#BMW VW join forces to build fast-charging stations for electric cars in US German car companies, BMW and Volkswagen are teaming up with Chargepoint to install a network of fast-charging stations for electric cars in the U s. The companies plan to install nearly 100 Chargepoint ports on the U s. East
and West Coasts by the end of 2015 as part of an effort to promote greater sales of EVS such as the BMW i3 and the VW e-Golf.
#Roll to roll manufactured decorative solar panels to be 10 times cheaper Based on printing technologies, VTT Technical Centre of Finland has developed
VTT is also studying the feasibility of printing technology in the mass production of solar panels made from inorganic perovskite materials.
and screen printing technologies is only around 0. 2 mm thick, and includes the electrodes
VTT is also currently examining how well the roll-to-roll printing methods are suited to the manufacturing of inorganic solar panels made from perovskite materials.
The research scientists have tested the feasibility of the method by printing leaf-shaped photovoltaic cells. Active surface of a one leaf is 0 0144 m2
The solar panels are manufactured with printing machines based on conventional printing methods using the roll-to-roll method,
The company has been marketing a ell phone spy softwaredevice sold for £99. 99 with the ability o monitor SMS text messages,
Delaware, 66 percent of jobs were located in the core city in 1940. By 1970, its share had fallen below one in four.
But in large, the boom in core city employment hasn materialized. The result of this mismatch between urban living
it mainly used for more day-to-day purposes like simulating the feel of a tactile keyboard on a smartphone
But it also raises questions that go to the core of a college mission: Is it possible to learn as much
It has infrared two monitors mounted on the trunk that record any numbers it sees##such as license plates and addresses.
and microprocessors that monitors the body s internal changes and alters the flow of blood as needed.
#3d printed eye cells could one day cure blindness Researchers have printed actually viable retina cells using an inkjet printer.
and cuts and scrapes aren t the only maladies that medical 3d printing can help cure.
##At the University of Cambridge, researchers have pulled off something of a 3d printing coup. Using lab rats,
using an inkjet printer, of all things. The printer was able to first print a layer of retinal ganglion cells and then a layer of glial cells on top of them,
all while keeping the tiny structures vital. In doing so, the Cambridge research team was able to prove that eyes
but eventually professor Martin and his team believe that their process will be capable of 3d printing#retinal#grafts tailored for individual patients.
Cells used in this sort of medical 3d printing will be grown to perfectly match those of the patient prior to surgery.
The keyboard has hotkeys that can play different sound clips that were recorded by a perfect English speaker.
It opens with these words flashing on the screen:####Level Up. Step up. Stand out. Work with the pros
what was on the screen. My manager, whose name was asked Jim that we call him Jimbo,
However, experts suggest it may make use of ultrasound to create tiny vibrations on the screen
But its role will be reduced to that of a language for displaying content on screens, which are likely to be more ubiquitous but less necessary.
Right now#companies like Estimote#are#pitching to retailers#the hardware##beacons##that broadcast the signal required to make ibeacon work.
That Apple has made ibeacon open enough to work with third-party hardware providers like Estimote shows that Apple wants the standard to spread.
Anticipatory computing and the end of interfaces Objects on our bodies (health monitors, smart glasses) and in our homes and businesses (smart thermostats, lights, appliances and security systems) can all be programmed to interact in complicated and unexpected ways
but I d guess from our conversations that it s more likely to look like a wristband fitness monitor than another cell Phone in other words,
#A solar-powered 3d printer that prints glass from sand Marcus Kayser s Solar Sinter project When Markus Kayser, a design student,
sand-fed 3-D printer, he knew the gray skies outside his London apartment wouldn t do.
##The idea for the printer first came to Kayser a few months earlier. He wanted to find a project in which the sun did more than just power a device.
Markus Kayser s homebuilt 3-D printer created this glass bowl out of heated sand from the Sahara For the printer to work efficiently
the printer uses the concentrated beam of sunlight to slowly trace an object into the sandbox layer by layer.
The printer s motors the electronics, cameras and a laptop all run on batteries charged by the solar panels PRINTING Kayser first designs the object he wants to print in a CAD program.
