Through the Internet of things (Iot) and the Internet of Everything (Ioe), smart sensors have the potential to significantly help our societies resolve countless global challenges.
View all Sensors are linked very closely to the Iot, as its core function is to collect valuable data.
Through the Iot, large amounts of quality, sensor-based data can be collected at any time and from anywhere,
#Graphene device makes ultrafast light to energy conversion possible Converting light to electricity is one of the pillars of modern electronics, with the process essential for the operation of everything from solar cells and TV remote control receivers through to laser communications
reality TV and whatever else your mind sees but your eyes do not. It shoots 1080p at 24,30
or 60 fps and features 3g/HD-SDI and HDMI outputs for hooking up to peripherals like recorders and monitors.
Chromebooks have the benefit of running on Google's stripped-back CHROME OS platform though, meaning they don't need much horsepower to run smoothly.
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#Google just became part of a new company called Alphabet Today Google, the company, is smaller
while the Google universe seems to be expanding with the announcement by CEO Larry page of a new umbrella company called Alphabet,
which will include a stripped down Google focused on search and Internet products and other companies like Calico operating as subsidiaries of the new company.
The announcement came in a post on the Google company blog by Page that is also cross-posted on the new,
otherwise barren Alphabet home page.""Our company is operating well today, but we think we can make it cleaner and more accountable.
In essence, what yesterday was Google today is called Alphabet, but under the umbrella of the new name is owned a wholly subsidiary that will still be named Google focusing on Internet products.
Alongside the new, smaller Google within Alphabet will be a number of other companies working on disparate projects like the aforementioned longevity company, Calico,
a life sciences company working on a glucose-sensing contact lens, the lab formerly known as Google X and investment arms Google Ventures and Google Capital,
just for starters. Page will be CEO of Alphabet and Sergey Brin will be President. Sundar Pichai, who has been in charge of products at Google,
including Android, Chrome and Maps, will be the new CEO of the new, stripped-down Google. Although Page doesn't say so specifically,
it seems that some of the company's biggest properties like Android and Youtube will remain a part of the smaller Google.
Normally news of what is basically a corporate restructuring isn't so interesting except that it involves a company that is,
While Page is framing the structural change as a way for Google (erm Alphabet) to stay on its toes
According to one filing, Google and the other new subsidiaries of Alphabet will report separately to investors,
For those who follow Google's moves with interest, the creation of Alphabet could hopefully give more of the company's many diverse projects a fighting chance of reaching fruition by having the support
Google has created a number of products that are shuttered later suddenly to the dismay of their user base (Google Reader, Glass, Buzz, Notebook, Wave, Health. just for starters), usually in the name of greater corporate focus.
Google shareholders will automatically convert to Alphabet shareholders, but the stock will continue to trade under the same GOOG and GOOGL ticker symbols s
#Finnish tech could let smartphones"see"gas Smartphones are already able to monitor things such as light, sound, movement and geographical location.
That because VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a miniature phone-compatible sensor, that uses light to identify the type and amount of gases in air samples.
San diego are also all working on smartphone gas sensors s
#Aluminum"yolk"nanoparticles deliver high-capacity battery recipe Researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University in China have found a way to more than triple the capacity of the anodes,
The lithium-ion batteries in our phones, tablets and laptops store their energy-carrying ions inside negative electrodes made of graphite.
Towards this end, researchers from the University of Bristol and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) claim to have developed a fully-reprogrammable quantum optical chip able to encode
then prove the technology for use in the realms of telecommunication through partnership with NTT
which allows public access via the Internet to a working quantum processor, with plans to add even more chips in the near future."
and engineering expertise in the telecommunications industry, "said Professor Jeremy O'brien, Director of the Centre for Quantum Photonics at Bristol University."
