It required extremely expensive hardware, and only allowed for a simple, low-resolution, experience of machining a part on a virtual lathe.
but with its new Zvr display, HP is bringing to market a practical and useful VR tool for educators,
interactions with computer-generated models. The heart of the Zvr (if youl forgive the pun) is a special-purpose display from VR startup Zspace,
which incorporates four cameras for head-tracking, a fully gyroscopic stylus that allows for both precise pointing and true 3d manipulation of objects,
HP is also offering Zview software for the sharing of 3d content suitable for use on the Zvr.
or Microsoft Kinect, suffer from a lack of precision, especially when it comes to twisting and turning objects using motions of your wrist and hand.
HP and Zspace are positioning the display primarily for science and technology related disciplines especially for teaching them.
The high-resolution display and 3d manipulation require a fair amount of compute power. You need an HP Z-series
(or similar) workstation to run it. Along with its large size that means it is not suitable for any type of mobile application.
when I stood behind the person seated at the display I didn get any of the 3d effect.
the virtual heart on the display popped into a nearly holographic 3d form. HP and Zspace have not announced a price or exact availability date,
After years of breathless reporting on its potential as a long-term solution for logic circuits (computer processors and memory), interest as waned as fundamental research problems have refused to resolve.
however, and a research team from the University of Manchester has published a report detailing how flexible 2d graphene arrays could be used in the next-generation of LED screens.
the Cambridge Graphene Centre demonstrated a display that incorporated a graphene electrode. The new LEDS built by the University of Manchester in this experiment were engineered apparently at an atomic level from multiple layers of crystal lattice as shown below.
the final display is semitransparent, extremely thin, and according to the research team, at least semi-flexible and durable.
While OLEDS have become popular in certain Samsung displays, the OLED revolution in mainstream television has yet to occur.
and that not enough to drive long-term R&d for continuing the technology in large panels.
#Microsoft tries to thwart Google by investing in Cyanogen Windows phone still hasn set the world on fire,
so it seems Microsoft is investigating other ways to compete against Google and Apple in the mobile market.
Reports are coming in that Microsoft will participate in a round of funding for Cyanogen, Inc. the commercial enterprise that formed out of the Cyanogenmod community.
This will only give Microsoft a minority stake in the company, but this could hint at large changes for one of the largest tech companies in the world.
a few nuggets of information have come to light regarding Microsoft decision to help fund this fork of Android.
but sources claim that Microsoft will be a inority investorin Cyanogen latest round of funding (estimated at $70 million).
At the very least, this is Microsoft hedging its bets. On the other hand, maybe there more to this story.
Microsoft might just be laying the groundwork for a future without Windows phone. Cyanogen Earlier this week, Microsoft released the first stable version of Office on Android.
Similarly, the brand new mobile version of Outlook debuted on ios. Microsoft is well aware
of which way the wind is blowing, and it seems increasingly focused on delivering top-tier support to competing platforms.
Since Windows phone reportedly only has 3%of mobile marketshare, it easy to see why Redmond has shifted its priorities.
Cyanogen has been busy partnering with hardware manufacturers across the globe. Specifically, this small company is focused on expanding in emerging markets where the established players haven taken over yet.
By Strategy Analyticsaccount, roughly 37%of Android devices worldwide are using off-brand forks, so there obviously a lot of money at stake here.
If Microsoft can get a piece of that massive pie, all the better for its shareholders. With free access to Office and free upgrades to Windows 10, Microsoft is bowing to market realities.
Google docs and OS X make it increasingly difficult for Microsoft to sell its products outright. Instead money has to come from subscriptions services and support contracts.
None of that is inherently bad, but clearly the Microsoft of 2015 shows little resemblance to the Microsoft of ten or twenty years ago.
