or reconfigure the hardware to get over a failure, on the fly. Principal developer Brian Williams stated that hese vehicles might arrange their own missions,
CHEAP CATALYST Another key advance is the use of active, inexpensive catalysts for fuel production. The photoanode requires a catalyst to drive the essential water-splitting reaction.
Rare and expensive metals such as platinum can serve as effective catalysts, but in its work the team discovered that it could create a much cheaper,
This catalyst is among the most active known catalysts for splitting water molecules into oxygen, protons,
#How to build millions of tiny microscopes all at once A new optical device made of silicon anopillarscould lead to advanced microscopes, displays, sensors,
Manipulating the polarization of light is essential for the operation of advanced microscopes, cameras, and displays;
which allows the outline of prominent photo objects to be identified with the click of the mouse,
The result is a metabolic core that takes CO2 out of the atmosphere and converts it into sugar.
Printing multiple materials with different dynamic mechanical properties in prescribed patterns throughout the 3d object enables the ability to create objects that change shape in a controlled sequence over time.
and Design Centre. e are now extending this concept of digital SMPS to enable printing of SMPS with dynamic mechanical properties that vary continuously in 3d space.
and the Japan Science and Technology Agency, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology funded the work
which is like a computer hard drive, is read, so that the cell switches from a lung cell to a serotonin neuron,
Alternatively, if other camera hardware is used, the mathematical framework developed by the team can compute energy-efficient codes that optimize the amount of energy that reaches the camera. e have a way of choosing the light rays we want to capture
and easily repeatable test for pancreatic cancer, scientists at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University, have developed a three-protein biomarker panel that can screen urine samples to identify pancreatic cancer
However, he went on to note that"most of the magic is in the software, not the hardware. t
a member of the Cerberus gene family, is expressed in the developing and adult mouse retina. pon exposure to recombinant COCO,
#Inkjet printers could produce paper sensors that identify dangerous food and water contaminants Sensors that identify infectious disease
and food contaminants may soon be printed on paper using ordinary office inkjet printers. Researchers at Mcmaster University have developed a prototype that could lead to a commercial product in the next few years which helps doctors
and scientists in the field quickly detect certain types of cancer or bacterial and respiratory infections or monitor toxin levels in water.
In 2012 they used specialized inkjet printers to produce paper strips that change color in the presence of E coli.
"Our original E coli sensor required a very sophisticated ink jet-printer printer and very specialized inks in order to be produced,
and a basic office printer to produce the test strips, meaning that it should be much easier to scale up and manufacture."
A working prototype of the technology will be on display from Apr 13 to 17, at the Hannover Messe industrial trade show d
Over the years, hard drives, CDS, DVDS, and solid state memory came along, but tape is still very much a mainstream technology used in backups, disaster replicas,
A research prototype of the new tape drive is on display at the 2015 National Association Broadcasters Show.
as its core function is to collect valuable data. Fundamentally, what makes a smart sensor"smart"is its onboard signal/data-processing capabilities.
Detection and Distance Measurement The detection and distance measurement is performed by the sensor's processor,
USB, RS-485 and UART), and additional headers are also available for custom expansion. As for the receiver, one can choose from several beam options,
Conclusion This innovative core technology is giving rise to the creation of a completely new generation of ultra-efficient smart sensors,
or 60 fps and features 3g/HD-SDI and HDMI outputs for hooking up to peripherals like recorders and monitors.
Both the 11 and 14-inch versions of the Aspire One Cloudbooks are powered by Windows 10, with Intel Celeron processors, 2 GB RAM and 1, 366 x 768 LED
backlit displays. There's also built-in 802. 11ac wireless a full-sized HDMI port, a pair of USB ports and an SD card slot included.
The systems will ship with a choice of just 16,32 or 64 GB internal storage,
Now, the company is working on a printer that will work outside the station, in the cold vacuum of actual outer space.
#Breakthrough photonic processor promises quantum computing leap Optical quantum computers promise to deliver processing performance exponentially faster and more powerful than today's digital electronic microprocessors.
