24, from the Intel Clinic. It is fitted with sensors that monitor brainwaves, eye movement, oxygen levels and the wearer's body temperature before sending this information to an app on their connected phone.
After analysing the data, the mask will wake the wearer up when they are in the lightest stage of their sleep cycle
and therefore closest to being awake. This is done using Bright light Therapy which artificially triggers the light sensors in a person's eyes to make their brain believe the sun is coming up.
This makes their body feel as though it is morning and that they are waking up naturally.
can be ordered pre on Neuroon's website for $299 (£195) and will be shipped internationally after the initial run is processed.
'The Neuroon gathers data, and with the help of the native app's algorithms, delivers personalised recommendations to the user that can combat these issues.'
'The Neuroon website also lets users calculate when they should seek and avoid light during their stay by using their origin location,
their destination and when they are flying a
#Solar activity is linked NOT to global warming: Sunspot theory of climate change is the result of an ancient error in the data The theory that solar activity is linked to rising global temperatures has been cast into doubt after scientists corrected an ancient error in the calculations.
Until now, the general consensus was that solar activity-in particular sunspots -and temperatures have been trending upwards since the harsh winters of the 17th century when the spots were thought to have been at a low.
The correction, called the Sunspot Number Version 2. 0 was led by Frédéric Clette, Director of the World Data centre (WDC) SILSO, Ed Cliver of the National Solar Observatory and Leif Svalgaard
The most important correction to the data is'a lowering by about 18 per cent of all numbers after 1947,
Researchers collated data from the world most powerful telescopes, including the VIST and the VST at Chile Paranal Observatory, Nasa GALEX, WISE and a European space agency Herschel telescope.
In an unprecedented collection of data, they aimed to map and model all of the energy generated in the universe today.
#Charge your smartphone in SIX minutes:''Yolk and shell'battery technology could end long waits while devices power up It is a problem almost everyone with a smartphone has faced at some point their device is almost out of battery
and there is not enough time to charge it before heading out for the evening. But a new type of battery made with tiny capsules filled with aluminium could soon mean smartphone users will be able to fully charge their device within six minutes of plugging it in.
The battery also has four times the capacity of current lithium ion batteries and degrades less over time.
The dazzling display will continue tonight and tomorrow, with the Perseids offering one of the greatest displays of the past seven years as the meteor shower coincides with a new moon for the first time since 2007.
Tonight's show will also be enhanced by the International space station which orbits earth every 90 minutes and will be visible for four minutes from 10. 28pm.
and without any further human intervention or computer simulation, the robot built'children'made of between one and five plastic cubes with a small motor inside.
Most work in this field is done using computer simulation. Although computer simulations allow researchers to test thousands or even millions of possible solutions
this often results in a'reality gap'-a mismatch between simulated and real-world behaviour. Iida's research looks at how robotics can be improved by taking inspiration from nature,
The'brainy'mice were better at recognising a mouse they had seen the previous day, the researchers said.
Researchers claim that giving mouse pups a type of immature human brain cell, known as glial cells, caused their brains to grow differently so they became more humanlike.
The discovery was made by analysing data sent back from Nasa Lunar Atmosphere and Dust environment Explorer,
It being produced at a rate equivalent to about seven litres per second at standard atmospheric pressure. he data collected by the NMS addresses the longstanding questions related to the sources
and began gathering science data two months later. The spacecraft entered its science orbit around the moon's equator in Mid-november
With RAF jets already being replaced by drones piloted by men sitting at computer screens many miles away,
The Dreadnought 2050 seen here is a concept ship that could be controlled by only five sailors sitting at screens
much like games consoles. And the entire ship company could be as little as 50, which compares to the 200 needed for current vessels of this size.
but we were surprised to find that we could identify most of the occupants just by sampling their microbial cloud. ur data make clear that an occupied space is microbially distinct from an unoccupied one,
researchers have managed to teleport packets of light over 60 miles (100km) of optical fiber. The research could have implications for cryptography,
In 2014, physicists at the University of Geneva teleported the quantum state of a photon to a crystal over 15 miles (25km) of optical fibre.
