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,
Bitcoin the currency As a currency, bitcoin is in many ways the antithesis of modern fiat currencies.
inclusive process to find a new international oversight structure for the group. othing will be done in any way to jeopardize the security and stability of the Internet,
and an uncloaked sphere blocking the way. The results clearly show that the cloaking device makes it appear as though the sound waves reflected off an empty surface. e conducted our tests in the air,
In January, the Army successfully tested a robotic self-driving convoy that would reduce the number of personnel exposed to roadside explosives in war zones like Iraq and Afghanistan.
unmanned aircraft operated by Israel, the U k. and the U s. are capable of tracking and firing on aircraft and missiles.
On some of its Navy cruisers, the U s. also operates Phalanx, a stationary system that can track
and engage anti-ship missiles and aircraft. The Army is testing a gun-mounted ground vehicle, MAARS, that can fire on targets autonomously.
a hard ban on robots capable of making kill decisions is the only way to ensure that machines never have the power of life
in a key emotional hub in the brain involved in regulating anxiety and the flight-or-fight response.
overwhelmingly believed that the way they access money and pay for things will be completely different in five years. s consumers,
and it using an unusual way of working with Panasonic. Navigant Jaffe called the method unique combination of carrot and stick.
Video)##The aircraft, called quadcopters because they have four rotors, navigate using signals from Global positioning system (GPS RECEIVERS,
and compute their own flight plans. They were created by a team of scientists led by Tamás Vicsek, a physicist at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.
But his machines were fixed-wing fliers that could move only at constant speeds and had to fly at different heights to avoid collisions.
but real fliers face other problems. The big enemies are noise and delay, says Vicsek.
The fliers also need time to receive and process those signals, and these lags mean the drones often get too close to one another
It a folding plate puzzle consisting of a loop of eight square shaped tiles that can be transformed in a variety of surprising ways.
Users can physically bend the phone in ways that resemble real-world behaviors, with input and output becoming virtually indistinguishable.
The cameras capture light reflected off small infrared reflective markers (like the material used in reflectors on bikes.
Our data pave the way for such a stem cell therapy, Blau said. Other recent work in stem cell therapy has looked similarly for ways the cells could improve functioning of existing organs, rather than building replacements through regenerative medicine.
For instance one recent study suggested that the cells may be able to kick-start insulin-making in pancreas in Type-1 diabetics by replacing Beta cells.
In the same way that IP and the infrastructure of network nodes that make up the Internet now support functions from e-mail to video streaming
in the same way that second-layer services like Buffer or Hootsuite use the Twitter API to present
So, all bankers and stockbrokers might not go the way of the coal miner, telephone operator, or record store clerk.
But the hard lessons of other upturned industries may now be relevant to the financial sector in ways they never were before.
lightweight enough to permit flight. Hexagonal micro-truss structure about 30 millionths of a meter wide.
Though there isn t yet a good way to cheaply scale the process up to an industrial level,
way to engage students and that how the company startedhe said. Witty president and CEO of KSHARE Inc. said his Aristotl Learning Platform is sophisticated a yet simple-to-use virtual classroom
Marketing and an Aristotl advisor said Witty is taking an innovative approach to meeting today education needs. e moving the mountain over to students so the way teachers interact with students is in their worldvan Eron said.
Numerical simulations in real time provide the best way to study these processes, but such simulations can be extremely expensive.
Supermicro high-performance 4u 4-way SYS-4048b-TRFT Superserver optimized for IO-intensive environments, enables rapid,
and show how and when to deploy delivery trucks to ensure immediate shipment an especially important factor in farmlands where the lack of paved roads can paralyze distribution.
That information is combined with multi-spectral images of fields taken by advanced camera systems from satellites and airplanes.
and predicting of weather effects on transportation networks can help farmers make better decisions about which routes and methods will be fastest to transport harvested food.
That is especially critical in countries like Brazil where many of the roads are unpaved and heavy rain can cause trucks to get stuck in mud.
