Social networks let billions of people collaborate in a variety of ways. Meanwhile business networks have enabled new types of frictionless commerce.
Google Waze an app allowing drivers to share local real-time traffic and road information; and Uber a mobile app that connects people seeking taxicabs or ridesharing services.
The Networked Economy will create entirely new ways of working. It will change the contract between employers
Put another way he says: Work is no longer a place but an activity. Adapting quickly to that sea change will also help businesses foster innovation
So port officials explored ways to become more efficient in their existing space. In 2011 with SAP s help the port developed a cloud-based system to better coordinate both land-side and port-side traffic based on a steady stream of incoming data.
Bapat sums it up this way: We believe that this is a huge inflection point one that businesses must prepare for now.
You can use an ipad to tap between different realistic-looking fabric options that change via an overhead projector.
and uses software to segment the resulting 3-D model into pieces, similar to the way in
Luth current and former clients include Subway, Microsoft, Walmart, the San diego padres, Nickelodeon, and Netflix. The information it collects can help companies decide where to spend advertising dollars.
Any new insight into the way we think is valuable it seems, at least to someone h
The best way to resolve this conflict would be to make changes to U s. legislation that balance the interests of companies and law enforcement while taking the privacy expectations of individuals into account.
The problem is that a field generated this way decays exponentially with distance from the generating coil so it only works with devices close to the skin s surface.
Poon and her team found a way to use electromagnetic induction through biological tissue without that exponential decay.
there are indirect ways to extract datao-called ide channelattacks. Previous research efforts have found, for example,
mcube long-term goal, would require better ways of powering the devices and having them communicate.
This could clear the way for slimmer longer-lasting smart watches as well as electric cars with a range similar to gas-powered ones.
and the solid electrolyte that separates them in much the way that the many layers of a display are deposited.
Applied materials says it is working on ways to improve that conductivity by doping the solid electrolyte much as you would dope semiconductor materials for chips.
The company is also working on ways to deposit the energy-storing materials faster to enable thick layers that store large amounts of energy r
#Terahertz Chip Identifies Short Strands of DNA One of the more significant practical challenges currently occupying molecular biologists is to find better ways of identifying short strands of DNA.
and a few pals say they have invented an entirely new way of identifying oligonucleotides using terahertz radiation.
Chernev and co s idea is based on the way these molecules resonate. They say that the sequence of bases in an oligonucleotide determines the way in
which the strand resonates at frequencies in the terahertz range. Their idea is to capture a single oligonucleotide in a cavity filled with terahertz waves that stimulates this resonant behaviour.
#IBM Chip Processes Data Similar to the Way Your Brain Does A new kind of computer chip,
and bicycles in video of a road intersection. A nearby laptop that had been programed to do the same task processed the footage 100 times slower than real time
and way of coding may seem audacious. But IBM may find a receptive audience because it is becoming clear that current computers won be able to deliver much more in the way of performance gains. his chip is coming at the right time,
says Simon
#Stacking Cells Could Make Solar as Cheap as Natural gas When experts talk about future solar cells they usually bring up exotic materials and physical phenomena.
a cheap fast way to stack cells a proprietary way to electrically connect cells and a new kind of glue for holding the cells together.
The conventional way to stack semiconductors is to grow layers on top of each other. But not all semiconductors can be combined this way
because their crystalline structure doesn t allow it (see Adaptive Material Could Cut the Cost of Solar in Half).
Semprius grows semiconductor materials in the conventional way but also stacks several different combinations resulting in a solar panel that can capture more energy from sunlight.
Engineers have worked for decades on ways to generate power by harvesting radio signals from the air, a ubiquitous resource thanks to radio, TV
But although enough energy can be collected that way to run low-powered circuits, the power required to actively transmit data is significantly higher.
The Washington researchers got around that challenge by finding a way to have the devices communicate without having to actively transmit.
and decode Wi-fi signals in the conventional way. But they can detect the presence of the individual units,
this provides a great way to get low-power Internet of things devices to communicate with a large swath of devices around us,
and firefighters and changing the way we play video games. oul see games where your emotional state changes the character youe playing,
and ear biometrics, thinks it certainly possible to get good physiological measurements this way. think that
Researchers at Rice university have demonstrated a more practical way to manufacture it. The type of memory in question, resistive random access memory (RRAM), is being developed by several companies,
The Rice researchers have shown a way to make RRAM at room temperature and with far lower voltages.