But keeping calm yet alert behind the wheel could be about to get easier with the advent of a car seat that actively monitors a driver's physical and mental status. The'Active Wellness'seat has built-in biometric sensors to detect
'Mr Biedermann told Reuters. By combining these contactless sensors with unique algorithms and signal processing, the team produced a system
The data collected is used to calculate their mental and physical state with a message appearing on a dedicated screen, offering treatment.
If the user accepts the recommendation, they will receive a massage with a warming or cooling sensation to either relax
or energise them. The seat is designed to work alongside fitness device, such as the Fitbit, so it can use data collected before the driver got behind the wheel to understand how energised they may be.
The seat could be fitted in new cars from 2020, but no indication of price has been given.
magnetic coils and the internet to send brain signals between two people. It begun with the first person,
Their opponent sent them a series of questions over the internet in an attempt to guess what they were thinking of.
'or'no'to each question by looking at one of two flashing lights attached to their computer screen.
Crucially, only the'yes'signal was strong enough to fool their brain into seeing a flash of light.
to a wireless headset linked to the internet, and another person to a similar device in Paris. When the first person merely thought of a greeting such as iao Italian for ello the recipient in France was aware of the thought occurring,
'This is just a step forward that will monitor other physiological parameters. do need they to push more water?
Computer scientists claim to have made a'game-changing leap'by building a logic gate a building block of a digital circuit using the strange properties of subatomic particles in silicon.
In traditional computers available today, data is expressed in one of two states known as binary bits which are either a 1 or a 0. A quantum bit,
meaning many computations can be performed in parallel. For example, two qubits can encode four different values while a three qubit system encodes eight different values.
This would allow new types of computers to be constructed that would far surpass the capabilities of modern super computers.
'Because we use essentially the same device technology as existing computer chips, we believe it will be much easier to manufacture a full-scale processor chip than for any of the leading designs,
which rely on more exotic technologies.''This makes the building of a quantum computer much more feasible,
since it is based on the same manufacturing technology as today's computer industry.''Until a few years ago quantum computers were little more than theoretical possibilities,
Both Google and Nasa have been developing a quantum computer as part of their artificial intelligence work. However their D-Wave quantum computer needs to be kept at temperatures of around-273°C(-459°F). The latest research by Professor Dzurak and his colleagues,
In a quantum computer, data is encoded in the'spin, 'or magnetic orientation, of individual electrons. Not only can they be in one of two'up'or'down'spin states,
'The silicon chip in your smartphone or tablet already has around one billion transistors on it, with each transistor less than 100 billionths of a metre in size.'
'We then store the binary code of 0 or 1 on the'spin'of the electron,
A practical quantum chip could have a huge impact in areas where classical computers face an uphill struggle.
'Working with researchers at the University of New south wales, the team at Oxford analysed data from a patient trial where anti-retroviral therapy was interrupted at 48 weeks.
Dr Frater and his team analysed the data from a study of patients with primary HIV infection involved in the SPARTAC trial.
provided researchers with the data they needed to make the discovery 10 years later. Professor Phillips said:'
called f0 (1710), in the data from a number of particle accelerator experiments that may have been created by a glueball.
which agrees better with computer simulations, but when it decays, it produces many heavy quarks (the so-called'strange quarks').
but within the next few months, two experiments at the Large hadron collider at CERN (TOTEM and LHCB) and one accelerator experiment in Beijing (BESIII) are expected to yield new data.'
They have applied their new technique to two super-eruption sites and a pair of very large eruptions and found that it took them no more than 500 years to move from formation to eruption.
These readings combined data from the University of Utah Seismograph Stations, which collected shallow readings from nearby quakes in Utah, Idaho, the Teton range and Yellowstone,
'Previous studies provided us with the data we needed to calculate the rate of the faceting process.
protecting whatever is inside from static, electromagnetic pulses, radio waves, and other electromagnetic phenomenon. The material comes amid growing concern over the development of electromagnetic weapons that could knock out computers.
