air filtration systems and even your clothes. bbey Liebman 0 created a dress using conductive cotton threads capable of charging an iphone.
the Southwest-inspired garment captured enough sunshine to charge cell phones and other handheld devices allowing the wearer to stay plugged in.
Google Wallet Since 2011as of now, the most prevailing mobile payment system is the Google Wallet.
Where the developers themselves agree that many issues still exist in the system design of Google Wallet,
Google wallet is coming down to its fourth year almost since its emergence in the industry.
A click here and a tap there, a smart phone just paid all your bills that is how easy Google wants the payment system to be for you.
And no doubt, Google Wallet is perhaps an amazingly speedy mobile payment method for those who have come to terms with it.
Although it has the limitation to be available for users of iphone 6 and iphone 6 Plus only, Apple guarantees secure user authentication with their okenizationmethod.
The physicists represent the Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik (PDI) and the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), Germany, the NTT Basic Research Laboratories (NTT-BRL), Japan,
Dr. Kiyoshi Kanisawa, a physicist at NTT-BRL, used the growth technique of molecular beam epitaxy to prepare this surface.
the NEC team installed a series of 33 sensors at two main sites in the Arlington water system.
On this website, doctors can, together with the patient, easily calculate the odds of recurrence of the disease.
Using non-wetting surfaces as fabrication sites might also lead to improvements in other technology, the study reported,
and thus to the reduction in blood pressure. fter we had found clues in cell culture experiments that a certain docking site for ATP,
and materials to repair such damage lipids are sent to the site of the damage. However
The technology under development is called Li-Fi for light-based wireless communication, as opposed to the more prevailing Wi-fi using radio waves.
Li-Fi could be more than 10 times faster than current Wi-fi and white laser Li-Fi could be 10 to 100 times faster than LED based Li-Fi currently still under development. he concept of white lasers first seems counterintuitive
because the light from a typical laser contains exactly one color, a specific wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum, rather than a broad-range of different wavelengths.
Microsoft wants its forthcoming Hololens headset to mess with reality more believably. It has developed a way to make you see photorealistic,
That could help Internet shoppers by showing them how an item of clothing looks and hangs more realistically than is possible with still photos
Sensors in the headset allow the device to figure out how to present virtual objects so they fit in with the real world.
Several companies are working on ways to capture live action such as sports or movies for viewing on more conventional 3-D headsets like the Oculus Rift.
A startup called Magic Leap, backed by Google, is developing its own wearable augmented reality device based on display technology that similar to Microsoft (see 0 Breakthrough Technologies 2015:
#Self-Charging Phones Are on the way, Finally The case that Will Zell slides onto his iphone doesn look that unusual,
but it doing something pretty out of the ordinary: capturing some of the radio waves that the phone transmits
when connecting to cellphone towers and Wi-fi routers, converting them to electricity, and feeding that power back to the phone battery.
Zell is the CEO of Nikola Labs, a startup based in Columbus, Ohio, whose energy harvesting technology was invented by Chi-Chih Chen, a research associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Ohio State university.
Like battery pack cases, the company case plugs into the bottom of the iphone; this way, Zell says,
it can intermittently send power right to the battery. Moore Law, which predicts that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years,
has held steady since 1975. Yet battery technology hasn kept the same pace, probably because its evolution is dependent on advances in chemistry.
So while smartphones have gotten increasingly capable, with faster processors, better displays, and higher-resolution cameras, it can still be a challenge to get the battery that powering all these features to last throughout the day.
One way the consumer electronics industry is trying to fix this is by aligning with wireless charging technologies like Qi and Rezence.
though, only a handful of smartphones from companies like LG, Samsung, and, HTC use the Qi standard,
With such wireless charging still far from the mainstream (and still requiring your phone to be on a charging mat or base that itself plugs into a wall),
a few companies, including Nikola Labs, are trying to figure out other ways to make you less dependent on outlets
so you can keep using your phone for battery-intensive things like looking at websites,
They won make plugging your phone into a charger obsolete but Zell says that Nikola phone case should be able to give users about 25 to 30 percent more battery life between charges.