This means the screen controls the way individual light rays emanate from the display, leading to a sharper image without degrading contrast.
The effect could be applied in navigation and gaming applications, and it suggests possibilities in mobile and wearable technology as well.
Tomohiro Amemiya, a cognitive scientist at NTT Communication Science Laboratories, began the Buru-Navi project in 2004, originally as a way to research how the brain handles sensory illusions.
This way-finding application might be a perfect fit for the smart watches that Samsung
One way is by using mobile technology to monitor sleep patterns, heart rate, activity levels, and so on.
giving consumers new ways to track and perhaps improve their health. This kind of information may be useful and interesting for anyone
Treating smoking like an epidemic in this way finally reveals what going on. They say their results can explain the rate of change of smoking in various industrialized countries.
a Dutch social psychologist who developed ways to measure a set of cultural dimensions for comparing cultures.
Theye created a mathematical model that includes the effects of social pressure allowing them to simulate the way behavior spreads through societies with different levels of individualism.
It shows that differences in culture affect the dynamics of social spreading processes in a measurable way.
That will be crucial for the way that governments design strategies to help people stop smoking. nterventions designed to discourage smoking should be tailored diferently in societies or social groups
and has to be protected in ways that add size and bulk. While zinc is more stable, the water-based electrolytes in conventional zinc batteries cause zinc to form dendrites,
The technology has also been contemplated as a way to spread genes that would make weeds more susceptible to herbicides like Roundup.
such as the transit of exoplanets across other stars, binary stars that eclipse, gamma ray bursts and so on. Capturing the changes associated with these events requires a much more rapid way of photographing the entire sky.
Today Nicholas Law and pals at the University of North carolina at Chapel hill, say they are developing just such a piece of kit.
Either way they say that they should have a prototype Evryscope operating next year. With only one moving part, the equatorial drive,
The technology may provide a way to deal with the increasing amounts of contaminated water the fossil fuel industry is generating as it pursues more and more difficult-to-reach deposits.
#How An Intelligent Thimble Could Replace the Mouse In 3d Virtual reality Worlds The way in
or a Nintendo Wii will be aware of the way these devices capture three-dimensional movements and translate them onto 2-D screen.
These gestures include a finger tap a double tap and a press gesture. And having more than one 3dtouch on different fingers allows multitouch interaction.
A cheap and easy way of interacting with these new virtual reality devices could turn out to be hugely useful.
but it could also work for larger applications like airplanes, decreasing the need for time-consuming and expensive deicing treatments.
and no way of condoning it. On Monday Facebook said it had nothing to add beyond the apology its researcher,
If successful the move could change the way people interact with smartphones and tablets. So far aimed only at devices running Google s mobile operating system Android the new system also expands the company s vision for mobile voice-operated functionality that competes with Apple s Siri and Microsoft
As of last Friday the technology also provides a way for apps to be operated using either typed or spoken commands.
and a single tap will start playing that artist. Supported apps include Spotify Youtube and Tunein.
providing a simple way to control access to your home, car, or office and perhaps dissuading would-be thieves.
If it can be commercialized it would double the amount of power a solar cell can generate offering a way to make solar power far more economical.
The researchers figured out a way around a bothersome phenomenon: when sunlight strikes a solar cell it produces some very high-energy electrons
The Sharp team found a way to extract these electrons before they give up that energy thereby increasing the voltage output of their prototype solar cell.
Another way to achieve ultra-high efficiencies now is by stacking up different kinds of solar cells (see Exotic Highly Efficient Solar cells May Soon Get Cheaper)
Meanwhile MIT researchers are studying the transient behavior of electrons in organic materials to find inexpensive ways to make ultra-efficient solar cells.
however, it may also be creating a powerful new mobile search engine that could evolve into a simpler way to find all sorts of information on the fly.
