explains principal investigator Dr. Olaf van Erve. Realization of spin-based Si NW devices requires efficient electrical spin injection and detection,
The NRL research team includes Dr. Olaf van Erve, Dr. Adam Friedman, Dr. Connie Li,
#New nanogenerators collect friction energy from rolling tires Team of engineers from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a collaborator from China have developed a new nanogenerator that is able to generate power from friction created by rolling
tires of the car. As with a big part of today automotive technological innovations, it is aimed at efficiency.
In the future such technology could help harvest otherwise wasted energy to squeeze just that extra bit of efficiency out of cars and other vehicles.
The nanogenerator harvests the wasted tire friction energy by relying on the triboelectric effect. It is the electric charge that results from the contact or rubbing together of two dissimilar objects.
The generator harnesses energy from the changing electric potential between the pavement and a vehicle wheels.
which is a major goal in today automotive industry. Professor Xudong Wang, one of the authors of the study, noted that he friction between the tire
and the ground consumes about 10%of a vehicle fueland, since that energy is wasted simply,
f we can convert that energy, it could give us very good improvement in fuel efficiency Improving fuel efficiency would benefit everyone it would help automotive industry meet new strict regulations for emissions,
make traveling just that little bit cheaper and would improve energy efficiency which would benefit environmental causes as well.
The technology is depending on an electrode integrated into a segment of the tire. When it comes into contact with the ground,
The segment should not cause any disadvantages to the handling and performance of the car.
team used a toy car with LED LIGHTS. Engineers attached an electrode to the tires of the toy car
and watched the LED LIGHTS as the car was rolling forward and they flashed on and off as electrodes came with contact with the surface.
The friction was strong enough for the electrodes to harvest enough energy to power the lights,
Engineers also determined that the amount of energy harnessed is directly related to the weight of a car
It means that different vehicles would waste different amounts of energy and different percentage of it could be saved using this method.
As cars are supposed to be greener and greener, everyone involved will have to look for new innovative ways to improve efficiency.
Today, injection and extrusion molding shape hot liquids into everything from car parts to toys.
ibers are everywhere from your underwear, pajamas, toothbrushes, tires, shoes, car seats, air filtration systems and even your clothes. bbey Liebman 0 created a dress using conductive cotton threads capable of charging an iphone.
#Research Team Improves Lithium air batteries For Electric car Industry A research team from Carnegie mellon University and the University of California,
Lithium air batteries are especially promising for the electric car industry, as they allow electric car battery packs to be smaller
and other competitors in the electric vehicle industry, Mccloskey said. he whole idea of selectively making things soluble
said Cindy Van Dover, director of the Duke university Marine Laboratory. On its maiden voyage, the Syprid sampler was carried by the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry to a depth of more than 2,
150 meters where pressures exceed a bone-crushing 3150 psi and drove a precise sampling pattern for more than eight hours just above a natural methane seep.
but all plankton in the deep ocean, said Van Dover. e can now pick and choose where we sample,
and the yang of regulating GPCR function, said H. Eric Xu, from Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan,
and cars (see ilicon Chips That See Are Going to Make Your Smartphone Brilliant S
#Why the Time Seems Right for a Space-Based Internet Service providing Internet access from orbiting satellites concept that seemed to have died with the excesses of the dot-com boomas returned thanks to Spacex founder
The phones will be sold from trucks that function as mobile stores, as well as over the Internet. Just as third party apps were crucial to the popularity of smartphones,
Nvidia Demos a Car Computer Trained with Deep Learning Many cars now include cameras or other sensors that record the passing world and trigger intelligent behavior,
such as automatic braking or steering to avoid an obstacle. Today systems are usually unable to tell the difference between a trash can
This week at the International Consumer electronics Show in Las vegas, Nvidia, a leading marking of computer graphics chips, unveiled a vehicle computer called the Drive PX that could help cars interpret
Nvidia already supplies chips to many car makers but engineers at those companies usually have to write software to collect
and other graphics for dashboard displays. t pretty cool to bring this level of powerful computation into cars,
so that car manufacturers can fix bugs or add new functionality. This is something few car companies, aside from Tesla, do currently.
So far Audi has emerged as an early buyer; at CES, the company showed off a luxury concept car called the Audi Prologue that includes the Drive PX.
