#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
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
Areas where ubeam could reshape business include powering tablets at retail, wireless headsets at warehouses,
#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 iphone 6s screen protector is available on Amazon for $23. 99 per piece,
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.'
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.
"Plus the fact that the Minion is a hand-held sequencer that you plug into a laptop is simply unbelievably cool
#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
"The study was performed using human and mouse tumour cell lines, preclinical mouse models, as well as plasma from cancer patients.
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,
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.
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,
But there's a step needed before optical connections can be integrated into telecommunications systems and computers:
This on/off transition, inherent to vanadium dioxide, is also the basis of computer logic and memory.
reflectors, and USB detectors, combined with the all-plastic housing and lenses will allow for future versions of the prototype to be mass-produced d
"said senior author Erez Lieberman Aiden, a geneticist and computer scientist with joint appointments at Baylor and Rice."
whether for an airplane, car, bridge, mobile device, or biological implant, engineers strive to make the material strong
antifouling materials developed in the lab of Joanna Aizenberg, the Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials science and core faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard university.
especially in printing highly viscous and sticky biological and polymeric materials where friction and contamination are major obstacles.
Researchers also discovered that the anisotropy of WTE2 varies and displays the magnetoresistance behavior of the Fermi liquid state
Catalysts can split water into its constituent hydrogen and oxygen atoms, a process required for fuel cells.
detailed in Nature Communications, is a significant step toward lower-cost catalysts for energy production, according to the researchers."
We're getting away with very little cobalt to make a catalyst that nearly matches the best platinum catalysts."
Tour said single-atom catalysts have been realized in liquids, but rarely on a surface.""This way we can build electrodes out of it,
He noted platinum-carbon catalysts still boast the lowest onset voltage.""No question, they're the best.
#Single atom alloy platinum-copper catalysts cut costs, boost green technology A new generation of platinum-copper catalysts that require very low concentrations of platinum in the form of individual atoms to cleanly
They synthesized small quantities of realistic catalysts, such as platinum-copper single atom alloy nanoparticles supported on an alumina substrate,
"To our delight, these catalysts worked very well and their performance was steady for many days,
and value-added chemicals from bio-renewable feedstocks, the new, less expensive platinum-copper catalysts could facilitate broader adoption of such environmentally friendly devices and processes,
Together we embarked on a new direction involving single atom alloys as catalysts for selective hydrogenation reactions.
"Sykes and Flytzani-Stephanopoulos have used this approach to design a variety of single atom alloy catalysts that have,
Armed with this knowledge, we are now ready to compare the stability of these single atom alloy catalysts to single atom catalysts supported on various oxide or carbon surfaces.
whose studies have focused on disease mechanisms in mouse neuro-genetic disorders, including disorders of the retina,
Patients received 2 mg/m2 to 2. 5 mg/m2 per day of sirolimus in either liquid or tablet form for six months.
After six months, those who benefited from the drug were allowed to continue treatment with continued follow-up appointments to monitor toxicities.
Several 2013 studies from Hyman's group and others showed the movement of a mutant form of tau between brain structures and resultant neurodegeneration in a mouse model.
when brain sample from that mouse model were applied to cultured neurons, only 1 percent of the tau in those samples was taken up by the neurons.
the first two containing mouse neurons, connected by microgrooves through which axons-the fibers that carry signals from one neuron to another-can extend.
The team found that applying this rare form of tau from the brains of the mouse model to neurons in the first chamber resulted in the protein's being taken up by those neurons and
#Chance effect of lab's fluorescent lights leads to discovery An accidental discovery of a"quantum Etch-a-Sketch"that may lead to the next generation of advanced computers
as they do in computer chips. As a semimetal, graphene naturally has no bandgaps, making it a challenge for widespread industry adoption.
because it explores the world of'matter computers, 'where computations (including walking) are carried out by physical objects, rather than by electronic or magnetic shuttles.
and the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines developed a new method that teaches computers to"see
Researchers taught the computer to categorize images across 19 activity classes. The test subject wearing the camera could review
At a technical level, we are showing that it's becoming possible for computer vision techniques alone to be used for this."
and Ear/Harvard Medical school and Boston University have prevented successfully the development of Parkinson's disease in a mouse using new techniques to deliver drugs across the naturally impenetrable blood-brain barrier.
an associate professor of the Institute of Laser Engineering at Osaka University, in cooperation with Screen Holdings Co.,Ltd.
