#Solar chip monitors windows It happens all too often in the cold times of the year:
By keeping both processor and chip extremely small, the latter is extremely frugal. In addition, the researchers constructed switches that consume little energy,
which allows small motors using a minimal amount of force for the mechanical tracking. he vision is that such a microtracking CPV panel could be placed on a roof in the same space as a traditional solar panel
Because the total panel thickness is only about a centimeter and 99 percent of it everything except the solar cells
Their research holds the promise of building dramatically faster, smaller and more efficient computer chips.
and could pave the way for future generations of faster, energy-efficient computer chips. Their work was published this week in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
#Graphene displays clear prospects for flexible electronics Published in the scientific journal Nature Materials, University of Manchester and University of Sheffield researchers show that new 2d esigner materialscan be produced to create flexible, see-through and more efficient electronic devices.
tablets and televisions to make them incredibly thin, flexible, durable and even semitransparent. The LED device was constructed by combining different 2d crystals
and Philip Liang SM 6 is using smart devices to monitor hand hygiene among hospital staff
The Medsense system includes a smart badge, beacons, dispenser monitors, and a base station. Courtesy of General Sensing The Medsense system includes a smart badge, beacons, dispenser monitors,
and a base station. Courtesy of General Sensing Called Medsense Clear, the system revolves around a badge worn by hospital staff.
The startup is also now developing a system to monitor hospital workflow, with aims of pinpointing areas where time
A graph displays compliance averages by the week. Courtesy of General Sensing An example of what a user may see on the Medsense HQ website.
A graph displays compliance averages by the week. Courtesy of General Sensing e think it important that the system provides feedback
but its core technology started as a novelty item: smart dog collars. In the Media Laboratory class MAS 834 (Tangible Interfaces), Liang, Gips,
When a researcher requested the technology to monitor health care staff, however, the startup decided to get a clean start in the health care industry,
The up or down orientation of the electron spins on these NV centers can be used to encode information in a way that is somewhat analogous to how the charge of many electrons is used to encode the and in a classical computer.
#Computing at the speed of light University of Utah engineers have taken a step forward in creating the next generation of computers
and mobile devices capable of speeds millions of times faster than current machines. The Utah engineers have developed an ultracompact beamsplitter the smallest on record for dividing light waves into two separate channels of information.
The discovery will lead to computers and mobile devices that could be millions of times faster than machines today
because the information or data that is computed or shuttled is done through light instead of electrons. Image credit:
Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineeringsilicon photonics could significantly increase the power and speed of machines such as supercomputers, data center servers and the specialized computers that direct autonomous cars and drones with collision detection.
Eventually, the technology could reach home computers and mobile devices and improve applications from gaming to video streaming. ight is the fastest thing you can use to transmit information,
says Menon. ut that information has to be converted to electrons when it comes into your laptop.
In that conversion, youe slowing things down. The vision is to do everything in light. Photons of light carry information over the Internet through fiber-optic networks.
or computer can handle the information. That bottleneck could be eliminated if the data stream remained as light within computer processors. ith all light,
computing can eventually be millions of times faster, says Menon. To help do that, the U engineers created a much smaller form of a polarization beamsplitter
mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets built with this technology would consume less power, have longer battery life
and generate less heat than existing mobile devices. The first supercomputers using silicon photonics already under development at companies such as Intel
and IBM will use hybrid processors that remain partly electronic. Menon believes his beamsplitter could be used in those computers in about three years.
Data centers that require faster connections between computers also could implement the technology soon, he says.
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#Taking control of light emission Researchers have found a way to couple the properties of different two-dimensional materials to provide an exceptional degree of control over light waves.
They say this has the potential to lead to new kinds of light detection, thermal-management systems,
and their co-authors at IBM T. J. Watson Research center, Hong kong Polytechnic University, and the University of Minnesota.
Phaedon Avouris, a researcher at IBM and co-author of the paper, says, he combination of these two materials provides a unique system that allows the manipulation of optical processes.
a researcher at IBM and the University of Minnesota, says, ur work paves the way for using 2-D material heterostructures for engineering new optical properties on demand.
