I am always pulling my mobile out of my pocket to check, "he says.""We want to remove this step out of the navigation process so you just say want to go there,
or one day perhaps just with a smartphone. hat the fantasy, says Shea. Shea devised the approach along with Jacqueline Jeruss, a breast cancer surgeon.
a lawyer and privacy consultant based in London. hat the bigger implication of this the EU exerting its might over the US.
#First pocket rockets take tiny satellites for a spin The next giant leap in space exploration could start with a small spin around the lab. A new propulsion system for shrunk-down satellites called Cubesats just passed a key lab test,
So Lozano and his colleagues are designing a miniature propulsion system small enough to fit in your pocket that can steer Cubesats around low-Earth orbit
you could ask hat the latest on these drug interactions? Or even a query in natural language like, hat are papers saying about middle-aged women with diabetes and this particular drug?'
'The system works by crawling the web for publicly available scientific papers, then scanning the text and images within them.
called The Knowledge Integration Toolkit (Knit), mined 100,000 papers to successfully predict the interactions of a tumour-suppressing protein.
IBM says Knit is automated now fully to work without human oversight. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the US is also working on technology
For example, Escuti's university startup company, Imagineoptix Corporation, has created technologies ranging from an ultra-efficient pocket projector the size of a few quarters to components for active photonic hardware supporting internet traffic."
While optical fibers have long been used for the transmission of data with light, inside a computer
In a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, Dr. Alfred S. Mcewen and other scientists identified waterlogged molecules salts of a type known as perchlorates in readings from orbit. hat
It's like having a food safety app in your pocket.""One challenge is that the technology doesn't work particularly well in bright light,
wring out through a cloth and clear it well, put it into a horn, and about night time apply it with a feather to the eye;
#Augmented reality Glasses Are Coming To The Battlefield Using a pair of augmented reality glasses, a Marine signals intelligence (SIGINT) specialist monitors web traffic while he lies on the ground,
This is what the Office of Naval Research (ONR) is working on with its ongoing AR Glasses project;
The glasses have already been demonstrated at cyber-intelligence exercises in November, January, and March. Modified versions of X-6 prototypes made by the San francisco-based Osterhout Design Group (ODG),
the ONR glasses allow SIGINT soldiers to monitor a variety of enemy waveforms, indicating Internet traffic, 2g/SMS, VHF/push-to-talk radio systems,
Still, Fitzpatrick says the 1. 5-GHZ dual-core glasses are still several years from readiness for the field, mainly due to the physical rigors of battle.
The glasses aren totally waterproof, can be hard to read when the Marine moves between bright sunlight and the shade of a building,
theye very interested in the spectrum data from the glasses. But they said f someone shooting at me, the first thing
Pete Jameson, chief operating officer at ODG, points out that the company R-6 glasses, commercially available for just under $5, 000, have an ambient light sensor and swappable photochromic shields for handling glare."
"The glasses had to pass military spec standards, "says Jameson.""They're pretty robust. In real-life situations, we have very few returns."
Part of getting omfortablewith the gear was testing out the AR glasses in a simulated attack called xercise Bold Alligator,
In the heat of battle, insurgents may switch between a variety of modes of communications. hat
The battery (which lasts 4-6 hours) sits above the top of the lenses, giving the 4. 5-ounce glasses a bulky look.
ODG Jameson says that the backlash against the form factor of Google glass shows that the public is not ready for computerized glasses for everyday wear."
"And if the AR glasses make intelligence collection as efficient as hoped, Marines won't be worried about looking a little silly o
#Haptic Gloves Use Air pressure To Simulate The Feel Of Virtual Objects Virtual reality has focused typically on matters of sight and sound,
A team of student engineers at Rice university has developed a clever pair of VR gloves that make it feel like you're actually interacting with virtual objects.
which rely on some sort of vibration motor, the technology behind the Hands Omni gloves instead uses something simpler:
Small bladders are placed in the gloves'fingertips and, when the user reaches out to grab something in the virtual game world,
and deflated independently, allowing the gloves to create a different feel depending on the object that's being interacted with.
In a nonmilitary context, these stickers on clothing could help keep in a person body heat during cold weather h
and sensors like accelerometers have all found their way from our pockets to the skies.