#Carnegie mellon researchers hack off-the-shelf 3-D printer towards rebuilding the heart As of this month, over 4,
"Traditional 3-D printers build hard objects typically made of plastic or metal, and they work by depositing material onto a surface layer-by-layer to create the 3-D object.
Printing each layer requires sturdy support from the layers below, so printing with soft materials like gels has been limited."
"3-D printing of various materials has been a common trend in tissue engineering in the last decade,
but until now, no one had developed a method for assembling common tissue engineering gels like collagen or fibrin,"said TJ Hinton,
however, has been able to implement their technique on a range of consumer-level 3-D printers,
000 by utilizing open-source hardware and software.""Not only is the cost low, but by using open-source software,
we have access to fine-tune the print parameters, optimize what we're doing and maximize the quality of
what we're printing, "Feinberg said.""It has enabled really us to accelerate development of new materials
And we are also contributing back by releasing our 3-D printer designs under an open-source license
this bioprinter can finish a 10-centimeter blood vessel within two minutes. he core of the printer is the Biobrick,
The delay in removing the aluminum from the chemical bath did not result in the shell around the aluminum core
but rather the shrinking of that core to a olkwith the all-important internal space. Though the team had meant not to create that unintentional chemical product,
It sandwiched between two polymer panels to form an airtight seal. The resin remains liquid as long as that seal remains unbroken.
New iphones, ipads, and Apple TVS September 9th September is upon us, and that means a major Apple event is right around the corner.
In recent years, the September and October timeframe has come to signify new iphones, ipads, and new operating systems.
But given the fact that the Apple TV has received so much attention in the rumor mill this year,
This revision will probably serve as a minor update to the existing hardware without a drastic change in design. 7000 series aluminum seems to be the alloy of choice here potentially the exact same material used in the Apple Watch Sport.
we might be in for a slightly thicker and heavier chassis. After some poking around with the latest Apple software developer Hamza Sood discovered some evidence that force touch is coming to ios devices.
Wee bound to see an Apple A9 system-on-a-chip with a faster CPU and GPU.
After all, you can already buy $200 Beats wireless headphones from the Apple Store. ipad rumors are flying fast,
if wel see an ipad refresh during the September event. Last year, Apple held a separate event for the ipad Air 2 and ipad Mini 3,
so we may see the same events playout this year. By far, the biggest rumor here has revolved around the introduction of a 12.9-inch ipad Pro.
Not only is this giant ipad slated to sport a 2048×2732 resolution but it will also have a pressure sensitive stylus to boot.
If the rumors are true, this premium device will clearly be targeting the professional market.
Estimates range anywhere from one to five million ipad Pros shipping in this calendar year. However, the Pro might not even begin shipping until the release of ios 9. 1 sometime later this fall.
The rumor mill seems positive that wel see a new Apple TV SET-top box this go around.
but all we got was a price drop on the existing hardware. It been about two
if Apple does finally deliver new hardware. However, it possible that theyl ride out the current model until the 4k market penetration goes up.
so the odds of seeing new hardware are slim. We may see some new bands or colors,
Earlier this year at WWDC, Apple showed off the new versions of both of its major operating systems.
Most notably, rumor has it that ios 9 will offer animated wallpapers similar to the Apple Watch motion faces.
Wee developing the hardware necessary to restore the relationship between the brain and the outside world and in the process developing the hardware necessary to completely change that relationship forever.
If your brain is wired up and youe thousands of miles away on business, why not let your partner run your spare hand over their face,
#Microfluidic cooling yields huge performance benefits in FPGA processors As microprocessors have grown in size and complexity,
Intel CPU clock speeds have remained mostly flat for years, while AMD FX-9590 and its R9 Nano GPU both illustrate dramatic power consumption differences as clock speeds change.
One of the principle barriers to increasing CPU clocks is that it extremely difficult to move heat out of the chip.
