The floor was awash in the flotsam of three freshmen clothes, backpacks, homework, packages of Chips Ahoy and Cap Crunch Crunch Berries.
This may delight undergraduates who do not have to change out of pajamas to ttendclass.
a live video feed she switched on at one point showed her in black librarian glasses and a tank top.
and struggled to find enough resources to cope with last year fires. hat is most frustrating is that
Yougov research, commissioned by digital payments provider Intelligent Environments, says 42 per cent of smartphone users want to use their phones as mobile wallets.
the government is suggesting there is a darker side to cuddly figures like Cap Crunch, the Keebler elves,
Froot Loops and Cap Crunch, for example, contain 12 grams of sugar a serving. The salt restrictions are particularly stringent,
cream-colored blouses, managed to sell anything. If only we could have cloned her! But we could never have imagined that we wouldn t need to.#
shaking international ties and making many people reevaluate how they live their lives online.####But it would be a mistake to see 2013 purely in terms of Edward Snowden and his revelations.
connecting previously unconnected pockets of data without making this obvious to users or giving them a meaningful way to say no.
Proponents explain that we already enjoy glasses, false teeth, titanium hip replacements, cochlear implants, and prosthetic limbs.
or being embedded in clothing or other discrete wearable devices like fitness sensors, wristwatches#or even temporary tattoos.
Anticipatory computing and the end of interfaces Objects on our bodies (health monitors, smart glasses) and in our homes and businesses (smart thermostats, lights, appliances and security systems) can all be programmed to interact in complicated and unexpected ways
That s no accident##PETMAN was developed to test the durability of chemical protection suits used in hazardous environments,
including the helmet displays the US Air force has deployed in the F-16 and A-10. The company s consumer plans have been a little later to the game,
Tesla and Solarcity s combined market cap##$21. 3 billion##exceeds that of the parent companies of Pacific gas & electric and Southern California Edison, the two big California utilities
High-tech card could replace everything in your wallet What if you could carry a single credit card device in your wallet that would digitally store up to eight credit, debit, membership,
and gift cards and lets you switch between them with just a push of a button?
Companies like Apple and Google have tried to give us digital wallets, but nothing has caught really on.
People still feel tied to their physical wallets.####Coin is a new product that became available for preorder today.
#3d printed biodegradable underwear can be made in 3 seconds 3d printed underwear. For those who hate to do laundry the days of washing your underwear may soon be over.
Thanks to the power and versatility of 3d textile#printing, the Tamicare company has created a biodegradable
cotton or other fibers are extruded seamlessly to form layers of a breathable fabric, ideal for usage in sportswear, bandages and undergarments.
it s probably just as capable of producing a#sleek men s suit#as it would a basic cotton henley,
and Twitter have followed suit, adopting the model to slash their development time. And now Gartner has included reactive programming in its#newest report#on the hottest application developmenttrends of 2013.6.
The pocket-sized drones, which were unveiled at the Association of the U s army Expo for the first time last week,
since the makeup of Japanese household waste has been#found to contain#over 30%plastic, most of it from packaging.
every adventurer to wear on their belt, and every soldier, sailor, and construction worker to have within arm reach at any given moment?
more remained for threatened wildlife. hat wee doing in Georgia and Idaho is catching on around the world,
A pair of smart socks could for example, relay data about your jog to a jogging app on your phone.
those of us who need glasses to see a TV or laptop screen clearly could ditch the eyeglasses.
The technology uses algorithms to alter an image based on a person's glasses prescription together with a light filter set in front of the display.
Researchers say the idea is to anticipate how your eyes will naturally distort whatever's on screen something glasses
In addition to making it easier for people with simple vision problems to use all kinds of displays without glasses
the technique may help those with more serious vision problems caused by physical defects that can't be corrected with glasses or contacts,
and then you can leave it in your pocket because the buzzing in your left
or right shoe will lead the way. Ducere was started by two Indian engineers who had studied
Yet I think the fear-response produced by this uncanniest valley will have a similar effect to disgust in relationshipst hat is,
some purchasing $500 leather handbags to carry them, she says. You wouldn t come in here
and spend $100 on a collar if you didn t absolutely worship your dog, she says.