#World's most powerful digital camera gets the go-ahead A smartphone with a 16-megapixel camera may seem cutting edge,
With a resolution of 3. 2-gigapixels (enough to need 1, 500 high-definition television screens to display one image),
#Ultra low-power wireless communication through the human body using magnetic fields Be it on the inside or the outside,
San diego (UCSD) have come up with a different type of wireless communication that sends ultra low-power magnetic fields through the human body.
and secure from prying eyes than comparable wireless communication technologies. Connecting and communicating with devices in and around the human body
or even ingestible wireless sensors, generally requires that each of these transmit to a receiver using Bluetooth.
Since the electromagnetic radiation used by Bluetooth to transmit data does not easily pass through the human body,
claiming path losses an incredible 10 million times lower than those associated with comparable Bluetooth device communication."
Currently, these devices transmit information using Bluetooth radios, which use a lot of power to communicate. We're trying to find new ways to communicate information around the human body that use much less power."
"This technique, to our knowledge, achieves the lowest path losses out of any wireless human body communication system that's been demonstrated so far,
said Jiwoong Park, a Ph d student in Mercier's lab. ith this magnetic field human body communication system,
"According to the researchers, beyond the benefits of ultra-low-power energy consumption, magnetic field human body communication may offer greater security than current wireless communication technologies.
This is because Bluetooth radio communication links take place through open air and, potentially, someone could possibly intercept these signals and compromise a person's privacy.
the researchers measured a dramatic decrease in signals radiated from the body and almost no possibility of transmitting information from one person magnetic communication system to another,
the unit also has Bluetooth LE Drive Control to allow access from a smartphone for things like fitness tracking apps.
because internal hardware can pose a challenge with respect to being a potential site for infection, and can complicate MRI
#A Smartphone Case That Recharges Your Battery from Thin Air How many times a day do you scramble around looking for a power cord
and outlet to recharge your mobile phone? A new smartphone case promises to top off your battery lifeut of thin air.
The Harvest phone case grabs the power your phone wastes and puts it back into the battery.
About 90%of your phone power is spent pumping out radio waves just trying to keep its wireless connection even
when youe not using it. The case arveststhose stray radio waves and converts them into electric power.
The Harvest case is able to stretch your battery life by nearly a third. Nikola Labswill Zell explains in the video below how the phone case is able to turn radio waves into electricity.
Ohio State university came up with the technology and licensed it to Nikola Labs to build and sell.
available only for the iphone initially, is expected to launch later this month on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter.
Roosegaarde switched the machine on for the first time in Rotterdam on September 4. solar tulip Aora Solar website As onlookers breathed in bubbles of the fresh,
an optical fiber is implanted surgically. Sonogenetics is less invasive as low-frequency sound waves can pass through tissue and bone with ease.
while BMW is said to be cautious about sharing its manufacturing know-how as it wants to avoid becoming a mere supplier to a software or internet giant.
#Yahoo Livetext: company makes app to stop video chats being awkward Livetext, quietly launched weeks ago
Yahoo found that the audio was often he biggest inhibitor of video chat according to Adam Cahan, SVP of mobile and emerging products at Yahoo.
That matched the feedback from the young people that Yahoo hopes will use the app,
Group who stole information from website for cheating spouses make good on promise to post data online A group calling itself the Impact Team compromised the site
At least two other dating sites, Cougar Life and Established Men, also owned by the same parent group, Avid Life Media (ALM),
which promises to connect beautiful young women with rich sugar daddies o fulfill their lifestyle needs take down the two sites.
a sister site run by ALM that promises to connect older women with younger men was targeted not by the group
While the hackers took issue with the questionable morals of the sites, their main point of contention was the fact that Ashley Madison charges users a £15 fee to carry out a full delete of their information should they decide to leave it.
They claimed that ALM actually retained that date on their company servers. vid Life Media has been instructed to take Ashley Madison and Established Men offline permanently in all forms
and employee documents and emails, the hackers wrote in a statement following the breach. Their warnings were ignored by ALM who said they had beefed up security following the attack.
However, a data dump of 9. 7 gigabytes was posted on Tuesday to the dark web using an Onion address accessible only through the Tor browser,
and logins for the social networking site. vid Life Media has failed to take down Ashley Madison and Established Men,
and stupidity of ALM and their members Chances are signed your man up on the world biggest affair site,
and videos The site has forced always users to crop their pictures into perfect squares, however they were taken originally.
the site has said, giving people a ormaticon that lets them adjust what size they need.