Coupling predictive analytics and modeling techniques with other sophisticated farming methods can prove to be quite beneficial
but work on Shrilk continues in the lab exploring ways to use the material in moist environments (it becomes flexible
That's the way the brain works. It's not that you have one brain that does the recognition
this editor was afraid his asthma might flare up as he made his way around CES in Las vegas last week.
and the impact of removing cyanide from transport networks. Sodium cyanide is highly toxic but vital for extracting metals such as gold from its ore.
This technology eliminates the need to transport, store or handle both solid and liquid sodium cyanide.
proven techniques already widely used in the likes of smart phones, cars and airplanes. It has been estimated there are already 50 MEMS sensors in a modern car.
Through an extensive R&d program, Imergy has developed a way to produce flow batteries with vanadium at a 98%purity level that can be harvested from environmental waste sites.
and the mine water to be treated in a more environmentally sound way, CSIRO scientist Dr Grant Douglas said. educing the amount of sludge is beneficial
and Chile. t is a more efficient and economic way to treat wastewater and is enabling the global mining industry to reduce its environmental footprint and extract wealth from waste.
Equipment is driven manually to a transition zone, where the operator leaves the vehicle cab. The equipment operator then goes into the Integrated Remote Operations center (IROC) that contains two operator stations and a spotter.
The operator control station is designed to exactly mirror the control center in the cab, allowing seamless transitions for the workers between manual and remote control.
when it senses obstacles A new smart bicycle has been unveiled in The netherlands and its high-tech gadgetry might be the closest thing to a Pee-wee Herman bike on the market but far less accident prone.
In fact the bike is loaded with safety features and was designed specifically for the purpose of reducing the high accident rate in the bicycle-loving country particularly among elderly cyclists reports Discovery News. The bicycle
which is slated to officially go on sale within the next two years sports a radar system mounted below the handlebars that can detect approaching obstacles.
A small camera in the rear mudguard keeps a watchful eye on your backside. When an obstacle approaches from the front
and talk to the bicycle through a dedicated application. The full medley of devices will be particularly useful for cyclists propelled along by the bicycle's electrical motor
which can reach a top speed of 16 miles per hour h
#What's a Twike? It's half-bike half-electric car Meet the Twike. It a made-in-Germany combination of an electric bicycle with an EV.
It may be that wel see more of these hybrids popping up as our cities get less friendly to gas guzzlers.
Driving 60 miles is going to cost you $2 the company says. The Twike youe looking at is one of the few in the U s
One drives with a central tiller (as in the earliest days of motoring) and the passenger in this two-seater can pedal too.
There are about 1000 Twikes on European roads that have covered 37 million miles but very few in the U s. It can be registered as a motorcycle
The ELF built by Organic Transit isn quite as luxurious as the Twike but it a lot cheaper $5495 for the standard model.
It's also possible to extend the range by adding extra e-bike type li-ion battery packs.
Organic Transit's ELF on its way to Boston. Photo: Jim Motavalli) Rob Cotter CEO and founder of Organic Transit describes the Twike and ELF as the same but different.
The weight of a Twike is almost 4x an ELF so the gains from pedaling
It was sponsored by Lufthansa and looked basically identical to today's Twike. I'm sure it has a lot more power than the ELF.
Highway friendly they're not but OK on lightly trafficked local roads. The smart battery research at the University of Cincinnati is interesting.
According to Jay Lee the IMS director the cells in a battery pack typically degrade (and charge) at different rates and that throws off the efficiency and longevity.
Another use for the Smart Battery Watchdog Agent Dr. Lee said is to plot the optimal route to where youe going based on your past driving behavior the availability of charging stations along the way and other factors.
The computer had to detect people, bicyclists, cars and other vehicles in a photo, and identify each object correctly.
the way Apple's voice-controlled Siri program operates, he said. That is, Siri outsources the computation to other computers via a network instead of performing it locally on a device.
"We've come a long way, but there's a long way to go, "Modha said o
#Real-life Transformer: Robotic bug springs to life The latest advancement in robotics may not look like much just a few small batteries attached to a flat sheet of paper
Researchers say the self-assembling robot represents a new way to build bots, a process that will make it easier to churn out complex machines in less time.