Ultimately, however, Solar City may have little choicet needs to find ways to reduce costs to keep growing.
and Sunpower makes ones that are significantly more so (see ecord-Breaking Solar cell Points the Way the Cheaper Solar power.
But the most interesting part of Singh and co s analysis is in the potential of LEDS to change the way that vegetables are grown.
There is no shortage of arguments in favor of eating locally grown food because of the lower transport costs.
Microsoft research focuses on a type of qubit known as a topological qubit that theory suggests would encode data in a much more robust way.
The UNICEF country office in Brazil trains young people to gather stories and data about their communities using a smartphone application based on the Mobile Experience Lab Open Locast technology.
In Paris, the Mobile Experience Lab worked with the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens to create a bus stop designed not just to help people use the bus system itself
a simple change that could make it harder for spy agencies to vacuum up huge numbers of communications in transit.
less than 1 percent of traffic to and from Gmail from Comcast and Verizon is encrypted currently,
But O3b s satellites already offer a superior and cheaper way to deliver high-speed Internet than conventional satellite services.
what could be the perfect accompaniment way for ordinary headphones to create a realistic illusion of sound coming from specific locations in space.
The most accurate way is to use earplugs fitted with an array of microphones to record exactly what reaches a person ears
his software generates an approximation of that subject HRTF that seems good enough to produce unusually accurate spatial audio. ssentially we can predict how you will hear from the way you look,
#A Cleaner, Cheaper Way to Make Metals In lab space across from a yoga studio in an office park in Natick, Massachusetts,
and vehicle-to-vehicle communication are creeping onto the roads. A pair of trucks convoying 10 meters apart on Interstate 80 just outside Reno,
a feature in some cars that automatically keeps vehicles on the highway a safe distance from the ones around them.
Video screens in both cabs show the drivers views of blind spots around the two vehicles.
In theory, more trucks could be tethered virtually together this way, although the initial plan is to connect only two.
The U s. Department of transportation has indicated that it plans to mandate such communications systems in new vehicles in the hopes of improving road safety (see he Internet of Cars Is Approaching a Crossroads.
A European project, called SARTRE (Safe Road trains for the Environment), has been exploring ways for vehicles to travel in platoons since 2009.
A U s. project, called PATH (Partners for Advanced Transportation technology operated out of the University of California,
along with other technologies designed to improve transportation. Steven Shladover, a research engineer at UC Berkeley involved with PATH, says that his own experiments indicate that platooning vehicles even closer togetherust a few meters apartcould lead to fuel savings of 20 percent.
Once trains of trucks get too long, it much harder for drivers of other cars to change lanes. would not advocate running very long sequences of these trucks close together,
can be treated this way because the broken copy of the gene causes harm. To treat these kinds of conditions,
or top off your phone while buying a coffee or playing Candy Crush in an airport.
He taps the app to tell the transmitter to find the devices and start the power-up process.
Whereas drugs cannot adapt to patient activities an intelligent implant can he says which could offer a way to treat hypertension on demand d
and others a way to put faces to long-dead victims . or museums, there is no other way to do itou aren going to ship a 2, 000 year old Egyptian mummy in the mail,
he says. ou do a CT SCAN and send the disk back. a
#Microsoft Readies a Virtual Assistant for the Corporate World Microsoft reputation for innovation has suffered in recent years despite the company undeniable prowess in research and engineering.
The ad industry in general is interested in finding ways to use online-style ad tactics in the real world.
However, Kiip and other companies moving in that direction must try to find a way of offering advertisers new ways to reach people without leaving those people feeling that they no longer control their own data. he user that going to interact with your brand really needs to know what they are giving up,
The way I drive my car is personal information. l
#Implant Lets Patients Regrow Lost Leg Muscle Five people who suffered serious leg injuries have been able to regrow muscle tissue in their legs thanks to a new regenerative medicine treatment.
Research described in the journal Science points to a more secure way of storing its rock.
it ould probably necessitate transport of CO2 in pipelines for thousands of miles. Yet Zoback
which is safe enough to be a surprisingly popular means of feline transportation. Industrial robots often sit behind metal fences, their mechanical arms a blur of terrific speed and precision;
and robots to work together in efficient new ways. Human-robot collaboration is aining an enormous amount of momentum,
And should anyone get in the robot way, it will either stop or, at worst, hit the person too gently to leave a bruise.
