which excites electrons that flow through the thylakoid membranes of the chloroplast. The plant captures this electrical energy
and survive at a distant site, the researchers say. Many of the proteins overexpressed in the more aggressive tumors are activated by the same cellular signaling pathways,
With the Internet boom in full swing he co-founded a couple of dot-coms but began viewing climate change and energy as the real challenges of my generation.
The simple readout could even be transmitted to a remote caregiver by a picture on a mobile phone.
These particles congregate at tumor sites where MMPS cleave hundreds of peptides which accumulate in the kidneys
and a bicycle-powered charging system for cellphones and lanterns. Davide Zaccagnini a vascular surgeon and program manager for the Science Monks and Technology Leadership Program says he was motivated to join because
and can recharge the signal processing chip in roughly two minutes. he idea with this design is that you could use a phone, with an adaptor,
which include banks retail firms and telecommunications companies worldwide. After the purchase the Ksplice team joined Oracle to help the company integrate the software in its products.
Mobile phone usage is far more prevalent in Kenya than traditional banking is and the system lets people transfer money by text message.
More memorable or lessthe system could ultimately be used in a smartphone app to allow people to modify a digital image of their face before uploading it to their social networking pages.
The research was funded by grants from Xerox Google Facebook and the Office of Naval Research h
The technique known as raster scanning is how old cathode ray tube-tube televisions produced images illuminating one phosphor dot on the screen at a time.
Instead, the new device uses an encoding technique commonly used in the telecommunications industry to calculate the distance a signal has travelled
we can do calculations that are very common in the telecommunications world, to estimate different distances from the single signal.
a graduate student in the Media Lab. eople with shaky hands tend to take blurry photographs with their cellphones
This approach offers a huge array of recognition sites specific to different targets, and could be used to create sensors to monitor diseases such as cancer, inflammation,
Synthetic antibodies The new polymer-based sensors offer a synthetic design approach to the production of molecular recognition sites enabling, among other applications, the detection of a potentially infinite library of targets.
In the new paper, the researchers describe molecular recognition sites that enable the creation of sensors specific to riboflavin, estradiol (a form of estrogen),
but they are now working on sites for many other types of molecules, including neurotransmitters, carbohydrates, and proteins.
it forms a binding site, Strano says. Laurent Cognet, a senior scientist at the Institute of Optics at the University of Bordeaux, says this approach should prove useful for many applications requiring reliable detection of specific molecules. his new concept,
and Dust environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft had made history by using a pulsed laser beam to transmit data over the 239000 miles from the moon to Earth at a record-breaking data-download speed of 622 megabits per second (Mbps). This download speed is more than six times faster than the speed achieved by the best
LLCD also demonstrated a data-upload speed of 20 Mbps on a laser beam transmitted from a ground station in New mexico to the LADEE spacecraft in lunar orbit;
which was developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory researchers led by Don Boroson a laboratory fellow in MIT LL s Communication systems Division.
and delivered these various parts to the spacecraft and to the ground site. Finally we designed
and Systems Glover and MIT alumna Sanja Popovic 12 MENG 13 who is now at Google describes a new robot-vision algorithm based on the Bingham distribution that is 15 percent better than its best
Bear and others discovered that the loss of this gene results in exaggerated protein synthesis at synapses, the specialized sites of communication between neurons.
GCS began going to the villages and selling solar-powered lamps, which also charge cellphones. Suddenly, its product started moving and fast. hat
and other devices such as the cellphone charger that GCS later developed. e called it our universal adapter,
#Drive-by heat mapping In 2007, Google unleashed a fleet of cars with roof-mounted cameras to provide street-level images of roads around the world.
