#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.
Instead, you may just step into an empty room and then suddenly seeing life-size, 3-D images of people and furniture.
Or look down at a smartwatch and#see virtual objects float #and bounce above the wrist,
like the holographic Princess Leia beamed by R2-D2 in the moviestar Wars.####A key to this future may lay in Carlsbad, Calif,
. where startup Ostendo Technologies Inc. has spent the past nine years quietly working on miniature projectors designed to emit crisp videos and glasses-free 3-D images for smartphones and giant screens.
Other companies have shown they can project floating images that appear to be holograms, but many involve large machines employing a system of mirrors to direct light with limited viewing angles.
For instance, the lifelike image of the late rapper Tupac shakur, which graced the Coachella music festival stage in 2012,
was a combination of computer graphics and video projection that relied on visual effects first designed in the 19th century.
Ostendo s projectors in contrast, are roughly the size of Tic Tacs, powered by a computer chip that can control the color, brightness and angle of each beam of light across one million pixels.
One chipset, small enough to fit into a smartphone, is capable of projecting video on a surface with a 48-inch diagonal.
A patchwork of chips, laid together, can form far larger and more complex images. The first iteration of the chip,
which is scheduled to begin shipping next year, will only project 2-D videos, but the next version, expected to follow soon after will feature holographic capability,
according to Ostendo s chief executive and founder, Hussein S. El-Ghoroury. Display is said the last frontier Dr. El-Ghoroury, who in 1998 sold Commquest Technologies, a mobile chipset company, to#International business machines#Corp. IBM for about $250 million in cash and stock.
Over the years, processing power has improved and networks have more bandwidth, but what is missing is comparable advancement in display.
The race to disrupt the screen is intensifying as both upstarts and technology giants try to find new ways to bring content to life.
Microsoft corp. and Advanced micro devices Inc. are both working on their own virtual reality rooms building a complex system of projectors and computers.
Hewlett-packard Co. recently spun out a company called Leia, that like Ostendo, is trying to bring 3d imaging to smartphones.
Meanwhile, Facebook Inc. agreed in March to spend $2 billion to buy Oculus VR Inc.,maker of the Oculus Rift headset that pulls users into a 360-degree virtual environments.
Facebook CEO#Mark Zuckerberg#was convinced, in part of the value of virtual reality after he accidentally tried to set down a real world object on a virtual table
while testing the Oculus Rift, forgetting for a moment that the table didn t exist in the real world,
according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Ostendo, tucked away in Southern California, is known little
but has raised $90 million from venture-capital firms and Peter Thiel, Facebook s first outside investor,
and has secured some $38 million in government research and development contracts. A large bulk of that has come from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,
or Darpa, the government s futurist agency that worked on the predecessor to the Internet and self-driving cars.
which fuses an image processor with a wafer containing micro light-emitting diodes, or LEDS, alongside software that helps the unit properly render images.
During a recent test reviewed by The Wall street journal, Ostendo showed a working prototype: a set of six chips laid together that beamed a 3-D image of green dice spinning in the air.
According to Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor at the Massachusetts institute of technology, who is working on 3-D displays for MIT s Media Lab,
The Retina display on Apple Inc. s#iphone, for example, has about 300 dots per inch,
With a lens attached, it will be less than 0. 5 cubic centimeters, roughly the size of the camera in the#iphone.
and is aiming to make the pixels even smaller to achieve higher resolution. Ultimately the larger vision is to have Ostendo s chips everywhere electronic displays are needed,
whether it is a glasses-free 3-D television screen, a smartwatch, or tables that can project hologram-like images.
So what happens in a world where 3-D and virtual reality is everywhere? Dr. El-Ghoroury predicts people s relationship with technology will change
and breed a wave of business opportunities, on scale with the introduction of the iphone.
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#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.
By networking your sight and your headset, you see everything your gun does streamed in real time. Basically, when you want to give yourself your gun s POV,
you simply select your scope as your Wi-fi server, open your Shotview app and you re suddenly able to see whatever your barrel is pointed at.
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Rus hopes that these folded electronics will evolve into something of ahardware compiler, where different working devices can be generated for performing a variety of tasks such as cleaning the floor.
Image processing provides verification at every step that the goop consists entirely of irradiated parasites. Sporobot would increase the speed of production 20 30 times over, according to Harvard and Sanaria.
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#Classcraft a new way to teach students by turning the classroom into a giant role-playing game Classcraft Shawn Young,
It s going to turn heads in an education system used to strict budgets and paying per-head for software solutions,
and pets for their Classcraft avatars on itunes. Playing in class If you re a gamer,
and check their stats on the screen projected at the front of the room. When the bell rings, its time for a random event,
or, as in Young s case, the kids can use their laptops to interact with it in real-time.
they ll be able to use their smartphones to keep up with the game too, with an ios app set for release and an Android version to follow.
