#Luke Skywalker's prosthetic arm is REAL: Robotic limb allows patients to feel what it touches through a microchip in his brain Scientists working with Darpa have developed a robotic arm that can'feel'It allowed a 28-year-old paralysed man'feel'for the first time in a decade A tiny array of electrodes were implanted into the sensory part of his brain Force
sensors in the prosthesis send tiny electric signals to the electrodes A prosthetic arm that can not only restore movement
but also a person's sense of touch has been developed by the US military. The robotic arm has allowed already a 28-year-old paralysed man to feel someone touching his'hand'for the first time in more than a decade.
The technology mirrors that seen in the Star wars film The empire strikes back where Luke Skywalker is given a robotic prosthetic arm that restores his ability to feel.
But British experts said the idea of police using a acterial fingerprintto ID suspects shouldn be ruled out.
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
#US ARMY hopes to use Short circuit-style robots to rescue casualties from battlefields Wounded soldiers could soon be rescued from war zones
and dangerous situations by robotic medics under proposals put forward by a senior army doctor. The off-road robots,
The machines would help reduce the risk to unit medics who provide the front-line care to soldiers injured during battle.
Major general Steve Jones, commander of the Army Medical Department Centre and chief of the US ARMY Medical Corps
'We already use robots on the battlefield today to examine IEDS (improvised explosive devices) and to detonate them.'
or other soldiers, because they have gone in under fire to retrieve a casualty? We can use a robotics device for that.'
'The US ARMY said it could adapt its current battlefield robots by making them larger so they can rescue downed soldiers.
With caterpillar-style tracks and a head on top of a flexible neck, they look remarkably like Johnny Five-the malfunctioning mechanical star of the Short circuit films.
Major general Jones said they could also provide a vital'telemedicine'link between front-line units and experienced medical staff back at base or even at home in the US.
Drone aircraft could also be used to deliver antibiotics or blood to front-line units to keep them in the fight,
according to Major general Jones. He said:''So you don't have to evacuate the casualties, so the team can continue its mission.'
'He added that other technologies, such as sensors to monitor a solider's vital signs, may also find their way onto the battlefield
and will be worn by soldiers full time. The US ARMY is already developing sensors similar to a'Fitbit'could monitor their heart rate
and steps taken to help medics provide advice to keep them healthy while in a battle zone.
Major general Jones said:''Army Medical Research and Materiel Command is actually developing physiological sensors that soldiers can wear.'
'They can be wearing the sensors and we can just monitor them. And we can do that remotely.'
'This is just a step forward that will monitor other physiological parameters. do need they to push more water?
'There is a lot of information we can provide commanders that they can use to manage their soldiers.'
Major general Jones added:''If you see a casualty whose heart rate is way up, whose respiratory rate is way up,
The invention could pave the way for the development of'flying submarines'-vehicles that can seamlessly travel through air and water
Like the original flying version, the tiny drone has to be attached to a power source as it is too small to house a battery.
(and'doomsday'electromagnetic weapons) at bay It could be the ultimate armour against cyberwarfare. A Utah firm has revealed a new,
The material comes amid growing concern over the development of electromagnetic weapons that could knock out computers.
Controversial tech boss and presidential candidate John Mcafee recently warned a'doomsday'electronic weapon could wipe out 90%of Americans
-and warned that gun crime should not be the'single issue'that decided votes.''Our leaders are nearly all ill prepared for this near certain, not-too-distant event.'
'From Ocean's Eleven to Star trek, weapons that wipe out enemy electronics are a staple of science fiction films.
For years, scientists have been attempting to create such a weapon as part of Champ, or the Counter-electronics High-powered microwave Advanced Missile Project.
Now, the US Air force claims it has advanced the technology, and says it can deploy it using the stealthy Joint Air-to-surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (JASSM).
There are fears a well targeted attack could knock out multiple power stations.''This technology marks a new era in modern-day warfare,
'said Keith Coleman, CHAMP program manager for Boeing Phantom Works.''In the near future, this technology may be used to render an enemy's electronic
and data systems useless even before the first troops or aircraft arrive.''Mcafee says this is a huge issue being ignored.