This news serves as a stark reminder that the old grey mare just ain what she used to be
#Flexible nanogenerator harvests muscle movement to power mobile devices The consumer world is becoming powered by mobile devices,
What if you could generate power for your mobile devices simply by moving your body, and the power source was almost unnoticeable?
this type of generator could remove the need for batteries in certain mobile devices your smartwatch
#USB 3. 1 shows big gains over USB 3. 0 early tests indicate USB 3. 1 was a hot topic at CES this year,
Shipping hardware is still some months away, but early performance data is looking solid particularly given that third-party controllers tend to improve over time.
and Asmedia to benchmark USB 3. 1 and compare it against third-party solutions from VIA as well as Intel own native solution.
but many metrics are quite impressive particularly comparing random read performance at queue depth 32 between the USB 3. 1 Asmedia and native Intel USB 3. 0 performance.
which does quite well here, USB 3. 1 is 27%faster. Compared to Intel, it 1. 7 times faster.
In real-world file copy tests, the Asmedia USB 3. 1 controller completes the work in 75%of the time it takes the Intel integrated USB 3. 0 controller and half the time of the VIA solution.
Intel has demonstrated solutions capable of up to 800mb/s in RAID connected via USB 3. 1;
Anandtech early hardware hit 650-700mb/s in analogous testing. Generally speaking, Intel controllers tend to outperform third party controllers for a given standard,
but they also tend to ship later and it not clear when Intel will add USB 3. 1. Looking back to USB 3. 0,
Intel was remarkably late to add direct chipset support for the new standard it took the company three years to deploy its own USB 3. 0 solution after the first motherboards shipped with third-party controllers in 2009.
At the time, it was believed widely that Intel dragged its feet on USB 3. 0 hoping to replace it with Thunderbolt as the mainstream peripheral interconnect on most devices
but that never materialized. Intel has yet to announce when it might add USB 3. 1 support
and AMD hasn announced it either, but I expect a similar third-party support situation to evolve.
Companies like Via, Renesas, Marvell, and Asmedia will add the capability first, with integrated chipsets following after.
What more interesting, at least to me, is improved what storage performance could eventually mean for the venerable SATA connection.
Currently, most motherboards sport an array of 4-12 SATA ports, but features like M. 2 and msata allow for an SSD to be integrated directly on the motherboard.
Combine this option with fast external storage and youe got a set of solutions that could obviate the need for SATA ports at all or,
Right now that a nonstarter USB 3. 1 doesn support features like TRIM but in the long run, USB 3. 1, future iterations of Thunderbolt,
and PCI Express-based storage directly on-motherboard could eliminate most of the need for internal storage cabling at all t
#New microprocessor claims 10x energy improvement As power consumption has become one of the most important metrics of CPU design,
wee seen a variety of methods proposed for lowering CPU TDP. Intel makes extensive use of dynamic voltage
and frequency scaling, ARM has big. Little, and multiple companies are researching topics like near threshold voltage (NTV) scaling as well as variable precision for CPU and GPU operations.
Now, one small embedded company, Ambiq Micro, is claiming to have made a breakthrough in CPU design by building a chip designed for subthreshold voltage operation with dramatic results.
Ambiq new design strategy could be critical to the long-term evolution of the wearables market the Internet of things,
The eye will tend to combine the two shades into a single perceived hue this fact is used widely in Twisted Nematic (TN) monitors to produce simulated 8-bit color using fast 6-bit panels.
Red 250 the monitor will alternate between Red 246 and Red 254. Flip between these two shades quickly enough
and floating-point capabilities ran the tests 12 to 174 times faster than the ARM Cortex-M0 core and consumed 2x to 9x more power.
While there still a vast gulf between even a high-powered embedded chip like the Cortex-M4 and a Cortex-A7 smartphone class CPU, the only way to close that gap is to continue to push embedded performance per watt
or if it can boost higher-end hardware is still unknown, but approaches like this could revolutionize embedded hardware
and make all-day smartwatch battery life a reality in the long run t
#Lasers create surface so hydrophobic that water bounces off like a ball In the study of hydrophobic surfaces,
lectronic data from a computer are converted into multiple electrical currents; by applying stronger or weaker currents to the light within the phase shifter, the number of electrons within each light path changeshich, in turn,
the individual array beams combining coherently in the air to form a single light beam and a spot on the screen. herefore, thanks to the complexity of the task at hand,
and manipulating neural hardware in the ventricular system of the brain. Of the 1700ml or so available space in our skull, 1400ml of that is the brain itself, 150ml is for the blood,
history, and medications are available instantly on the robot display for reference. Terapio can recognize possible allergies and potentially dangerous medication interactions.