Controversial tech boss and presidential candidate John Mcafee recently warned a'doomsday'electronic weapon could wipe out 90%of Americans
and urged politicians to is the number one threat facing the country. Mcafee, who recently announced he is running in 2016,
wrote in a blog for International Business times:''Experts agree that an all out cyber attack, beginning with an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack on our electronic infrastructure,
would wipe out 90%of the human population of this country within two years of the attack.'
'Mcafee says this is a huge issue being ignored. He hit out at President Obama's focus on gun control.
'Mcafee said he was confused initially by the statement.''Frantically searching again for my benzodiazepines, and certain that rabid squirrels would imminently emerge from my wristwatch
'That's an operational system already in our tactical air force'In 2012, aircraft manufacturer Boeing successfully tested the weapon on a one-hour flight during which it knocked out the computers of an entire military compound.
Customers would use a smartphone app to key in the amount they want to draw out ahead of time.
and has confirmed that preliminary scanning tests have been carried out on 30 consumers in a laboratory at it head office in New york. The test cash machines do need not even a screen
or a touchpad as all the information is loaded by the app ahead of time. Citigroup is not the only financial institution testing out cardless cash machines-JP MORGAN CHASE
Users should also cover the keypad with their hand when they type in their pin code
can identify everything from shop doorways to the contents of a fridge giving a verbal commentary through a phone app and earpiece.
Users can even have printed text read out loud simply by pointing at the words, while those with partial sight can zoom in as they need.
facial recognition software will instantly tell the user not only the name of an approaching person but their job and date of any previous meeting.
The software, developed by London-based Vision Technologies and sold under the Givevision brand, instantly analyses a stream of images.
000 users, is expected to cost between £50 and £75 a month and could be included in mobile phone packages from next year c
#Helmet with built-in suspension: Motorcycle headgear absorbs energy from a crash to protect your brain as well as your skull Experts have created a helmet with built-in suspension to protect your brain as well as your skull.
The device integrates bluetooth low energy technology to instinctively communicate with all connected devices, like smartphones, tablets,
and personal computers. it can be placed anywhere in the home, and can be programmed to utilize turning,
to switching off the lights. a 11 x 11 dot matrix LED face, displays settings and third party options,
The software is an open source platform that will invite a community of developers to create a more flexible integration with other nternet of things such as sonos, nest and philips hue.
and by allowing users to have better control of their energy sources, the design moves the world to a more sustainable self sufficiency. it addresses the challenge of energy consumption at a personal,
national and global level. it benefits the everyday user and community alongside working towards a worldwide future solution. jury member arnold wasserman,
in a similar way that landlines in rural parts of the world are now obsolete as mobile phones have become more prevalent. t the most promising design wee seen that will encourage people to use renewables
as well as a backup solution in case of a power outage. mikal hallstrup, founder and chief visionary office at designit, sums up the potential by saying, he design is an inspiration to the industry
but by searching a published database of bacterial genetic sequences for promising-looking bits of DNA. This yielded two species that contain the new mechanism.
#Intel looks into crystal ball Intel has been looking into the near future at its Future Showcase 2015looking to get into homes,
said Intel. o if youe got a Nest thermostat and Philips Hue lightbulbs, for example, the Home Gateway will provide the link between the two. he system is based on NFC tags that track people in the home to adjust devices accordingly as they move around re-streaming a film from living room TV to kitchen tablet whilst
you make a cup of tea, for example. Realsense was another technology it is pushing. While it looks like this brand may cover more than one technology,
Sprout is a device with at touch screen and more: ou control your content and activities with waving, pinching,
grabbing and even smiling at it said Intel. Beyond this it is hoping the technology will be used not just to add gesture recognition into tablets and phones,
but to add 3d scanning to devices. s just one example, 3dme takes photography into the third dimension
said Intel, which showed a 3d photo of someone in a block of glass. At longer range, it proposes Realsense as a way to give drones a local 3d map for object avoidance.
Current products on-show included the Intel NUC Compute Stick (PC with HDMI connector), Galileo Gen 2 (Arduino-style board with X86 processor) and Edison on an Arduino-style board n
#MIT refreshes fusion reactor with modern superconductors Rare-earth barium copper oxide (REBCO) superconducting tapes could mean earlier practical fusion reactors, according to MIT.
