#Scientists Make Energy-Generating Keyboard That Knows Who#s Typing On it Passwords continue to be a glaring weakness in digital security.
So what about tightening the security screw further by applying a continuous biometric such as a keyboard that knows who typing on it in real-time
and typing style the nonmechanical keyboard is able to generate energy to power itself and self cleans thanks to a dirt repellent coating
The low profile keys have a top electrification layer that allows them to generate charge from typing friction (aka contact electrification) so the keyboard is able to register individual keystroke data
or to harness typing friction to generate electrical charge for powering other devices he keyboard identify the force and speed at which the typer input characters.
The keyboard can identify personality in information input so that it is a high level of securityzhong Lin Wang one of the scientists involved in the research told Techcrunch. he power generated can automatically send signals to the computer
so that no power is needed for the keyboard. n a paper detailing the research project called Personalized Keystroke Dynamics for Self-Powered Humanachine Interfacing published in the ACSNANO journal the scientists argue that algorithms which can identify who is typing by analyzing keystroke timing are limited more than their hardware-based
No external power source is required for the keyboard to function thanks to its self-powering abilities.
So it is evidently a more energy-efficient alternative to tracking typing via capacitive data that could be harvested from typing on a touchscreen keyboard.
How much energy can be generated by typing on the smart keyboard? Enough to charge mall electronics at arbitrary typing speed greater than 100 characters per minaccording to the team
The touch screen can feel people tapping in rhythm to detect inconsistencies that may signal a disease.
coupled with a battery powered Lifi mobile unit attached to a laptop screen, allows users to roam within a room,
Its early deals have largely been in hardware but today it announced PDF plans to put money into games and software by buying 2. 98 percent of Kingsoft for HK$527 million ($68 million).
Its deals to date have circled around hardware including a $200 million investment in appliance maker Midea
With a burgeoning family of hardware and smart home products including an air purifier blood test device smart TV
machine learning prediction engine at the core of their platform, say cofounders Brent Newhouse and Mudit Garg.
More than a dashboard This predictive core they argue sets the product apart from rival software products
One allows developers to parallelize the training of their networks using multiple GPUS simultaneously. Another improvement ensures that training the convolutional neural nets at the center of many deep learning systems can be trained 23 times faster
Farmers are increasingly using drones to monitor crop health and gauge growth patterns. This is a job well-suited to drones,
and hardware that automatically measures the height of crops and detect weeds, and they can even count plants.
and what kind of software and hardware will have to be developed to manage that growth. There are very few companies out there today creating software to make drones safer.
The next version of Applink its system for connecting smartphone apps to its SYNC infotainment system will allow third-party navigation apps to project their maps from the phone onto the built-in screens in its cars.
The company is already working with Alibaba to bring its navigation and music services to its in-vehicle screens.
the USB port needs to be dry. The M4 Aqua will have a starting price of 299 EUR
Zex a mobile ad platform that serves offers to users smartphone via their lock-screens Eventus for creating and analysis social events.
It will charge anything that can be plugged into a USB cable such as your iphone tablet or even a Gopro.
#Hardware Battlefield 2015 The majority of home climate control systems in the world just won work with Nest,
With the company first product launching today at Techcrunch Hardware Battlefield 2015 drones become aware of their surroundings
While demoing in Hardware Battlefield at CES 2015 the drone swiftly moved out of the way of a person walking towards the blades.
is today rolling out a software development kit and new hardware that turn your car into a platform for apps.
so we should have a video review of the new hardware and apps shortly o
Let not forget that at the end of the day Facebook is most definitely an ad network at its core.
Interestingly, the system also allows you to give eye tests by showing increasingly smaller letters and figures on the screen.
The Elgato Eve is a set of connected wireless sensors that monitor key factors like indoor air quality, temperature, humidity as well as conditions outside, like temperature, humidity and air pressure.
Connected thermostat maker ecobee is adding Homekit to its ecobee3 hardware, which is designed for houses that have multiple rooms in need of climate control.
Remote sensors help it monitor temperature in multiple rooms at the same time, letting you save energy and maximize comfort in every area.