New research into microfluidic cooling could help solve this problem, at least in some cases. Microfluidic cooling has existed for years;
we covered IBM Aquasar cooling system back in 2012, which uses microfluidic channels tiny microchannels etched into a metal block to cool the Supermuc supercomputer.
Now, a new research paper on the topic has described a method of cooling modern FPGAS by etching cooling channels directly into the silicon itself.
Previous systems, like Aquasar, still relied on a metal transfer plate between the coolant flow and the CPU itself.
and CPUS aren very good at spreading that heat out across the entire surface area of the chip.
This is why Intel specifies lower turbo clocks if youe performing AVX2-heavy calculations. By etching channels directly on top of a 28nm Altera FPGA, the research team was able to bring cooling much closer to the CPU cores
and eliminate the intervening gap that makes water-cooling less effective then it would otherwise be.
but whether or not it could ever scale to consumer hardware is a very different question.
As the feature image shows, the connect points for the hardware look decidedly fragile and easily dislodged or broken.
The amount of effort required to etch a design like this into an Intel or AMD CPU would be non-trivial,
and the companies would have to completely change their approach to CPU heat shields and cooling technology.
Still, technologies like this could find application in HPC clusters or any market where computing power is at an absolute premium.
Removing that much additional heat from a CPU die would allow for substantially higher clocks even with modern power consumption scaling n
which organizations hold is becoming a core component of market value (59 per cent of respondees).
We have designed a core set of guidelines and created underlying frameworks that will help enterprises to go on the journey to get insights at the point of action everywhere.
CEI is currently using its advanced transistors to develop laptop power adaptors that are approximately 1. 5 cubic inches in volume the smallest ever made.
said the paper lead author Abel Xie. his could improve the performance of voice-activated devices like smartphones and game consoles, Xie added.
the sound is transmitted to a computer that is able to separate the jumble of noises based on these unique distortions.
an international charging kit, a polishing cloth and a USB cable for high-speed data transfer. In terms of specifications, the smartphone features a 3. 1-inch touch screen with a 720 x 720 pixel resolution and offers a pixel density of 330ppi.
It is powered by a 1. 5 GHZ dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor paired with 2gb RAM.
It includes an internal storage at 16gb and can be expanded further up to 128gb via microsd card.
It comes equipped with an 8mp rear camera along with a 2mp front facing camera. In terms of connectivity, the device includes Wi-fi 802.11 a b/g/n, Bluetooth 4. 0, LTE, FM radio, Micro-USB,
and Micro-HDMI. Running blackberry 10, it is packed by a 2100 mah battery. Commenting on the launch, Hitesh Shah, Director of Sales and Distribution, at Blackberry India stated, ith the launch of the new P983 Graphite from Blackberry,
that it will unveil the modular smartphone in Puerto rico as part of a pilot program that will allow people to choose their own hardware based on their needs and interests.
such as a display, keyboard or say the battery. The approach allows users to swap out malfunctioning modules
#Indeed, the nutrition and diet expert added that the very high intake values used in the mouse study mean that it bears no impact for humans,
"A mouse weighs about 20g and drinks about 5 ml water a day, so an intake of 1%of these additives corresponds to an intake of 50mg/d or 2500 mg/kg.""
10.1038/nature14232#Dietary emulsifiers impact the mouse gut microbiota promoting colitis and metabolic syndrome#Authors: Benoit Chassaing, et a e
The company's Modesto Carnation Evaporated milk plant, for example, sits in an area currently in the midst of an'Extreme Drought',according to the US Drought Monitor."
#Crowdfunding's Continued Maturity Is Empowering Entrepreneurs Like Never Before One of the core ideas in my latest book Bold is that today, for the first time in history,
it also helped him build up a core supporter base, essentially a community of like-minded individuals who shared his passion for cutting edge smart watches.
Videogame maker Sega developed a mass-market head-tracking VR system and showed it to reporters and industry representatives with great fanfare at the 1993 winter Consumer electronics Show.
and orienting seats and displays so that riders are facing forward. Mercedes-benz recently showed a prototype driverless car that featured deeply tinted windows
Traditional software implementations are just not capable of pushing seamless updates in near real-time like cloud-based EHRS can.
