But keeping calm yet alert behind the wheel could be about to get easier with the advent of a car seat that actively monitors a driver's physical and mental status. The'Active Wellness'seat has built-in biometric sensors to detect
French car seat manufacturer Faurecia claims its concept seat unveiled at the IAA show in Frankfurt, is a world first.'
The seat could be fitted in new cars from 2020, but no indication of price has been given.
except the sensors are placed on the surface of the car seat instead of being attached directly to the driver.
Ford's car seat may in some cases detect increased heart activity before the driver notices they are having a heart attack,
it could be ready to be fitted in cars in 2020.0
#Scientists play Twenty Questions by reading each other's MINDS: Answers were sent more than a mile using brain signals It is a breakthrough that could pave the way for soldiers being able to read each other's thoughts on the battlefield
the american electric automotive company went beyond cars to create a battery system centered on household consumption needs. the tesla owerwallis not only described as a game changing innovation
But Perry is looking beyond handhelds to the world of connected appliances, cars and other everyday tools. or us
whether for an airplane, car, bridge, mobile device, or biological implant, engineers strive to make the material strong
ride steel subway cars over steel rails to our offices in steel-framed building. Steel screws hold together broken bones,
in automobile converters and in the chemical industry because of its remarkable ability to facilitate a wide range of chemical reactions.
Charge-discharge capacity has a lot to do with the lifetime costs of things like electric cars if you could regularly drive an all-electric car for several years without much real risk of having to replace the battery pack,
electric cars would become much more affordable over their full lifespans. Fully alternative technologies, from carbon-based batteries to supercapacitors to mini-nuclear charging,
have been predicted to kill lithium ion for many years running, at this point Ie made the prediction myself, more than once.
At about 2, 300 kilograms (5, 070 pounds), the Si2 weighs about as much as a minivan or mid-sized truck.
Massachusetts institute of technology spin out Cambridge Electronics Inc (CEI) has announced a line of Gan transistors and power electronic circuits that promise to cut energy usage in data centres, electric cars,
Another application will be replacing the silicon-based power electronics in electric car, Palacios said. These are in the battery chargers
The silicon transistors used today have constrained a power capability that limits how much power the car can handle.
Gan-based power electronics, on the other hand, could boost power output for electric cars, while making them more energy-efficient and lighter and,
suggests a similar problem could befall those riding in autonomous-driving cars. According to the study authors Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle
#The Ultimate Dash Cam Hits the Market Lyfelens, developers of premium and innovative auto solutions to make cars safer and smarter,
has announced the production of a dash cam that connects the car and smartphone to provide users with insight of actions happening in and around the vehicle via realtime data,
and alerting the user. e designed Lyfelens with the goal of providing car owners with peace of mind, said cofounder
and CEO Allen Stone. yfelens keeps an eye on your car even when youe not there,
and subscribers with multiple cars/Lyfelens devices will be given discounted subscription rates for more than one device e
It's as if every time you push on the brake pedal in your car, you burn a little bit of gas."
The three-mirrored device is the size of a small car, tipping the scales at over 3 tons (2. 7 tonnes).
#Apple car: Visit to BMW factory fuels further rumours of possible partnership During the visit executives from the technology company asked detailed questions about tooling and production,
Rumours of a possible partnership that would see Apple using the body of BMW's'i'vehicles as the basis for an Apple Car
Apple's car project is named code'Project Titan 'but details remain a closely guarded secret.
which helps people to remember events such as where they parked a car or placed a set of keys,
said Van Essen, who is a principal investigator of the HCP. t is also a testament to the intense efforts by the HCP team to improve the methods of imaging data acquisition
a graduate student in Van Essen lab and a co-author on the study. In an interview with Nature News, Raichle cautioned that the findings of this study do not establish a cause-and-effect relationship between strong brain network connections and positive behavioral traits or between weak connections and negative traits.
and car exhausts affect humans who breathe in these harmful gases and also aggravate climate change up in the atmosphere.
and car exhausts affect humans who breathe in these harmful gases and also aggravate climate change up in the atmosphere.
