#DNA Assembly Tech is Making The World Smallest Data storage Researchers at France's Institut Charles Sadron
and Aix-Marseille Universite have built binary data into a strand of synthetic polymer, a minuscule chain of chemical information about 60,000 times thinner than a strand of hair.
This technology promises to take the future of data storage down to nanometers in coming years,
Right now, storing one zettabyte (1 billion terabytes) takes roughly 1000 kilograms of cobalt alloy
the material used in hard drives. A zettabyte of Lutz's synthesized polymer would be about 10 grams.
As its simplest level, digital information is coded into zeros and ones. Researchers assigned certain chemical components called monomers to represent zero and one.
to read the data later. The technology is still in its infancy. Lutz says that research has been underway for about two years
and right now researchers can chain just a handful of bytes of information together. But Lutz has high hopes that they will be able to process kilobytes of information in the next five years.
Researchers at Harvard Medical school and Technicolor have led the charge in storing data within DNA. DNA, instead of having two binary options,
researchers have been able to encode 10 megabytes to a DNA sequence, and then decode it later in a matter of hours.
Harvard professor of genetics George Church previously used this DNA method to print 70 million copies of his book to DNA, fitting all that data in a drop of liquid,
so it much preferable than, say, a floppy disk. The biggest limitation right now, however, is time.
is suited actually better for the task of storing data than DNA is. NA was designed really by biology and evolution to work in biological situations,
but researchers hope that they can expand the property to other materials in the future. he knowledge gained from this study will be crucial in finding ways to reduce friction in everything from engines or turbines to computer hard disks and microelectromechanical systems,"nanoscientist Ani Sumant,
can help the blind navigate by processing visual information and communicating it to the user through electrodes on his tongue.
When cameras in the glasses pick up visual stimuli, software converts the information to electrical pulses sent as vibrations to be felt on the user tongue.
training users to interpret the vibrations. Studies showed that 69 percent of the test subjects were able to identify an object using the Brainport device after a year of training.
'Then, other chemical catalysts in the wing harden the liquid, filling in whatever crack or damage occurred.
and so on. orbes speculates that that'and so on'could include anything from nail polish to cracked cell phone screens...
We already have tablets that are paper-thin, but this display is much thinner than a human hair.
It can also achieve the full spectrum of color and only takes milliseconds to alter.
the researchers were able to create an ultra-thin and more efficient display. Unlike the screen of a cellphone, this display does need not to produce its own light source.
The amount of voltage applied to the liquid crystal sitting in the waffle wells alters its molecular orientation,
said that larger displays would have as good an image quality as a television. f you look in nature,
but it could also be used in the development of smart camouflage gear, color-changing fashion items and wall-sized screens l
but the study should help in designing future femtosecond laser displays. Although previous studies have used nanosecond
A camera underneath the hologram captures user interaction, allowing the dots to respond to being ouched.
and spits out a reading that the scientists can compare to other samples in a growing database.
the Chimaera sends data about that spot to a computer where it is combined with information from a CT SCAN of the patient brain taken previously.
That good news as the devices are becoming increasingly advancedne day soon patients who feel a migraine coming on could simply ial downtheir pain from their smartphone
Similar to the movie, researchers at MIT Computer science and Artificial intelligence Laboratory have created an object recognition system that can accurately identify objects using a normal RGB camera (no threatening blood-red color filter required.
It then compares this compiled description to a database of existing descriptions of objects. For example, if the SLAM-aware system sees a chair,
Well, lasers are being used more and more in transparent laser displays, even garnering interest from Apple. Being able to reproduce the color white with a laser is huge step towards making these technologies more viable.
These lasers also have immense possibility in data transfer. Wireless data transfer using light has already been demonstrated at blistering gigabit speeds using white LED LIGHTS.
