and poets can clip it a pocket to record moments of inspiration. The Instamic Indiegogo campaign is expected to kickoff later this month s
and Sunburn With This Smart Bikini Spinali Design brings wearable technologies to the beach (where skin cancer runs rampant) The french are credited with creating the modern bikini,
so it shouldn come as a surprise that French company Spinali Design has created a smart bikini to help women monitor sun exposure responsibly.
The bikini bottom has a section where a UV sensor clips on to the fabric.
when the bikini wearer needs some help applying sunscreen. The lightweight sensor is removable, waterproof and measures less than two centimeters.
The bikini labels are printed on the inside of the suit and are customizable with a photo or message.
In addition to the bikini, Spinali has created also a connected beach towel that includes a UV sensor. The towel measures 200 x 150 cm
Bikini start at $167 US (149#or £108) with towels available for $111 USD (99#or £72.
For more promotional videos and demonstrations of how the sensor is attached to the suit, check out the Spinali Youtube channel.
Bhalla told CNN hat the information would transmit securely and remain safe on the company computer servers.
and shape to a wristwatch, but with the active mechanics positioned on the sensitive inside part of the wrist.
#Glasses that make cancer glow When Sandy Sagitto was diagnosed with breast cancer she was devastated.""First thought is that
which allows a surgeon wearing specialized glasses to see cancer cells glowing.""What this does is conserve the healthy tissue
Currently the cancer glasses are being tested on skin and breast cancer patients, but Dr. Achilefu says they could be used to visualize
and might also be used for the flexible coating of clothes and deformable components. Metal-organic frameworks, briefly called MOFS, consist of two basic elements, metal node points and organic molecules,
MOF thin films of a few hundred nanometers in thickness can be used for flexible solar cells or for the coating of clothing material or deformable components.
What Your Clothes May Literally Say About You In the future Wearing a computer on your sleeve may be a lot cooler than a plastic watch with an Apple logo on it-researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have designed a responsive hybrid material fueled by an oscillatory chemical reactions.
The material system is sufficiently small and flexible enough to be integrated into fabric or introduced as an inset into a shoe.
Anna C. Balazs, Ph d. distinguished professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, and Steven P. Levitan, Ph d.,John A. Jurenko professor of electrical and computer engineering, integrated models for self-oscillating polymer gels and piezoelectric micro-electric-mechanical systems to devise a new
and shrunk again for storing away in a case or pocket. One of the GHOST partners
#New bionic contact lenses could make glasses obsolete Your eyesight may be about to get a huge boost
"At age 45 I had to struggle with reading glasses, which like most people, I found was a great insult,
"To this day I curse my progressive glasses. I also wear contact lenses, which I also curse just about every day.
and cowboys just did not wear glasses.""If the Ocumetics Bionic Lens makes it to market then a whole host of eyesight problems could be overcome,
not least having to wear glasses or contact lenses. Clinical trials are now set to begin on animals and blind human beings.
and line flexible and odd-shaped materials such as clothing or the bodies of vehicles.""There are limits to how thin a battery can be,
They could also line clothing, helping to develop wearable electronics, such as A t-shirt that capable of charging your iphone.
So wee pretty excited to see what the researchers do with the material next l
lead researcher Vladan Vuletic from the Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT) in the US told Jennifer Chu from the MIT News Office. hat is new in our system is,
the friction almost entirely disappeared. hat we can do is adjust at will the distance between the atoms to either be matched to the optical lattice for maximum friction,
but the underlying mechanism is hard to guess.""Levin and Lobo's work has been published in the journal PLOS Computational biology,
and made of very soft and flexible silk, the brain tissue is able to comfortably rearrange itself around it."
you can essentially carry an optometrist's fundus camera around in your back pocket.""Conduct routine eye examinations and retinal screenings anywhere for possible detection of a variety of disorders, including the leading causes of blindness-cataracts, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration,
visual information is captured by a tiny camera attached to the patient's glasses and sent to a pocket-sized computer,
Italy and Switzerland were hooked up to an electrode-covered cap, which analyses their brain signals and converts them into electronic instructions for a robot.
and they say itl be ready to integrate into everything from smartphone screens to nail varnish within the next five years.
Leo King reports for Forbes that researchers at Lreal are already in talks with the team to develop some kind of self-healing nail varnish.
soon we'll be looking back at how inconvenient and primitive those ubiquitous little devices in our pockets used to be k
The company lists medical monitoring, sportswear clothing and even connected cars as potential use cases for its technology-bend
and further down the line maybe even recharge your smartphone as it bounces around in your pocket or bag.