Instagram has been pushing its video offering hard, especially alongside the growth of Twitter competitor Vine
#Apple iphone 6s release date: new phone and Apple TV SET to be launched on September 9 The company will hold the event on September 9,
as had previously been rumoured, at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San francisco a much bigger venue than previous launches have been held in.
Apple is expected to launch the next iphone the iphone 6s and iphone 6s plus at the event.
But it could also reveal the next Apple TV and new ipads, according to leaks. The back of an Apple iphone 6 Plus gold, is shown here at a Verizon store on September 18
2014 in Orem, Utah But Apple didn mention any new products in the invitation, only suggesting that curious people ask Siri.
A range of details have already been revealed about the new iphone, however all collected in our round up of rumours for the iphone 6s and 6s Plus s
#Google logo history: A trip through search engine's gradually smoothening logo Google just launched a new logo the first major redesign in years,
and a reflection of the changing nature of the search engine in all of our lives. But the site has been on a gradual evolution
since it began in 1998, slow shedding the design of years past and becoming more smooth and less objectionable.
At its beginning, Google wasn called even by that name t launched as ackrub That site had a rather obvious picture at the top:
a photo of a hairy hand on top of what appears to be skin, with large letter saying ackrubplaced on top of it.
It became Google in late 1997. The look was a little reminiscent of Word Art of old:
At that time, the site was just as youthful. It was still functioning largely as a search engine for Stanford university,
as well as the web, and offered an explanation of what it was at the top with a little text box underneath.
Google also briefly got an exclamation mark in 1999. It disappeared a year later. That shouting logo would be the last very different one that the site would have.
Until today redesign the site stuck by its formula: two blue letters, two red and one yellow and one green, all in an entirely unobjectionable serif font.
The company would gradually change that look, moving letters around, softening the colours and getting rid of shadow,
but harder to read on the tiny screens of mobiles. In doing so, it recognised one of the most important changes during its 17 years like Google itself,
the logo had been designed to be looked at on screens, but now a huge proportion of web browsing is done from phones and other mobile devices n
#iphone 6s Plus photos: leaks show Force Touch display, subtly altered size The pictures are one of the first glimpses of the iphone 6s Plus,
the bigger of the two new phones that Apple is expected to release at its event next week.
They show a slightly bigger phone that contains a sensor for Apple Force Touch technology
which allows the phone screen to be pressure sensitive to allow extra input options. The pictures, reported to have leaked from the Taiwanese supply chain,
show the front of the new phone. As well as the slightly larger size and changed display
they appear to feature a bigger front camera. It has already been suggested that the new iphone will feature an improved front-facing,
or selfie, camera. As well as better hardware for more clear photos, the software will be improved ncluding a feature that will use the screen to create a flash for taking pictures in the dark.
Apple has previously been rumoured to be strengthening the body of the iphone 6, in order to avoid a repeat of the endgateproblems that led some to complain their phone had been curving in their pocket.
Apple will use a more reinforced metal for the phone body the reports have indicated. That slightly larger body will have a smaller battery than the iphone 6, according to previous leaks.
It isn't clear whether that will mean that the phone will have less battery life, however, since Apple has been rumoured to be adding new, more efficient components.
The company doesn't usually make any external changes to the"s"phones, instead using the same external design
but improving the internal hardware. Apple Force Touch powered by the small sensor that can be seen in the centre of the display allows the phone to tell how hard its screen is being pressed
and trigger extra events on screen. Some details of how exactly it will work have already been revealed
indicating that the hard press will trigger further menu options. Force Touch was launched with the Apple Watch in April,
helping users interact with its small screen. It was added then to Apple Macbooks, giving extra options for how quickly to fast forward, for instance d
Neural networks like the one found in Giraffe are already outperforming humans in many areas of pattern recognition, with Google Deepmind matching game testers in classic Atari 2600 games.