#This Sleeve Will Help Save PITCHERS'Arms Motus mthrow Brian Klutch Sensors: Gyroscopes, accelerometers Weight:
Players wear a 1. 3-inch device with three gyroscopes and three accelerometers just above the elbow inside a compression sleeve.
such as other types of robots or even furniture or clothing u
#A New Kind of Brain Scan Can See Your Pain, Literally Nothing hurts Americans more than chronic pain.
#New Japanese Glasses Block Facial recognition Computers are really, really good at recognizing faces. Refined through work on millions of uploaded and tagged faces at sites like Facebook and elsewhere,
As a solution, Japan National Institute of Informatics (NIII) created glasses that make faces unreadable to machines.
when it requires a style of glasses that no one else is wearing. Two previous prototype made by NIII used either near-infrared light
The new glasses seem to no longer have that problem, resembling the kind of wrap-around sunglasses favored by everyone from security contractors to extreme sporting enthusiasts.
Instead of the electrically powered near-infrared lights of the earlier visors, these glasses use an unspecified novel material to absorb
and reflect light, as well as angles and patterns on its lenses. Tests with smartphone cameras showed that the glasses fooled facial recognition 90 percent of the time.
Previous attempts to hide faces from computers have resorted to eye-catching makeup or dangling lights from baseball caps.
While previous concepts have made for fashion-forward face concealers NIII Privacyvisor is getting ready for mass production.
lead researcher Fumiya Iida said in a press release. hat essentially what this robot is doing we can actually watch the improvement
#China Will Launch Cap -And-Trade Program To Limit Carbon emissions President Xi Jinping of China announced today during a visit to the White house that China will start a national cap
-and-trade program to limit greenhouse gas emissions in 2017. Under cap-and-trade programs, a governing body limits the amount of pollution that can be emitted,
and then sells permits to companies that want to emit pollutants. Companies can trade their permits,
China cap-and-trade program will help the country reduce emissions from some of its most polluting sectors,
Regional cap-and-trade programs already exist in China. Between 2013 and 2014, the Chinese government launched seven pilot cap-and-trade programs in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Shenzen,
and Chongqing, as well as in the provinces of Guangdong and Hubei. But China agreement to a national cap-and-trade program,
which Obama officials said have been in the works since April, represents the country first wide-ranging plan for limiting its emissions.
China has yet to announce specifics about its cap-and-trade plan, leaving some concerned about the political and technical challenges that lie ahead."
what the actual cap is.""If China sets limits that will peak its emissions before 2030,
what the actual cap is.""Cap-and-trade programs have been praised by some policymakers as an efficient way to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions,
while others argue that the strategy rewards big polluters that can afford to buy permits. In his first term, President Obama tried to pass a similar cap-and-trade program,
but the measure was rejected by the Senate, in part among concerns from American politicians that setting emissions limits would harm the U s. ability to compete economically with China.
But in terms of long term storage, he believes DNA offers the perfect choice. hat really interesting now is that researchers are using DNA as a medium for digital archival storage
#This Museum Offers Special Glasses to Colorblind Visitors The museum experience relies on visuals. You step into the space expecting to see something new to lose yourself in stunning compositions anderhaps most importantlyivid colors.
Visitors to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago can now pick up a pair of Enchroma glasses and see artworks in their full color spectrum for the first time.
when the sensing of light overlaps within these conesnchroma glasses allow wearers with red-green color blindness to see color again.
The process behind making the glasses hinges on erceptual psychophysicsor the tudy of how physical stimuli are transformed to perceptual phenomena using our senses,
Though the glasses only create a simulation of sorts, wearers still experience a significant change in their perception of objects.
The MCA Chicago is the first museum to offer these glasses to visitors. Visitors can pick up a pair at the front of the museum
The glasses were supplied by Valspar as part of the Color for All campaign, which focuses on bringing Enchroma glasses to those who struggle to see Color in a video,
users wear the glasses to look at art pieces but also everyday sights like paint strokes on the wall and drawings by kids.
At the museum, can experience more fully not only the visual nature of pieces but the emotional responses that these colors often spark in their viewers.
Among the many users of these glasses is Matthew Renton, the Director of Communications at the museum.