#Huge 3-D displays without 3-D glasses Public screenings have become an important part of major sports events.
"We've demonstrated that these are going to be excellent components of the flexible electronics that will soon be embedded in clothing and consumer goods,
Nanowire and contact formed at the same time Nanowires are extremely thin nanocrystal threads used in the development of new electronic components
#Ebola leads to hunger in Africa's rice belt In December 2014 the government of Sierra leone banned all public celebrations to prevent the further spread of Ebola in the worst-affected country.
#WHO grants approval for safe effective meningitis A vaccine for infants The World health organization (WHO) has opened the door to routine immunization of infants in Sub-saharan africa by approving for use an innovative and affordable vaccine that has all but rid the meningitis belt of a major cause
Before the introduction of Menafrivac, people living in countries of the meningitis belt, which stretches from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east,
Menafrivac has been administered to over 215 million people in 15 countries of the African meningitis belt:
and optimal dosage and immunization schedule for administering Menafrivac to infants and toddlers alongside other routine childhood vaccines in African meningitis belt countries.
Specifically, THE WHO prequalification that was announced today allows United nations procurement agencies to purchase the vaccine for use in routine immunization programs in meningitis-belt countries
""We are more than halfway through with introducing the vaccine in meningitis-belt countries, and the first introductions have been a stunning success,
Elimination of meningitis epidemics will require meningitis belt countries'political commitment to complete the mass campaigns
a soft sock that can wrap an arrhythmic heart in electronic sensors, and LED strips thin enough to be implanted directly into the brain to illuminate neural pathways.
Somatic brain mutations, affecting just pockets of cells can be harmful, and have been suggested as a possible cause of neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism,
But scientists have developed now a novel nanowire coating for clothes that can both generate heat
and trap the heat from our bodies better than regular clothes. They report on their technology,
breathable mesh materials that are flexible enough to coat normal clothes. When compared to regular clothing material,
the special nanowire cloth trapped body heat far more effectively. Because the coatings are made out of conductive materials,
they can also be warmed actively with an electricity source to further crank up the heat. The researchers calculated that their thermal textiles could save about 1
000 kilowatt hours per person every year--that's about how much electricity an average U s. home consumes in one month h
"With endovascular procedures, we use cloth-covered wire mesh tubes called endografts to replace the aorta from within,
The study,"A dendrite-suppressing solid ion conductor from aramid nanofibers, "will appear online Jan 27 in Nature Communications.
and enables a surgeon to set the cutting angle that best suits the bone, and, also, to set the location
and improving the automatic first-guess he said. In other words it will pull out a page that displays writing from the data they currently have
The materials Guo has created are much more slippery than Teflon--a common hydrophobic material that often coats nonstick frying pans.
Use of nanotechnology in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals A Faculty of science Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) lecturer Professor Dr Mahiran Basri not only succeeded in producing new useful substances made of oils
In the field of cosmetics for instance she said there are antioxidants and antiaging substances through the use of nanotechnology those substances can easily absorb through the skin.
"Equipped with the genetic profiles of family members, Daiger's team has identified differences in the genetic makeup of those with the disease.
Jérôme Bonnet's team in Montpellier's Centre for Structural Biochemistry (CBS) had the idea of using concepts from synthetic biology derived from electronics to construct genetic systems making it possible to"programme"living cells like a computer.
Jérôme Bonnet invented a genetic transistor, the transcriptor. The insertion of one or more transcriptors into bacteria transforms them into microscopic calculators.
In this new work, the teams led by Jérôme Bonnet (CBS, Inserm U1054, CNRS UMR5048, Montpellier University), Franck Molina (Sysdiag, CNRS FRE 3690),
or private researchers,"says Jérôme Bonnet.""Our work is focused presently on the engineering of artificial genetic systems that can be modified on demand to detect different molecular disease markers,
It attacks the epithelial cells that coat the intestine and damages them.""We were able to show that interferon-lambda (IFN?
and be used for smart clothing such as cloaking suits and dynamic illuminated clothing.""The cloaking suit could be used to blend into a variety of environments,
such as in the wild. It could also be used for signalling purposes, for example search and rescue operations
when constructed in future helmets and bumpers, could reduce or even prevent many of the blunt-force injuries we see today."
as well as miniature NS honeycomb cells, from nylon using selective laser sintering for experimentation. NS honeycombs can be made from a variety of materials to suit distinct applications.
Subsequent custom compression and drop tests, designed and fabricated at UT Austin, have confirmed the NS honeycomb structures'predicted energy-absorbing behavior and resilience.
