#Can't Stop The Tweet: How Social media Is Killing The Concert Experience I usually avoid Times square,
but I had bought my ticket to see American Authors five months earlier and so happily jostled the turtle-paced tourists.
but instead she smiled at her phone, here Wi-fi here. My friend wasn alone. Before the first jubilant percussion beats could settle,
an ipad blocked my visibility like a solar eclipse. Turning for a better view revealed a conglomeration of glowing devices not only grabbing pics and vids,
Our smartphones, and the instant communication they lend tempt us to forget the real moment in which we are involved.
but nothing can overpower the frenetic pattern of fingers on lucent screens. Is this an essential part of the concert experience or a divergence from it?
nd the ubiquity of smartphones has resulted in a huge percentage of the audience at any given show barely paying attention to the action onstage.
According to T-Mobile, 47%of audience members text during shows. There are obvious downsides to introducing a smartphone into the concert mise-en-scene.
It is distracting for fellow fans and, depending on the type of concert and proximity to the stage, the artists.
But no amount of audio or visual stimulation can negate the distraction of an LED screen shoved in your face by an overeager fan.
it is not difficult to find concert recordings on Youtube. Most artists produce live session music videos,
There are redemptive qualities to inviting phones into concert spaces. Having a little recorded segment despite grainy quality and muffled sound is treasured a
My friend was sending emails while I played ninja to avoid flailing ipads the mini ones feel mega
when they hit you in the nose and the band I had waited for was not helping the situation.
and Twitter campaign#bestdayofmylife, after their biggest hit. Besides adding another incentive for all phones on deck,
they ran the tagged photos on a huge onstage screen for parts of the performance.
the lead singer triumphantly produced his iphone to capture the audience sing-along. I smiled, but felt weird.
almost like slides of paintings on a screen we could all talk about, instead of the paintings themselves in their grandeur on museum walls.
It is not just rock concerts that add phone screens to the light show. The San francisco Symphony orchestra actually set aside weet seatsin
Frampton is no social media scrooge, he one of the few artists who personally engages with his online fan base.
Pink floyd cofounder Roger Waters told his Facebook followers that he ould never turn on a cell phone at any musical event.
The Huffington Post reports that the Yeah Yeah Yeahs prohibit the tendency to atch the show through a screen.
Prince posts his urple Ruleswhen touring that forbid phones in the concert hall. Outcries like these do not seem to be just about profit and image
These artists are not damning social media, but reminding fans that there is a spiritual and emotional connection between music and the listener,
then smartphones detract from that, and if the purpose of social media and mobile messaging is communication,
a concert distracts from that. To everything there is a season. The nearly limitless accessibility provided by smartphones fuels the idea that sharing things is more important than doing things.
While sharing might be caring, we must remember that obsessive documenting changes the artistic structure of a concert atmosphere. he need to ocumentone life in every detail is a mania that can subtract from one enjoyment of the moment,
but not necessarily including a pod of iphones. Placing a screen between eyes and stage alters the DNA of a piece.
Unless you can combine both experiences you must ask which expands your world more: eyes piercing a screen
or music piercing a soul. Twitter has a unique place in the social media sphere in that it was created purposefully for live events.
Twitter mission statement iso give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.
According to Twitter website, more than 80%of active users tweet from their phones, making the flutter of the little blue bird at concerts less surprising.
The purpose of concert going is less definable than the purpose of tweeting. What seems to be unique about live music is presence,
Where is the line between engaging in Twitter purpose and engaging in the concert purpose?
Smartphones invading musical experiences are inevitable, but so are creative solutions. Some artists request that pictures
giving fans the peace of keeping phones on their person while removing the temptation to use them.
Bright screens attached to waving arms looked like some kind of extraterrestrial seabed or the luminescent Tree of Souls in Avatar.
I took a few videos, but did not feel the need to prove I was there.
but I did not feel present until my iphone was in my pocket. I told myself be here now.
Georgia Tech has the answer Researchers at Georgia Tech have built a tablet-based system that lets people control a fleet of robots with just the swipe of a finger.
when someone swipes the Apple ipad to drag the light across the floor, the robots follow.
