#Wireless Power for Minuscule Medical Implants Medical implants like pacemakers deep brain stimulators and cochlear implants could someday be joined by still more bioelectronic gadgets devices that regulate insulin levels control
Still there is so much promise in bioelectronics he says and the powering issue needs to be addressed d
says Eran Tromer, a computer security expert at Tel aviv University. The remarkable result is described in this paper due to be presented at a conference in South korea next month,
and others, says Radu Sion, a computer security expert at Stony Brook University. Tromer says he doesn know of anybody performing a ground-potential attack to steal real data
but also stacks several different combinations resulting in a solar panel that can capture more energy from sunlight. Semprius has demonstrated cells made of three semiconductor materials stacked on top of a fourth solar cell that would not have been compatible otherwise.
Sarah Kurtz a principal scientist at the National Renewable energy Laboratory says costs won t come down until production happens at a large scale.
With economies of scale however such cells could improve the economics of solar power. At a scale of 80 to 100 megawatts a year of manufacturing capacity a cell with 50 percent efficiency would make it possible to reach costs of less than five cents per kilowatt-hour Burroughs says.
#Mobile Gadgets That Connect to Wi-fi without a Battery A new breed of mobile wireless device lacks a battery or other energy storage,
this provides a great way to get low-power Internet of things devices to communicate with a large swath of devices around us,
#Adaptive Material Could Cut the Cost of Solar in Half A material with optical properties that change to help it capture more incoming sunlight could cut the cost of solar power in half, according to Glint Photonics,
a startup recently funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E). Glint adaptive material greatly reduces the cost of a tracking system used in some types of solar power.
and reducing the need to keep the apparatus pointed directly at the sun. Glint CEO Peter Kozodoy says solar power from its devices could cost four cents per kilowatt-hour,
and it suggests possibilities in mobile and wearable technology as well. Tomohiro Amemiya, a cognitive scientist at NTT Communication Science Laboratories, began the Buru-Navi project in 2004, originally as a way to research how the brain handles sensory illusions.
can big data make health care better? here is a lot of data being gathered. That not enough, says Ed Martin,
CEO Aaron Levie mapped out the basic features that enterprises require of a cloud storage service early on.
Genomics England confirmed that it had chosen the California company to carry out the sequencing project. ee been through the ake-offprocess to find the right company to do the sequencing
says Vivienne Parry, a spokesperson for Genomics England. Illumina sequencing instruments dominate the market for unraveling DNA (see 0 Smartest Companies.
That is because for cancer patients Genomics England intends to obtain the sequence of both their inherited DNA as well as that of their cancers.
Genomics England began talking early this year to potential bidders, including Chinese company and Illumina rival BGI (see nside China Genome Factory.
Completing all 100,000 genomes would have cost more than twice Genomics England budget. The agency said in December it intended to use its negotiating power to drive prices down.
Parry says Illumina will carry out the sequencing on behalf of Genomics England, and that the two would finalize negotations over the next two weeks. t an enormously exciting project
Illumina will carry out sequencing on behalf of Genomics England of 100,000 genomes. An earlier version of this article said incorrectly that Genomics England intended to sequence the DNA of 100,000 distinct individuals
and that it would do so itself with instruments purchased from Illumina. i
#How to Build an Evryscope One problem with telescopes is that they can only peer at a tiny piece of sky at any one time.
Some of the largest botnets run by online criminals today are monetized by mining. So an infected home computer of a grandmother in Barcelona
Exploits Cyber attacks rely on exploitation of ulnerabilitiesbugs in the source code of commonly used software to infect target computers.
Some U s.-based defense contractors are openly advertising positions for people with Top Secret/SCI clearance to create offensive exploits targeting iphones, ipads, and Android devices.
creating a cyber arms race that will continue to increase demand for exploits. Government surveillance The two most important inventions of our time, the Internet and the mobile phone, changed the world
#How An Intelligent Thimble Could Replace the Mouse In 3d Virtual reality Worlds The way in
But what of the three-dimensional world and the longstanding but growing promise of virtual reality. What kind of device will take the place of the mouse
But in recent months a number of practical virtual reality devices have begun to emerge such as the Oculus Rift and Google cardboard.
A cheap and easy way of interacting with these new virtual reality devices could turn out to be hugely useful.