His computer sends instructions to the printer, which works from the bottom up. After a layer has cooled into glass,
he adds more sand to the sandbox in the center of the machine and flattens it out,
and the printer begins heating the next layer. Kayser s first major piece, a bowl, took about four and a half hours to print.
keep the printer powered . since the panels are attached to the same arms as the lens,
a transparent display specialist and military head up screen supplier, is wading into the wearable computing market, revealing a new#developer#kit that, unlike#Google s Glass, offers full augmented reality support.
but where Google s headset has a small display-block suspended in the corner, the entire right lens of the Lumus wearable is in fact a 640 x 480 display.
That means developers building apps for the Android-powered headset can overlay graphics directly on top of the real-world view
but it has some history in#wearable#displays. The company developed a patented##Light-guide Optical Element##(LOE) in effect a tiny projector that projects onto a special lens
including the helmet displays the US Air force has deployed in the F-16 and A-10. The company s consumer plans have been a little later to the game,
Whereas the last Lumus prototype we saw#the OE-31 wearable display back in March 2012#was somewhat geeky in its appearance,
The VGA-resolution display with 25-degree field of view is integrated into the right lens, while the block section on the side accommodates the 5-megapixel camera,#
#processor, battery, and sensors. Android runs on an OMAP processor Lumus isn t saying which one specifically
and there s a motion sensor with 9 degrees-of-freedom to do precise head tracking, important when you want to exactly match what s on-screen with what s in front of the wearer.
Lumus is billing the DK-40 as completely wire-free, though not commenting on battery life expectations as yet.
It s not the first lens-as-display wearable we ve seen in recent months,
that has two transparent screens, one for each eye, unlike the single-display Lumus. Unfortunately, while Lumus intends to start shipping the DK-40 monocular dev kit at the end of Q1 2014,
The end-goal is still to sell the displays to other companies who will put them into their own consumer products,
decorated with Star wars and Pac-Man murals and lines of code running off wall-mounted screens that show the hacking taking place live.
##With face-reading software, a computer s webcam might spot the confused expression of an online student
and#Emotient, based in San diego. Affectiva used webcams over two and a half years to accumulate
as long as people agreed in advance to have webcams watch and analyze the emotions reflected in their faces.##
The battery charges via mini USB and lasts for 10 minutes of continuous flight. The app itself gives you a pilot s view, complete with a range indicator, a thrust level indicator,
#Will 3d printing bring space-based solar power to reality? Spiderfab 3-D robotic printer Since the 1970##s, space-based solar power has been a futuristic fantasy
but the advent of 21st#century 3-D printing may bring it a step closer to reality.
Video)##The overall vision is to create a satellite chrysalis with compact, durable software DNA assembly instructions,
Inc. TUI has won two rounds of funding for its Spiderfab 3-D robotic printer from the#NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts#(NIAC) program.
##3-D printing and robotic construction of components on-orbit would allow a smaller, less expensive launch rocket that will##improve performance per cost by orders of magnitude,
Once#in space, TUI s Trusselator, the first step in the Spiderfab architecture, would use 3-D printing techniques
First, the 3-D printer would build a carbon fiber truss structure that would act as a frame for the system.
With the reductions in volume and mass promised by 3-D printing, those launch costs could be reduced significantly,
##and Lobbyists who protect#other energy sources subsidies#who would be##out of their jobs###The term 3-D printing has become a catch-all for a number of purposes
which models what humans can see using hardware and software, but the researchers hope that NEIL can bring extra analysis to the data.##
and is being run on two clusters of computers that include 200 processing cores. The team plans to let NEIL run indefinitely.
