The base price was set at ¥198, 000 ($1, 600) with an additional ¥24, 600 ($200) monthly data and insurance fees.
With his array of cameras, touch sensors, accelerometer and other sensors in his"endocrine-type multi-layer neural network,"Pepper has the ability to read your emotions as well as develop his own.
and collective wisdom gained through collected cloud data. Pepper currently has the ability to speak English, French, Japanese and Spanish.
Softbank will be releasing information about additional sales on their website in July J
#Researchers create guilt-free superfood that tastes like bacon As will be familiar to anyone miserably chewing through leaf after leaf of kale in a beleaguered attempt to shed a few pounds,
telling them about federal guidelines on the amount of radiation that cell phones can emit
and the instructions on safe phone use. Lawyers and clinicians involved in creating the new law said that it is meant to make consumers aware of the already existing regulations.
In 2011, the World health organization classified the kind of low energy radiation that cell phones emit as"possibly carcinogenic"because of a link between cell phone use and a type of malignant brain tumor called glioma and a benign brain tumor called acoustic neuroma.
One study of nearly 360,000 adults in Denmark did not find an increase in the number of brain tumors even among those who had been using a cell phone for at least 13 years.
THE WHO panel took into account studies that suggested that those who used cell phones did have higher rates of certain brain tumors.
The Interphone study is the largest study to date looking at cell phones and brain tumors. It involves 13 countries,
and glioma rates except in the group of participants who reported using their cell phone for at least 1, 640 hours in their lifetime without a headset.
Those participants were 40%more likely than those who never used a cell phone to have a glioma.
and thus the link between heavy phone use and brain tumor risk in the study might not be real."
A recent analysis found that people who used a mobile phone were 30%more likely to have a glioma,
The researchers also found that users of cordless phones which emit less radiation than cell phones,
had 40%to 70%higher glioma risk.""There are individual studies and findings that do produce a risk,
Although Samet, THE WHO panel leader, agrees that we probably know the risk is not great,
we would have more consistent results from epidemiological data. These pictures are compatible with perhaps a weak or moderate risk,
Another argument against the possibility that cell phones cause cancer is that there has not been an increase in the incidence of brain tumors in the United states,
they were not in a part of the brain that researchers predict would be affected by cell phone radiation.
Cell phones (and to a lesser extent cordless phones) give off non-ionizing radiation, which unlike ionizing radiation such as X-rays,
The COSMOS study is looking at cell phone records and the long-term health of 290,000 participants in five countries in Europe including the United kingdom and Sweden.
and will probably get more accurate data, Samet said. However it could take several studies on the scale of COSMOS to really feel more confident in
and could at least in theory be more vulnerable to the effects of phone radiation. The Mobi-Kids study is currently comparing cell phone use between 2,
"I wouldn't make the recommendation for my grandchildren that they shouldn't use a cell phone.
Unlike its neighbor Berkeley, San francisco would have required cellphone retailers to post information about health concerns and carcinogenic potential of cell phone radiation."
Moskowitz said he said that he hardly ever uses his cell phone, but when he does he uses a headset or speaker mode.
He carries the phone turned off in his briefcase. There are a number of ways to reduce exposure to cell phone radiation,
if users are worried about the possibility of health risks, including using a headset and texting instead of talking g
#Samsung Finally Has a Phone That Runs Its Own Operating system After years of delays and false starts,
Samsung Electronics Co. has launched finally a smartphone that runs on its own Tizen operating system, a landmark move that may mark the beginning of the end of its dependence on Google Inc. Android system.
But the launch of the Z1 phone in India at a price of only $92 makes it clear how much the Korean has scaled down its ambitions for Tizen, at least in the short term,
and how far it still has to go before it can wean itself off Android.
The company has pared the offering down to a no-frills product aimed at first-time smartphone buyers at the bottom end of the market,
who won demand the comforts and capabilities of Android, still less Apple ios. Those two systems operate 19 out of every 20 smartphones worldwide.
