Lily is programmed to fly itself thanks to an external GPS device that can be slipped into a user pocket.
Included in the pocket GPS unit are sensors that will let Lily know if a user is moving vertically such as a jump or fall.
Additionally, the pocket unit will feature buttons that allow a user to bring the device closer
of which can be trained onto the user through the use of the pocket GPS unit. Balaresque just might have a holiday hit on his hands
and yet all along wee been carrying 99%of the required technology in our very own pockets.
#Sponge Suit 3d printed bikini with cleantech material cleans water as you swim From the ocean to our local lakes and even neighbourhood swimming pools,
and has been incorporated into a 3d printed bikini that will allow wearers to clean our oceans as they swim.
and the material can be used up to 20 times before being recycled. e designed a swimwear that is environmentally proactive,
The make the swimsuit, the material was moulded into the shape of a bikini and encapsulated into a agemade from a strong 3d printed elastomer with the necessary flexibility to fit to the contours of the body.
In addition to the stylish bikini shown above, the material could also be used for men bathing suits, swimming caps or full-body wetsuits.
And, once the material has been used sufficiently, the pads can simply be replaced with fresh ones to continue its water-cleaning mission without requiring the wearer to buy a brand new suit.
The developers even predict that in the near future, there could be facilities much like dry cleaners that collect the used Spongesuits,
separate the contaminants, and recycle the rest. Finally, the material is surprisingly affordable and has serious mass market potential.
Channels and pockets were implemented then to enhance the flow and functionality of the cells. This can only be achieved using multi-material 3d printing with high spatial resolution for manufacturing. n the end
While You Swim in the 3d printed Spongesuit Bikini As our oceans become more and more polluted by our habits of wasting
But a team of engineers from the University of California Riverside are trying to help clean up the mess with an amazing 3d printed concept called the Spongesuit bikini,
and thus the Spongesuit bikini was created by housing the pongematerial within a 3d printed swimsuit. The 3d printed elastomer body of the Spongesuit bikini has a unique, spiderweb-like design,
and acts as the structure for the pongetechnology filler. This way, the 3d printed lasto plasticholds the material in place,
unless the swimsuit is heated at an extreme temperature of 1, 000 degrees Celsius. Held firmly by the 3d printed weblike design
while the environmental implications behind the material technology stands to help in many ways beyond a water cleaning bathing suit.
But for now, these UC Riverside engineers are offering us (well bikini-wearers at least) an opportunity to strap on the Spongesuit
and put in a pocket, 'explains Jürgen Steimle, who heads the'Embodied Interaction Group'in which Weigel is doing his research.'
sparkling saris, said she believed when her girls grow up they will see moving back to India as a career aspiration-in the same way she saw the US as way to a better life e
Corresponding author Zhen Gu, an assistant professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at North carolina State university and the University of North carolina Chapel hill, said there are two significant benefits in using platelet membranes to coat anticancer drugs.
which are responsible for the production of protective mucus that coats and shields the intestine-a common occurrence in NEC. The observation,
Beginning with Scotland prohibition on domestic genetically modified crop cultivation on Aug 9, Europe scientists and farmers watched with mounting dismay as other countries followed suit.
He cofounded the Rocawear clothing line, co-owns the 40/40 line of bars and clubs,
"Coats, backpacks, boots, shoes, wallets, and belts are all available to be voted on, as well as watches, razors, camping equipment, headphones, and drones.
clothing and electronics that helped power the country's economic ascent. Now, factories are rapidly replacing those workers with automation,
Each volunteer was given clean clothing to wear and sat on a plastic chair that had been disinfected.
Riverside engineers is the key component of a swimsuit that won an international design competition for its ability to clean water as a person swims.
such as the swimsuit, came from Pinar Guvenc, Inanc Eray and Gonzalo Carbajo, partners of Eray Carbajo,
and worked with them to design the swimsuit. Their design won first place at the Reshape 15 Wearable technology Competition
The team's design molds the Sponge material into the shape of a bikini and encapsulates it in a netlike cage made of 3d printed elastomer that forms to the body.