As a result, a range of different quantum processor operations can be performed at one time. Even better, the stable and quickly reprogrammable nature of the chip's architecture changeable by means of software code means that a vast range of existing
"The number of photon inputs and outputs also means the the new processor can be applied to new areas of research straight away,
which can be applied to sets of qubits to perform the equivalent of Boolean algebraic functions found in standard electronic logic processors also referred to as quantum gates.
which allows public access via the Internet to a working quantum processor, with plans to add even more chips in the near future."
#Snake skin-inspired steel could lead to better hard drives and more When it comes to human phobias,
and researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of technology (KIT) have figured out how to potentially use that feature to enhance everything from hip prostheses to computer hard disks.
With a resolution of 3. 2-gigapixels (enough to need 1, 500 high-definition television screens to display one image),
such as smartwatches, implanted smart monitors, or even ingestible wireless sensors, generally requires that each of these transmit to a receiver using Bluetooth.
such as smart watches, fitness trackers and health monitors,"says Patrick Mercier, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering at UCSD and lead author of the study."
and monitors be made smaller with longer battery life, but it would also reduce the size of ingestible transmitters to something much easier to swallow."
It was applied to the surface of mouse and pig hearts that had suffered from attacks and was found to drive tissue regeneration.
and printer right at the hospital to create custom nerve guides right on site to restore nerve function."
uses a touchscreen and helmet-mounted interface to visualize data collected from a host of sensors on the hull of the vehicle,
while the touchscreen provides a wider view of the unfolding tactical situation, allowing the user to switch perspectives to the viewpoint of other crew members.
A demo unit has been installed on a CV90 tracked vehicle, for display at the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition in London this week
and which uses the silicon-CMOS technology used today for most computer processor chips, "lead researcher Andrew Dzurak told us."
'and make a full-scale quantum processor. That final stage is likely to take 10-20 years."
and which uses the silicon-CMOS technology used today for most computer processor chips, "lead researcher Andrew Dzurak told us."
'and make a full-scale quantum processor. That final stage is likely to take 10-20 years."
without having to add any permanent hardware like metal or plastic implants that are used often to support
because internal hardware can pose a challenge with respect to being a potential site for infection, and can complicate MRI
At the core of the problem is the way doctors test for ovarian cancer. One of the things they look for is called a protein CA125.
or if youe a hardware provider, you can supply the technology to adapt to these prices.
because if a laboratory animal such as a mouse carries the mutation, it is highly likely to exhibit the functional problem
of which is engineering personalized tissue in this case, printing a personalized nerve scaffold for your post-injury healing.
This printing technology takes a slightly different approach: After 3d scanning a rat sciatic nerve, the researchers used a custom-built 3d printer to make silicone guides for nerve regeneration.
and printer right at the hospital to create custom nerve guides right on site to restore nerve function. n
when power is both on and off think of a CD, DVD or hard drive. But computers are limited in their speed by the transmission of electric data between a processor
and the memory stored in these devices called the Von neumann bottleneck. This means that faster processors don't necessarily mean better computing power
when it is speed the transmission of the data that is the limiting factor. Using light, or photons, to transfer data could
But until now, scientists had struggled to find a way to create a light-based device that can store data for a significant period of time. here no point using faster processors
which is used also in rewritable CDS and DVDS, to store data. Pulses of light can change the material's state from an ordered to a random state,
The same mouse model is used to study Alzheimer's and FTD, with researchers believing that a single gene in mice triggers the two conditions that have related differing,
-D printing of various materials has been a common trend in tissue engineering in the last decade,
After the printing had concluded, the support gel could then be melted away by heating it to body temperature (37°C,
in this growing field of science, most of these printers cost over $100, 000 (roughly £65, 000) and require a specialist team of operators to use.
and ackingit with open-source software and hardware, this research team have managed to replicate human organ structures for less than $1, 000 (£650) n
The drug is manufactured using a three-dimensional printer which creates a porous formulation that helps bioavailability and patient uptake,
This produced a therapeutic response in mouse models of sepsis, in human lung cells and an ex vivo human lung model.