A year ago, the company announced at CES that it had developed a compact computer for processing sensor information (see udi Shows Off a Compact Brain for Self-driving cars.
That, too, included Nvidia chips. The introduction of Nvidia product is a landmark moment for deep learning,
At CES, Nvidia showed that its software can detect objects such as cars, people, bicycles and signs, even when they are hidden partly.
At a press event Sunday, Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia CEO, said the devices will provide ore computing horsepower inside a car than anything you have today. e
may not be the seat of language comprehension, as has been scientific dogma for the past 140 years.
even off the back of a truck; it doesn require electricity or a sophisticated lab or an experienced technician, added Robert Garry, a virologist at Tulane University in New orleans,
Ayres added that having four test cells means that the company is able to work on several projects in parallel. lready we are placed to commence work work on the high-efficiency auxiliary power unit for use on buses and heavy-duty vehicles next week,
Meanwhile, Dearman zero-emission transport refrigeration system is extended currently in on-vehicle testing at MIRA, and will be commencing commercial on-road trials later this year.
and work on customising the transport refrigeration system for different vehicle types. Dearman is one of a number of small technology firms working with the Proving Factory,
French taxi drivers were protesting on Thursday at vehicles operated by drivers working for the Californian business,
though, pay nothing, using their own cars and just paying a proportion of their takings to the company for the rides they pick up.
In this brave new world, untapped capacity such as idle cars and rooms is made available for hire, increases efficiency and lowers the price of those goods and services.
On the other side of the Atlantic, a more modest, quieter challenger plans to take on the US electric car giant.
Last month, Mercedes-benz also entered the battery market for home and business use. Eco-entrepreneur Dale Vince, chair of the renewable energy firm Ecotricity,
But researchers from Portsmouth University have found their structure is so biologically strong it could be copied to make cars, boats and planes.
and used in high-performance engineering applications such as Formula 1 racing cars, the hulls of boats and aircraft structures.
e have designed a Maserati, but what most people will want is a good Toyota, Mr Mcloughlin said. he MPL was designed to be sophisticated as as we could make it,
so you could really push the state of the art. But ultimately, for commercialising it, it needs to be a lower-cost design. he lab has been awarded US$120 million by a programme run by the Pentagon Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to help wounded warriors,
if a person driving a car is drunk in fact. The program though started as early as 2008,
A video posted on Youtube last Thursday displayed the technology via a test vehicle equipped with mock-up DADSS,
The technology functions in a way that it causes the cars to shut down if it finds that the drivers exceed the permissible blood alcohol levels.
which could run LED LIGHTS and even drive a miniature car! Sahin informed that his system could be hundreds times cheaper to build per unit area than solar tapping,
the electrodes are suspensions of small particles carried by a liquid and pumped through different compartments of the battery.
#Hyundai becomes first with Android Auto LOS ANGELES --Whether it's hunting for directions or tracking down trivia answers,
Hyundai thinks it has found the most seamless way yet to let drivers integrate their smartphones seamlessly into their cars.
Hyundai says it is the first automaker to launch Android Auto in a production car,
a service that will go initially into its new Sonata sedan. All that's needed to get it is a free software flash at a dealership.
the car's touchscreen, steering wheel controls or voice.""Android Auto aligns with Hyundai's core interior design principles of safety,
intuitiveness and simplicity,"said Dave Zuchowski, CEO of Hyundai Motor America, in a statement.""We launched this highly anticipated feature on our best-selling Sonata,
adding to our promise of value.""USA TODAY was allowed to be among the first in the automotive media to test the system.
but it was duplicative of a key function that the car was already able to perform through its own navigation system.
#New car tech could stop drunken drivers If you're drunk, your car may soon be able to stop you from driving.
A new generation of technology is taking shape around systems that prevent cars from operating
if the driver is drunk. Researchers say the new technology is so promising that they compare it to the advent of the seat belt in terms of its potential."
or another designated surface in the car. Alcohol levels would be measured under the skin's surface on a touchpad with an infrared light scanner.
or wait around in order to start their car. The new technology draws support from a number of driving safety advocates, including Mothers Against Drunk Driving."
"This car is going to be the cure, "says Colleen Sheehey-Church, MADD's president who lost her own son to a drunken driver."
an organization representing automakers nationwide.""We have our sights set on inventing a world without drunk driving,
The technology is scheduled to be car-ready in the next five to eight years, according to Zaouk.
