For example, in the wake of Facebook s purchase of Oculus Rift, the amount of job postings for virtual reality designers skyrocketed,
#Home depot starts selling Makerbot 3d printers 3d printed nuts and bolts from a Makerbot. Home depot, the world s largest home improvement chain, announced the start of a pilot program#to sell Makerbots.
what could be the next big thing in#wearable technology: the smartshoe. Ducere Technologies Pvt. an Indian startup, is going to start selling its Bluetooth enabled Lechal shoes for more than $100 a pair in September.
has announced plans to build a thorium-based nuclear reactor by 2016. But it faces competition from China,
#Researchers develop new process that raises prospects of 3d printed bone grafts 3d printing could help mend broken bones.
One of the 3d printing health applications discussed the most is the manufacturing of bespoke scaffolds that could be used to mend broken bones.
One material being investigated for making these 3d printed scaffolds is calcium phosphate after all it is a primary constituent of naturally-formed bone.
The problem however is that current 3d printing methods to make calcium phosphate scaffolds require the use of high temperatures Such temperatures make it impossible important drugs
but in common with prior studies of 3d printed scaffolds, were unable to stimulate complete healing. The researchers suggest their findings add further evidence for the idea that 3d printed scaffolds must be used alongside bone growth factors for cells to help induce new bone formation.
Inkjet printing of collagen solutions with high resolution has not been utilized previously in 3d printing of calcium phosphates
they write. This study demonstrates the feasibility of these processes and the mechanical and cellular benefits of collagen inclusion n
in order to take advantage of the sun s energy, or grow indoors with the help of artificial lights. Vertical farming is promising
and wind turbines with greenhouses to provide self-generated renewable electricity on-site. But the single technology that will be key to making vertical farms possible is lighting.
full-color 3d printer Mcor Iris 3d printer Most people think 3d printing involves a machine that either extrudes molten plastic, in a way similar to how a hot glue gun works,
or think of one of the larger industrial level 3d printers manufactured by 3d systems or Stratasys.
##Fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3d printers mainly are limited to plastic and plastic-like materials. Plastics are the only materials that can be melted,
Industrial level 3d printers provide a lot of other material options, but these printers costs range from $75, 000 up to over $1 million.
and even decades to come. 3d printing has been around since the early 1980s when Chuck Hull invented the first commercial 3d printer, based on a technology called sterolithography.
Many of the 3d printers available today still use this technology, including some of the larger industrial level machines.
Hull went on to create a company called 3d systems, which today is the largest 3d printer manufacturer in the world.
They still hold multiple patents on stereolithography although many have expired already. I recently was introduced to a 3d printer like none I ve seen before.
While walking around the Inside 3d printing Conference#recently, I saw some 3d printed objects that were unlike those on display by other companies.
When I picked them up, they felt as though they were printed out of wood. Upon talking to the marketing team on hand,
I found that this 3d printer did not fit into the same category as those other machines on the display floor.
That printer was the#Mcor IRIS, created by a company called Mcor Technologies. Mcor is a relative newcomer on the 3d printing scene.
Founded in 2005 by Dr. Conor Maccormack and Fintan Maccormack who invented an innovative new paper-based 3d printing technology back in 2003,
Mcor has quickly become one of the more talked about companies within the 3d printing industry.
Unlike traditional 3d printers, Mcor utilizes a technology that prints objects using three products: a water-based adhesive, inkjet printer ink,
and your standard A4 business paper. That s right, no expensive polymers, resins, or other materials are required.
That s what makes the Mcor line of 3d printers both unique and refreshing to those tired of the tremendous expenses associated with 3d printing in general.
Mcor currently offers two different 3d printers, the Matrix 300 +which was unveiled in 2009, and the full-color IRIS printer which was released in 2012.
When using the Mcor IRIS 3d printer, there is an additional step involved where each piece of paper is colored using a modified 2-dimensional inkjet printer,
there are numerous uses for 3d printers like this. We have customers across vertical market segments around the world, Julie Reece,
Personally I am impressed by the maxillofacial surgeon who is using Mcor 3d printing to create surgical guides,
Mcor s line of 3d printers cost between $36, 400 and $47, 600; a price that is pennies in comparison to some of the other industrial level printers on the market today.
and printed on, is compatible with both of Mcor s 3d printers. This is because only the very outter edge of the paper is seen
Our mission is to make professional-quality 3d printing accessible to to everyone, while remaining safe,
The International Color Consortium (ICC) color mapping provides Mcor s 3d printers with increased color accuracy,
Typically when 3d printers are fed color data, they translate it into machine-specific colors, rather than maintaining the original ICC.
