these pseudo-platelets can circulate for up to 30 hours as compared to approximately six hours for the nanoscale vehicles without the coating.
With the anticipated increase in batteries needed for electric vehicles and electronics, a cheaper and sustainable source to replace graphite is needed.
It is expected that nearly 900,000 tons of natural raw graphite would be needed for anode fabrication for nearly six million electric vehicle forecast to be built by 2020.
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.
cluttered spaces key step in making these small autonomous flying vehicles practical. An emerging class of very small flying drones has taken off in public
including other kinds of robots, vehicles, and even furniture and clothing, he says a
#Google Bids to Make its Sideshows into Main Attractions Google founders Larry page and Sergey Brin seem determined to prove they gave the world more than a great advertising business.
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,
Mahaffey was quick to point out that this hack required"initial physical access to the car."
While the researcher commends Tesla for how well it separated its massive infotainment system from the rest of the car's controls at a top level,
Mahaffey and his partner in crime (for good) were able to perform any action possible from the car's touchscreen or Tesla's accompanying smartphone app.
On one occasion, the security guru successfully turned the car off while it was driving."
"At low speeds, the car applies the parking brake and it immediately comes to a stop,
"At speeds above about 5 miles per hour, the Model S gracefully shuts off its engineust like shifting a gasoline car into neutralhile still providing the driver full control over steering
and brakes so they can safely bring the car to a stop.""Good to know!
especially when cars are only to become more connected? For starters, Mahaffey tells auto makers to start putting their cars'critical systems into closed networks that are isolated from the infotainment systems or information clusters.
This is the third reported hack on connected cars in the last two weeks alone. First, security experts assumed direct, remote control of a new Jeep cherokee,
causing parent company Fiat Chrysler to recall 1. 4 million vehicles. And it's only worse press for the firm from there.
Short after, another white hat hacker revealed a flaw in Onstar's connected system that left any General motors car equipped with the service wide open to remote door unlocks and ignition starts.
In short, for who knows how long, any Onstar-equipped GM car could be jacked hands Free of course,
#Graphene's thermoelectric properties to help cars recover lost thermal energy Charging bateries or running air conditioning could be assisted by energy from fuel normally wasted as heat emissions One of the less well-known properties of graphene could enable the carbonaceous wonder-material to help combustion engine vehicles to make better use of the energy from their fuel by converting waste heat into electricity
to charge the batteries or power onboard systems, according to the University of Manchester. Graphene-doped strontium titanium oxide has the ability to generate electricity from relatively small amounts of heat
which could improve the fuel economy of vehicles o
#Tilted nanomagnets open door for advances in computing The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
which creates a bulky system. n 2011 Aeristech was one of 14 uk companies funded by Innovate UK to carry out feasibility studies into the development of disruptive low-carbon vehicle technology.
#Tractor beam lifts and moves small objects Researchers have built a working tractor beam that uses high-amplitude sound waves to generate an acoustic hologram that can pick up
The tractor beam is said to work by surrounding the object with high-intensity sound and this creates a force field that keeps the objects in place.
The team has shown that three different shapes of acoustic force fields work as tractor beams. The first is an acoustic force field that resembles a pair or tweezers.
#Tractor beam lifts and moves small objects Researchers have built a working tractor beam that uses high-amplitude sound waves to generate an acoustic hologram that can pick up
The tractor beam is said to work by surrounding the object with high-intensity sound and this creates a force field that keeps the objects in place.
The team has shown that three different shapes of acoustic force fields work as tractor beams. The first is an acoustic force field that resembles a pair or tweezers.
routes and vehicles to be monitored centrally, controlled and systematised. Autonomous intersection management Once computers are in full control of our cars,
do need we even traffic lights at intersections? That the idea behind AIM autonomous intersection management at the artificial intelligence laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin.
speeding up or slowing down to ensure theye in the right place at the right time and not smashing into another car.
people will also get used to the idea of cars going through the intersections. That said, he stressed that driving is now
and our system will allow the cars to make a much more constant speed, he says,
even with all the cars going through without stopping, it going to be a lot safer than it is today. re we there yet?