But there were many challenges. ery expensive thermal cameras had lower resolution than your smartphone camera,
#Toward tiny, solar-powered sensors The latest buzz in the information technology industry regards he Internet of thingsthe idea that vehicles, appliances, civil-engineering structures, manufacturing equipment,
at very limited input power levels 10 nanowatts to 1 microwatt for the Internet of things. The prototype chip was manufactured through the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's University Shuttle Program.
that can be tossed into potentially hazardous areas to instantly transmit panoramic images of those areas back to a smartphone. t basically gives a quick assessment of a dangerous situation,
and too expensive for wide use. started looking into low-cost, very simple technologies to pair with your smartphone,
The ball also serves as its own wireless hotspot, through Bounce Imaging network, that a mobile device uses to quickly grab those images ecause a burning building probably isn going to have Wi-fi,
but we still want to work with a first responder existing smartphone, Aguilar says. But the key innovation, Aguilar says,
is the image-stitching software, developed by engineers at the Costa rican Institute of technology. The software algorithms, Aguilar says,
or smartphone technologies. ur main focus is making sure the Explorer works well in the market,
or smartphones, the researchers say. They may also be useful for other applications where high power is needed in small volumes
for example using Wi-fi, over a long distance. At the moment, the coin-sized batteries used in many small electronic devices have limited very ability to deliver a lot of power at once,
which is what such data transmissions need. ong-distance Wi-fi requires a fair amount of power,
is better power electronics for data centers run by Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other companies, to power the cloud.
Doggie Wearables Monitoring Shoppers and Catching TV While You Doze off In the past two years there been a boom in talk around the Internet of things and Wearables.
biometric sensors will be featured in 40 percent of smartphones shipped to end users With the way technology is developing and the increasing consumer demand,
The technology uses mobile phones and tablets to collect data on where people are and how theye moving.
via Geeky Gadgets) Kipstr Will Catch the TV you Can Stay Awake For Kipstr Will Catch the TV you Can't Stay Awake For The Kipstr being worn to check if youe fallen asleep (Photo credit:
while theye watching TV. via 3d Print t
#Researchers use oxides to flip graphene conductivity Graphene a one-atom thick lattice of carbon atoms is touted often as a revolutionary material that will take the place of silicon at the heart of electronics.
First the cell absorbs sunlight which excites electrons in the active layer of the cell.
A similar effect can be realized at a much smaller scale by using arrays of metallic nanostructures since light of certain wavelengths excites collective oscillations of free electrons known as plasmon resonances in such structures.
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As for TV technology nearly every TV manufacturer at CES this year remarked Geoffrey Morrison in CNET said quantum dots helped deliver better more lifelike color.
In the recent past a team of Princeton professors including Mcalpine created a bionic ear out of living cells with an embedded antenna that could receive radio signals.
Trying to print a cellphone is probably not the way to go Mcalpine said It is customization that gives the power to 3-D printing.
ACS Nano Publication Date (Web: November 29 2014 DOI: 10.1021/nn505420 0
#New technique allows low-cost creation of 3-D nanostructures Researchers from North carolina State university have developed a new lithography technique that uses nanoscale spheres to create three-dimensional (3-D) structures
He describes the thread's width as phenomenally small only a few atoms across hundreds of thousands of times smaller than an optical fiber enormously thinner that an average human hair.
The researchers combined semiconductor nanorods and carbon nanotubes to create a wireless light-sensitive flexible film that could potentially replace a damaged retina.
Nanoporous metals offer an increased number of available sites for the adsorption of analytes a highly desirable feature for sensors.
Once injected, the material locks into place at the site of the injury and rapidly decreases the time it takes for blood to clot in some instances by a whopping 77 percent,
or she can inject the material into the wound site where it will trigger a rapid coagulation
and his colleagues solidifies at the site of the wound and begins promoting coagulation in the targeted area.
and then regain its shape once inside the body something necessary for locking itself in place at the wound site,
it will probably be thanks to MIT spinout QD Vision, a pioneer of quantum dot television displays.
QD Vision has developed an optical component that can boost the color gamut for LCD televisions by roughly 50 percent,
ecause a lot of growth for the TV market is there, says Seth Coe-Sullivan Phd, cofounder and chief technology officer of QD Vision,
and displays only reach about 70 to 80 percent of the National Television Standard Committee color gamut.
Blood rushes to the site of the injury and within minutes the flow stops as a plug forms at the site.
The tissue beneath and around the plug works to knit itself back together and eventually the plug disappears.
and enable the transition between a free-flowing fluid at the site and a viscous substance that brings healing factors to the injury.
of which are platelets the blood component that accumulates at the site of the wound to form the initial plug.
and congregate binding to the site of the injury and to each other. As they do so the platelets release chemicals that call other platelets to the site eventually plugging the wound.