From the rise of peer-to-peer lending models, mobile wallets, digital investment advisory, to the bitcoin revolution, today s digital disintermediation comes in many forms##all of
The cheap printing of socks and underwear doesn t look that far off, except that, unsurprisingly,
the fashion industry isn't too comfortable with fledgling designers and home-based fashionistas disrupting the way we make
and buy clothes like Martin Starr's character Gilfoyle disrupted that hotel bathroom in Silicon valley.
One fashion company already made Openknit edit their branding out of its promo video. Kurzweil said transnational fashion enterprises aren t into it because
Printing socks and underwear may go on to reduce the difficulty of making jeans to making toast
but at least in rich countries, we'll still buy snow pants and tuxedos from someone else e
phones are typically in our pockets. We wanted to make sure there was something right in front of you,
and see people huddled over their desk in fingerless gloves, wearing a blanket, Baker says.
He started bringing in a sweater. Over the next year or so as Apple s new ibeacon technology makes it easier to pinpoint a person at an exact location inside the building,
But it also doesn t permit the customer to try on a garment. Seeing how a color looks against your skin or how an item fits on your body is imperative in deciding
. where startup Ostendo Technologies Inc. has spent the past nine years quietly working on miniature projectors designed to emit crisp videos and glasses-free 3-D images for smartphones and giant screens.
whether it is a glasses-free 3-D television screen, a smartwatch, or tables that can project hologram-like images.
Boots, magic, shields, potions. As students level up, they ll get gold coins as part of their reward.
whether there would be a cap on the amount of money that students could spend. They cant spend that much money,
And I doubt I could afford to pay out of my own pocket. Higuera thinks his students will love the opportunity to customize their characters
your keys, your wallet, your favorite leather jacket? You could even tap into a large group of strangers to help you track down a stolen bike.
If your lost jacket isn in some mysterious corner of your home you can ask all other Tile App users to watch for it.
and they can alert you to the jacket whereabouts. That why its creators, Mike Farley and Nick Evans, call it he world largest lost and found.
describing just how the mind-control helmet was 3d printed layer-by-layer in order to fit the wearer head
#JINS MEME glasses can track the wearer s mental and physical conditions The Tokyo-based eyewear designer JINS stylish new glasses seem like an ordinary pair of glasses at first glance.
However, the JINS MEME glasses offer more than style and comfort: these frames have been designed specifically to monitor your health.
the MEME glasses rely on monitoring a user eye movements and gaze. The glasses contain small metallic lectrooculographysensors in the portions of the frame that touch the face,
such as the bridge, nose pads and the bars that rest on the ears. These sensors then measure the electrical potential of the eye movement;
Other features include a range of styles, from glasses to sunglasses, and the ability to equip the MEME with prescription lenses.
Check out the video below to see how these glasses can be used as a health-monitoring tool t
the patient. hat one of the uses I most excited about, said Dr. Warren Wiechmann,
Smartphones, for example, would be able to heal actual cracks in the casing, rather than micro-filling small scuffs and scratches that result from a pocket full of keys.
Clinkle is introducing a mobile wallet for day to day transactions so rather than put your hand in your pocket for small amounts of cash you can just pay with your phone.
Elsewhere, regulatory changes around crowd funding and peer-to-peer lending are creating great opportunities for people to turn dreams into reality.
Collars with GPS, RFID and biometrics can automatically identify and relay vital information about the livestock in real time.
Mu gloves available to people who want to work with us to shift the paradigm of how music is made
The gloves are a compact, lightweight and self-contained system requiring little more than a laptop to function fully.
The gloves capture the movements and postures of your hands. Our software allows this information to be mapped to musical control messages
Specifically, the gloves track the following: The orientation of your hand The lexof your fingers Your current hand posture (e g. fist, open hand,
means there are literally thousands of independently mappable controls with one pair of gloves(!)-more than most MIDI controllers on the market all without having to even look at a screen during performance.