The company built its first working prototype of a smartphone case this spring and plans to start selling it in the first three months of next year for about $100 (a Kickstarter campaign for the company had raised about $74, 000 of its $135,
000 goal with eight days to go as of publication; Zell says Nikola Labs has raised separately private funding to bring its product to market.
Though Zell acknowledges that there plenty of skepticism surrounding the utility of harvesting energy from radio waves,
because it doing the harvesting so close to the transmitting antenna in the phone. Eventually, he hopes to fit the technology into the phone itself;
early talks with phone makers have begun. A French solar technology company called Sunpartner Technologies is already working on this with a thin,
see-through overlay called WYSIPS Crystal (the acronym stands for hat you see is photovoltaic surface that sits between the glass
and touch-screen layers on a smartphone or other mobile gadget. The WYSIPS layer is covered with small solar cells;
when the phone is exposed to artificial or natural light, it captures the light and converts it to an electric current.
to get WYSIPS Crystal into phones next year. But while De Broca says the energy WYSIPS Crystal can produce depends on the kind of light it exposed tontense natural light will work better than diffuse indoor lightingn its current form it can boost battery life by only about 10 to 15 percent. t
will never be able to produce enough to charge the phone from scratch, he says. Much clunkier but perhaps more suited to that job is a wearable charger from Ampy,
hy can we harvest some of the energy from motion to power our phones??The charger,
or cycling, generating electricity that stored in an internal battery (users have to connect their phone to Ampy to siphon off its juice).
The battery inside Ampy can store enough power to fully recharge a smartphone. It might take a
though, since an hour of exercise yields about an hour of ormalsmartphone usage, according to Ampy website.
And youl probably continue plugging in your phone at least occasionally for the foreseeable future. But Nikola Labszell
#Google App Puts Neural networks on Your Phone to Translate Signs Offline In recent years Google has used networks of crudely simulated neurons running in its data centers to improve its speech recognition,
build software that learned to spot cats from Youtube videos, and power a photo storage service that knows what in your snaps.
Now the company wants you install artificial neural networks on your phone. Built into an updated version of Google translation app released today,
the technology expands its ability to translate printed text such as menus in a live view through your phone camera.
The app could previously translate between seven different languages. Now it can handle 27 and translate between them without an Internet connection.
That possible because Google engineers created slimmed-down versions of the artificial neural networks it uses in a technique called deep learning (see 0 Breakthrough Technologies 2013:
Deep Learning. They live inside the translation app and recognize the characters used by the different languages,
Google engineers first trained much larger and more powerful neural networks to find and recognize different letters.
This blog post has more details on how. It the first time Google has used that trick,
but it likely won be the last. Embedding the intelligence that artificial neural networks can provide into gadgets
so they don have to link to the Internet for tasks has clear benefits. Google is not the only company exploring that idea.
Coming changes to the design of the chips and software on mobile devices will make it easier and more powerful.
and cars (see ilicon Chips That See Are Going to Make Your Smartphone Brilliant S
#Why the Time Seems Right for a Space-Based Internet Service providing Internet access from orbiting satellites concept that seemed to have died with the excesses of the dot-com boomas returned thanks to Spacex founder
(and dot-com billionaire) Elon musk. And while such a service would be expensive and risky to deploy,
000 microsatellites to provide broadband Internet services around the globe. Spacex is partnering with Google and Fidelity Investments,
which are investing $1 billion for a 10 percent stake in the endeavor. Richard Branson Virgin galactic and Qualcomm
Most communications satellites have data-transfer speeds of around a gigabit per second, compared to several terabits per second for the fastest fiber.
Spacex and Virgin galactic also hope to ride a different boom by targeting parts of the world where there is little infrastructure and a huge opportunity for Internet growth.
but Musk has stated that his Internet service would be aimed primarily at providing service to remote areas of the globe. oue got large swaths of land where there is a relatively low density of users,
Besides investing in Musk project, Google is working on a high-altitude balloon-based Internet delivery system called Loon.
And Facebook is developing high-altitude, high-endurance drones to deliver Internet capability to remote areas.
