but they suffered a loss of active site surface area. Panasonic has found a way to bind the Tio2 to another particle zeolite (a commercial adsorbent and catalyst)
which solves that problem by enabling photocatalysts to maintain their active site. And the method requires no binder chemicals
#A new type of glass could double your smartphone's battery life The batteries inside our smartphones
and laptops are fighting a losing battle when it comes to keeping these devices juiced up
He added that the vanadate-borate glass compound his team has developed could extend smartphone battery life by 1. 5 to 2 times
#Voxel8 paves the way for 3d-printed electronics The 3d printers of today can produce objects that may be quite intricate in shape
This may be about to change thanks to the Voxel8 a printer presented at CES that makes it much easier to blend plastic conductive ink
Special conductive inks and the right kind of printers already make it possible to build simple parts with embedded electronics.
The idea is that this new ink will enable users to easily wire together chips
Thanks to its unique software (which was developed specifically by CAD software giant Autodesk and is hosted in the cloud) the printing can also pause at predetermined points
so that users can manually insert the components that will be embedded in their 3d-printed objects. As printers go this one appears to be on the higher end of the spectrum with features including a 4. 3-inch touchscreen USB
and Wi-fi connectivity and a kinematically coupled bed that uses magnets to ensure high-precision printing even after the various components are inserted manually.
The XY resolution is 15 microns layer resolution is 200 microns and the device can reportedly print objects up to 4 x 6 x 4 inches (10 x 15 x 10 cm) in size.
The only two printing materials currently supported are standard PLA plastic and the silver conductive ink but the startup has said users will be able to upgrade their printer in the future as more functional
and matrix materials are released. Voxel8 printers are set to begin shipping late this year. The US$8999 standard price tag includes two PLA filament spools and five conductive ink cartridges.
Should you choose to pre-order which entails a $500 deposit you'll get double the printing materials.
The video below demonstrates what the printer can do? including printing a working quadcopter r
#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.
Chargepoint operates one of the leading EV charging networks, with more than 20 000 charging ports in North america.
#Roll to roll manufactured decorative solar panels to be 10 times cheaper Based on printing technologies, VTT Technical Centre of Finland has developed
Freedom of design increases the range of panel applications on the surfaces of interior and exterior building spaces.
VTT is also studying the feasibility of printing technology in the mass production of solar panels made from inorganic perovskite materials.
The panels can for example, be placed on windows and walls and on machines, devices and advertisement billboards.
Until now, it has only been possible to pattern OPV panels into a form of stripes.
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,
and after use, the OPV panels can be recycled. The market for organic photovoltaic cells is developing,
The operating life of panel is few years which is enough for many applications. VTT is also developing a method to utilize light in wireless data transfer by using solar cells as data receivers.
This will open new application possibilities to utilize printable solar cells e g. in Iot (Internet of things) type applications, in
which the devices can also harvest energy from the ambient light. The first results have been very promising g
University of Illinois researchers and colleagues in South korea led by U. of I. electrical and computer engineering senior research scientist Hyungsoo Choi and professor Kyekyoon#Kevin#Kim published details about the gelatin
#Abusive Spouses are Using Spyware to Track their Victims The use of surveillance software by abusive spouses to monitor the phones
and computers of their partners secretly has reached pidemic proportionsand police are ill-equipped to tackle it,
Helplines and women refuge charities have reported a dramatic rise in the use of spyware apps to eavesdrop on the victims of domestic violence via their mobiles and other electronic devices,
The Independent has established that one device offering the ability to spy on phones is being sold by a major British high-street retailer via its website.
The proliferation of software packages, many of which are marketed openly as tools for covertly tracking a heating wife
or former partner, using Christmas or birthday presents such as phones, computers and toys pre-loaded with spyware to infiltrate a target home.
Polly Neate, chief executive of Women Aid, told The Independent: omestic abuse is about control and perpetrators will use any means available to maintain
and increase their control. e increasingly hear stories of abusers adding tracking software to phones,
placing spyware on personal computers and using the internet to gather information about their partner. Many software packages are marketed openly as tools for covertly tracking a heating wife
or girlfriendand cost less than £50 Many software packages are marketed openly as tools for covertly tracking a heating wife
or girlfriendand cost less than £50 (Rex) owever, in many cases the police are trained not to recognise
and understand the impact of online abuse, including tracking, and action is taken rarely against abusers.
which once installed on a computer or smartphone is virtually untraceable to the user. Nearly all offer a GPS tracking function,
allowing the user to pinpoint an individual to within a few metres, as well as covert access to keystrokes, texts, pictures and emails.