They plan on doing that with 3-D printing.####The company has inked a deal#with 3d Systems, a global 3-D printing manufacturing company,
to help produce parts of the phone. Assuming the projectstill officially in developmenttakes off, 3d Systems would be#a##multi-year###production partner, making smartphone##enclosures and modules##for the Google-owned phone company.
as if it was ink in ordinary, everyday desktop printers, and will adhere to surfaces as diverse and supple as rubber, paper, cotton T-shirts,
A $1000 3d printer that prints metal http://www. vimeo. com/78961565 The Mini Metal Maker prints 3d objects from digital files directly in precious metal clay, rather than in plastic.#
or printing detailed jewelry or metal ornaments. The Mini Metal Maker is built around the concept of using the minimum number of parts
so that it can be printed easily on low cost printers such as the Makerbot and Reprap.**Refine custom firmware for the printer to further optimize printing for clay.*
*Create the Mini Metal Forge software environment in order to foster a good user experience, particularly for the nontechnical craftsperson.*
A small display and a fancy magnetic strip let you choose from a range of your cards and memberships before paying.
and the small display shows you what you have selected with a nickname, the last four digits of the card,
and added urgency to#Beijing s efforts to use its market power to create indigenous software and hardware capabilities,
Four domestic software and hardware makers, including#China National Software & Service Co.,announced this month they have received a##top-tier##rating from the#Ministry of Industry and Information technology.
Thanks to the power and versatility of 3d textile#printing, the Tamicare company has created a biodegradable
He cofounded Meetup. com, tried his hand at a hardware company, and spent time at online ad agency i-traffic in the late 90s.
##But there s this core market of people who are obsessed with their dogs, treat them like children,
that itself is going to be a lot of hardware, software and thousands of tech jobs. Country vs Citizens The NSA collectes metadata on all phone calls in the country who called whom,
desktop 3d printing technology, so hobbyists won t yet be capable of replicating this sort of weapon at home.
since the folks at Solid Concepts have fired already successfully their handgun 50 times without it failing. 3d printers capable of printing metal are#on the rise,
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#Since monitoring emails and phone calls wasn t enough, NSA now plans to watch you with super tiny drones Black Hornet Flying insects have one huge advantage over humans:
#For now, it is focusing on synthetic meat made with 3d printers.####Artificial food seems to have a particular attraction for young tech barons,
#The 3d printer that can print a 2, 500 square foot house in 20 hours Contour crafting.
There have been huge advancements in 3d printing.##We have seen 3d printed oversized wrenches that measure 1. 2 meters in length.
using 3d printers to build an entire house in 20 hours. In manufacturing we use a process called CAD/CAM (computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing.
and then manufactured using CNC Machines or 3d printers. The design is manufactured into a physical object automatically, with instruction from 3d computer model to physical object without human interface.
The size of the 3d printer is large enough to construct walls by depositing concrete based material layer upon layer to build a Wall in this video,
Included in the package were hundreds of pages of detailed development instructions, two years of emails with Lockheed and some hardware##but no rock.##
And please remember that new investments like this are very small by comparison to our core business.
expect it to use its core data-handling skills to shed new light on familiar age-related maladies.
And please remember that new investments like this are very small by comparison to our core business.
#Vision-correcting electronic display could free users from eyeglasses The idea is to anticipate how your eyes will naturally distort whatever's on screen.
The technology uses algorithms to alter an image based on a person's 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
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 s Media Lab, says the screen allows a regular two-dimensional display to work as
what's known as alight field display. This means the screen controls the way individual light rays emanate from the display, leading to a sharper image without degrading contrast.
The researchers tested out their device by using a Canon DSLR camera with the focus set to simulate vision problems like farsightedness.
Wetzstein says the next step is to build prototype displays that people can use in the real world something he expects could take a few years.
when we look at a display that doesn t look right, we tend to naturally move around to improve the focus.
says that if researchers used a display with a high enough resolution about double the 326 pixels per inch of the ipod Touch used in the paper the technology could be made to be used by more than one person at once.
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Touchscreen interfaces are common. Dashboard designers take UI tips from iphones, and#automakers want to build apps for cars.
#Home depot starts selling Makerbot 3d printers 3d printed nuts and bolts from a Makerbot. Home depot, the world s largest home improvement chain, announced the start of a pilot program#to sell Makerbots.
Video)# The Makerbot printers, which range from a compact $1, 375 model to a high-end $2,
It s really about bringing about new innovation to customers. 3-D printers can whip up everything from#vagina selfies#to#handguns,
said Pettis of the current fleet of Makerbot printers, You can t use it as a hammer.