In a hurry, you just put your iphone in your pocket while commuting not realizing that it rubbing side by side your coins and keys.
The Stylograph comes with a leather covered notebook with specially patterned paper that will help record the digital notes.
#Swipe Your Jacket and Payment Is accepted Lyle & Scott partners with Barclaycard to make seamless digital payments through the right sleeve of The Contactless Jacket.
Didn bring cash or a credit card with you? No problem. As long as youe wearing the new lifestyle jacket from Lyle & Scott,
you can pay for anything. The Contactless Jacket has a built-in bpay contactless chip integrated into the right sleeve cuff allowing the wearer to swipe to make payments.
Barclaycard has been working on digital secure wallets and has released wearable payment devices like a sticker, fob and wristband.
However, this is their first partnership with a fashion brand great introduction to the world of fashion
or a bus trip across town. he Contactless Jacket was launched in September 2. It is available in True Black and Admiral Blue colors.
The Contactless Jacket was launched in September 2. It is available in True Black and Admiral Blue colors.
The jacket features a double-faced hood and the bpay chip to make contactless payments Wearers can buy anything £30
and under in the U k. Wearers can add funds to their digital wallet using a mobile app or through an online portal.
There no question that simply wearing The Contactless Jacket prevents the risk of bringing a wallet with you.
#Amazon Wants to Bring Augmented reality to the Streaming Services Game With its recently-published patent for AR smart glasses,
And, as revealed by its new patent for augmented reality glasses it looks like Amazon wants to take a crack at it as well,
According to the patent, Amazon glasses look to specifically enhance the experience of streaming video. Mentioning one of the biggest issues with the xperience with portable devices,
the glasses look to enrich content in a way no other streaming service currently does. They also o not allow a user to immerse in the experience
it is true that simple glasses versus large headsets lend themselves to a more casual and pleasurable wearing experience, one
The larger implication here is that Amazon glasses would be changing the landscape of video streaming by adding augmented reality to the mix.
If the glasses catch on and the majority of Amazon Video new, original content require the device for the full experience,
But while Amazon glasses might change how we experience content, the true question remains as to
Harnesses with hammers and gloves strapped to their belts swing by their sides. Ubiquitous hard hats, safety shoes and ear plugs give the scene an air of theatrical camp.
a graduate student in the Aiden lab and at Stanford university. hat was stunning was that once we understood how the loops were forming,
the other would be D-R-O-W-Y-E-K. hat an incredibly strange thing
according to the researchers. hat unique about this paper is that we show not the use of metal particles, not the use of metal nanoparticles,
Next, the crystal drug is placed into a fat and protein coat, similar to what is done in making a coated ice-cream bar.
and changing the chemical makeup of the electrolyte, the researchers were able to reduce the'voltage gap'between charge
and his team thought long-term about what the needs would be for transplantation of large tissues made in the laboratory. hat a surgeon needs
paving the way for potential customization of drugs to suit patients'needs. The drug, made by privately held Aprecia Pharmaceuticals Co,
#Japanese engineer develops world's first'car in a bag'Pocket-sized personal transporters could soon be seen on the streets of Tokyo.
the experimental system has been produced in different shapes and sizes to suit various locations on the body, such as the finger,
Ultimately she wants to create a flexible electronic fabric embedded with sensors that could cover a prosthetic limb
the ability to distinguish corduroy versus silk, or a cold glass of water from a hot cup of coffee.
#Flexible skin sensors turn your body into a digital touch panel The rise of wearable technology is inevitably leading towards our clothes becoming the next touch-enabled smart accessories,
meaning it could work for things like fitness bands, smart watches, headbands, or belts. Why would we do this?
is composed of an extremely thin layer of gold nanoantennae that form a tiled coat only 80 nanometres thick.
in a press release. ur ultra-thin cloak now looks like a coat. It is easy to design and implement,
"The difference between metallic glasses and regular metals is their atomic structure. Normal metals are crystalline when solid,
"The system works via noninvasive electroencephalography (EEG), where the participant wears a cap that captures electrical signals generated by the brain.