Likewise on wind turbines, where ice can cause them to stall and stop generating electricity. Ice can take whole wind farms offline
#Aereo Ruling Means Uncertainty for Cloud Streaming Services In the U s. Supreme court smackdown of Internet TV upstart Aereo today, some legal watchers see a threat to other cloud storage and content-streaming models,
While there is plenty in the ruling that cloud providers could also use to defend themselves, there reason to worry,
The prototype wearable device was described in a paper presented this week at Mobisys, an academic conference on mobile technologies.
If it can be commercialized it would double the amount of power a solar cell can generate offering a way to make solar power far more economical.
In theory solar cells that exploit this technique could reach efficiencies over 60 percent. The approach is one of several that could someday break open the solar industry
a strategy he claims will make solar power ay cheaperthan power from fossil fuels. Solar City is one of the country largest and fastest-growing solar installers,
and Sunpower makes ones that are significantly more so (see ecord-Breaking Solar cell Points the Way the Cheaper Solar power.
because theye increasingly concerned about the intermittency of solar power and the stress this can put on the power grid.
Microsoft s Quantum Search for The next Transistor Microsoft is making a significant investment in creating a practical version of the basic component needed to build a quantum computer,
Microsoft has dedicated a quantum computing research lab, known as Station Q, on the campus of University of California,
A quantum computer should be able to complete calculations that are effectively impossible for any conventional machine today.
Although the Canadian company D-Wave Systems has sold several machines it says are quantum computers experts say there is still no definitive proof that they exploit quantum principles
and Jeff Bezos Bet on Quantum computing. Microsoft is not currently attempting to build a quantum computer. Rather, its research effort is aimed at developing a reliable version of the qubit, the key building block of a quantum computer.
Just like a transistor in a conventional computer, a qubit can switch between states that represent either a 1 or 0 of digital data.
But a qubit can also exploit quantum effects to reach a uperposition statethat is both 1 and 0 at the same time.
That would allow a quantum computer to process data many times faster than any conventional computer.
Researchers have built qubits of different designs and even used small numbers of them together for very basic calculations.
But none are able to maintain a superposition state very reliably, making them impractical for anyone hoping to build a computer of any size. e believe that current approaches will said never scale
Lee. Microsoft research focuses on a type of qubit known as a topological qubit that theory suggests would encode data in a much more robust way.
The theoretical basis of topological qubits was sketched first out at UC Santa barbara roughly eight years ago,
says Lee. Then around four years ago, Microsoft researchers led work to pose a series of key tests that could show
Work is now underway to actually build a working topological qubit. To support that effort,
Microsoft is already looking ahead to explore what could be done with a system of topological qubits once they are built. upposing that one day we have a quantum machine:
The lab goal is truly to design technology around people, not the other way around from smart personal devices to smart cities.
a system designed for the city by the Mobile Experience Lab, combines wearable technology, mobile phones, and a Web infrastructure to establish a peer-to-peer trust network in which Brescian youth address the social issue of drunk driving themselves,
Human connections are foundational to both the smart city and its smart inhabitants, uniting with technology to enable coordinated, efficient,
Just as a new generation of virtual reality goggles for video games are about to hit the market,
In combination with a virtual reality device like the Oculus Rift, the new system could be used to make objects
or characters in a virtual world sound as well as look like they are at a specific point in space,
the researcher at Microsoft Redmond labs working on the project with colleague David Johnston. ou can use this for virtual reality and augmented reality,
However, the kind of motion sensors used by virtual reality headset like the Oculus Rift could provide enough information.
and sounds in games on smartphone headsets or devices like Google glass could make them easier to interact with,
and are important for the generators found in wind turbines and many electric car motors. While Infinium approach can be used to produce other metals,
Kristoffer Famm vice president of bioelectronics research and development at Glaxosmithkline coauthored a paper last year on the emergence of the field that he and his academic colleagues call electroceuticals.
and Android but with Google ability to leverage big data. With Oslo, the company is trying to take advantage of the information that its customers have poured into various products,
Robert Shepherd, director of the Bionics Institute, a nonprofit medical research center in Melbourne, Australia, says electrode-directed gene therapy could improve other kinds of neural interfaces. herever wee applying electrodes,
or retinal implants for the blind, there is already neural damage, he says. Housley group is working with Cochlear
#An Easy Interface for the Internet of things With the advent of the Internet of things, potentially billions of devices will report data about themselves,
Now Bug Labs, a New york city company, is trying to make it as easy to create an Internet of things application as it is to put a file into Dropbox.
