One of the most anticipated digital products, after smartphones and tablets is wearable devices, even though manufacturers still have a long way to go to commercialize them.#
#This anticipation is demonstrated in a report recently released by Baidu with 93.1 percent of the interviewees familiar with the concept of wearables
rather than apps already available on smartphone. Wearable devices already released by Chinese manufacturers include Shanda s Geak Watch,#Qihoo s 360 Child Guard,#T-Watch,#inwatch,
but lacks a common platform, like Androidand ios for smartphones, which enables all related wearable devices to operate and store data on it.
but she has a mobile phone or other device and really wants to keep it charged.
So she opts for a small home solar system to cover basic needs like mobile charging.
solar is actually cheaper than the alternative (kerosene plus phone-charging) when financed. That s because close to 1 billion people have risen above the poverty line over the past twenty years,
Clearly, mobile phones are important to this story. In 1998 mobile phone penetration in developing countries was just 1 percent.
Today, roughly 75 percent of global mobile connections originate in emerging markets. Going forward, four out of every five new mobile connections will come from the developing world,
where reliable grid access is scarce. For much of the world s poor, access to mobile networks has surpassed access to#energy,
water and even basic sanitation#leaving an estimated 550 million people with phones who can t even charge them on a regular basis.
So if all these factors are aligned, why isn t more being done? The answer boils down to finance.
Right now, the space is cash-starved and entrepreneurs are spending the vast majority of their time cobbling together financing,
and AC unit from a smartphone#or augmented reality devices like Glass##isn t actually all that far off.
In the last six years, we ve gone from 10 million sensors##in things like the Nintendo Wii and iphones##to 3. 5 billion.#
and things##currently connected to the internet. The internet of things is comprised already of 10 billion moving parts.
There are, of course, myriad concerns lurking in this grand new internet of stuff. We now know how easy it is for organizations like the NSA to peer into our emails and#location data.
A hyper-connected world#ups the opportunities for data collection, big time, and for hacking, too.
like#RFID chips that users carry with them on their persons;##some schools already require students wear them as bracelets that sensors can pick up to#deter truancy.
#Since monitoring emails and phone calls wasn t enough, NSA now plans to watch you with super tiny drones Black Hornet Flying insects have one huge advantage over humans:
the train station or even their downtown office will be able to hail a pod by way of a simple smartphone app.
smartphone-hailed pod cars will someday grace the streets of cities all across the world.
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#3d printed meat may be coming sooner than you think Modern Meadow is developing technology to provide instant meat.
##so named because Google s founder Sergey Brin bankrolled it. have heard you of Modern Meadow, though?
for one of Modern Meadow s main backers is#Facebook s Peter Thiel. Though Modern Meadow is not a publicly traded company,
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#Japanese inventor finds solution to global trash problem by converting plastic to oil This Youtube video about the invention of a plastic-to-oil converting machine went viral
and exceeded 3. 7 million views. This shows that concern over##the plastic problem##is certainly not going away,
##Here on Our World, on the video s#Youtube#page and those of re-posters too,
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#Electric power without transmission lines Hundreds of companies are investing in electricity transferred through magnetic fields. Nikola Tesla, the inventor and rival to Thomas Edison, in the early 1900##s built the Wardenclyffe Tower, a 187-foot-high structure on Long island,
You can already buy wireless recharging pads: Place your cellphone on a pad that s plugged into the wall,
and it will recharge. These pads, however, have their limitations##the cellphone has to be in the right position,
and it can take a long time. A New zealand company called Powerbyproxy has demonstrated a system where you can put multiple cellphones on a pad in any position,
and it will charge the devices as fast as a traditional charger. Samsung last month invested $4 million in the company.
and a device installed on a cellphone or an electric car receives the power and starts recharging.
It will be the last thing to go wireless, but it will go wireless.####Is the process safe?
In recent weeks, Intel and Hon hai/Foxconn, seeing wireless charging as a possible killer app for electronic devices such as laptops
and cellphones, invested in Witricity. Schlumberger, which is interested in cutting the number of wires in its oil rigs to save maintenance costs
which is reported to have plans to test a wireless charging station for plug-in cars. The technology has applications outside the consumer sphere as well.