Computers aren driving our cars yet and won be for some time, but there are some connected car projects that already claim to be easing the flow of traffic.
It also gathers data from telematics units installed in fleet vehicles as well as in-dash systems
As cars become more connected whether it through satnav or simply the smartphones in our pockets better data in means we get better data out on the road.
not only GPS from cars and timings from traffic lights, but also air quality sensor data and images from cameras. n its own, each is of low value,
or send a text message to a car, or alert satnavs in the car to quietly change the routing
so theye now going somewhere else. It may seem like a small change, but consider the shift that happened in digital signs.
One way self-driving vehicles may be introduced is latooning with a lead car in control of a train or group of followers, handy for giving lorry drivers a break.
or delayed to treat the platoon as a single long vehicle, said Alan Stevens, chief scientist and research director at transport firm TRL. ither the platoon could signal that it cleared the intersection
giving priority to one vehicle makes things slightly worse for all others. So, there little point in giving one or two connected private passenger vehicles special priority.
There are reasons to give some cars priority, and that being trialled by Newcastle. There, traffic lights are alkingto motorists,
sending messages to a device in car about obstacles or delays ahead, as well as helping them adjust their speeds to hit lights
when theye green. he system might advise a driver that if they travel at 24 miles an hour they will hit the next four sets of traffic lights on green,
then vehicles on key roads might be given priority in order to keep the traffic flowing. The system also gives priority to non-emergency vehicles,
such as those transporting people between hospitals, cutting NHS fuel costs and improving patient care. So far, 20 traffic lights are using the system in Newcastle city centre.
saysstevens. imple hacking to clone a bus asking for priority is one level of threat relatively easy
roads aren used only by cars. What about the bicycles, scooters and pedestrians hoping to cross the street?
They have smartphones, so there otential to do something with that, said Tomtom Cohn. think it be great as a pedestrian and a cyclist if
but by sending messages to drivers in cars, giving them useful information to react to
#Tesla announces low-cost solar batteries The electric car company Tesla has announced its entry into the energy market, unveiling a suite of low-cost solar batteries for homes, businesses and utilities,
The batteries will initially be manufactured at the electric car company factory in California, but will move production to its planned igafactoryin Nevada
such as people walking by outside or a lorry going past. The five cofounders of Cocoon have used smartphones
tractor beam becomes a reality A sonic tractor beam that can grab tiny objects and move them around has been created by scientists in Spain.
The sonic tractor beam uses a 3d hologram with the shape of a cage or bottle in
#Brit boffins build'tractor beam'out of sound Researchers from Spain and The british city of Bristol have found a way to move objects using sound.
twisters or bottles emerge as the optimum mechanisms for tractor beams or containerless transportation. Here's how Bristol University explains one goes about making acoustic pincers:
The tractor beam works by surrounding the object with high-intensity sound and this creates a force field that keeps the objects in place.
Massachusetts institute of technology, the brain trust from which CEI was hatched believes using Gan in data servers, electric vehicle inverters
may soon be found in supercapacitors used in electromagnetic propulsion, electric vehicles, defibrillators and other instant quick-discharge devices.
Healthcare research is also moving beyond the lab. Motor vehicle manufacturer Ford is working alongside other organisations to investigate how connected devices can help people monitor
Vodafone Italia's CEO Aldo Bisio has proposed a'newco'should be created, a private-public vehicle in
The engineered cells contain an antibody-like protein known as a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) which is designed to bind to a protein called CD19 found on the surface of B cells including the cancerous B cells that characterize several types of leukemia.
A signaling domain built into the CAR promotes rapid multiplication of the hunter cells building an army of tumor-killing cells that tests reveal can grow to more than 10000 new cells for each single engineered cell patients receive.
Compartments within a cell are much like different parts of a car explains Vasanth Ramamurthy Phd first author of the study.
in order to power the car's engine proteins need to be in a specific compartment to properly exercise their functions.
It will help us make parts that are stronger lighter and function better for more energy-efficient transportation and energy production applications such as cars and wind turbines.