The Google and Facebook projects would be similar in concept to the space-based systems,
while operating within the Earth atmosphere. Whether, as Musk has suggested, Spacex service could also be a viable alternative for customers in the developed world is less certain.
#Google#s Modular Smartphone to Debut in Puerto rico Google vision of cheap modular smartphones made up of interchangeable pieces is getting closer to reality.
Google Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group revealed the Spiral 2 on Wednesday during a crowded event for software developers at a Google office in Mountain view, California.
and rectangular modules that snap into the phone slim metal skeleton to add different functions to the device.
The modules on the back include a camera, USB charger, Wi-fi, and Bluetooth radios, and the device main processor.
The display and receiver module on the front can also be swapped out. All the modules are held in place by magnets in the device frame.
Google says that this modular approach, which it calls Project Ara, will lead to inexpensive smartphones that can be customized
and upgraded by users depending on their budget or personal requirements. You might want a camera with an optical zoom lens for a sightseeing trip
or just a simple phone with basic capabilities. But the Spiral 2 prototype also shows how tricky it will be for Google to make a modular gadget successful.
The latest device comes about nine months after ATAP unveiled the first Project Ara smartphone prototype, Spiral 1,
at a similar conference (see or Project Ara, It Moduleot Appdeas Wanted. That earlier device had Wi-fi but no working cellular connection,
and failed to work when presented to the crowd. Spiral 2 did manage to power up in public
Google prototypes have yet to catch up to existing smartphones on features such as cellular data speeds, for example.
Google says that device will be able to wirelessly transfer data between the modules and endoskeleton, eliminating the need for the spring-pin connectors used currently.
Project Ara leader, Paul Eremenko, said the group hopes to get the phone to last for a full day, at least,
though he then said that this might only happen by swapping in another battery at some point (Project Ara aims to let users do this without needing to turn off the phone).
The design of the phone skeleton will need also to be modified so that it can be manufactured easily.
Google plans to start selling Ara phones to customers in Puerto rico as a test market at some point this year, in collaboration with two wireless carriers.
The phones will be sold from trucks that function as mobile stores, as well as over the Internet. Just as third party apps were crucial to the popularity of smartphones,
getting people interested in modular phones will hinge on companies other than Google offering a diverse selection of modules.
Google has started already courting hardware companies to become module developers. On Wednesday the company showed a preview of the online ra Marketplacethat will let developers sell Google-approved modules to consumers.
Google is aiming to have a minimum of 20 modules available when it starts selling phones in Puerto rico. Google has also come up with 11 different reference designs for modules for developers to use.
Electronics giant Toshiba and chip makers Marvell and Nvidia are among those already showing interest;
Toshiba showed off some early camera modules at the conference. But the individual hardware developers I spoke with in the audience were still in the earliest stages of working on modules.
How much Project Ara modules might cost is unclear, but it must be low if Google is to attract people looking for their first smartphone.
Eremenko said in April last year that the bill of materials for a basic Ara handset complete with display, Wi-fi, battery,
and processor modules would run about $50, though he didn put an estimated sale price on it.
On Wednesday he declined to update that figure l
#CES 2015: Nvidia Demos a Car Computer Trained with Deep Learning Many cars now include cameras or other sensors that record the passing world and trigger intelligent behavior,
Yann Lecun, a data scientist at New york University who leads deep-learning efforts at Facebook (see acebook Launches Advanced AI Effort to Find Meaning in Your Posts,
probably ARM), networking (Gigabit Ethernet) and storage (with a pinch of SSD storage for low latency tasks and onboard RAM).
your next phone could be made of wood Engineers hunting for a way to make electronics more sustainable have hit on a novel invention-a semiconductor chip made almost entirely out of wood.
and Canadian researchers has managed to successfully sequence the full genome of a living organism using a machine the size of a smartphone called the Minion.
#Google maps can make sure you never see a"Closed"sign again Google maps has got another incredibly useful feature thanks to a recent update that will warn you
Instead, when you set off Google maps will now show a message that reads"Your destination may be closed
At the moment the update is only available for the Android version of Google maps, but we've reached out to Google to find out
when it will be coming to ios. Via The Telegrap p
#Scientists are turning your gut cells into computers A team of biological engineers at the Massachusetts institute of technology are turning the cells in our guts into computers.
