so it shouldn come as a surprise that French company Spinali Design has created a smart bikini to help women monitor sun exposure responsibly.
At the base of the frame, a display can be placed over the reflection. This display will show updates chosen by the user from social media and the Internet,
such as posts by friends, meeting reminders or a weather report. Features of the mirror include facial recognition, gesture comprehension, a webcam, speech-to-text recognition,
and a durable screen that doesn interfere with the mirror reflectiveness. The user interacts with Mirrormirror using gestures
and speech commands to program it. The display layout is equally personalizable allowing a user to set updates at the top, weather and news at the bottom,
and a space for communication with family along one side or any other configuration they need.
A business could install Mirrormirror to communicate team-wide messaging or display the month event calendar at all times.
Mirrormirror created their first prototype in 36 hours from a simple design with plywood, an old monitor,
and acrylic screen. It displayed the weather time, and a feed of Reddit factoids. The second prototype featured an aluminum frame and a one way glass, with greatly improved visibility and responsiveness.
and remain safe on the company computer servers. Mastercard also plans on trying out voice recognition to approve purchases:
The Arrow NX F-04g comes with a 5. 2-inch Quadhd screen with a 2, 560 x 1, 440 display resolution.
It is packed with an octa-core processor, 3gb of RAM and 32 GB internal storage.
A bluetooth-enabled device attached to the monitor collects and transmits data such as the mother and baby's heart rates to a smartphone and stores it on a secure cloud-based database accessible only to expectant mothers and their physicians.
He says a smartphone app will eventually provide a visual representation of the data gathered by the wearable monitor."
so it kind of works kind of like a muscle sensor in that it picks up small electric discharges and turns that into something you can actually read within software,
which it's controlled by the software, which Lachappelle says is different from the types of control that exist in other robotic platforms.
as more advanced controls are created it's the software that's doing the heavy lifting,
One of the most impressive aspects of the arm is not the hardware itself or even the software that controls it-but the fact that it can be 3d printed for a fraction of the cost of modern prosthetics.
This allows him to make complex internal structures to the designs which would otherwise be impossible,
"he told Reuters."The full robotic arm is actually open source, and so people are now actually able to take this,
showing his handiwork-all part of his effort at making the invention open source -which means anyone can take his technology
because we this open source, we want someone that has a 3d printer, or very little printing experience, to be able to replicate this,
to be able to use this for new applications, to be able to adapt it into new situations,
former federal employees affected by data breach Hackers breached the computers of the U s. government agency that collects personnel information for federal workers in a massive cyber attack that compromised the data of about 4 million current and former employees,
as have various federal government computer systems at the State department, the U s. Postal service and the White house.""The FBI is working with our interagency partners to investigate this matter,
instead of the current crop that often just monitor the body's activity.""Wearables currently are centered mostly around monitoring
smaller than the width of a human hair, let the scientists determine the path a mouse walks using a remote control to inject drugs
The device is mounted to the head of the mouse and is powered by a small battery, removing the need for it to be wired,
In one such experiment, mice were made to walk in circles after a drug that mimics morphine was injected into the region of the mouse's brain that controls motivation and addiction.
the computers shut down as their batteries drain. And worst of all-your smartphone dies. This scenario was one of the inspirations for Andrew Burns of California startup Stower to develop the candle charger.
That diffusion outputs between 2-3 watts, about the same amount of power derived from a USB port-perfect for charging smartphones and tablets.
Myriads of potential applications await within the realm of mobile devices. obile device sizes are continuing to shrink
#Scientists Create Single-Molecule Diode The idea of creating a single-molecule diode a circuit element that directs current flow was suggested first more than 40 years ago, in 1974, by researchers Arieh Aviram of IBM Thomas
and buttons and computers,"said María Luz Rodríguez-Méndez, a professor of inorganic chemistry at University of Valladolid in Spain."
A variety of screen-printed sensors"taste"electrochemical compounds in the beer to predict the brews'color index and alcoholic strength 76 percent and 86 percent of the time.