Lasers are already an improvement over LEDS, because Li-Fi works by reading slight modulations of light,
which is effectively adding more pathways for data to travel. The ASU team calls their white laser he ultimate form of such a light
Waterproof and wireless, it can work even for smaller boats. The pod has its own battery pack
the Fish Scout pod creates its own Wi-fi connection with an impressive 320-foot range.
which has helped paved the way for flexible mobile phones. Recently published in leading micro/nanoscience journal Small
enabling them to continuously monitor UV levels and notify users when radiation hits harmful levels,
so they know to get out of the sun and find some shade. The sensors can also be placed on work
Before Google Project Jacquard, there was Byborre wifi-enabled pillow to combine technology, textile and shape.
An air-quality sensor embedded in the hood uses location-based data to show the concentration of dangerous gases.
Similar to an iphone, in which each user curates their own apps, the future suits will enable the owner complete control over the functions.
#Anti-Radiation Glasses Protect Against Computer Eye Strain Zappi glasses are designed to protect the wearer eyes from the harmful light given off by digital devices such as smartphones, tablets and computers.
and looking at screens, Zappi founder and CEO Andy Jones decided to help guard people eyes against the damage of UV and blue light.
Zappi computer and gaming eyewear guards against these two specific wavelengths by filtering out the artificial blue light and offering UV 400 protection.
The nonprescription glasses are aimed at people who don normally wear glasses but view digital screens on a regular basis.
They minimize radiation from electromagnetic waves surrounding screens and are designed for use with smartphones, computers, tablets, gaming screens and TVS.
They also help reduce glare for those driving at night. The glasses are made from impact-resistant polycarbonate
with a scratch-resistant lens that also reduces glare to the eyes. The lenses provide UV 400 protection,
The computer and gaming glasses are aimed at every member of the family. Currently raising funds on Indiegogo, Zappi perks offer pairs for children (£25) and adults (£30),
The Instamic charges via any USB cord, and can record up to four hours of audio in one charge.
It can be controlled wirelessly via Bluetooth within a 30-foot range, making it easy to follow a subject movements.
It is employing a new AI machine-learning system that the online retailer built in-house to boost the prominence and weight of verified customer purchase reviews, those marked as helpful by other users and newer, more up-to-date critiques
on its site. The system will bring what Amazon thinks are more accurate reviews to the top
The algorithm will improve over time, Amazon told technology site Cnet. Its first effects may not be visible for some time as the work only began on Friday.
Customer reviews have become the cornerstone of trust in the online shopping world. Where users cannot see in person what the products are like before they buy them,
the ratings and reviews of users who have bought supposedly them before can make or break a product.
Can you trust that five star review? That means marketers have taken to attempting to influence star ratings,
especially in the initial stages of a product going on sale on any particular site. They post fake, inflationary reviews or pay users to do so on their behalf.
The practice known as stroturfingfake grassroots campaigns is widespread across a variety of sites and services.
Amazon, as one of the world largest online retailers, is a significant target. But Amazon also indicated that its system will be capable of differentiating between original products
The reviews of the fixed product will be used to outweigh older ones of the broken product to create a more consistent and useful rating of the product users would receive now.
To maintain user trust, more and more sites that host user reviews will have to implement smarter and smarter systems to prevent abuse.
Amazon AI-based system will be watched closely by both competitors and creators. If it works it could end astroturfing as we know it today
The software uses Brain computer interface (BCI) to transform raw brain signals into human emotions, which are displayed then as words through the mobile app.
The app was created in a partnership between Russian digital communications agency Adwatch Isobar, Russian stroke foundation ORBI,
and mobile software developers Yarr!.According to the World Heart Federation, stroke is the second leading cause of disability worldwide.
and studied brain-computer interface technologies, we knew for sure that this was a task we could complete.
With this app, we analyze data from Emotive EPOC and transform it in a simple and clear form.
I. am. here for ios and Android translates BCI data into human language and gives opportunity to go through all history of communication between paralyzed people and their relatives.
For Alexey Fedorov creative director Adwatch Isobar, the I. am. here app is just a start. e believe that the product wee developed is just the first step along the great road of discovery,
Their flagship product has features familiar to the ubiquitous smartphone. The Grillo Active contains an accelerometer, Wi-fi and GPS.
