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 invention could pave the way for the development of'flying submarines'-vehicles that can seamlessly travel through air and water
The birds are one of nature's most adept hybrid vehicles and use similar flapping motions to the robots to propel themselves through air as well as water.'
'What is really exciting about this research is that our analysis of flapping-wing locomotion is limited not to insect-scaled vehicles,
because oxygen needed for engine combustion would be taken from air passing through a vehicle, instead of from a tank on board,
would work together to propel the vehicle at speeds of 3, 425mph (5, 500km/h). Two turbo jets would allow the aircraft to climb vertically at takeoff,
the number of an approaching bus and any empty seats on it. The system, being tested by 1,
Motorcycle headgear absorbs energy from a crash to protect your brain as well as your skull Experts have created a helmet with built-in suspension to protect your brain as well as your skull.
While most ordinary motorcycle and cycle helmets attempt to protect the skull from damage, the brain is still susceptible to injuries from impacts.
This means it could be used to improve safety for motorcyclists and traditional cyclists. An array of 27 dampers work in unison to isolate impact energy from the brain.
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
Long island Compost also plans to convert the biogas to renewable natural gas that will be used to fuel its trucks on-site, reducing diesel consumption by 200,000 gallons annually.
This will enable the gas to be used to fuel compressed natural gas vehicles in other areas. The project is part of the Cleaner, Greener Communities program, a statewide initiative encouraging communities to incorporate sustainability goals and principles into local plans and projects.
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,
and trucks mostly built of steel. While various grades of steel have been developed over the past 50 years,
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.
The last few days have seen new transfers of Russian tanks, armoured vehicles, heavy artillery and rocket equipment over the border to the separatists,
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.
This is one of the main reasons why there are few large electric vehicles the researchers said. Gan-based power electronics, on the other hand, could boost power output for electric cars,
while making them more energy-efficient and lighter and, therefore, cheaper and capable of driving longer distances v
suggests a similar problem could befall those riding in autonomous-driving cars. According to the study authors Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle
and a lack of control over the direction of motion tend to be elevated in self-driving vehicles.
while the vehicle is in motion, which is said to help minimize motion sickness. Whichever automaker becomes the first to market a fully autonomous vehicle might take heed to place one important item on the standard equipment list a barf bag
The system won protect people, vehicles or buildings from direct hits by bombs, guns or shrapnel,
It also doesn cover an entire vehicle or area like an overturned cereal bowl, it just gets pointed in one direction.
It could cut down on delivery trucks, for instance, and change our expectations and interactions with companies. But the most exciting and important application of drone delivery would be in health care.
#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,
live video feeds and push notifications. Lyfelens uses dual-facing, wide-angle cameras to capture crisp 1080p resolution footage that allows for maximum visibility inside
and outside a user vehicle to easily track and monitor a number of incidents. Lyfelens monitors trigger eventsxcessive speed, abrupt movements such as hard braking or collisions
Motion and sound detection sensors also monitor a user vehicle for unsafe or suspicious activity,
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,
Outside of the vehicle, Lyfelens users can access real-time data, footage and push notifications by participation in a monthly subscription plan.
In addition to monitoring for incidents in and around the vehicle, Lyfelens features built-in GPS that provide access to the speed and location of the vehicle, mileage tracking and historical trip data,
when the user is in the vehicle, but the user will not have instant push notifications of vehicle activity,
the WIFI hotspot or automatic cloud storage of video/images (these would then only be stored on the device memory for the user to extract later).
and subscribers with multiple cars/Lyfelens devices will be given discounted subscription rates for more than one device e
and convoy vehicles from enemy radar r
#Facebook's first satellite will beam Internet to rural Africa starting in 2016 With the exception of a select few locations,
When deploying a AUVS (autonomous underwater vehicles), much of engineer time is spent writing scripts or low-level commands in order to direct a robot to carry out a plan of mission.
Principal developer Brian Williams stated that hese vehicles might arrange their own missions, and adapt, execute,
with the company since revealing the vehicle cleared for use had already become obsolete. Things are now back on track with the FAA giving Amazon the green light to put its current models to the test.
Starting out as a food truck, it went on to become an app, and on Tuesday it became a published"author."
It's as if every time you push on the brake pedal in your car, you burn a little bit of gas."
We have seen the development of a similar vehicle intended to deliver tpa, which involved loading the drug into nanoparticles to improve the speed at
The three-mirrored device is the size of a small car, tipping the scales at over 3 tons (2. 7 tonnes).