The Caséta Smart Bridge is a wireless lighting hub that makes up a core part of the Caséta Wireless Lighting Starter Kit from the company.
It can either be plugged into the Square Stand USB hub, or merchants can charge the reader battery
or plug it into the Square Stand USB hub. The partnership announcement came during Apple WWDC conference keynote,
and customers. he system works with any phone and requires no hardware. The system can also text you a list of Rhombus-enabled businesses. ustomers don have to signup to chat with businesses, it like texting anyone on your contact list.
It a piece of hardware that attaches to an iphone to provide mobile vision exams.
and the dedicated medical wearable unveiled today also monitors and reports information continuously, for better delivery of real-time actionable info to researchers and medical professionals.
This isn Google first move in building medical hardware; Google X is also creating contact lenses that can monitor blood glucose level to help in managing conditions like diabetes.
The competition is also eager to contribute to the medical research community pple has introduced Researchkit,
You calibrate your screen by measuring a credit card and sync your phone as a remote control for your computer over Wi-fi and an SMS confirmation.
look at your computer screen, and answer corresponding visual acuity questions on your phone. How many lines are in a symbol?
Screen Shot 2015-07-27 at 2. 13.15 PM Vision For The Future Until now the only ways to get eye exams were the doctor office,
It also building out a touch screen kiosk that could fit inside physical eyewear stores. Seeing clearly can help people learn,
and are moving towards using the smartphone/tablet hardware and software to perform more advanced functions.
You then need to map your core user requirements so that you understand what information is needed how it should be presented
and are moving towards using the smartphone/tablet hardware and software to perform more advanced functions.
You then need to map your core user requirements so that you understand what information is needed how it should be presented
Yardarm plans to start selling the hardware and tracking service in mid-2015. The next goal is to capture the direction in
It combines a touch screen camera, infrared depth sensors, projector, touch-sensitive whiteboard, and a conventional printer and scanner.
Youe encouraged to hook it up to a 3-D printer, like the one HP launched alongside the Sprout.
All that is supposed to make Sprout into a powerful new tool for designers and other creatives.
you could print the new design out in 3-D. Sprout shows signs of HP history of making PCS and printers,
we have continued to interface with them via monitor, keyboard, and mouse. More recently, tools for making things in the physical world have changed a lot
and 3-D printers. But in neither of these cases do you have the opportunity to take control of the world of physical outputs
The power unit is a rectangular slab about the size of a movie theater screen. It mounted on a thick steel post,
Poynt s terminal is dominated by two touch screens that meet at an angle a seven-inch display that a store employee will use to ring up sales
and there s a built-in receipt printer that will spit out paper from an opening below the customer touch screen.
Merchants could use the screen for ads or store specials when not taking payments Bedier says.
Right now Roost has a working prototype in a plastic box about the size of an external hard drive;
to develop hardware for a new kind of augmented reality hardware. The secretive startup has yet to publicly describe
The filings describe sophisticated display technology that can trick the human visual system better than existing virtual reality displays (such as the Oculus Rift) into perceiving virtual objects as real.
The display technology used in most devices can show only flat, 2-D images. Headsets like the Oculus Rift trick your brain into perceiving depth by showing different images to each eye,
but your eyes are focused always on the flat screen right in front of them. When you look at a real 3-D scene,
They describe displays that can create the same kind of 3-D patterns of light rays, known as ight fields,
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.
A trademark filing from July describes Magic Leap technology as earable computer hardware, namely, an optical display system incorporating a dynamic light-field display.
One of Magic Leap patents describes how such a device, dubbed a WRAP, for aveguide reflector array projector, would operate.
The display would be made up of an array of many small curved mirrors; light would be delivered to that array via optical fiber,
Multiple layers of such tiny mirrors would allow the display to produce the illusion of virtual objects at different distances.
That would allow the mirrors to be reprogrammed using a magnetic field to rapidly display points at different depths fast enough to fool the eye
Magic Leap greatest challenge may be to find a way to seamlessly integrate virtual 3-D objects created by that display with
and eye-tracking cameras on a wearable display to figure out at what depth a person eyes are focused.
running on your head-mounted display, he says. The company is recruiting experts in chip design and fabrication
and building a business becomes less capital-intensiveou don need a printing plant to produce an online news site,
This science he says is critical for designing the hardware and software control systems of bionic devices.