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There will be over 30 sites to begin with in countries like India, China, and Bolivia. Topics include English, science, technology, engineering, business, and U s. civics.##
Alejandra is working on a website that gathers data about rural areas in Bolivia.####I ve been fascinated with MOOCS
Earlier this year, a former Lockheed martin subcontractor made headlines for attempting to sell on ebay for $10 million#an early 2000s prototype of the surveillance rock before Lockheed pulled the plug on the project.
Included in the package were hundreds of pages of detailed development instructions, two years of emails with Lockheed and some hardware##but no rock.##
#Google hopes to cure death with its new health startup Calico Google is planning to launch a new company with the absurdly ambitious objective of extending our lives. alicois the name of the company
Google gave exclusive access to Time magazine for a story on the new venture. Underscoring the scope of Google ambition,
the cover of Time asks, an Google solve death? That, in a nutshell, is the goal of Calico.
Sounds like a joke, but it not. On Google+,Google CEO Larry page wrote, K so youe probably thinking wow!
That a lot different from what Google does today. And youe right. But as we explained in our first letter to shareholders,
there tremendous potential for technology more generally to improve people lives. So don be surprised if we invest in projects that seem strange
or speculative compared with our existing Internet businesses. And please remember that new investments like this are very small by comparison to our core business.
He has the blessing of Apple CEO Tim cook to start this new Google-y company.
On Google+he says, t still very early days so there not much more to share yet.
That why Google is doing self driving cars, and balloons floating in the air with Internet connections. Google which boatloads of cash,
and limitless ambition sees itself as the only company willing to take big risks like this. not proposing that we spend all of our money on those kinds of speculative things,
says Page in an interview with Time, ut we should be spending a commensurate amount with
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA September 18, 2013 Google today announced Calico, a new company that will focus on health and well-being, in particular the challenge of aging and associated diseases.
Google CEO said: llness and aging affect all our families. With some longer term, moonshot thinking around healthcare and biotechnology,
And here his Google+entry: I excited to announce Calico, a new company that will focus on health and well-being, in particular the challenge of aging and associated diseases.
That a lot different from what Google does today. And youe right. But as we explained in our first letter to shareholders,
or speculative compared with our existing Internet businesses. And please remember that new investments like this are very small by comparison to our core business.
And Arthur Levinson is also on Google+with an announcement: You may have seen the news (http://goo. gl/Kjre4q) that Google
and I will be starting a new company focused on health, aging and well-being, called Calico.
When I served on Google board,+Larry page and I got to know each other wellnd when he and Bill Maris approached
#Battery-free Wifi devices that run on radio waves What if devices could pull enough power wirelessly from the air to run themselves
Wearable and Internet-of-Things technologies need to be on all the time. In the former case, taking something on or off for recharginglike a health monitoring devicecauses data loss and increases the chances it won t be used as much as it should or at all.
Not so#according to a group of University of Washington engineers#who are building a communication system called Wifi backscatterthe system powers devices using radio waves
and connects them to laptops or smartphones over#Wifi networks. Previous research had shown it possible to run low-power devices off radio, TV,
We now have the ability to enable Wifi connectivity for devices while consuming orders of magnitude less power than
what Wifi typically requires. How does it work? The team made a tag that listens for Wifi signals being sent from a local router to a laptop or smartphone and vice versa.
The tag s antenna encodes data#by selectively reflecting or absorbing the signals. This selective reflection makes tiny changes in signal strength that can be detected
Using this method, more powerful central devices#like smartphones, tablets, or laptops can communicate with a range of low-power devices and sensors within about two meters and at a rate of one kilobit per second.
A pair of smart socks could for example, relay data about your jog to a jogging app on your phone.
Or temperature sensors throughout your house could communicate with thermostats to maintain an optimal temperature inside.