The material could also be incorporated into such things as bathing suits swimming caps and wet suits. The Sponge material can absorb up to 25 times its own weight
and it doesn't release the absorbed materials unless it is heated at a temperature exceeding 1, 000 degrees Celsius.
and wondered if it might have something to do with the stem cells of the tissue that coats the tonsils.
With that said, here what we think Apple has up its sleeves. By and large, the next versions of the iphone are being referred to as the sand s Plus.
The pockets of plasma born of these collisions are much smaller than those created by heavier atoms,
On the other hand, ubiquitins have a subtle trick up their sleeves they can tag other tags. This gives them a near-exponential flexibility,
Armbands placed underneath their suits will buzz if the plane isn't flying level. The SI2 aircraft has a wingspan of 72 meters (236 feet),
and have far deeper pockets than smaller and nimble tech startups like Transferwise, Azimo or Moneycloud who have made inroads in the sector over the past two years.
within the next five years, they will not only become incorporated into clothing (Athos, Under Armour Under Armour, etc.
but I did not feel present until my iphone was in my pocket. I told myself be here now.
Ebola Suit-Liberia-USAID-CC-Morganawingard-adjusted The researchers plan clinical trials on actual patients next.
if worn on clothing, the technology might be able to make a beer belly look flatter.
in order to avoid a repeat of the endgateproblems that led some to complain their phone had been curving in their pocket.
Channels and pockets were implemented to enhance the flow and functionality of the cells. Such mechanical and optical property gradation can only be achieved using multi-material 3d printing with high spatial resolution for manufacturing
Smart shirt Truposture, made of breathable elastic material with embedded nanosensors, tracks the position of the spine with an accuracy of 0. 5 degrees,
Thus, a carrier smart shirts may be time to think suddenly and take a correct posture,
director of Berkeley Lab Materials sciences Division. ur ultra-thin cloak now looks like a coat. It is easy to design and implement,
After nearly four years of aggressive rehabilitation efforts, Pollock arrived at UCLA having already mastered the use of a battery-powered wearable bionic suit,
"The active thermal cloak might also be applied in human garments for effective cooling and warming,
director of Berkeley Lab Materials sciences Division and a world authority on metamaterials artificial nanostructures engineered with electromagnetic properties not found in nature. ur ultra-thin cloak now looks like a coat.
which the researchers coats with a thin layer of aluminum oxide using atomic layer deposition. The polymer is burned then off
catalyzing a chain reaction as CO2POLYMERIZES with diamine like a zipper running down the channel. Increasing the temperature by 50 degrees Celsius makes the reaction reverse just as quickly.
On route to self-powered smart suits s
#Breakthrough in nonlinear optics research A method to selectively enhance or inhibit optical nonlinearities in a chip-scale device has been developed by scientists,
and put in a pocket, explains Jürgen Steimle, who heads the mbodied Interaction Groupin which Weigel is doing his research. hey are also skin-friendly,
Wed eventually have someone wearing a full-body suit and goggles, so he can feel
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("Sustaining dry surfaces under water),
#Turning clothing into information displays Researchers from Holst Centre (set up by TNO and imec), imec and CMST,
This paves the way to wearable displays in clothing providing users with feedback. Wearable devices such as healthcare monitors and activity trackers are now a part of everyday life for many people.
The next step forward will be to integrate these devices into our clothing. Doing so will make wearable devices less obtrusive and more comfortable
A key step towards realizing wearable devices in clothing is creating displays that can be integrated into textiles to allow interaction with the wearer. earable devices allow people to monitor their fitness
"Our ultra-thin cloak now looks like a coat. It is easy to design and implement,
"Because of its shape flexibility, the active thermal cloak might also be applied in human garments for effective cooling and warming,
they contain water pockets, and they are potentially porous when it comes to water and ions.
Next, the crystal drug is placed into a fat and protein coat, similar to what is done in making a coated ice-cream bar.