As a potential step towards powerful artificial intelligence Facebook Microsoft and Google have invested all in Deep Learning technologies in the past five years p
#Biomedical 3d printing Company Signs Agreement with Xilloc for Licensing, Sale of 3d-Printed Bones in Europe (3ders. org) NEXT 21 K. K,
with a very sharp focus on increasing capability to win the Internet while managing tight constraints on cost and power.
such as big data analytics and complex Web applications. The average Memory1 use case enables a four-to-one server reduction,
#Concept E-Kaia charge your mobile phone from cactus It sounds funny, but soon mobile gadgets can be recharged from any flower.
#Innovative Smart T-shirt for the posture correction How often, sitting at the computer or watching television, you will notice that you not are sitting correctly?
Product Truposture equipped with Bluetooth for wireless data transfer to a mobile device that runs on the ios
Rothman said in a blog post. Rothman said this new sector is likely to be worth some $10 billion in the United states this year,
Reich said on his blog about the hare the scraps economy.?In effect, on-demand work is a reversion to the piece work of the 19th century
Last December, his firm displayed Christmas tree posters with LEDS at NTT Docomo flagship store in Tokyo.
Another hurdle Shimizu sees is that consumers may not know the creative potential of the markers or the limits to their use. n our website
#Technology No phone signal in a disaster? Solar network'in a box'to the rescue Pakistani researchers have developed a portable,
solar-powered mobile phone network for use in disasters like floods and earthquakes when regular communications are disrupted often.
Researchers at the Information technology University (ITU) in Lahore, together with a team from the University of California, have developed a prototype escue Base Station (RBS) for Pakistan-the country first emergency telecoms system
that would work on normal cell phones. hen the RBS is installed in a disaster-struck area,
people automatically start receiving its signals on their mobile phones. They can manually choose it and then call
send messages and even browse (internet) data free of charge, said Umar Saif, ITU vice chancellor and an adviser to the project.
but the ITU expects it to be used in the next six to eight months in partnership with the National Disaster Management Authority and a local telecoms company.
Potential users of the RBS system can get the information they need in just a few seconds by sending a text message to specific numbers appearing on their mobile phone.
offers all the features provided by regular cellphone companies, he added. Ghaznavi said it costs around $6,
and the Pakistan prototype has been funded by a Google Faculty Research Award. The RBS team is now working with Endaga,
a U s.-based company that connects rural communities through small-scale independent cellular networks, and a local telecoms firm to commercialise the project, he added.
The aim of the collaboration is to help phone companies keep their communications systems functioning in a disaster until their regular networks are restored.
Pakistan is a disaster-prone country which needs $6 billion to $14 billion to help it adapt to climate change impacts,
But that system could only send text messages to its subscribers on their mobile phones, unlike the RBS which allows users to call,
send texts and even browse the web for free. Cutting-edge technologies like the RBS could help save more lives by delivering timely advice to disaster-hit people,
The researchers, from the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute and Konkuk Univ. in the Republic of korea, coated cotton and polyester yarn with a nanoglue called bovine serum albumin (BSA.
televisions and flashlights have one thing in common: theye made with light emitting diodes (LEDS. LEDS are used widely for a variety of applications
cadmium selenide is also expensivene website listed a price of $529 for 25 ml of the compound. ith food
and mobile phones mainly older people living in rural areas. Other segments of the population likely to feel the impact are the homeless and undocumented immigrants.
The device, called Netra, is a plastic, binocular-like headset. Users attach a smartphone, with the startup app, to the front and peer through the headset at the phone display.
Patterns, such as separate red and green lines or circles, appear on the screen. The user turns a dial to align the patterns
he says. f youe to play that role of smartphone-based personalized health solutions, then we have an amazing lead over anyone else. ersonalized correction Over the past six months,
Eyenetra technology measures how a user optical refractive errors will affect how they see patterns on a digital display in an environment very similar to a virtual-reality headset,
says Raskar. our vision correction is built into the headset. Such an approach could be game-changing,
In 2014, Facebook acquired Oculus Rift for $2 billion; Google and other big companies recently backed Magic Leap with more than $540 million;
and Microsoft has starting pooling resources into virtual-reality research. n addition to the major business Eyenetra is doing for prescriptions,
A small, plastic device was clipped to a smartphone, and viewers used the phone keyboard to align the patterns.