If, however, the person puts two fingers in different locations on the tablet the machines split into teams
Georgia Tech says that its algorithm for controlling large teams of robots could be used in areas such as manufacturing, agriculture,
or a million robots by individually programming each one where to go, said Magnus Egerstedt, Schlumberger Professor in Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer engineering, in a statement. nstead,
the operator controls an area that needs to be explored. Then the robots work together to determine the best ways to accomplish the job. eorgia Tech says that its robotic algorithm is flexible enough to let robots hange their minds."
"In a demonstration of the system, each robot is constantly measuring how much light is in its local eighborhood. hen there too much light in a robot area,
the UCSD cloak works by manipulating electromagnetic waves, such as visible light or radio waves. Because it can scatter these waves,
#Facebook's first satellite will beam Internet to rural Africa starting in 2016 With the exception of a select few locations,
As result, only about 20 percent of the population is able to connect to the Internet.
Facebook hopes to change those statistics with a new project in its Internet. org initiative.
As part of this program, Facebook is partnering with French satellite communications provider Eutelsat to beam an Internet connection to remote parts of Africa."
"I'm excited to announce our first project to deliver Internet from space, "wrote Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in a Facebook posting.
Facebook is working with Eutelsat to provide Internet access to sub-Saharan portions of Africa via Eutelsat's new AMOS-6 geostationary satellite,
which will cover West, East and Southern Africa. Amazingly, the satellite will deliver affordable broadband Internet using off-the-shelf consumer equipment for connectivity
--so it'll be easy and cheap to build more of these satellites in the future. Eutelsat is setting up a new company in London to oversee its African broadband business
while Facebook will work locally in Africa to deliver Internet service to rural communities. The satellite-based service is expected to go online in mid-2016.
The African satellite project is part of Facebook's broader Internet. org initiative which debuted in 2013.
Through Internet. org, Facebook wants to connect the world by providing internet access to developing countries worldwide.
Internet. org was criticized highly for providing access only to Facebook and a handful of other web sites and services instead of the full, open internet.
Internet. org responded to critics by recently expanding its service to include any sites that meet Facebook's development criteria a
The MIT has developed a new programming approach that in enabling the robots to perform high-level decision-making to figure out how to achieve these goals.
The new programming approaches developed by MIT engineer enables robots perform high-level decision-making to figure out how to achieve these goals.
or reconfigure the hardware to get over a failure, on the fly. Principal developer Brian Williams stated that hese vehicles might arrange their own missions,
Most states have a prescription drug monitoring database that allows doctors and pharmacists to see if an individual is going to multiple doctors
CHEAP CATALYST Another key advance is the use of active, inexpensive catalysts for fuel production. The photoanode requires a catalyst to drive the essential water-splitting reaction.
Rare and expensive metals such as platinum can serve as effective catalysts, but in its work the team discovered that it could create a much cheaper,
This catalyst is among the most active known catalysts for splitting water molecules into oxygen, protons,
#How to build millions of tiny microscopes all at once A new optical device made of silicon anopillarscould lead to advanced microscopes, displays, sensors,
and cameras that can be mass-produced using the same techniques used to manufacture computer microchips. urrently,
Manipulating the polarization of light is essential for the operation of advanced microscopes, cameras, and displays;
and differentiates them from larger sound waves that are reflected in the ormalway. his type of measuring method delivers similar results to the edge detection filter in an image-processing software,
which allows the outline of prominent photo objects to be identified with the click of the mouse,
and generate the outline image from the measured sound data. According to the scientists the new measuring method is most useful
This system, called Geos, uses a combination of computer vision to interpret diagrams, natural language processing to read
the computer roughly achieved an SAT score of 500 (out of 800), the average test score for 2015.
Researchers from Allen Institute for Artificial intelligence (AI2) and the University of Washington computer science and engineering department shared a paper on the findings at the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural language processing (EMNLP) in Lisbon
senior research manager for Vision at AI2 and UW assistant professor of computer science and engineering. ur biggest challenge was converting the question to a computer-understandable language.
all data sets and software are available for other researchers to use
#Vaccine might replace surgery for cervical cancer A genetically engineered cervical cancer vaccine performed well in a clinical trial,
The result is a metabolic core that takes CO2 out of the atmosphere and converts it into sugar.
