#Toyota Nissan Honda to jointly support hydrogen station infrastructure development Toyota motor Corp Nissan motor co and Honda motor Co have agreed to work together to help accelerate the development of hydrogen station infrastructure for fuel cell vehicles (FCVS.
Specific measures to be undertaken by the three manufacturers will be determined at a later date. For hydrogen-fueled FCVS to gain popularity it is not only important that attractive products be launched-hydrogen station infrastructure must also be developed.
At present infrastructure companies are making every effort to build such an infrastructure but they face difficulties in installing
and operating hydrogen stations while FCVS are not common on the road. Following the formulation of its Strategic Road Map for Hydrogen
and Fuel cells in June 2014 the Japanese government has highlighted the importance of developing hydrogen station infrastructure as quickly as possible
(2) cloud server using Sony analysis algorithm,(3) Skin Analyzer application software, which runs on a dedicated tablet computer and (4) Skin Viewer smartphone application.
The first, second and third elements are used for customer services at beauty-treatment clinics, cosmetics makers and beauty product stores.
Skin View Camera is a measurement device equipped with a CMOS image sensor, optical lens, LED device and Wifi module. oing forward,
Measurement data is sent to a cloud server via Wifi. One of the distinguishing features of the new system is that its measurement results are analyzed by a cloud server using SKEP,
an algorithm that Sony developed in 2012. The state of skin is analyzed by applying LED LIGHTS with different wavelengths (such as visible light
which is reflected on skin surface, and near-infrared light, which comes back after passing through the inside of the skin) to skin
Based on multiple image data that indicate the states of the surface and inside of the skin,
and redness contained in the skin. easurement items can be added (because of the use of the cloud server),
Sony said. he more the data, the higher the measurement accuracy. Skin Analyzer shows analysis results on a tablet computer by using five-grade evaluation
and indexes such as skin age so that they can be understood easily. For example, it displays such words as exture:
4. 8, Blotch: 2. 4, Pore: 4. 2, kin age-10 years oldand ily dry.
With Skin Viewer, customers can check data stored on the cloud server with their smartphones and use the data as, for example,
#Tech identifies users vulnerable to cyberattack based on ways they use their computers Fujitsu Ltd and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd have announced the development of the industry first technology for identifying users vulnerable to cyberattacks based on the ways they use their computers,
such as their e-mail and web activities. This will make it possible to implement security measures tailored to individuals and organizations.
While there are numerous security measures already in existence, the weakness that most cyberattacks and data breaches take advantage of is human error,
such as, for example, when a user carelessly clicks on a malicious link in a faked e-mail message.
Because this depends on individual traits it is difficult to develop a standardized security measure to defend against it.
and data leakage. At the same time, based on activity logs on PCS, such as when the PCS freeze, they have developed a technology for calculating different usersrisks of being victimized.
such as, for example, by displaying individualized warning messages to users who often click on URLS in suspicious e-mail messages without checking them carefully,
or escalating the threat level of suspicious e-mails sent between departments with virus-prone users e
#Technology IBM unveils'breakthrough'computer chip NEW YORK IBM on Thursday unveiled a powerful new chip
which the company says could boost computing power of verything from smartphones to spacecraft. he company unveiled the industry first seven-nanometer chip that could hold more than 20 billion tiny switches or transistors for improved computing power.
The new chips could help meet demands of future cloud computing and Big data systems, cognitive computing, mobile products and other emerging technologies, according to IBM,
#Technology Google adding'buy'buttons to mobile search ads SAN FRANCISCO Google is looking to make it easier for people to shop
while using its website, launching a trial run of a feature allowing smartphone users to make online purchases from their search results.
The introduction of urchases on Googlecomes as Facebook, and Pinterest also try to make it easier for people to shop
while using their sites, putting themselves in position to profit from transactions or related advertising. lthough wee still in early experiments with a limited number of retailers,
we see urchases on Googleas a big step towards helping retailers drive more mobile conversions and win more customers,
Google shopping product management vice president Jonathan Alferness said in a blog post. Mobile devices, typically smartphones, are consulted increasingly before
or during shopping trips in the United states, influencing nearly a trillion dollars in in store sales last year, according to Alferness.