Given the prevalence of Wifi, this provides a great way to get low-power Internet of things devices to communicate with a large swath of devices around us, Ranveer Chandra,
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#Robobees will pollinate crops instead of real bees As soon as 10 years from now these Robobees could artificially pollinate a field of crops.
the project s website says. Harvard s Kevin Ma spoke to Business Insider about the team s progress in building the bee-size robot since publishing its Science paper last year.
Then there are a whole host of issues to work out dealing with wireless communications s
#Does internet privacy come at a premium? Would you pay for online privacy? Once we went online the concept of privacy changed.
What was once private personal information has now been twisted and altered by the digital age,
the Facebook mogul pointed out (on a conference call to investors) that privacy would be key to the company s growth.
This change in thinking was apparent with Facebook sacquisition of Whatsapp, to directly compete with another generally private sharing app, Snapchat.
and exposed on the internet, and want to keep the curtain drawn. The aforementioned apps fit this inevitable realization about what privacy means.
Most recently, Facebook was under criticism again, this time for theautomatic uploadof private photos. Frustrated users are ready to start paying for the privacy they could
In a certain sense, you can say that the industry of paying for internet privacy is already here,
and surf the Internet in a secure fashion, or featuring ways to pay to eliminate such intrusions on our privacy,
And I think you ll see more and more internet users willing to pay for such services. That willingness is growing with every instance of our online privacy being abused.
The fallout from his brand of spying when it came to technology used for internet interactions was broad and irrational.
Google was replaced by search engines which allow users to surf the Internet anonymously. Likewise Google chrome and Microsoft Internet explorer were traded for proxy browsers Some found smartphone camera apps
which do not log a picture s GPS. Many reluctantly gave up Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram and Pinterest.
The truly worried encrypted their home computers. Understanding what it means tobe private So now that we re ready to pay for privacy,
we have to understand our prior expectations of privacy and how we can change them.
This expectation is set at some point by the site they are entering their personal data into.
and you have absolutely no privacy on that site. They own it all. This isn t true for every site, of course,
but a good majority of them. So, can we just simply disappear from the internet?
The United states Supreme court is yet to do anything with the concept of the right to be forgotten.
Yet, with online banking and email, can one really be forgotten if they wish to stay current?
Not to mention the countless variables with any laws surrounding internet privacy, mostly defining privacy. Some of those variables haveled the House of Lordsin the UK to deem theright to be forgotten ruling asunworkable, unreasonable and wrong in principle.
what isn t in the hands of search engine giants such as Google. Per their report they feel,
(or on Google) as concerning public figures should not be removed because it would serve the interests of the public to have active debate
or a right to be forgotten on the Internet. Does it suggest a level of paranoia to want to be forgotten on the internet?
Are we really revealing that much about ourselves that privacy has become something of an antiquated concept?
and social media has given us that platform to do just that, or at least try. Perhaps this is why paying for privacy is just the solution many of us are looking for.
We have proven that we need controls in social media, just like our children need parental controls on their digital devices.
is the inevitable evolution of social media sharing. Yet, who is to say that the company you are paying for privacy isn t turning around
When it comes to internet privacy, the bottom line istoonly put data on the internet that you are comfortable with being shared,
viewed or sold by people that are not you. In this era of social media and sharing, there are numerouscases of blatant ignorance.
We need to educate ourselves by reading those pesky terms of service contracts, noting which sites are sharing and
which ones aren need t. We to be vigilant as to what kind of personal data we re so eagerly sharing with the world.
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#Chemotherapy will be obsolete in 20 years as scientists launch DNA project Scientists launch a new landmark project to map the genetic causes of disease.
#Smartphones to replace room keys at Hilton hotels The new smartphone key feature will arrive in six hotels in 2015.
using their iphone or Android handset as a room key. The feature won t start arriving until 2015,
of which all the US-based hotels already allow for mobile#check in and check out. If all goes as planned,
the end of this summer will see that ability expanded to include choosing one s own room using a smartphone.