Cutting class and eating chocolate As the Game Master, Young s students are playing by his rules,
something he believes is important in a 21st century that s proving a boom time for sharing, not least through social media.
Higuera told me via email. Before, some of my more apathetic students wouldn t care
Noschese told me over Skype. At least, he believes, not when kids are striving to earn rewards in a game.
And interestingly, they ll also be able to buy these coins through the ios app and on itunes. Young knows this is a huge move for an educational product.
It s very very innovative, he says. I don t know any products that do that for education.
It won t have customizable avatars, pets, ios app support, or interactive class forums. However, the base game will still be fully functional.
at its core, a challenge to the school budgeting system and a way of making Classcraft available to all, according to Young.
The ios app due in September will enable the whole system to run on a teacher s ipad
Video games in a very short time, have become this common cultural reference point that everybody knows,
and your smartphone will find it for you, up to a range of 50 to 150 feet.
It not the first such gadget. But what makes this one different is that it also a social network of sorts.
If your lost jacket isn in some mysterious corner of your home you can ask all other Tile App users to watch for it.
If they get near it, their phones will beep and they can alert you to the jacket whereabouts.
That why its creators, Mike Farley and Nick Evans, call it he world largest lost and found.
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.
And interest in the gadget still hasn wavered. A few days ago Ross Mason, founder of hot enterprise startup Mulesoft (which raised $130 million in venture investment) tweeted about Tile.
Mason tells us he dabbles in some Angel investing, specifically nternet of Things (Iot) startups, companies making internet-controlled objects t
accessed via China intellectual property database, the suitcase is equipped also with a GPS navigator, a burglar alarm and a horn.
Set up by two former Google employees, it used remote sensing and other cartographic techniques to map every field in America (all 25m of them) and superimpose on that all the climate information that it could find.
By 2010 its database contained 150 billion soil observations and 10 trillion weather-simulation points.
The Climate Corporation planned to use these data to sell crop insurance. But last October Monsanto bought the company for about $1 billionne of the biggest takeovers of a data firm yet seen.
Monsanto, the world largest hybrid-seed producer, has a library of hundreds of thousands of seeds,
and terabytes of data on their yields. By adding these to the Climate Corporation soil-and-weather database,
it produced a map of America which says which seed grows best in which field, under what conditions.
Fieldscripts uses all these data to run machines made by Precision Planting, a company Monsanto bought in 2012,
Monsanto, loaded with data, can plant a field with different varieties at different depths and spacings, varying all this according to the weather.
to boost its farm-data business. The benefits are clear. Farmers who have tried Monsanto system say it has pushed up yields by roughly 5%over two years,
The seed companies think providing more data to farmers could increase America maize yield from 160 bushels an acre (10 tonnes a hectare) to 200 bushelsiving a terrific boost to growersmeagre margins.
But the story of prescriptive planting is also a cautionary tale about the conflicts that arise when data entrepreneurs meet old-fashioned businessfolk.
it reduces the role of discretion and skill in farmingheir core competence. However, the bigger problem is that farmers distrust the companies peddling this new method.
They fear that the stream of detailed data they are providing on their harvests might be misused.
the prescriptive planting firms might even use the data to buy underperforming farms and run them in competition with the farmers;
or the companies could use the highly sensitive data on harvests to trade on the commodity markets,
and control their data; that companies may not use the information except for the purpose for
Also, once data have been sent and anonymised, farmers might be said no longer to own them, so it is not clear
to negotiate with the data providers. Another worry is that, since the companies have not yet made the data fully ortable farmers may become locked into doing business with a single provider.
To assuage all these concerns the Climate Corporation has set up a free data storage service for farmers,
which others cannot access without the farmerspermission. New niche data-management firms are entering the market,
which should help make it more competitive. 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.
But its success depends on service providers persuading users (farmers or patients) to trust them. If the users think they are taking a disproportionate share of the risks
while firms are getting an excessive chunk of the benefits, trust will remain in short supply
#Demand for computer science programs is booming at colleges across the U s. People in the tech industry have worked to persuade more young people in the U s. to become interested in studying computer science for years.
Demand for computer science classes and programs is booming at universities across the U s, . according to data presented this past week at the NCWIT summit for Women in IT by Ed Lazowska, the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer science and Engineering at the University of Washington,
and Stanford Computer science professor Eric Roberts. Demand is also booming for the less expensive Micro Colleges that teach programming skills like Davinci Coders near Boulder, Colorado,
which only costs $6, 000. At Lazowska own school, the number of incoming freshman who plan to major in computer science is soaring the graph below,
published earlier this week by Geekwire, speaks for itself. It not just UW that seeing A CS boom.