The versatile technology will allow the crew of an armored vehicle to see through the metal confines of their war machine,
allowing for unprecedented levels of combat awareness for the crews of combat vehicles. Maintaining a high level of situational awareness from the confines of a tank can't be an easy task.
uses a touchscreen and helmet-mounted interface to visualize data collected from a host of sensors on the hull of the vehicle,
and allow for the plotting of efficient vehicle and UAV routes. BAE states that the system will be highly versatile and adaptable to a wide range of military assets.
A demo unit has been installed on a CV90 tracked vehicle, for display at the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition in London this week
#Self-driving truck hits the highway in world first Daimler Trucks'has shifted gears in its ongoing effort to develop autonomous vehicles.
Daimler's Highway Pilot system first debuted on the open road last year aboard the Mercedes-benz Future Truck 2025 a concept vehicle intended to demonstrate what a future of autonomous trucking might look like.
Then earlier this year another of the company's concept vehicles, the Freightliner Inspiration, received official licensing to roam the public highways in the state of Nevada.
and tested in something other than a concept vehicle for the first time. Onboard the modified Mercedes-benz Actros was Daimler executive Dr Wolfgang Bernhard and Winfried Kretschmann, Minister-President of the state of Baden-Württemberg,
The system uses a short-range radar that assess the vehicle's surroundings up to 230 ft (70 m) away in a forward-facing 130-degree arc,
and if they don't respond in time the truck is brought to a stop. To conduct this demonstration
allowing the truck to be driven semi-autonomously on highways at speeds of up to 80 km h (50 mph).
While widespread adoption of autonomous trucks still appears some way off, the opportunity to test out the technology in real-world scenarios will help speed up the process."
he said. ecause they have a DC bus in their genset, you could connect PV arrays and batteries on the DC bus. That, in turn,
ould allow you to eliminate all those inverters, and just use the inverter that comes with the Innovus generator,
Hoffman noted that this capability to link multiple DC generation sources into a single Innovus DC bus could lend an additional level of simplification to microgrid operators seeking the flexibility to grow with the times.
Florio proposal calls for policies that allow rooftop solar energy storage, plug-in vehicles energy efficiency, demand response,
#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,
Although there are no plans at present for jointly developing a passenger vehicle, according to BMW, one of the sources quoted by Reuters said exploratory talks between senior managers may be revived at a later stage.
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,
a pollutant gas commonly found in vehicle exhaust that also results from fossil fuel combustion. Prolonged exposure to nitrogen dioxide can be dangerous to human health,
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.
a system developed by Boeing to be mounted on top of U s army vehicles. Both weapons forgo conventional bullets for"directed energy"a focused beam of energy that heats up
The first prototype of the Compact Laser weapons System is 40 percent lighter than the vehicle-mounted HEL MD system,
it's fixed to the top of a vehicle, so it can only go where the vehicle goes.
In the recent test in California, the smaller laser shot down a drone, but Boeing's goal is to develop a compact laser that can also shoot down incoming explosives, such as mortars,
Rather than melting drones in midair like Boeing's new Compact Laser weapons System, AUDS shoots the flying vehicles with something that doesn't destroy them radio waves.
and thermal imaging software to keep the flying vehicle in its sight. Once the drone gets close enough to the anti-drone system,
Futuristic Flying vehicles Could Vanish After Deliveries Picture this: A tiny, floating device delivers a package into your arms,
Creating vanishing delivery vehicles is the next order of business for DARPA, which recently announced a new program called ICARUS short for Inbound, Controlled, Air-Releasable,
which calls for the"design and prototyping of vanishing air delivery vehicles capable of precise, gentle drops of small payloads."
"The flying vehicles could be used to deliver materials such as food, water and vaccines to people living in remote parts of the world,
either return to collect the vehicles they used to drop the supplies or leave the vehicles on the ground to decompose.
The option to just drop something out of a plane and then totally forget about it hasn't existed, according to DARPA.
Just don't expect these vanishing vehicles to replace your local mail delivery person or even high-tech delivery drones.
#Real-life Sonic'Tractor Beam'Can Levitate Objects Using Sound waves It may seem straight out of"Star trek,
Scientists have created a sonic"tractor beam"that can pull, push and pirouette objects that levitate in thin air.
The sonic tractor beam relies on a precisely timed sequence of sound waves that create a region of low pressure that traps tiny objects that can then be manipulated solely by sound waves,
And in 2014, researchers at the University of Dundee in Scotland showed that acoustic holograms that act like a tractor beam could theoretically suck in objects."
