a drone taking you to work is still a Jetsons kind of idea,
Joby Aviation is building an ambitious aircraft: A personal craft that can lift off vertically, fly 200 miles and land vertically, all on battery power.
While still several years away, the technology this company is developing could pave the way for new advances in personal transportation.
Some people think that drones could be the next trend in personal transportation. While this is some ways off,
I would love to believe in this dream, as would millions of commuters. Battery power and battery weight will have to improve dramatically
while avoiding all other air traffic. Youl leave roads, traffic lights, traffic jams and accidents behind. The Challenge for Entrepreneurs This leaves us entrepreneurs with some challenges.
Think about the huge opportunity of drones in the future, and what kind of software and hardware will have to be developed to manage that growth.
and wel update with a links to the Andriod version once it live though both are usable via a limited pilot to start with.
A lot of messaging apps (Microsoft Yammer being one of the notably early movers) have tried to tap into onsumerizationor getting enterprise apps to look
The fact that Rasmussen would not rule out advertising as an option down the road to me suggests that Facebook could consider tiers of its own where some businesses may pay for the product
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