Cellulose biomaterials might be used to create biodegradable plastic bags textiles and wound dressings; flexible batteries made from electrically conductive paper;
Generators producing DC current have also been built. he fact that an electric charge can be produced through triboelectrification is well knownwang explains. hat we have introduced is a gap separation technique that produces a voltage drop
The researchers have expanded the range of energy-gathering techniques from ower shirtscontaining pockets of the generating material to shoe inserts whistles foot pedals floor mats backpacks
They are now using a wide range of materials including polymers fabrics and even papers.
and a thin GNR coat was airbrushed on. When dried the embedded ribbons became impossible to remove.
hat hath God wrought. reating a market for printed electronic devices Lipson says could be like introducing color printers after only black and white had existed. t opens up a whole new space that makes the old look primitive. ource:
and squeezing the fabric of the universe would give rise to the telltale twisted polarization patterns of B modes.
The spectra of reflected light give scientists clues about the makeup of the rocks The spectra showed substantial differences in composition from peak to peak.
but we don't see much olivine in the basin. hat'#one of the big mysteries about the South pole Aitken basin.
and Sciences. hat s the fascinating thing that you have to have the right ratio.
The researchers found the emitted light shifted toward the higher red wavelengths as the burst progressed. hat s cool about this is that we have a material we excite it with a 150-femtosecond pulse wait for 100 picoseconds
and catalogued. hat we have learned in the last 5 to 10 years of computer vision research is that the more data you have the better computer vision becomesgupta says.
e needed a tool to answer that questionsays Bevilacqua. hat tool involves introducing a chemical into the plant that can modify some segments of the RNA but not others
and most giant clam species are on the International union for conservation of nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. Keyse says the discovery of a new species had implications for management of giant clams. hat we thought was one breeding group
The secret is a stretchy polymer that coats the electrode binds it together and spontaneously heals tiny cracks that develop during battery operation. elf-healing is very important for the survival and long lifetimes of animals
The electrodes worked for about 100 charge-discharge cycles without significantly losing their energy storage capacity. hat s still quite a way from the goal of about 500 cycles for cell phones
The design and construction of an instrument based on these arrays as well as an analysis of its commissioning data appear in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. hat we have made is essentially a hyperspectral video camera with no intrinsic noisesays Ben Mazin assistant professor
when facing a steady flow of water. hat is immediately obvious in the slow-motion videos is that the fish constantly move their fins to produce opposing forces.
what you thought was simple wiring turns out to be transistors that compute informationsmith says. hat s what this finding is like.
what people have been using for decadessays Darrell Schlom professor of industrial chemistry at Cornell University who led the international research team. hat we have discovered is the world's lowest-loss tunable dielectric. ossrefers to wasted energy
but in practice they don t achieve thatsays study co-author Paul Braun a professor of materials science at Illinois. hat s
which is beamed then to the solar cell. ssentially we tailor the light to shorter wavelengths that are ideal for driving a solar cellfan explains. hat raises the theoretical efficiency of the cell to 80 percent
and aprotics tended to gather in their own areas. hat s another interesting thingmart says. ifferent solvent groups occupy different areas in the map.
and steel with similar results. hat's amazing is that these layers are ultra thin
or sex involving fungi of the same mating type. hat was a big mystery because if there are two identical genomes coming together the end product should be the same
On the other hand some of the offspring of unisexual reproduction differed both in terms of genetic makeup and behavior.
I look back at my career I will be most proud ofmuller says. t s the first time that anyone has been able to see the arrangement of atoms in a glass. hat s more two-dimensional glass could someday find a use in transistors by providing a defect-free ultra-thin material that could improve the performance of processors
chemicals on clothes and luggage could improve security at airport checkpoints researchers say. ince this method uses a single beam
even if itâ#merely a minute trace on a zipper. his doesnâ##t mean that security will be armed with handheld lasers in airports.
