#Microsoft granted patent for glasses that detect wearer's emotions Put this one in the WTF file.
The United states Patent and Trademark Office granted Microsoft a patent today for a pair of glasses that can detect a wearer emotional response to what theye looking at.
If the wearer is looking at a person through the glasses, the emotional state of that person can be detected,
say, and the glasses detect that audience members look bored, the specs my suggest a joke for the speaker to insert into the speech
Stratos will also have to contend with digital wallets like Google Wallet Apple Passbook, and Paypal,
The idea is connected that one credit card is easier to manage and safer than a wallet full of credit cards.
he says. hat worried us because investing historically has been one of the best ways to make money over the long-term.
#Beyond food, beyond fashion: Turkey's journey towards a new startup culture While far from the levels of Greece, Spain,
"Over the last three years, we've been excited very to see many'white collar'entrepreneurs,
recently, celebrity-endorsed fashion shopping site Lydiana. com now serves over 90,000 customers per day,
"That involves spinning up the VMS, deploying the software, configuring all the nodes-a ton of work going in there.
This material--just a single layer of atoms--could be made as a wearable device perhaps integrated into clothing to convert energy from your body movement to electricity
and power wearable sensors or medical devices or perhaps supply enough energy to charge your cell phone in your pocket says James Hone professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia and co-leader of the research.
Scientists studying the source of chronic abdominal and pelvic floor pain found an unexpected connection in the brain between the pelvic floor--the muscle responsible for among other things keeping you from peeing your pants--and various muscles throughout the body.
Earth's radiation belts are regions in near-Earth space that contain vast quantities of solar energetic electrons trapped there by Earth's magnetic field.
If the bottleneck is large the genetic makeup of the mother's mitochondria will be passed to her children Makova explained.
--if there is a severe decrease in mitochondrial molecules during the egg-cell development--then the genetic makeup of the child might differ dramatically from that of the mother.
They are made of special glasses containing up to 50 percent by weight of lead oxide which can be dangerous to one's health.
To decorate the bottles manufacturers grind these special glasses together with inorganic pigments print them as pastes on the base glass and melt them on.
In a further step they are working to produce glasses with a processing temperature of only 540 degrees Celsius.
If the glasses are heated they expand at different rates--experts speak here of the thermal expansion coefficients (TEC) for the respective Glass in order for the imprints to not flake off they have to expand similar to the glass on
On behalf of the Forschungsgemeinschaft Technik und Glas e. V. FTG the Fraunhofer researchers are developing a catalog of all the developed low-melting glasses and their properties.
The researchers believe that finding new targets in the gastrointestinal tract could lead to new therapies for many more diseases. hat one of the fun things in scienceow we get to follow up on these different avenues,
are Audrey S. Black and David J. Bonnet of TSRI
#The dwindling stock of antibiotics, and what to do about it Michael Kinch Phd associate vice chancellor and director of the Center for Research Innovation in Business is among that number.
Cotton balls give him goose bumps. Now, blindfolded during an experiment, he feels his arm hairs rise
when a researcher brushes the back of his prosthetic hand with a cotton ball. Spetic, of course, can't feel the ball.
"I knew immediately it was said cotton, "he. That's one of several types of sensation Spetic, of Madison, Ohio, can feel with the prosthetic system being developed by Case Western Reserve University and the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical center.
The app's minimal processing footprint means it could also run on smart watches or in augmented-reality glasses.
Secondly the polymers help to form sticky biofilms which can trap the T. gondii egg cells and coat kelp on which marine snails graze.
By contrast a remotely created 3d image of a footprint can nondestructively reveal more details than a photograph such as exact measurements of shoe tread.
The tread may show individual wear marks from a bicycle pedal for example a type of detail that could link a specific shoe to a crime scene.
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and the prey species the Bythotrephes eats have developed devices to protect themselves like helmets and spines.
