In the end, a slow-spinning black hole can eat up more matter than a fast spinner.''The massive black holes in Elrigs could be gorging themselves on more matter for a longer period of time,
Spiderman-style gloves, lenses with super sight and Iron man suits become a reality By Sarah Griffiths and Victoria Woollaston for Mailonline Published:
From gloves that let you scale skyscrapers like Spiderman, to implants that could give you the self-healing powers of Wolverine,
Scroll down for videos A glimpse into this world of extraordinary gloves, glasses and suits was showcased recently in an issue of How It Works magazine.
IRON MAN'S HIGH-TECH SUIT Fans of Robert Downey Jnr's Iron man can buy themselves a red exoskeleton-providing they have a spare $1 million (£659,
000 A Japanese electronics firm is selling a 13ft (four metre) mechanical suit on Amazon that can be controlled by an iphone,
or by stepping foot inside the device. Called Kuratas, the five tonne, four-wheeled device with 30 motors can even fire BB pellets
Another suit, designed by the US ARMY, features a high-pressure hydraulic system to enhance a soldier strength, agility and endurance.
Called the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (Talos it effectively gives its wearer superpowers, such as superhuman strength and a way of deflecting bullets,
Two years ago, the US Special Operations Command (Ussocom) called on scientists to develop a suit reminiscent of the version seen in the Iron man films that uses nanotechnology
The suit would also give people Superman-like powers, such as being bulletproof and this is expected to build on work by an MIT professor who is currently developing'liquid armour'.
CLIMBING WALLS AND SPIDER SENSEWHILE we will have to wait for suits that give humans the powers of Iron man and Superman,
The gloves use the same natural molecular forces that allow gecko lizards to walk on ceilings-hairs on their feet that create an electrostatic force known as Van der waals. This force causes neighbouring molecules to be attracted to each other.
A suit invented by engineers at the University of Illinois gives wearers 360-degree awareness of the environment around their body.
The suit, built by Victor Mateevitsi, uses small robotic arms connected to an ultrasonic sonar system.
When the suit's microphones pick up ultrasonic reflections from objects, the arms respond by pressing down on the wearer's body
The suit has seven such modules so that the wearer has as close to 360 degrees of ultrasonic sonar coverage as possible.
'Our suit is the same concept.''SUPERMAN-SUPERVISIONMEANWHILE, a recently unveiled range of contact lenses was designed to give wearers telescopic vision like comic book hero Superman.
when worn with a pair of Samsung 3d glasses, can magnify scenes by 2. 8 times. The contact lenses are 8mm in diameter,
'We're envisioning a new paradigm for search that would tailor indexed content, search results and interface tools to individual users and specific subject areas,
whether payment details will be stored in Google Wallet, for example, or need to be entered each time. If it is the former,
and Transparent OLED display panels initially designed to create a'virtual necklace'for a jewellery firm.
which uses 3d cameras to track the viewer and display clothes and other items virtually,
Together, Samsung said the technology creates a'virtual fitting room'that will be used to help people see themselves wearing clothes
shoes or jewellery. It has partnered already with jewellers Chow Sang Sang and hopes to launch the technology in'leading stores around the world'soon.
fold to fit on a train or in the boot of a car, and with pedal assist, help riders reach speeds of up to 15mph (25km/h). They are also part of the company's wider Smart Mobility plan,
#The full colour'skin screen'you can wear as clothing: Radical technology could let you alter your outfit instantly By Mark Prigg For Dailymail. com Published:
and let indecisive dressers alter their clothing in a second. Researchers have unveiled the first fully flexible colour screen,
Such an ultrathin display can be applied to flexible materials like plastics and synthetic fabrics. The research has major implications for existing electronics like televisions,
'Your camouflage, your clothing, your fashion items-all of that could change, 'Chanda said.''Why would I need 50 shirts in my closet
if I could change the color and pattern?''Researchers used a simple and inexpensive nano-imprinting technique that can produce the reflective nanostructured surface over a large area.'