this no longer is the case on Mcor s 3d printers. Ask any creative or marketing professional:
and why we are the first 3d printer manufacturer to embrace them. A gram is a gram
Likewise, a company s logo will be the same colour on the computer screen as on a model 3d printed by the Mcor IRIS because of our ICC profile.
explaining in detail how their 3d printers function. Innovation is key when it comes to 3d printing technology.#
#There are new ideas popping up on a daily basis, many of which are realized eventually in the market.#
#Mcor is positioning themselves to be a leader in the ever changing, always growing 3d printing industry.
#Project proposals nearly double California s energy storage target Energy storage On paper, California s push to transform the market for grid-scale energy storage is working even better than expected.##
##Last year,#California created a mandate#calling for 1, 325 megawatts of energy storage projects by 2020,
to be scaled up every two years. The first installment of proposals due this year adds up to 200 megawatts.
As of mid-2014, more than 2, 000 megawatts of energy storage projects have applied to interconnect with the state s grid, according to recent data from state grid operator California ISO (PDF.
when wind and solar power interconnection requests added up to enough projects to supply three times the mandate s needs.
CAISO is also working on fitting energy storage into its new rules for#flexible, multi-hour grid resources#to help it manage the so-called#duck curve problem.
Energy storage paired with solar and wind power accounts for a growing portion of the capacity now being proposed,
energy storage to play a role in grid markets and programs. That brings the state s utilities into the picture,
#Lawrence Lessig s Mayday smashes $5m crowdfunding goal Lawrence Lessig s#Mayday. us#just raised a lot of money to help get the money out of politics by campaigning to#elect five politicians
while his group pushed for the ambitious $5 million crowdfunding goal in one month becausethe urgency is to be able to pick the districts
whether the public is mentally ready for#autonomous cars. It s also a test of whether anti-train elected officials actually hold such views for practical reasons,
The Internet of things is growing larger. Benches can now be added to the list of things like watches, cars, phones,
So, as we look forward, at all the possibilities inherent in crowdfunding, microfinance and microlending, we re seeing new potential for companies to provide the next generation of those payment rail systems the kind for which people have relied traditionally on from banks.
#We will be 3d printing our clothes in 10 years: Ray Kurzweil Openknit 3d printing is one of those new things that gets hyped all the damn time.
Retail UPS stores carrying pay-peruse printers, Makerbots in every school, a new brick in the Great Wall,
Video) There has been a lot of hype lately about 3d printing, but it's not for nothing. As noted futurist and self-proclaimed technology oracle Ray Kurzweil said at Google S i/O conference last week, the hype,
Naturally, you can print a bunch of the parts to make the digital loom with a 3d printer.
In addition to encryption in transit and between data centers, which was already in place.)Overall, the improvements are an important indication that Google has given not up on the enterprise.
#New recyclable plastics discovered by accident A collection of new plastics that are recyclable and adaptable have been developed by researchers
Dr Jeanette Garcia, from IBM s Almaden Research center in San jose, stumbled upon the first new class of thermosets in many years when she accidentally left one of three components out of a reaction.
thermosets are used throughout modern cars and aircraft, often mixed with carbon fibers to form composites. Some 50%of the new Airbus a350 jet, for example, will be made from composites.
#Reinventing the 3d printer to make it faster 3d printers are slow. They are so slow that in the time it would take to print a screwdriver,
Video) And the frustrating thing is that existing 3d printers could technically print faster. It s just a matter of using an extruder that puts out thicker ropes of material,
So a national lab and a corporation set out in the past year to completely reinvent the concept of the 3d printer.
Using Cincinnati Inc. s huge BAAM 3d printer it is working toward a machine that could print 200 to 500 times faster than a standard desktop 3d printer.
A few more details about the Oak ridge-Cincinnati partnership emerged today on 3dprint. com, which reported that BAAM is capable of printing objects as large as tables
The site also reported that Oak ridge is considering processing 3d printed objects after they are printed so that they appear smooth.
is basically a series of 3d printers along a track. The printers deposit different colors and types of materials on phones whizzing past them on an oval-shaped track.