The screen-printed electrodes, made by the company Dropsens, have an array of sensors that send signals to software the"brain"that analyzes the response patterns.
The device is portable about the size of two cigarette packs, said Méndez. There are four electrodes,
The researchers taught the software to recognize the signal patterns for each of the four lager styles.
the computer can then compare new beer samples against the established, learned signal patterns. They tested each of the 25 beer samples seven times.
The phenols and electrodes send electrochemical signals to the computer as they interact. The researchers immerse the electrodes in beer
The next steps for Méndez and her team will be modifying the commercial screen-printed electrodes with nanoparticles to make the sensors respond more clearly,
Using mouse models and human airway tissue taken from both asthmatic and non-asthmatic people,
and drawing them to the vortex core. Like a tornado, what happens to the particles depends strongly on their size.
when a mixture of small microparticles (less than 1 micron) and water were introduced they rotated slowly about the vortex core.
However, larger microparticles (household flour) were drawn into the core and were seen to spin at high speeds
and a cluster computer awarded by Silicon Mechanics c
#Targeted Treatment For Arthritis, Thanks To Stem Cell Discovery Researchers have identified individual stem cells that can regenerate tissue, cartilage and bone.
What Your Clothes May Literally Say About You In the future Wearing a computer on your sleeve may be a lot cooler than a plastic watch with an Apple logo on it-researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have designed a responsive hybrid material fueled by an oscillatory chemical reactions.
reactive material system capable of performing computations without external energy inputs, amplification or computer mediation. The studies combine Balazs'research in Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) gels, a substance that oscillates in the absence of external stimuli,
and Surgical Center for Retina have developed software that detects eye diseases such as diabetic macular edema using a smartphone.
The software was developed in collaboration with biomedical engineers from the ITESM and uses the camera of the phone to detect any abnormality in the thickness of the retina."
#New GHOST Technology Leaps Out Of The Screen Nothing will make you feel like Tony Stark more than being able to change the shape of displays with your hands,
pulling objects and data out of the screen and playing with them in mid-air.
Instead, we live in a world of flat-screen displays, even though the real world is not flat,
Being able to manipulate a display and drag features into a 3-D world is the purpose of GHOST (Generic,
and manipulate physical objects through the interfaces of computers and mobile devices.""This will have all sorts of implications for the future,
from everyday interaction with mobile phones to learning with computers and design work,"says GHOST coordinator Professor Kasper Hornbaek of the University of Copenhagen."
"It not only about deforming the shape of the screen, but also the digital object you want to manipulate, maybe even in mid-air.
Through ultrasound levitation technology, for example, we can project the display out of the flat screen.
And thanks to deformable screens we can plunge our fingers into it.""This breakthrough in user interaction with technology allows us to handle objects,
and store them in the computer as they work. GHOST researchers are also working with deformable interfaces such as pads and sponges for musicians to flex to control timbre, speed and other parameters in electronic music.
which allows data in bar charts to be pulled out of the screen by fingertips. The information,
The researchers have also been working with orphees flexible mobile devices with lycra or alloy displays
These can change shape automatically to form screens to shield your fingers when you type in a pincode, for example,
or to move the display to the twists and turns of a game. And such devices can be enlarged in the hand to examine data closer
The other type of mouse, called Beethoven, has a specific TMC1 mutation--a change in a single amino acid
but with gene therapy, they jump as high as a normal mouse, "says Holt. The force of their jump was measured by a plate on the floor underneath them;
and saw rapid wiggles on the screen indicating that the electrons were travelling long distances characteristic of a metal. ou do realise,
If an internal monitor detects radioactivity, the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills the cat.
But as long as we don check the monitor we have to consider the cat both dead and alive.