"Imagine the electrons are like cars driving across a smooth track, "Yap says.""They circle around and around,
FOM workgroup leader prof. dr. Bart van Wees and his Phd student Ludo Cornelissen, both from the University of Groningen and FOM workgroup leader dr. Rembert
"Cooler cars Zhu said the technology has significant potential for any outdoor device or system that demands cooling
"Say you have a car that is bright red, "Zhu said.""You really like that color,
ranging from cell phones to laptop computers and electric cars. But there may soon be a new type of battery based on materials that are far more abundant and less costly.
Mcmaster engineers build better energy storage device Mcmaster Engineering researchers Emily Cranston and Igor Zhitomirsky are turning trees into energy storage devices capable of powering everything from a smart watch to a hybrid car.
in automobile converters and in the chemical industry because of its remarkable ability to facilitate a wide range of chemical reactions.
or cars which drive themselves and are out on our roads, "said Professor Hermann Kohlstedt and his colleague from Bochum,
which in turn has the potential to help make the driving range of an adsorbed-natural-gas (ANG) car comparable to that of a typical gasoline-powered car."
The storage issue is especially keen for light-duty vehicles such as cars, in which the space available for onboard fuel storage is limited.
#Silk could be new'green'material for next-generation batteries Lithium-ion batteries have enabled many of today electronics, from portable gadgets to electric cars.
#Researchers probe nanoscale properties and mechanisms of lubricant films The pistons in your car engine rub up against their cylinder walls thousands of times a minute;
It can also generate byproducts in the exhaust that reduce the lifespan and efficiency of a car's pollutant-reducing catalytic converter.
"The surfaces of a piston and cylinder in a car engine may look perfectly smooth to the naked eye,
These systems could allow electric cars to travel great distances between charges. Also, one day, such systems could store energy from wind and solar stations, making the intermittent energy available when needed d
Sabine van Rijt, CPC/ilbd, Helmholtz Zentrum Mnchen) Nanoparticles are extremely small particles that can be modified for a variety of uses in the medical field.
The team headed by Silke Meiners, Oliver Eickelberg and Sabine van Rijt from the Comprehensive Pneumology Center (HMGU
Yajun Gao and Professor Paul H. M. van Loosdrecht from the University of Cologne have made now substantial progress in this field in collaboration with researchers from Jilin University (China) and the University of Nottingham (UK).
Frank Koppens and ICREA Prof. at ICFO Niek van Hulst, in collaboration with scientists from the research group led by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero at MIT
As Prof. van Hulst states""it is amazing how graphene allows direct nonlinear detecting of ultrafast femtosecond (fs) pulses".
These points of contact between the materialsalled heterojunctionsre what make the digital on/off switch possible. magine the electrons are like cars driving across a smooth track,
low-power embedded systems-the computing devices found in everything from thermostats to automobiles.""Using our techniques,
such as running a car tyre over it, the electrical output was uniformed highly and there was no damage to the functionality of the device.
"When driving a car, the clutch mechanically carries the torque produced by the engine to the chassis of the vehicle-a coupling that has long been tested
Flame retardants are added to foams found in mattresses, sofas, car upholstery and many other consumer products.
ranging from cell phones to laptop computers and electric cars. But there may soon be a new type of battery based on materials that are far more abundant and less costly.
or cars which drive themselves and are out on our roads, "said Professor Hermann Kohlstedt and his colleague from Bochum,
ride steel subway cars over steel rails to our offices in steel-framed building. Steel screws hold together broken bones,
a dangerous atmospheric pollutant emitted from automobile tailpipes. In addition to detecting toxic or flammable gases, theoretical work indicates that boron-doped graphene could lead to improved lithium-ion batteries
ACS) Today, lithium-ion batteries are the storage technology of choice for many applications, from electric cars to smartphones.
For example, Tesla, the maker of luxury electric cars, is ambitiously expanding its lithium-ion technology to fill that niche
Chang and his colleagues studied 182 participants who were shown negative photos (bodily injuries, acts of aggression, hate groups, car wrecks, human feces) and neutral photos.
One of the students compared the feeling to cruise control in a car, where the driver can take control back
just like checking oil levels in a car. The dipstick is already available and can save lives,
#ipstickin the brain could predict damage just in time TO CHECK a car oil levels, use a dipstick.
the team led by Ghent Dries Van Thourhout suggests that electrical injection-a necessity for true photonic integration-could be achieved readily with the incorporation of a suitable blend of narrow-bandgap semiconductor material in the future.