It's yet to be seen how much it could add to the price of a new car,
As of now, experts don't envision the system as required equipment in all new cars. Rather
which will be placed in the car. The sensors will act as a tracking system to measure the ratio of carbon dioxide molecules to ethanol molecules produced by the driver.
If the ratio hits a certain threshold of ethanol to carbon, the car won't start.
If the levels register as 0. 08%or more, the car won't start. The machine will only be setup to analyze ethanol levels,
mimicking a vehicle start button. Manufacturers are also considering ways for the car to detect
when someone else other than the driver attempts to start the car, such as creating a touch-ID system programmed to the driver's fingerprints on the touchpad.
Engineers have proposed also a circuit method, forcing the driver to press the button while sitting in the driver's seat."
"We are in the process of taking all of those larger prototypes and making them smaller, making them work in a vehicle environment,
"Zaouk says.""It has to be reliable day in and day out for the life of the vehicle.""These new systems could take the place of current ignition interlock systems,
often ordered by courts after drunken-driving convictions. These systems require drivers to blow air into a device plugged into the car's ignition, measuring alcohol levels in a similar fashion as a breathalyzer.
All states have adopted interlock laws, but vary in mandates and usage. For instance, 24 states, including New york,
and parking space-sensing cars For fans of automated autos that don need drivers, don like alcohol,
On Thursday, the federal government National Highway Traffic safety Administration showed a prototype vehicle with alcohol-detection technology.
One is a breathalyzer on the steering wheel that reads the driver breath and determines if the blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) level is over 0. 08 percent,
The other is infrared an scanner on the vehicle start button that detects the BAC below the skin of the driver finger.
which already carries huge clout in the marketplace for its vehicle safety ratings. The systems, in development with major auto makers, are at least five years away from market availability
and are projected to cost $400 as an optional safety add-on. The American Beverage Institute, an industry organization
BMW demonstrated this week at the Telematics Automotive conference near Detroit a differentiator that could save us time.
youe apparently lost that trademark) that can show on the car navigation system the nearby empty parking spaces and their conditions,
when parked cars will leave, which the company said is about 80 percent accurate. Other automakers are also in talks to license the tech.
Of course, many such cars in a neighborhood could mean a sudden convergence on an empty space reminiscent of the last, desperate players in a game of musical chairs.
And, for those of you who would like to evolve past the days when humans drove vehicles,
Google has agreed to acknowledge accidents involving the testing of its driverless cars. The new transparency was announced at the end of the week
#Nvidia's Tegra X1 Powers Smart cars At the Consumer electronics Show (CES) last week, Nvidia released demos of two computing platforms, Drive CX and Drive PX, for cars.
Nvidia Drive PX is for the actual driving side of the smart car equation, while Drive CX deals with digital systems on the dashboard and elsewhere in the vehicle.
Drive PX is an uto-pilotsystem, which aids in assisted parking and auto-valet feature.
and provide improved accuracy in the autopilot function of the car. Nvidia also released a recording of a demo drive of a car with Drive PX that was able to find a space in a parking garage traveling at a speed of 8 kmph.
Drive PX can also differentiate between vehicles and can also identify an ambulance from a van.
The famous graphics card manufacturer believes that this sort of situational awareness will help prevent accidents. Meanwhile Drive CX has been described as the digital cockpit computer,
and it will be the lifeline of a car infotainment system. It will facilitate digital instrument clusters
navigation, in-car entertainment and also monitor the driver. Using surround vision, it will provide the drivers a 360 degree view of the car in real time.
The digital smart mirrors will then be devoid of problems like blind spots. Drive CX will also be the lifeline of a car infotainment system.
It will be able to power four full-HD screens simultaneously or even two 4k screens.
Drive CX will also be able to recognize speech and faces of it users. Nvidia senior manager for CUDA Libraries and Algorithms Jonathan Cohen, said,
#Gogoro's Electric scooter Has Swappable Batteries Taiwanese company, Gogoro has come up with a smart electric scooter that runs on swappable electric batteries.
The new scooter is a state of the art vehicle as well as environment friendly, and was unveiled at the International Consumer electronics Show (CES) 2015.