#Toward reenpaper-thin, flexible electronics The rapid evolution of gadgets has brought us an impressive array of martproducts from phones to tablets,
The recorded signal is carried then via wire bundles from the patient brain to a computer,
The arrays were connected by a cable to a system of computers that processed the signals,
and controlled output devices that included a computer cursor and a robotic arm developed by collaborators at Johns hopkins university.
the patient was trained to control the computer cursor and the robotic arm with his mind.
Direct brain control of robots and computers has the potential to dramatically change the lives of many people,
and make it learn without changes to software.?The key is that when a robot is faced with something new,
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 he said.
Scientists were testing their software with a Willow Garage Personal Robot 2 (PR2), which they nicknamed BRETT (Berkeley Robot for the Elimination of Tedious Tasks).
From these clinical features of the disease, the team predicted that there would be a block to the production of pain-sensing neurons during the development of the embryo they confirmed this using a combination of studies in mouse and frog models,
Made up of little more than a tablet, smart phone camera, polarizer and a box, the device is established based on well principles of fluorescent microscopy,
clinically relevant biomarkers found in high concentration in many human diseases. he samples were placed on the tablet
a polarizer sat on top of the samples to help separate the tablet light from the emission from the samples.
Specialised software is required not and setting up the standard commercial tablet and smartphone is very straightforward.
The results can be analysed by simply taking an image and the readout is available immediately.
By simulating experiments in computers and observing the results, they were able to design actual chemistry experiments and reagents with much better performance than traditional trial-and-error approaches.
collaboration could lead to biodegradable computer chips Portable electronics typically made of nonrenewable, non-biodegradable and potentially toxic materials are discarded at an alarming rate in consumerspursuit of the next best electronic gadget.
A cellulose nanofibril (CNF) computer chip rests on a leaf. Image credit: Yei Hwan Jung, Wisconsin Nano Engineering Device Laboratory A cellulose nanofibril (CNF) computer chip rests on a leaf.
Image credit: Yei Hwan Jung, Wisconsin Nano Engineering Device Laboratory The research team, led by UW-Madison electrical
or support layer, of a computer chip, with cellulose nanofibril (CNF), a flexible, biodegradable material made from wood. he majority of material in a chip is support.
and remotely switch on and off appliances through their phones, tablets and computers. The technology, known as Eddy, was developed by CSIRO
Using an online interface on a computer, smartphone or tablet Eddy keeps track of electricity use,
collects and analyses the data, and makes recommendations to help users save money. It also allows users to remotely control major appliances such as air conditioners
The system uses cloud-based software and mini smart meters that look just like the regular circuit breakers found in your meter box.
The zebrafish and the mouse are the most commonly studied vertebrate laboratory animals whose genomes have been sequenced completely.
The top panel shows the measured differential conductance; the bottom panel shows the theoretical calculation (which has no disorder.
Both experiment and theory show splitting of the electron pairs with increasing field and reentrant pairing at higher fields (the merging of pairs of boundaries into vertical boundaries) l
data storage hardware and advancing quantum computing. uow195685 o one in the scientific community believed silicene paper could be made
Dr Du said. hen we use two small robotic arms that we move with a hand-held video game controller to catch the atoms in the vacuum chamber
To remedy this, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has presented the Marine corps with a 3-D computer simulation program that measures equipment weight, distribution and effects on body mechanics and individual warfighter performance.
The programalled ETOWL (Enhanced Technologies for Optimization of Warfighter Load) nd its companion software is being delivered to the Gruntworks Marine Expeditionary Rifle Squad
ETOWL calls to mind popular combat-themed video games such as all of Duty. Users can create a Marine avatar,
because it provides a direct benefit to our nation warfighters. he ETOWL program was developed by the Center for Computer aided design at the University of Iowa.
its design software (called the SANTOS human simulation environment) will be made available to the academic community to access free of charge from the center website. his will allow for further research
using a 3-D printer, with surface textures that can then be modified at will to be perfectly smooth,
Polymer material produced by a 3-D printer includes soft, flexible material (clear or lighter tone) with particles of hard material (black) embedded, in predetermined arrangements.
Felice Frankelthe process, developed using detailed computer simulations, involves a material that is composed of two different polymers with different degrees of stiffness:
The initial development of the system was done using computer simulations which were validated then by making 3-D-printed versions of several of the designs.