Bug Labs is giving people a simple one-click way to publish data from a hingto its own Web page (Bug Labs calls this weeting.
Prasad took data on the on-off state of windshield wipers to come up with a prototype of a warning alert that could someday be dispatched to a car a few kilometers back to warn the driver of wet roads. set it up
a bicycle or other object could get wired with the help of an emerging class of cheap gadgets that report GPS co?
When the buttons are built into a device in that way their movements are driven by a small electric pump.
Wong-Foy, a senior research engineer at SRI, has built an army of magnetically steered workers to test the idea that icrorobotscould be a better way to assemble electronics components,
and teams of them might prove a good way to lay them out onto circuit boards.
Much like 3-D printing technology, microrobots promise to be a more efficient way to make complex objects in small quantities than conventional mass-production technology,
that industry often uses manual assembly to put them together. n the field of optical electronics people have not found a good way to integrate indium phosphide lasers with silicon components,
the way Musk has been promoting it may prove to be a savvy business move. Announcing the factory at an early stage,
since an eavesdropper could gain access to local traffic just by using a device within range.
The report of the first artificial, designer yeast chromosome suggests ways for researchers to produce new chemicals in the microbes
That fountain of variability could be key to finding ways to push our fermenting friends to more efficiently create biofuels and other chemicals f
Backseat passengers could get streaming movies and fast Wi-fi connections to smart watches and tablets in (and near) the car.
For drivers, high-resolution navigation maps would load quickly, and high-fidelity audio could stream from Internet radio services.
or slipping wheels in other cars could warn of slick roads ahead. Sensors can ultimately help bring about semi-autonomous
This cultivation approach is an innovative way to tap into the rich biodiversity that we are currently missing
a discovery that may pave the way for a single universal flu shot to immunize people for their entire lives.
boosting the T cell adaptive memory capacity is our way in, "Kedzierska said.""Our extraordinary breakthrough could lead to the development of a vaccine component that can protect against all new influenza viruses, with the potential for future development of a one-off universal flu vaccine shot,
These bladeless wind turbines can revolutionize the way wind energy is produced. A startup out of Spain called Vortex Bladeless,
These bladeless wind turbines can revolutionize the way wind energy is produced. A startup out of Spain called Vortex Bladeless,
"Our work provides an additional way for devices to communicate with one another without sacrificing their original functionality,
"Our molecular pump is radical chemistry-an ingenious way of transferring energy from molecule to molecule,
the way nature does said Fraser Stoddart from the Northwestern University.""The ring-shaped molecules we work with repel one another under normal circumstances,
#Researchers find new way to treat diabetic blindness WASHINGTON: US researchers said they have found a new way to restore the eyesight in patients who have a blinding eye disease caused by diabetes.
The key is to block a second blood vessel growth protein, along with one that is already well-known,
US researchers said they have found a new way to restore the eyesight in patients who have a blinding eye disease caused by diabetes.
known as a"vortex fluidic device",was invented during a flight between Los angeles and Sydney.""The design was actually put together on that 15-hour flight
The machine, known as a"vortex fluidic device",was invented during a flight between Los angeles and Sydney."
#In a first, cold sore virus used to fight cancer cells Scientists have the first proof that a"brand new"way of combating cancer,
paving the way for a"wave"of new%potential treatments over the next decade. Specialists at the NHS Royal Marsden Hospital and the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) confirmed that melanoma skin cancer patients treated with a modified herpes virus (the virus that causes cold sores) had improved survival-a world first.
Scientists have the first proof that a"brand new"way of combating cancer, using genetically modified viruses to attack tumour cells,
paving the way for a"wave"of new%potential treatments over the next decade. Specialists at the NHS Royal Marsden Hospital and the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) confirmed that melanoma skin cancer patients treated with a modified herpes virus (the virus that causes cold sores) had improved survival-a world first.