#New tiny silicon chip paves the way for light-speed computers The smallest ever'ultracompact polarisation beamsplitter'-a component used in silicon photonic chips-has been developed by engineers in the US,
the device points to a new generation of computers that can transmit information at the speed of light."
when it comes into your laptop. In that conversion, you're slowing things down. The vision is to do everything in light."
which means once information is delivered to your computer or router in photon form, it has to be converted into the slower electron form
and computer processing speeds would skyrocket. That means less power required and longer battery life.""With all light, computing can eventually be millions of times faster,
"The first supercomputers using silicon photonics-already under development at companies such as Intel and IBM-will use hybrid processors that remain partly electronic,
"the press release explains.""Menon believes his beamsplitter could be used in those computers in about three years.
Data centres that require faster connections between computers also could implement the technology soon, he says."
"Streaming Netflix at light-speed? Can't wait to never leave the house again a
#Solar cells that work on cloudy days just hit a record-breaking 22.1%efficiency There's been plenty of good news about solar power lately-not only are governments around the world using it more and more,
Iron tablets weren working, as they were hard to distribute and left locals with unpleasant side effects, writes Philippa Roxby for BBC Health.
the announcement comes just a few days after another group of researchers made a biodegradable computer chip out of wood."
#Light-based computers will be even more awesome than we thought Researchers have come up with an efficient way of transporting data between computer chips using light rather than electricity.
Not only does this mean that computers will be able to transmit data much, much faster, it also means we could build machines that consume far less energy.
but right now when this data hits our computers, it has to slow down so it can be converted into electrons
and it's responsible for making our computers so hot.""Up to 80 percent of the microprocessor power is consumed by sending data over the wires, one of the researchers,
But while engineers are getting very close to creating computer chips that can process light, theye struggled to find an efficient way to transmit that light across the thousands of different connections,
and having to create a new silicon structure to replace every single wire inside just one computer could be next to impossible.
and far more energy-efficient computers that use light rather than electricity for internal data transport, "as the press release explains.
powerlines and computers-more efficient. here a big effort to understand friction and control it,
#Computer solves 120-year-old biology problem that had stumped scientists Can computer software invent scientific theories and ideas as well as crunch numbers?
That's the suggestion being put forward by Michael Levin and Daniel Lobo, two computer scientists at Tufts University, Massachusetts in the US,
who have programmed a computer to come up with its own scientific hypothesis on one of biology's most well-known mysteries.
"The computer program created by Levin and Lobo was designed to repeat real-life studies over and over again, making small tweaks each time.
Essentially, the computer was guessing how a worm's genes connect together, and simulating a new theory each time
After three days, the software came up with a core genetic network code that matched all of the hundreds of actual experiments in its database.
but the actual software took years to put together. A customised computer language was required before the software could handle the available data,
and of course all that data had to be collected and collated from the various scientific research projects that have taken place down the years.
Next up, the computer scientists are tackling the question of metastasis: how cancer begins to spread through the body o
#Engineers have created a computer that operates on water droplets Researchers in the US have built a fully functioning computer that runs like clockwork-but instead of electrons,
the same way that regular computers manipulate information. Although this new water-based computer could theoretically do everything a normal computer can thanks to its universal logic gates,
it much slower than the devices we currently use. But the team has far bigger plans in mind for their invention-revolutionising the way we process
"We already have digital computers to process information Our goal is to build a completely new class of computers that can precisely control
Prakash first came up with the idea for the computer nearly a decade ago, but although it was easy enough to work out how to control water droplets-by infusing them with magnetic nanoparticles
In regular computers this is the role of the clock, which perfectly times every single movement within the system,
Theye hoping this will allow them to perform reactions that are done currently in bulk in test tubes with their computer-essentially,
#Microsoft is building a drone army to catch mosquitoes and stop epidemics One potential use for drones that you might not have thought about is preventing the spread of disease.
Microsoft has launched just an initiative called Project Premonition, with the aim of detecting viruses before they infect a significant number of people using a fleet of Unmanned aerial vehicles (or UAVS).
because it carries so many pathogens,"Microsoft researcher Ethan Jackson, who is leading Project Premonition, told Allison Linn over on the company's blog."