or surface of clothes or luggagedantus says. he resonant pulse and the shadow pulse are always in balance
the first time the stunning process of quantum teleportation has now been used in a circuit to relay information from one corner of the sample to the other. hat makes our work interesting is the system uses a circuit much like modern computer chips. n our system the quantum
she says. hat means the steam forms immediately, even before the water boils. Solar steam efficiency comes from light-harvesting nanoparticles that were created at LANP by Rice graduate student Oara Neumann,
Since 1996 farmers worldwide have planted more than 1 billion acres (400 million hectares) of genetically modified corn and cotton that produce insecticidal proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt for short.
which evolved resistance rapidly to Bt cotton in India but not in the US#Tabashnik says.#
#Our nanotechnology produces entanglements that are millions of times more dense than woven products such as fabrics
In addition this mechanism could be used to describe other large spinning astronomical bodies with large-scale magnetic fields such as galaxies.
Texas, has been working for the last five years to build a lower-power chip by applying to silicon a technology that has been used in quartz wristwatches.
Mitalipov said. hat where the term 3-parent baby comes from. The purpose of the procedure
#Spire wants to improve weather forecasting with tiny satellites will need you a raincoat or shorts tomorrow?
But while extremely sensitive and effective, this technology isn't easy on the wallet.""Cooling to 4 degrees above absolute zero,
an array of over 306 SQUID sensors is mounted in heavy helmet-shaped flasks containing cryogenic coolants.
But the peculiar characteristics of the newly developed sensor might enable lightweight and flexible MEG helmets that contain much fewer sensors."
and herding them into a milking parlor to have hooked machines up to suit efficiency experts doesn't help yield,
and liquids to suit each cow. As the trough swings clear at the end of milking, this encourages the cow to walk forward and leave.
#Snake Monster robot can be easily reconfigured to suit user needs Carnegie mellon University (CMU) has created a new robot that has six legs, looks creepily like a spider when it walks,
a design it's now calling the Wellshell 2. 0. The"tiny gym in your pocket"works in conjunction with the free app,
Another application that LLNL is looking at is protective clothing. With the current Ebola outbreak tracking contamination in anti-contamination suits is vital
so the researchers see DNATRAX as a safe way of assessing how well current suits are performing.
By applying the DNA particles to the exterior of the suit it is possible to identify
if a breach has occurred by seeing if contaminants appear on the wearer's skin. We all hear horror stories about contaminated foods says DNATREK CEO Anthony Zografos.
#Prototype system paves way for huge glasses-free 3d displays Using red/blue filters (anaglyph),
polarized (passive) or LED shutter (active) glasses are relatively simple ways of creating a 3d effect.
which split the image for a 3d effect without the user having to wear glasses,
which is exposed to different types of pollution from agrochemical residues to metals from leather tanneries.
tailors and so on) become places to consume food, beer and goods produced in factories far away. To take one indicative example:
weighted harnesses and fogged-up glasses, and were given tasks like oorknob Experienceand athroom Experience, all to help them feel
in the hall Dementia Experience Center, to perform hand massage in nursing homes. hat did I do with my phone?
bus drivers, tellers, hairstylists, postal workers. ometimes I think I want to run away, she said. ut even the highest mountain,
and don blue 3-D glasses for ementia Experiencevideo journeys following people disoriented on streets or seeking bathrooms.
he washing machine terrible we need your helpwashing clothes, she told 200 senior citizens interested in nursing home jobs or family caregiving advice.
hat do you call dog and tiger? call them dog and tiger. encil and brush?
hat something wrong with this, just a little bit. Students as Helpers Schools offer community service credit, encouraging work with dementia patients,
and alloon badminton (the racket is stretched pantyhose on a frame). The boys write observations to help Seobu adjust programs.
hat business do you have doing that? It was my responsibility to feed her, give her drinks,
The floor was awash in the flotsam of three freshmen clothes, backpacks, homework, packages of Chips Ahoy and Cap Crunch Crunch Berries.