When people make shopping-related searches using Google, results may include ads featuring uy on Googlebuttons that can be clicked to jump to pages where they can checkout using payment credentials stored in Google accounts. urchases on Google will simplify our customersability to search for items on Google and then buy with Staples,
Staples executive vice president of global e-commerce Faisal Masud said in the blog post. Google also rolled out enhancements to shopping ads on mobile devices,
including expanded information regarding topics such as product ratings and whether items are available at nearby stores. s the consumer continues to rapidly adopt mobile as their primary device,
we have to more at a similar pace in how we reduce purchase friction and enhance the user experience with our brand,
Under Armour chief revenue officer of digital Jason Larose said in the blog post. oogle technology solutions help us innovate. interest last month dove into e-commerce with insthat let iphone
or ipad users in the United states buy items they like at the popular online bulletin board interest is designed already to work like a catalogue,
so we wanted to find a way to weave buyable pins into the pages people already know,
cofounder and chief executive Ben Silbermann said during a launch event at the company headquarters in San francisco. uyable pins are a simple and secure way to buy the products you love right from inside Pinterest,
Pinterest has become one of the Internet hottest new websites, particularly among women, by giving people virtual bulletin boards that they can decorate with pictures showcasing interests in anything from food to sports,
Last month, Facebook expanded tests of a uy buttondesigned to let shoppers easily purchases items advertised at the social network. 2015 AF s
for display purposes, are housed in a robust plastic coating. The cell is just 1 millimetre thick with a surface area of 80 square centimetres;
you are inherently close to a user of heat. So you can make use of that heat. ou cannot send heat down a power line;
both the user of electricity and the user of heat are there. he Ceres system,
New Software Could Make Better Personal Assistants You can already use your smartphone to locate the nearest Thai restaurant
A new software program that integrates with a phone's voice recognition system (such as Apple's computerized assistant,
works by allowing users to specify their preferences for example, by telling the software if they're willing to forgo going out for breakfast
in order to catch the right bus. 11 Odd and Intriguing Smart Home Technologies"The idea is that you really have a dialogue with this system.
which is developing the software. The program, known as the Personal Transportation system, or PTS, was conceived originally as a joint project between the MERS group, the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford university and aerospace giant Boeing,
This smart software understands what risks exist ranging from inclement weather to traffic jams as well as what kinds of risks a user is willing to take.
With this information, the program can help a user make plans that are feasible but that also reflect his or her preferences."
"Humans aren't very good at estimating risk, "Williams said.""We aren't very rational,
"While the flying car that the software was developed originally for is still a work in progress, there are plenty of other uses for a software system that can assess risk,
Williams said. For example, people who plan routes for mass transit systems could use the program to help them come up with the most efficient ways around a city.
the software can suggest other solutions that might work (such as having the buses reach their destination at 12-minute intervals instead of 10-minute ones).
These alternate solutions still keep the user's constraints or goals in mind, so even though the buses arrive less frequently,
when it is time to plug in, but also help people find the best place to recharge
and used an infrared laser to scan each mouse. The researchers found that the nanoparticles caused bright spots where cancer cells
Another printer uses a combination of conductive inks and filaments to print quadcopters already embedded with the electronics that allow them to hover in the air.
But you would use our printer to build things that aren't developed yet: theories, research.
and MC-2 printers were both on display at CES. The machines use a process known as stereolithography (SLA), in
This technique sets OWL's printers apart from other 3d printers on the market, such as Makerbot's Replicator or the Ultimaker 2, that use a process known as fused deposition modeling (FDM), not SLA.
But OWL's machines are advanced more than these printers, according to Liverman, who said that his company's machines print objects that are 200 times more accurate,
than objects created with other SLA printers. OWL is currently using its super-accurate printers to bring complex ideas to life.
For example, cancer researchers who want to deliver localized treatments to patients are using OWL's machines to build what Liverman called"microfluidic devices."
"You can inject stem cells into the scaffold that you build with the printer and then you can,
"Coming off the printer is not just a plastic shape but a fully functioning electronic device,"said Voxel8 cofounder Daniel Oliver.