But Microsoft's new plan could greatly speed up this process and make it a lot cheaper, by sending out portable drones that are able to cover far more distance
To do this, they're developing software that will be able to quickly and accurately process genetic data collected by their mosquito-hunting UAV fleet,
but Microsoft carried out a feasibility study in Grenada in the Caribbean in March, and presented its findings at the Microsoft Innovation Techfair in WASHINGTON DC last week.
The company now says it's working with academic partners across multiple disciplines to make Project Premonition a reality within the next five years.
Software studio Autodesk and construction firm Heijmans are two of the partners working with MX3D on the eye-catching project
"What distinguishes our technology from traditional 3d printing methods is that we work according to the'printing outside the box'principle,
"By printing with 6-axis industrial robots, we are limited no longer to a square box in which everything happens.
Printing a functional, life-size bridge is of course the ideal way to showcase the endless possibilities of this technique."
"The printing arms have been through several iterations to get them ready for the task: MX3D engineers say they've seen machines explode,
but now the final version of the hardware is ready to launch into action. A small-scale test run has taken already place,
a self-contained bridge-printing robot could prove invaluable in connecting communities together again. In the meantime, keep your eyes on MX3D's new bridge in Amsterdam,
In a press release the students explain that their research"extended the traditional brain-computer interface technology
#A deep learning machine just beat humans in an IQ TEST For the first time ever, a computer has outperformed humans in the verbal reasoning portion of an IQ TEST.
which involves converting data into a set of algorithms that a computer can make sense of.
Until now, computers have been pretty successful at beating humans in two out of the three parts of a standard intelligence quotient test,
In the past, the furthest programmers had gotten was to build machines that were capable of analysing millions of millions of texts to figure out which words are associated often with each other,
The researchers, from the University of Science and Technology of China and Microsoft Research in Beijing, tried a different tack-they looked at words
The team helped the computers out further by feeding them multiple examples of questions so that they were able to recognise the question type
They then tested the computer against 200 human participants of various ages and educational backgrounds."
The strategy has also been used to teach computers how to beat us at 49 old-school Atari games,
and reversibly disrupt Apc activity in a mouse with cancerous tumours in its colon. They already knew that the Apc gene was linked closely to an important pathway known as the Wnt signalling pathway,
According to Reuters, BMW has funded already software and applications that help electric car drivers locate nearby parking spots
#Material with superfast electrons displays mind-blowing magnetoresistance Researchers have found a material that could be used to build smaller and fast electronics in the future.
Known as giant magnetoresistance, this property is crucial to achieving the large storage capacity we've come to enjoy in our hard drives,
because helps computers to quickly read the information that's stored magnetically in hard drives. When materials with giant magnetoresistance are exposed to a magnetic field,
In comparison, the materials that are used currently in hard drives generally exhibit magnetoresistance of between 40 and 110 percent at room temperature.
"The patch has been tested in mouse models and so far, looks very promising. According to the paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
and cheap tablet computers,"Ben Schiller points out at Fast Company, and the team at Caltech isn interested in adding busted loo to that list.
like any product,"lead software developer at Caltech, Cody Finke, told Schiller.""The difference between technology in the developed world and the developing world is that
visual information is captured by a tiny camera attached to the patient's glasses and sent to a pocket-sized computer,
and combines Skype and basic robotics to create a remote body that allows a patient to feel
These instructions were sent via the Internet to a remote computer hooked up to a simple, wheeled robot.
seeing everything their robot does through Skype. The patient's face also appears on the computer screen."
"Each of the nine subjects with disabilities managed to remotely control the robot with ease after less than 10 days of training,"lead researcher José del R. Millán,
which monitors finger and hand movements. While previous experiments have achieved similar results, the DNG researchers say their study is the first to offer such a high resolution without being harmful to the human touch.
and they say itl be ready to integrate into everything from smartphone screens to nail varnish within the next five years.
Using a computer model, they could predict whether the embryo will be chromosomally normal or abnormal as it develops."