The Independent has been told of a case where a woman had a conversation she had held with a friend on her mobile played back to her by her partner,
who had bugged her phone with spyware. He then told her he had connections with criminals
and had had killed people. In another incident an abusive husband managed to gain access to his spouse ebay account using spyware
and found a delivery address. He then lay in wait and attacked his wife in an assault so vicious that she lost sight in one eye.
The software is being used routinely to exert psychological pressure or for harassment, allowing controlling or potentially violent men to confront their victims over their movements.
In failed relationships, tales are rife of email accounts being hacked to send abusive messages to a spouse friends or employer.
The tracking packages are widely available on the internet with many marketed as ways for employers to monitor the movements of their workers
or for parents to check electronically on the whereabouts of their children. But others openly boast that they can detect infidelity.
lexispy lets you conduct pycalls remotely activating the phone microphone to listen in on its surroundings. This is particularly useful once you confirm she not actually where she told you she was.
the eavesdropping technology is also available in Britain through specialist retailers and also the website of the high-street electronics retailer Maplin.
The company has been marketing a ell phone spy softwaredevice sold for £99. 99 with the ability o monitor SMS text messages,
emails and calls and also keep track of a mobile phone location The website of the manufacturer, Cell Phone Recon,
states that the user of the targeted mobile device will not see the application running. The product listing featured a question from a customer stating she wanted to use the software to spy on her partner texts.
Maplin reply stated: nstalling on the phone is very fast and simple, you will be able to read all texts sent
and received in full. After it was contacted by The Independent, Maplin changed the description of the device to ell phone backup softwareand amended the answer to the customer question to make it clear that it should only be used with the permission of a phone owner.
In a statement, the company said: his product is a brilliant piece of innovation and,
gives users peace of mind. Maplin does not condone using any of its products surreptitiously or as a means of tracking people without their consent and recommends that the product is used legally. hilst
the data in housing is probably the strongest. The country is building more apartment buildings than at any time in decades,
American Community Survey data, crunched by City Observatory, reveals that the number of college-educated young adults (ages 25 to 34) living within three miles of city centers has risen 37 percent since the millennium.
Delaware, 66 percent of jobs were located in the core city in 1940. By 1970, its share had fallen below one in four.
Over a period of 25 years, between 1955 and 1980, more than 50 corporations left New york city, including IBM, Gulf Oil, Texaco, Union carbide, General Telephone, Xerox, Pepsico and U s. Tobacco.
Corporate giants like Motorola, Coca-cola and Yahoo have made well-publicized moves toward downtown Chicago, Atlanta and San francisco (respectively) to attract
But in large, the boom in core city employment hasn materialized. The result of this mismatch between urban living
is a design element in everything from Android phones to car steering wheels. Because the technology is currently relatively primitive in the mass market,
it mainly used for more day-to-day purposes like simulating the feel of a tactile keyboard on a smartphone
or simulating the shaking of an explosion in a specialized video game controller. Check out Youtube Video Article by Neal Ungerleider Article Source:
#Tesla motors#Destination Charging#:#Fast-growing Network Beyond Superchargers One of the most commonly cited arguments against electric cars is range anxiety.
The Destination Charging network Youl find these charging locations on Tesla website listed as Charging Partners.
and even mobile phone stores. In the U s.,Wall Connectors are showing up at well-known names like Costco, Hyatt, Four Seasons, Ritz-Carlton, Best western, and Westin.
the company sells the contraption on its website for $650. And the installation of a 240-volt circuit isn expensive probably no more than $3, 000 and as little as $500.
Besides the aging simulation exercise, they viewed a Powerpoint presentation defining dementia and were trained, in the hall Dementia Experience Center, to perform hand massage in nursing homes. hat did
I do with my phone? It in the refrigerator, said one instructor, explaining memory loss. ave you seen someone like that?
And a government dementia database allows families to register relatives and receive iron-on identification numbers.
he would rather flip open his laptop in his room to watch the lecture, streamed live over the campus network.
But it also raises questions that go to the core of a college mission: Is it possible to learn as much
when your professor is a mass of pixels whom you never meet? How much of a student education and growth academic and personal depends on face-to-face contact with instructors and fellow students?
and watch through a computer. Across the country, online education is exploding: 4. 6 million students took a college-level online course during fall 2008, up 17 percent from a year earlier, according to the Sloan Survey of Online learning.