In truth, Samsung had been left with little alternative after three failed launches last year frustrated the developers that it needs
in order to build an ecosystem capable of rivalling those two. The company has to engineer the product so as to make standard services like Twitter, Facebook and Youtube available without a Tizen-specific app,
according to the Wall street journal. Reuters quoted Samsung as saying that the phone will have more than 1, 000 apps available for downloadess than one-tenth of those available for Android and ios. At the bottom end of the market, that may be no great problem.
More important for the company is to get the product out so that it can build on it in the course of timend,
in the short term, defend its global market share. Samsung was deposed last year by Xiaomi as the largest smartphone maker in China.
Tizen is already in use in Samsung smartwatches and cameras and, most recently, its TVS. The company ultimately intends to make it the cornerstone of its strategy for making all of its household appliances connectable to the nternet of Thingsin due course.
The question is whether even in the world third biggest market for smartphones, Samsung can achieve enough scale for Tizen to persuade skeptical developers that making apps for it is worth their while.
At $92, the phone is almost four times as expensive as the ultra-basic Nokia 130 phone
which aims at the same segment, and more than 700 million people in the target market of India live on less than $2 a day, according to research firm IDC.
The phone has a four-inch display, one front-facing camera and an ultra-power savings mode.
In an effort to help sales it being sold with three-month subscriptions to music and Bollywood movie-streaming services, according to the WSJ
says Sharon"Users can just follow their curiosity. The applications are truly endless and as SCIO grows
and learns so will our users be able to scan more and more materials. That learning is an important piece of the puzzle.
and have the item in its database. Once it saved, it can always identity that item in the future.
The more people who use SCIO the greater that database will eventually become. This Handheld Scanner Identifies Pills
Determines Calories and More SCIO is currently available for pre-order on the company website with as estimated ship date of July 2015.
while the device software development kit is $449 t
#Why This Collaborative Platform for Musicians Is Drumming Up Big Bucks Steve Martocci goal for Splice is nothing less than to change the course of music creation. e think we can lead an entire new movement in music,
The music platform is compatible with popular digital audio workstations such as Ableton, Logic pro and FL Studio,
and never worry about backup, losing their work or missing files when theye sending things to people,
Add in a community angle that allows aspiring musicians to play with tunes, isolating tracks and creating remixes,
New york-based Martocci sold Groupme to Skype in 2011 for a figure reported between $43 million and $85 million.
He met his Splice cofounder, Santa monica, Calif.-based software architect Matt Aimonetti, at a 2012 entrepreneurship conference.
The site will maintain a free tier, but Martocci says it will migrate slowly toward charging for additional features. ee constantly building a backlog of the amazing things we think we can offer for premium services from the education side, the professional producersside,
of which are held in secure offline cold storage systems. We would like to reassure all Bitstamp customers that their balances held prior to our temporary suspension of services will not be affected
"The site is being transitioned onto a"new safe environment "and is expected to resume service in coming days,
Microsoft Is Now the Largest Company in the World to Accept Bitcoin The trouble at the popular exchange couldn come at a worse time for the ultra-hyped virtual money,
The british leader said he also planned to discuss with Obama how the two countries could work more closely with big Internet companies such as Facebook
and Google to monitor communications between terror suspects. Reporting by Kylie Maclellan; Editing by Dominic Evans s
Wal-mart and Hewlett-packard are increasing their training, to help suppliers manage EHS issues. Theye also using new tools to track performance.
#Google Facebook Others Launch Sustainability Platform Unilever Coca-cola Google Facebook Nike Pepsico and dozens of other major companies and nonprofits have launched a digital sustainability platform
They have since been joined by more than 20 other leading multinational companies including Diageo General mills Johnson & johnson Mcdonalds Microsoft Nestl
Furthermore, New york city will spur private building owners to invest in building efficiency upgrades, with ambitious interim targets and incentives to catalyze voluntary reductions,
In addition to the plan leading to considerable carbon emission reductions in the order of 3. 4 million metric tons a year by 2025, the resulting upgrades should help protect many lower-income citizens from rising utility bills
and 5. Use data analysis, and stakeholder feedback to drive the approach. Drilling further down into the actual measures proposed under the plan,
Nonetheless, a thriving, self-sustaining private sector market for energy efficiency upgrades and renewable energy generation will be essential if New york city is to achieve its goals.