The printer then used conductive ink (which takes the place of wires) on top of the plastic, connecting these electrical components.
Voxel8's printer is designed to do more than just print tiny drones. The company will also be releasing new printing materials in order to try its hand at printing resistors, sensors and, for future models of its printer, even lithium-ion batteries.
These objects are in addition to the custom circuit boards that Voxel8's printers have perfected already.""We're talking about printing out a circuit at your desk in less than 30 minutes,
"Oliver said. This represents a vast improvement over earlier options for printing custom circuit boards, a process that,
Oliver said, traditionally could take up to a month to complete. Engineers and developers will not only be able to realize their designs much quicker with a Voxel8 printer,
they'll also be able to try out unconventional geometries for their electronics, Oliver said. For example, rather than trying to get a rectangular circuit board to fit inside a curved object,
it will now be possible to customize the shape of a circuit so that it fits inside objects of any shape or size."
Light-based technologies such as optical fiber networks allow us to connect rapidly with people worldwide over the internet.
Light emitting diodes (LEDS) are now everywhere from consumer electronics like smart phones to light bulbs for home lighting.
and receive data with high bandwidths as well as to detect trace molecules or bio-agents. Construction of our nanolaser required precise control over the shape and location of the adjacent gold nanoparticles.
That such nanostructures could even be made is because of the decades-long investment by the electronics industry in developing nanofabrication tools to make the tiny components in computers.
In a recent blog post and video, the billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist showed off what he called an"ingenious machine,
"a steam-powered sewage processor that burns up solid waste and creates both potable water and electricity.
Gates wrote in his blog post. But the solution to this devastating problem isn't to build more toilets.
and webcams that will let engineers in the United states control the machine remotely.""It might be many years before the processor is being used widely,
"Gates wrote in his blog post.""But I was impressed really with Janicki engineering. And I excited about the business model.
The processor wouldn just keep human waste out of the drinking water; it would turn waste into a commodity with real value in the marketplace.
It the ultimate example of that old expression: one man trash is another man treasure. t
For instance, Samsung introduced a computer monitor made of 30 percent recycled plastic that runs on less energy
when it's not in use than conventional monitors. Electronics company LG announced a whole line of"greener"home appliances that use less energy and water than the company's previous models
or Coinstar machine) that allows users to exchange old electronics for cold, hard cash. While it's not exactly new (the first ecoatm launched in 2009),
where onlookers crowded around to watch the machine assess the value of beloved smartphones. The electronics that ecoatm reclaims can be mined for the valuable and rare metals they contain.
Automatic lets you harness the computing power of your car for the sake of fuel efficiency.
Once plugged in, Automatic connects the car's computer system to your smartphone, relaying data about all of your car's subsystems from the gas tank to the engine.
With this data at the ready, the device can tell you when there's something wrong with your car before it becomes a major issue,
a company spokesperson told Live Science. It's like preventative health for your car, she said,
Solpro Of course, the Misfit Shine isn't the only product at this year's CES that gets its power from the sun. Solar tech company Solpro unveiled its new solar-powered phone-charging device, the Helios Smart
These panels can absorb enough sunlight in 90 minutes to charge a standard smartphone according to the company.
"Pike told Live Science in an email. People want alternative, sustainable options for generating energy,
New Trackers Go Beyond the Data Dump LAS VEGAS You earned 3, 000 Fuel points! You walked 8, 755 steps.
a vast amount of data has been produced on everything from how often people tossed and turned at night to how many steps they walked to the water cooler.
"Lots of data from our wearables and beyond is said just data Dr. Daniel Kraft, a pediatrician and the founding executive director of Exponential Medicine, at a talk here at the 2015 CES."
"The trick is to make this data actionable.""Now, a few companies are trying to go beyond the data dump to pull out useful information and larger trends.
Personalized preferences The early versions of fitness trackers would estimate how many calories a user burned based on weight and height.
They also gave somewhat generic fitness advice, and set goals based on vague and subjective settings such as"moderately active."
It also lets users enter goals for themselves, such as maintaining their body weight, building muscle or controlling chronic health conditions.