"NASA is researching different ways to produce oxygen for long-distance space journeys to let us live in space.
If an enemy boat or aircraft gets too close to a Navy ship, the laser can deter the threat with an effect known as optical"dazzling."
"It opens a lot of area to deploy solar energy in a non-intrusive way, "said Lunt.""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.
IBM said the materials could even potentially be used in airplanes, where their strength, light weight,
resistance to stress and self-healing abilities could allow them to be used on airplane wings.
and allows us to address the complex needs of advanced materials for applications in transportation, microelectronic or advanced manufacturing."
"In addition to the hard material that IBM says could be used for airplane wings, they also developed an elastic gel that is mostly liquid
and turns it into purified air Billboards often line busy roads and highways where there's lots of traffic and by association lots of air pollution.
But what if those billboards could be transformed into giant air purifiers scrubbing the air and turning polluted areas into fresh ones?
According to the World Meteorological Association Lima has the highest air pollution levels in all of South america most of it related to transportation and factories.
Large cities in the U s. with poor air quality and high traffic such as Los angeles and Houston would be good places to implement the technology.
but the researchers were able to do it by way of a transporter, a protein that moves materials across cell membranes.
"The research paves the way for"designer"organisms with custom-made genomes that are capable of performing useful tasks, like making drugs.
#Cargo bikes: The new way to move kids stuff and pizza Order a Domino pizza in Portland, Ore.
and chances are it will arrive by bicycle. The Portland Mercury newspaper is delivered that way, too,
and the local Splendid Cycles which specializes in cargo bikes is expanding. Now, admittedly, Portland is ground zero for cargo bikes parodied on"Portlandia"and everything.
But moving kids, pizzas and even entire households with pedal power is catching on big time in the U s. Cargo bikes are he new station wagon,
says the Wall street journal. It not just Amsterdam and Copenhagen anymore biking is having a renaissance,
and it going beyond Sunday recreation. Jim Motavalli on a carbo bike The author investigates a Belgian Ecopostale van at the International Transport Forum.
Photo: Randy Rzewnicki) That where Marin county, California Liz Canning comes in. She making a documentary called"Less Car More Go,
"and both crowdsourcing video for it and raising money through a Kickstarter campaign. She wants a modest $40, 000,
000. always loved riding my bike, Canning said, ut it got so I couldn pull my twins in our double trailerhe hill to our house was too steep.
even though I was already a fit cyclist who commuted into San francisco, it changed my life.
Now there was no reason not to take the bike everywhere. Bike with a wheelbarrow in front You can watch the trailer for"Less Car More Go"here:
In part because most of her o-directorssent in footage of them ferrying their kids around,
but Canning agrees that cargo bikes can work for a living. She said the finished film will have pedicabs, bicycle messengers, food delivery and, yes,
pizza guys. t would be great if a big company, like Whole Foods, launched a large fleet of electric cargo bikes,
Canning said. e need something on that scale. Less Car More Go DHL's courier services are mounted often bike in Europe.
Photo courtesy of"Less Car More Go")Cargo bikes have reached scale in Europe. For instance, DHL Netherlands,
which does parcel delivery, replaced 33 trucks with cargo bikes, saving 152 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually.
Arne Melse of DHL says that 10 percent of the company vehicles are bikes. rom our pilots in four EU countries,
we see that it is indeed possible to deliver by cycle. There are already 2, 000 to 3, 000 cargo bikes in London,
and importer Andrea Casalotti estimates that sales will be up 20 percent this year. Ecopostale is using bike vans to deliver the mail in Belgium (see photo above.