Vuletic says. hat is new in our system is, for the first time on the atomic scale, we can see this transition from friction to superlubricity. uletic,
and so on. hat we can do is adjust at will the distance between the atoms to either be matched to the optical lattice for maximum friction,
said graduate student and co-author Jim Cybulski. hat lends itself very well to a variety of applications.
she says. hat true in India and that also true in the U s. ource: Julia Sklar, MIT Newsimage:
which optical signals can be sent through optical fibers, breaking key barriers that limit the distance information can travel in fiber optic cables
#Niobium Nanowire Yarns Make High-performance Supercapacitors Using yarns made from niobium nanowire, researchers at MIT have developed a new approach to making supercapacitors.
The new approach uses yarns, made from nanowires of the element niobium, as the electrodes in tiny supercapacitors (which are essentially pairs of electrically conducting fibers with an insulator between).
but the niobium yarns are stronger and 100 times more conductive. Overall, niobium-based supercapacitors can store up to five times as much power in a given volume as carbon nanotube versions.
and could be woven into fabrics, enabling wearable forms; individual niobium nanowires are just 140 nanometers in diameter 140 billionths of a meter across,
the researchers say. he work is very significant in the development of smart fabrics and future wearable technologies, says Geoff Spinks, a professor of engineering at the University of Wollongong, in Australia,
and keeping positive and negative charges separated, Tolbert said. hat separation is the key to making the process so efficient.
The study also suggests the broader potential for adapting nanoscale drug-delivery techniques developed for use in environmental remediation. hat we can apply some of the highly sophisticated,
which allows people to store digital wallets securely on their mobile devices. Credit card and other payment information can be stored in the digital wallet
allowing people to pay without needing to swipe or manually enter their credit card information. Reducing lines through convenience There is no doubt that contactless cards are fast.
and features such as discussion threads that keep related topics together have helped a great deal with organization--but that's really only pertinent for your individual inbox.
So with some success under his belt and new innovations in the world of Docstoc,
A site where people can rent designer dresses, gowns and clothing for events, rather than buy them outright.
A platform for sharing outgrown children's clothing. Airbandb: An inventory of apartments and rooms that travelers can rent as an alternative to hotels s
a patent-pending technology that uses a growing organism and byproducts from food production (oat hulls from New york, cotton hulls from Texas and rice hulls from Arkansas) to create a strong composite material.
CELP can reduce the data rate of voice signals by about a factor of 10. hat coding did a good job on speech
#Knitted Supercapacitors to Power Smart Shirts Researchers from Drexel University in collaboration with the U s. Naval academy, have invented a way to embed activated carbon particles into different types of yarn to form a knitted textile that can store
and electronics integrated into smart clothing. Smart fabrics, which incorporate different types of sensors into garments, have been in development for decades.
However, only in recent years have started we seeing the first consumer smart garments reaching the market,
including biometric smartwear that can monitor an athlete's health (like the ones made by Hexoskin,
and well being (such as the Somnus Sleep Shirt developed to monitor both the quality and quantity of your sleep).
the smart garment sector will grow from around 100,000 units sold worldwide in 2014 to a whooping 26 million units predicted for 2016.
Creating a flexible energy storage that can be integrated into the fabric has been the goal of several research groups around the world.
and carbon nanotubes that could be woven into clothing. At the time these fibers were said to obtain the highest volumetric energy density reported for carbon-based microscale supercapacitors (6. 3 microwatt-hours per cubic millimeter,
Trying to create a textile that can store energy without the use of exotic, expensive materials,
using an area of about 3000 cm2 (about the size of the center back panel of a shirt) it is possible to store the equivalent energy of a 4 cm2,
into a cellulose-based yarn made from cotton, linen, bamboo, or viscosell of which have been tested electrochemically by Drexel team at the A j. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute,
and when the yarn was swelled partially, pressure was applied to it in order to embed the carbon into the fiber surface.
Finally, the yarn was spooled and rinsed with water, which helped remove the ionic liquid and re-solidify the cellulose.
Durkin was able to develop a small NFW machine to continuously create tens of meters of yarn at a time."