The device contains an inflatable nylon balloon that stored inside a small pouch next to a carbon dioxide cartridge.
and the nylon inflatable can be deflated and packed back into its pouch, ready for use when a new gas cylinder is installed.
which can be viewed without specialist glasses. When pixels are beamed and visible in 3d space they're known as voxels
#Electroloom, a 3d printer that creates finished garments Electroloom, a 3d printer that creates finished garments all photos courtesy of electroloom electroloom is for designing
and manufacturing custom 3d fabrics from a computer, with no sewing required. the printer works with custom polyester and cotton blends,
that are shipped as liquids in pods that are placed into the machine prior to each job. the team consists of marcus foley, aaron rowley both biomedical/mechanical engineers and joseph white,
a computer engineer. the technology they devised first starts with a designed mold using CAD. the mold is inserted then into the printing chamber,
and the liquid solution is guided onto the mold by an electric field the process is called electrospinning. it evenly coats
and binds the nano fibers together into a cohesive seamless fabric. once removed from the mold,
and fold just like the most commonly known fabrics. the electroloom prototype can only mold 800mm by 900mm sizes,
The esight Corporation have created a special pair of glasses the esight glasses, which allow legally blind people the ability to see.
The glasses are around $15, 000 for a pair. The glasses capture both video and an image then create enhancements
so people with low vision can view them. The glasses allow the user eyes to perceive more than usual.
Thanks to Kathy older sister Yvonne Felix, who is also legally blind, the esight Corporation donated a pair of glasses to Kathy on the day Aksel was born.
Yvonne was unable to see her children when they were born and wanted her sister to have a different experience.
Kathy was amazed at how clearly she could see her son which was the first baby she has ever been able to see in her life.
since we were children. esight glasses, an amazing new technology that I also use, helped her see the birth of her son.
Yvonne helped to raise money for Kathy to own a pair of the esight glasses so now she is able to see her son anytime.
She said the glasses help to read directions for his products, help to dress him safely,
So she was very adamant about getting the glasses for me and work with me to use them,
Beitz. hen I knew I was getting the glasses, I got very excited. I knew then I would be able to read books to the baby
Yvonne is working to raise money for others that are blind to be able to purchase esight glasses for their daily use as well.
Vision Enhancement esight makes glasses that combine a camera, display technology, and advanced computing to deliver a real-time video that enables sight for people with vision loss.
Incredible Technology Our glasses are packed with sophisticated technology designed to support people with legal blindness. esight is hands-free, mobile,
#University embeds RFID chips in yarn Researchers at Nottingham Trent University have come up with a way of embedding RFID chips in yarns
or knitted to make fabrics for clothing. Professor Tilak Dias of the Advanced Textiles Research Group of the School of art & Design, claims that the embedded chips annot be seen in situ by the naked eye He has patented the technology,
which he believes has the potential to be used for security in stores and also for clothes that are donated to charity to be tracked around the world.
Professor Dias writes: f an RFID chip is embedded into a shirt, for instance, it will provide a much greater level of anti-theft
and anti-counterfeiting protection. As people will not be able to easily identify where a chip is located in a garment,
shoplifters won be able to cut it off to steal it. Sealed inside resin micro pods within yarns, the fabrics incorporating RFIDS can be run through washing machines
and tumble driers without incurring any damage. Short thin copper strands attached to the either side of the chips are embedded in yarn fibres
and act as an antenna. Measuring one millimetre by 0. 5 millimetre in size when bought in bulk the chips can cost only a few pence each.
which is communicated usually via barcode. n relation to recycled clothes, charities would be able to sort garments much quicker perhaps even in an automated way to identify the types of clothing that are suitable for different countries according to their requirements,
said Professor Dias. Professor Dias also believes that in the distant future this technology could be used in conjunction with smart washing machines to warn consumers of mixed colours or inappropriate temperatures.
which spend a great deal of time directing donated clothing to people around the world. The study was supported by a £50, 000 grant from Sustainable Society Network,
hat the heck are you doing? It a reasonable question, considering the decidedly different turn he and his former Microsoft colleague Jose Lugo took in 2010 when they founded Redmond, Wash.
if she were a Hollywood ingénue or fashion model, the tabloids would proclaim her an tgirl,
says the 46-year-old Dube, clad in a designer blazer and bow tie, his sartorial signature. said to our board,
director of content at outsourcing consultancy Alsbridge. hat happening isn that you eliminate a 50-person department,
Kozlov says. hat going to happen if contact centers are run by machines? A lot of jobs are going away.
It once seemed a sort of kooky, tinfoil-hat type of concern. But then I talk to people at the biggest computer science departments in the U s. laces like Google
I think we are very much approaching that. hat Blade runner future may seem more dystopian than utopian to some.