The device was designed as an inverse of a traditional Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor machine, which shines a laser into the patient eye
Essentially, Netra replaces the expensive sensor with a smartphone display. Because the red and green light goes through different parts of the eye,
the team realized that people didn perform well interacting with the phone. So, for the current design, they moved all buttons and knobs to the actual device.
and quickly turns into a gel that conforms to the site of a wound, keeping it closed,
and injected at the site of a wound, where they reassemble themselves into a gel.
and the surfaces of their cellphones share enough microbiotic commonality that samples from one could probably be used to match an owner with her mobile.
which the surface of a cellphone put down in a new environment will pick microbiotic stowaways.
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#FDA proposes letting gay men donate blood, with some caveats The Food and Drug Administration proposed new rules Tuesday that would allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood in the U s. for the first time in decades.
"the National Gay Blood Drive said on its website.""We will continue to encourage the FDA to move toward a deferral based upon individual risk assessment."
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#Nepal Earthquake: Health Threats Loom Over Survivors The aftermath of the Nepal earthquake brings a risk of disease outbreaks including measles and diarrheal diseases among the survivors,
and images of the damage caused to cultural heritage sites in Nepal n
#4d Implant Saves Babies with Breathing Problems Three baby boys with life-threatening breathing problems are alive today thanks to a 4d biomaterial,
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#Simple Chemical Stops Prion Disease Mad cow, scrapie and Creutzfeld-Jakob disease are all diseases of the brain that debilitate before they kill,
The National park service website has listings of all U s. National and State Parks. Public observatories Although most astronomical observatories are reserved for professional research,
Meteor experts Bill Cooke, Danielle Moser and Rhiannon Blaauw, all from NASA Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space flight Center, will also provide onair commentary.
You can tune in to the NASA TV webcast on Space. com . If you miss the Perseids this time around,
Clarke asks anyone who can help to contact him through the CCED website. Help required The solar-powered device requires no fuel
Known as the Compact Laser weapons System, the futuristic, drone-shooting weapon is a smaller, more versatile version of the High energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD),
but from many hundreds of meters away,"Isaac Neal, a Boeing engineer, said in a video about the new weapons system that was posted on the defense contractor's website.
However, previous wireless brain-stimulating devices were limited by their power harvesting components. If these parts were small,
This research could one day lead to a"quantum Internet"that offers next-generation encryption,
In a recent experiment, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) were able to teleport photons farther across an optical fiber than ever before."
The experiment involved a near-infrared wavelength commonly used in telecommunications, the researchers said.""Only about 1 percent of photons make it all the way through 100 kilometers (60 miles) of fiber,
"Quantum teleportation could enable the development of a"quantum Internet"that allows messages to be sent more securely,
"A quantum Internet could allow you to establish communications channels that are much more secure than what we have with the standard encryption protocols we use everyday nowadays,
of the Georgia Institute of technology in Atlanta, told Space. com via email.""The presence of liquid water on Mars'present-day surface therefore points to environment s that are more habitable than previously thought."
which is why the discovery of RSL sites has generated so much excitement over the past four years:
Rather than melting drones in midair like Boeing's new Compact Laser weapons System, AUDS shoots the flying vehicles with something that doesn't destroy them radio waves.
and direct, the aerial bots using radio signals. Enter AUDS, which uses a drone's communication system against it.
Using directional antennas pointed at the drone, AUDS sends the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) radio signals that interfere with the radio signals coming from the remote operator.
When the drone picks up AUDS'signals, it"freezes, "unsure of where to fly. Whoever is controlling the anti-drone system can keep the UAV hovering at a distance until the machine runs out of battery life and crashes to the ground, according to a report by the BBC.
Commercial drones have also been used in attempts to smuggle contraband goods, like cellphones and weapons, into prisons.
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