Although we will probably not be using energy storage textiles to power our smartphones any time soon due to the low energy density of the current technology,
because she noticed the growing number of e textiles on the market that incorporated knitted components,
but they all had attached solid battery packs to the shirt, rather than incorporating an energy storing fabric.
under his sleeve; it beams data to the screen of a pager-size reader. He uses the information to help decide what to eat
making it possible for patients to administer insulin to themselves in a continuous fashion, rather than through frequent injections.
and your guess is as good as mine as to what those tasks are going to be. hole-Body Pushing Manipulation With Contact Posture Planning of Large and Heavy Object for Humanoid Robot, by Masaki Murooka, Shunichi Nozawa, Yohei Kakiuchi, Kei Okada,
or Internet to watch television, he says. hat means these TV broadcasters are wasting spectrum.
The researchers have also been able to add a thin coat of rubber to the sheath-core fibers
Other companies in the ALP sector are following suit, like Dev Bootcamp Localhost, which recently launched.
Regardless of who else throws their hat in the ring it looks likely at this stage that Apple Pay will be the prime mover in terms of mobile payments industry growth over the next few years s
which was code-named roject Goliathin email threads. As detailed by The Verge lawyers from the MPAA and half a dozen major studios refer to oliathas their biggest enemy in their battle with online piracy,
For example, if Apple decides to throw its hat in the virtual reality ring, it will have to do on its own what the united front of Samsung (in other words, Google android OS), Oculus Rift (in other words, Facebook),
my final tie to cable TV has been severed as well. I moved to a new house this week
because it ties into Google s efforts to get more Indian users onto its services.
The Fueloyal Is A Smart Fuel Cap For Truckers Breaker breaker 10-4 good buddy.
Customers can use bitcoin to load money into a Microsoft wallet or to create digital gift cards,
And now Sidecar a perhaps lesser mentioned competitor in the taxis-that-aren-actuallyaxis arena that wee come to call idesharingfollows suit.
Uncovering pockets of energy waste requires appointing personnel familiar with the scheme; the only other option is to outsource,
Namely the way the enterprise and team messaging app ties into a growing list of third-party services in a way that significantly reduces the time it takes to look up link to and reference external information such as a document calendar entry or code repository update.#
#Fashion And Tech Companies Merge Online And Offline Sales Editor Note: Stephanie Chan is a freelancer who writes for Renegade
and the web. in November, fashion and tech entrepreneurs and experts gathered at the Decoded Fashion New york Summit to discuss integrating technology,
and the advantages of integrating technology with fashion in their new store. e began over a year ago to think about what we wanted our result to be,
and items like designer-specified recommendations based on her selections. f youe looking at a leather jacket,
and Rebecca wants you to have a certain handbag with that or a certain pair of leather pants,
lingerie and adidas lines through a large touch screen display on the shop floor. It goes beyond just the boutique scene:
which range from 350 to 950 points through Alipay Wallet a mobile wallet app or shopping sites that accept Sesame Credit scores.
we wouldn be wearing the clothes we have today. Henry ford led the second Industrial revolution in the 20th century with large assembly-line factories being built on a mass economy of scale.
and publishing the demands it receives in a timely fashion. That could go a long way to convincing people it only censors
rather than using guess work. The reason why wee seeing more talk about the Internet of things is the diminishing size
However when Greatfire. org reproduced the same result via the Firefox web browser the message the browser offers is far more detailed saying also that the error could means hat someone is trying to impersonate the site
or dates of birth. hat was a very conscious decision we made. From an operations perspective that information isn really needed
The content stays entirely within your personal or work Facebook. hat not there/integrations. You can share documents today
But now there the Sony Xperia M4 Aqua, an Android smartphone that waterproof without those annoying caps.
Slickr, a fashion social network. Swipentap. com a POS ipad app. Integreight which develops novel products for the electronic hobbyist and education market.
but be a useful way specifically to improve Square apps like Wallet (o for us it means that people are protecting their phone in better wayshe said at the time. nd
That means mobile wallets like Square Wallet are protected naturally with a very human interaction. The fact that Wallet is no more
and Apple itself has used the Touch ID for its own payment ambitions speaks to how Square which reportedly shelved plans last year for an IPO has perhaps been needing to rethink
and is expected to ship to backers in the second quarter could revolutionize the way people track the makeup of the food
or out-of-hours access. hat means there a real opportunity for Rentecarlo to tap into an established market without cannibalising existing players.