the display shows the robot ace, which offers a friendly smile and can change the shape of the eyes to convey emotion.
and e-ink displays. So far, the team has created only a proof-of-concept device,
As stated, the device works off electrophoretic principles, the phenomena behind e-ink/e-paper displays,
It is common in e-ink displays to use sub-pixels (i e. multiple electrodes to do some fancy charged transport),
Well, the basic technology is similar to that in electronic display devices. The challenge for the the team from the university,
as well as smartphone and tablet displays. However, LEDS are created using organic materials that can be costly for researchers.
if computers have become more mobile and flexible batteries should become more flexible, too. Arizona State university and China Jinan University have teamed up to create
It began with a computer simulation of a particular crystalline compound of titanium and sulfur what if it could be made in a Dconformation,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln chemist Xiao Cheng Zeng found that the computer model predicted the crystals were incredibly conductive,
and in theory work as the basis for a next-generation computer processor. Happily, this purely theoretical study was supplemented by another, practical one,
What this means is that purely scientific proofs of concept like current graphene computer chips might be made fully digital
Right now, graphene lack of a useful bandgap means that graphene computers are limited to analog computation only;
applies more widely than just processors. Its achievable bandgap also makes silicon highly absorptive to incoming energy sources like photons,
is that there was only a few months needed to take this purely theoretical 2d substance from a computer simulation to practical, working transistors.
could allow truly advances in computer processors. And combining graphene power efficiency with silicon current ability to soak up solar radiation could have an even bigger impact.
The two most serious threats are illuminated inside the car on an LCD display. This is Ford take on infrared night vision systems that now employ algorithms to detect people and animals,
and instead looked to make the light conform to the panels. They created an all-new hybrid material that takes two photons of 980-nanometer infrared light shone onto it and p convertsthem into one photon of 550-nanometer orange yellow light.
and land use costs than in the panels themselves; adding a new layer of this IR-capturing material would certainly increase panel costs,
but could still improve the affordability of solar power. Infrared radiation accounts for an enormous amount of the energy in direct sunlight,
Automated nano-printing is coming into its own DNA is referred often to as a uilding blockfor life,
Every edge in the computer wire-frame ends up represented by a self-contained double helix in the final molecules,
The automation on display here has been called a 3d printing solution for DNA, and in terms of ease of use that label certainly fits.
The images were stored in a 64kb random access memory (RAM. In the subsequent tests, the camera performed remarkably well. he battery-free camera can operate up to about five meters from the router,
#Indian-origin scientist Manu Prakash develops computer that operates on water droplets A computer that operates using the unique physics of moving water droplets has been developed by an Indian-origin scientist and his team.
The computer is nearly a decade in the making, incubated from an idea that struck Manu Prakash, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford university,
The droplet computer can theoretically perform any operation that a conventional electronic computer can crunch, although at significantly slower rates. e already have digital computers to process information.
or to operate word processors on this, Prakash said. ur goal is to build a completely new class of computers that can precisely control
and manipulate physical matter. magine if when you run a set of computations that not only information is processed
Prakash said the most immediate application might involve turning the computer into a high-throughput chemistry and biology laboratory.
and the droplet computer offers unprecedented control over these interactions. PTITAGS: Indian-origin scientists, Manu Prakash, Manu Prakash scientist, Manu Prakash wor
or even Google revamped Photos software. However, it also raises privacy questions when you can be identified in a snapshot
#Google, Intel and Tata partner on rural internet initiative for women A digitally connected India will bring remendous powerin the hands of citizens by connecting them to the rest of the world,
and Intel to help women access the Internet in large numbers under this initiative. nternet will help educate India,
#Cooler computers, smartphones using graphene film Almost half of the total energy used in running a computer goes in cooling it down.
you won have to look for a socket to charge your phone or a laptop. Researchers have developed a wireless power transfer (WPT) technology that can charge mobile phones from a distance.