Van Thourhout and colleagues made an array of distributed feedback (DFB) indium phosphide (Inp) lasers on a 300 mm diameter wafer,
Van Thourhout and colleagues outlined how these challenges could be met. he in-plane laser configuration employed makes it straightforward to adopt well-studied electrical injection schemes,
the overall power density--the amount of juice you can store in a battery vis-a-vis its size--more closely resembles the large lead-acid battery you'd find in your car.
but you can bet that electronics manufacturers, makers of electric cars, and power companies all have their eyes on the development of this technology.
when the robot valet parks your car, you don't even have to tip p
#Scientists Are Figuring Out How To Change Blood types At some point in your life, youe probably been asked to donate blood.
What kind of car is this? s a blind person you don really think about the things that you might be able to see
#A better way to pack natural gas into fuel tanks A new and innovative way to store methane could speed the development of natural gas-powered cars that don require the high pressures
-and would enable an electric car with a battery that is a fifth the cost and a fifth the weight of those currently on the market to drive from London to Edinburgh on a single charge.
electric cars and grid-scale storage for solar power.""In their simplest form, batteries are made of three components:
or to remember a few hours later where you parked your car in a multi-storey car park. Schizophrenia is a long-term mental health condition that causes a range of psychological symptoms,
#Eco-friendly 3d printed supercar Kevin Czinger of Divergent Microfactories has spent most of his career in the automotive industry.
or how few tailpipe emissions the modern car has, the business of car manufacturing is destroying the environment."
"3d printing of metal radically changes that. By looking at 3d printing not for that overall structure
According to Czinger, 3d printing transforms everything by changing the way the structural components of cars are fabricated.
Currently cars are pieced together on long assembly lines inside large factories that use massive amounts of energy.
Even the most fuel efficient car has a large carbon footprint before ever leaving the plant. Czinger and his team's approach was to take the large plant out of the equation.
Balzer says designing an eco-friendly speed demon supercar as their first prototype was intentional.""We focused a lot on the aesthetics of this car
because it is very important to capture the people's imaginations, especially when we are talking about the core enabling technologies,
The core enabling technology, the ability to print out car components that can be assembled easily,
is what Kevin Czinger hopes will revolutionize car manufacturing. He says electric cars are a step in the right direction,
but alone they won't be enough to curb greenhouse emissions given the projected rise in demand for cars globally
unless the way they are manufactured changes.""By constructing a car this way it has less than one third of the environmental
and health impact than the 85 hours all electric car for example has added, "he. Czinger and Balzer are starting small
but they believe their new 3d printing method for car manufacturing will have a huge impact on how the cars of the future are built t
#New tidal energy system could help POWER UK, say developers A British company, in conjunction with Oxford university researchers, believes it has devised a way to overcome this obstacle by creating a new type of horizontal axis turbine that can be used underwater at depths of up to 30 meters, at an economical cost.
#Japanese engineer develops world's first'car in a bag'Pocket-sized personal transporters could soon be seen on the streets of Tokyo.
A Japanese engineer has developed a portable transporter small enough to be carried in a backpack that he says is the world's first'car in a bag'.
and resembles a skateboard more than a car. The slender Walkcar is made from aluminum and weighs between two and three kilograms (4. 4 to 6. 6 pounds),
Sato said his studies in electric car motor control systems sparked the idea for the new kind of ride."
since I was doing my masters in engineering specifically on electric car motor control systems, "he told Reuters. Sato says he is confident that Walkcar goes beyond bulkier devices such as the Segway or Toyota's Winglet."
and his van collided with a boat and a trailer. None of the boys was injured severely,
#Japanese engineers have created the world's first'car in a bag'Getting around is about to look a lot different.
'is described as a'car in a bag 'because it can easily carried around. It sort of like a small, four-wheeled electric skateboard meets a Segway.
#The UK is trialling a new road surface that charges your electric car as you drive One of the problems with being on the cutting edge of electric car technology is you're not as sure of being able to find a filling station as all the petrol-burning drivers around you.
that sort of'range anxiety'could be gone for good-the roads actually charge your car as you drive.
A select number of cars will be fitted with the requisite wireless charging technology and a test road will be built to show how smaller substations, AC/AC converters,
but it would certainly increase the amount of time cars could last between full charges at home or a designated charging station."