French President, Francois Hollande, said on Tuesday in Paris the government will present a draft law next month that makes Internet operators ccomplicesof hate-speech offenses
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said he will travel to the U s. to seek help from the heads of Twitter, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook.
This is not just leading to the oppression of every internet user but also makes little sense as potential terrorists will move away from public domains controlled by such large companies to darker areas of the web where they are monitored less-easily.
Moving away from terrorism, surveillance is a controversial subject on a global scale thanks to whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden
BT and EE partnership will reduce'not spots'Broadband provider BT has confirmed its intention to acquire the UK's biggest mobile network
which could be a major step in providing coverage to mobile not spots where residents are struggling with limited or complete lack of connectivity.
Earlier this week the UK government published a map of public digital infrastructure (PDF) in the hope of tackling some of the mobile'not spots'across the country.
The telecoms giant has over seven million broadband subscribers many of which will use the company's own'Home Hub'routers.
Although new hardware will be required if BT chooses it could roll out new Home Hub devices which feature femtocell technology to boost mobile coverage in rural areas for its EE purchase.
The firm which was created out of a partnership between T-Mobile and Orange had promised to connect more than 1500 rural communities within three years by investing in small cells to extend coverage.
which believes that Wi-fi offload will dominate traffic by 2017 to deal with capacity demands from a mobile data traffic increase of more than sevenfold between 2014 and 2019 as part of a wider global growth of almost ten times.
The ongoing adoption of more powerful mobile devices and wider deployments of emerging M2m applications combined with broader access to faster wireless networks will be key contributors to significant mobile traffic growth in the coming years.
This mobile-centric environment will give service providers a new landscape of challenges and opportunities to innovatively deliver a variety of mobile services
and experiences to consumers and business users as the Internet of Everything (Ioe) continues to take shape.
#Human Genes Can Save Yeast WIKIPEDIA, LILLY MA large number of human genes can substitute for their defective counterparts in yeast
the BBC developed a prototype mind control TV using a low-cost headset equipped with sensors that measure electrical activity in the brain.
The electroencephalography (EEG) brainwave reading headset has a sensor that rests on the user forehead,
the headset and app monitor their level of relaxation, which is displayed on a volume bar on the side of the screen. hen,
During the experiment, 10 users were given a headset to wear, and sat in front of the TV.
about the size of a hand-held torch, houses an electrode that the doctor holds close to the wound site.
the surgeon can move the tip of the needle to the site of surgery with great accuracy.
but via smartphones and without directly employing its drivers. The taxi drivers were protesting at seeing their livelihoods threatened:
The international team of researchers from Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik and the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, the NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Japan,
TERABIT fibre tested Proximus and Huawei have successfully trialled a super-channel optical signal, flinging out information at up to one terabit per second (Tbps.
Tech lothario Huawei shacked up with Belgian box-wrecker Proximus back in January. The pairing has produced now a single super-channel optical transport network (OTN) card with a transmission speed of a pretty hefty 1tbps, running along Proximus'optical backbone.
Alcatel-lucent and BT managed to achieve 1. 4 Tbps using BT's fibre-optic pipe between the BT Tower and BT's Adastral Park in Ipswich.
Proximus/Huawei's transmission speed was conducted over a 1, 040km fiber link using an advanced"Flexgrid"infrastructure with Huawei's Optical Switch Node OSN 9800 platform.
The companies claim their approach increases the capacity on a fiber cable by compressing the gaps between transmission channels."