The gloves are the product of years of research and development, building upon original research at University of the West of England.
A number of iterations of the gloves have been designed, aimed predominantly at producing a gestural performance system for Heap.
We wanted everyone to have the experience of being inside these gloves without as much of the complexity in Imogen original system.
Fast Company has covered previously New york-based medical concierge service Sherpaa and Oscar, a new health insurer which tailors its products for web and mobile use.
Then there the chain mail-like Le69 Handbag and 4-in-1 Dress, created in 2000 and considered the world first functional 3-D printed dress.
smartphones will charge in your pocket as you wander around, televisions will flicker with no wires attached,
hat is the global internet community that Obama wants to turn the internet over to?
suggested that up to a quarter of the service boots on the ground could be replaced by smarter and leaner weaponry.
allowing printers to shift between colors. hat we find really innovative in our approach is we went back to the roots of paper printing
The best configuration, a honeycomb lattice with a 50 nanometer coat of alumina, is less dense than waterthat is,
#High-tech glasses help surgeons see cancer The glasses are designed to make it easy for surgeons to differentiate cancerous cells from healthy cells.
when viewed using the special glasses. Cancer cells are quite difficult to see even through high-powered magnification.
The special glasses are designed to make it easy for surgeons to differentiate cancerous cells from healthy cells allowing surgeons to make sure no cancer cells are left during surgery.
The glasses were developed by a team led by Samuel Achilefu Phd, a professor of radiology and biomedical engineering at the university.
when viewed through the glasses. The usual procedure for surgery requires doctors to remove tumors and neighboring tissue
if these glasses eliminated the need for follow-up surgery and the associated pain, inconvenience and anxiety.
Pointwise director of applied research. hat we are releasing today for production use is the result of a multi-year research effort Pointwise conducted with funding from the U s. Air force Arnold Engineering Development Complex,
which creates a pocket of liquid, quicksand-like material around the clam's body. That watery mix reduces drag
so it won't likely be applicable to a Harry potter-esque suit-sized version. But it can conceal objects without distortion
There always the chance that regular riders on the route hat nice old lady from South Bristol who travels to Keynsham every Sunday to visit her sister re being propelled in part by their own poo.
#'Astroskin'smart shirt monitors astronauts'health in Antarctica Remember that pivotal scene in the movie"Apollo 13"in which crewmembers rip the biomedical sensors off their bodies?
In a few years, the same procedure could be as easy as taking off your shirt,
Astroskin, a prototype device to monitor astronaut health, is a garment that fits over a person's upper body
Before sending Canadian company Carré Technologies'smart shirt on a ride to orbit, however, a lot of testing must be done to make sure it works as well as the Canadian space agency (CSA) hopes it will.
This means the suit is getting tested during skiing, walking and climbing Antarctica's jagged peaks and glaciers.
The University of Quebec at Montreal is monitoring the suit both from the Antarctic and in its labs,
"They can have these shirts on them all the time. It can trigger alarms if something wrong is happening,
Other organizations are also developing advanced garments for use in space. Scientists with the European space agency and other institutions, for example, are working on a tight-fitting"skinsuit"that could help astronauts combat the back problems that are a common consequence of long-term spaceflight l
In July scientists will test the suit as a scientific tool off the coast of New england.
The pressurized suit has four 1. 6-horsepower thrusters to propel the diver up down forward backward or to the side.
or even to make clothing with fibers that expand or contract to keep the wearer cool or warm.
when the air temperature warms to let the clothing breathe. Baughman has made artificial muscles out of carbon nanotube yarns before
The work ties into Obokata's other research into stress. As explained on her lab's web page All organisms possess instincts to survive exposures to external stresses by adapting to their environment and to some degree regenerating injured tissues or organs.
#$1. 7 million personal submarine lets you'fly'underwater Adventurers with deep pockets can now explore the hidden depths of the ocean,
thinner and faster in order to fit in our pockets and on our laps, you may look at modern day room-sized supercomputers and balk.