Scientists have developed successfully a way to coax embryonic stem cells to become the inner-ear hair cells
Tweaking the way his engineered E coli produce erythromycin so that the drug they make is slightly different than versions used in hospitals today.
we can start altering it in new ways, "he said. The research was published in the journal Science Advances.
Tweaking the way his engineered E coli produce erythromycin so that the drug they make is slightly different than versions used in hospitals today.
we can start altering it in new ways, "he said. The research was published in the journal Science Advances s
#Tata doctors find way to cut oral cancer risk Tata Memorial Hospital, the cancer hub in Parel, announced a breakthrough on Tuesday that could
#Tata docs find way to cut oral cancer risk Tata Memorial Hospital, the cancer hub in Parel, announced a breakthrough on Tuesday that could
#Now, aircraft wings that can'self heal'on the fly Even the researchers involved in the project describe it as"verging on science fiction".
"A team of British scientists has produced aircraft wings that can fix themselves after being damaged, suggesting that self-healing technology will soon become commonplace.
the strong but lightweight substances used increasingly widely in the manufacture of everything from commercial aircraft wings to sports racquets and high-performance bicycles.
if there was a way of preventing the tiny, almost undetectable cracks that form in an aircraft's wings and fuselage.
"raising the possibility of aircraft wings that can repair themselves"literally on the fly "if a bird strike takes place in mid-flight,
Professor wass said. The technology could also make airline safety checks far cheaper as a dye could be added to the healing agent causing any damage to an aircraft to stand out like a bruise.
This would allow engineers to identify damaged areas quickly -and ensure that they do not miss anything as they examine the plane.
Professor wass said a bruise was a"good analogy "-but accepted that the dye would need to be tweaked to cater for nervous fliers."
"We'd probably do it with something which is invisible to the naked eye that you'd need to put an ultraviolet light on,
because you don't want an aeroplane wing with a big red splodge on it showing that it's been damaged."
fishing rods and bike helmets could be just around the corner. The cosmetics firm L'oreal has contacted also the team to register its interest in self-healing nail varnish.
*The BMW i8 electric sports car has a carbon fibre passenger compartment to make up for the weight of its heavy battery.
*The Airbus a380 passenger jet has a carbon fibre reinforced plastic fuselage for a lower fuel consumption. The researchers claim the new technology would allow wings to fix themselves in mid-flight,
and allow engineers to spot cracks more easily.**Offshore wind turbines could also benefit from self-healing technology,
*Carbon fibre bicycle frames are popular with cyclists as they are so light, but they are also liable to crack.
"A team of British scientists has produced aircraft wings that can fix themselves after being damaged, suggesting that self-healing technology will soon become commonplace.
the strong but lightweight substances used increasingly widely in the manufacture of everything from commercial aircraft wings to sports racquets and high-performance bicycles.
if there was a way of preventing the tiny, almost undetectable cracks that form in an aircraft's wings and fuselage.
"raising the possibility of aircraft wings that can repair themselves"literally on the fly "if a bird strike takes place in mid-flight,
Professor wass said. The technology could also make airline safety checks far cheaper as a dye could be added to the healing agent causing any damage to an aircraft to stand out like a bruise.
This would allow engineers to identify damaged areas quickly -and ensure that they do not miss anything as they examine the plane.
Professor wass said a bruise was a"good analogy "-but accepted that the dye would need to be tweaked to cater for nervous fliers."
"We'd probably do it with something which is invisible to the naked eye that you'd need to put an ultraviolet light on,
because you don't want an aeroplane wing with a big red splodge on it showing that it's been damaged."
fishing rods and bike helmets could be just around the corner. The cosmetics firm L'oreal has contacted also the team to register its interest in self-healing nail varnish.
*The BMW i8 electric sports car has a carbon fibre passenger compartment to make up for the weight of its heavy battery.
*The Airbus a380 passenger jet has a carbon fibre reinforced plastic fuselage for a lower fuel consumption. The researchers claim the new technology would allow wings to fix themselves in mid-flight,
and allow engineers to spot cracks more easily.**Offshore wind turbines could also benefit from self-healing technology,
*Carbon fibre bicycle frames are popular with cyclists as they are so light, but they are also liable to crack.
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