Freeboard is not the most technically sophisticated Internet of things application platform. Many others are emerging, including Axeda, Etherios,
and Openremote (see ree Software Ties the Internet of things Together, with different business models and levels of complexity.
rdinates to cellular networks (see he Internet of things, Unplugged and Untethered and easily be turned into a weet streamof location or other data.
The methods developed to create the designer genomic structure could help synthetic biologists better use the single-celled fungi as biological factories for chemicals like biofuels and drugs.
Yeast also has long been a lab organism for studying molecular biology and genetics; in fact, a lot of what we know about cancer genetics comes from research on our fungal friends.
creating living factories for medicines, biofuels, and more (see icrobes Can Mass-produce Malaria Drugand iofuel Plant Opens in Brazil.
Undergraduate students in a class called uild-A-Genomeat Johns Hopkins used molecular biology tricks to string together snippets of DNA around 70 nucleotides (A
That fountain of variability could be key to finding ways to push our fermenting friends to more efficiently create biofuels and other chemicals f
or fully autonomous cars (see ata Show Google Robot Cars Are Smoother, Safer Drivers Than You or I. Henry Tirri,
What Left of Nokia Will Bet on Internet of things. In Audi case, the service will cost $100 for up to five gigabytes of data over six months,
Others, like China, also bleed companies of intellectual secrets about jet fighters and wind turbines. So pervasive and successful has digital espionage become that in 2012, Keith Alexander,
and analysis for antivirus company Kaspersky Lab, says he logs on to his computer assuming he is not alone. operate under the principle that my computer is owned by at least three governments,
a former Israeli intelligence officer now working in IT SECURITY for the Bank hapoalim Group, in Tel aviv. In this new context, nobody can say where the responsibilities of a company may end
because the U s. government has claimed long that Huawei gear is a Trojan horse for China intelligence services.
#These revolutionary bladeless wind turbines shake to generate electricity WASHINGTON: These bladeless wind turbines can revolutionize the way wind energy is produced.
A startup out of Spain called Vortex Bladeless, whose turbines look like stalks of asparagus poking out of the ground,
Vortex claims that energy produced by its turbines will cost around 40 percent less than energy made from today's wind turbines
These bladeless wind turbines can revolutionize the way wind energy is produced. A startup out of Spain called Vortex Bladeless,
Vortex claims that energy produced by its turbines will cost around 40 percent less than energy made from today's wind turbines
#First hidden, real-time, screen-camera communication created Such applications include smart glasses communicating with screens to realise augmented reality
#World first igital drugthat can lift your mood A new wearable device, which is being called the world's first digital drug,
-and nanomechanical biosensors for quite a while now and can say that no one has been able to introduce a simple and scalable technology for parallel monitoring that would be ready to use outside a laboratory,
-and nanomechanical biosensors for quite a while now and can say that no one has been able to introduce a simple and scalable technology for parallel monitoring that would be ready to use outside a laboratory,
-and nanomechanical biosensors for quite a while now and can say that no one has been able to introduce a simple and scalable technology for parallel monitoring that would be ready to use outside a laboratory,
#Amsterdam to get 3d printed bridge LONDON: Will you dare to cross a deep canal on a"printed"bridge?
A 3d printing company based in Amsterdam has developed a revolutionary robotic 3d printer that can'draw'structures in the air.
who helped develop the robotic 3d printer that combined the MX3D-Resin with a welder to be able to"draw"fast-setting metal structures.
A 3d printing company based in Amsterdam has developed a revolutionary robotic 3d printer that can'draw'structures in the air.
who helped develop the robotic 3d printer that combined the MX3D-Resin with a welder to be able to"draw"fast-setting metal structures.
#Scientists use graphene to create the world's smallest light bulb Scientists have created the world's smallest light bulb from a one atom-thick layer of graphene,
The ultrathin graphene was turned into a superheated filament-just like the thin wire of an incandescent light bulb
and graphene-based on-chip optical communications,"Professor Hone said.""We are just starting to dream about other uses for these structures,
Graphene, which was discovered by two Russian emigre scientists working at the University of Manchester, is composed of layers of carbon laid down in a lattice structure just one atom thick.