The system is an ingenious way to work around the typically tricky process of building a full-color 3d printer,
We ve become accustomed to plastic-based 3d printers that use one extruder to slowly go back
and in the future other techniques could trickle down to desktop 3d printers. The Robox, for example, uses one extruder that prints a large volume of plastic,
The first desktop 3d printers, which have driven heavy interest in the 25 year old professional printer industry,
The Skunk unmanned aerial vehicle with its four paintball guns, loudhailer and cameras is only a logical next step in the development of UAVS,
I predict that we will see a whole new wave of UAVS emerging with payloads more unusual than tasers,
##Results from the latest clinical trials of his#smartphone-linked artificial pancreas#suggest he might just make that deadline.
The artificial pancreas performed well in#hospital-based clinical trials in 2010. But the important test is whether it works in a real-world environment.
It s fantastic that research on the artificial pancreas is forging ahead, both in the US and in the UK, says Alasdair Rankin, director of research at Diabetes UK,
#The Holoroom Lowe s launches holographic virtual reality showroom The Holoroom Brick-and-mortar retail has changed little
launching a holograph-based virtual reality showroom dubbed the#Holoroom. Say you re going to remodel your bathroom.
where they will be displayed in augmented reality. We know that for many homeowners, the struggle to visualize a completed home improvement project
its function is mostly to disrupt#3d printing#as a rapid-prototyping system. Consequently, there was no existing product that met Lowe s retail needs.
and matte paint and developed the augmented reality display system from scratch. The cost of each grid room is relatively low,
and improve care Jawbone, wearable technology for a healthier lifestyle. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) aims to provide more people with access to healthcare.
what HP hopes will be a game-changing new data center computer. It internally calling that computer he Machine.
HP wants this computer to replace the servers being used in today data centers. But it also hopes the tech will become the basis for the next generation of PCS.
and delivers, this technology will become THE big data system, and take over the server world just for the energy savings alone.
#Ostendo Technologies chip to bring holograms to smartphones Ostendo chip that can produce a hologram Virtual reality won t require strapping a bulky contraption to your head in the future.
Microsoft corp. and Advanced micro devices Inc. are both working on their own virtual reality rooms building a complex system of projectors and computers.
in part of the value of virtual reality after he accidentally tried to set down a real world object on a virtual table
or Darpa, the government s futurist agency that worked on the predecessor to the Internet and self-driving cars.
and virtual reality is everywhere? Dr. El-Ghoroury predicts people s relationship with technology will change
#Smart rifle uses Google glass to let you shoot around corners Google glass-equipped smart rifle. Trackingpoint is the company behind the U s army s new#smart rifle.
and what it does is link your smart rifle s sight to your phone, tablet or Google glass.
#Researchers discover 3d material that behaves like graphene This illustration depicts fast-moving, massless electrons inside cadmium arsenide.
and Berkeley Lab have found that cadmium arsenide could yield practical devices with the same extraordinary electronic properties as 2d graphene.
There is a quest to find graphene-like materials that are three-dimensional and thus much easier to craft into practical devices.
Quebec where the company can draw on a significant hydroelectric power resource. Aluminum-air batteries do break down over time.
and, second, run a crowdfunding campaign to pay for it. That s exactly what#Sanaria, a biotechnology founded in 2003 by long-time malaria researcher Stephen Hoffman and based in a suburb of Washington,
That s where#crowdfunding#comes in. Sanaria is hoping to raise $250, 000 by June 5 to cover the cost of a prototype robot.
In 2013, Tile made news for being the most successful campaign to use open source crowdfunding software elfstarter, on its own website to raise funds.
Mason tells us he dabbles in some Angel investing, specifically nternet of Things (Iot) startups, companies making internet-controlled objects t
#Prescriptive planting technology is set to disrupt the farming industry The word innovation usually brings to mind small startups doing clever things with cutting-edge technology.
so it is no surprise that they are nervous about a new idea called prescriptive planting,
Monsanto prescriptive planting system, Fieldscripts, had its first trials last year and is now on sale in four American states.
Prescriptive planting is catching on fast. Last November another seed producer, Du pont Pioneer, linked up with a farm machinery maker, John Deere,
But the story of prescriptive planting is also a cautionary tale about the conflicts that arise when data entrepreneurs meet old-fashioned businessfolk.
the prescriptive planting firms might even use the data to buy underperforming farms and run them in competition with the farmers;
For the time being, though, the biggest companies will dominate prescriptive planting. They collect the most comprehensive data and make better use of them than anyone else.