She said an advantage of the Internet is that students can stop the lecture and rewind when they do not understand something.
and students join a virtual classroom once a week using a conferencing software called Wiziq. i, everyone, welcome to Week 9. Hello!
her laptop open on the dining room table. As Dr. Joos lectured, a chat box scrolled with studentscomments and questions.
then automatically relays the information to a forest station through mobile phone technology. he heat sensors are programmed to detect temperatures which are over 45 degrees Celsius,
That immediately triggered a call to his mobile phone. his is how the system is expected to work,
#Wave and Paymobile Phone Payment system Launched in the UK Orange and Samsung have teamed-up with Barclaycard to provide mobile phone payments with the new uick Tappayment technology.
Like the abolition of the £1 note or the introduction of the £2 coin, yesterday was a historic day for British money.
Courtesy of Barclaycard, Orange and Samsung, consumers across the UK can now pay for goods and services with nothing more than a mobile phone.
Yougov research, commissioned by digital payments provider Intelligent Environments, says 42 per cent of smartphone users want to use their phones as mobile wallets.
Owners of the Apple iphone are keenest, but significant proportions of Blackberry and Google phone users want to take advantage of it too.
That not because technology built into mobile phones is the way that everything, from cameras to translators, seems to be going.
It down to the fact that this new mobile-based method is quick simpler and crucially, more secure than anything wee got available at the moment.
Barclaycard has quietly been rolling out so-called ontactlesspayment systems across the UK for several years
Now that means there are devices in shops up and down the country that require users, for transactions up to £15,
With a mobile phone data connection, however, all transactions can be authorised and completed instantly. In due course, transactions over £15 will be permitted
if a pin is entered on the mobile phone. That, too, is more secure than the traditional keypad.
however, is that for now only one phone, one payment provider and one network operator provides this whizzy technology.
Even though the ear-field communicationstechnology is built into a wide and growing number of phones already,
Using an app on the mobile phone, customers can top up their wave and pay account from a connected credit
even if rumours that NFC payments are to be built into the forthcoming iphone turn out to be untrue,
Google is working with Mastercard and a host of other manufacturers have similar plans. Indeed, as with almost all significant new technology, the appeal is mainly in the simplicity of NFC.
who appears in television commercials and online games as well as on cereal boxes. Regulators are asking food makers
including television and print ads, Web sites, online games that act as camouflaged advertisements, social media, product placements in movies, the use of movie characters in cross-promotions and fast-food children meals.
The inclusion of digital media such as product-based games, represents one of the government strongest efforts so far to address the extension of children advertising into the online world,
Ronald Mcdonald and the movie and television characters used to promote food. It also raises the question of
Jeffrey Chester, executive director for the Center for Digital Democracy, a group that focuses on Internet marketing to children, said the F. T. C. proposal had broader implications. he youth obesity issue has placed all
vast amounts of new data are being generated about the complicated path that food takes from field to supermarket shelf.
who in some stores can wave a smartphone above an apple or orange and learn instantly where it was grown,
consumers could tap into through their computers or cellphones. The ne step forward, one step backtraceability requirement for processed food and produce is designed to make it easier for the Food
and manage the data. Some are experimenting with radio frequency identification and other sophisticated methods, including etching identification codes on produce with lasers
or micro-percussion markers that make tiny indents. hey each believe they have the holy grail product tracking solutions sitting in their laptop,
said David Acheson, former assistant commissioner for food protection at the FDA. omebody is probably going to make a bundle of money out of this.
Paul Chang, who leads the traceability initiative at IBM, said the company is basically taking the tracking system it uses for the pharmaceutical industry
instrumented data, he said. Segments of the food industry have been required since 2005 to be able to trace ne step forward, one step back,
Shoppers can scan the sticker with a smartphone or go to the Harvestmark website and enter the number from the sticker to learn the path the food has taken
and other information the farmer chooses to share, such as the harvest date. here been a very rapid sea change in consumer behavior,
said Elliott Grant, the chief marketing officer for Harvestmark. ith very high-profile food recalls, cellphones and iphones,
does not own a television, use e-mail or have Internet service. Harvestmark provides him with a laptop computer
and preprinted bar code stickers for his melons. And during harvesting, he takes the laptop to a bank
or some other place with Internet service to upload the data to Harvestmark. One day he was surprised to get a letter from an unhappy customer who had tracked down his address from the Harvestmark sticker.
Using the code, Bauman traced the melon and discovered it had been picked in August but purchased by the customer in October. e called him back
and said wee really sorry, Bauman said. hen I complained to the chain and said my name is on this product that out there for two months.
This system gives the end user the customer the option to be more aware of their products
It has infrared two monitors mounted on the trunk that record any numbers it sees##such as license plates and addresses.