The key is stronger magnetic fields, which shrink the size of tokamak chamber required, and subsequently simplify all that follows.
the core of the MIT reactor can be removed without dismantling the entire machine. Liquid rather than solid materials surround the fusion chamber allowing easy circulation
Users of Soundhawk Scoop earpiece can customize settings for various situationsutdoors, dining, drivingsing a free ios or Android app.
The Smart Listening Systemncluding device, wireless microphone and charging caseetails for $299 through soundhawk. com and Amazon
Mike Kisch, president and CEO of Cupertino, Calif.-based Soundhawk, says the company works with advanced wireless
and Foxconn Technology Group. r. Perkins saw the opportunity to create an entirely new market around hearing augmentation via an elegantly designed wearable device that powered by the user and financially accessible,
users need only dip it into a cup filled with plain, old water before brushing.
We found the toothbrush for as low as $35 on ebay and for only $14 on Amazon.
Meredith Perry, who began tinkering with wireless charging as a paleobiology undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania,
Areas where ubeam could reshape business include powering tablets at retail, wireless headsets at warehouses,
a transmitter that will automatically recharge smartphones, scheduled for release in 2016. But Perry is looking beyond handhelds to the world of connected appliances, cars and other everyday tools. or us
. which beams a 5. 8 GHZ radio frequency that wireless devices convert into DC power, and may debut in early 2016 in devices developed by SK Telesys (a Korean rival of Samsung)
and manufactured by Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn. While Wattup may win the race to market,
#This iphone Screen Protector Can Reverse Scratches in a Second The folks who came up with the self-healing iphone case is now back with something a lot more impressive.
and when damaged, the liquid will fill the void so quickly that you probably won't even realize you've just scratched your case or screen protector.
Innerexile's first products to use its new coating is the"Self-repair screen protectors"for the iphone 6s and iphone 6s Plus.
Innerexile's iphone 6s screen protector is available on Amazon for $23. 99 per piece,
and the iphone 6s Plus version costs an extra $2. Both are backward compatible with their iphone 6 counterparts.
If you'd prefer using a case with the same self-healing property, stay tuned for another announcement in Mid-november,
as Innerexile decided to make a new tooling to ensure a perfect fit for the teeny-bit-larger iphone 6s series.
Other brands may claim their iphone 6 cases fit the 6s just fine but a forced squeeze--the caliper never lies--may eventually ruin the phone's anodized coating,
so watch out t
#New Building material Twice as Strong as Concrete, Low Carbon footprint Watershed Materials, a California-based building materials technology startup, has developed technology to produce high-strength masonry with a low carbon footprint
Researchers at Switzerland Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne are also testing a low-carbon cement that could reduce the carbon footprint of construction sites by 40 percent, Forbes reported last year s
and designed to meet stringent groundwater standards at contaminated sites. Regenesis says the substrate reduces harmful chemicals and toxins,
This includes reducing chlorinated solvents at industrial dry cleaning sites as well as petroleum cleanup projects. Plumestop is composed of very fine particles of activated carbon (1-2 m) suspended in water through the use of unique organic polymer dispersion chemistry.
#Using optical fiber to generate a two-micron laser In recent years, two-micron lasers (0. 002 millimetre) have been of growing interest among researchers.
and not yet as mature as their telecom counterparts (1. 55-micron). Moreover sources currently used in labs are typically bulky and expensive.
Optical fibre-based 2 micron lasers are an elegant solution to these issues. This is where researchers at Photonics Systems Laboratory (PHOSL) come in.
by changing the way optical fibres are connected to each other. Thanks to the new configuration, they were able
Two-micron lasers are also very useful for detecting key meteorological data over long distances through the air.