#Intel Smart city Tech Furthers City's Green Goals Intel and the city of San jos Calif. are collaborating on a public-private partnership to further the city s Green Vision goals.
The pilot program in San jos is Intel s first smart city implementation in the US. The scalability of Intel architecture enables the intelligence
and flexibility necessary for cities across the country to quickly deploy a range of smart city solutions for everything from air
To address the escalating demands of existing and future residents cities are looking for ways to introduce more technology to become smarter about the use of limited resources The Smart cities USA pilot project will give San jos residents real-time local data that can
San jos known as the Capital of Silicon valley is installing a network of sensors to create a sustainability lens that uses Intel technology to measure characteristics such as particulates in the air noise pollution and traffic flow.
Such measurement data will produce meaningful insights that will lead to improvements in air quality noise transportation efficiency environmental sustainability health and energy efficiency.
Intel says its technology can help cities cost-effectively manage infrastructure growth and resource sustainability that can help them meet the demands of escalating population rates.
The city of San jos has installed a sensor demonstration platform using Intel Gateway Solutions for the Internet of things with an Intel Quark processor and third-party sensors.
Each gateway incorporates Wind River Intelligent Device Platform software with Mcafee security features connected to Intel s Hadoop distribution in the cloud.
IBM and Cisco are the top smart city suppliers positioned to become global leaders in the market according to a July 2013 Navigant Research report.
Cancer cells would have a tough time leaving the original tumor site if it weren t for their ability to enter our bloodstream
and gain access to distant sites Wong says. So it s actually the entry of cancer cells into the bloodstream that allows the cancer to spread very quickly.
##This could really be a game-changer for a lot of applications including diagnostics##say James Collins who is a professor of biomedical engineering and medicine at Boston University and a core faculty member at Harvard s Wyss Institute.##
Like computer circuits gene circuits usually consist of a sensing component (or##input##)a logic gate and an output but they are crafted from parts of cells rather than wires and transistors.
Using a standard laser printer stocked with special wax-based inks he printed patterns of small dots onto uncoated filter paper.
##But I knew that having that core insight was going to enable the whole thing.#####This was Keith s big insightâ##freeze-drying the circuit##says Collins.##I couldn t believe it worked as well as it did.
Then software on an attached laptop processes the results which takes another 30 seconds. Diets rich in fruit and vegetables have been linked to important health outcomes including reductions in cardiovascular disease type 2 diabetes and some forms of cancer.
of mice that can be infected with Ebola and display symptoms similar to those that humans experience.
and if some are susceptible could they harness the power of mouse genetics to figure out what genes make someone susceptible to the disease.
and the NIH Rocky mountain National Laboratory where the research took place were breed able to together eight genetic mouse variants
By analyzing physician social networks the researchers examined how doctors are connected professionally and pass information to each other and how that leads to increasing adoption.
The authors analyzed the social networks of critical care physicians in the medical intensive care unit (ICU) at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
A computer simulation based on the experimental data aimed at optimizing adoption showed a reminder every five to seven days delivered as a strong suggestion
or by email or automated reminders generated by the electronic health record. Interventions also can regularly audit doctors adoption.
Although the mathematics are complex the linking of these phenomena seems rock solid. The ability to better understand the difference between normal and pathological activity within the brain may lead to the ability to predict
##Not only did transplanted these cells survive in the mouse brain they showed functional properties similar to those of native cells##says senior author Andrew S. Yoo assistant professor of developmental biology at the Washington University School of medicine in St louis.##These cells
And we found the human transplanted cells also connected to these distant targets in the mouse brain.
The research involved adult human skin cells rather than more commonly studied mouse cells or even human cells at an earlier stage of development.
When transplanted into the mouse brain the converted cells showed morphological and functional properties similar to native neurons.