Downey said customers typically use the printers for personalization projects, like a Chicago father who Downey said purchased a Makerbot to print custom furniture for his daughter s dollhouse.
The current generation of 3-D printers are still relatively slow#printing an item the size of a Lego brick can take roughly half an hour
Ten years from now, it will be quite common for people to have 3-D printers in their homes
In addition to Home depot, companies like#Amazon, Staples and Dell have joined the ranks of 3-D printer retailers.
#Researchers develop new process that raises prospects of 3d printed bone grafts 3d printing could help mend broken bones.
One of the 3d printing health applications discussed the most is the manufacturing of bespoke scaffolds that could be used to mend broken bones.
but it has been held back by the difficulties in printing materials that are strong, flexible and can encourage the regrowth of healthy bone in the same way as current methods,
The problem however is that current 3d printing methods to make calcium phosphate scaffolds require the use of high temperatures Such temperatures make it impossible important drugs
Now, researchers in the U s. have developed a new way of printing in calcium phosphate that can be done at relatively low temperatures which results in a scaffold that is mechanically strong
Inkjet printing of collagen solutions with high resolution has not been utilized previously in 3d printing of calcium phosphates
"And we know that the body displays things that sometimes people try to keep contained.
rechargeable batteries that can be printed cheaply on commonly used industrial screen printers. The California startup 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.
full-color 3d printer Mcor Iris 3d printer Most people think 3d printing involves a machine that either extrudes molten plastic, in a way similar to how a hot glue gun works,
or think of one of the larger industrial level 3d printers manufactured by 3d systems or Stratasys.
##Fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3d printers mainly are limited to plastic and plastic-like materials. Plastics are the only materials that can be melted,
Industrial level 3d printers provide a lot of other material options, but these printers costs range from $75, 000 up to over $1 million.
Most individuals, and even a lot of businesses end up having to sit on the sidelines only dreaming that one day these prices will fall.
and even decades to come. 3d printing has been around since the early 1980s when Chuck Hull invented the first commercial 3d printer, based on a technology called sterolithography.
Many of the 3d printers available today still use this technology, including some of the larger industrial level machines.
Hull went on to create a company called 3d systems, which today is the largest 3d printer manufacturer in the world.
They still hold multiple patents on stereolithography although many have expired already. I recently was introduced to a 3d printer like none I ve seen before.
While walking around the Inside 3d printing Conference#recently, I saw some 3d printed objects that were unlike those on display by other companies.
When I picked them up, they felt as though they were printed out of wood. Upon talking to the marketing team on hand,
I found that this 3d printer did not fit into the same category as those other machines on the display floor.
That printer was the#Mcor IRIS, created by a company called Mcor Technologies. Mcor is a relative newcomer on the 3d printing scene.
Founded in 2005 by Dr. Conor Maccormack and Fintan Maccormack who invented an innovative new paper-based 3d printing technology back in 2003,
Mcor has quickly become one of the more talked about companies within the 3d printing industry.
Unlike traditional 3d printers, Mcor utilizes a technology that prints objects using three products: a water-based adhesive, inkjet printer ink,
and your standard A4 business paper. That s right, no expensive polymers, resins, or other materials are required.
That s what makes the Mcor line of 3d printers both unique and refreshing to those tired of the tremendous expenses associated with 3d printing in general.
Mcor currently offers two different 3d printers, the Matrix 300 +which was unveiled in 2009, and the full-color IRIS printer which was released in 2012.
Both printers utilize a technology called Selective Deposition Lamination (SDL. In SDL, standard sheets of paper, like you currently use with your desktop printer,
are fed into the machine. The initial sheet is bonded to the build plate, then the printer deposits an adhesive
and follows by stacking another sheet of paper on top. This occurs until the printer is ready to begin the actual cutting and printing of the object.
It begins to stack the paper using a process that selectively deposits a water-based adhesive to each individual sheet of paper,
before applying another sheet. The build plate is moved then up to a heat plate where it applies pressure to make sure that the two sheets of paper are bonded correctly together.
A blade cuts each layer of paper, one at a time, based on instructions received by computer CAD and slicing software.