Consultant Anaesthetist at Glenfield Hospital. hat we are proposing is a system that learns with the user to form an effective vocabulary that suits the person rather than the machine,
The new approach combines a battery-powered wearable bionic suit that enables people to move their legs in a step-like fashion,
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,
#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
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."
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,
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.
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.
#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.
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
There no question that simply wearing The Contactless Jacket prevents the risk of bringing a wallet with you.
Next, the crystal drug is placed into a fat and protein coat, similar to what is done in making a coated ice-cream bar.
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,
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,
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."
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,
The new approach combines a battery-powered wearable bionic suit that enables people to move their legs in a step-like fashion,
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
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,
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,
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
#Pressure-monitoring stockings to prevent wounds in diabetics Diabetics often have little feeling in their feet
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,
Joggers could use the integrated sensor stockings to analyze their running style and foot positioning y
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,
#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,
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.
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.
"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."
whether it through satnav or simply the smartphones in our pockets better data in means we get better data out on the road.
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
This shirt that I am wearing right now is woven in the same way as a shirt that was made 3, 000 years ago,
for the launch on Monday, concierges in red shirts met guests to help them order.
for example, and a lot depends on the dress code workers are asked to comply with skirts are cooler than trousers, after all
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.
whether to peruse clothing, shoes, gift cards, or other options. As prompted, I chose shoes.
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
"Over the last three years, we've been excited very to see many'white collar'entrepreneurs,
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.
Secondly the polymers help to form sticky biofilms which can trap the T. gondii egg cells and coat kelp on which marine snails graze.
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
#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.
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,
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,
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
The researchers have also been able to add a thin coat of rubber to the sheath-core fibers
Other companies in the ALP sector are following suit, like Dev Bootcamp Localhost, which recently launched.
And now Sidecar a perhaps lesser mentioned competitor in the taxis-that-aren-actuallyaxis arena that wee come to call idesharingfollows suit.
Uncovering pockets of energy waste requires appointing personnel familiar with the scheme; the only other option is to outsource,
and items like designer-specified recommendations based on her selections. f youe looking at a leather jacket,
and Rebecca wants you to have a certain handbag with that or a certain pair of leather pants,
lingerie and adidas lines through a large touch screen display on the shop floor. It goes beyond just the boutique scene:
By bringing the tools of an ophthalmology office into your pocket and offering a very simple and inexpensive way to take great pictures inside the eye doctors can visit locations in need
His thesis project involved the unusual idea of developing an elastic suit to make vertical climbing easier:
and imagine an Iron man style suit. But he recently worked with Herr on a far more minimalistic approach focusing solely on providing mechanical power to the ankle to reduce the energy it needs for walking.
Today he sometimes wears trousers cut off at the knees making his prostheses visible. Herr has never been concerned with appearing to have normal legs;
#Motorized Pants to Help Soldiers and Stroke Victims A soft exoskeleton being developed by researchers at Harvard could let soldiers carry heavy backpacks over long distances or help stroke victims walk more steadily.
and novel soft sensors made of silicone rubber are integrated into the suit. The sensors developed at another lab at Harvard include embedded channels filled with a conductive liquid that changes in resistivity as the silicone is stretched.
#A New Chip Could Add Motion Sensing to Clothing A company called mcube has made a new kind of accelerometer, the device that senses motion from inside a smartphone or fitness monitor.
The component is small and cheap enough to lead to smart electronics in clothing and sports equipment.
and cheaper to make. ou could embed it into your clothing so that you don even know it there,
says mcube CEO Ben Lee. ou could put them in your golf shirt and pants,
Embedding motion sensors in clothing, mcube long-term goal, would require better ways of powering the devices
Depth cameras are quickly gaining prominence for their potential in pocket-sized devices, where the idea is that
while the iriver earbuds are attached to a sort of collar that sits on the neck and includes a battery and device controls.
other countries have followed suit, creating a cyber arms race that will continue to increase demand for exploits.
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