Funding came from a National Science Foundation Graduate Research fellowship a fellowship from Cognitive Computation and Systems neuroscience Pathway grants from the National institutes of health and awards from the Mallinckrodt Jr.
and computer engineering and materials science and engineering at Boston University in collaboration with physics professor Bennett Goldberg showed the ability to pinpoint
In collaboration with BD Technologies and Nexgen Arrays a start-up based at the Photonics Center and run by longtime SP-IRIS developers David Freedman
when the concept of programming as we know it from software engineering can be applied to biological computers.
Next they tested the idea in a mouse model of the bone infection osteomyelitis. Antibiotic-resistant small colony variant S. aureus is the cause of chronic and difficult to treat osteomyelitis and also of lung infections in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF.
They had more blood vessels at the site of injury and their heart function was better.##
and execute medical commands and report the completed activity via a tiny built-in radio antenna.""We think this will enable researchers to develop a new generation of tiny implants designed for a wide array of medical applications"says Amin Arbabian assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford university.
Arbabian's team recently presented a working prototype of this wireless medical implant system at the IEEE Custom Integrated circuits Conference in San jose California.
"Tiny wireless nodes such as these have the potential to become a key tool for addressing neurological disorders"says Florian Solzbacher professor of electrical and computer engineering at University of Utah and director of its Center for Engineering Innovation.
Finally the"smart chip"contains a radio antenna to beam back sensor readings or signal the completion of its therapeutic task.
Somewhere there may be a backup system what we call redundancy that might be the basis for better identifying tumors
automatic enrollment of all BPL families with no annual premiums user fees or copayments; and health camps in rural areas by empanelled hospitals
Previous data including that from early clinical trials in humans indicated that the drug odanacatib decreases bone resorption by hobbling CTSK one of the enzymes used to resorb bone.
or stop cancer from spreading from the original tumor site to other parts of the body
The research team at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy used DILISYM a computer program designed to predict how drugs will affect the liver.
The team combined information about troglitazone with data specific to the human liver generated in the lab of senior author Kim Brouwer a professor at the pharmacy school.
The study shows that a computer model could accurately forecast the occurrence of troglitazone-induced liver injury.
but one important reason is that bile acids are different in each species. Recent data suggest that the use of humanized systems has greater predictive power for adverse events like DILI.
The DILISYM software is the result of the DILI-sim Initiative a partnership between the Hamner-UNC Institute for Drug Safety Sciences
and fourteen major drug companies that shared data to develop a tool that can predict a drug s risk of injuring the liver.
Paul Watkins is chairman of the DILI-sim Scientific Advisory board. Kim Brouwer is chair of the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
Using the diagnostic panel researchers were able to make diagnoses that consistently distinguished kids with autism spectrum disorder from those with other similar disorders.
#3, 600 crystals in wearable skin monitor health 24/7 A new wearable medical device that uses up to 3600 liquid crystals can quickly let you know
An algorithm translates the temperature data into an accurate health report all in less than 30 seconds.
##Our data show that mechanosensing can occur and plays important roles even when the cellular structural building blocks are fairly basic even
A companion smartphone application can automatically correlate the visual results to specific blood hemoglobin levels.
We believe that the development of this model in the mouse is important for making progress in the field of skeletal repair where an acute clinical need is present for ameliorating skeletal injury chronic osteoarthritis
At the early stages in our understanding the mouse provides us with an exceptional ability to make progress
and then go specifically to the site of a serious injury they could help decrease the number of deaths associated with serious injuries.##
When they receive the right signals from a protein known as thrombin these precursors polymerize at the site of the bleeding.
About one micron in diameter the particles were developed originally to be used on the battlefield by wounded soldiers who might self-administer them using a device about the size of a smartphone.
Researchers used Argonne s Magellan cloud computing system to analyze the data; additional support came from the University of Chicago Research Computing Center.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funded the study. Additional funding also came from the National institutes of health the Environmental protection agency and the National Science Foundation.
However they are twice as likely as college students to be daily marijuana users and they have annual prevalence rates of use for several particularly dangerous drugs that are roughly two to three times as high as rates found among college students.