But how will it work? The efficacy of a system relies on sensor placement. In wide areas, the more sensors installed, generally, the better.
algorithms that take into account nearby faults and other factors to broadcast a warning of affected areas, estimated intensities and apparent epicenter.
and relayed back and forth through the Internet, removing the need for a separate infrastructure. The Grillo dashboard neatly puts together sensor data on a map
and recorded activity is easily accessible. Doubts toward sensitivity thresholds in accelerometers (compared to calibrated scientific instruments)
and Wi-fi speed and reliability beg to be asked. But Grillo, which means ricket, thinks outside the box and uses something we already widely used to do something greater.
so it shouldn come as a surprise that French company Spinali Design has created a smart bikini to help women monitor sun exposure responsibly.
Alerts are sent to the user smartphone device to remind them to reapply sunscreen or get out of the sun altogether,
the sensor alerts the partner smartphone when the bikini wearer needs some help applying sunscreen.
From conception and design to use through realization, Spinali is quoted with saying on the company website.
Both products enable users to download and use the Spinali app. For more promotional videos and demonstrations of how the sensor is attached to the suit,
check out the Spinali Youtube channel. Spinali Desig S
#See Your Morning Updates Reflected On Data-Personalizable Mirror Mirrormirror wants to fundamentally change the nature of your morning preparations by taking a standard medium-sized mirror and bringing it into the future.
At the base of the frame, a display can be placed over the reflection. This display will show updates chosen by the user from social media and the Internet,
such as posts by friends, meeting reminders or a weather report. Features of the mirror include facial recognition, gesture comprehension, a webcam, speech-to-text recognition,
and a durable screen that doesn interfere with the mirror reflectiveness. The user interacts with Mirrormirror using gestures
and speech commands to program it. The display layout is equally personalizable allowing a user to set updates at the top, weather and news at the bottom,
and a space for communication with family along one side or any other configuration they need.
A business could install Mirrormirror to communicate team-wide messaging or display the month event calendar at all times.
The mirror also allows users to set a space to handwrite notes to other users with the tip of a finger.
Mirrormirror created their first prototype in 36 hours from a simple design with plywood, an old monitor,
and acrylic screen. It displayed the weather time, and a feed of Reddit factoids. The second prototype featured an aluminum frame and a one way glass, with greatly improved visibility and responsiveness.
Mirrormirror creators have announced no timeline for further development, but are committed to bringing the device to market after further development and testing iterations.
They encourage anybody interested in this next step in home electronics to sign up for their newsletter and receive updates on the project progress e
#Mastercard is experimenting with facial scans and fingerprints to authorize online purchases Soon, you may be able to complete your online shopping by snapping a selfie.
Mastercard has partnered with smartphone makers and is finalizing plans with a major bank to launch the experimental trial,
which will be limited to 500 users. If all goes well, however, the credit card company plans on launching the technology for the public.
stare at your phone and blink once. The blink the security feature to make sure someone not just holding up a photograph.
Mastercard won maintain the data of your fingerprint or the facial scan. The fingerprint scan will be saved as a code on your phone,
and the facial scan will convert your face into a numerical code that sent to Mastercard.
and remain safe on the company computer servers. Mastercard also plans on trying out voice recognition to approve purchases:
check out by talking to your phone. Current Mastercard customers use a ecurecode, or a traditional password for online purchases.
There no data on the number of times customers forgot or lost their passwords, though.
The SALT lamp can also connect to a smartphone. The lamp will charge phones and is stressed to be used in critical situations.
NTT Docomo, is a Japanese telecommunications company that unveiled a smartphone that will allow you to shop with your eyes only.
NTT Docomo summer lineup of mobile phones featured tech giants like Sony and Samsung. But what stood out from the sea of gadgets was the Arrow NX F-04g that uses iris recognition to make payments when you shop.
This is the first ever smartphone with such a feature. The only smartphone that comes close to this technology is Apple finger authentication.
For smartphone users who end to forget passwords when shopping online, the iris recognition feature eliminates these problems altogether.