It allows mobile devices to be charged at any location and in any direction, even if the devices are away from the power source.
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This quisweetnesshas been confirmed by independent panels from UK consumer research agency Sensory Dimensions while its only taste constraint is a slight reduction in bitterness.
says EVT (Eye Vision Technology) as it launches the Eyescan 3d for its image processing software.
and software as a ready-to-use system which can be integrated into the production line. e still see China,
never by humans. ith the Eyescan 3d, data evaluation is carried out with the Eyevision image processing software with a drag-and-drop programme.
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#Farmlogs Is Now Able To Alert Farmers About Crop Threats Farm management software company Farmlogs is used by over 20%of the farms in the U s. with over $15 billion in crops under management.
Farmlogs monitors crop health by utilizing multi-spectral satellite imagery to build performance baselines from over five years of field-specific crop health data.
and the farm management software company plans to double its staff count this year. Farmlogsgrowth does not come as a surprise
Then, if a robot or software program doesn encounter that task in the real world exactly as it was programmed to,
The exact same software, which encodes how the robot can learn, was used to allow the robot to learn all the different tasks we gave it.
Previously, programmers attempted to pre-programme robots to handle all possible scenarios a gargantuan task
#Your Next Cracked Cellphone Screen May Self Repair We all know how easy it is to end up with a cracked phone screen,
it would ave to be positioned at very nearly the price of current displays according to Todd Thibodeaux,
if you could unlock your smartphone with ear recognition software? Amazon thinks so. Amazon has received a patent on June 9th that is titled ar recognition as device input.
if a child could pick up a tablet, scan his or her ear and then instantly be able to open up games for kids.
And then an adult scans his or her ear with the same tablet to quickly pull up their stocks, weather, news and social media apps.
and changes the angles of lock screens and maps as the user tilts the device in different directions.
#Turkey threatens to ban Twitter (again) Turkey-based Twitter users could soon be staring at blank screens again after the government threatened to block the social media service for the second time in less than a year.
a controller and a screen, weighs under three pounds. How does it work? This hornet does not attack.
A team of computer scientists and engineers from the Harvard School of engineering and Applied sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has created an autonomous robotic construction crew that will be capable of doing all that and more.
#Slow fade for the ipad and tablets? The ipad isn what it used to be.
It been more than four and a half years since Steve jobs launched the ipad. On that first weekend of sales in May 2010, Apple sold over one million units against a backdrop of long,
snaking lines at Apple stores and tablet sales surged in the following years. Fast forward to the end of 2014.
For the first time since 2010, tablet shipments recorded a year-over-year decline in the fourth quarter,
market research firm IDC said this week. The ipad just isn the sensation it once was
according to IDC. pple efforts to maintain ipad momentum have fallen flat so far, IDC said in a statement,
attributing this to the lackluster refreshes of the ipad Air and ipad Mini. The new ipad Mini, for example, is virtually the same as the older model with the exception of a fingerprint sensor and a new color (gold.
The problem is, when Apple slumps the whole market sinks. The tablet market is ery top heavyin that it relies mostly on Apple
and Samsung to carry the market forward each year, IDC said. Which means Samsung is playing its part in the slump too. amsung's struggles continued asid-to high-priced Android tablets like Samsung offerings simply aren't cut out for today's tablet market, the market research specialist added.
What going on? Large-screen phones, aka phablets, are a big factor, according to market research firm Canalys,
which also released numbers this week, showing a shrinking tablet market. Phablets, like the 5. 5-inch iphone 6 Plus and the 5. 7-inch Samsung galaxy Note 4, render tablets like the 7. 9-inch ipad Mini less attractive
and less necessary. here are some markets around the world where five -and-a-half and six-inch smartphones are really popular such as China and other parts of Asia, Chris Jones,
an analyst and cofounder at Canalys, told Foxnews. com. In Asia they are consuming media content on a large-screen phone so they don need a tablet,
he said. nd Apple has had an impact as well, changing the size of their iphone with the 6 Plus.
That has an impact because there not a lot of difference between a large phone and a seven-inch tablet.