''But it is much easier to disprove a cause (as we did with guns above) than it is to prove a cause.''
'But if it is then surely weighing the possible deaths of 90%of our citizens due to cyber warfare against gun violence
the weapons are alsmost ready for use. Once integrated into JASSM, Champ will be a'first day of war'standoff weapon it claims.
Because it can be launched by both bombers and fighters, Lockheed's Joint Air-to-surface Standoff Missile,
or JASSM, is an ideal platform for Champ.''The capability is real and the technology can be said available today
Major general Thomas Masiello, the Air force Research Laboratory.''That's an operational system already in our tactical air force'In 2012, aircraft manufacturer Boeing successfully tested the weapon on a one-hour flight during which it knocked out the computers of an entire military compound.
During Boeing's experiment, the missile flew low over the Utah Test and Training Range, discharging electromagnetic pulses on to seven targets,
permanently shutting down their electronics. Boeing said that the test was so successful even the camera recording it was disabled.
experts believe the missile is equipped with an electromagnetic pulse cannon. This uses a super-powerful microwave oven to generate a concentrated beam of energy
Boeing's CHAMP takes out enemy electronics with pulse The missile is equipped with an electromagnetic pulse cannon.
claims the technology marked'a new era in modern warfare'.'''In the near future, this technology may be used to render an enemy's electronic
with countries scrambling to build their own electromagnetic pulse weapons. Professor Trevor Taylor, Professorial Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, has said previously the Western world would be more vulnerable attack because of its increased reliance on electronics.'
Designers Charles Bombardier and Ray Mattison envisage the craft could be launched using a magnetic railgun system to catapult it into the sky at high speed.
349km/h) While scramjet engines are under development for drones and military planes, it could be years until they are used for consumer jets
because oxygen needed for engine combustion would be taken from air passing through a vehicle, instead of from a tank on board,
#A drug used to rid people of worms is a new weapon against malaria IVERMECTIN,
which was conducted in Thailand by Kevin Kobylinski of the United states Walter reed Army Institute of Research,
At longer range, it proposes Realsense as a way to give drones a local 3d map for object avoidance.
Perry and her investors are counting on ubeam technology to win the war. Wattup can transmit power only up to 15 feet
They also believe the unique water-repelling nature of the material could be used in paint applied to airplanes and satellites or as part of electromagnetic shields for such things as unmanned aerial vehicles.
and graduate student Gopinath Rajadinakaran teamed up with UK-based Oxford Nanopore technologies to show that the company's Minion nanopore sequencer can sequence genes faster,
called a Minion, works by feeding a single strand of DNA through a tiny pore.
No one had used yet a Minion to sequence copies of RNA, and though it was likely it could be done,
and then ran them through the Minion's nanopores. In this one experiment, they not only found 7,
"A lot of people said'The Minion will never work, '"Graveley says, "but we showed it works using the most complicated gene known."
since the Minion is both relatively inexpensive and highly portable so that it requires almost no lab space."
"Graveley will speak about the research at the Oxford Nanopore Minion Community Meeting at the New york Genome Center on Dec 3.
"Plus the fact that the Minion is a hand-held sequencer that you plug into a laptop is simply unbelievably cool
This enzyme, called Epha2, normally polices a gene responsible for tissue growth. But when Epha2 is mutated,
so the Salk team decided to look at genes that might police KRAS and p53 instead.
which sheds new light on the fight against oral cancer, is published today in the journal Stem Cell Reports.
scientists could deploy this knowledge to develop agents utilizing these mechanisms to fight disease. Two ways out of the chaos A group of researchers led by Bernd Reif
stealth bombs that slip past the brain's defenses to attack an incurable form of cancer.
The nanochains will tote bombs of chemotherapy medicine and glioblastoma stem cell inhibitors identified by Jeremy Rich,
However defective and amplified androgen signaling can trigger prostate cancer and its spread. For this reason, many available prostate cancer treatments are aimed at blocking androgen signaling.
whose work was supported by the U s. Air force.""It shows the capabilities of high-sensitivity photodetection and stable performance under bending conditions,
The current design relies on a series of impact shields known as Whipple bumpers or Whipple shields.
but there also plenty of emergent military and industrial value to be had, in any project of this type.