Seniors living in highly automobile dependent suburbs who lose their licenses can suffer a decreased quality of life as a result.
#Electric vehicle technology packs more punch in smaller package Using 3-D printing and novel semiconductors researchers at the Department of energy's Oak ridge National Laboratory have created a power inverter that could make electric vehicles lighter more powerful and more efficient.
At the core of this development is wide bandgap material made of silicon carbide with qualities superior to standard semiconductor materials.
Power inverters convert direct current into the alternating current that powers the vehicle. The Oak ridge inverter achieves much higher power density with a significant reduction in weight and volume.
which is the heart of an electric vehicle. Specific advantages of wide bandgap devices include: higher inherent reliability;
Building on the success of this prototype researchers are working on an inverter with an even greater percentage of 3-D printed parts that's half the size of inverters in commercially available vehicles.
Figuratively speaking these are genes that are like motor racing cars with a running engine waiting at the start of a race.
The new technology is designed for conventional lithium-ion batteries now used in billions of cellphones laptops and other electronic devices as well as a growing number of cars and airplanes.
But as the electric vehicle market expands and we start to replace onboard electronics on airplanes this will become a much larger problem Zhuo said.
Some electric cars today are equipped with thousands of lithium-ion battery cells. If one battery explodes the whole pack can potentially explode.
Expected to be the next big thing in battery technology this breakthrough has a wide-ranging impact on many industries especially for electric vehicles
This next generation of lithium-ion batteries will enable electric vehicles to charge 20 times faster than the current technology.
With it electric vehicles will also be able to do away with frequent battery replacements. The new battery will be able to endure more than 10000 charging cycles--20 times more than the current 500 cycles of today's batteries.
Ideally the charge time for batteries in electric vehicles should be less than 15 minutes which Prof Chen's nanostructured anode has proven to do.
and is currently developing new types of batteries for electric vehicle applications at the Energy Research Institute at NTU (ERI@N). Commercialisation of technologymoving forward Prof Chen's research team will be applying for a Proof-of-Concept
With our nanotechnology electric cars would be able to increase their range dramatically with just five minutes of charging
which is on par with the time needed to pump petrol for current cars added Prof Chen.
It is our vision for the future that such plants in the urban area are served by tank vehicles
In high-performance machines such as vehicle engines which are designed to run at high rotational speeds energy loss can be reduced by a few percentage points In high-torque electric motors such as those used to operate pumps the reduction in energy loss can be as high as twentyfive
and car factories where they help engineers to determine the characteristics of steel materials analyze their chemical composition
#Miniature camera may lead to fewer accidents Measuring only a few cubic millimeters a new type of camera module might soon be integrated into future driver assistance systems to help car drivers facing
The little gadget can be built into the vehicle without taking up space. The way it works is particularly reliable thanks to its special encapsulation.
mounted on the dashboard, the miniature system could monitor the cabin of vehicles and send an alarm for microsleep.
Krystyn Van Vliet, Lead Investigator, SMART Biosystems and Micromechanics (Biosym) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG. The research entitled'Multivariate biophysical markers predictive of mesenchymal stromal cell multipotency'will be published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week.
NIST researchers demonstrated the range by scanning footprints in soil vegetation such as cactus (imaging individual spines) and complex mechanical devices such as a piston for a motorcycle.
and why stem-cell treatments now in clinical trials are not as effective as they could be says Krystyn Van Vliet an MIT associate professor of materials science and engineering
but many of the cells that you're putting in are not Van Vliet says.
but you also can't use fewer than these three Van Vliet says. We now have a triplet of characteristics that identifies populations of cells that are going to be multipotent
what is known already about stem cells Van Vliet says. Compared with cells that have committed already to their final fate immature cells have genetic material that moves around inside the nucleus producing more fluctuations of the nuclear cell membrane.
Creating more pure populations of such cells should lead to more effective stem-cell treatments for tissue injuries Van Vliet says.
