press or grip objects in the virtual world. hat wee made is a glove that uses air to inflate bladders underneath your fingers,
says Shapiro. hat been a big focus when youe got a new cell line that never been tested in patients before.
For passive laser applications, like exit apertures (windows), the key is high quality. hat window, if it got any impurities or junk,
drawing it into optical fibers, and a lot of his success with spinel comes from that heritage of insisting on purity and quality. n optical fiber very long:
a bundle of protein threads that pull the chromosomes towards the opposite poles of the cell and distributes them equally between the new cells.
and predicts the stagnation point where the beads accumulate. hat is really cool is that the mechanism we used to get the particles to go upstream actually exists in nature
and that also have to be pointed very accurately toward the target. hat was probably one of the most challenging aspects,
Pickworth said. hat wee going to produce at the end of the day is going to be much better than the imaging systems that we currently have limited,
#Pressure-monitoring stockings to prevent wounds in diabetics Diabetics often have little feeling in their feet
Even small uneven areas or shoe pressure can lead to open wounds or damaged tissue on the foot.
researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC in Würzburg with support from industry partners and colleagues from the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated circuits IIS in Erlangen have developed a special stocking with integrated sensors.
only on the bottom of the foot using shoe inserts. Our sensors are attached to the stocking sole, at the heel, the top of the foot and the ankle,
Electronics transmit data to your smartphone The sensors are made from a soft and very stretchy elastomer silicone film that is easy to integrate into textiles.
and transmit the measurement signal via a conductive thread to a wireless electronics unit developed by researchers at Fraunhofer IIS
the electronics are attached to the end of the stocking. Wee planning to relocate them to a small,
either or glued between two layers of fabric, which makes the stockings more comfortable to put on
or take off. The stockings themselves are made from a blend of cotton and synthetic fibers. Brunner points out that the fabric is by necessity breathable,
moisture wicking and extremely comfortable to wear. his is important, since the wearer will need to wear them daily.
The range of potential applications is broad for instance the textile could be used in sports and fitness.
Joggers could use the integrated sensor stockings to analyze their running style and foot positioning y
#MIT engineers hand"cognitive"control to underwater robots For the last decade, scientists have deployed increasingly capable underwater robots to map
and monitor pockets of the ocean to track the health of fisheries, and survey marine habitats and species. In general, such robots are effective at carrying out low-level tasks,
Williams explains. hat the system does is, it makes those choices, but makes sure it satisfies all the timing constraints
which performed an asteroid flyby in 1999. hat was the first chance to demonstrate goal-directed autonomy in deep space,
offers a method to potentially improve the makeup and color of optical materials used in computer screens along with other consumer products.
and always in the same direction. hat got our curiosity up, said Lin. hy is it bending in one direction?
which causes the Earth auroral displays the planet magnetic field interacting with the solar wind. hat we see on this object appears to be the same phenomenon wee seen on Jupiter, for example,
Fedeles says. hat gave us confidence that this phenomenon would in fact happen in human cells containing high levels of 5clc.
Yount said. hat was a huge finding that you don need an infection or interferon to increase the level of IFITM3.
they discovered that the seismic vibrations being detected by the equipment was caused by meltwater percolating down through the glacier and weaving its way through the complicated plumbing system in the interior of the ice.
who worked in collaboration with researchers at ETH Zurich. hat essentially what this robot is doing we can actually watch the improvement
Even cooler are the implications for future manned missions to the moon. hat interesting for space travel is you can have people on the surface for long periods because of the temperature extremes
and thus readily identifiable. hat useful because it means we had a way to do multicolor imaging within a very narrow emission window,
Kilian said. hat important, because once you have that architecture, then you can ask fundamental biological questions.
the control of polarization also enables simple gadgets such as 3-D glasses and polarized sunglasses. f you think of a modern microscope,
it has multiple components that have to be assembled carefully inside, Faraon says. ut with our platform,
It turns out that terahertz waves leak out a different angles depending on their frequency. hat means
Mittleman said. hat means theyl start coming up with clever ideas that are entirely different from this one
and the Howard hughes medical institute. hat we can engineer CAR T cells to have slightly different, quite powerful effects even if for a subset of patients or for certain types of cancer is really remarkable,
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 proposeduch as integrated circuit cards and mobile wallets systems.