#More Russian tanks, equipment cross Ukraine border U s. official WASHINGTON (Reuters)- Russian tanks and heavy military equipment have crossed the Ukrainian border in the last few days in breach of a European
and weapons to support separatists in eastern Ukraine despite the Minsk ceasefire deal, a charge the Kremlin has denied.
The last few days have seen new transfers of Russian tanks, armoured vehicles, heavy artillery and rocket equipment over the border to the separatists,
Brian Mckeon, the U s. principal deputy under secretary of defence, told lawmakers 11 Russian battalion tactical teams were in Russia's Rostov region across the Ukrainian border.
"It's a case of finding it in the stocks of the United states military, and in the case of some equipment we're purchasing it off the production line."
Most robots have highly configurable safety modes that will instantly respond to a wide range of triggers.
that because the three main factors that trigger motion sickness specifically, a conflict between vestibular (balance) and visual inputs, an inability to anticipate the direction of motion
which can also avoid high-voltage interfaces as well as the cross-subsidization battles now occurring between rooftop solar customers and their electric utilities.
within the next five years, they will not only become incorporated into clothing (Athos, Under Armour Under Armour, etc.
who was convicted of robbery, possession of a firearm, and conspiracy in 2012 after investigators obtained 67 days of Daviscell phone records from Metropcs1,
The ethod and system for shockwave attenuation via electromagnetic arcisn quite the all-purpose energy shield you see around spaceships in movies like Star wars,
The system won protect people, vehicles or buildings from direct hits by bombs, guns or shrapnel,
So we won be heading into battle hields upanytime soon but it does sound like a baby step in that direction
The robot battle game eal Steel World Robot Boxingis likely the best known Reliance Games app it has 7. 5 Million downloads,
In the case of Real Steel, we focused on the robot combat and not the journey of the Hugh Jackman Character.
Robot combat can be consumed in bite-sized gameplay session on the go and require little narrative to drive engagement.
#Ready To Get Your Drugs By Drone? Amazon Plan Could Be Game-Changer Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos knew skeptics would pan his drone-delivery plan. know this looks like science fiction.
It not, Bezos told 60 minutes more than a year ago, showing off Amazon test-model octocopters.
And he acknowledged that Amazon proposal to use robot drones faced major regulatory and technical hurdles.
The Federal aviation administration on Thursday awarded an xperimental airworthiness certificateto Amazon AMZN-0. 33%that would clear the way for the company to begin testing its drone program.
such as having a pilot on hand to fly the drone at all times. That important, because Amazon wants its Prime Air drones to be autonomous.)
And many, many technical and regulatory hurdles still loom. But the FAA certificate represents a necessary step for Amazon,
For example, Amazon already been hiring drone software developers, drone regulatory experts, and even drone pilots, too.
So. Let say drone delivery actually happens, with Amazon taking the lead. The new model could dramatically reshape the retail industry,
and affect Amazon fortunes. 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. There no comparison.
For these patients, autonomous drones could go the last mile or the last couple miles in helping improve medical adherence and patient outcomes.
Drugs are already being delivered by drone illegal drugs, that is. Various cartels are using drones to send methamphetamine and other narcotics over the heads of authorities.
One drug-toting drone infamously crashed in a parking lot in January. And legal drugs are being delivered in other countries,
which have been more permissive. German packaging company DHL last year spent a month testing drug delivery-by-drone to a remote island off the country coast.
But the test was plagued with problems; two of the first ten drone flights were scrapped because of bad weather.
Would-be drone delivery services in the United states face complications, too. Last month, Amazon complained that the FAA proposed regulations on drones would be too harsh.
And a San francisco startup called Quiqui got considerable attention for its plans to use drones to deliver drugs last year,
although the company ultimately wasn able to get off the ground. That said, investors remain bullish on the U s. drone sector.
In the third quarter of 2014 alone, investors poured a record $65 million into drone tech startups.