This occurs until a completed object has been printed. When using the Mcor IRIS 3d printer, there is an additional step involved where each piece of paper is colored using a modified 2-dimensional inkjet printer,
and#Mcor s special water-based ink. A bar code is printed then on each page to make sure that they remain in the correct order
when being cut. The color is printed using the well known CMYK method meaning that there are literally one million colors available.
This allows for the printing of objects that can look extremely realistic. As you can imagine,
there are numerous uses for 3d printers like this. We have customers across vertical market segments around the world, Julie Reece,
Personally I am impressed by the maxillofacial surgeon who is using Mcor 3d printing to create surgical guides,
and then 3d print their faces in full color with the Mcor IRIS. The resulting facial 3d prints were on display in a gallery in Europe.
Mcor s line of 3d printers cost between $36, 400 and $47, 600; a price that is pennies in comparison to some of the other industrial level printers on the market today.
The real savings, however, comes from the use of materials. While other companies suck their clients in,
due to the fact that many of them are only obtainable through the manufacturer themselves, Mcor printers use simple A4 business paper.
and printed on, is compatible with both of Mcor s 3d printers. This is because only the very outter edge of the paper is seen
once the printing of an object is complete. If you don t like how an object turns out,
Our mission is to make professional-quality 3d printing accessible to to everyone, while remaining safe,
The International Color Consortium (ICC) color mapping provides Mcor s 3d printers with increased color accuracy,
allowing their printers to print objects that look extremely realistic. This means that photographers, engineers and designers can all take photographs
Typically when 3d printers are fed color data, they translate it into machine-specific colors, rather than maintaining the original ICC.
this no longer is the case on Mcor s 3d printers. Ask any creative or marketing professional:
and why we are the first 3d printer manufacturer to embrace them. A gram is a gram
Likewise, a company s logo will be the same colour on the computer screen as on a model 3d printed by the Mcor IRIS because of our ICC profile.
explaining in detail how their 3d printers function. Innovation is key when it comes to 3d printing technology.#
#There are new ideas popping up on a daily basis, many of which are realized eventually in the market.#
#Mcor is positioning themselves to be a leader in the ever changing, always growing 3d printing industry.
The so-called Fingerreader, a prototype produced by a 3-D printer, fits like a ring on the user s finger, equipped with a small camera that scans text.
The Fingerreader can read papers, books, magazines, newspapers, computer screens and other devices, but it has problems with text on a touch screen,
said Shilkrot. That s because touching the screen with the tip of the finger would move text around,
producing unintended results. Disabling the touch-screen function eliminates the problem, he said. Berrier said affordable pricing could make the Fingerreader a key tool to help people with vision impairment integrate into the modern information economy.
Other technologies monitor how hard you're pounding on your keyboards (another possible indicator of mood.
It s for these reasons, among others, that the biggest opportunities in the financial world revolve around the disintermediation of these banks and core financial services.##
At the core of this emerging market was the desire to take banks out of the equation
#Starbucks partnering with Square#to be the main processor at thousands of locations is just one of many notable examples.
#We will be 3d printing our clothes in 10 years: Ray Kurzweil Openknit 3d printing is one of those new things that gets hyped all the damn time.
Retail UPS stores carrying pay-peruse printers, Makerbots in every school, a new brick in the Great Wall,
and guns, guns, guns, to name a few examples. Video) There has been a lot of hype lately about 3d printing,
but it's not for nothing. As noted futurist and self-proclaimed technology oracle Ray Kurzweil said at Google S i/O conference last week, the hype,
it costs about $700 to build your own Openknit machine, with both the hardware and software still in the do-it-yourself stage.
Naturally, you can print a bunch of the parts to make the digital loom with a 3d printer.
refinement, and much better printers and software. Eventually, printing clothes is going to be as easy as ordering a burger and fries from your smart watch.
Print green t-shirt, wear for a day, throw in the recycler, print blue-t-shirt (with recycled clothes matter) for tomorrow.
The cheap printing of socks and underwear doesn t look that far off, except that, unsurprisingly,
and resources to build some of the bleeding edge mobile computing hardware available today on the cheap.
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