Hallisey used silk fibres to stabilise the chemicals on card stock, allowing them to sit around at room temperature for up to three weeks
She then used these silk-stabilised chemicals to design a paper-based test that requires only a serum sample (the clear part of the blood after the red blood cells have been removed) and water to run.
We have a feeling other major cities around the world will be following suit in the coming decades,
shorts the circuit and throws a wrench into the gears of any potential electronic device. In fact, according to University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign professor John Rogers, the purity needs to exceed 99.999 percent--meaning even one bad tube in 100,000 is enough to kill an electronic device."
The current heated up the metal nanotubes a tiny amount--just enough to create a"thermal capillary flow"that opened up a trench in the organic topcoat above them.
and then the organic topcoat could be washed away. This left an electronic wafer coated with semiconducting nanotubes free of metallic contaminants,
not a well-defined pocket seen in other druggable proteins targeted by many current cancer therapies."
polymer solutions were spun in an electrical field to form very fine threads and wound onto a spool."
The polymer fabric is slightly porous and so, initially, allows a small amount of blood to permeate through
No children who already wore glasses, had been treated for amblyopia, or had undergone ocular surgery were included in the screening.
Silk fibroin is used as the dissolvable film because it has high biocompatibility, and is known a biomaterial used in implantable devices."
"We investigated preparation of a silk base scaffold for a microneedle, quantitatively analyzed needle stiffness,
which is attached later to the surface of clothes. Such technique has posed limitations in applying it for wearable displays
and the characteristics of fabric were ignored. For a solution, the research team discarded the tradition of creating light emitting displays on a plane board.
Instead, they focused on fibers, a component of fabrics, and developed a fiber-like light emitting diode that has the characteristics of both fabrics and displays.
The essence of this technology, the dip coating process, is to immerse and extract a three dimensional (3-D) board that looks like a thread in a solution.
Then, the regular levels of organic materials are formed as films on the board. The dip coating process allowed the layers of organic materials to be created easily on boards with a 3-D structure including a cylinder
which are fundamental elements of fabrics. Hopefully we can lower the barrier of wearable displays to enter the market."
"This technology will eventually allow the production of wearable displays to be as easily as making clothes
pockets of water vapor or gas accumulate in them by underwater evaporation or effervescence, just like a drop of water evaporates without having to boil it.
These gas pockets deflect water, keeping the surface dry, "he said. In a study published today (Aug 18) by the journal Scientific Reports,
"What we are proposing is a system that learns with the user to form an effective vocabulary that suits the person rather than the machine,
#Super water-repellant coatings can now take the pressure Conventional superhydrophobic coatings that repel liquids by trapping air inside microscopic surface pockets tend to lose their properties
when liquids are forced into those pockets. In this work, extremely water-repellant or superhydrophobic surfaces were fabricated that can withstand pressures that are 10 times greater than the average pressure a surface would experience resting in a room.
The surfaces resist the infiltration of liquid into the nanoscale pockets. The extent to which nanometer-size textured,
Devices like smart watches, headbands and belts will all work well using magnetic field human body communication
The new approach combines a battery-powered wearable bionic suit that enables people to move their legs in a step-like fashion,
Pollock has competed in ultra-endurance races across deserts, mountains and the polar ice caps. He also won silver and bronze medals in rowing at the Commonwealth Games and launched a motivational speaking business."
They found that interlocking two tubes in zipper-like fashion made them much stiffer and harder to twist or bend.
"The zipper configuration works even with tubes that have different angles of folding. By combining tubes with different geometries, the researchers can make many different three-dimensional structures,
which we think the zipper coupling is, you can explore applications in many different areas
and connected fabrics. The work was led by Rahul Panat and Indranath Dutta, researchers in Voiland College's School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering,
Sun powered cell phone chargers woven into the fabric of backpacks. A new generation of organic semiconductors may allow these kinds of flexible electronics to be manufactured at low cost,
Analyst firm Alite Group estimates that this vulnerability is adding up to $8 billion in incurred losses per year in the U s. Solutions have been proposed--such as integrated circuit cards and mobile wallets systems.