Electric car charging points won't be dismissed completely, however, and Highways England has said it's committed to installing plug-in facilities every 48 km along the motorway network.
encouraging electric cars onto the road would make a lot of financial sense for the UK government. A similar idea is already in use in South korea,
and cars in just a few years, say the researchers. lectrochemical splitting of water could provide a cheap,
his research may help computers get better at teaching themselves to do everything from driving a car to making an omelette,
Or cars made from the material. Because, let's face it, plastic is great and all but we could all use a little more durability in our lives v
"In hybrid and electric cars, such recovery systems can help improve range, but in large heavily-packed passenger trains running regularly in one of the most heavily traveled cities in the world,
which is expected to extract 1 million tonnes per day-the equivalent of taking 100 cars off the road every year.
not just for smartphones but for electric cars and solar power, where batteries are essential for storing energy to use
crucial if we're to put these batteries into millions of cars and smartphones, was reached by using a'fluffy'carbon electrode made from graphene.
it could translate into less expensive consumer devices and even less expensive electric cars. Yao's research group focuses on green and sustainable organic materials for energy generation and storage.
#Discovery may be breakthrough for hydrogen cars The team's new findings, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could help speed the widespread arrival of the hydrogen-powered vehicles in a way that is inexpensive
cheaper and more powerful and durable than lithium-ion batteries common in mobile phones and laptops and increasingly used in hybrid and electric cars.
#Researchers find protein that may signal more aggressive prostate cancers Biomarkers in the body are analogous to the warning lights in cars that signal something might need repairing.
Frank Koppens and ICREA Prof. at ICFO Niek van Hulst, in collaboration with scientists from the research group led by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero at MIT
As Prof. van Hulst states""it is amazing how graphene allows direct nonlinear detecting of ultrafast femtosecond (fs) pulses."
we could advance large-scale renewable energy storage technologies for electric cars and microgrids, "he says. Jin also believes that the novel X-ray imaging technique will facilitate the studies of other technologically important solid-state transformations
#Scientists create cheaper magnetic material for cars, wind turbines Karl A. Gschneidner and fellow scientists at the U s. Department of energy's Ames Laboratory have created a new magnetic alloy that is an alternative to traditional rare-earth permanent magnets.
enable collision avoidance technologies on cars and allow virtual reality (VR) headsets to be used outdoors. The researchers'new centimeter-accurate GPS coupled with a smartphone camera could be used to quickly build a globally referenced 3-D map of one's surroundings that would greatly expand the radius of a VR game.
"Humphreys and his team in the Radionavigation Lab have built a low-cost system that reduces location errors from the size of a large car to the size of a nickel--a more than 100 times increase in accuracy.
"If your car knows in real time the precise position and velocity of an approaching car that is blocked from view by other traffic,
your car can plan ahead to avoid a collision, "Humphreys said. Further information: http://gpsworld. com/accuracy-in-the-palm-of-your-hand d
#'Microcombing'creates stronger, more conductive carbon nanotube films"It's a simple process and can create a lightweight CNT film,
"said Ute Neugebauer, group leader at the Jena University Hospital and Leibniz Institute of technology. What exactly does the team's medical device detect?"
Few people would look at a car, an airplane or a farming tool and appreciate the durable layers protecting its parts.
"This includes automobiles, with parts that bear the burden of heavy loads, erosion and corrosion.
"Just like you have a car that you're running into the ground--things don't work right
or run our cars without adding any greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. By combining nanoscience and biology, researchers led by scientists at University of California,
or run our cars without adding any greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. By combining nanoscience and biology, researchers led by scientists at University of California,
FOM workgroup leader prof. dr. Bart van Wees and his Phd student Ludo Cornelissen, both from the University of Groningen and FOM workgroup leader dr. Rembert
"Cooler cars Zhu said the technology has significant potential for any outdoor device or system that demands cooling
"Say you have a car that is bright red, "Zhu said.""You really like that color,
such as running a car tyre over it, the electrical output was uniformed highly and there was no damage to the functionality of the device.
Engineers build better energy storage device Mcmaster Engineering researchers Emily Cranston and Igor Zhitomirsky are turning trees into energy storage devices capable of powering everything from a smart watch to a hybrid car.
where sensors in cars, located in devices like flow meters, position sensors and interlocks, are made currently of silicon or indium antimonide.