Add to this the fact that people now spend more time indoors during winter and wear more clothing,
such as the production of food, textiles, detergents, pharmaceuticals and other chemicals where environmentally friendly methods are of ever increasing importance."
#Inkjet inks made of silk could yield smart bandages, bacteria-sensing gloves and more Inkjet printing is one of the most immediate and accessible forms of printing technology currently available, according to the researchers,
and ink-jet printing of biomolecules has been proposed previously by scientists. However, the heat-sensitive nature of these unstable compounds means printed materials rapidly lose functionality,
Enter purified silk protein, or fibroin, which offers intrinsic strength and protective properties that make it well-suited for a range of biomedical and optoelectronic applications.
if we were able to develop an inkjet-printable silk solution, we would have a universal building block to generate multiple functional printed formats that could lead to a wide variety of applications in which inks remain active over time,
functional silk inks doped with a variety of components: The researchers, who included collaborators from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, foresee wide potential for future investigation and application of this technology.
For example, Omenetto envisions more work on the bio-sensing gloves, which he says could selectively react to different pathological agents.
Omenetto and Kaplan are pioneers in the use of silk as an alternative to plastics. Omenetto's 2011 TED Talk called silk a"new old material"that could have a profound impact in many technical fields.
This work was supported by funding from the Office of Naval Research (N14-13-1-0596) and the AFOSR (FA9550-14-1-0015
'Research shows there is a clear need for long-acting antimicrobial products used in fillings and cements for crowns, bridges and orthodontic braces
Thanks to their mechanical properties, MOF thin films of a few hundred nanometers in thickness can be used for flexible solar cells or for the coating of clothing material or deformable components.
"The immune cells activated by the vaccine agent may not be able to reach the hypoxic site of bone marrow to target these"wolfs-in-stem-cell-clothing."
The way these bases are ordered determines the makeup of the genome. In addition to G, C a and T, there are also small chemical modifications,
The system uses a miniature video camera stored in the patient's glasses to send visual information to a small computerized video processing unit which can be stored in a pocket.
#What your clothes may literally say about you Moving closer to the possibility of"materials that compute
"and wearing your computer on your sleeve, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of engineering have designed a responsive hybrid material that is fueled by an oscillatory chemical reaction
The material system is sufficiently small and flexible that it could ultimately be integrated into a fabric
or introduced as an inset into a shoe. Anna C. Balazs Ph d.,distinguished professor of chemical and petroleum engineering,
In addition, PLA is biocompatible and thus suitable for medical use, for instance in absorbable suture threads.
The dogma has been that the more smooth muscle cells in that wall--particularly in the innermost layer referred to as the"fibrous cap"--the more stable the plaque is and the less danger it poses.
The ultimate development of two distinct products--a finger-touch and a wearable--could give people with different types of diabetes the option of a device that best suits their lifestyle."
Larry Tanner, P. E.,manager of the NSSA/Texas Tech Debris Impact Test Facility.""This material is lightweight and sustainable
a process that involves breaking up the double-stranded DNA and binding the single strand with a matching primer.
#Reporting by Elizabeth Barber in Boston; Writing by Barbara Goldberg; Editing by Kevin Liffey e
The Harvard team solved these problems by using a mesh of conductive polymer threads with either nanoscale electrodes
Each strand is as soft as silk and as flexible as brain tissue itself. Free space makes up 95%of the mesh
and sentences. t about both the combination of image information with natural language, says Richard Zemel, a computer scientist at the University of Toronto. hat what new herehe marriage of image and text.
Called"prior appropriation,"this remains the dominant thread in Western water issues, more than 100 years later.
In addition to those crops, cotton is one of the thirstiest crops a farmer can grow, especially in a desert.
Though cotton production has dropped steeply in California since 1995, California farmers have gotten $3 billion in federal subsidies to grow it.
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The mesh is malleable,"soft as silk, "and spacious, allowing it to naturally incorporate into the brain
Science fiction writer, Ramez Naam, recently wrote an excellent primer on the current state of the technology
even something like flying around in the Iron man suit, Wilson says. ou could target enemies simply by looking at them.
The materials Guo has created are much more slippery than Teflon common hydrophobic material that often coats nonstick frying pans.
because the core must first be folded correctly to fit into the protective viral protein coat. The viruses solve this fiendish problem in milliseconds,
#Huge 3d Displays without 3d Glasses Public screenings have become an important part of major sports events.