But figuring out the exact pattern of sound waves to create this tractor force is difficult,
The team demonstrated their tractor beam using tiny balls of polystyrene the same material used in packing peanuts.
and vehicles that can auto-dim when it bright out, but also store power as theye recharged by the sun. And as an extension of that idea,
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
They are planned also for use in the next Mars rover vehicle.""But if they become easier and cheaper to make,
Nanoparticles wrapped inside human platelet membranes serve as new vehicles for targeted drug delivery The research,
"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,
but you'd also like to take advantage of anything that could aid in cooling your vehicle during hot days.
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.
and high-power electronics, such as wearable devices, portable power supplies and hybrid and electric vehicles.""Ultimately the goal of this research is to find ways to power current and future technology with efficiency
Lightweight and high-power density capacitors are of particular interest for the development of hybrid and electric vehicles.
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,
#On the road to ANG vehicles: Berkeley Lab researchers find a better way to store natural gas as a transportation fuel Researchers with the U s. Department of energy (DOE)' s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a variety
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."
While compressed natural gas-fueled vehicles are already on the road, the widespread use of natural gas as a transportation fuel has been hampered by cumbersome and expensive onboard gas storage tanks and the cost of dispensing compressed natural gas to vehicles.
The storage issue is especially keen for light-duty vehicles such as cars, in which the space available for onboard fuel storage is limited.
ANG has the potential to store high densities of methane within a porous material at ambient temperature and moderate pressures
when methane is delivered to accelerate the vehicle.""Crystallites that experience higher external pressures will have a greater free energy change associated with the phase transition
Long says that it should be possible to design MOF adsorbents of methane with even stronger gas binding sites and higher energy phase transitions for next generation ANG vehicles.
#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.
It also may be possible to create an active camouflage on the exterior of vehicles that would change color to better match the surrounding environment.
#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.
"Considering the massive use of vehicles, a small gain in efficiency has a big impact in saving energy and reducing carbon emissions annually."
"The surfaces of a piston and cylinder in a car engine may look perfectly smooth to the naked eye,
there's a lot of opportunity to improve fuel economy in vehicles, but the scientific understanding of how all the additives work is still in development.
which was used to power light-emitting diodes, a liquid crystal display and a vehicle's keyless entry remote. The cloth worked for more than 12,000 cycles.
#Putting batteries on stage spotlights performance at the nanoscale Used in everything from electric vehicles to laptop computers,
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
unless they are put into some kind of delivery vehicle. To find a way to deliver sirnas for curbing FL2,
as electrical vehicles and personal electronic devices become more ubiquitous in our daily lives, it is becoming increasingly necessary to have more efficient systems for localized electrical power generation and effective cooling mechanisms.
This first-ever ultra-fast propulsion and super-manoeuvrability demonstrated in underwater vehicles is unprecedented; and is the work of researchers and an engineer from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART.
"and Nature("Robot zips away like an octopus")and validates the physics of shape change (that forms the basis of jet propulsion of cephalopods) to give additional thrust to underwater vehicles.
while creating minimum turbulence an important feature in underwater research/survey vehicles. The skeleton within the robot keeps the final shape streamlined,
Currently, no autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) can achieve this ultra-fast performance except torpedoes which require a lot of fuel.
With further R&d, future AUVS and other marine vehicles can adopt this mechanism to help it evade threats or track something fast stealthily underwater without the need for much energy.
and implementing the technology on marine vehicles s
#Engineers invent two-dimensional liquid (Nanowerk News) Where water and oil meet, a two-dimensional world exists.
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".
the landscape passes by faster and faster, reaching a maximum at an angle of 90 degrees to the path of the vehicle.
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,
They are planned also for use in the next Mars rover vehicle.""But if they become easier and cheaper to make,
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.
Increased demand for hydrogen as a clean fuel for vehicles and other applications is anticipated, but it is produced currently from fossil fuel.
"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
and optimized in such macroscopic machines, giving us highly efficient engines. For microscopic machines, however, developing a clutch
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,
a pollutant gas commonly found in vehicle exhaust that also results from fossil fuel combustion. Prolonged exposure to nitrogen dioxide can be dangerous to human health,
ride steel subway cars over steel rails to our offices in steel-framed building. Steel screws hold together broken bones,
and trucks mostly built of steel. While various grades of steel have been developed over the past 50 years,
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.
will be used on Rocket Labs Electron orbital launch vehicle, which will get its first test spin later this year.
The Rutherford engine will be the main propulsion source for Rocket Labs Electron vehicle which the company hopes to use as a low-cost method for launching satellites and other small payloads of up to 220 pounds into space.
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