But what happens when the injury is too severe or the patient is on anticoagulation medication
With surfaces functionalized with the same biochemical motifs found in their human counterparts these PLNS also can summon other platelets to the site
given the gamut of colors on TV or computer screen that are produced solely by combinations of red, green and blue pixels.
They posit that the microtubes could one day be implanted like stents to promote neuron regrowth at injury sites
#What exactly is Google's'cancer nanodetector'?'Last week US tech giants Google made a splash in the media announcing plans to develop new'disease-detecting magnetic nanoparticles'.
'This was welcomed almost universally after all trying to detect diseases earlier is something that's a focus of many research organisations including ours.
what Google are actually planning apart from getting a lot of coverage in the media he says.
But then they're Google he says. They do things differently. The way traditional science works is to map out all the possible risks demonstrate you've accounted for them
Google are doing the opposite they're saying'we want to get to here we'll worry about the details later'.
Google have been similarly vague about the precise form of nanotechnology they aim to use Graham points out:
This isn't all about Google says Graham. It's worth pointing out that Google are far from being the only show in town.
There are loads of different research groups looking into what is called collectively'biosensing'continuous monitoring of
it seems according to this article in Wired that Gambhir originally advised Google about nanotechnology. What are the current challenges facing nanodetectors?
So for Google's biomonitor they need to work out how to keep the particles in the body
This is something Google really seem to have ducked in their announcement. We don't need to dwell on it too much
but there's been a lot in the press in the last year about who has access to Google's data and under
what circumstances says Graham referring to reports of Government agencies accessing user data from tech companies like Google and Facebook.
Professor Graham's'take-home'message is that it's a mistake to see Google as the only organisation focusing on nanotechnology to detect disease it's a vibrant active field with incredible potential but still in its early days.
Google seeks way to search bodies for diseas s
#Cancer-killing nanodaisies NC State researchers have developed a potential new weapon in the fight against cancer:
So far in vivo testing in mice has shown that this approach produces significant accumulation of drugs in tumor sites instead of healthy organs.
The central technological revolution of the 20th century was the development of computers, leading to the communication and Internet era.
and tablets smart phones and other portable devices photovoltaics batteries and bioimaging. The technique has proved so successful that Hersam
along with a smartphone to immediately detect a lung infection, much like the device police use to gauge a driver's blood alcohol level.
of which shows this super accuracy adds Associate professor Andrea Morello from UNSW's School of Electrical engineering and Telecommunications.
Postdoctoral researcher Menno Veldhorst lead author on the paper reporting the artificial atom qubit says It is really amazing that we can make such an accurate qubit using pretty much the same devices as we have in our laptops and phones.
to specific cells and identifying sites of disease. Bin Liu of the A*STAR Institute of Materials Research
The doxorubicin that was released in the cell cytoplasm readily entered the nucleus its site of activity.
The new structures can lead to sensors and chips for future devices like smartphones computers and medical equipment.
This can impact the design of high-power RF devices that are used widely in the telecommunication industryor example, 4g wireless infrastructure.
The majority of today's touchscreen devices such as tablets and smartphones are made using indium tin oxide (ITO)
It's important to note that for the Gan micro-rod growth the very stable and inactive surface of graphene offers a small number of nucleation sites for Gan growth
fingernail-size mini-labs in mobile analytical devices could test a drop of blood for multiple diseases simultaneously
if mobile phones could be recharged fully in only a matter of minutes and if they kept working like new year after year?
Team refines deicing film that allows radio frequencies to pass Rice university scientists who created a deicing film for radar domes have refined now the technology to work as a transparent coating for glass.
and fog while retaining their transparency to radio frequencies (RF). The technology was introduced this month in the American Chemical Society journal Applied materials and Interfaces.
when exposed to high-powered radio signals. At extremely high RF the thicker portions were absorbing the signal he said.
and ice but also be transparent to radio frequencies. It's really frustrating these days to find yourself in a building where your cellphone doesn't work.