Printing multiple materials with different dynamic mechanical properties in prescribed patterns throughout the 3d object enables the ability to create objects that change shape in a controlled sequence over time.
and Design Centre. e are now extending this concept of digital SMPS to enable printing of SMPS with dynamic mechanical properties that vary continuously in 3d space.
if you are talking on the phone with someone you know very well, and they are crying,
The voice device is made up of a small computer connected to a camera that is attached to darkened glasses,
A computer algorithm scans each camera image from left to right and for every column of pixels, generates an associated sound with a frequency
and volume that depends upon the vertical location and brightness of the pixels. A large number of bright pixels at the top of a column would translate into a loud, high-frequency sound,
whereas a large number of lower dark pixels would be a quieter, lower-pitched sound. A blind person wearing this camera on a pair of glasses could then associate different sounds with features of their environment.
HEAR A SOUND, SEE A COLOR IN the trials, sighted people with no training or instruction were asked to match images to sounds;
while the blind subjects were asked to feel textures and match them to sound. Tactile textures can be related to visual textures (patterns) like a topographic mapright regions of an image translate to high tactile height relative to a page,
The intuitively identified textures used in the experiments exploited the crossmodal mappings already within the voice encoding algorithm. hen we reverse the crossmodal mappings in the voice auditory-to-visual translation
the group is currently using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) data to analyze the crossmodal neural network. These preexisting neural connections provide an important starting point for training visually impaired people to use devices that will help them see.
generally requiring a user full concentration and attention to interpret information about the environment. The Shimojo lab new finding on the role of multimodal processing and crossmodal mappings starts to address this issue.
and the Japan Science and Technology Agency, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology funded the work
which is like a computer hard drive, is read, so that the cell switches from a lung cell to a serotonin neuron,
TWO YEARS LATER The data indicate that all patients achieved complete clinical response to the treated lesions within one to three months of starting the intralesional IL-2-based therapy.
#Depth sensor could bring Kinect games outdoors A new imaging technology could address a major drawback of depth-sensing cameras, such as Microsoft Kinect controller:
associate professor of robotics at Carnegie mellon University. e don need new image-processing algorithms, and we don need extra processing to eliminate the noise,
It also could be incorporated readily into most smartphones. Depth cameras work by projecting a pattern of dots
if only briefly, notes Kyros Kutulakos, a professor of computer science at the University of Toronto. ven though wee not sending a huge amount of photons, at short time scales,
Alternatively, if other camera hardware is used, the mathematical framework developed by the team can compute energy-efficient codes that optimize the amount of energy that reaches the camera. e have a way of choosing the light rays we want to capture
and only those rays. n addition to enabling the use of Kinect-like devices to play videogames outdoors,
#Tantalum shows promise for high-density storage Scientists have created a solid-state memory technology that allows for high-density storage with a minimum incidence of computer errors.
The discovery by the Rice university lab of chemist James Tour could allow for crossbar array memories that store up to 162 gigabits
Eight bits equal one byte; a 162-gigabit unit would store about 20 gigabytes of information.
Details appear online in the journal Nano Letters. Like the Tour lab previous discovery of silicon oxide memories, the new devices require only two electrodes per circuit,
making them simpler than present-day flash memories that use three. ut this is a new way to make ultradense, nonvolatile computer memory,
Nonvolatile memories hold their data even when the power is off, unlike volatile random-access computer memories that lose their contents
when the machine is shut down. 100 times less energy Modern memory chips have many requirements: They have to read
and write data at high speed and hold as much as possible. They must also be durable and show good retention of that data
while using minimal power. Tour says the new design, which requires 100 times less energy than present devices,
has the potential to hit all the marks. his tantalum memory is based on two-terminal systems,
This will be a real competitor for the growing memory demands in high-definition video storage and server arrays.