#IBM creates the world's most powerful computer chip IBM has built a working version of a new computer chip,
At around four times more powerful than today's top-of-the-line technology, it should pave the way for a new generation of super-speedy computers and gadgets in the not-too-distant future.
which in turn leads to faster smartphones, laptops, and computers. IBM's breakthrough is still a long way from getting into consumer gadgets,
but its lab work proves that 7nm transistors are possible. For a long time, computer technology has followed the path known as Moore's law,
named after Intel cofounder Gordon Moore. It states that computing power has the potential to double every two years,
as computer chips get ever denser and the laws of physics start to restrict further improvements,
But thanks to IBM's work and other projects across the world, it seems there's plenty of life in it yet.
what IBM has done in its research lab into a full-scale manufacturing process. As well as replacing silicon with a silicon-germanium alloy,
but the end results are a computer chip that's faster, smaller, and more energy-efficient.
A number of partners have been working with IBM on the technology, including Globalfoundries, Samsung, and SUNY (the State university of New york).
"For business and society to get the most out of tomorrow's computers and devices,
"Arvind Krishna of IBM Research told The New york times, adding that the breakthrough"builds on decades of research that has set the pace for the microelectronics industry".
Once connected, the three monkeys were able to control the movements of a virtual avatar arm on a computer screen in front of them.
Pc (4450)+ and Pc (4380+.+After studying the mass of these particles, the team concluded that they could only be explained by being in pentquark states."
#Intel new memory format is 1, 000 times faster than current flash memory Tech giants Intel and Micron have announced a new class of computer memory called 3d XPOINT,
which the companies say is up to 1, 000 times faster than the conventional NAND flash memory we use in devices today.
memory cards, USB KEYS, and the solid-state drives found in everything from smartphones to ultraportable laptops (not counting older computers or desktop PCS that still use mechanical platter hard drives).
3d XPOINT speeds are enabled by its ultra-dense transistor-less architecture, which its makers describe as a hree-dimensional checkerboard where memory cells sit at the intersection of words lines and bit lines Don worry,
the industry has searched for ways to reduce the lag time between the processor and data to allow much faster analysis,
said Rob Crooke, Intel SVP of nonvolatile memory solutions, in a statement. his new class of nonvolatile memory achieves this goal
where Intel and Micron say the new technology will improve the efficiency of big data systems.
with faster and tougher data mechanisms theoretically delivering benefits for everything from 3d gaming through to better and potentially cheaper solid state drives and personal storage devices.
Intel and Micron haven announced when products with 3d XPOINT will be available, but the technology is going into production this year,
But more than this, could aid in the development of new materials with improved performance such as LCD screens."
"Uptake of the current generation of organic solar cells has lagged behind more widespread silicon-based models, due to their comparative lack of performance even with a simplified construction via large printers.
#Huge 3-D displays without 3-D glasses Public screenings have become an important part of major sports events.
Scaling it up to a display with many pixels is not a problem says Jrg Reitterer (Trilite Technologies and Phd-student in the team of Professor Ulrich Schmid at the Vienna University of Technology.
To experience the 3d effect the viewer must be positioned in a certain distance range from the screen.
The newly developed display however can present hundreds of pictures. Walking by the display one can get a view of the displayed object from different sides just like passing a real object.
For this however a new video format is required which has already been developed by the researchers.
but we expect that new footage will be created especially for our displays--perhaps with a much larger number of cameras says Franz Fiedler CTO of Trilite Technologies.
Compared to a movie screen the display is very vivid. Therefore it can be used outdoors even in bright sunlight.
The team's most recent advance also brings the field closer to realizing carbon nanotube transistors as a feasible replacement for silicon transistors in computer chips
and the existing American Joint Committee on Cancer pathologic TNM staging system giving transplant physicians and oncologists more information to work with in deciding how often to monitor for recurrence and whether or not adjuvant treatment
and laptops but are unable to keep up with the growing demands placed on them. Dr Semih Afyon a scientist at the Electrochemical Materials Institute sums up the fundamental idea that is driving battery research:
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