This could help alleviate that problem. Tour noted future generations of long-range Wi-fi may also benefit.
It's going to be important as Wi-fi becomes more ubiquitous especially in cities. Signals can't get through anything that's metallic in nature
but these layers are so thin they won't have any trouble penetrating. He said nanoribbon films also open a path toward embedding electronic circuits in glass that are both optically and RF transparent a
"Personal electronic devices such as smart phones, ipads, etc. can last much longer before recharging.""In addition to potential commercial applications, there are many military uses for the technology.
Researchers develop method to measure positions of atomic sites with new precision More information: Real-time imaging and local elemental analysis of nanostructures in liquids.
Here we evaluated the ability of a hand-held Raman scanner guided by surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) nanoparticles to identify the microscopic tumor extent in a genetically engineered RCAS/tv-a glioblastoma mouse model.
In a simulated intraoperative scenario we tested both a static Raman imaging device and a mobile hand-held Raman scanner.
#Ultrafast graphene based photodetectors with data rates up to 50 GBIT/s In cooperation with Alcatel Lucent Bell labs researcher from AMO realized the worldwide fastest Graphene based photodetectors.
With this step ahead researchers at AMO and Alcatel Lucent Bell labs could not only set a new benchmark for graphene based photodetectors
50 GBIT/s photodetectors based on wafer-scale graphene for integrated silicon photonic communication systems. ACS Photonics Just Accepted Manuscript.
Examples of applications are large displays, large interactive touch screens, photovoltaic solar panels, light-emitting diode panels, smart phones,
He suggests that reaching 5 percent power conversion efficiency would justify the investment for making small flexible solar panels to power devices such as smart phones.
So if a fraction of the 6. 6 billion mobile phone users globally changed to solar it would reduce our carbon footprint a lot.
which helps to understand how their reaction sites can be uncovered when they are at work. Most excitingly the team says these flexing
#Mobile phones come alive with the sound of music thanks to nanogenerators Charging mobile phones with sound, like chants from at football ground, could become a reality, according to a new collaboration between scientists from Queen Mary University of London and Nokia.
Last year, Dr Joe Briscoe and Dr Steve Dunn from QMUL's School of engineering and Materials science found that playing pop
Nokia worked with the QMUL team to create an energy harvesting prototype (a nanogenerator) that could be used to charge a mobile phone using everyday background noise such as traffic,
The ultimate device was the same size as a Nokia Lumina 925 and generates five volts,
which is enough to charge a phone. Could plugging your phone into the mains socket be a thing of past?
Dr Joe Briscoe commented:""Being able to keep mobile devices working for longer, or do away with batteries completely by tapping into the stray energy that is all around us is an exciting concept.
"It creates exciting opportunities for mobile power supplies for many applications from cell phones to electric vehicles. v
and integrate it with cells and cellular networks at the whole-tissue level. This could get around a lot of serious health problems in neurodegenerative diseases in the future."
ultraflexible electronics into the brain and allow them to become fully integrated with the existing biological web of neurons.
The film can be applied onto degradable nanoparticles for injection into local sites or used to coat permanent devices such as orthopedic implants.
and physically stick it to a flexible mobile phone Felice said. The goal of the 18 month project is to design develop
and telecommunications medical devices and security he says. If these could be made flexible they could be integrated in clothes rolled up
which can be hidden in cell phones and mobile devices.""PETN has more nitro functional groups and is more electron deficient than the DNT we detected in our experiments,
since way to smaller and smaller laptops, smartphones and devices that most of us carry around in our pockets.
"In a liquid and gas, it's mobile and people understand that, but in a solid we don't expect this behavior.
In that case collision of a hot carrier with a valence-band electron excites it across the energy gap Klimov said.
including Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDS), digital circuits, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, sensors, wearable electronics, and flash memory devices.
and phones is made with silicon substrates, the surface on which memory chips are built. To obtain medical information from a patient such as heart rate or brainwave data,
It could change everything from the production of cell phones and televisions to counterfeit-proof money, improved solar energy systems or quick identification of troops in combat.