and easily repeatable test for pancreatic cancer, scientists at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University, have developed a three-protein biomarker panel that can screen urine samples to identify pancreatic cancer
The panel, the scientists say, has demonstrated already better than 90%accuracy. Moreover, it readily distinguishes between pancreatic cancer and chronic pancreatitis,
the scientists discovered, yielded a robust panel. The panel performance was described August 3 in the journal Clinical Cancer Research, in an article entitled, dentification of a Three-Biomarker Panel in Urine for Early Detection of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma. hen comparing
PDAC with healthy urine specimens, the resulting areas under the receiver-operating characteristic curves (AUC) of the panel were 0. 89 in the training (70%of the data)
and 0. 92 in the validation (30%of the data) datasets, wrote the authors. hen comparing PDAC stage II with healthy urine specimens,
the panel achieved AUCS of 0. 90 and 0. 93 in the training and validation datasets,
respectively. At present, noninvasive biomarkers for early detection of PDAC are not available. The biomarker panel established by the Barts Cancer Institute scientists,
This is a biomarker panel with good specificity and sensitivity and we're hopeful that a simple,
as they noted that their CNV data would have impacted the diagnosis or classification in almost 10%of the patients they studied."
as they noted that their CNV data would have impacted the diagnosis or classification in almost 10%of the patients they studied."
a variation of structured illumination microscopy (SIM), can now show the movement and interactions of proteins as cells remodel their structural supports
In traditional SIM, the sample under the lens is observed while it is illuminated by a pattern of light (similar to scanning a barcode).
Computer software then extracts the information from the moiré images and translates it into a three-dimensional, high-resolution reconstruction.
"I fell in love with SIM because of its speed and the fact that it took so much less light than the other methods,"Dr. Betzig noted.
Dr. Betzig and his team were convinced that SIM had the potential to generate significant insights into cellular mechanics,
However, traditional SIM was not suitable for living cells, as the method was designed to generate an image by switching on all of the fluorescent labels in the cell
"Alternatively, the new method, called patterned photoactivation nonlinear SIM, begins by switching on just a subset of fluorescent labels in a sample with a pattern of light."
The combined effect of those patterns led to final images with 62-nanometer resolutionuch better than standard SIM and a threefold improvement over the limits imposed by the wavelength of light."
I have to take the data in a tenth of a second, or else it will smear out."
However, he went on to note that"most of the magic is in the software, not the hardware. t
and used directed evolution techniques to identify molecules that bound near the active site of ß-Gal,
a member of the Cerberus gene family, is expressed in the developing and adult mouse retina. pon exposure to recombinant COCO,
affording the parasite time to grow out of site from the immune system. Some these parasite-derived red blood cell surface proteins have an affinity for carbohydrate residues found on the surface of cells lining blood vessels.
"Based on our clinical data, we helped validate that this could be applied to melanoma and lung cancers,"explained co-author Nhan Tran, Ph d.,associate professor in TGEN's Cancer and Cell biology Division."
As if smartphones can't already do enough, soon they may be able to scan three-dimensional objects
and distance at each pixel of the part of a scene or object that it represents.
while at the same time the NCI's tiny size just 300 microns across in their 16-pixel proof of concept makes possible incorporation into even very small devices.
The current limitation of 16 coherent pixels did not stop the researchers from imaging the front face of an American one-cent coin from half a meter (1. 5 ft) away with a method that scanned in four
-by-four pixel increments. The researchers see broad applications for their device, which they believe could easily be scaled up to house arrays of hundreds of thousands of pixels
which is closer to what would be required in real-world high-resolution 3d imaging through a camera lens.
When used in conjunction with a smartphone, the system offers the potential of diagnosing diseases in remote locations from anywhere in the world.
Patients can then snap a shot of the film with their smartphone camera and send it off to a medical professional for analysis,
especially in developing countries with limited resources,"says Waseem Asghar, Ph d.,assistant professor of electrical engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer science at FAU,
#Inkjet printers could produce paper sensors that identify dangerous food and water contaminants Sensors that identify infectious disease
and food contaminants may soon be printed on paper using ordinary office inkjet printers. Researchers at Mcmaster University have developed a prototype that could lead to a commercial product in the next few years which helps doctors
and scientists in the field quickly detect certain types of cancer or bacterial and respiratory infections or monitor toxin levels in water.
In 2012 they used specialized inkjet printers to produce paper strips that change color in the presence of E coli.