This may delight undergraduates who do not have to change out of pajamas to ttendclass.
a live video feed she switched on at one point showed her in black librarian glasses and a tank top.
and struggled to find enough resources to cope with last year fires. hat is most frustrating is that
Yougov research, commissioned by digital payments provider Intelligent Environments, says 42 per cent of smartphone users want to use their phones as mobile wallets.
the government is suggesting there is a darker side to cuddly figures like Cap Crunch, the Keebler elves,
Froot Loops and Cap Crunch, for example, contain 12 grams of sugar a serving. The salt restrictions are particularly stringent,
cream-colored blouses, managed to sell anything. If only we could have cloned her! But we could never have imagined that we wouldn t need to.#
shaking international ties and making many people reevaluate how they live their lives online.####But it would be a mistake to see 2013 purely in terms of Edward Snowden and his revelations.
connecting previously unconnected pockets of data without making this obvious to users or giving them a meaningful way to say no.
Proponents explain that we already enjoy glasses, false teeth, titanium hip replacements, cochlear implants, and prosthetic limbs.
or being embedded in clothing or other discrete wearable devices like fitness sensors, wristwatches#or even temporary tattoos.
Anticipatory computing and the end of interfaces Objects on our bodies (health monitors, smart glasses) and in our homes and businesses (smart thermostats, lights, appliances and security systems) can all be programmed to interact in complicated and unexpected ways
That s no accident##PETMAN was developed to test the durability of chemical protection suits used in hazardous environments,
including the helmet displays the US Air force has deployed in the F-16 and A-10. The company s consumer plans have been a little later to the game,
Tesla and Solarcity s combined market cap##$21. 3 billion##exceeds that of the parent companies of Pacific gas & electric and Southern California Edison, the two big California utilities
and will adhere to surfaces as diverse and supple as rubber, paper, cotton T-shirts, or a leaf off an oak tree.##
High-tech card could replace everything in your wallet What if you could carry a single credit card device in your wallet that would digitally store up to eight credit, debit, membership,
and gift cards and lets you switch between them with just a push of a button?
Companies like Apple and Google have tried to give us digital wallets, but nothing has caught really on.
People still feel tied to their physical wallets.####Coin is a new product that became available for preorder today.
Rather than a trio of individual seats, each made of several pieces of fabric and foam, Morph is described better as a bench.
A single piece of fabric is stretched across to form the seats, and another forms the back of the chair.
and dividers to clamp the fabric in place. Instead of moving the entire seat back to adjust the pitch of the chair,
mechanized seat formers are positioned under the fabric, allowing users to decide the recline and support that best fits them.
#3d printed biodegradable underwear can be made in 3 seconds 3d printed underwear. For those who hate to do laundry the days of washing your underwear may soon be over.
Thanks to the power and versatility of 3d textile#printing, the Tamicare company has created a biodegradable
and completely customizable fabric that comes in any desired shape, with no fabric waste. Video)##By using a spray technique, latex,
cotton or other fibers are extruded seamlessly to form layers of a breathable fabric, ideal for usage in sportswear, bandages and undergarments.
The density of the outputted fabric is controlled easily by preset, so both mesh-like, delicate fabrics and heavier,
Other materials such as teflon and silicon can also be loaded into the machine to produce different fabrics and textiles (and maybe even#invisible#ones
it s probably just as capable of producing a#sleek men s suit#as it would a basic cotton henley,
and Twitter have followed suit, adopting the model to slash their development time. And now Gartner has included reactive programming in its#newest report#on the hottest application developmenttrends of 2013.6.
The pocket-sized drones, which were unveiled at the Association of the U s army Expo for the first time last week,
##and leather buyers/consumers have expressed already an interest in its prototyped 3d printed leather products. Though Lux Research gives it a##Wait
the tip of the wedge is going to be synthetic leather, which will gain acceptance much faster
since the makeup of Japanese household waste has been#found to contain#over 30%plastic, most of it from packaging.
every adventurer to wear on their belt, and every soldier, sailor, and construction worker to have within arm reach at any given moment?
more remained for threatened wildlife. hat wee doing in Georgia and Idaho is catching on around the world,
Absorption into our clothes, body, and environment.####The question of how best to power that next step,
A pair of smart socks could for example, relay data about your jog to a jogging app on your phone.
those of us who need glasses to see a TV or laptop screen clearly could ditch the eyeglasses.
The technology uses algorithms to alter an image based on a person's glasses prescription together with a light filter set in front of the display.