hat is most exciting about this discovery is the possibility for us to use peptides
of which exactly three are bound to the genetic material something Drennan says surprised her. hat the best part about science,
#Researchers disguise drugs as platelets to target cancer Researchers have developed for the first time a technique that coats anticancer drugs in membranes made from a patient own platelets,
The work was tested successfully in an animal model. here are two key advantages to using platelet membranes to coat anticancer drugs,
such as the skin of the caps of portabella mushrooms, for making batteries. It is expected that nearly 900,000 tons of natural raw graphite would be needed for anode fabrication for nearly six million electric vehicle forecast to be built by 2020.
and an assistant professor of chemistry in the College of Science at Oregon State university. hat assumption is said incorrect,
So we have to find alternatives. hat alternative he said, may be potassium, which is 880 times more abundant in the Earth crust than lithium.
and vice versa. hat wee done is alter the sensitivity and specificity of different probes in a way that independent and decoupled,
or peppering it with a little more of the protector. hat a reasonable analogy for what wee doing:
said Crawford. hat is needed desperately is a technology for manipulating one element at a time. It fell to Pratiksha Thakore, a Phd student in Gersbach lab,
Wang says this work has demonstrated hat you can actively modify the rate of nucleation. It has not been shown previously that this is possible. ower plant operators are rightly conservative about making changes,
the cell protein-building machinery uses a cap, a building block that has been modified through a process called methylation,
this cap becomes inoperative, shutting down the protein-making machinery. The researchers have discovered that during this shutdown phase,
heat shock genes employ an alternate methyl cap, called m6a, to recruit the protein-building apparatus to make heat shock proteins.
A cloaking device for magnetic fields could make it easier for doctors to utilize MRI during operations by idingthe field from surgical instruments. hat just one application.
and discovered that the magnetic field within the sphere could be rendered invisible to outside detection. hat essentially
and it very resourceful at acquiring resistance. hat we have now may not work in a few years,
have versions of it. hat we discovered earlier this year is that the human and bacterial versions bind molecules differently,
like a zipper, is responsible for separating DNA into two single strands in preparation for replication.
and even furniture and clothing, he says a
#Google Bids to Make its Sideshows into Main Attractions Google founders Larry page and Sergey Brin seem determined to prove they gave the world more than a great advertising business.
How long that will take is anybody guess. Calico looks to be the mooniest of moonshots.
In a 1998 experiment, also at Case Western, a volunteer named Jim Jatich used signals collected from an EEG cap he wore over his head to trigger an early FES device known as Freehand,
#Tesla Model S hack marks third incident in two weeks Talk about a hat trick. Hackers sorry, security experts at mobile cybersecurity firm Lookout have compromised successfully a Tesla Model S. This is the third connected car hack in the last two weeks,
or white hats Mahaffey and partner Marc Rogers of web performance and security firm Cloudflare have worked already with Tesla to issue an over-the-air security update the week of Def Con before publishing their findings.
Short after, another white hat hacker revealed a flaw in Onstar's connected system that left any General motors car equipped with the service wide open to remote door unlocks and ignition starts.
and uses a headband to detect when you're concentrating on something. Changes in blood flow in the prefrontal cortex can signal brain activity,
and shoppers ravenously scooped up deals on tech, games and clothing in what was in many countries the biggest weekend of online shopping in history.
Boots and Game's websites all requiring smelling salts. The Currys website in the UK crashed
"The weather meant that clothing retailers had a lot of stock left to shift, so they used the cover of Black Friday to mark down stock."
co-senior author of the paper and an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State. hat compression helps push the drug out of the microcapsule.
Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) cap, the system allows users to move forwards, turn left and right, sit
with EEG caps and hardware now emerging on the consumer market. It only took volunteers a few minutes to be trained in how to operate the system
meaning they remain magnetic in the absence of a field. aving such a small variety of magnetic materials limits our ability to tailor magnetic systems to the needs of applications without using very rare
whether it through satnav or simply the smartphones in our pockets better data in means we get better data out on the road.