Behind the scenes, a payment processor such as Visa recognizes an encrypted version of your credit card such as the one in an itunes account,
Tibbits then uses a 3-D printer to apply materials that are known to shrink or grow under certain conditions.
or twist in various ways depending on the pattern produced by the printer. He and his colleagues are developing design software that simulates the way different patterns of these materials printed onto different kinds of composite materials will behave under different conditions.
because manufacturers typically use equipment developed for making high-resolution displays, says Michael Boroson, the chief technology officer of OLED Works.
as if the German industrial designer Dieter Rams had created a more social version of Tumblr is probably not causing many people to ditch Facebook
The catalysts built on previous work showing that nickel hydroxide is a promising catalyst, and that adding iron could improve it.
Later this year Brain Corporation will start offering a ready-made circuit board with a smartphone processor
The chip on that board is made by mobile processor company Qualcomm which is an investor in Brain Corporation.
and gets its power from a USB port on a computer. Unlike other commercial sequencing machines
and Tablets with 3-D Vision Are Coming Soon Laptops with 3-D sensors in place of conventional webcams will go on sale before the end of this year according to chip maker Intel
One is designed for use in place of a front-facing webcam to sense human movement such as gestures.
#Manufacturing Advances Mean Truly Flexible Devices Are on the way One of the innovations packed inside the Apple Watchnd highlighted by designer Jony Ive at the company grand unveiling this weeks a flexible display.
however, this doesn mean you can actually bend the screen. As with other devices featuring flexible displays,
such as those from LG and Samsung, the display has been laminated onto a stiff pane, fixing it in place to prevent the damage that would come from repeated flexing.
Even so, the appearance of the first few flexible screens in commercial devices may be a sign of things to Come in fact
fully flexible electronic gadgetsith full-color displays that wrap around a wrist or fold upay be just a few years away,
thanks to solutions that manufacturers have started already to demonstrate. Apple hasn disclosed why the Apple Watch has a flexible display.
It might allow for a slight curve at the edges, and it may also simply be thinner than a conventional one (see he Apple Watch May Solve the Usual Smart Watch Annoyances.
chief marketing officer for Applied materials, a company whose equipment is used to make displays, is also extremely difficult to make a flexible backlighthe component needed to illuminate LCD pixels.
So the screen in the Apple Watch is almost certainly an OLED display. Rather than the pixels being illuminated by a backlight,
Manufacturers can already make OLED displays flexible. They first laminate a sheet of plastic to glass and then deposit the materials for the pixels and the electronics on top of both.
and afterwards the plastic, together with display and electronic components, is lifted off the glass. Manufacturers have known how to do this for years.
so you have to seal the display within robust, high-quality, flexible materials. This is costly, and there are challenges with ensuring that the seal survives being bent hundreds or thousands of times over the lifetime of a device.
The parts within a flexible display also need to survive being bent. This is tricky because different layershe battery
Novel materials for touch screens that use flexible nanomaterials could also help. One patent application suggests Apple is already looking at this issue.
we have flexible displays that are fixed in places in the Apple Watch r
#A Nimble-Wheeled Farm Robot Goes to Work in Minnesota This summer a Minnesota startup began deploying an autonomous robot that rolls between corn plants spraying crop fertilizer.
#Google Launches Effort to Build Its Own Quantum computer Google is about to begin designing and building hardware for a quantum computer a type of machine that can exploit quantum physics to solve problems that would take a conventional computer
Now John Martinis a professor at University of California Santa barbara has joined Google to establish a new quantum hardware lab near the university.
and make the qubits in a different way says Martinis of his effort to improve on D-Wave s hardware.
