#75%of Chinese consumers interested in buying wearables devices The market size of Chinese wearable devices could reach $1. 87 billion by 2015.
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
##Giving no consideration to prices, 49.3 percent and 46.6 percent of the customers may purchase smart bracelets and smart watches, two main categories of wearable devices, respectively,
According to the report, 48.1 percent of the users hope wearable devices can help them to keep fit and 37 percent want to use them to overcome laziness and implement sports plans.
The report adds that users are interested in features such as body-sensing interactions and cross-platform cloud data.
Customers look forward to more appsdedicated to wearable devices 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,
and#CWATCH, among others. The future wearable device market has abundant manufacturers, but lacks a common platform, like Androidand ios for smartphones,
which enables all related wearable devices to operate and store data on it. Research institution iimedia predicted that the market size of Chinese wearable devices would reach 11.49 billion yuan ($1. 87 billion) and shipments of 40 million units by 2015.
And it s not just China: Wearable device mania has swept the whole world. An Australian research institute predicted that one fifth of Australians would have one wearable device each in the future year, with shipment reaching 36 million units.
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#Off-grid solar is the next big market in clean energy Off-grid solar The off-grid clean energy market is booming.
Sub-saharan africa is seeing#300 percent#compound annual growth in off-grid lighting; Bangladesh is putting up#30,000 to 40,000#solar home systems every month;
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,
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#Internet of things will be the biggest business in the history of electronics Imagine a world filled with hyperlinked smart objects that are constantly interacting over a network to improve user experience IRL.
allowing, for instance, a consumer to control his TV, house lights, and AC unit from a smartphone#or augmented reality devices like Glass##isn t actually all that far off.
There are already about 3. 5 billion sensors#out there##up from just 10 million in 2007.
In the last six years, we ve gone from 10 million sensors##in things like the Nintendo Wii and iphones##to 3. 5 billion.#
According to#Cisco s Connection Counter, there are approximately 10,700, 000,000##people, processes, data, and things##currently connected to the internet.
The internet of things is comprised already of 10 billion moving parts. To make it all work in a concerted fashion, to meaningfully corral all that data,
we d just need more sensors. Those sensors can cost less than $1 and consume almost no energy##it s all about mass manufacturing and deployment.
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.
Sensors will no doubt be employed to bombard us with tailored advertisements as we pass node points in public, like restaurants, theaters, shops.#
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.
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#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 gift of enhanced mobility. Insects are small and nimble enough to get into almost any tight space,
Images and camera feed are sent to a seven-inch wide mobile device supplied in the PD 100 kit,
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,
substituting a super capacitor made from advanced carbon fiber-based nanomaterials that can be integrated into the body panels of the vehicle.
and roof panels are made of nanomaterial (see image below) that replaces the electric batteries used by conventional EVS.
The vehicle plugs in to initially charge and then recharges the supercapacitor panels during braking.
Additional panels can power the drive train. Volvo has yet to get beyond building a few of the panels
but it is encouraged by early tests which show that the material stores energy much faster than conventional batteries.
Integrating power storage into body panels is not a new idea. The#Lola B12 69/E, an electric racing car that recently set a land speed record for EVS of 328 kilometers (204 miles per hour,
In manufacturing we use a process called CAD/CAM (computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing. 3d models are designed on a computer
and then manufactured using CNC Machines or 3d printers. The design is manufactured into a physical object automatically, with instruction from 3d computer model to physical object without human interface.
Automated construction basically scales up this process. The size of the 3d printer is large enough to construct walls by depositing concrete based material layer upon layer to build a Wall in this video,
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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,
According to Plastic Waste management Institute#data,##effective utilization##includes not just the 20%that is actually recycled,
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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,
More than one hundred companies including startups such as Witricity and Proxybypower and giants such as Toyota (TM), Intel (INTC), Samsung,
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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U s. embassies around the world this fall are hosting weekly discussions for students enrolled in free online courses, called MOOCS, in partnership with Coursera, the Silicon valley-based platform with over 5 million users.
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.##
And the embassy is following up with a business plan competition for local students, with an#ipad#Mini as the prize.
Alejandra is working on a website that gathers data about rural areas in Bolivia.####I ve been fascinated with MOOCS
It uses proprietary algorithms to reduce false alarms. Lockheed touts the##field -and-forget##technology as providing maximum coverage at minimal costs,
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.
Levinson is current the chair of Apple board. He has the blessing of Apple CEO Tim cook to start this new Google-y company.
In a release Cook said, or too many of our friends and family, life has been cut short
On Google+he says, t still very early days so there not much more to share yet.
expect it to use its core data-handling skills to shed new light on familiar age-related maladies.
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.
Art and I are excited about tackling aging and illness. These issues affect us allrom the decreased mobility
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
A small Photo Voltaic solar panel provides power for the micro controller, sensors, various valves, etc.