We have formulated an ipad game that could drive the neural circuitry behind episodic memory by stimulating the ability to remember where things were on the screen,
which plays on the idea of having to remember different locations of characters on the screen of an ipad.
but harder to read on the tiny screens of mobiles. In doing so, it recognised one of the most important changes during its 17 years like Google itself,
the logo had been designed to be looked at on screens, but now a huge proportion of web browsing is done from phones and other mobile devices n
leaks show Force Touch display, subtly altered size The pictures are one of the first glimpses of the iphone 6s Plus,
which allows the phone screen to be pressure sensitive to allow extra input options. The pictures, reported to have leaked from the Taiwanese supply chain,
As well as the slightly larger size and changed display they appear to feature a bigger front camera.
As well as better hardware for more clear photos, the software will be improved ncluding a feature that will use the screen to create a flash for taking pictures in the dark.
but improving the internal hardware. Apple Force Touch powered by the small sensor that can be seen in the centre of the display allows the phone to tell how hard its screen is being pressed
and trigger extra events on screen. Some details of how exactly it will work have already been revealed
indicating that the hard press will trigger further menu options. Force Touch was launched with the Apple Watch in April,
helping users interact with its small screen. It was added then to Apple Macbooks, giving extra options for how quickly to fast forward, for instance d
. an innovative Japanese biomedical 3d printing company, has created a 3d bone printer capable of producing artificial bone structures for humans.
and is compatible with standard motherboards, servers, operating systems and applications. Memory1 represents a major evolution in server architecture.
with no changes to their hardware and software stacks, said Riccardo Badalone, Chief executive officer and Cofounder of Diablo Technologies. he business impact on datacenter economics and application performance is dramatic.
Jeff Janukowicz, Research director for Solid state drives and Enabling Technologies at IDC said, he cloud, virtualization, big data and analytics are pressuring the infrastructure of many of today enterprise datacenters.
and can be printed using an inkjet printer. Shimizu stressed that it is tough to have both features at the same time,
it usually clogs the heads of the printer ink cartridge. But Agic he said, has succeeded in preventing this.
#Scientists Create LEDS From Food, Beverage Waste Most Christmas lights, DVD players, televisions and flashlights have one thing in common:
#Mobile Eye-test Device Could Lead to Prescription Virtual-reality Screens After five years of development and about 40,000 tests worldwide,
But on the heels of its commercial release, Eyenetra says it been courting offers from virtual-reality companies seeking to use the technology to develop ision-correctedvirtual-reality displays. s
Users attach a smartphone, with the startup app, to the front and peer through the headset at the phone display.
or circles, appear on the screen. The user turns a dial to align the patterns
The app then displays the refractive powers, axis of astigmatism, and pupillary distance required for eyeglasses prescriptions.
is to use the startup technology to develop custom screens to fit a user eyeglass prescription.
Prescription screens could make virtual-reality devices more formfitting for a more immersive and comfortable experience,
Therefore, companies could use these precise measurements to develop screens that are corrected pre to a user specific refraction errors. t personalized correction
and viewers used the phone keyboard to align the patterns. The device was designed as an inverse of a traditional Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor machine,
Essentially, Netra replaces the expensive sensor with a smartphone display. Because the red and green light goes through different parts of the eye,
"The challenge now is to incorporate these wonderful natural catalysts into materials capable of doing the specific chemical job we need.
Three-dimensional printers can create items from a wide variety of materials: plastic, ceramic, glass, metal and even more unusual ingredients such as living cells.
just as ordinary printers lay down ink, except 3d printers can also lay down flat layers on top of each other to build 3d objects.
Best Places to See'Shooting stars'This Week The annual Perseid meteor shower is typically the most spectacular"shooting star"display for people in the Northern hemisphere,
taking them out briefly to be put on display or for study. However for facilities in the developing world this can be a problem as the energy needed to power dehumidifiers
"Now the researchers have created implantable wirelessly powered brain-stimulating devices by essentially using the mouse's body to help collect energy."
Rather, the mouse bodies interact with surrounding magnetic fields, helping focus energy like a lens from the transmitter to the receiver in the implant.