and that Google S d-Wave computer will be upgraded with a new 1000 qubit processor when it becomes available e
Maimone, a Phd student at the University of North carolina at Chapel hill, is developing a new kind of head-worn display that could make augmented reality hereby digital objects
and place it onto a real world table viewed on a smartphone screen, this just sn very compellingsays Maimone. he experience doesn occur in one own vision,
Maimone device, called a Pinlight Display, does not use conventional optical components. It replaces these with an array of bright dots dubbed pinlights. transparent display panel is placed between the pinlights
so the team has compensated for this by performing some image manipulation in software. ne could think of Pinlight Displays as exploiting how the eye sees an image that is out of focus,
says Maimone. he resulting hardware configuration is very simplehere are no reflective, refractive, or diffractive elementso we do not run into the trade-off between form factor
rather than something that exists only on external screens. There may be other potential benefits to the team approach. ince part of the image formation process takes place in software,
or ordinary glasses, creating a display that looks like ordinary glasses with the addition of an LCD panel.
or USB cable attached to the computer, or even wirelessly with sensitive voltage-detection equipment.
there are likely tens of undiscovered hardware-related side channelsnd we are likely going to hear more from these authors
#A New Chip Could Add Motion Sensing to Clothing A company called mcube has made a new kind of accelerometer, the device that senses motion from inside a smartphone or fitness monitor.
Applied materials one of the world s biggest equipment suppliers for the semiconductor and display industries says it can make these batteries much cheaper.
and the solid electrolyte that separates them in much the way that the many layers of a display are deposited.
#Turning a Regular Smartphone Camera into a 3-D One Microsoft researchers say simple hardware changes
and machine-learning techniques an ordinary smartphone camera or webcam can be used as a 3-D depth camera.
#Super-Fast Pixels Could Make Smartphones Brighter and Longer-Lasting Displays account for between 45 and 70 percent of the total energy consumption in portable electronics.
A new kind of liquid crystal display (LCD) with pixels that switch much more quickly could give smartphones brighter screens
and one green, that illuminate all of the pixels in the display in very rapid successionoo quickly for the eye to perceive.
Technology presented by Light Polymers at the 2014 Emerging Display Technologies conference in San jose this week could allow switching in less than 60 microseconds.
The new designnown as a sequential displayould help LCDS close the energy efficiency gap with another type of display, the OLED.
Marc Mcconnaughey, CEO of Light Polymers, says the company materials are being evaluated by flat-panel display manufacturers.
000 computers with 16 processors apiece (see elf-Taught Software. Although the new Synapse chip has more transistors than most desktop processors,
or any chip IBM has made ever, with over five billion, it consumes strikingly little power.
because they store data and program instructions in a block of memory that separate from the processor that carries out instructions.
As the processor works through its instructions in a linear sequence it has to constantly shuttle information back and forth from the memory store bottleneck that slows things down and wastes energy.
for example by using multiple processors in parallel, or using graphics processors to speed up certain types of calculations.
The new chip ay be a historic development, he says. he very low power consumption and scalability of this architecture are really unique.
uses it in forearm-worn heart-rate monitors). But it also being used for a growing number of ear-worn devices,
including LG Heart rate Monitor Earphone and iriver iriveron Heart rate Monitoring Bluetooth Headset (available to consumers for $180 and $200, respectively) and a pair of earbuds from Intel,
#Cheap and Nearly Unbreakable Sapphire Screens Come into View This fall, rumor has it, Apple will start selling iphones with a sapphire screen that is just about impossible to scratch.
or tablet screen relatively cheaply (see our Next Smartphone Screen May be made of Sapphire. The manufacturing technology
and the screens on some high-end phones that cost as much as $10, 000. But sapphire has been too expensive for widespread use.
A screen made entirely out of sapphire as the forthcoming iphone may be, remains five times as expensive as a regular one,
Smartphone makers have taken long advantage of advances in glass production to make devices with stronger and more durable screens.
The most well-known of these screens is made from Corning Gorilla Glass, which is used in iphones.
The type of memory in question, resistive random access memory (RRAM), is being developed by several companies, but fabrication usually requires high-temperatures or voltages, making production difficult and expensive.
#Prototype Display Lets You Say Goodbye to Reading Glasses Those of us who need glasses to see a TV
or laptop screen clearly could ditch the eyewear thanks to a display technology that corrects vision problems.
The technology uses algorithms to alter an image based on a person glasses prescription together with a light filter set in front of the display.