Experimental projects are even testing how to dispatch farm drones (crop-spying quadcopters for example) that measure everything from reflectivity to water loss to optimize the efficiency of a farm operations. rom our perspective:
nozzles, and computer-controlled irrigation covering thousands of acres that conserve millions of gallons of water each day. s a brewer, we know that the area we can have the biggest impact in reducing water usage is within the agricultural supply chain,
#Battery-free Wifi devices that run on radio waves What if devices could pull enough power wirelessly from the air to run themselves
Mobile devices have become radically smaller and more powerful in the past 10 year. The list of#tech-related tasks that the mobile devices we all carry around has grown longer by the#year.
The next step in technology s great disappearing act? Absorption into our clothes, body, and environment.####The question of how best to power that next step,
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.
And you don t want to wire or charge sensors embedded throughout#smart homes, offices, cities. But what if these devices could pull enough power wirelessly from the air to run themselves
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,
and wireless wavesthe most recent work, however, took these devices a step further by allowing them to send their own signal using far less power than is required usually.
said Shyam Gollakota, a UW assistant professor of computer science and engineering. 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
#and decoded#by other devices. 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.
and UW associate professor of computer science and engineering and electrical engineering, says that although the signals are tiny
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,
as users are starting to realize the consequences of freely givingtheir right to privacy. While we all seem to fear the NSA spying on us (a reasonable,
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.
Users are tired of seeing themselves hacked 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 or should have maintained in the first place.
Does privacy come at apremium? In a certain sense, you can say that the industry of paying for internet privacy is already here,
says David Bakke ofmoney Crashers. Apps likeconfideandwickrprovide private messaging, yet are looking at pay plans for upper tier services.
Users are looking at ways to quietly and privately communicate online. As companies begin to
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.
Bothfacebookandokcupidhave run recent social experiments on their user base, creating animosity and frustration. However, there is an old adage that applies here:
The fallout from his brand of spying when it came to technology used for internet interactions was broad and irrational.
author Micheal Gurnow wrote about a momentary exodus from public browsing software, especially when it came to the threat of government intrusion.
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.
People expect theirpersonal data to remain personal and private. This expectation is set at some point by the site they are entering their personal data into.
The thing is no one reads the terms of service contracts. When you click the little check box
and hit continue, you are agreeing to pages of legalese that pretty much state youdon thave any personal data
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.
Though, both the European union and the Argentinean court have decided that users do have a such right.
This is the extreme end of loss of privacy; when it becomes an overwhelming need to simply no longer exist in the digital sense.
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,
that it is wrong in principle to leave search engines themselves the task of deciding whether to delete information or not,
(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.
our so-thought personal data, 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
and selling demographical information to the highest bidder? Paranoid, sure. Possible, yes. 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. What we think is personal
or private is nothing of the sort. This isn t the era of anonymous chatting about pets on AOL
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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.
#Vision-correcting electronic display could free users from eyeglasses The idea is to anticipate how your eyes will naturally distort whatever's on screen.
those of us who need glasses to see a TV or laptop screen clearly could ditch the eyeglasses.
The technology uses algorithms to alter an image based on a person's glasses prescription together with a light filter set in front of the display.
The algorithm alters the light from each individual pixel so that, when fed through a tiny hole in the plastic filter,
rays of light reach the retina in a way that re-creates a sharp image. Researchers say the idea is to anticipate how your eyes will naturally distort whatever's on screen something glasses
Brian A. Barsky, a University of California, Berkeley, computer science professor and affiliate professor of optometry and vision science who coauthored the paper, says it's like undoing
The technology is being developed in collaboration with researchers at MIT and Microsoft. In addition to making it easier for people with simple vision problems to use all kinds of displays without glasses
the technique may help those with more serious vision problems caused by physical defects that can't be corrected with glasses or contacts,
and a detail of a Vincent Van gogh self-portrait and applied algorithms that warped the image by taking into account the specific eye condition it was told to account for.
whose display they had affixed an acrylic slab topped with a plastic screen pierced with thousands of tiny, evenly spaced holes.
Gordon Wetzstein, who coauthored the paper while a research scientist at MIT s Media Lab, says the screen allows a regular two-dimensional display to work as
what's known as alight field display. This means the screen controls the way individual light rays emanate from the display, leading to a sharper image without degrading contrast.
The researchers tested out their device by using a Canon DSLR camera with the focus set to simulate vision problems like farsightedness.
Wetzstein says the next step is to build prototype displays that people can use in the real world something he expects could take a few years.
or that software tracks head movement and adjusts the image accordingly. Barsky expects this won t be much of a problem,
when we look at a display that doesn t look right, we tend to naturally move around to improve the focus.
says that if researchers used a display with a high enough resolution about double the 326 pixels per inch of the ipod Touch used in the paper the technology could be made to be used by more than one person at once.
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