Then, using a computer-controlled light projector, the team was able to control the speed of the cardiac waves,
In the short term, the ability to provide fine control means that researchers are able to carry out experiments at a level of detail previously only available using computer models.
what one can do in a computer model, except here it was done in real heart cells, in real time.'
as the observed binding kinetics could be compared with experimental data derived by conventional means of detection.
and they would benefit greatly by taking insulin in a tablet instead. Not only is it easier to take a tablet than inject;
when insulin is absorbed from the small intestine it is released into the body in a more natural way than
One and a half hours app. equals the time that a tablet must be able to withstand the hostile environment of the stomach before natural peristaltics pushes it forward to the intestines.
using a hand-held sequencer no bigger than a cell phone. If DNA is the blueprint of life,
"Plus the fact that the Minion is a hand-held sequencer that you plug into a laptop is simply unbelievably cool
An analysis of the data yielded a broad range of insights:""The breadth of our findings shows what we will be able to achieve as we systematically sequence
#Massive screen of drug combinations may find treatment for resistant, BRAF-mutant melanoma A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has discovered a new combination of drugs that may be effective against one of the deadliest cancers, malignant melanoma.
The combination-pairing a drug targeted against mutations in the BRAF gene with a second drug that targets another important signaling pathway-was discovered through one of the largest screens of cancer drug combinations conducted to date.
"By conducting such a screen, we found one specific combination of agents that are already being used clinically that potentially could be used for a specific group of patients-those with BRAF-mutant cancers."
Previous efforts to screen potential drug combinations only analyzed use of a few drugs against a limited number of cell lines
These data support that the'soil'is as important as the'seed'in the metastatic process.
"The study was performed using human and mouse tumour cell lines, preclinical mouse models, as well as plasma from cancer patients.
"But these data will have to be validated on larger cohort studies and predictive tests must be developed."
From the Cancer Genome Atlas data, the Salk team found that genetic alterations of Epha2 were detected in 54 out of 230 patients with adenocarcinoma.
especially the mouse model, will be used by academics to isolate healthy cells modified by tumors, and by the pharmaceutical industry in the quest for novel anticancer drugs that block tumor-organ communication,
Yardena Samuels and her team in the Institute's Molecular Cell biology Department were specifically searching for tumor suppressor genes in their database,
The tool they used to help make that difficult decision--3-D printing. Using a specialized MRI of the fetus in the womb
doctors were able to use a 3-D printer to print models of the fetus face,
"This is the first case we are aware of that 3-D printing has helped show how severe an airway risk in a fetus was
The computer designs for the models were created in the lab of Scott Hollister, Ph d, . professor of biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering and associate professor of surgery at U-M. The models were printed by Ann arbor-based Thingsmiths.
of the U-M division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. 3-D printing has had many medical applications.
to identify the sites in the alpha-B-crystallin that attach to the beta-amyloid. It is the first direct structure analysis of a complete heat shock protein during interaction with a bonding partner,
Until now the quantum dots in such a computer needed to be very close to each other in order to achieve the necessary coupling for performing calculations.
In testing with mouse models of aggressive brain tumors, the technology took out far more cancer cells, inhibited tumor growth better and extended life longer than traditional chemotherapy delivery.
In testing with mouse models of the cancer, models injected with an inducible nitric acid synthase inhibitor had fewer and smaller tumors compared to control models.
and effectiveness in mouse models and evaluate the efficacy on human glioblastoma grafts in the models s
#New graphene based inks for high-speed manufacturing of printed electronics A low-cost, high-speed method for printing graphene inks using a conventional roll-to-roll printing process,
the first time that graphene has been used for printing on a large-scale commercial printing press at high speed.
"Being able to produce conductive inks that could effortlessly be used for printing at a commercial scale at a very high speed will open up all kinds of different applications for graphene and other similar materials.""
which is in line with commercial production rates for graphics printing, and far faster than earlier prototypes.
it could also initiate entirely new business opportunities for commercial graphics printers, who could diversify into the electronics sector."
and the Cambridge area in particular, has always been strong in the printing sector, but mostly for graphics printing and packaging,"said Hasan, a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow and a University Lecturer in the Engineering Department."
"We hope to use this strong local expertise to expand our functional ink platform. In addition to cheaper printable electronics, this technology opens up potential application areas such as smart packaging and disposable sensors,
energy harvesters and RFID tags g
#To infinity and beyond: Light goes infinitely fast with new on-chip material Electrons are so 20th century.
But there's a step needed before optical connections can be integrated into telecommunications systems and computers:
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