He said on Thursday about two billion Powerpacks could store enough electricity to meet the entire world needs. hat may seem like an insane number,
The shoes are the first illustration of a new method of weaving in three dimensions created by Nigerian American industrial designer Oluwaseyi Sosanya.
Sitting somewhere between the traditional art of weaving and the recent home availability of 3d printers,
Sosanya has created a way to weave materials such as wool and cotton in three dimensions before they are sealed to maintain a rigid structure.
The method he said, could be applied to protective clothing in sports, for making bulletproof vests and in constructing buildings.
Sosanya is in the early states of developing the new weaving method, an idea which came to the 31-year-old
This shirt that I am wearing right now is woven in the same way as a shirt that was made 3, 000 years ago,
It was with this in mind that he found himself in Huddersfield talking to veteran weavers in mills who explained to him in detail the traditional ways of weaving cloths.
Lengthwise yarns the warp are interwoven over and under with yarns called the weft. But what was not being done was weaving in three dimensions
nor was it being done seemingly by anyone else, according to patent research. Back in London, Sosanya had learned to weave
and used his background in mechanical engineering and computer programming to handbuild a machine which guides yarn in set patterns over layers to create the 3d shapes such as those used on the soles of the navy shoes he created.
Above those tubes is a mechanised eederwhich winds the fabric for example cotton around them in shapes dictated by a set pattern programmed into a computer.
The tubes act as scaffolding for the grid of fabric to be built on top. To make the structure rigid
the thread is coated in silicone which then solidifies. When the desired shape is completed, the tray at the bottom of the machine is slid out and the mesh
Where traditional weaving has the warp and the weft, Sosanya has replaced the warp with the rigid tubes
As there is one continuous piece of thread which is used through the whole structure, further strength is added.
Different fabrics can be used at different stages of the weave and the density and pattern can be altered throughout,
Sosanya is now investigating how the new method of weaving could be used practically. Custom-made shoes are one of the first potential uses. ou have all of these opportunities now where you can do customisation around footwear,
he said. ith this weaving system you can pre-programme the density. At the ball of your foot, you may want a denser material.
which play into the performance of our footwear. Now with 3d printing you can scan your foot
or even a whole sole or the whole shoe at some point. he designer and the chiropodist can say that you need to remove some material here
You have all of these opportunities now where you can do customisation around footwear. i
#Brain-training game helps'minimise impact of schizophrenia on life'A rain traininggame improves the cognitive function of people with schizophrenia
for the launch on Monday, concierges in red shirts met guests to help them order.
Not far from San francisco, a hotel in Sunnyvale, the Aloft Cupertino, recently began testing a robot that assists its human colleagues with daily tasks such as changing linens
for example, and a lot depends on the dress code workers are asked to comply with skirts are cooler than trousers, after all
The cap-and-trade system, which is due to come into effect in 2017, will be announced by Chinese president Xi Jinping during A white house summit meeting with President Obama on Friday.
Under the agreement, China's government will place a cap on annual carbon emissions, forcing any firms that go over that limit to buy permits allowing them to do so.
introducing cap-and-trade schemes in seven provinces in 2012 as trials for the nationwide program.
President Obama attempted to introduce his own cap-and-trade system during his first term,
and loosely ties into NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton, was an all-Apple affair. Dre announced the album on his own Beats 1 radio show, The Pharmacy,
"said CEO Jonathan Nelson in a statement. hat can we do to help address gender bias in the innovation capital of the world?
it still has its fans--in Phoenix. Guess the desert community just hasn caught up with the rest of the world.
The irish court rejected the suit and Schrems appealed to the European high court.""This decision is a major blow for U s. global surveillance that heavily relies on private partners.
in this computer-generated virtual clothes showroom, I could choose from an in-the-air menu
whether to peruse clothing, shoes, gift cards, or other options. As prompted, I chose shoes.