#Heart disease could be written on your face University of Rochester rightoriginal Studyposted by Mark Michaud-Rochester on September 2 2014new technology that uses software algorithms
and a web camera can detect subtle changes in facial skin color that indicate the uneven blood flow caused by atrial fibrillation a treatable but potentially dangerous heart condition.##
The technology described in the study employs a software algorithm developed by Xerox Corp. that scans the face
The contactless nature of the technology and the proliferation of web cameras could even eventually allow the screening to occur without interrupting the user.
while someone is reading their email on their tablet computer or smart phone. Other researchers from University of Rochester and from Xerox Corp. contributed to the study
Considering the safety efficacy and user-acceptability tests that we are doing it easily is possible for a company to take this product and run with it.
##In the first phase of the study two percent of urinary catheters were removed after an initial##off-the-shelf##electronic alert was triggered (the stock alert was part of the standard software package for the electronic health record.
In developing countries keeping track of a baby s vaccine schedule on paper is largely ineffective says Anil Jain professor of computer science and engineering at Michigan State university.##
They used an optical fingerprint reader to scan the thumbs and index fingers of babies and toddlers.
From this scanned data a schedule will be created and become a part of the vaccine registry system.
##We will continue to work on refining the fingerprint matching software and finding the best reader to capture fingerprints of young children
and we believe that the data from this study will be immensely helpful in understanding the human gut##Tarr says.##
much work needs to be done before the mouse-based research could help human patients, says Lowenstein,
or NIR-IIA, involves injecting water-soluble carbon nanotubes into a live mouse bloodstream. The researchers then shine a near-infrared laser over the rodent skull.
an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Girish Kulkarni, a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering. The device is faster, smaller,
or provide data about air quality. ith our platform technology, we can measure a variety of chemicals at the same time,
within a mouse kidney, for example, or a human tumor biopsy? we have to slice the tissue very thin,
and put all of the images back together with a computer. t a very time-consuming process and it is error prone,
Researchers are focused currently on developing prototypes based on user guidance that can be tested for safety and efficacy in animal models.
she explains. ediatricians don usually want to screen for a condition if they can then refer patients to someone who can help.
and the new molecular testing panel can be run using the sample collected through the initial,
When the panel shows these mutations, a total thyroidectomy is advised. Yip and her colleagues followed 671 patients with suspicious thyroid nodes who received biopsies.
Approximately half the biopsy samples were run through the panel, and the other half were not.
Patients whose tissue samples were tested not with the panel had a 2. 5-fold higher statistically significant likelihood of having an initial lobectomy
and then requiring a second operation. ee currently refining the panel by adding tests for more genetic mutations,
HOW THEY WORK Christman oversaw one of the trial sites as one of the principal investigators at the University of Michigan.
For the study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers used data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study,
Stroke severity and improvements in treatment likely also impacted the data though the study could not measure the exact role they played.
Koton says. hese data are also helpful in monitoring the results of how we care for people of all ages,
For the mortality data, researchers examined the 1999 National Health Interview Study linked to the 2006 National Death Index,
they used data derived from the World health organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview Short-Form, or CIDI-SF,
Deisseroth presented solutions to both of those bottlenecks. hese transform CLARITY, making the overall process much easier and the data collection much faster,
and on top of that you can get the data very rapidly. SEE FINE WIRING STRUCTURES The second advance had to do this rapidity of data collection.
In studying any cells scientists often make use of probes that will go into the cell
and linking the data to the residential addresses of approximately 1000 participants in the Northern California-based Childhood Risk of Autism from Genetics and the Environment (CHARGE) Study.
The addresses then were overlaid on maps with the locations of agricultural chemical application sites based on the pesticide-use reports to determine residential proximity.
##The researchers found that during the study period approximately one-third of CHARGE Study participants lived in close proximityâ##within 1. 25 to 1. 75 kilometersâ##of commercial pesticide application sites.
Some associations were greater among mothers living closer to application sites and lower as residential proximity to the application sites decreased the researchers found.
Organophosphates applied over the course of pregnancy were associated with an elevated risk of autism spectrum disorder particularly for chlorpyrifos applications in the second trimester.
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