"Our original E coli sensor required a very sophisticated ink jet-printer printer and very specialized inks in order to be produced,
and a basic office printer to produce the test strips, meaning that it should be much easier to scale up and manufacture."
using data collected during testing to adjust the height and width of the channel, as well as the tilt angle of the transducers,
"Our latest unpublished data suggest that an aluminum battery can be recharged tens of thousands of times.
A working prototype of the technology will be on display from Apr 13 to 17, at the Hannover Messe industrial trade show d
#IBM sets new tape storage record For many people, tape memory is a dead technology found only on reel-to-reel computers in old 1960s movies.
and a new breakthrough by IBM Research and Fuji Film has produced a low-cost particulate magnetic tape with a record density of 123 billion bits of uncompressed data per square inch,
When the first half-inch-wide computer tape was invented in 1952, it had about 2 megabytes per reel of storage.
Previously the main storage medium was punch cards, but the development of electronic computers produced machines that soon operated at the limits of the speed of punch card systems.
Over the years, hard drives, CDS, DVDS, and solid state memory came along, but tape is still very much a mainstream technology used in backups, disaster replicas,
video, archiving and other renditions, with over 500 exabytes of data currently on tape. The new IBM tape has an areal density 110,000, 000 times greater than IBM s first tape drive,
which could result in a hand-sized tape cartridge that holds the equivalent of 220 terabytes of data.
IBM compares this to 220 million books that would need 2, 200 km (1, 367 mi) of bookshelf.
The new tape is the result of 13 years of work on a high-density barium ferrite tape combined with new control technology for read write-heads heads involving advanced servo control technologies
a high bandwidth head actuator, and a set of tape-speed, optimized, H-infinity, track-follow controllers that place the head within 6 nanometers;
IBM sees the new tape technology as having applications in big data and cloud computing at a cost of pennies per gigabyte.
which lets users inexpensively migrate cold data to a highly durable cloud based storage tier.
A research prototype of the new tape drive is on display at the 2015 National Association Broadcasters Show.
The video below discusses the new IBM storage tape. Source: IB B
#Modified Salmonella eats away at cancer, without a side order of food poisoning Though generally a bacteria we'd associate with a severe bout of food poisoning,
#"Google maps for the Body"zooms in from whole organs down to individual cells The algorithms used for zooming in
and out on Google maps and Google street view have made it possible to visually traverse through layers of the body starting with a whole joint and drilling all the way down to the cellular level.
and compare data. The system draws on the combined expertise and technology of University of New south wales (UNSW) professor Melissa Knothe Tate
Google, Brown and Stanford universities, Cleveland Clinic, and optics and medical device manufacturer Zeiss. It uses imaging technology originally developed to scan for defects in silicon wafers,
and with help from Google's Maps algorithms the researchers can zoom and pan through a whole organ or tissue joint all the way down to individual cells.
Unlike Google's Body Browser, which visualizes the layers of the body in three-dimensional rendered graphics,
this so-called"Google maps for the Body"uses real images that get seamlessly stitched together and layered on top of each other."
Through the Internet of things (Iot) and the Internet of Everything (Ioe), smart sensors have the potential to significantly help our societies resolve countless global challenges.
as its core function is to collect valuable data. Fundamentally, what makes a smart sensor"smart"is its onboard signal/data-processing capabilities.
Through the Iot, large amounts of quality, sensor-based data can be collected at any time and from anywhere,
Detection and Distance Measurement The detection and distance measurement is performed by the sensor's processor,
and filter false detections in the application software. Another setting available on Leddar sensors IS LED the intensity.
the multi-element sensor software generates a combined graphical representation of all segments, as shown in Figure 4 below.
Leddar excels on the widest range of performance criteria, due to its ruggedness, rapid data acquisition,
The modules were designed to facilitate both mechanical and software integration. Namely, the included software development kit provides sample code for developers to quickly integrate sensor data into their application software.
There is also a choice of popular communication interface options (e g.,, USB, RS-485 and UART),
and additional headers are also available for custom expansion. As for the receiver, one can choose from several beam options,
Conclusion This innovative core technology is giving rise to the creation of a completely new generation of ultra-efficient smart sensors,
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