Huang compares this to the development of 3-D printing, saying nce the method is developed,
to study a mouse model of ulcerative colitis. SW033291 healed virtually all the ulcers in the animalscolons
could we use them to represent 1s and 0s in computer memory? Transistors, which form the basis of today computing,
very low temperatures (below-450 degrees Fahrenheit) with expensive equipment like spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopesot practical for making consumer devices like laptops,
With advances in DNA sequencing technology and computer processing the process is now efficient and cost-effective enough to be useful in obtaining whole genome sequences of wildlife species, like bighorn sheep.
As a game species, the trophy status of a bighorn sheep ram is based largely on horn size.
Because the rams with the largest horns are often the ones targeted by hunters their removal from a population could then eliminate the genetic ability of animals in that population to grow large horns.
lung and kidney each organ component is about the size of a smartphone screen, and the whole ATHENA odyof interconnected organs will fit neatly on a desk.
a chemical engineer with joint appointments at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley. he recyclable catalysts we developed are capable of converting sugarcane biomass into a new class of aviation fuel and lubricants with superior cold
and additives for gasoline as Gokhale explains. ith some minimal modifications to both the catalysts
but hold that there still important incentives to encourage investments. ee shown in this study that biorefineries can use inexpensive catalysts to produce a suite of hydrocarbon fuels and lubricants,
the team devised a computer algorithm to process OCT data and, nearly instantaneously, generate a color-coded map with cancer in red and healthy tissue in green. e envision that the OCT would be aimed at the area being operated on,
and the surgeon could look at a screen to get a continuously updated picture of where the cancer is
Additionally, ORNL houses the only laboratories in the world that have automated this droplet-based surface sampling probe and the requisite software.
A protein nanoparticle called OD-GT8 60mer which already proved to help immunity of mouse models to cope with HIV,
so another lab using genetic engineering created a mouse model to produce antibodies that resemble human antibodies.
Professor David Nemazee evaluated results like that he vaccine appears to work well in our mouse model to rimethe antibody response In another research scientists used the same immunogen in a slightly different mouse model,
For further testing mouse models will have to be developed, which means that collaboration between different disciplines
whose lab was the first to identify neural stem cells more than 20 years ago. e did not see that. n mouse brains,
Alvarez-Buylla and his team traced the development of mouse adult neural stem cells back to their embryonic progenitors.
when the mouse embryo is between 13 and 15 days old, uite early in embryonic brain development, said Alvarez-Buylla,
the scientists found that the mouse adult neural stem cells they studied are derived from embryonic neural stem cells that produce neurons in entirely different parts of the brain. his means that, somehow,
mouse brains have long been accepted as excellent basic research models for the human brain, he said.
and winter, placing bracelets onto the wrist of each study participant to monitor activity. These bracelets can track slight changes in movement
painless patch could lower blood glucose in a mouse model of type 1 diabetes for up to nine hours.
the researchers inserted a core of solid insulin and enzymes specially designed to sense glucose.
The researchers tested the ability of this approach to control blood sugar levels in a mouse model of type 1 diabetes.
known as 5-formylcytosine (5fc) is stable in living mouse tissues. While its exact function is yet to be determined
the researchers examined levels of 5fc in living adult and embryonic mouse tissues, as well as in mouse embryonic stem cells the body master cells which can become almost any cell type in the body.
They found that 5fc is present in all tissues but is very rare, making it difficult to detect.
These regenerators are effectively supercomputers and must be applied to each channel in the transmission. The electronic regeneration in modern lightwave transmission that carries between 80 to 200 channels also dictates the cost and,
#What your clothes may say about you Moving closer to the possibility of aterials that computeand wearing your computer on your sleeve,
reactive material system capable of performing computations without external energy inputs, amplification or computer mediation. Their research, Achieving synchronization with active hybrid materials:
To this end, they developed a computer simulation as well as tissue-like materials from a porous polymer in
The researchers were delighted also that the theoretical predictions from the computer simulation almost perfectly matched the results of their tests on synthesized porous polymer materials.