#Baidu is developing a semi-autonomous car Baidu wants to keep the individual in control. Would you prefer to ride in a completely autonomous self-driving car, like Google s self-driving car,
or one like Chinese search engine Baidu s semi-autonomous car?##Instead of cars that have#no steering wheels, gas pedals,
or brake pedals for drivers to control, Baidu is thinking about cars with intelligent assistants who help you drive.##
##This is actually an intelligent assistant collecting data from road situations, Baidu s Kai Yu told The next Web.
He s deputy director of the company s#Institute of Deep Learning, a Chinese equivalent to#Google s X Labs. A team to turn the unthinkable to reality,
the Institute s website says. We don t call this a driverless car, he said, adding that a carshould be helping people, not replacing people,
so we call this a highly autonomous car. The first working versions are expected sometime next year.
The Google vision, where there are no human drivers, is already becoming a reference point#either as a vision of a fun campus of the future,
whether Google s or Baidu s vision is more likely, it s hard to see how the next generation of Apple-,Android,
-and Windows-enhanced cars will not start tapping into the next generation of Siri s, Google Now s and Cortana s intelligence.
which Google may already be left in the dust. There are now reports that Baidu, eager to gain the lead on its American competitor,
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#A rescue drone that finds survivors by tracking their mobile phone signals The drone can pick out the location of an individual phone within 30 feet.
A mobile phone can be the device that saves you in an emergency, even if you aren t able to make a call.
The swiss Federal Institute of technology in Lausanne have developed a drone that can pinpoint the location of a mobile phone by picking up its Wi-fi signal.
can pick out the location of an individual phone within 30 feet. It calculates location by picking up the signal from several spots,
This is not the first time phones have been used to pinpoint people. In 2006, an Oregon family was found based on text messages.
The drone could also be used to provide Wi-fi if infrastructure was knocked out by a disaster,
Companies like Facebook and Google are looking into using drones and satellites to provide internet connectivity to remote corners of the world where installing internet cables is especially difficult.
The same types of systems would be useful in disaster situations to get large areas back online quickly.
The EPFL team noted its work underscores confidentiality issues with drones as its aircraft can pull phones Wi-fi network names and MAC addresses.
But it also only works in a search and rescue situation if a phone s Wi-fi connections are unprotected.
Making S-E-N-s-E of the next mega-trend) with Google Trends data containing the phraseiot,
During the Q4 13 inflection point, Google Trends data traversed from a prolonged period of stagnation to rapid ascension.
Teacherless classroom Frey says he was approached once by Google to collaborate on a project to deliver educational resources to Africa.
Once you can download a level app on your smartphone, suddenly you no longer have need a for that tool,
When a user downloads an app, a part of a job disappears. It s a tiny piece but it s a piece nonetheless
For example, in the wake of Facebook s purchase of Oculus Rift, the amount of job postings for virtual reality designers skyrocketed,
#Here s why automakers want 4g technology in cars Automakers are counting on the connected car.
Today s cars are trying to replicate the smartphone experience. Touchscreen interfaces are common. Dashboard designers take UI tips from iphones,
and#automakers want to build apps for cars. Large automakers like General motors are taking the next obvious step
and#integrating 4G LTE service into their cars starting this year. Drivers pay a monthly service fee for#in-car 4g#that s separate from their smartphones,
and use it for an array of services from movies for kids in the backseat to sophisticated#GPS-on-steroids solutions.
the dealers who sell the 4g add-ons, and carriers like AT&T. But is it a win for consumers?##
##Audi, the first major automaker to introduce 4g connectivity, debuted the option in their 2015 A3 car.
GM is adding 4g capability to nearly all of their 2015 Buick models, and 4g is also rolling out to Chevrolet and Dodge within the year.
While some luxury cars have come with built in 3g in the past, there are two major game changers here:
Both GM and Audi are aggressively targeting middle-market consumers, and 4g viewers tend to consume a whole lot of bandwidth-intensive video content which generates expensive data fees.