Your office is in your pants: How the smartphone is changing the way we live and work.
or hat the value of happiness? In fact you can. If your senator wants to cancel a high-speed rail line
and money to do these studies and you can do hat ifanalyses of alternatives. Which is all a very long-winded background to an interesting product that was announced today.
Nature News The global drive to eliminate the last pockets of polio infection is to receive a boost of more than half-a billion dollars from international donors.
Pockets of the disease exist in four countries: Nigeria, where polio vaccines were denounced by religious leaders,
The existence of residual pockets of infection is the main reason why the drive to completely erase the disease has failed so far,
yielding numerous discrete pockets of crystalline order within a larger, somewhat disordered polycrystalline structure. At temperatures above 1, 800 degrees Celsius and pressures of up to 15 gigapascals (roughly 150
The change is needed to mop up the last remaining pockets of polio, but experts say that it poses challenges in places such as Kaduna city,
By then, the country will also have reached a cap on the amount of money that it can borrow.
That s the configuration the belts were in when James Van allen first spotted them using satellite data half a century ago,
narrow belt of charged particles sandwiched between the inner ring and a now highly eroded outer ring."
Seven or eight days later, a third shock wave somehow restored the original structure of the two belts as depicted in textbooks,
NASATHE two Van allen Probes orbit through the radiation belts that surround Earth, shown in cross section in this artist's impression.
Baker goes on to say that data collected by the probes on 9 october revealed that"suddenly the whole outer belt was lit up again but with the middle ring gone.
demonstrate that solar outbursts are indeed a strong driving force behind the structure of the belts
details about the dramatic reshaping of the outer belt and the location of the month-long middle ring cannot be explained by current theory.#
The chip s power source is positioned under the skin behind the ear and connected via a thin cable#no glasses or camera required.
because the pockets in the crystalline sponge are not big enough. But Fujita says his team is trying to make sponges with larger pockets."
"Our next grand challenge is to apply this method to protein crystallography, he says
#Synthetic vaccine could prevent future outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease Virologists have devised a way to create an entirely synthetic vaccine for foot-and-mouth disease.
But in one area of the 1b receptor, the binding pocket was wider than in the 2b receptor1.
because they re making fun of your tie again r
#'Hologram-lite'idea for 3d phone displays Now physicist David Fattal and his colleagues at Hewlett-packard Laboratories in Palo alto have developed a sort of'hologram-lite'approach.
"you don't need to guess what is happening#you can see it. The increased imaging power could,
but hat happens next has been a mystery for 25 years, says Rick Huganir, Ph d.,director of the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience at the Johns hopkins university School of medicine.
Knight said. hat we found instead was very surprising. If you simply give food to the mouse,
and he believes the new research may provide a new perspective on these efforts. hat probably drives obesity is the rewarding aspect of food.
because it is anchored to the polyacrylate gel. hat youe left with is a three-dimensional, fluorescent cast of the original material.
#Brain-Sensing Headband Helps Users Manage Stress Technology and relaxation don always go hand in hand. However, a brain-sensing headband that reads brain waves
and provides real-time feedback has been developed to help users better focus and manage stress. The Muse headband is lined with seven EEG sensors that detect the brain electrical activity
and sends information about the user state of mind to a smartphone app, Calm, which is available on both ios and Android.
Interaxon, the company behind the Muse headband and a Mars venture client, claims that sustained use of the device will train one brain to stay more naturally calm and focused.
and starting with 3 to 5 minutes can dramatically help you with mental exercises like meditation. he Muse headband costs $300
or even scan the composition of your clothing and jewelry. Iris Scanner Identifies A Person 40 Feet Awayto manage the high-octane number crunching required, SCIO uses cloud technology and a kind of crowdsourcing solution.
You can pre-order the SCIO pocket sensor now for $249 or if you want to design your own apps,
either a white or blue hat to wear atop their head. They can all see each other hat.