Grabbing and throwing a shoe created an in-the-air shoe profile, with a video clip, size
Grabbing and throwing the shoe at a clothed manikin in the center of the showroom attached the shoe to the dummy foot,
Rubin said, in your pajamas. Of course, if such VR shopping did redefine e-commerce, it could become yet another reason for physical retailers to fear for their lives
#Microsoft granted patent for glasses that detect wearer's emotions Put this one in the WTF file.
The United states Patent and Trademark Office granted Microsoft a patent today for a pair of glasses that can detect a wearer emotional response to what theye looking at.
If the wearer is looking at a person through the glasses, the emotional state of that person can be detected,
say, and the glasses detect that audience members look bored, the specs my suggest a joke for the speaker to insert into the speech
Stratos will also have to contend with digital wallets like Google Wallet Apple Passbook, and Paypal,
The idea is connected that one credit card is easier to manage and safer than a wallet full of credit cards.
he says. hat worried us because investing historically has been one of the best ways to make money over the long-term.
"Over the last three years, we've been excited very to see many'white collar'entrepreneurs,
"That involves spinning up the VMS, deploying the software, configuring all the nodes-a ton of work going in there.
This material--just a single layer of atoms--could be made as a wearable device perhaps integrated into clothing to convert energy from your body movement to electricity
and power wearable sensors or medical devices or perhaps supply enough energy to charge your cell phone in your pocket says James Hone professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia and co-leader of the research.
Scientists studying the source of chronic abdominal and pelvic floor pain found an unexpected connection in the brain between the pelvic floor--the muscle responsible for among other things keeping you from peeing your pants--and various muscles throughout the body.
Earth's radiation belts are regions in near-Earth space that contain vast quantities of solar energetic electrons trapped there by Earth's magnetic field.
If the bottleneck is large the genetic makeup of the mother's mitochondria will be passed to her children Makova explained.
--if there is a severe decrease in mitochondrial molecules during the egg-cell development--then the genetic makeup of the child might differ dramatically from that of the mother.
They are made of special glasses containing up to 50 percent by weight of lead oxide which can be dangerous to one's health.
To decorate the bottles manufacturers grind these special glasses together with inorganic pigments print them as pastes on the base glass and melt them on.
In a further step they are working to produce glasses with a processing temperature of only 540 degrees Celsius.
If the glasses are heated they expand at different rates--experts speak here of the thermal expansion coefficients (TEC) for the respective Glass in order for the imprints to not flake off they have to expand similar to the glass on
On behalf of the Forschungsgemeinschaft Technik und Glas e. V. FTG the Fraunhofer researchers are developing a catalog of all the developed low-melting glasses and their properties.
The researchers believe that finding new targets in the gastrointestinal tract could lead to new therapies for many more diseases. hat one of the fun things in scienceow we get to follow up on these different avenues,
are Audrey S. Black and David J. Bonnet of TSRI
#The dwindling stock of antibiotics, and what to do about it Michael Kinch Phd associate vice chancellor and director of the Center for Research Innovation in Business is among that number.
Cotton balls give him goose bumps. Now, blindfolded during an experiment, he feels his arm hairs rise
when a researcher brushes the back of his prosthetic hand with a cotton ball. Spetic, of course, can't feel the ball.
"I knew immediately it was said cotton, "he. That's one of several types of sensation Spetic, of Madison, Ohio, can feel with the prosthetic system being developed by Case Western Reserve University and the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical center.
The app's minimal processing footprint means it could also run on smart watches or in augmented reality glasses.
Secondly the polymers help to form sticky biofilms which can trap the T. gondii egg cells and coat kelp on which marine snails graze.
By contrast a remotely created 3d image of a footprint can nondestructively reveal more details than a photograph such as exact measurements of shoe tread.
The tread may show individual wear marks from a bicycle pedal for example a type of detail that could link a specific shoe to a crime scene.
*CAP-GLY domain containing linker protein 2. The exact function of CLIP2 in the carcinogenesis of thyroid carcinoma is unknown.
and the prey species the Bythotrephes eats have developed devices to protect themselves like helmets and spines.