The Columbia scientists, working with researchers in South korea, attached small strips of graphene to microscopic metal electrodes which passed an electric current through the suspended strips causing them to heat up and bright
"The visible light from atomically thin graphene is so intense that it is visible even to the naked eye,
The researchers also found that it was possible to vary the wavelengths of the light by altering the distance of the graphene wafers suspended over the silicon substrate of the chip-a potentially useful way of tuning the light source
because graphene is transparent, unlike any conventional filament, and allows us to tune the emission spectrum by changing the distance to the substrate,
Graphene's Potential Drinking water Graphene could be used to desalinate seawater to make it drinkable-tiny pores in its crystal lattice could let water molecules through while blocking salt.
graphene could be perfect for the new generation of touchscreens. Rust-free cars Graphene repels water
and is highly conductive. This combination delays the oxidising reaction that causes rust. Scientists have created the world's smallest light bulb from a one atom-thick layer of graphene
the miracle material that promises to transform everything from smartphones and computers to cars, buildings and satellites.
The ultrathin graphene was turned into a superheated filament-just like the thin wire of an incandescent light bulb
and graphene-based on-chip optical communications,"Professor Hone said.""We are just starting to dream about other uses for these structures,
Graphene, which was discovered by two Russian emigre scientists working at the University of Manchester, is composed of layers of carbon laid down in a lattice structure just one atom thick.
The Columbia scientists, working with researchers in South korea, attached small strips of graphene to microscopic metal electrodes which passed an electric current through the suspended strips causing them to heat up and bright
"The visible light from atomically thin graphene is so intense that it is visible even to the naked eye,
The researchers also found that it was possible to vary the wavelengths of the light by altering the distance of the graphene wafers suspended over the silicon substrate of the chip-a potentially useful way of tuning the light source
because graphene is transparent, unlike any conventional filament, and allows us to tune the emission spectrum by changing the distance to the substrate,
Graphene's Potential Drinking water Graphene could be used to desalinate seawater to make it drinkable-tiny pores in its crystal lattice could let water molecules through while blocking salt.
graphene could be perfect for the new generation of touchscreens. Rust-free cars Graphene repels water
and is highly conductive. This combination delays the oxidising reaction that causes rust t
#Microsoft's drones to catch mosquitoes and help stop epidemics WASHINGTON: Microsoft researchers are developing autonomous drones that collect mosquitoes to look for early signs that potentially harmful viruses are spreading,
a professor of molecular biology at the University of Pittsburgh who also is working on Project Premonition.
But now, the latest developments in molecular biology and genetic sequencing are allowing researchers to cull through samples to look for multiple viruses,
a professor of molecular biology at the University of Pittsburgh who also is working on Project Premonition.
But now, the latest developments in molecular biology and genetic sequencing are allowing researchers to cull through samples to look for multiple viruses,
#World thinnest bulb created from graphene Researchers have created the world's thinnest light bulb using graphene, an atomically thin and perfectly crystalline form of carbon,
and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science said that they have demonstrated for the first time an on-chip visible light source using graphene as a filament.
They attached small strips of graphene to metal electrodes, suspended the strips above the substrate,
and graphene-based on-chip optical communications,"said Hone
#In a first, drug offers hope for children with dwarfism An experimental drug, vying to become the first approved treatment for dwarfism, improved growth in children by a significant amount in a preliminary study, the drug's developer,
The BX1E has a 14.5-meter wingspan and a maximum payload of 230 kgs. It can fly at an altitude of 3, 000 meters.
The balloon collects solar energy and transports it to the ground via a cable, while the batteries store surplus energy and take over the power supply at night,
The electrolyser uses nine litres of water plus the solar energy collected, coupled with the batteries inside the housing, to produce the gas needed to inflate Zephyr in half a day.
The balloon collects solar energy and transports it to the ground via a cable, while the batteries store surplus energy and take over the power supply at night,
The electrolyser uses nine litres of water plus the solar energy collected, coupled with the batteries inside the housing, to produce the gas needed to inflate Zephyr in half a day.
low-cost graphene that could pave the way for the creation of the firondonst flexible`electronic skin,
Researchers from UK's University of Exeter through the new method can develop graphene now in simpler way.
the team has used this technique to create the first transparent and flexible touch-sensor that could enable the development of artificial skin for use in robot manufacturing."