Researchers say the idea is to anticipate how your eyes will naturally distort whatever's on screen something glasses
In addition to making it easier for people with simple vision problems to use all kinds of displays without glasses
the technique may help those with more serious vision problems caused by physical defects that can't be corrected with glasses or contacts,
and then you can leave it in your pocket because the buzzing in your left
or right shoe will lead the way. Ducere was started by two Indian engineers who had studied
Yet I think the fear-response produced by this uncanniest valley will have a similar effect to disgust in relationshipst hat is,
Imprint has also been in talks about the use of its batteries in clothes andweird parts of your body like your eye
some purchasing $500 leather handbags to carry them, she says. You wouldn t come in here
and spend $100 on a collar if you didn t absolutely worship your dog, she says.
From the rise of peer-to-peer lending models, mobile wallets, digital investment advisory, to the bitcoin revolution, today s digital disintermediation comes in many forms##all of
#We will be 3d printing our clothes in 10 years: Ray Kurzweil Openknit 3d printing is one of those new things that gets hyped all the damn time.
In less than ten years, you're probably going to be able to print your own open source clothes for a few cents,
As of 2014, digital fabricators that make clothes, such as knitting machine Openknit, are already available and inexpensive;
it costs about $700 to build your own Openknit machine, with both the hardware and software still in the do-it-yourself stage.
Called Do Knit Yourself, it s currently got four designs available that have thei m in the Matrix on the Nebuchadnezzar type of thing going on around the edges,
Eventually, printing clothes is going to be as easy as ordering a burger and fries from your smart watch.
print blue-t-shirt (with recycled clothes matter) for tomorrow. The cheap printing of socks and underwear doesn t look that far off, except that, unsurprisingly,
the fashion industry isn't too comfortable with fledgling designers and home-based fashionistas disrupting the way we make
and buy clothes like Martin Starr's character Gilfoyle disrupted that hotel bathroom in Silicon valley.
One fashion company already made Openknit edit their branding out of its promo video. Kurzweil said transnational fashion enterprises aren t into it because
like other industries, they're afraid their bottom line is going to suffer, that somehow, giving people the ability to create their own clothes is going to destroy the industry.
Just like the home sewing machine has? The techno-futurist pointed out that, like other industries,
Big Fashion had damn well better get used to the idea they're going to need to change,
evolve, and create new and better products that add greater valuea cornerstone of the capitalist enterprise.
Printing socks and underwear may go on to reduce the difficulty of making jeans to making toast
but at least in rich countries, we'll still buy snow pants and tuxedos from someone else e
These could be useful in anything from cosmetics, to paint, to the design of drug capsules, because of their particular solubility properties.
phones are typically in our pockets. We wanted to make sure there was something right in front of you,
and see people huddled over their desk in fingerless gloves, wearing a blanket, Baker says.
He started bringing in a sweater. Over the next year or so as Apple s new ibeacon technology makes it easier to pinpoint a person at an exact location inside the building,
But it also doesn t permit the customer to try on a garment. Seeing how a color looks against your skin or how an item fits on your body is imperative in deciding
. where startup Ostendo Technologies Inc. has spent the past nine years quietly working on miniature projectors designed to emit crisp videos and glasses-free 3-D images for smartphones and giant screens.
whether it is a glasses-free 3-D television screen, a smartwatch, or tables that can project hologram-like images.
Boots, magic, shields, potions. As students level up, they ll get gold coins as part of their reward.
whether there would be a cap on the amount of money that students could spend. They cant spend that much money,
And I doubt I could afford to pay out of my own pocket. Higuera thinks his students will love the opportunity to customize their characters
your keys, your wallet, your favorite leather jacket? You could even tap into a large group of strangers to help you track down a stolen bike.
If your lost jacket isn in some mysterious corner of your home you can ask all other Tile App users to watch for it.
and they can alert you to the jacket whereabouts. That why its creators, Mike Farley and Nick Evans, call it he world largest lost and found.
describing just how the mind-control helmet was 3d printed layer-by-layer in order to fit the wearer head
#JINS MEME glasses can track the wearer s mental and physical conditions The Tokyo-based eyewear designer JINS stylish new glasses seem like an ordinary pair of glasses at first glance.