Needle-covered pills aren the only thing up Schoellhammer sleeve. He working on the Ultrasound Probe (uprobe
The water that we use to wash our clothes clean our bodies and stay hydrated is at risk.
particularly in American companies doing business in Europe where theye already taken significant heat over their NSA ties.
I donned a pair of special glasses and picked up a wired stylus to enter a virtual reality was over 25 years ago.
and a 3d display that uses special glasses. HP is also offering Zview software for the sharing of 3d content suitable for use on the Zvr.
Even wearing the glasses, when I stood behind the person seated at the display I didn get any of the 3d effect.
The hydrated aluminum oxide solution produced during the battery normal operation would need to be recycled in some fashion
though, this is yet another notch on the hydrophobic belt on the way toward a cleaner and drier future
#lastic bucklinghoneycomb structures bounce right back from major impacts The concept of impact resistance likely brings to mind vehicle airbags, trampolines, helmets, kneepads,
(and that of others) to apply negative stiffness to ballistics by using nylon (rather than a sponge) as their build material.
he said. ther applications may include smart bracelets and smart headbands. The results and other details regarding the study can be found in the Scientific Reports journal as well as Nature magazine.
the relative humidity experienced by the spores would change rapidly in a cyclical fashion analogous to a primitive mechanical engine.
There a certain amount of guess work involved, though. Doctors have to predict which strains will be most prevalent in the upcoming flu season to formulate the vaccine
#You can now feel virtual reality with new gloves called Gloveone You would have sensed virtual reality through sight
Now, you can touch the virtual objects, thanks to a new pair of gloves. Gloveone, the new green and black gloves from Spain-based tech company Neurodigital Technologies, will let you actually feel sensations like shape
and weight when interacting with virtual objects. The developers claim that the wearers will be able to feel rain and fire,
The gloves also include a 9-Axis inertial measurement unity (IMU) sensor, which can be placed beneath the gloves.
An IMU sensor, often used to manoeuvre aircraft, can record velocity, orientation and gravitational forces using accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetometers.
The company describes the sensation of wearing these gloves as a ealistic perceptual illusion meaning that you can feel the weight of a virtual object the same as it is in real life
and created a Kickstarter page to finance manufacturing the gloves. People can buy the gloves fitted in three sizes.
Each nti-bacterial, sweat-proofpair features a Bluetooth wireless connection and offers more than four hours of battery life.
Now, you can touch the virtual objects, thanks to a new pair of gloves. Gloveone, the new green and black gloves from Spain-based tech company Neurodigital Technologies, will let you actually feel sensations like shape
and weight when interacting with virtual objects. The developers claim that the wearers will be able to feel rain and fire,
The gloves also include a 9-Axis inertial measurement unity (IMU) sensor, which can be placed beneath the gloves.
An IMU sensor, often used to manoeuvre aircraft, can record velocity, orientation and gravitational forces using accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetometers.
The company describes the sensation of wearing these gloves as a ealistic perceptual illusion meaning that you can feel the weight of a virtual object the same as it is in real life
and created a Kickstarter page to finance manufacturing the gloves. People can buy the gloves fitted in three sizes.
Each nti-bacterial, sweat-proofpair features a Bluetooth wireless connection and offers more than four hours of battery life.
The company claims to have tested successfully a new laser that can transmit data at 10 gigabits per second. hat ten times faster than any previous system,
The company claims to have tested successfully a new laser that can transmit data at 10 gigabits per second. hat ten times faster than any previous system,
The company claims to have tested successfully a new laser that can transmit data at 10 gigabits per second. hat ten times faster than any previous system,
The company claims to have tested successfully a new laser that can transmit data at 10 gigabits per second. hat ten times faster than any previous system,
learning by trying and failing. hat wee reporting on here is a new approach to empowering a robot to learn,
and screwing a cap on a water bottle. All of which was accomplished without programming the ot with details about its surroundings. ost robotic applications are controlled in environments where objects are in predictable positions,
a base station that can fit in your back pocket, a controller and a screen, weighs under three pounds.
this ink could be applied to nearly anything, from the world most expensive handbags to rare liquor and even banknotes.