Stonecrysus allows users to track the food they're eating with a user friendly picture of their mealthey can place portions of common foods on an image of a plate,
but past activity monitors haven't really taken advantage of that knowledge. But a new app called Lifeq takes data from wearables, such as movement and heart rate,
and then plugs them into a computer model that uses hundreds of mathematical equations that relates those variables to many others,
such as the oxygen saturation of a person's blood, the metabolic rate, the ratio of fats and carbs being burned and even blood sugar.
and analysis behind the scenes of any wearable device that collects the data. The idea is to get a comprehensive model of human physiology from just a few measurements,
versus while typing at a computer. A small study suggests their system works: In a trial with 10 people exercising to 40 percent of their maximum effort, their model was able to accurately predict heart rate and respiration s
and it is nearly impossible for these printers to produce semiconductors or single crystalline metals,
Video game Therapy Proving Powerful for Stroke Patients (Op-Ed) The critical advance of this technology is the navigation tool,
From sensors that aim to halt asthma in its tracks, to home monitors that warn the family
several new trackers on display at the 2015 Consumer electronics Show are going far beyond older medical alert systems.
and allow that person to email health care providers, so that chances can be made to their daily medicines or lifestyle.
Another device, Onköl, integrates data from several sensors, including a heart-rate monitor, sensors that track when someone got out of bed
or made a phone call. The device then sends text alerts to loved ones. The is useful
if the user has released a standby button, so that an onlooker can help administer it in case the owner of the pen is incapacitated p
That's the grim outlook from board members of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Frustrated with a lack of international action to address climate change and shrink nuclear arsenals,
to a computer that acted as a kind of artificial motor cortex. The computer used specific signals from the parietal cortex to detect what kind of movement Sorto intended to make,
and then translated that into signals for the robotic arm. Video: Tetraplegic Patient Controls Robotic Limb With His Brain In a video by the researchers, Sorto used the arm to serve himself a beer.
Sorto's ability to sip a brew came from the fact that the signals from the parietal cortex told the computer the general trajectory of the movement Sorto wanted to make,
and the computer could smooth out the movements of the artificial arm so that they resembled those of a real arm.
but in the new prosthesis, the computer looked at the whole picture of what Sorto intended to do just"get the beer,
what such perception could"feel like for a user, because there are many components that go into a person's perception of his or her own body.
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#1 Pinprick Test Could Detect Hundreds of Viruses Doctors often don't have a complete picture of their patients'health histories they only know about past illnesses that a patient remembers
the resulting technology could offer new ways to make displays or study high-temperature phenomena at small scales,
#Water Droplet-Powered Computers Could Run Mini Science labs A computer made using water and magnets can move droplets around inside itself like clockwork,
The device demonstrates a new way to merge computer calculations with the manipulation of matter, scientists added.
the goal is not to compete with electronic computers on traditional computing tasks such as word processing. Rather
the aim is to develop a completely new class of computers to precisely control matter.
7 Robotic Futures"The fundamental limits of computation, such as how fast you can go or how small devices can be,
"We flipped that idea on its head why can't we use computations to manipulate physical entities?"
The core of the new microfluidic chip, which is about half the size of a postage stamp,
The presence of a droplet in any given space represents a one in computer data
interactions among the droplets are analogous to computations, the researchers said. The layout of the bars on these new microfluidic chips is analogous to the layout of circuits on microchips, controlling interactions among the droplets.
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#Elusive New Pentaquark Particle Discovered After 50-Year Hunt After 50 years, the hunt is over.
Over the past several decades, people have seen hints of pentaquarks in experimental data, but those all turned out to be false leads.
However, while analyzing data from these collisions, researchers noticed spikes that suggested the lambda B baryons took a pit stop on the way to decaying to these other three particles, transitioning into other, intermediate particles on the way."
"said study co-author Tomasz Skwarnicki, a physicist at Syracuse University in New york. Based on the LHC data,
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#Novel Use of WI-FI Signals to Power Remote Devices, named Powi-Fi The scientists from the University of Washington have devised a method to utilize Wi-fi signals to power a battery-free camera,
demonstrating the possibility of using Wi-fi signals to broadcast power to remote devices. They have named the new approach as'Powi-Fi'signifying'power over Wi-fi'.