"Currently, industrial graphene is produced using Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD), which is pretty expensive and time consuming process,
The new technique grows graphene in an industrial cold wall CVD system, a state-of-the-art piece of equipment recently developed by UK graphene company Moorfield.
This new technique grows graphene 100 times faster than conventional methods, reduces costs by 99
%and has enhanced electronic quality, researchers said d
#UK plans world's first artificial blood transfusions by 2017 LONDON: The world's first human trial of artificial blood grown in a lab from stem cells is set to take place in the UK by 2017.
The technology has continuous monitoring capabilities making it ideal for development as a wearable device. This could help improve the lives of millions of people by enabling them to constantly monitor their glucose levels without the need for an implant."
The technology has continuous monitoring capabilities making it ideal for development as a wearable device. This could help improve the lives of millions of people by enabling them to constantly monitor their glucose levels without the need for an implant."
Revealing that it has driven successfully test its autonomous car over a 560-mile distance from the Silicon valley to the CES venue in Las vegas this week Audi claimed that its test marked the longest drive of any autonomous car thus far.
and standards for autonomous cars Audi President Scott Keogh said in reference to the test drive: Audi proved that a true turning point for the (autonomous) automobile has arrived d
#Britain's Transport Department has given go-ahead to test driverless cars on public roads According to a statement released by Britain's Department for Transport (Dft),
The testing of driverless vehicles on public roads in Britain has been approved by the government after a review carried out into driverless cars revealed that there were no legal barriers with regard to the testing of the technology in the country.
the government is now working on a code of practice for driverless cars. The code will likely be published in the spring,
#Japan to invest $21 million in developing 3d printed human organs Could 3d printable human organ transplants become a reality in the coming years?
And just a few weeks ago in early December we learned of a collaboration between 3d printing company Organovo and the Yale School of medicine that aims to pioneer 3d bioprinted surgical tissues themselves.
With that level of backing it can even be expected that these organisations will rise to the to the top of the field of 3d printed generative medication studies.
This new round of investments is great news for the development of 3d printed medication which is expected to revolutionize medical help.
And as an estimated 100000 people are on the waiting list for organ transplantation in the US alone it#s no wonder that the medical field is turning its focus towards 3d printing r
#Design Lab Workshop merges 3d printing with solar energy for glowing architecture As more architects look into ways of using additive manufacturing as a way of constructing their buildings,
wee been seeing new ways of creating modular structures to even large-scale 3d printers that are capable of printing an entire house (or multiples) within a day.
Historically, architects have been using 3d printers for years to create small-scale mockups of concepts to present to clients or colleagues,
what possible with 3d printing and architecture are Design Lab Workshop Brian Peters and Daphne Firos.
The design duo, who both share a background in architecture, have been busy creating various ways of integrating additive manufacturing into the build process for a variety of structures.
Among other work in their portfolio the architects have done everything from creating 3d printed ceramic bricks that use a variety of different infills for various structural and aesthetic qualities to 3d printed vertices that connect multiple wooden rods
the design team has been focusing on an experimental structure that highlights the potential of architecture including new fabrication techniques (3d printing),
new smart technologies (light sensors and photovoltaics) and are powered by renewable energy sources (solar energy). Constructed out of 94 digitally designed
and fabricated modular 3d printed modules (AKA ytes, the Solar Bytes Pavillion is the result of their experiment
Each of the 94 modules were 3d printed using a 6-axis robot arm in the Robotic Fabrication Lab at the nearby College of Architecture and Environmental design at Kent State university in Ohio, USA.
and used as a 3d print head to create a makeshift Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) 3d printer for the project.
Each module was 3d printed with translucent plastic to allow the structure to filter sunlight during the day
If a portion of the day provides less solar power due to cloud cover, the result would be reflected in the glow duration later that night.
and 3d printing space, be sure to check out the rest of their portfolio over at Design Lab Workspace.
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#Recent developments in 3d printed plastic electronics showing promise With today's printed plastic electronics performing nearly just as well as
what was considered state-of-the-art forty years ago, it comes with little surprise that advancements are still growing at an exponential level...
With these facts in mind, the conversation then turns into how advancements in 3d printing can
As the cost of additive manufacturing methods continue to go down, that future might not be too far off f
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