The phone owner simply looks at the front-facing camera to unlock their phone and start sending payments.
Nevertheless, one should not underestimate this smartphone as a mere tool for mobile shopping. The Arrow NX F-04g comes with a 5. 2-inch Quadhd screen with a 2, 560 x 1, 440 display resolution.
It is packed with an octa-core processor, 3gb of RAM and 32 GB internal storage.
Based on these specs, it will give the mobile front runners a run for their money. Additionally back in 2010, NTT Docomo introduced a prototype that uses the eye sensor system to help users navigate their phones with eye movement.
According to Telegraph UK, the earphones are made with special electrodes that will ick up the moment of the eyeand this process is called electrooculogram.
A mobile phone will then be programmed to interpret the results and translate it into commands. Hence, the phone user can answer a call,
make a call, switch music tracks, increase or decrease volume by looking left or right or by rotating the eyes in a clockwise direction.
Linking phone usage and human eyes is something that NTT Docomo has been working on for a while now.
The company aims to find clever ways to use mobile phones for today and for the future
#The HIV Self Tests the World Needs Are Here The HIV Self Testing kit from U k. startup Biosure can change the way people think about getting tested.
The test is packaged to make it easy for anyone to sample their own blood and execute a foolproof test for AIDS all in the comfort and privacy of their own home.
who will have increased access to collection sites and an improved overall battery recycling experience,'says Joe Zenobio, executive director of Call2recycle Canada.'
'With more sites, a focus on education, and an opportunity to build our collection networks together,
which already automatically adapt to their user's gait, speed and the ground terrain, but still require intentional thought.
Ingvarsson said Ossur was on the way to creating prosthetics that are integrated more with their user."
Assaults on government websites are now being detected ever few seconds according to Japanese cyber defense experts.
#Wearable device provides continuous fetal monitoring The Pregsense monitor has woven sensors into an elastic harness to provide data around the clock on the status of the fetus and the mother's health in the later stages of pregnancy.
A bluetooth-enabled device attached to the monitor collects and transmits data such as the mother and baby's heart rates to a smartphone and stores it on a secure cloud-based database accessible only to expectant mothers and their physicians.
The device is the work of the Nuvo Group, led by Oren Oz. He says a smartphone app will eventually provide a visual representation of the data gathered by the wearable monitor."
"Now you can see both you and the baby, the heart and all the data. What you are going to get in the app eventually is visualization that can tell you where the hand is,
you're going to see if the baby is awake, you can hear your baby's heartbeat anytime you want and obviously everything about you as the mom, the activity,
everything about your pregnancy will be put into data, "he explained as he demonstrated the device for mother-to-be,
a strap allowing mothers to stream soothing music from a smartphone to gently stimulate the fetus.
The Pregsense strap is designed to collect data to help physicians detect symptoms that may lead to complications in pregnancy earlier."
"It's the first time that you have a huge amount of data of women and babies together about heart rate, kickings,
position for fetus etc and we will be able to analyze this data to predict about events of pregnancy,
"said Varda Shalev, a medical informatics expert and active care primary physician. She is an external consultant to the Tel aviv-based Nuvo Group.
The sensors use a patented algorithm to filter the signals it picks up into two heartbeat recordings.
The data collected is of high enough quality to be useful for clinicians and researchers.""The sophistication of the technology and the sophistication of the sensors that we had designed for that is really making
what used to be clinical data collection into passive continuous reliable home data collection, "said Professor Nathan Intrator,
The consumer version of the product, known as Ritmo Beats, is to be launched for users by the end of 2015
The clinical grade FDA-regulated device, to be teamed with a group of physicians to monitor the data
though, learning almost exclusively online in forums and emails, Lachappelle has managed to synthesize a series of robotic hands that could change industries
so it kind of works kind of like a muscle sensor in that it picks up small electric discharges and turns that into something you can actually read within software,
which it's controlled by the software, which Lachappelle says is different from the types of control that exist in other robotic platforms.
as more advanced controls are created it's the software that's doing the heavy lifting,
using algorithms that make the arm easier to use.""A good example is had we actually an amputee use the wireless brainwave headset to control a hand,
and he was able to fluently control the robotic hand in right around about 10 minutes,
with some using a wireless brainwave headset, designed more for prosthetic use. Another of his tele-robotic controlled hands was created with dangerous environments in mind
One of the most impressive aspects of the arm is not the hardware itself or even the software that controls it-but the fact that it can be 3d printed for a fraction of the cost of modern prosthetics.