Jeffrey Gao, president of the Huawei transmission network product line, said the network"is turning to data center centric,
"Geert Standaert, chief technology officer at Proximus, said"together with Huawei we want to let our network infrastructure evolve to support current and future bandwidth demands."
whether Huawei's technology can be integrated into the core network, to anticipate the constant and growing customers demand for more bandwidth."
anonymous accounts will no longer be permitted on many Chinese web services. The Cyberspace Administration of China set the policy today in a statement on the China Communication Network,
and stamping out the casual anonymity that defines US social networks like Twitter and Tumblr. Enforcement of the policy has been left to companies
Sina Weibo, a Chinese micro-blogging service similar to Twitter, has adopted already real-name registration at the urging of the central government,
which could be a prime site for infections. Sorto hasn't had any infections there yet,
Ideally, the implants would need to be wireless, but the amount of information coming out of the chips is so large,
a developing technology that uses multiple colors of light to enable high-speed wireless internet access. Currently, LEDS are being used to develop Li-Fi technology,
which could be 10 times faster than current radio-based Wi-fi. Ning and his colleagues argue that Li-Fi using white lasers could be 10 to 100 times faster than LED-based Li-Fi.
#Google, Samsung, and 16 others receive post-password certification This morning, the plot to kill the password got a little stronger. 18 different companies received an official FIDO certification for 31 different products,
Google announced support for Yubico keys in October, allowing users to opt for the physical keys rather than the standard four-digit authentication code.
#Facebook is testing a new tool to lock down user logins As services go mobile,
Once you've logged in on a phone or tablet, that login will usually stick around until you actively turn it off, a particular problem if that phone ends up lost, stolen,
or just re-sold. There are tools to protect against that, but you may not have checked them out in a while.
Login alerts will send you an email any time there's a new login, while device management can show you every device that's accessed your account.
You can find versions of those tools from Google Facebook, Paypal, or half a dozen other services,
but most users skip past them, if they even know they're there. Today, Facebook is releasing a new feature that will give those tools a higher profile.
It's called Security Checkup, and should be popping up into select users'News Feeds starting today.
The Checkup will pop-up over top of the site, prompting users to explore"a couple options you have to increase your security."
"From there, Facebook will walk users through password security options and show the computers logged into different Facebook services.
If anything's fishy, it should be obvious from there. Those tools were already available to Facebook users,
but thanks to Security Checkup, they'll be a lot harder to miss. It's a minor update,
Beyond Facebook it's a sign that after a year full of bad security news, a more conspicuous approach to security may be coming back into style e
and a dedicated website to help owners of Shield Tablets purchased between July of last year
A video posted on Youtube last Thursday displayed the technology via a test vehicle equipped with mock-up DADSS,
#Researchers make breakthrough advance towards potentially super-fast Internet A team of researchers from the University of California,
San diego, has surpassed the limits of transmitting fibre optic signals; thereby making a substantial breakthrough which can result in super-fast and cheap Internet.
Highlighting the feat achieved by the researchers, a paper published in the university's Science journal on June 26 has revealed that the researchers managed to break the barriers in the way of increasing the maximum power,
and hence the distance, for the transmission of optical signals through optical fibres. According to the details shared in the paper,
researchers were able to transmit the fibre optic signals 12,000 kilometres-that is, nearly 20 times farther than the earlier maximum limit-without any significant degrading of signals.
theoretically at least, the rate of data transmission through optical fibres can be increased without distorting the information which travels through the fibre optic cable.
#Google: Youtube has overtaken cable TV in terms of popularity During Google's 2015 second-quarter earnings call last week,
Google's chief business officer Omid Kordestani revealed that the company's video-sharing service Youtube has witnessed a tremendous growth in popularity over the last one year.
Asserting that Youtube's popularity has surpassed cable TV's popularity for a whole generation of consumers,
Kordestani said that Youtube has seen a threefold increase in the number of homepage visits year-on-year.
According to the details shared by Kordestani, the Youtube video-sharing platform -which was launched by Google back in 2006-now reaches a much higher number of 18-to 49-year-olds in the US than any other cable network in the country.
Kordestani also said that the average length of homepage visits on Youtube has increased 60 percent since last year.
In addition, there has also been a 50 percent year-on-year increase in average visit times on the mobile,
which have reached now 40 minutes per session. Highlighting the fact that"once users are in Youtube,
they are spending more time per session watching videos, "Kordestani said that the increasing popularity of Youtube among the younger demographics can be described as a revolution of"the television experience for the digital age
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