distinguished engineer and director of IBM Watson Life, told Foxnews. com. ood plays such a crucial role in the social and cultural fabric of our society,
Users will be able to handle objects and data in an entirely new fashion. A brain surgeon, for example, could use GHOST to create a virtual version of the brain that he
which was associated to varying beaks in one species. hat we found is essentially two variations of ALX1,
The paper includes line graphs tracking substance use over the past four decades. hat will this look like in a few years?
professor of biomedical surfaces at University of Nottingham. hat we are doing here is paving the way for the manufacture of stem cells in large numbers
Anopheles gambiae, a major malaria vector, is isolated interbreeding with pockets of another malaria mosquito, A. coluzzii. Entomologists initially considered them as the
in this case a breakdown in the reproductive isolation that separates them, Lanzaro says. hat we provide in this new paper is an example of one unusual mechanism that has promoted the rapid evolution of insecticide resistance in one of the major malaria mosquito species
MORE SLIPPERY THAN TEFLON The materials Guo has created are much more slippery than Teflon common hydrophobic material that often coats nonstick frying pans.
Nanowires are extremely thin nanocrystal threads used in the development of new electronic components like transistors and solar cells.
Ph d.,study co-author and the Georgia Power Professor of Polymers, Fibers and Textiles in UGA's college of family and consumer sciences."
This needle is positioned then near a magnet that is fixed atop a spinning circular platter. As the magnet passes by the tip of the needle,
any additional cost is paid out-of-pocket by the patient. U s. payers can be expected to approve higher prices for cancer drugs than the European agencies,
-of-pocket costs. The cancer drug placing lowest on the list of top sellers was Novartisgleevec (imatinib mesylate,#15),
Novartis said. he majority of CML patients in the U s. pay less than $100 out of pocket per month for our CML treatments,
The machine then threads the rings around a nanoscopic chain (an axle) and squeezes them together.
For example, we can put on a pair of socks without being aware of what a complex series of movements we execute with the foot and ankle without any awareness.
#Shopinstantshoe instant-fit shoe system is heading for stores For women, buying the wrong shoes can be about more than just esthetics.
but their uppers will feature a layer of special material glued between the soft inner liner and the leather on the outside.
That middle layer will consist of leather fibers and wires made from Nitinol, the latter of which is a shape-memory nickel/titanium alloy.
and we'd hazard a guess that many guitarists would pick a handmade wooden axe over a new 3d-printed alternative, for example.
#Brain-zapping headwear designed to treat Parkinson's While the device has not yet been clinically trialled on humans,
and threads of metal soldered onto the surface) to exploit a phenomenon known as magnetoresistance to develop a high electric resistance,
#ADAMAAS smart glasses to assist elderly and disabled in everyday tasks We've seen various head-mounted wearables,
That's the niche a pair of smart glasses developed through the"Adaptive and Mobile Action Assistance in Daily Living Activities"(ADAMAAS) project are intended to fill.
The ADAMAAS glasses are designed to determine what the wearer is doing, such as cooking a meal,
Unlike other smart glasses such as Google glass, the ADAMAAS glasses are targeted particularly at elderly and disabled people,
and will ultimately provide directions for basic tasks, like how to bake a cake or brew a pot of coffee,
The group recently received#1. 2 million (US$1. 3 million) in funding from the German Federal Ministry for Education to further development of the glasses. n this project
what they needed to pack an SPR device into pocket-sized package, namely a light detector and light source.
glasses-mounted camera, converted into electrical pulses, and wirelessly transmitted to electrodes implanted onto the surface of the retina.
#Silk-based functional inks put biosensor data on your fingertips Although we've seen"bio-inks"that allow sensors to be drawn directly on a person's skin
Researchers at Tufts University have developed now silk-based inks containing bacteria-sensing agents that can withstand the rigors of inkjet printing,
The breakthrough comes courtesy of a purified silk protein called fibroin which is strong enough to stabilize various types of compounds, such as antibodies, enzymes, nanoparticles, antibiotics and growth factors, by acting as a protective"cocoon"."