The best quality about Gogoro electric scooter is that, it doesn need to be plugged into an electric source
in order to be charged, like with most electric devices. Instead, this electric scooter functions on batteries, which can easily be changed
when they are drained of power. The scooter was revealed first in San fransisco by Horace Luke CEO of Gogoro.
Luke is respected widely as a designer, and has worked with HTC, Microsoft, Nike, etc. Horace said,
The Gogoro electric scooter HAS LED headlights and taillights, which are programmable. It also has Bluetooth connection.
which a user can change settings on the scooter. Like every modern machine the key is wireless.
The scooter can cover about 60 miles on one battery with a Panasonic cell. The Gogoro electric scooter can reach 50 km h in 4. 2 seconds.
The top speed is 100 km h, which can be compared to the popular Vespa scooter. The new Gogoro electric scooter is powered by the Gogoro G1 motor mounted on the Gogoro Aeroframe.
The scooter features 30 onboard sensors, applications for Android and ios, cloud connectivity. The Gogoro electric scooter does need not to be plugged in for charging it.
Instead, when the power runs low, the user can visit special stores that will be placed strategically around the city.
Gogoro calls these spots Gostations, where the drivers can change the old battery with a new one, in just a few moments.
The batteries include 25 sensors a NFC technology, and a 256-bit security. Gogoro designed the battery in collaboration with Panasonic
They believe that they will revolutionize the world of electric vehicles e
#Nvidia Unveils Tegrax1 Soc Drive CX And Drive PX Nvidia has unveiled a chip that can pump out the quality of a high gaming console on your smartphones.
Additionally, the famous graphics card manufacturer also released demos of two computing platforms, Drive CX and Drive PX, for cars.
Nvidia believes that the first beneficiaries of the Soc will be cars. The Nvidia Drive CX is based on a single Tegra X1 platform
and it will be the lifeline of a car infotainment system. It will also be able to power four full-HD screens simultaneously or even two 4k screens.
and provide improved accuracy in the autopilot function of the car. Nvidia also released a recording of a demo drive of a car with Drive PX that was able to find a space in a parking garage traveling at a speed of 8 km h.
With these two platforms Nvidia hopes to revolutionize the dashboard and give a boost to the concept of driverless cars s
which ranged from side-scrolling shooters to boxing to 3d car racing. On some games such as Space Invaders, Pong and Breakout, the algorithm significantly outperformed humans,
vehicles known as CICADAS. These micro-drones, which can be deployed from military aircraft at altitudes close to 50,000 feet
Imagine 30 micro aerial vehicles launched all at once to carry out strikes on enemy territory. And, in fact, there a growing literature about so-called obotic swarmswhich are essentially drones
What makes micro aerial vehicles such as the CICADA so attractive of course, is that theye cheap to make
#After Celgene Deal, Juno Revs Armored CAR For Ovarian Cancer Trial Juno Therapeutics has built remarkable momentumncluding last week much-dissected $1 billion deal with Celgenepon
which some call rmored CARS. he basic idea behind T cell immunotherapy is to use a patient own immune cells as the medicine.
CAR stands for chimeric antigen receptor, which is the piece of the T cell modified to zero in on proteins on the surface of cancer cells.
or September he will begin treating ovarian cancer patients with armored CAR-T cells, engineered to send out a chemical signal that recruits the patientsnon-engineered T cells to come join the attack. ee going full force forward,
although Brentjens cautions not to expect the same results that CAR-T cells have shown so far in leukemia and lymphomaemission rates well above 50 percent.
CAR-T cells from the University of Pennsylvania appeared to be safe. But the university, which has an exclusive partnership with Novartis (NYSE:
And Juno partner, Seattle Children Hospital, has started just a Phase 1 CAR-T trial for children with neuroblastoma,
the armored CAR-T cells become a icro-pharmacy. eeping tight control of that secretion is important.
In an earlier CAR-T trial at Sloan Kettering, to treat non-Hodgkin lymphoma, two patients suffered a cytokine storm
Similar to the parts of an engine interacting smoothly to run a car, the Intel-created software user interface enables existing and new technologies to efficiently work with each other.
Monitors, projectors, non-digital car radios and TVS will be excluded from the pact in the EU. The full terms of the agreement will be circulated at a WTO General council meeting on 28 july.
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