Optical fibers have long since been used for the transmission of data with light. But on a computer, data are processed still
Their experiment is thought to be the first to demonstrate that two brains can be linked directly to allow someone to accurately guess what is on another person's mind.
or"respondent,"wears a cap connected to an electroencephalography (EEG) machine that records electrical brain activity.
which can be used to design new personalized drug regimens for SS patients based on their unique genetic makeup.
Next, the crystal drug is placed into a fat and protein coat, similar to what is done in making a coated ice-cream bar.
"Most drugs target stable pockets within proteins, so when we started out, people thought it would be impossible to inhibit the transient interface between two transcription factors,
The entire system can be carried in a small briefcase, handbag or laptop case, and requires just one operator with minimal training to conduct the test within 15 minutes--with no need for additional equipment or instruments.
and when a customer enters with an item of Heattech clothing, the RFID chip in the alarm tag activates the camera.
Then, when the customer tries on the clothing they can see exactly how much their body temperature is being raised by the garment, showing them its effectiveness.
How else could stores use smart technology to demonstrate the benefits of their clothing i
or difficult to shove into your pocket, you ain seen nothing yet. Earlier today, Japanese electronics maker Sharp revealed a humanoid robot-shaped smartphone that
I promise won fit in your skinny jeans. It hard to say if it more phone or robot,
because Robohon has a badass leather carrying case that will make your mirrorless camera jealous.
when making a call with Robohon (or wearing sunglasses indoors hey, the LEDS were bright!).
assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Duke. hat becomes immediately obvious when you consider that we have over 200 cell types,
HIV antibodies previously tested in humans had shown disappointing results. 3bnc117 belongs to a new generation of broadly neutralizing antibodies that potently fight a wide range of HIV strains. hat special about these antibodies is that they have activity against over 80 percent
and to form two special pockets for binding zinc ions and protons along the cavity within the bundle.
One conformation opens up the pocket near one side of the membrane to grab zinc ions or protons.
Once the zinc ion binds to the pocket Rocker changes its shape to close off the pocket,
while opening up the second pocket near the other side of the membrane. This allows the ions from the closed pocket to travel to the second pocket before being released to the outside of the membrane.
The catch is that Rocker can have both pockets bind the ions at the same time, nor permit the cavity to open all the way through the membrane at one time
because this would leak down the ion concentration levels important for keeping cells intact and healthy.
Like a gatekeeper, the engineered transport protein controls what moves in and out of the cell from one side of the membrane to the other. ill Degrado and his postdoc
and the finished engineered protein. hat we used TACC for was to take the predicted model
Persson said. hat we can do is calculate the properties of a large number of molecules
he said. hat turns them on? What turns them off? are involved there pathways that we can target for therapies?
#USDA Scientists, International Colleagues Sequence Upland cotton Genome U s. Department of agriculture (USDA) scientists and their partners have sequenced the genome of the world most widely cultivated and genetically complex species of cotton,
a milestone that will make it easier to address increasing threats to cotton by tapping into its natural defenses.
Sequencing the genome of Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) will help breeders develop varieties of cotton that are equipped better to combat the pests,
Cotton growers have experienced a plateau in yields since the early 1990s and most commercial varieties lack genetic diversity, making cotton vulnerable to natural threats.
The findings will help researchers and breeders in the years ahead develop cotton varieties with improved fiber qualities, higher yields and more tolerance to heat, drought and diseases anticipated due to climate change.
Cotton is grown on 12 million acres in 17 states and is a $6 billion crop in the United states. here is untapped a vast
reservoir of genes in wild cotton plants that could offer us stronger and more effective defenses to the numerous challenges faced by cotton growers.
Sequencing of a genetic standard in cotton gives us the roadmap to identify and tap into that reservoir of genetic variability,
said Chavonda Jacobs-Young, administrator of the USDA Agricultural research service (ARS. ARS is USDA principal intramural scientific research agency.
because several of the scientists involved in today studies recently sequenced the two arentspecies of most commercial cotton varietiesn Old world cultivated cotton and a New world wild cotton.
and exploit cotton genetic diversity by tapping into the potential of genes found in the 10,000 accessions of exotic and wild cotton plants in the ARS Cotton Germplasm Collection in College Station, Texas t
and co-author of a paper published online this week in the journal Nature Communications. ou really now have the entire toolbox to change how you make these glasses for other chemistries.
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