I and Phase II) to test a novel low-cost, high-performance fabric suitable for the BAT shell,
for instance without giving up any of the device performance. hat wee made are comparable to microsupercapacitors being commercialized now,
And the LIG devices can easily scale up for increased capacity. ee demonstrated that these are going to be excellent components of the flexible electronics that will soon be embedded in clothing and consumer goods,
and electronics that can stretch and bend, allowing you to integrate electronics into new places like clothing,
#Vehicle body made from cotton hemp and wood Carbon and glass fibers reinforce synthetics so that they can be used for vehicle body construction.
But in this regard there is an abundance of potential found in natural fibers obtained from hemp cotton or wood.
If you combined bio-based textile and carbon fibers you can obtain extremely light yet very sturdy components. ightweightis an important buzzword in automotive engineering and just as important in the aerospace sector too.
Variants derived from hemp flax cotton and wood are about as affordable as glass fibers and moreover have a lower density than the pendants made of glass or carbon.
The fibers typically exist as fabrics that are placed on each other accordingly and are embedded by the plastic matrix. e use carbon fibers in those areas where the part undergoes intense mechanical stress;
and can be processed as well as possible into fabrics this is also referred to as izing the surface of the fiber
communicated with smart collars worn by other dogs, and pushed that data online. Owners could log on to a social media site to check their petsexercise levels, interactions,
and began selling the collars. But after that year financial collapse, uxury pet products weren exactly selling,
and uses it to push the rings together. he tiny molecular machine threads the rings around a nanoscopic chain a sort of axle and squeezes the rings together,
While the tubing of the prototype, is made from clear acrylic, they will be manufactured from polymer-lined 5 mm-thick carbon fibre in the finished model.
and now watches and glasses. But they still haven broken free from their rigid form.
Mcmaster scientists turn blood into neural cells Adult sensory neurons made from human patients blood samplescientists at Mcmaster University have discovered how to make adult sensory neurons from human patients simply by having them roll up their sleeve and providing
Andersen says. hat we have here is a unique window into the workings of a complex high-level brain area as we work collaboratively with our subject to perfect his skill in controlling external devices.?
screwing a cap on a water bottle, and more. Everything was done without preprogrammed details about surroundings of the robot.
as this is preferred for point-of-care applications. hat wee done is develop a device with a minimal number of commonly available components.
both at Georgia Tech. hat was surprising was finding a solvent that allows the assembly of structures more easily than in water.
a senior investigator with NHGRI Translational and Functional genomics Branch and head of the Developmental Genomics Section. hat we have done is to establish an entire pipeline for knocking out many genes and testing their function quickly in a vertebrate
espite their enormous potential, the fabrication of the injectable scaffolds is surprisingly easy. hat the beauty of this it compatible with conventional manufacturing techniques,
or by taking creen shotsin a static fashion of individual nanostructures with electron microscopy. hat process is like taking photos every 10 minutes of a football game
Gianneschi said. hat is, length scales can be observed that are relevant to nanoscale materials and processes.
both organic and inorganic, can organize self-DNA into a liquid crystalline structure that binds strongly to the TLR9 receptors like the teeth on either side of a zipper.
since 1969 and is found in a huge range of food products, from canned foods to ice cream, pharmaceuticals and beauty products.
Beyond that, the polymer may have a wide range of applications such as thickening of pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, fruit juices, cosmetics and personal care products.
In their broader uses, microbial polymers are used for food production, chemical production, detergents, cosmetics, paints, pesticides, fertilizers, film formers, lubricants, explosives, pharmaceutical production and waste treatment.
The advance could mean a giant step forward in efforts to tailor medical treatment plans to individual patients.
Eventually, the researchers figured out that a second special property of brain cancer cells that they lack the so-called myelin sheaths that coat healthy brain cells had a greater effect on the OCT readings than did density.
eif4e forms a key part of a complex that binds to a cap at the end of each mrna strand
Because this cap-binding function of eif4e has been considered so essential, the researchers thought other known players in translation must somehow be working overtime in the engineered mice to take up the slack for the reduction in eif4e.
Interestingly, the majority of mrnas produced by these genes contain a molecular signature near the cap that the researchers dubbed a ERT motif.
The group believes that in cancer cells eif4e is recruited selectively to certain mrna caps by the presence of the CERT motif
said Alvarez-Buylla. hat is incredible is that the neurons that are produced in the embryo are extremely different than the neurons produced for the adult.
and keeping positive and negative charges separated, Tolbert said. hat separation is the key to making the process so efficient. o capture energy from sunlight, conventional rooftop solar cells use silicon, a fairly expensive material.
a natural substance that is an ingredient of many cosmetics. The second was 2-nitroimidazole or NI,
The way these bases are ordered determines the makeup of the genome. In addition to G, C a and T, there are also small chemical modifications,
and therefore distance at which optical signals can be sent through optical fibers. This advance has the potential to increase the data transmission rates for the fiber optic cables that serve as the backbone of the internet, cable wireless and landline networks.