if we were able to develop an inkjet-printable silk solution, we would have a universal building block to generate multiple functional printed formats that could lead to a wide variety of applications in which inks remain active over time,
The researchers doped the silk ink base with different bio-compounds to create a set of functional,
inkjet-printable silk inks and tested them. Their creations included: an ink with bacterial-sensing polydiacetylenes (PDAS),
which was used to print the word"contaminated"on surgical gloves. When the gloves were exposed to E coli bacteria,
the word changed from blue to red. a plastic dish imprinted with BMP-2 proteins that stimulate bone growth to control the direction of tissue growth. sodium ampicillin printed on a bacterial culture printed to test the effectiveness of a topographical distribution of the antibiotic
In addition to bio-sensing gloves that could react selectively to different pathological agents, Omenetto says the ability to print antibiotics in topographical patterns would enable"smart"bandages in
For snow and ice, the tire has one more trick up its sleeve in the form of spikes that remain hidden beneath the tread blocks in other conditions.
When Kids Can See the Chalkboard Eye doctor Donates 100,000 Glasses Researchers say if clinical trials start soon,
(and high-priced) Whirlpool washer-and-dryer set are interested probably more in coming home to clothes that aren wrinkled than they are about saving a few dollars a year by shifting their dryer cycle to a time
Former Opponent Touts Nuclear power at Chicago Event Not too long ago, Carol Browner would have sided with the activists clad in white hazmat suits protesting nuclear power outside the City Club's lunch Tuesday in downtown Chicago.
Sharp followed suit at the end of last year by offering a solar-and-storage device that uses Samsung batteries.
like the semisolid materials that 24m forms into anodes and cathodes. hat we do is provide more line of sight paths for the lithium ions to get out of the electrode,
That in contrast to 24m process, in which hat goes into the electrodes is just
ensuring that medications are given in a timely fashion, and it's a great way to leverage technology
They claim it has the ability to provide a level of concurrent supercomputing necessary for supporting exascale computing They add that the concurrent and distributed fashion will address power
#tronger than steelclothes from yeast-engineered silk Bolt Threads, a Bay Area startup, which announced a new $40 million round funding on Thursday,
The company has developed a synthetic, rogrammablealternative to larval-or arachnid-produced silk. Engineered using proteins derived from yeast,
explained in a post on Wednesday. pply those properties to textiles, and you get a fabric with 100 times the strength of reinforced steel but that is as soft and flexible as the most comfortable fabrics.
Bolt has yet to decide if it going to make its own clothes or supply the fabric to third-party apparel companies, or both.
Still, Silicon valley is betting that Bolt silk could supplant petroleum-based textiles such as polyester, Lycra,
and nylon, or even natural but resource-intensive fibers like cotton. With plans to launch high-performance productshink mountain-climbing apparel and other elite athletic wears early as 2016
Bolt isn wasting any time. e are on the verge of a total transformation of consumer apparel that will reach every person on the planet,
Kim and Chau said. y producing silk in the lab, Bolt Threads doesn have to rely on thousands of silkworms, a species struggling due to climate change.
And its production methods give Bolt Threads great flexibility to innovate and be efficient in its use of natural resources.
While other companies have made similar advancements in the past, many stumble in the transition from lab to market,
they added. Bolt, on the other hand is prepared to scale up production to manufacture tens of millions of pounds of fabric.
said Kim and Chau. he achievements of Bolt Threads should encourage entrepreneurs and investors to look beyond their comfort zone of apps and software to support true innovation and science,
or even in clothing to charge gadgets on the go. Image credit: Max Hamedi and Wallenberg Wood Science Center Via IFLSCIENC g
and plied together like yarn or rope, according to the researchers. his technology could be well-suited for rapid commercialization,
and works by changing the makeup of the damaged cells. But since it only converts rather than edits genes,
fishing rods and bike helmets could be just around the corner. The cosmetics firm Lréal has contacted also the team to register its interest in self-healing nail varnish.
The belt-like gadget comes with a joy stick and works by releasing sound waves that bounce-off objects in the user path to show how close things are to them.
He placed a hat on each of their heads, such that each wise man could see all of the other hats,
but none of them could see their own. Each hat was either white or blue.
The king gave his word to the wise men that at least one of them was wearing a blue hat-in other words,
there could be one, two, or three blue hats, but not zero. The king also announced that the contest would be fair to all three men.
The wise men were forbidden also to speak to each other. The king declared that whichever man stood up first and announced the color of his own hat would become his new advisor.'
'Roboticists at the Ransselaer Polytechnic institute adapted it for a trio of robots, two of which were told they had been given a"dumbing pill
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