'In a report published in the MIT Technology Review, Vamsi Talla, an Indian origin scientist along with colleagues at the University of Washington in Seattle have asserted that Wi-fi radio broadcasts are a form of energy
and a simple antenna with the receivers can pick up this energy. Talla demonstrated his claim by connecting an antenna to a temperature sensor
and placing it close to a Wi-fi router. The resulting voltage in the device was measured then
and it was observed for how long the device can operate on the remote power source. When the team connected a camera to their antenna
Talla informed,"The battery-free camera can operate up to about five meters from the router,
Moreover, the researcher claimed that the router could even power the camera through a brick wall.
The team also used Wi-fi signals to charge a Jawbone fitness device from a no-charge state to 41%charged state in 2. 5 hours.
The MIT report stated that power-over-Wi-fi could be the enabling technology that finally brings the'Internet of things'to life e
or a computer that can be folded up and carried on your person. This electron microscope image shows tiny nanoparticles of bismuth ferrite embedded in a polymer film.
or other therapies safely to sites of disease are already seeing the light of day.
researchers at the University of Bonn in Germany made a skeletal muscle of a mouse contract in response to light.
The team introduced a gene into a mouse that codes for a protein normally produced by light sensing blue-green algae.
but by producing it within the mouse own cells, it has the same effect of contracting muscle cells
The researchers specifically focused on the larynx that they removed from the mouse so that light can be delivered correctly.
Here a video of a mouse larynx being opened and closed in response to light g
#Rice Microendoscope Hopes to Make Esophageal Biopsies Thing of Past (VIDEO) At Rice university engineers have been working on making certain biopsies unnecessary by imaging suspected tissues without excising them.
#Robotic Arm System Senses Quadriplegic Man Intentions for Movement Control Brain-computer interfaces have been used in the past to control prosthetic devices.
The researchers created software that processed and decoded the signals, which then were converted into control signals to move the robotic arm.
The next step the researchers are hoping to take is to gather data coming from both the motor cortex as well as the posterior parietal cortex
It smaller than any other comparable device and unlike other primary cell systems, it comes with a wireless remote that can be used by the patient to adjust therapy options.
The device is programmed via the Illumina 3d software that takes into account the spatial positioning of the leads
said Dr. Simon Thomson, a consultant in Pain Management and Neuromodulation at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals, UK. he simplicity of the programming software saves valuable time in the operating theatre,
Unlike any other primary cell system, the Precision Novi intuitive Illumina 3d neural targeting software incorporates three-dimensional lead location,
This point-and-click technology automatically calculates the optimal programming configuration to target the selected pain area.
#Medtronic Minimed Connect Wirelessly Monitors CGM, Insulin Pump Medtronic just received FDA clearance and will soon make available its new Minimed Connect device to keep an eye on insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors.
The device wirelessly interfaces with Medtronic Minimed Minimed 530g with Enlite or the Minimed Paradigm Revel insulin pumps,
which in turn have access to continuous glucose monitor sensor data. All this is passed via Bluetooth to the patient smartphone,
where glucose charts and insulin injections are tracked automatically. The readings can be shared with loved ones and caretakers,
The data can be viewed using a smartphone app or via a browser accessible website. Moreover
or when an alarm on the pump is addressed not quickly by the user. The Minimed Connect device will be available for over-the-counter purchase for about $200.
It is currently compatible with iphones and ipod Touch devices, while an Android app is already in the works.
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#Gastrisail Lights Up Stomach from Within for Accurate Sleeve Gastrectomy Procedures Medtronic just released in the U s. the Gastrisail gastric positioning system for sleeve gastrectomy procedures.
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#World First Prosthetic Leg With Real Sense of Feeling Researchers at the University of Applied sciences Upper Austria are reporting the installation of the first prosthetic leg with the ability of letting the wearer feel the ground beneath.
therefore now able to send their data, via converted signals, to the nerves and so create actual natural sensations of
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