The device was implanted in a region of the mouse brain known the infralimbic cortex, which is implicated in animal models of depression and anxiety."
and the number-crunching processors in the same tiny space, said Max Shulaker, one of the designers of the chip,
Long commute time The main roadblock to faster computers is not flagging processor speed, but a memory problem, Shulaker said.
the computer must shuttle that information via an electrical signal back and forth across the (relatively) vast inches of wire between the computer's memory (typically a hard drive)
and the processors, facing the speed bump of electrical resistance along the entire path.""If you try to run that in your computer,
"While the Central processing unit (CPU) waits for a piece of data to make the return trip from the memory, for instance,
Solving the memory-CPU"commute time, "however, is tricky. The two components can't be put in the same wafer
while many of the metal elements in hard drives (or solid state drives) melt at those temperatures, Shulaker said.
The Dot watch has a Braille reader on its face and can connect to a smartphone via Bluetooth for programming.
The developers also plan for the device to display text messages and other notifications, as well as one day even pair up with external devices like public cash machines and information displays to offer Braille capability just about anywhere e
#Use of Ultrasound to Promote Faster Healing of Wounds Sometimes discoveries in science are not about the development of new medical devices or drugs,
This may allow clinicians to quickly screen patients for sepsis and begin antibiotic treatment a full day earlier than is now typically possible c
#3d Tissue Printing Using a DNA Guidance System Researchers at UCSF have developed a method called DNA Programmed Assembly of Cells (DPAC) that brings us one step closer to being able to print fully functional living organs.
DNA-Guided 3-D Printing of Human Tissue is Unveile s
#Brain-Machine Interface Learns to Control Robot Arm Based on User Error Brain signals Brain-machine interfaces (BMIS) restore
The hardware is equipped with a light source and magnifying lens that gives a phone camera lens excellent visualization of any abnormalities in the cervical tissue.
For example, if a display item has embedded an LED light pulsing a signal at a specific frequency,
However, it clear that Google believes that future hardware shouldn be confined to wraps around the wrist or the body.
The former have a shell that is bonded directly to the core, but yolk-shell particles feature a void between the two equivalent to where the white of an egg would be.
the aluminum core continuously shrinks to become a 30-nm-across olk, which shows that small ions can get through the shell.
At the macroscale, among other applications, invisibility cloaks could prove useful for 3d displays i
One of the most critical biological and medical tools available today, it lies at the core of genome analysis. Reading the exact make-up of genes,
we believe it will be much easier to manufacture a full-scale processor chip than for any of the leading designs,
"He said that a key next step for the project is to identify the right industry partners to work with to manufacture the full-scale quantum processor chip.
Such a full-scale quantum processor would have major applications in the finance, security and healthcare sectors, allowing the identification
and aid research to manufacture advanced technologies such as quantum computers and ultra-high-resolution displays. The device, fabricated at Purdue University's Birck Nanotechnology Center, uses a cylindrical gold"nanoantenna"with a diameter of 320 nanometers,
ultra-resolution"opto#uidic"displays; and plasmonic circuitry for quantum logic units. The nanotweezer might be used to create devices containing nanodiamond particles
The system also makes it possible to create patterns to project images, potentially for displays with ultra-fine resolution.
while a first pulse excites the sample under study, a second pulse monitors the change in the sample.
and tapping on our keyboards release energy that largely dissipates, unused. Several years ago, scientists figured out how to capture some of that energy
"The University of Bristol's pioneering'Quantum in the Cloud'is the first and only service to make a quantum processor publicly accessible
high-performance electronics and new 3-D printing technologies,"says Benjamin J. Leever, Ph d, . who is at the Air force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air force base."
The researchers also are developing the same approach to monitor pilots'health. This involves a biosensor system that can measure heartbeat,
Another key advance is the use of active, inexpensive catalysts for fuel production. The photoanode requires a catalyst to drive the essential water-splitting reaction.
Rare and expensive metals such as platinum can serve as effective catalysts, but in its work the team discovered that it could create a much cheaper,
This catalyst is among the most active known catalysts for splitting water molecules into oxygen
Enclosed within the platelet membranes are made nanoparticle cores of a biodegradable polymer that can be metabolized safely by the body.
The nanoparticles can be packed with many small drug molecules that diffuse out of the polymer core and through the platelet membrane onto their targets.
the platelet membranes were broken up into much smaller pieces and fused to the surface of nanoparticle cores.
This is a crucial step in creating a new generation of foldable electronics-think a flat-screen television that can be rolled up for easy portability-and implantable medical devices.