While Facebook could make an educated guess, it can answer that question with certainty. However, in a world where Facebook could combine financial transactions and social graphs,
By bringing the tools of an ophthalmology office into your pocket and offering a very simple and inexpensive way to take great pictures inside the eye doctors can visit locations in need
but it doing so in grand fashion, with a practical lineup to get your home connected to your ios ecosystem in an essential way.
says Zhou. hat really had a lot of appeal to us. ndeed, in the US alone less than half of the 200 million people who wear corrective eyewear visit the eye doctor as often as they should.
Lexus is the latest to throw its hat into the ring, posting a teaser for its own hoverboard technology with at the promise of a long,
I note that I into music and fashion related categories. You then browse reams of products that each show their typical retail price.
#Opternative Online Eye Exam Gets You A Glasses Prescription From Home The annoyance of going to the doctor keeps tons of people from finding out
if they need glasses or updating their prescription. But it turns out you don need one of those giant multi-lens machines to do an eye exam.
and send you back a prescription you can use to get glasses or contacts anywhere,
or a meatspace brick-and-mortar glasses shop. Opternative is now the only approved online eye exam.
For some tests, youl give your shoe size and be told to walk a certain number of heel-to-toe steps away from your computer before answering.
and send back an approved prescription for glasses or contacts. It $60 for both. One caveat:
you can only get an immediate prescription for glasses. If youe updating a prescription and submit your old one,
so if a glasses site potential customers haven been to an eye doctor lately, they can get the right specs.
A white-label digital wallet maker, Paydiant was known best for being the payments startup behind the mobile wallet from the merchant-owned network MCX,
and combine it with their knowledge of television radio billboard and print campaigns to tailor marketing messages and ultimately improve return on investment (ROI).
hat we saw is a way to get to very low costs of electricity. The plan had been for Siemens
#A Credit card Terminal That Takes Apps Last year Osama Bedier then the head of Google Wallet decided he was on the wrong side of the payments business.
Google s digital payment app Google Wallet offers consumers a number of payment-related features including a quick way to pay at stores by tapping a phone that contains a near-field
Although adoption of Google Wallet has been slow NFC technology is gaining in popularity and that is likely to accelerate with the introduction of a similar system from Apple called Apple Pay (see With Apple Pay Forget Cash Just Pull out Your Phone).
It accepts payments via NFC (used by services such as Google Wallet and Apple s new Apple Pay) and QR code.
Earlier this year, Wetzstein and colleagues used that technique to create a display that allows text to be read clearly by people not wearing their usual corrective lenses (see rototype Display Lets You Say Goodbye to Reading Glasses.
He previously worked on glasses-free 3-D displays based on similar methods. And last year, researchers at chip company Nvidia demonstrated a basic wearable display based on light fields.
an education corporation in Moffett Field with ties to the elites in Silicon valley. t like what you see in India,
we need improved corporate governance and oversight to more closely tie compensation to executive productivity.
His thesis project involved the unusual idea of developing an elastic suit to make vertical climbing easier:
and imagine an Iron man style suit. But he recently worked with Herr on a far more minimalistic approach focusing solely on providing mechanical power to the ankle to reduce the energy it needs for walking.
Their prototype a hiking boot attached to a brace on the lower leg and powered by a wearable battery pack is the first exoskeleton that can actually lower the metabolic costs of walking as demonstrated in a study published this May in the Journal of Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation.
Today he sometimes wears trousers cut off at the knees making his prostheses visible. Herr has never been concerned with appearing to have normal legs;
she says. hat said, I did go into it wanting to know a few specific things: if I had a high risk or genetic predisposition toward heart disease, diabetes, or Alzheimer.
Lennon says the site was modeled on Wikipedia. hat was the promise of the genome, that it should be for everybody,
#Can Apple Pay Do to Your Wallet What itunes Did for Music? The point-of-sale terminal at the CVS drugstore in Palo alto, California, can accept payments through a quick tap from a smartphone.