Only the amount of expansion was somewhat less in the experiment than in the virtual simulation. his means that wee able to design such materials on the computer
The work will be of interest to those considering graphene elements in flexible touchscreens or memories that store bits by controlling electric dipole moments of carbon atoms
Spintronic devices made of inorganic materials are used today for read heads on hard disk drives magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM),
and other applications. But recently there is growing worldwide interest in the use of organic materials,
To produce a knockout mouse, researchers must crossbreed animals after one strand of the gene is gone,
such as a large LED panel for shopping centers, airports and conference rooms. And we can build LED bulbs for use in the home.
He said it would be a matter of simply adding software to computers to connect them with LED transmitters. his is not a replacement for wi-fi;
#Researchers show that telomeres are linked to the origins of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Samples from mouse lungs show collagen fibers that generate pulmonary fibrosis.
with the participation of researchers from the CNIO Molecular Imaging Core Unit and from the Complutense University of Madrid, is being published this week in the journal Cell Reports.
TELOMERE DEFECTS In search of a cause-effect relationship, CNIO researchers created a mouse that lacked a protein needed to build telomeres in a specific cell population type II alveolar cells and
Although the mouse lacking telomeres in pulmonary epithelial cells proves the importance of telomeres in the origin of fibrosis,
Subsequently, they designed a computer model of the head which allowed them to study how radio waves travel from ear to ear. fter designing the computer model,
we performed a large number of calculations called genetic algorithms. We then chose the best ones and continued with the calculations
#Tablet technology to help children with autism Monash University researchers have developed the world first tablet technology designed to assist children with developmental disabilities such as autism and Down syndrome.
There are currently very few interventions that aim to improve these core attention skills in these children and, more importantly,
The intervention group with the tablet technology showed improved: Core cognitive attention skills (selective and sustained attention.
These were maintained for up to three months after the training ceased (longer term testing has yet to be conducted.
and has published over 100 papers on the use of computer based attention tasks. ur program is grounded in over twenty years of research,
Nanotube inflitration in actionthe team enlisted more than 150,000 computer volunteers worldwide to conduct the research.
which was able to simulate water flow in carbon nanotubes at very low speeds an activity that would normally require the equivalent of up to 40,000 years of processing power on a single computer.
and ran the project on their computers. The project results have important implications for desalination
which will become essential to analyze the massive data generated by the volunteered computers. y simulating water molecules flowing through nanotubes we have shown how vibrations result in oscillating friction,
#Omnidirectional free space wireless charging developed Mobile devices, such as smartphones and laptops, have become indispensable portable items in modern life,
but one big challenge remains to fully enjoying these devices: keeping their batteries charged. A group of researchers at KAIST has developed a wireless-power transfer (WPT) technology that allows mobile devices to be charged at any location and in any direction,
even if the devices are away from the power source, just as Wi-fi works for Internet connections. With this technology,
Their WPT system is capable of charging multiple mobile devices concurrently and with unprecedented freedom in any direction,
Either 30 smartphones with a power capacity of one watt each or 5 laptops with 2. 4 watts each can be simultaneously
The maximum power transfer efficiency for the laptops was 34%.%The researchers said that to fabricate plane Tx
The ferrite cores are designed optimally to reduce the core volume by half, and their ability to transfer power is unaffected nearly by human bodies or surrounding metal objects,
This has made it possible for mobile devices to receive power from any direction. Although wireless-power technology has been applied to smartphones,
But while there are routine screens for many types of cancer, there isn a universally adopted test used to check for heart attack risk in people who are not exhibiting symptoms associated with heart disease.
With ultrathin solar panels for trim and a USB charger tucked into the waist, the Southwest-inspired garment captured enough sunshine to charge cell phones
The other type of mouse, called Beethoven, has a specific TMC1 mutation change in a single amino acidnd is a good model for the dominant form of TMC1-related deafness.
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;
This material also has possibilities for use for advanced electronic devices such as pressure-sensitive sheets, reusable heating pads, pressure-sensitive conductivity sensors, electric current driven type resistance random access memory (Reram
#Glasses-free 3d screen technology Stereo-Step-Eclipse technology provides the ability to display video in stereoscopic 3d on a screen.
A scene can be visible from multiple angles depending on the viewer position relative to the screen.