Computer science class enrollment is markedly up at a number of institutions, from traditional tech hubs like MIT and Stanford to more humanities-and business-focused schools like Harvard.
But at the academic level Lazowska and Roberts say that this time around things just feel different than they did during the first dot-com frenzy.
According to Lasowska and Roberts, our higher education institutions today aren prepared adequately to handle the surge in computer science education demand.
but a groundbreaking idea could change the face of medicine for good. 3d software design companies Dassault systèmes
the teams developed a realistic 3d model of a human heart featuring software designed to make it function just like the real thing.
and offers up-to-date data on the wearer mental and physical tiredness by linking the MEME to a smartphone feed.
Users can then keep track of their daily energy levels, ideally taking a break when their MEME notes their tiredness,
the MEME glasses rely on monitoring a user eye movements and gaze. The glasses contain small metallic lectrooculographysensors in the portions of the frame that touch the face,
changes in voltage are collected then into data that is measured for parameters such as alertness or fatigue.
There will be an optional attery headbandavailable for purchase that will extend battery life to about 16 hours It is anticipated to be compatible with Mac, Windows, ios,
and Android devices, and will be available in both English and Japanese languageshough there is no word on overseas sales beyond their upcoming 2015 launch in Japan.
It is complicated a mix. he computer simulation of fluid dynamics has changed dramatically in the last 5 years,
An aluminium factory used to stand on the site but was closed down in 2007. The freshwater lagoon will be 300m long
you probably think about electronics products like televisions and computers. Thanks to its CT and other diagnostic imaging machines and technology, Toshiba has made a name for itself in the healthcare industry, too.
#25%of patients now read online physician reviews There has always been a love/hate relationship between doctors and the Internet.
using online review sites. A recent study by researchers at the University of Michigan says 25 percent of Americans now look online for doctor reviews before making an appointment.
There are now 40 to 50 doctor-review sites for patients to choose from, the biggest among them being Healthgrades, Ratemds and Vitals.
Also, general review sites such as Yelp also offer ratings for medical practices and specific physicians. It gets better.
doctors can sometimes be preoccupied with their handheld computers. Patients can feel ignored. And doctors sometimes simply must give patients bad news. Some doctors believe bad news in the exam room can cause bad feelings that turn into bad reviews on sites like Healthgrades. com
. But the review sites are on the minds of doctors. Both the Congress of OBGYNS and the American Psychiatric Association have held panel discussions about online reviews at recent meetings
#Longevity gene may enhance brain power For the first time ever, scientists have shown that people who have a variant of a gene called KLOTHO also have improved cognitive abilities,
and perhaps nly half require students to use a laptop or tablet. But, she added,
and was used for collecting data as well as video t would dramatically change medical education. Imagine an attending physician seeing what you saw during a simulation,
Pristine, and Google is involved not currently. In August, another 20 to 30 pairs will go to first-and second-year students, for use in anatomy labs, the medical simulation center, the ultrasound institute,
but he looks forward to incorporating data calling up a patient electronic health record, for instance
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.
Some members of the artificial intelligence, or AI, research and machine ethics communities were quick to applaud the grant. ith drones,
Arkin wrote in a 2007 research paper (PDF. Part of the reason for that, he said,
and that the same as Google cars as it is for military robots, we should begin now to do the research to how far can we get in ensuring the robot systems are safe
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,
While lithium ion batteries are the dominant batteries these days for laptops, cell phones and early electric cars,
(which explains why your laptop battery dies every couple of years), and they can catch on fire under extreme impact.
While neither Kani or Nishina has a long background with battery chemistry (they hail from the telecom
and software sectors theye brought on Japanese battery cathode expert Kaname Takeya, who developed the cathode tech used today in the Toyota prius
The difference between this plastic and scratch-healing gadgets presently available is the amount of damage that can be tolerated.
Smartphones, for example, would be able to heal actual cracks in the casing, rather than micro-filling small scuffs and scratches that result from a pocket full of keys.
when he looked at accounting software for small business. Unlike consumer technology, which was quickly moving to a web-based approach,
business software was sold still in boxes. That made it difficult to integrate with other software
and almost impossible for the people who used it to collaborate effectively. So he went to his friend and accountant
Hamish Edwards, and together they decided to build a software company that centered on the relationship between small businesses and their accountants.