Without communicating with each other they are left to work out the color of the hat by
what the others are wearing. Up until now, only peopleot robotsave been able to solve this riddle.
suggesting that B2m is part of a pathway that affects the brain. hat this shows is that you can manipulate the blood, rather than the brain, to potentially treat memory problems,
The new approach dubbed G-HAT for Glimpsing Heat from Alien Technologies makes no assumptions about
The G-HAT team combed through the catalogue of images generated by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer or WISE
or from water pockets that wouldn't last long enough for life to get a toehold.
One of the alternative models was just little pockets of water driving the jets and in that model you wouldn't have much in the way of life
Coe-Sullivan enrolled in 15.390 (New Ventures) to further develop a business model. hat led to the more rigorous formation of a sales and marketing plans,
compared with today more common 260-foot towers. hat site-dependent, Smith adds. f you go somewhere in the Midwest where there open plains,
and can even play basketball with his friends. hat was, and is, so amazing to me that research has the potential to totally give a person their life back,
They adjusted parameters such as speed of deployment and the speed of the belt, and observed how the cable coiled as it hit the surface.
and tangles, Reis says. hat can lead to signal attenuation. But if the boat is traveling faster,
including the speed of the belt and the spool. The team used a digital video camera to record the filamentsmotion as they hit the belt,
and observed three main patterns: meandering waves, alternating loops, and repeated coils. A Hollywood makeover To see
Grinspun says. e want to capture the motion of hair and clothing in a realistic way,
Instead of climbing into a conventional bulky gas-pressurized suit an astronaut may don a lightweight stretchy garment lined with tiny musclelike coils.
and essentially shrinkwrap the garment around her body. The skintight pressurized suit would not only support the astronaut
but would give her much more freedom to move during planetary exploration. To take the suit off she would only have to apply modest force returning the suit to its looser form.
Now MIT researchers are one step closer to engineering such an active second-skin spacesuit: Dava Newman a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at MIT and her colleagues have engineered active compression garments that incorporate small springlike coils that contract in response to heat.
The coils are made from a shape-memory alloy (SMA) a type of material that remembers an engineered shape
Ultimately the big advantage is mobility and a very lightweight suit for planetary exploration. The coil design was conceived by Bradley Holschuh a postdoc in Newman s lab. Holschuh
how to squeeze in and out of a pressurized suit that s engineered to be extremely tight.
when heated to produce a significant amount of force given its slight mass ideal for use in a lightweight compression garment.
Once you put the suit on you can run a current through all these little features
and the suit will shrinkwrap you and pull closed. Keeping it tightthe group s next challenge is finding a way to keep the suit tight.
To do this Holschuh says there are only two options: either maintaining a constant toasty temperature or incorporating a locking mechanism to keep the coils from loosening.
For instance an array of coils may be incorporated into the center of a suit with each coil attached to a thread that radiates to the suit s extremities.
and pressurize the suit. Or smaller arrays of coils could be placed in strategic locations within a spacesuit to produce localized tension
If your suit happens to have sensors it could tourniquet you in the event of injury without you even having to think about it.
An integrated suit is exciting to think about to enhance human performance Newman adds. We re trying to keep our astronauts alive safe
and tailor them for different applications without having to build everything from scratch, he says. But companies developing cameras, sensors,
or wireless gloves to seamlessly scroll through and manipulate visual data on a wall-sized, panoramic screen.
a professor of mechanical science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. hat is just enough to make cells of different sizes
Knezevic says. hat not simple for engineers today, since with other software it not feasible to simulate large structures in full 3-D detail.
along with Leurent who actually started FEA work with Patera group back in 2000 earned a Deshpande innovation grant for their upercomputing-on-a-smartphoneinnovation. hat was a trigger,
Chen says. hat technology can be translated easily. t is important that we consider the life cycles of the materials in large-scale energy systems,
This technique which cuts the amount of time required to analyze epigenetic modifications could be a valuable research tool as well as a diagnostic device for cancer patients says Andrea Armani a professor of chemical engineering
It s a really innovative approach Armani says. Not only could it impact diagnostics but on a broader scale it could impact our understanding
Since the material is flexible Wang says that it may even be woven into fabric to create rain-resistant clothing.
he says. hat gives us a lot of information about the sound that going on around the object,
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