#What your clothes may say about you Moving closer to the possibility of aterials that computeand wearing your computer on your sleeve,
The material system is sufficiently small and flexible that it could ultimately be integrated into a fabric
or introduced as an inset into a shoe. Anna C. Balazs, Phd, Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
Alternative techniques were so tedious and inefficient hat it is not worthwhile doing the work,
such as a wall, she said. hat can keep communications secure from room to room. And two separate networks in different rooms would not interfere with each other the way they do with present wi-fi networks.
which, like the thread on the bobbin, wound double helix of DNA, which is coiled into two supercoiled loops.
professorr Vasily M. Studitsky and his colleagues found that the thread can be repaired without complete unwinding of DNA oils The highly conserved histones play an important role in this process as changes in their structure are rejected by natural selection.
which is enclosed VIRAL RNA in a protein coat. The protein that copies VIRAL RNA is polymerase protein L,
and then add a cap structure to its end to ensure it doesn get destroyed by the cellnd to ensure that it can be translated into protein.
While researchers have known the atomic structures of the protein that coats the VIRAL RNA, there are no data on protein L atomic structure.
#Nanotech transforms cotton fibers into modern marvel Marcia Silva da Pinto, postdoctoral researcher, works on growing metal organic frameworks onto cotton samples to create a filtration system capable of capturing toxic gas,
as Juan Hinestroza looks on. Juan Hinestroza and his students live in a cotton-soft nano world,
where they create clothing that kills bacteria, conducts electricity, wards off malaria, captures harmful gas and weaves transistors into shirts and dresses. otton is one of the most fascinating and misunderstood materials,
said Hinestroza, associate professor of fiber science, who directs the Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory at Cornell. n a nanoscale world
and that is our world we can control cellulose-based materials one atom at a time. he Hinestroza group has turned cotton fibers into electronic components such as transistors and thermistors,
so instead of adding electronics to fabrics, he converts the fabric into an electronic component. reating transistors
and other components using cotton fibers brings a new perspective to the seamless integration of electronics
and textiles, enabling the creation of unique wearable electronic devices, Hinestroza said. Taking advantage of cotton irregular topography, Hinestroza and his students added conformal coatings of gold nanoparticles,
as well as semiconductive and conductive polymers to tailor the behavior of natural cotton fibers. he layers were so thin that the flexibility of the cotton fibers is preserved always,
Hinestroza said, ibers are everywhere from your underwear, pajamas, toothbrushes, tires, shoes, car seats, air filtration systems and even your clothes. bbey Liebman 0 created a dress using conductive cotton threads capable of charging an iphone.
With ultrathin solar panels for trim and a USB charger tucked into the waist, the Southwest-inspired garment captured enough sunshine to charge cell phones
and other handheld devices allowing the wearer to stay plugged in. The technology may be embedded into shirts to measure heart rate
or analyze sweat, sewn into pillows to monitor brain signals or applied to interactive textiles with heating and cooling capabilities. revious technologies have achieved similar functionalities,
but those fibers became rigid or heavy, unlike our yarns, which are friendly to further processing, such as weaving, sewing and knitting,
Hinestroza said. Synthesizing nanoparticles and attaching them to cotton not only creates color on fiber surfaces without the use of dyes,
but the new surfaces can efficiently kill 99.9 percent of bacteria, which could help in warding colds, flu and other diseases.
Two of Hinestroza students created a hooded bodysuit embedded with insecticides using metal organic framework molecules,
or MOFS to fend off malarial mosquitoes. Malaria kills more than 600,000 people annually in Africa. While insecticide-treated nets are common in African homes
the antimalarial garment can be worn during the day to provide extra protection and does not dissipate like skin-based repellants.
Other students have used MOFS to create a mask and hood capable of trapping toxic gases in a selective manner.
MOFS, which are clustered crystalline compounds, can be manipulated at the nano level to build nanoscale cages that are the exact same size as the gas they are trying to capture. e wanted to harness the power of these molecules to absorb gases
and incorporate these MOFS into fibers, which allows us to make very efficient filtration systems,
Hinestroza always looks for new ways to employ cotton as a canvas for creating infinite modern uses. e want to transform traditional natural fibers into true engineering materials that are multifunctional
but have it remain flexible and as comfortable as a t-shirt or an old pair of jeans. c
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