Rather than just transferring files every quarter or so, their product would allow accountants to act as real-time advisors.
it seamlessly integrates with a wide array of add-on software tools, from point-of-sale to timesheets to invoicing and payroll.
think back to how software used to work. You would buy a package from a vendor
and it would be installed on your company server or PC. Through partnerships and acquisitions, the software company would could then offer you additional products with expanded capability.
This was not only time consuming and expensive, but it limited you to the vision of your software provider.
If you had a restaurant and wanted to start selling takeout on the Web, you had to either buy a product that was compatible with your accounting software or basically run two sets of books.
In the best case you were held hostage to the partnerships and acquisitions your vendor saw fit to make.
Most of the time though, your ability to was hampered by the strategies and vision of your software provider.
If it didn see why your point-of-sale system needed to be integrated with e-commerce, you were basically out of luck.
Power has shifted from software companies to everyday consumers. Large scale Disruptions Most data are unstructured. Everyday there are millions of social media posts,
customers filling out comment cards, mentions in mass media and on blog posts. For a large enterprise, a keyword search would turn up thousands of hits per day.
It simply not possible for a human to read it all but now machines can. Lexalytics developed one of the most powerful text analysis software packages for exactly that purpose.
The company product can analyze tremendous amounts of content for meaning. So, for example, customer service organizations can monitor the web for complaints
in order to intervene and financial analysts can track sentiment on the companies they cover. The company former Marketing Director
Oleg Rogynskyy, thought there was a better way. He saw that by putting Lexalyticstechnology in the cloud,
It could be downloaded by nontechnical users, in under three minutes and used for less than $1000,
but also improve the software. Because all of the data is housed together rather than distributed on clientsservers,
the algorithms are able to learn and improve from a much wider data set. Semantria business is booming, growing at 20%per month.
Wee All Being disrupted Now Mike Saliter, Global Head of Market Development at Qliktech predicts that the cloud approach will soon become standard.
Anybody with an idea can go to Amazon, Microsoft or Oracle, sign up for a platform as a service and be up and running in minutes.
Competition is fierce and prices are falling while features are expanding. But what makes the cloud so disruptive is that it compels legacy players to change their business models
and for users to adopt the technology cheaply and easily. It seems the cloud is now disrupting every industry it touches.
but can be accessed by anybody with an internet connection. That a real game changer. One thing is clear.
This panel will be suspended by 6-mile-long wires connected to a small bus which will house the satellite controls and communication systems.
Using a technique called gravity gradient stabilization, the bus acts as a counterweight to the huge panel.
The panel, which will be closer to Earth, will experience more gravitational pull down toward the planet and less centrifugal force away from it,
while the bus will be tugged upward by the opposite effects. This balancing of forces will keep the satellite in a stable orbit,
Since the photovoltaic panel orientation is fixed the amount of sunlight that hits it varies greatly as the geosynchronous satellite and Earth spin.
The mirrors will be positioned so they can direct light onto two photovoltaic panels 24 hours a day.
as well as offer the convenience of simple apps and websites. Simple provides mobile-first banking with no need to visit a branch, no hidden fees and great customer service.
there is an easy-to-use app or web-based money transfer service. Here in the UK, our challenger bank Virgin Money are disrupting that idea with stunning free lounges,
and sell on the go using smartphones. Clinkle is introducing a mobile wallet for day to day transactions
so rather than put your hand in your pocket for small amounts of cash you can just pay with your phone.
#IBM creates a solar magnifying glass that could power the Earth IBM, the American multinational technology and consulting corporation are renowned the world over for being technology leaders
The team at IBM have developed a system called High Concentration Photo Voltaic Thermal (HCPVT), which is capable of concentrating the sun rays into a stream 2000x more powerful.
or delayed flights It can be hard to a book flight on an airline website,
Video) efore today, you had to go to our website or app to give us your flight information.
Airhelp CMO Nicolas Michaelsen told me in a phone interview before Disrupt. ow, you connect your Gmail account,
Digging through all your email could take a while. So after connecting to your Gmail account
Youl receive an email with interesting stats and potential claims a few hours later. After that, you have to give Airhelp the rights to handle the claims,
when each technology will be scientifically viable (the kind of stuff that Google, governments and universities develop),
Equipment telematics: Allows mechanical devices such as tractors to warn mechanics that a failure is likely to occur soon.
Collars with GPS, RFID and biometrics can automatically identify and relay vital information about the livestock in real time.
By pre-computing the shape of the field where the inputs are to be used, and by understanding the relative productivity of different areas of the field,
Further understanding of crop variability, geolocated weather data and precise sensors should allow improved automated decision-making and complementary planting techniques.
which together would monitor, predict, cultivate and extract crops from the land with practically no human intervention.
Synthetic biology is about programming biology using standardized parts as one programs computers using standardized libraries today.
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