Van Vliet and Poon also hope to begin a clinical trial of the osteogenic cells isolated in this study
"One can now think of using these films in automobile glass as an invisible deicer, and even in skyscrapers,"Tour said."
This thinness translates to weight savings on the vehicle. So the NRL-developed nanocrystalline spinel brings improvements in hardness window thickness and weight and cost.
Beyond the use for a harder spinel in armor windows there could be other potential Dod and civilian applications in better/stronger office windows smartphones and tablets screens military/civilian vehicles
"Tittel said smaller QEPAS device will be added this year to the mobile monitoring van currently carrying out a Rice university of Houston survey of pollutants in the city.
Every time the field flips, the polarity of the bars reverses, drawing the magnetized droplets in a new, predetermined direction, like slot cars on a track.
#Deriving Power Directly from Evaporation Eva, the first evaporation-powered car, rolls along, thanks to a moisture mill a turbine engine driven by water evaporating from wet paper strips lining its walls.
and a rotary engine that drives a miniature car. When evaporation energy is scaled up the researchers predict,
The researchers next built a small toy car, powering it with the Moisture Mill and were successful in getting the car to roll on its own,
powered only by evaporation. In the future, Sahin said, it may be possible to design engines that use the mechanical energy stored in spores to propel a full-sized vehicle.
Such an engine, if achieved, would require neither fuel to burn nor an electrical battery.
such as in electric vehicles. Another advantage of this approach, Chiang says, is that factories using the method can be scaled up by simply adding identical units.
The latest buzz in the information technology industry regards he Internet of thingsthe idea that vehicles, appliances, civil-engineering structures, manufacturing equipment,
or CAR, in blood-forming stem cells. Blood-forming stem cells are capable of turning into any type of blood cell,
and mutates too rapidly for T cells to fight against the virus. The researchers inserted a gene for a CAR into blood-forming stem cells in the lab. The CAR,
The CAR-modified blood stem cells were transplanted then into HIV-infected mice that had been engineered genetically with human immune systems.
The researchers found that the CAR-carrying blood stem cells successfully turned into functional T cells that could kill HIV-infected cells in the mice.
The findings strongly suggest that stem cell-based gene therapy with a CAR may be a feasible and effective treatment for chronic HIV infection in humans.
immunology and molecular genetics in the UCLA David Geffen School of medicine and a co-author of the study. ith the CAR approach,
Kitchen said the CAR approach is more flexible and potentially more effective because it could theoretically be employed in anyone.
one to get on the bus, subway or train and another at a kiosk to pay for their pass or put more funds on the card.
and they know what car he drives, they can see where the car has been in recent days and months.
Investigators can map crime history both by location and time to reveal trends. And if a radiation alarm goes off,
Car thefts are down 17%.%Robberies are down 16%.%The Foothill area of Los angeles actually went an entire day without serious crime last year,
and maybe even homes and electric vehicles. Sustainable Business reports the short stretch of bike path has produced already more power than anticipated.
The challenge was to develop a surface strong enough to withstand the weight of large vehicles such as buses
and trucks while at the same time capable of resisting dirt and skids. The engineers are now working on improving the glass layer to prevent it from shrinking when temperatures change.
They are such powerful connectors of people that they are literally replacing their need and desire for cars.
As Steve Pendleton pointed out in a New Statesman piece about Britain reaching peak cars: But young people aren't simply swapping cars for buses or bikes;
they are choosing to own and use other technology instead, such as smartphones and tablet computers. It's not merely that the two trade off economically;
while travelling by bus, train or as a passenger in a car, only 10 per cent of them said they did so
while driving a car. Now think about where mass transit works best--where young people, retirees and even families are able to simply abolish their use of cars.
Especially in the U s. nowhere else but cities is this even possible. As young people turn away from cars--a phenomenon so powerful that it has had the marketing departments of car companies running scared for years--they are left with no other option than mass transit,
and that means increased density, urbanism, walkability and everything else required to bring our way of life in line with planetary boundaries.