And that raises a problem which affects big data in all its forms. Prescriptive planting could boost yields everywhere,
just as mass, anonymised patient records could improve health care. But its success depends on service providers persuading users (farmers
describing just how the mind-control helmet was 3d printed layer-by-layer in order to fit the wearer head
and 3d printing can improve people lives. Which is a hell of a lot more entertaining than watching Nigel de Jong roughing up Xabi Alonso again n
#UC Irvine School of medicine to add Google glass to its curriculum The University of California at Irvine (UCI) School of medicine announced that it is integrating the already-iconic wearable into its four-year curriculum for medical students.
Google self-driving cars are legal and in use in several states at this point. As researchers, we are playing catch up trying to figure out the ethical and legal implications.
missile defines, autonomous vehicles, etc.,the military is rapidly creating systems that will need to make moral decisions,
even if in some limited form, they may be able to diffuse rising public anger and mistrust over armed unmanned vehicles.
#Germany generates 74%of power needs from renewable energy Germany impressive streak of renewable energy milestones continues, with renewable energy generation surging to a record portion nearly 75 percent of the country overall electricity demand
In the first quarter of 2014, renewable energy sources met a record 27 percent of the country electricity demand,
Much of the country renewable energy growth has occurred in the past decade and, as a point of comparison, Germany 27 percent is double the approximately 13 percent of U s. electricity supply powered by renewables as of November 2013.
which aims to power the country almost entirely on renewable sources by 2050. nce again, it was demonstrated that a modern electricity system such as the German one can already accept large penetration rates of variable but predictable renewable energy sources such as wind and solar PV power,
said Bernard Chabot, a renewable energy consultant based in France, via email. n fact there are no technical and economic obstacles to go first to 20 percent of annual electricity demand penetration rate from a combination of those two technologies,
then 50 percent and beyond by combining them with other renewables and energy efficiency measures and some progressive storage solutions at a modest level.
the country has installed an astonishing amount of solar photovoltaic (PV) power setting multiple solar power generation records along the way.
Germany had installed considerably more solar power capacity per capita than any other country. The rapid growth has slowed, however, with 3. 3 GW of PV installed in 2013,
Regardless, a recent analysis by the consulting firm Eclareon found that solar power has reached grid parity in Germany,
the price of commercial solar power is now equal to retail electricity rates. And wind power reached record output levels last year producing a massive 25.2 GW
which pays renewable energy producers a set amount for the electricity they produce under long-term contracts,
has driven the solar power boom. But as installations continued to outpace government targets, Germany announced last year that it would begin scaling back its feed in tariff.
as renewable energy production continued to grow and energy demand shrank, Germany largest utility chose not to renew two long-term contracts for coal fired power.
and far more, by investing as little as $600 in renewable energy yourself, Lovins writes. itizens, cooperatives, and communities own more than half of German renewable capacity, vs. two percent in the U s. Challenges aside,
The vision of harvesting solar power from space and beaming it to earth has been around ever since Dr. Peter Glaser first proposed it in 1968.
solar power industry (one launch per year. Powering the Entire Solar system At first blush, most will imagine a space-based solar array powering our energy hungry businesses on earth,
that will grow exponentially over the coming decades much like an Internet of things in space. It has the potential not only to continuously deliver limitless amounts of solar energy to markets On earth,
but also to power itself as well as a range of future space applications. Historically, space missions have been ower paupersconstrained in design by the limitations of power
Precision agriculture: Farming management based on observing (and responding to) intra-field variations. With satellite imagery and advanced sensors, farmers can optimize returns on inputs while preserving resources at ever larger scales.
#Volvo testing self-driving cars on public roads in Sweden Volvo Car Group rive Meproject featuring 100 self-driving Volvos on public roads in everyday driving conditions is moving forward rapidly,
and frequent queues. rive Me self-driving cars for sustainable mobilityis a joint initiative between Volvo Car Group, the Swedish Transport Administration, the Swedish Transport Agency, Lindholmen Science Park and the City
The ground-breaking project rive Me Self-driving cars for sustainable mobilityis a joint initiative between Volvo Car Group, the Swedish Transport Administration, the Swedish Transport Agency, Lindholmen Science Park
Developer kits available through the Kickstarter for $200 offer barebones SCIO modules and come with CAD designs for 3d printers.
#A 3d printing breakthrough: 3d printed biological tissue 3d printing capabilities are limited rather despite the excitement that 3-D printing has generated.
It can be used to make complex shapes, but most commonly only out of plastics. Even manufacturers using an advanced version of the technology known as additive manufacturing typically have expanded the material palette only to a few types of metal alloys.