Backers included major VC players like Adreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Google Ventures hope what youl see is the regulations get cleared very soon
and youl see a whole bunch more activity, a16z Chris Dixon said last year. y hope is that 2015 will be the year of the drone
#Terralux Battles Commoditization By Integrating Smarts With LEDS For Commercial Lighting Refits LED lighting technology has advanced in leaps and bounds in the last few years.
Less than a decade ago, LEDS were both ineffective and expensive. Not only did they have low output,
the light can switch on an exhaust fan or trigger an alarm system. Advanced sensors provide safety and security information and alerts all through the LED LIGHTS.
Premera Blue Cross and Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alaska were impacted both in addition to affiliate brands Vivacity and Connexion Insurance Solutions.
Additionally, other Blue Cross Blue Shield customers in Washington and Alaska may have been affected by the breach.
The real fight is just beginning. THE WHO edict states that the organisation wants to convert every syringe in the world to auto-disable by 2020.
Lyfelens monitors trigger eventsxcessive speed, abrupt movements such as hard braking or collisions location, movement and vandalismnd notifies users with alerts,
and start the warmprocess again. warmrobots have already been tested by a number of organizations, from the U s. military, to oceanographers.
if the need changes. eorgia Tech study is supported by the Air force Office of Scientific research e
and is preparing to submit a proposal detailing their cloaking technology, reports the Army Times.
which allows the invisibility shield to be lighter and cheaper than any other cloaking technology currently under development.
This would allow the military to use the material in a variety of different applications.
The military is interested in the breakthrough because it is"basically what the military's looking for"in a cloaking solution,
says Kayla Matola, research analyst from Homeland defense & Security Information Analysis Center. It's lightweight, cheap,
#wiss Army knifehelps turn algae into biofuel Scientists have figured out a way to streamline the molecular machinery that turns cyanobacterialso known as blue-green algaento biofuels.
but also provides a proof of concept for a device that might improve plant photosynthesis. he multifunctional protein wee built can be compared to a Swiss Army knife,
TRANSFORMER DRONES? The research team envisions a broad range of applications for their technology. For example, an unpiloted air vehicle might change shape from one designed for a cruise mission to one designed for a dive.
The US Air force Office of Scientific research, the US National Science Foundation, and the Singapore National Research Foundation through the SUTD DMAND Centre funded the work.
The Army Research Office, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, an NSF Physics Frontiers Center with support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, funded the work o
and demonstrate for opioid pain relievers can be adapted to produce many plant-derived compounds to fight cancers,
"It appears that this toxin followed some of the most sophisticated battlefield strategies long before they were invented by humans:
It recognizes that to win the war, one doesn't need to kill all the soldiers.
All that is needed is to send in a spy to recruit a few soldiers who will betray their own army
and neutralize the officers, "said Dmitri Kudryashov, Ph d.,assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at OSU and senior author of the study."
"In this case, the soldiers are the protein actin, which is produced in abundance by almost all human cells
The cellular interactions that trigger the production of myelin are especially hard to pinpoint since the point of contact is buried essentially between the intertwined myelin layers and neuronal plasma membrane."
The new technique described in the current study involves using the neuron as a trigger to attract glial cells.
#Amazon to begin testing new delivery drones in the US Last month it emerged that the Federal aviation administration (FAA) had granted Amazon permission to begin testing a delivery drone prototype for its Prime Air service,
when it petitioned the FAA for permission to begin testing its drones. But the agency's response was hardly swift,
This will clear the way for Amazon to begin testing its drones outdoors in the United states. The exemption dictates that Amazon's drones fly no higher than 400 ft (122 m),
These rules are consistent with a set of proposed guidelines around commercial drone flight that the FAA floated earlier in the year.
While it marks another step toward the realization of Amazon's ambitious drone delivery plan,
The most obvious obstacle Amazon faces is convincing the FAA that drones can be flown safely beyond the line of sight.
It plans to shoot autonomous drones along 10 mi (16 km) long skyways at 50 mph (80.5 km h) with packages weighing up to 55 lb (25 kg) in tow.