UPS is testing pedal-power delivery vans in Germany. According to Dr. Randy Rzewnicki, a transplanted Bostonian who now works for Europe-based Cyclelogistics,
t is boom time for cargo bikes. Up to 70 percent of delivery costs are in the last mile,
and these bikes can save money and increase efficiency. It a credible solution for young businesses.
but you have to watch this local cyclists band together to move an entire apartment. And it looks like theye having loads of fun doing it t
A low-end kitchen blender can make a high-end batch of this valuable material Blenders can be a great way to make smoothies or margaritas,
usually incorporating transportation as part of the mix. Panasonic Eco Ideas House, with solar, a fuel cell, battery backup and a plug-in Toyota prius, has stood long next to a company headquarters in Tokyo,
#Synthetic yeast chromosome paves the way for designer genomes A chunk of the genetic blueprint for yeast has been created
and pieced together from scratch paving the way for designer organisms that could produce new medicines food products
and new ways of doing things and concerns some very legitimate about safety matters Boeke said.
Synthesizing plant and animal genomes is a long way off Boeke said but the day will come.
"It an interesting way of thinking about materials synthesis, which is very different from what people do now,
"Devices constructed from these materials could adjust to their environments in ways that traditional nonliving materials cannot."
#Poop-powered airport shuttle bus hits the road in the U k. A supermarket powered by its own expired comestibles.
Try a poop-powered airport shuttle bus. The first of its kind in the United kingdom Bio-Bus is a 40-seat transit vehicle that runs entirely on fuel generated through anaerobic digestion.
That is the conversion of waste n this case both locally sourced food waste and human sewage nto a methane-rich biogas.
if Bio-Bus serviced the number 2 route it runs along the 20-mile-long A4 route
which ferries commuters between Bristol Airport in North Somerset and the historic tourist-inundated city of Bath with several local stops in between.
The Bath Bus company-operated shuttle carrying about 10000 passengers monthly embarked on its maiden journey last Thursday.
The annual waste generated by an entire busload of passengers would provide enough fuel for a return trip across Great britain from Land's End in the extreme southwest of England to John O'Groats in the extreme northeast of Scotland.
There always the chance that regular riders on the route hat nice old lady from South Bristol who travels to Keynsham every Sunday to visit her sister re being propelled in part by their own poo.
Bio-Bus which boasts CO2 EMISSIONS that are 30 percent less than buses with conventional diesel engines couldn hit the road at a better time.
Stay for the human excrement-powered airport shuttle. In addition to the Bath-to-Bristol airport service Bath Bus company operates open-top sightseeing coaches in England and Wales with routes in Windsor Cardiff Eastbourne and of course Bath.
The company has remarked not as to if any vehicles in its sightseeing fleet will join the airport shuttle
and be converted to run on Bristolian sewage and food scraps o
#Quantum'entangled'light sharpens microscopes'images The first microscope that uses the eerie trick of quantum entanglement to increase its sensitivity has been developed by Japanese researchers.
Importance for biology One classical way to image smaller objects without using entangled photons is to use shorter and shorter wavelengths of light.
This way, one could improve resolution by switching from visible light to X-rays. But X-ray microscopesare difficult to use and coherent X-ray sources like X-ray lasers, in
"The quantum entanglement idea gives a road to get X-ray resolution using only visible light. In the future, this could lead to inexpensive microscopes that use ordinary lasers to get this resolution,
A commercial version called Hexoskin is marketed to athletes as a way of checking out your heartbeat and pace during workouts.
#High-tech Exosuit gives divers access to unexplored ocean canyons Michael Lombardi the dive safety officer for the American Museum of Natural history trains in the Exosuit.
and sewing thread a team of scientists has developed a way to create super-strong artificial muscles.
submersible that can take passengers on undersea joyrides. The custom-built underwater vehicles are designed to dive below the surface, swim amongst marine animals,
"It is like an airplane with wings upside down,"Graham Hawkes, founder and chief technical officer of Hawkes Ocean Technologies, told the Chronicle."
or three passengers, depending on the configuration of the vehicle, and can dive to a depth of about 394 feet (120 m). See Photos of the Deepflight Super Falcon Submersible Traditionally,
and drag the principles of regular flight to"soar"underwater. This means the Super Falcon is always positively buoyant
and includes on-site pilot and operations training. The vehicles are among the latest high-tech items geared at the super-rich,
while a successful program is put into place this is the way it will be. In the past when Ie been offered an ereceipt
and it could lead the way to major advancements in science research, reports Reuters. Most of that cash,
and keep it in ear continuous transit on trucks until a customer makes a purchase. trying to think of what item I might need so quickly that
I would want it to be in continuous transit so that a nearby delivery person could have it to my house within minutes or a few hours of ordering.