Out comes the leather wallet. Over the past decade, tech companies including Google, ebay Paypal,
and various retailers, have proclaimed all the eath of the wallet. The promise: their digital wallet equivalents would make paying for things in physical stores much easier.
Instead, they ran into countless technical glitches, resistance from merchants, banks, and phone carriers, and consumer indifference.
Irvine. ll of these mobile wallets are looking for a problem to solve. That was jumped before Apple into the market with Apple Pay in a bid to take mobile payments mainstream.
Standing in front of a photo of an overstuffed billfold, Apple CEO Tim cook unveiled its mobile wallet at a September 9 event where he also debuted new iphones and the Apple Watch.
That is indeed an easier process than the other digital wallets, which require unlocking the phone,
making mobile wallets appeal to the masses, starting with its influential army of iphone users. obile payment is finally hitting that pivotal moment
says Matthew de Ganon, senior vice president of product and commerce for Softcard, a rival mobile wallet joint venture of T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon.
Though Google Wallet and others have used tokens, Apple Pay will deploy them more widely. Notwithstanding Apple own recent icloud breach that exposed nude celebrity photos
which provides mobile wallet services to banks, retailers, and mobile operators. Improved security is even more important to banks
which are part of the Merchant Customer Exchange consortium pushing its own wallet app, say they won accept Apple Pay.
The Softcard mobile wallet joint venture of T-Mobile AT&T, and Verizon is touting its support of more than 80 Android phones
and Google continue to push their wallet apps as well. Individual retailers which have persuaded customers to use their own apps have no intention of replacing them with Apple Pay.
Some result in carbon composites that are floppy like a cotton sheet. Others are springy like a sheet of metal.
The Mayor s Office began with a list of 25 seed items that it asked people to compare in pairwise fashion
While both he and Deamer have extensive financial ties to Oxford they say it s obvious to everyone that the Minion is just the start.
#Motorized Pants to Help Soldiers and Stroke Victims A soft exoskeleton being developed by researchers at Harvard could let soldiers carry heavy backpacks over long distances or help stroke victims walk more steadily.
It looks like a climbing safety harness made of nylon mesh and spandex combined with cables that snake down the wearer s legs.
Unlike some other exoskeletons it could not help paralyzed people walk (see Stand Alone. But people with muscle weakness such as those who have suffered strokes could use it to walk more easily
The machine is designed to fit easily under clothes and novel soft sensors made of silicone rubber are integrated into the suit.
The sensors developed at another lab at Harvard include embedded channels filled with a conductive liquid that changes in resistivity as the silicone is stretched.
One developed with a startup called Volumental lets you snap a 3-D photo of your foot to get an accurate shoe size measurement something that could help with online shopping.
and Climate at the University of Minnesota, who has no ties to the startup, says the robot is great additional tool to put in the nutrient management technology toolkit.
You can use an ipad to tap between different realistic-looking fabric options that change via an overhead projector.
Vizera also digitizes upholstery options by scanning materials like fabric and leather in a way that aims to keep the colors,
textures, and patterns as consistent as possible with the actual swatches. The company then uses the 3-D model to simulate upholstering the couch with the digitized fabric,
and from that it calculates the depth and scale details of the image that the projector will shine onto the actual piece of furniture in the store.
Elnaz Davoudi, a design consultant at Cre8 a Couch, says having Vizera in the store makes it easier for them to visualize how the fabrics theye considering will look on a real couch.
Conventional augmented reality glasses use lenses, beam splitters, waveguides, reflectors, and other optics to relay an image to the eye,
however, and the resulting glasses usually have limited a field of view. Together with three other researchers from the University of North carolina and two from Nvidia Research
and field of view that has been encountered in past glasses designs. The benefits of the approach over previous devices are significant.
While state-of-the-art commercial augmented reality glasses have a field of view of 40°or less early Pinlight prototypes have demonstrated fields of view of 100°or more.
I love to have all of things happen effortlessly in my glasses and when they do,
or ordinary glasses, creating a display that looks like ordinary glasses with the addition of an LCD panel.
The prototype suffers from low resolution and image quality, far below the level of existing commercial augmented reality glasses.
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