In addition to making it easier for people with simple vision problems to use all kinds of displays without glasses,
to whose display they had affixed an acrylic slab topped with a plastic screen pierced with thousands of tiny, evenly spaced holes.
Gordon Wetzstein, who coauthored the paper while a research scientist at MIT Media Lab, says the screen allows a regular two-dimensional display to work as what known as a ight field display.
This means the screen controls the way individual light rays emanate from the display, leading to a sharper image without degrading contrast.
Wetzstein says the next step is to build prototype displays that people can use in the real worldomething he expects could take a few years.
when we look at a display that doesn look right, we tend to naturally move around to improve the focus.
if researchers used a display with a high enough resolutionbout double the 326 pixels per inch of the ipod Touch used in the paperhe technology could be made to be used by more than one person at once t
One way is by using mobile technology to monitor sleep patterns, heart rate, activity levels, and so on.
rechargeable batteries that can be printed cheaply on commonly used industrial screen printers. Imprint Energy, of Alameda, California, has been testing its ultrathin zinc-polymer batteries in wrist-worn devices
where she collaborated with a researcher in Japan to produce microscopic zinc batteries using a 3-D printer.
and one is displays, says Steven Holmes, vice president of the New Devices Group and general manager of the Smart Device Innovation team at Intel.
The price of hard disk capacity per megabyte plummeted from $700 in 1981 to two-tenths of a cent in 2010.
monitors people known to be innocent and builds dossiers on everyone based on their Internet activity.
#How An Intelligent Thimble Could Replace the Mouse In 3d Virtual reality Worlds The way in
which humans interact with computers has been dominated by the mouse since it was invented in the 1960s by Doug Engelbert.
A mouse uses a flat two-dimensional surface as a proxy for a computer screen. Any movements of the mouse over the surface are translated then into movements on the screen.
These days a mouse also has a number of buttons and often scroll wheel that allow interaction with on-screen objects.
The mouse is a hugely useful device but it is also a two-dimensional one. But what of the three-dimensional world and the longstanding but growing promise of virtual reality.
What kind of device will take the place of the mouse when we begin to interact in three-dimensions?
Today we get to see one idea developed at the University of Wyoming in Laramie by Anh Nguyen and Amy Banic.
These guys have created an intelligent thimble that can sense its position accurately in three-dimensions
It s been possible to buy a computer mouse for some time that senses its position in three dimensions.
and translate them onto 2-D screen. The problem here is that these devices are locked to a particular technology
In addition the 3dtouch has an optical flow sensor that measures the movement of the device against a two-dimensional surface exactly like that inside an ordinary mouse.
A Wearable 3d Input device With An Optical Sensor And A 9-DOF Inertial Measurement Uni U
Given the boom in fitness monitors and other wearable gadgets tethered wirelessly to smartphones, the technology could also allow confirmation that data streaming from the device is coming from the right person,
Those tools range from cloud simulation platforms for theoretical work to new types of electronics for use in the super-cooled temperatures of quantum hardware experiments.
After three years analyzing faces seen on webcams, Affectiva database now holds more than a billion facial expressions
He does so by implanting electrodes into their brains to monitor neural activity. Now, as part of a sweeping $70 million program funded by the U s. military,
Video screens in both cabs show the drivers views of blind spots around the two vehicles.
The technology is called a haptic stylus gadget connected to mechanical apparatus that gives force-feedback sensations to let artists eelwhat theye doing as they sculpt a 3-D image on the screen
Haptic styluses and similar hardware have been used for years for niche applications and for high-end 3-D design and medical trainingor example,
technologies that add physical sensations a common feature in products like computer mouses that vibrate and game joysticks that shake,
and even touch screens that vibrate, making you feel like there a sharp edge on a flat surface.
and printing for a variety of applications (see hat Yoda Taught Me About 3-D Printingand he Difference Between Makers and Manufacturers. 3d Systems,
for example, makes many 3-D printers and recently launched a sub-$1, 000 home model called Cube and a $400 handheld scanner that can, in a couple of minutes, generate a realistic 3-D drawing of a human head that as good as the ones produced by existing stationary systems
or a facial feature that you really can get just using a regular mouse. As a practical matter, it will also offer museum restoration artists
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