Phil Abram, GM s chief infotainment officer (a job title which does actually exist) is the man responsible for rolling out interactive content and delivery systems for Buick, Chevrolet, Cadillac,
and other brands. When Co. Labs held a video chat with Abram earlier this month,
the first GM model with 4g, debuted in June and the company will add 4g to 30 more models by the end of the year.
New#car buyers#would be given a 3 gigabyte trial and data plans would be set up by AT&T The cheapest $5 plan offers 250 megabytes usable in a 24-hour period;
monthly plans range from $5 for 200 megabytes to $50 for 5 gigabytes a month.
The use case of cars is different than phones. In promotional materials, Audi and GM both emphasize 4G LTE service as a mechanism for users to get in-car entertainment, rather than for navigation or safety monitoring.
Buick boasts they cankeep everyone happy with streamed movies, music, and games, while Audi emphasizesfaster downloads and high-definition video streaming for up to eight devices used by passengers over the in-vehicle#Wi-fi#hotspot.
Smartphone and#car convergence#has been happening for quite some time and in-car 4g allows automakers to solve the vexing customer issue of answering demand to integrate smartphones without sacrificing safety or usability,
while simultaneously pushing a#lucrative car option#to market. Audi is offering drivers their a new and data-intensive navigation system,
which feeds the dashboard with information on#nearby gas stations, restaurants, and all sorts of Google earth overlays.
GM, meanwhile, is revamping their previously 2g Onstar system to take advantage of the new data possibilities.
#In-car 4g hotspots#are potentially lucrative businessespecially when there s a $50 monthly fee attached.
Beyond the obvious use cases of Netflix and#data-heavy navigation systems, 4G LTE service also means drivers can send#SMS#text messages by voice dictation,
While drivers and passengers might not necessarily need#high-speed Internet#in their cars it s arrived on the market
Home depot s online merchant for tools, told Huffpost by phone. It s really about bringing about new innovation to customers. 3-D printers can whip up everything from#vagina selfies#to#handguns,
an Indian startup, is going to start selling its Bluetooth enabled Lechal shoes for more than $100 a pair in September.
The smartshoes sync up with a smartphone#app#that uses Google maps and vibrate to tell users
##Just tell your phone where you want to go and then you can leave it in your pocket
and not have to stop to check their phones as they move because the buzzing in their shoes will let them know when to turn.
the batteries can deliver enough current for low-power wireless communications sensors, distinguishing them from other types of thin batteries.
as well as AME Cloud Ventures, the venture fund of Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang, to further develop its proprietary chemistry and finance the batteries commercial launch.
The batteries that power most laptops and smartphones contain lithium which is highly reactive and has to be protected in ways that add size and bulk.
Mcor s Director of Marketing tells 3dprint. com. Staples, Gunma Internet, Vincennes University, WH Williams/Williams 3d,
More details on Mcor can be found on their#website where they have made available a free#White paper,
Magline further improves on system economics by utilizing apacket switching model that enables offline stops without slowing traffic on the mainline.
The product, known as Bag2go, can be tracked via a smartphone app. It also allows for self-service check ins
AT&T unveiled a similar concept at a demonstration of itsnext-generation technologies in May. The company envisions integrating the product with standard suitcases
About ten years after the commercial debut of the Internet, America s newspapers posted record high advertising sales of $49. 4 billion in 2005.
While newspaper publishers are continuing to gain audience at their web and mobile sites, their interactive efforts typically trail the level of engagement achieved by many native digital media.
By contrast, Facebook alone attracts 166.5 million uniques per month. Here is the big difference:
While the typical visitor spends#1. 1 minutes#at a newspaper site, the average dwell time at Facebook,
the super-sticky social network, is nearly half an hour. Weekday print circulation dropped 47%from an average of 54.6 million papers a day in 2004 to an average of 29.1 million papers per day in 2014,
according to my analysis of a random sample of data from the Alliance for Audited Media. Sunday circulation in the same period fared somewhat better,
I compiled the current data at Yahoo Finance. One major consequence of the industry-wide contraction is that newsroom staffing dived by 31%from 54,700 journalists in 2002 to 38,000 in 2012,
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