Multiple users can look at the screen and all of them will see the view from their perspective,
Only three thin, additional layers are applied on top of standard LCD panels. Low power consumption: The system requires only small amount of electricity or computational power for its operation.
and keeps the same image resolution as the primary image display. Available now for license, the SSE technology provides a full 3d viewing experience that is viewable from multiple angles without the need for special glasses or other wearable devices such as contact lenses, monoculars or helmets.
to see the 3d image on the screen. This makes it ideal for gaming and other entertainment applications as well as training simulations
remote medicine and a wide variety of other business, civil and military uses. 3d Tau SSE technology is designed to be embedded directly into a new generation of screens for televisions, movie theaters, computer displays, game
consoles, advertising and conference/exhibition panels and avionics/navigation systems among others. The SSE screen consists of three thin layers on top of a standard LCD screen:
a rear-facing lenticular, an LCD shutter and a front-facing lenticular. While enabling the multi-angle display of 3d images,
SSE technology preserves the full native screen resolution of the primary LCD screen. It requires no complicated holography equipment
and takes up roughly the same space as a traditional screen. In addition to showing images in 3d,
the SSE optical scheme can be used for augmented reality applications, when real and virtual objects are shown on the same screen simultaneously.
This provides a new and impactful way to display modern video graphics content in 3d
with applications in entertainment, education, scientific modeling and simulators for training, transportation and industrial uses.
Other applications that can benefit from the 3d Tau SSE technology include the display of topographical maps,
The 3d Tau SSE technology can also be used to allow different viewers of a single screen to view different content based on their viewing angle.
sitting a short distance to the side, can view a completely different video all on one single screen.
while the copilot sees his own set of instruments from the same, centrally-located screen e
and environmentally benign method to combat bacteria by engineering nanoscale particles that add the antimicrobial potency of silver to a core of lignin,
The remaining particles degrade easily after disposal because of their biocompatible lignin core, limiting the risk to the environment. eople have been interested in using silver nanoparticles for antimicrobial purposes,
INVISTA Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering at NC State and the paper corresponding author. e show here an inexpensive and environmentally responsible method to make effective antimicrobials with biomaterial cores. he researchers used the nanoparticles
and other UC Berkeley researchers publicly debuted a system of beating human heart cells on a chip that could be used to screen for drug toxicity.
it might detect defects on computer chip surfaces or tell us more about the workings of proteins on the surface of cells,
minimally invasive device for controlling brain cells with drugs and lighta study showed that scientists can wirelessly determine the path a mouse walks with a press of a button.
t in line with the goals of the NIH BRAIN INITIATIVE. he researchers fabricated the implant using semiconductor computer chip manufacturing techniques.
who is now an assistant professor of electrical, computer, and energy engineering at University of Colorado Boulder. e tried to engineer the implant to meet some of neurosciences greatest unmet needs. n the study,
#New Technique to Synthesize Nanostructured Nanowires IBM scientist Frances Ross (left) with Brookhaven Lab scientists Dong Su (center) and Eric Stach in the Center for Functional Nanomaterials.
and IBM, opens opportunities to tailor properties and functionalities of materials for a wide range of semiconductor device applications.
The technique that Hofmann and his colleagues from Cambridge and IBM developed can be thought of as an expansion of the concept that underlies conventional VLS growth.
the research team used two customised electron microscopes, one at IBM TJ Watson Research center and a second at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
The ram jets are ignited then and the aircraft is propelled horizontally at supersonic speeds. At 4. 5 mach, you can reach from London to NY in 1 hr.
The scientists also want to look for other materials that display this effect. e think that there may be other new physics working here,
electrically conductive sheets of tiny carbon nanotubes to form a jellyroll-like sheath around a long rubber core.
But even a iantstretch of the new conducting sheath-core fibers causes little change in their electrical resistance
Because the rubber core is stretched along its length as the sheets are being wrapped around it,
said the structure of the sheath-core fibers as further interesting and important complexity. Buckles form not only along the fiber length
and rubber core directions, enabling the electrical resistance of the sheath-core fiber to be insensitive to stretch.
By adding a thin overcoat of rubber to the sheath-core fibers and then another carbon nanotube sheath,
or twice the width of a human hair to much larger sizes, depending on the size of the rubber core. ndividual small fibers also can be combined into large bundles
an author on the paper and chief research and intellectual properties strategist at Lintec of America Nanoscience & Technology Center. he rubber cores used for these sheath-core fibers are inexpensive and readily available,
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