I don think that the way it will work (especially since he doesn have his own Amazon account)
Also airplanes etched in these nanostructures could potentially avoid the dangers of water freezing on the wings.
The Launcherone rocket while still in the design and testing phase hopes to eventually deliver payloads from 250 pounds to 500 pounds into space for less than $10 million per flight.
How the smartphone is changing the way we live and work. I made a number of predictions,
and the huge infrastructure investments in them are made on a whim for political reasons for pork a highway here and a bridge to nowhere there.
If your senator wants to cancel a high-speed rail line and expand a highway instead there are hard data on how much it will cost to treat the asthma cases that are caused by the extra pollution.
If you put in a bike lane instead of a car lane there are data that show how it increases the health of the population.
You can put a dollar value on happiness and people have been doing it for years.
As Stewart noted in her Economist articlethey are following up with modules for transit roads highways and buildings.
So when those politicians want to ram another highway down our throats or rip out another bike lane there are real data that people can show on the true costs both economic and social.
This a difficult concept to write about for a nonprofessional readership. However as an architect who was an early adopter of Computer aided design (CAD) over 30 years agowhen all it did was draw
They made their way through the machine, getting boiled and treated. A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result:
But Moon and his colleagues saw a way to go smaller by using a quantum analogy to the conventional hologram.
But he says that the technique is a long way from having any practical use.
the transport of tree species to colder climes further north and more controlled burns to prepare the forests for more frequent wild fires.
On 5 december, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev signed a deal in New delhi that paves the way for four more 1-gigawatt reactors over the next decade,
train researchers, refurbish labs and set up mechanisms to make sure research results are used in policymaking. In Kenya
The new way is more expensive than making funding decisions in London, says Whitworth, but the outcomes should be better."
the new technology may offer an easier way to get to the high-field machines manufacturers
MRI machines use a magnetic field to get hydrogen atoms in the body spinning in a particular way,
"This introduces a whole new way for thinking to this field, "he says, pointing to possibilities such as screening large numbers of biological samples or laboratory animals all at once."
This should go some way to easing concerns that using propranolol to quell fearful memories will wipe out memories indiscriminately,
This should go some way to easing concerns that using propranolol to quell fearful memories will wipe out memories indiscriminately,
Basically HIV can find its way around the drug and still use CCR5 says Riley,
because soot and different kinds of aerosols can affect cloud formation in very different ways.
This means that it warms the troposphere in much the same way as carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
which way the nitrogen s electrons are spinning. Reinhard s team placed different kinds of samples onto their diamond
or the only way to eradicate the disease in practice is to eradicate all of the coffee,
But longer, microwave wavelengths#for applications such as airport scanners#require a different approach, because there are no materials that can serve as micromirrors in that part of the spectrum.
For the latest study, the researchers turned to metamaterials#artificial structures patterned to interact with light in exotic ways.
Today s millimetre-wave airport scanners physically move an array of multiple sensors around a person.
and swerved off to the side of the road, says Cirtain. We knew immediately that we had discovered something fantastic.
marks another step towards using nucleic acids as a practical way of storing information#one that is more compact and durable than current media such as hard disks or magnetic tape.#"
in such a way that any errors on one string can be checked cross against three other strings.
while researching the way leprosy spreads around the body. The mechanism of the hijacking is unclear,
a material that in many ways resembles diamond. Boron nitride can be compressed into a superhard, transparent form#but unlike diamond and many other materials known for their extreme hardness,
partly because this offered a way to skirt the thorny ethical issues raised by extracting cells from human embryos.
while the lawsuit was working its way through the US court system. With the litigation over, she says she need not"hesitate
Janila Shulu s team are out in the dirt roads and alleyways of Ungwan Rimi, a poor neighbourhood in a predominantly Muslim section of Kaduna city in northern Nigeria.
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