Further, some cloud-based EHR providers also wrap ancillary business-and information-services around the software,
Having sold its mobile handset division to Microsoft last year for $7. 2 billion, Nokia has focused since primarily itself on network equipment manufacturing,
IP and software-defined networking, cloud, analytics as well as sensors and imaging, Nokia said in a press release Wednesday. lcatel-Lucent
Opens Probe Into Android The European union competition chief formally laid down the gauntlet to Google on Wednesday,
whether its Android operating system unfairly favored its own apps. would like to hear what Google has to say for itself,
The design of the screen that meets you is an innovative process. I think it would be better to find something based on principle.
which at its core accuses Google of favoring its own shopping services over those of third parties like Tripadvisor, Microsoft and Streetmap,
since regulators on both sides of the Atlantic tangled with Microsoft beginning in the late 1990s
whether Google has violated European antitrust laws with its Android operating system and related mobile services. The commission said it is concerned that Google may have hindered market access to rival mobile apps by pushing Android phone makers to pre-install its suite of mobile services
which include search, maps, Google Drive and the Play store. It also said it is concerned Google may have hindered market access to makers of modified versions of Android.
The commission full concerns on Android are detailed here. Google put out a vigorous defense. In a blog post, Google search chief Amit Singhal said that people have more search choices today than ever before,
and that competition among shopping search engines is thriving. ndeed if you look at shoppingn area where we have seen a lot of complaints
and where the European commission has focused in its Statement of Objectionst clear that (a) there a ton of competition (including from Amazon and ebay EBAY+0. 58%,
In a separate blog post, Hiroshi Lockheimer, an engineering vice president for Android, rebutted the commission concerns regarding Google mobile operating system. ndroid has been a key player in spurring this competition and choice, lowering
#Can Apple And IBM Change Health care? Five Big Questions Today, at a glitzy press conference at IBM new Watson headquarters in Manhattan swank Silicon Alley, IBM IBM and Apple Apple announced that they are partnering with Japan Post,
which is among other things the largest health-and life-insurance company in Japan, to start a project that will provide ipads to millions of senior citizens with the aim of improving their health and their lives.
The project will help Japan Post, which already has a massive Big data-style collection of health care information,
and convenience that come with iphone and ipad. It my vision to enrich their lives. Apple and IBM chief executives Tim cook and Ginni Rometty were both present at the press conference,
emphasizing its importance to both firms. ombined with Japan post we are going to build a service that not only can all be proud of
said Cook, looking down occasionally at an ipad on his lap. Added Rometty: oday is about re-imagining life for what is the largest generation that has been in human history.
These workers will bring the senior citizen an ipad, and sit with them and teach them how to use a suite of IBM-designed applications focused around the areas of health, family, and community.
The app will remind patients to take their medicines (the fictional anecdote used by IBM executives to explain that used a woman who kept forgetting her blood pressure medicine
which would put her at risk for a stroke), but also allow them to Facetime with family
but the Japan Post effort differs in its scale Nishimuro said that the plan was to roll this out to millions and in its reliance on Apple and IBM technology.
The customers won pay for the ipad, although there may be a nominal fee for the service,
an IBM spokesman said. There will be a limited roll out, and testing for functionality, before the project can move full tilt.
Can you prove that ipads actually help people stay healthy? The idea behind this project is that it will help senior citizens remain independent and healthy for longer,
In the fictional case study IBM used to explain this effort to the press, the patient high blood pressure would mean that getting her to take her medicine more often would improve her life.
Obviously, Japan Post will be collecting huge amounts of data that, with IBM analytics, it will use to try to learn about how to keep people healthy.
But will these companies be able to prove that giving a grandmother an ipad can save her life?
It wasn clear what kind of data collection IBM, Apple, and Japan Post will be doing to prove that this works.
Hopefully, Japan Post will be able to compare people who got ipads at different times to see
Apple and IBM say they are trying out a huge number of pilot studies, including one related to home health care that is being done by Express Scripts Express Scripts.
IBM and Apple deserve huge congratulations for the way they are taking on the problem of improving health care for seniors especially
It very possible, maybe even likely, that an ipad giveaway program, paired with the right apps, could make senior citizens with chronic health problems healthier and more independent.
Apple and IBM are moving into new territory here, and theye going to have to do something that is always hard for anyone,
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