Millennials aren't just fleeing the automobile; they're also explicitly fleeing Mcmansions and the suburbs.
literally represents a wealth transfer from the old economy--cars, oil, long commutes--to a new one built on a desire to capitalize on virtual connectivity by recapitulating it in the real world.
who are making decisions every day to buy an ipad instead of a new car, or to move closer to work
have a two-car garage and enslave yourself to lawn care? Who's aspiring to that t
electric scooters and more Can this polystyrene pedal-powered plane break world records? Solar group to World bank:
especially big items like automobiles that are used only roughly 8 percent of the time. While it took Zipcar about six years to build up to 1, 000 cars in its network,
it the U k.-based Whipcar about six months to build up to the same number, she said.
That, in turn, causes people to think at least twice before a big-ticket purchase like a car that sits idle for 92 percent of the time.
they aren't just for big houses and cars anymore. Increasingly, Sarah Goodyear reports for The Atlantic cities, suburbs throughout the United states are investing in bicycle infrastructure.
and could be embedded in surfaces ranging from car dashboards to household floors to kitchen countertops.
and the inside surfaces of some new car models. Toyota announced in December that the 2013 Toyota Avalon Limited will be the first car to offer wireless charging with a Qi-powered console included under the dashboard.
Bas Fransen, chief marketing officer and head of business development for Convenientpower, a wireless power technology company,
Doug Short takes a look at the latest data (PDF), on vehicle miles traveled, from the U s. Department of transportation.
car ownership costs rising (high gas prices, insurance, etc.;states making it difficult to get a driver's license;
and technology lessening the need for a car. So is this a trend we can expect to continue?
but in the future you may see it on your TV or in your car. I called Bayer Monday at his office in Green Island, NY.
Chief scientist and cofounder Gavin Mcintyre just won a half a million dollar proposal to adopt this same platform for automobile interior trim parts and cushions.
Towards that goal, we've driven our Street view cars throughout the Tohoku region again over the past months.
and are greater than those of all cars, trucks, planes, ships, and trains worldwide.""The program is in testing right now,
#Huge spike in bus riders because of Wi-fi? Everyone is taking the curbside bus . Or at least 30%more of us are.
As you can see from the results of this recent study out of Depaul University:
1. The intercity bus was the sole major long-distance passenger transportation mode that grew appreciably in 2011.
Daily bus operations expanded by 7. 1, %a marked increase in the annual growth from previous years. 2. urbside operators, led by Boltbus
Some say that it new Wi-fi enabled busses that is luring people to leave cars behind
Others say it just that with cheaper busses and more intercity routes people are taking more trips, period.
is that the rock-bottom priced Chinatown express busses were never part of the Depaul study. What has contributed possibly to the spike in bus riders are new brands that have popped up that mimic the cheap and easy Chinatown busses.
Offering rates like New york to DC for $20 makes such busses highly attractive. So Megabus
Bolt Bus and Limoliner have jumped into the market offering cheap routes, Wi-fi, higher safety standards,
and an added bonus of fewer live chickens. Apparently they have succeeded in taking market share from the Chinatown busses.
So an interesting theory behind the rise is that there is no rise at all. Just a movement in the service, that went unrecognized by the study.
In other words, the Depaul data is consistent with total bus ridership actually staying constant, with the recognized curbside buses simply taking ridership share from unrecognized Chinatown operators.
In reality, I suspect that bus ridership is growing. Just not nearly as fast as the Depaul paper would have you believe.
from a truck going byr felt elsewhere. If the latter, the system will calculate a hypothetical epicenter for the earthquake, the original time of the event,
Although several options to store hydrogen as a fuel for cars have been investigated, a practical and affordable way to store
and distribute hydrogen is still the biggest hurdle to the wide deployment of green, CO2 EMISSION-free cars.
"The researchers say that the system could generate between 3 and 10 kw of power in trucks;
because Baidu Maps will be able to integrate Uber This is similar to Google maps Uber integration after Google Ventures invested in the car-calling app.
With Airbnb flourishing, the whole market is on the verge of being opened up from sharing what in your closet (Threadflip, Rent the Runway) to your car (Flightcar, Lyft.
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