For instance, when there is a change in temperature due to the car's air-conditioner or heat from the sun,
properties of the conventional sensors in the car change as well. To counter this, a temperature correction mechanism is required, incurring additional production cost.
Fraunhofer ICT It self-evident that cars must become lighter in order to reduce fuel consumption. For most car designers this principally means body parts
but the powertrain system, which includes the engine, also accounts for a large proportion of the vehicle weight.
Until now, carmakers have relied on aluminum to reduce the weight of engine components such as the cylinder block.
whether the carmaker wishes to optimize the engine in terms of costs or in terms of weight. The researchers produce these components from granulated thermoset plastics using an injection molding process.
cigarette smoke and car fumes and airways twitchiness in allergic asthma. ur paper shows how these triggers release chemicals that activate Casr in airway tissue
have been refining cell-surface sensors known as chimeric antigen receptors, or CARS. Once inserted into T cells,
CARS prompt these cells to home in on particular proteins found primarily in tumors, where they launch a series of cancer-killing immune responses.
Dangers of CAR T cell Therapy CAR-equipped T cells have proven to be remarkably successful in the treatment of various forms of chemotherapy-resistant leukemia
But CAR T cell therapy can cause side effects so serious that they may require monitoring in an Intensive care unit several patients have died after receiving CAR T cells
while theye in the body. ome scientists have grappled with these problems by developing uicide switchesthat kill off CAR T cells
creating a new type of CAR T cell that is ffby default. Like CONVENTIONAL CAR T cells, these newly developed T cells will navigate toward
and interact with cancer cells, but will not launch any immune assault unless a specially designed drug has been administered.
This controller drug forms a chemical bridge between components inside the CAR T cells flipping the cells into an active, nstatus.
and selectively eliminated by the Lim group new CAR T cells, but only after the controller drug had been administered.
and colleagues does more than merely switch CAR T cells between nand ffstates. It can also act like a rheostat:
These combined control capabilities could be employed to manage the various side effects of CAR T therapy.
For CAR T cell treatments, T cells are removed from a patient blood, genetically engineered to carry CARS that target the patient tumor,
then reinserted into the bloodstream to exert their effects. Once inside the body, in addition to attacking tumors directly, CAR T cells, like all T cells, release signaling molecules called cytokines, some
of which recruit additional T cells to fight the tumor. Sometimes normal cells express small amounts of a cancer-associated protein targeted by a CAR T cell.
Because CAR T cells placed in the bloodstream pass immediately through the heart and lungs, these tissues can be damaged before the CAR T cells reach their intended target elsewhere in the body.
The control offered by the Lim laboratory new cells would allow physicians to leave CAR T cells inactivated until the heart
and lungs are less vulnerable to these irst passside effects. Even when CAR T cells attack only their correct target cancer cells,
side effects can still occur. In tumor lysis syndrome, the body is overwhelmed by toxic substances released when many tumor cells die in rapid succession.
Another side effect, known as a ytokine storm is a life-threatening vicious cycle in which released cytokines summon numerous T cells to the tumor,
but he believes that the research provides the foundation for practical remote control of CAR T cells on the near horizon.
In addition to drug control of CAR T nswitches, members of his laboratory are exploring other techniques to accomplish this goal,
such as controlling CAR T cell activation with light. While successful against blood cancers such as leukemia, CAR T cells have shown so far less efficacy against solid tumors that effect the colon, breast, prostrate, brain and other tissues.
The remote control strategy developed by Lim group may permit researchers to develop more powerful versions of CAR T cells that could attack these solid tumors,
while still keeping side effects in check. Members of the Lim laboratory are also working to reduce side effects by introducing multiple CARS into T cells
so that the cells will respond to multiple characteristics that are distinctive to an individual patient tumor,
and the Howard hughes medical institute. hat we can engineer CAR T cells to have slightly different, quite powerful effects even if for a subset of patients or for certain types of cancer is really remarkable,
ranging from cell phones to laptop computers and electric cars. But there may soon be a new type of battery based on materials that are far more abundant and less costly.
Devices with Kumu technology mounted on top of cars played the role of cell phones linking to the network.
or blocked by buildings, cars, or people from making a direct line-of-site connection with the tower.
when a car went by. Kumu first product will be aimed at wireless carriers and is a version of the small mobile base stations, known as small cells,
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