Vuletic says. hat is new in our system is, for the first time on the atomic scale, we can see this transition from friction to superlubricity. uletic,
and so on. hat we can do is adjust at will the distance between the atoms to either be matched to the optical lattice for maximum friction,
said graduate student and co-author Jim Cybulski. hat lends itself very well to a variety of applications.
she says. hat true in India and that also true in the U s. ource: Julia Sklar, MIT Newsimage:
which optical signals can be sent through optical fibers, breaking key barriers that limit the distance information can travel in fiber optic cables
#Niobium Nanowire Yarns Make High-performance Supercapacitors Using yarns made from niobium nanowire, researchers at MIT have developed a new approach to making supercapacitors.
The new approach uses yarns, made from nanowires of the element niobium, as the electrodes in tiny supercapacitors (which are essentially pairs of electrically conducting fibers with an insulator between).
but the niobium yarns are stronger and 100 times more conductive. Overall, niobium-based supercapacitors can store up to five times as much power in a given volume as carbon nanotube versions.
and could be woven into fabrics, enabling wearable forms; individual niobium nanowires are just 140 nanometers in diameter 140 billionths of a meter across,
and keeping positive and negative charges separated, Tolbert said. hat separation is the key to making the process so efficient.
The study also suggests the broader potential for adapting nanoscale drug-delivery techniques developed for use in environmental remediation. hat we can apply some of the highly sophisticated,
which allows people to store digital wallets securely on their mobile devices. Credit card and other payment information can be stored in the digital wallet
allowing people to pay without needing to swipe or manually enter their credit card information. Reducing lines through convenience There is no doubt that contactless cards are fast.
and features such as discussion threads that keep related topics together have helped a great deal with organization--but that's really only pertinent for your individual inbox.
So with some success under his belt and new innovations in the world of Docstoc,
A site where people can rent designer dresses, gowns and clothing for events, rather than buy them outright.
A platform for sharing outgrown children's clothing. Airbandb: An inventory of apartments and rooms that travelers can rent as an alternative to hotels s
a patent-pending technology that uses a growing organism and byproducts from food production (oat hulls from New york, cotton hulls from Texas and rice hulls from Arkansas) to create a strong composite material.
CELP can reduce the data rate of voice signals by about a factor of 10. hat coding did a good job on speech
#Knitted Supercapacitors to Power Smart Shirts Researchers from Drexel University in collaboration with the U s. Naval academy, have invented a way to embed activated carbon particles into different types of yarn to form a knitted textile that can store
Smart fabrics, which incorporate different types of sensors into garments, have been in development for decades. However, only in recent years have started we seeing the first consumer smart garments reaching the market,
and well being (such as the Somnus Sleep Shirt developed to monitor both the quality and quantity of your sleep).
the smart garment sector will grow from around 100,000 units sold worldwide in 2014 to a whooping 26 million units predicted for 2016.
Creating a flexible energy storage that can be integrated into the fabric has been the goal of several research groups around the world.
and carbon nanotubes that could be woven into clothing. At the time these fibers were said to obtain the highest volumetric energy density reported for carbon-based microscale supercapacitors (6. 3 microwatt-hours per cubic millimeter,
Trying to create a textile that can store energy without the use of exotic, expensive materials,
using an area of about 3000 cm2 (about the size of the center back panel of a shirt) it is possible to store the equivalent energy of a 4 cm2,
into a cellulose-based yarn made from cotton, linen, bamboo, or viscosell of which have been tested electrochemically by Drexel team at the A j. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute,
and when the yarn was swelled partially, pressure was applied to it in order to embed the carbon into the fiber surface.
Finally, the yarn was spooled and rinsed with water, which helped remove the ionic liquid and re-solidify the cellulose.
Durkin was able to develop a small NFW machine to continuously create tens of meters of yarn at a time."
Although we will probably not be using energy storage textiles to power our smartphones any time soon due to the low energy density of the current technology,
but they all had attached solid battery packs to the shirt, rather than incorporating an energy storing fabric.
under his sleeve; it beams data to the screen of a pager-size reader. He uses the information to help decide what to eat
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