This allows him to make complex internal structures to the designs which would otherwise be impossible,
"he told Reuters."The full robotic arm is actually open source, and so people are now actually able to take this,
showing his handiwork-all part of his effort at making the invention open source -which means anyone can take his technology
because we this open source, we want someone that has a 3d printer, or very little printing experience, to be able to replicate this,
to be able to use this for new applications, to be able to adapt it into new situations,
former federal employees affected by data breach Hackers breached the computers of the U s. government agency that collects personnel information for federal workers in a massive cyber attack that compromised the data of about 4 million current and former employees,
ADVERTISING OPM detected new malicious activity affecting its information systems in April and the Department of Homeland Security said it concluded at the beginning of May that the agency's data had been compromised.
The breach affected OPM's IT systems and its data stored at the Department of the interior's data center,
which is shared a service center for federal agencies, a DHS official said on condition of anonymity.
whether other agencies'data had been affected. OPM had previously been the victim of another cyberattack, as have various federal government computer systems at the State department, the U s. Postal service and the White house."
"The FBI is working with our interagency partners to investigate this matter, "the bureau said in a statement."
because Americans may expect that federal computer networks are maintained with state of the art defenses.""""It's clear that a substantial improvement in our cyber databases
and defenses is perilously overdue,"Schiff added d
#Mood-changing wearable tech sets pulses racing The makers of'doppel'call it the next generation of wearable technology-one that can actually change the mood of the user.
They say the device taps in to the body's natural rhythm and gives the wearer control over how alert
instead of the current crop that often just monitor the body's activity.""Wearables currently are centered mostly around monitoring
"Bennett told Reuters. Doppel is synchronized to each individual via a smartphone app that measures their resting heart rate.
"You take your resting heart rate through your phone, and then that's the bio-data we need to set the levels that you need to either (get) calm
or to get going. It's not a lot of data, but we're using it very smartly,
and that's the approach we take, "said co-developer Jack Hooper. To control the level of doppel's pulse,
with their controlled tests showing the device can improve alertness when correctly set to the user's preference.
It uses preoperative CT (computerized tomography) scan data to create a 3d X-ray image of the patient,
This combines with the intraoperative data from Chimaera's sensing technology to guide the surgeon to the precise location of a procedure,
The real-time data generation is designed to be used in conjunction with optical wearable technology, such as Google glass. This means a surgeon can literally'see'exactly where they are within the body at any point during an operation.
Karger said it could pave the way for wireless pain management for patients using, for example, their mobile phone:"
smaller than the width of a human hair, let the scientists determine the path a mouse walks using a remote control to inject drugs
The device is mounted to the head of the mouse and is powered by a small battery, removing the need for it to be wired,
In one such experiment, mice were made to walk in circles after a drug that mimics morphine was injected into the region of the mouse's brain that controls motivation and addiction.
#Candle power to charge smartphones A power outage-it's an experience all are familiar with and everyone dreads.
the computers shut down as their batteries drain. And worst of all-your smartphone dies. This scenario was one of the inspirations for Andrew Burns of California startup Stower to develop the candle charger.
Its simplistic design is based on the principles of thermoelectrics, which have been around since the early 1800's. Light a candle, fill the device with water,
That diffusion outputs between 2-3 watts, about the same amount of power derived from a USB port-perfect for charging smartphones and tablets.
or a smartphone is infinitely greater than a vacuum cleaner and they only need tiny little bits of energy,
The company has developed also a similar device designed to charge phones over a campfire. Burns advises to keep devices off
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