Cell phones and other portable electronic devices could use less power and last longer on a charge.
to use this synthetic approach for quantum dot enabled televisions, smartphones and other devices d
#Antimicrobial coatings with a long-term effect for surfaces Researchers at the INM Leibniz Institute for New Materials have produced now antimicrobial abrasion-resistant coatings with both silver
#Shatterproof screens that save smartphones University of Akron polymer scientists have developed a transparent electrode that could change the face of smartphones, literally,
"The annoying problem of cracked smartphone screens may be solved once and for all with this flexible touchscreen. The team's findings are published in the American Chemical Society's journal ACS Nano in the article titled"A Tough and High-performance Transparent Electrode from a Scalable and Transfer-Free Method
New nanotech may provide power storage in electric cables clothes Imagine being able to carry all the juice you needed to power your MP3 PLAYER, smartphone and electric car in the fabric of your jacket?
or the image can be processed automatically by a smartphone application. In trials conducted earlier this year in Cambridge
The researchers are developing a prototype smartphone-based test suitable for both clinical and home testing of diabetes and other clinically relevant conditions."
#Flexible transparent thin film transistors raise hopes for flexible screens (Phys. org) he electronics world has been dreaming for half a century of the day you can roll a TV up in a tube.
Last year, Samsung even unveiled a smartphone with a curved screenut it was solid, not flexible;
Virtually all flat-screen TVS and smartphones are made up of thin film transistors today; they form the basis of both LEDS and LCDS (liquid crystal displays."
so you could make not just a screen but an entire flexible and transparent TV or computer."
Although very compact (only a few square centimeters) the lab-on-a-chip hosts various sensing sites distributed across a network of fluidic micro-channels that enables it to conduct multiple analyses.
or site-specific manufacturing of highly functional products Chen said. Chen's lab has demonstrated already the ability to print complex 3-D microstructures such as blood vessels in mere seconds out of soft biocompatible hydrogels that contain living cells.
#Graphene photonics breakthrough promises fast-speed low-cost communications Swinburne researchers have developed a high-quality continuous graphene oxide thin film that shows potential for ultrafast telecommunications.
"Currently with telecommunications or all optical communications you have to fabricate each component individually and try to integrate them together."
A team from Japanese#mobile carrier#NTT Docomo created augmented reality glasses that scan for text in Japanese translate the text through an online database
#Google Has added Quantum Physics To'Minecraft'Video#Minecraft the Lego-style build-your-own-game game has been the canvas for some awesome projects.
Now Google's Quantum A i. Lab is taking it in an even weirder direction: quantum physics.
From a post on#Google+#announcing the game: We talked to our friends at Minecraftedu
and Google admits as much:##Of course qcraft isn t a perfect scientific simulation but it s a fun way for players to experience a few parts of quantum mechanics outside of thought experiments or dense textbook examples.#
Google via Polygon
#Check This Out: A 3-D Printer Made From E waste#The circle of electronic life:
From the project site: The Open source Beehives project is a collaborative response to the threat faced by bee populations in industrialised nations around the world.
and you can find the source code for the hives at the project site.##Boing Boing t
Further integrate with Multi-point Ultrasonic Haptic feedback (youtube. com/watch? v=-e8tsg4uit0) and we've finally got ourselves a holo-deck!
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And to keep the weight down for processing this data the data could just be beam back to the drone remote site to be processed there.
We think it's the world's first 3-D printed room Hansmeyer tells us in an email in the sense that it's fully structural
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In an age when you have Google street view covering the entirety of the inhabited world when virtually every house is mapped.
Radio waves of certain frequencies can travel through ice but bounce off the bedrock beneath. So researchers sent down pulses of radio energy of this particular frequency.
So when a photon comes in it excites nearby atoms but when the next photon enters the cloud it would excite nearby atoms to the same degree
#Device Could Harvest Wasted Energy From Wi-fi, Satellite Signals A wireless device developed by researchers at Duke university that converts microwaves into electricity could eventually harvest Wi-fi or satellite signals for power according to its creators.
It could also one day be built into cell phones to let them charge while not in use they say.
Its energy harvesting capabilities come courtesy of a metamaterial a synthetic material engineered with characteristics not found in nature like the ability to bend light the wrong way
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