The researchers used mouse embryonic fibroblast cells to determine biocompatibility; that, along with the fact that the stretchability of gold nanomesh on a slippery substrate resembles the bioenvironment of tissue
One of the most critical biological and medical tools available today, it lies at the core of genome analysis. Reading the exact make-up of genes,
"and our approach can define a new speed limit for future processors, by delivering extremely fast on-chip optical data storage"In addition,
"If we can use SPRNT to screen for drugs that specifically disrupt the functioning of these proteins,
potentially outperforming traditional monitoring tools such as cardiac event monitors. The researchers published a paper on their patent-pending process in Advanced Materials on Sept. 23.
which is similar in scope to 3-D printing but different in that material is removed instead of added.
"We are trying to add more types of sensors including blood pressure and oxygen saturation monitors to the low-cost patch."
They are expected also to be used for precise color matching in light-emitting devices and displays,
These attributes should lead to new LEDS and display devices not only with precisely matched colors--better color accuracy and brightness--but also with improved performance lifetime and improved ease of manufacturing."
"QDS are already in use in display devices (e g. Amazon Kindle and a new Samsung TV
#Single atom alloy platinum-copper catalysts cut costs, boost green technology: New generation of catalysts demonstrated for selective hydrogenation of butadiene Abstract:
A new generation of platinum-copper catalysts that require very low concentrations of platinum in the form of individual atoms to cleanly
and cheaply perform important chemical reactions is reported today by Tufts University researchers in the journal Nature Communications.
They synthesized small quantities of realistic catalysts, such as platinum-copper single atom alloy nanoparticles supported on an alumina substrate,
"To our delight, these catalysts worked very well and their performance was steady for many days,
and value-added chemicals from bio-renewable feedstocks, the new, less expensive platinum-copper catalysts could facilitate broader adoption of such environmentally friendly devices and processes,
Together we embarked on a new direction involving single atom alloys as catalysts for selective hydrogenation reactions.
"Sykes and Flytzani-Stephanopoulos have used this approach to design a variety of single atom alloy catalysts that have,
Armed with this knowledge, we are now ready to compare the stability of these single atom alloy catalysts to single atom catalysts supported on various oxide or carbon surfaces.
faster processors and more storage space. Standard memory devices are based on electrons which are displaced by applying voltage.
The possible input is determined by the hardware. This means that all these approaches face a fundamental challenge
not only avoiding the limitations posed by the hardware but we also make the technological implementation scalable."
This new material-of-many-colors offers intriguing possibilities for an entirely new class of display technologies, color-shifting camouflage,
and beetles to create a particularly iridescent display of color. Controlling light with structures rather than traditional optics is not new.
"For consumers, this chameleon material could be used in a new class of display technologies, adding brilliant color presentations to outdoor entertainment venues.
They established a method to integrate silicon photonic chips with the processor in the same package,
resulting in a large distance between the processor chip and the optical components. Offrein and his IBM colleagues from Europe
the United states and Japan instead proposed an integration scheme in which the silicon photonic chips are treated similarly to ordinary silicon processor chips
and are attached directly to the processor package without preassembling them into standard transceiver housings. This improves the performance
The single stranded-dna DNA on the nanoparticle core can be positioned ideally and oriented to specifically and fully interact with the targeted toll-like receptors.
#Revolutionary 3-D printing technology uses continuous liquid interface production (w/video) A 3d printing technology developed by Silicon valley startup,
and use it to light up a small LCD display. American Chemical Society) Sang-Woo Kim
Currently, colors on computer and iphone screens come from dye materials pre-placed on the pixels.
The new technology may hold promise for many applications such as for jewelry, automotive interior trim, aviation, signage, colored keypads, electronics and wearable displays s
scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum Mnchen (HMGU) and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt (LMU) in Munich have developed nanocarriers that site-selectively release medicines/drugs at the tumor site in human and mouse lungs.
In the journal, ACS Nano("Protease-Mediated Release of Chemotherapeutics from Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles to ex Vivo Human and Mouse Lung Tumors"),the scientists reported that this approach led to a significant increase
and verify the clinical efficacy in an advanced lung tumour mouse model l
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