However, the JINS MEME glasses offer more than style and comfort: these frames have been designed specifically to monitor your health.
the MEME glasses rely on monitoring a user eye movements and gaze. The glasses contain small metallic lectrooculographysensors in the portions of the frame that touch the face,
such as the bridge, nose pads and the bars that rest on the ears. These sensors then measure the electrical potential of the eye movement;
Other features include a range of styles, from glasses to sunglasses, and the ability to equip the MEME with prescription lenses.
Check out the video below to see how these glasses can be used as a health-monitoring tool t
Andrew Cotton from Devon recently surfed one of the largest recorded waves around 24m (80ft) off the coast of Portugal. t a good way to get people in to surfing.
The gene takes its name from the entity in Greek mythology called lotho who was one of the ateswho were supposed to control the thread of people lives.
the patient. hat one of the uses I most excited about, said Dr. Warren Wiechmann,
providing a possible way to imagine a world not woven of this fabric. The new shape is intriguing,
#Luna Wash cleans dirty clothes right in the hamper Luna Wash It doesn t matter
and steam to coax your clothes clean. To get the wash going, you first fill the Luna Wash with a small amount of water and plop it down into your laundry.
The surrounding clothes relax in the heat, letting go of the dirt on their fibers.
the Luna Wash finishes its cycle by blowing your#fresh-cleaned#clothes dry with hot air.
and one that could get even the laziest of bachelors to wash their clothes. The only downside we can see,
is that it would leave you clothes as wrinkled as a raisin in the desert.
and fold our clothes for us, we d have this laundry day problem solved. Via Dvice Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorat t
Smartphones, for example, would be able to heal actual cracks in the casing, rather than micro-filling small scuffs and scratches that result from a pocket full of keys.
Clinkle is introducing a mobile wallet for day to day transactions so rather than put your hand in your pocket for small amounts of cash you can just pay with your phone.
Elsewhere, regulatory changes around crowd funding and peer-to-peer lending are creating great opportunities for people to turn dreams into reality.
Collars with GPS, RFID and biometrics can automatically identify and relay vital information about the livestock in real time.
#Researchers develop new method to grow human skin from stem cells that replicates the real thing The method could viably produce enough skin samples to be used commercially for drug and cosmetics testing.
The use of animal testing for medical research than for cosmetics testing is much easier to defend.
Yet many cosmetics companies continue to test on animals to ensure that their products don produce negative outcomes for their human customers.
developing human skin for cosmetics testing has remained elusive. Simply cultivating skin cells in a petri dish doesn work
and cosmetics, said Theodora Mauro, who led the San francisco team. Using both human embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells
The method could viably produce enough skin samples to be used commercially for drug and cosmetics testing, according to the researchers.
Mu gloves available to people who want to work with us to shift the paradigm of how music is made
The gloves are a compact, lightweight and self-contained system requiring little more than a laptop to function fully.
The gloves capture the movements and postures of your hands. Our software allows this information to be mapped to musical control messages
Specifically, the gloves track the following: The orientation of your hand The lexof your fingers Your current hand posture (e g. fist, open hand,
means there are literally thousands of independently mappable controls with one pair of gloves(!)-more than most MIDI controllers on the market all without having to even look at a screen during performance.
The gloves are the product of years of research and development, building upon original research at University of the West of England.
A number of iterations of the gloves have been designed, aimed predominantly at producing a gestural performance system for Heap.
We wanted everyone to have the experience of being inside these gloves without as much of the complexity in Imogen original system.
The last 18 months have seen redesign after redesign of the glove textiles, hardware and software and we have arrived finally at a point where we can make them available to others through this Kickstarter.
Fast Company has covered previously New york-based medical concierge service Sherpaa and Oscar, a new health insurer which tailors its products for web and mobile use.
Then there the chain mail-like Le69 Handbag and 4-in-1 Dress, created in 2000 and considered the world first functional 3-D printed dress.
smartphones will charge in your pocket as you wander around, televisions will flicker with no wires attached,
It great to see so much discussion of this technology on social media and the comments thread.
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