This ability to transform from a harmless bacteria to a ruthless destroyer of all things cancerous
the craft could also have military applications as a fast strike craft invulnerable to conventional antiaircraft weapons and interceptors,
yet capable of operating over long distances to employ EMP weapons against high-value targets r
#BAE Systems'Battleview 360 is made to raise situational awareness in tank crews BAE Systems is looking to solve one of the most restrictive elements with tank warfare through its Battleview 360 digital mapping system.
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.
Operators have to contend with excessive noise, and the limited visibility that comes with being wrapped in a mobile fortress of ceramic and steel.
Simply overcoming one of these impediments could give a force a significant advantage on the battlefield."
"The result is increased battlefield effectiveness and survivability. The technology, which stems from a system developed for use in advanced fighter planes,
uses a touchscreen and helmet-mounted interface to visualize data collected from a host of sensors on the hull of the vehicle,
if theye been missing still other hidden cancer ime bombs. og-nose-cancer-Photo-credit-Itsgreg-CC-750px The study was funded by grants from 10 foundations
when fighting for funding to tackle a single disease in isolation is no longer effective. Health problems tend to cluster from childhood to adulthood
And Back On One Tank Of Fuel An ion engine that smashes the fuel efficiency record has been registered for an innovation patent.
and back on a tank of fuel but its first application may be shunting networks of small satellites around in Earth orbit.
with researchers believing that a single gene in mice triggers the two conditions that have related differing,
#Lily drone: flying selfie camera follows you around as you ski or run A new drone camera has been released that allows users to simply throw it in the air
and have it follow them around. The drone is designed to allow people to be filmed without having someone do it for them.
It looks to be positioned towards the same people who use Go Pros, mounting them to their head to film snowboarding and other extreme sports,
To use the drone, users simply turn it on and throw it up into the air.
The drone is waterproof and small, only weighing 2. 8 lbs. While it flying, users can choose where to send the drone either following or leading ahead of people,
or circling around them. Then those photos and videos can be exported and viewed after the fact.
The drone has a camera that can take 1080p video, or 120 frames per second slomo films at 820p.
The drone can be ordered pre now for $599, plus $20 shipping. But they won be delivered until February 2016
The U s. military hoped they could be used in a new fighter jet. None of the efforts fully panned out
Bank staff are required to file police reports in response to suspicious cash transactions. In spite of its popularity, Sweden will still have to ensure that all people are able to participate in the new payment system,
"There's a lot of different things that can trigger blood coagulation, but when you're on heparin, most of them don't work,
Top 10 Cancer-Fighting Foods With CIVO, doctors"can compare drug A to drug B,
The ameba's scientific name means"tissue destroyer, "and refers to its ability to bore through a person's intestines and into the liver and other organs, causing ulcers, internal bleeding and chronic diarrhea.
The ameba's scientific name means"tissue destroyer, "and refers to its ability to bore through a person's intestines and into the liver and other organs, causing ulcers, internal bleeding and chronic diarrhea.
#Laser weapon Melts Test Drone in Midair A new laser weapon that can burn up targets in just a few seconds recently melted
and destroyed a test drone flying over California. Known as the Compact Laser weapons System, the futuristic, drone-shooting weapon is a smaller, more versatile version of the High energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD),
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
and damages a target. 7 Technologies That Transformed Warfare"Think of it like a welding torch being put on a target,
but from many hundreds of meters away,"Isaac Neal, a Boeing engineer, said in a video about the new weapons system that was posted on the defense contractor's website.
aim and fire at a small drone flying above a testing facility in Point Mugu, California.
The laser gun acts quickly (it took just 15 seconds for it to shoot the test drone out of the sky) and discreetly, according to Neal.
Speedy reaction times can be important in battles when every second counts.""If you were on the receiving end of laser energy,
who noted that this lower weight makes the portable laser gun easier to move around than the HEL MD
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,
missiles and smaller artillery something the HEL MD has already proved it can do in tests.
The big draw for both laser systems is that they're cost-effective weapons. The only cost associated with operating them is the cost of electricity to power the lasers, according to Boeing,
which did not state exactly how much the U s. military would save by switching to laser guns.
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