But what if 3-D printers could use a wide assortment of different materials, from living cells to semiconductors, mixing
The work addresses one of the lingering challenges in creating artificial organs for drug testing or
MIT researchers have changed that problem with a new piece of wearable technology that reads books out loud to those with vision problems.
#3d printed Osteoid cast with built-in ultrasound helps bones heal faster Osteoid cast Old-fashioned casts for broken bones can smell
But 3d printed casts can take care of those issues. Deniz Karasahin has designed the next step: a custom cast with an ultrasound device to speed up bone healing.
winner of the 2014 Golden Aesign Award in the 3d printed forms and product design category.
That impossible with an old-school plaster castut not with a 3d printed cast of the future.
So like, don go break your arm this weekend just for the chance to get a sci-fi 3d printed cast.
just keeping up. oogle has been working on the autonomous vehicles, the Nest acquisition, and a bunch of other stuff that surprising if you think of them as a search engine company which hopefully nobody does anymore,
if it wants to remain a major presence in the emerging Internet of things, it will need to extend beyond software and into hardware.
The problem with solar planes is that they are limited to smaller payloads, said drone expert Patrick Egan.
#3d printing is transforming manufacturing and General electric wants to lead the way A 20-year-old Indonesian student has helped General electric save considerable sums of money in development
And that all thanks to 3d printing. While it may be today buzzword, in reality it just a fraction of the overall manufacturing process and General electric wants to lead the way.
Furstoss told attendees at the Inside 3d printing conference in New york on Thursday that the aker movementis revolutionizing how the traditional manufacturers look at their own design
The Fairfield, CT-headquartered conglomerate has been pushing hard in the 3d printing and the next-generation manufacturing space.
as the company wanted to learn more about additive manufacturing. But Furstoss admitted that the company
Because additive manufacturing gives me the opportunity to conduct faster prototyping. And it also about learning and gathering data.
and advantages that 3d printing has to offer, it invested in more than three hundred 3d printers across the company,
which helps it to learn how to develop the more difficult or traditionally expensive parts for aviation, oil and gas, healthcare,
ost UAVS unmanned aerial vehicles are a few million dollars, says Wade Knudson, who heads the Zumwalt project forraytheon (RTN),
what actually is a smart city and what progress are we as a society making towards that vision?
Check out this definition of a smart city from the analysts at IDC. They say it must?
Here are some real-world examples of the progress we are making towards true smart cities. Santander, Spain The EU has provided#6m funding for experimental facilities
and applications in the northern Spanish city of Santander, aimed at testing typical applications and services of a smart city.
Dubai, United arab emirates Although in the early stages yet, Dubai announced plans last year to turn itself into a smart city.
Here in the UK, the government has announced over £150m of funding into smart city research and this runs alongside investment in intelligent transport systems
On the ground there are several cities embarking upon smart city projects and here are just two of them.
Bristol, England The Connecting Bristol digital partnership leads the city work on next generation broadband infrastructure, smart city, open data, green IT and digital inclusion,
And the Smart city Bristol programme, involving the public sector, businesses and the community, is building upon this digital infrastructure
Analyst IDC is convinced also that 2014 will be a big year for smart cities, saying cities will move quickly from research and evaluation to investment in pilots.
What are thoughts your on how we can develop intelligent infrastructure and the smart cities of the future s
Reacting to Big data However Bitcoin is not just a currency that promises to eventually end the trend of patchwork national currencies that exist for the almost sole purpose of allowing governments to endlessly fund their own deficit spending.
intentionally or not, is a massive reaction to the trend of Big data. It is decentralized and anonymous by design,
and it is these key features within the Bitcoin protocol itself that may be the key to weakening the hold of massive data collecting service companies like Google.
and cloud computing may one day surpass the valuation of multinational corporations like Western union, Visa, Facebook, Google,
A device that allows desktop 3d printers to print in color for less than $100 Full color printing is generally a privilege limited to professional and high-end consumer 3d printers,
a sub-$100 device that upgrades desktop 3d printers to print in a full rainbow of colors.
The system is fused compatible with deposition modeling 3d printers that use a standard-size spool of filament.
Desktop 3d printer makers have gotten generally around the one color problem by adding more than one print head. botobjects,
#3d printing may finally give artificial organs a blood supply Vascularized tissue constructed by printing cell-laden inks in a layered zigzag pattern.
what may be a critical breakthrough for creating artificial organs. Using a custom-built four-head 3-D printer and a isappearingink,
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