Jitesh Ubrani, an analyst at IDC, said that consumers are holding on to their tablets for a lot longer than expected,
which is also contributing to the muted demand. One of the few bright spots is Microsoft and Windows device makers.
They are tapping into a shift toward large-screen tablets in certain markets, according to both IDC and Canalys.
Microsoft has been aggressively pushing its 12-inch Surface Pro 3 tablet over the past six months and Hewlett-packard markets 13-inch tablets to large corporations.
Both Microsoft and HP fared well in the fourth quarter, according to Canalys. And Lenovo a large Windows device maker ad its best ever quarter, said Canalys.
It should be noted, however, that the larger tablets are marketed often as hybrid tablet-laptops --so growth in this market isn't necessarily good news for companies like Apple.
And what can we expect in 2015?""Despite the slow down of the market, we maintain our forecast about tablet growth in 2015,
"said Jean Philippe Bouchard, an IDC analyst. icrosoft's new OS Windows 10, a general shift towards larger screen s nd technology innovations such as gesture interface that could be introduced in tablets will help the market maintain positive growth in 2015,
he added. Canalys expects growth in 2015 to come from tablets with screen sizes larger than 8 inches o
#China tightens Web controls requires written pledge to avoid'unhealthy'activity online China announced Wednesday that users of blogs
and chat rooms will be required to register their names with operators and promise in writing to avoid challenging the communist political system, further tightening control over Internet use.
#Global tablet sales dip for first time Tablet sales have fallen for the first time since the devices went mainstream in 2010,
According to its most recent data, 76.1 million tablets were sold globally by tech firms during Q4 2014, down from 78.6 million for the same period a year earlier.
The company sold more tablets (21.4 million) than any other vendor during the quarter, though it possible the recent release of its large-screen iphones impacted sales to some extent.
Rival Samsung sold about half as many tablets as Apple at the end of last year (11 million), while its fall in sales was slightly bigger than the Cupertino company at 18.4 percent.
In fact as the table below shows, four of the top five vendors saw a fall in Q4 slate sales,
IDC senior research analyst Jitesh Ubrani described the tablet market as till very top heavyin that it continues to rely mostly on Apple
The analyst added, lthough Apple expanded its ipad lineup by keeping around older models and offering a lower entry price point of $249,
it still wasn enough to spur ipad sales given the excitement around the launch of the new iphones.
s low-cost vendors are quickly proving that mid-to high-priced Android tablets simply aren cut out for today tablet market.
which saw 229.6 million tablets shipped, marking a 4. 4 percent increase on 2013. So how is 2015 likely to pan out for tablet makers?
A myriad of factors are set to haul the business one way or the other, among them increased rivalry in emerging markets, saturation in established ones, the presence of Apple large-screen iphone 6 devices,
and the introduction of lighter, increasingly powerful, and competitively priced laptops. You never know, Apple expected supersized tablet might even shake things up a bit n
#IBM joins forces with Mars taps genomics to boost food safety Tech heavyweight IBM has joined forces with food manufacturing giant Mars in an attempt to boost global food safety.
Scientists from the two companies have founded the Consortium for Sequencing the Food supply Chain tapping advances in genomics to gain a better understanding of food safety.
IBM says that researchers will investigate the genetic fingerprints of living organisms such as bacteria fungi
and viruses examining how they grow in environments such as countertops factories and raw materials. The data will be used to investigate how bacteria interact with scientists hopeful the results will improve food safety management across the supply chain. t becoming extremely complex with the global supply chainjeff Welser lab director of IBM Almaden research center
in San jose Calif. told Foxnews. com. small problem in one place can travel quicklyhe consortium will conduct the largest ever study of metagenomics aiming to better categorize
Scientists from U. C. Davis will sequence the sample data which will then be sent to IBM. e take it to do the work on the analytics
Last year for example the company enhanced its Watson supercomputer famous for its appearance on the quiz show Jeopardy in an attempt to speed up the pace of scientific breakthroughs.
Welser told Foxnews. com that IBM is actively pursuing other partners to join the consortium with the support of Mars. ood safety is not a competitive issue all companies want food to be said safehe.
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