The 13-page report describes initiatives ranging from the high-tech (500 officers have received Samsung Rugby smartphones equipped to deliver real-time crime data) to the bureaucratic (new guidelines for recruiting
then check the results against a database that contains the plate numbers of cars that are stolen,
The data is stored for an indefinite period, though that will likely change, Mr. del Pozo said.##
adding that future smart cars might include fingerprint scanners and facial recognition sensors. Besides getting officers to crime scenes, Mr. del Pozo said,
is to create an online public database for accessing accident reports. In terms of personnel, the department will begin closely tracking the experience
and microprocessors that monitors the body s internal changes and alters the flow of blood as needed.
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#Edible batteries could power smart medicine pills A flexible biodegradable battery just may be what the doctor ordered.
Smartphone apps can be built for less than $10k, so who needs an investor? Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere.
Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. With the key social media platforms today, an entrepreneur can tune a product
build a brand, and grow the business with very low cost and a high interactivity never before possible.
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#Scientists create robotic muscle that is 1, 000 times more powerful than human muscles A robotic muscle 1,
as researchers at the US Department of energy s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found, the Lab s website#reported.
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#3d printed eye cells could one day cure blindness Researchers have printed actually viable retina cells using an inkjet printer.
The ability to print up new, living versions of the damaged parts of your body is becoming more viable as a medical procedure,
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 cyborg future of telemarketing While a human is picking up the phone, and a human is dialing the phone,
it may not be a conversation between two humans. In the future humans will interact with each other, and machines,
His phone rings. It s a telemarketer for a home security service.####This is Richard, how are you today?##
My company, the Home security Company, is giving away a free wireless home security system and in-home installation.##
#Because while a human is picking up the phone, and a human is dialing the phone,
this is not,#strictly speaking, a conversation between two humans. Instead, a call-center worker in Utah or the Philippines is pressing buttons on a computer, playing through a marketing pitch without actually speaking.
Some people who market these services sometimes call this##voice conversion##technology. Another company says it s##agent-assisted automation technology.##
##At its best, computer system and operator merge like a character from the movie#Avatar#and his or her steed.
Let s look at one company that provides this product, Avatar Technologies, which advertises itself as##Outsourcing Without the Accent.##
The Avatar interface looks like this: While the man on the couch might was just sitting there talking,
the Avatar agent would have been sitting in the Filipino city of#Jaro Iloilo, staring at an interface.
The keyboard has hotkeys that can play different sound clips that were recorded by a perfect English speaker.
Here are two samples Avatar provides on its website,##Dale Harris##from the US and##Samantha##from Australia:
Avatar is not alone in selling these services, though they are the newest company in the field,
I found three other companies that sell cyborg call-center software or services like this, all of which are based in Utah.#
On the Internet, no one may know you re a dog, but on the phone? It just#seems#wrong.
What good could spring from a bunch of conversations in which one member is ventriloquizing through a machine?
they expressed skepticism that the system found in the#Time#recordings could be a computer.
I strongly suspect that Avatar created West, but I can t prove it. Multiple attempts to contact people at different levels within the company have gone unheeded.
For example, the data that they can capture with these systems is far less noisy than
Then I checked my Twitter account and favorited several tweets. I retweeted a couple, too.
In an email, Ugarte ticked off the reasons for using voice technology. 1. Accent##some of our agents though can speak English really well have problems with their accents
and maintains several other prominent social media presences. He likes to post photos from his childhood on Facebook,
along with portraits of himself in drag. I asked him, over email, to tell me what the experience of working at a soundboard call center is like.
How do people feel about it?####Based on feedbacks and observations, working on a Non-Voice company such as Perfect pitch is fun not to mention that there is less stress on the part of the reps,
Avatar recruits people by having#resume parties#at clubs(##Applicants get to party at Flow Super club after submitting their resume onsite with our Human Resource department.##
###and#supporting a#local beauty queen contest linked to an indigenous ritual#(#Avatar Technologies, a proud sponsor of Miss Iloilo Dinagyang 2014##.
##Their Youtube channel shows them#holding an#American Idol-style competition to celebrate their one-year anniversary.
It opens with these words flashing on the screen:####Level Up. Step up. Stand out. Work with the pros
We sold software to manage the paperwork about chemicals used at factories, which are known as#material-safety data sheets.
Our script ran on a series of linked Word documents, and we were told to stick to reading
what was on the screen. My manager, whose name was asked Jim that we call him Jimbo,
and the southern paper-mill plant managers that I managed to get on the phone were swayed not by my lispy, northwestern English.#
when they hear a voice on the phone, it matches up exactly with a person in the world,
##The software can improve the experience people are already having.####Often, when we look around our world at the technologies we have,
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#Hawaii s solar boom is so successful it s been blocked from further expansion Rooftop solar on a house in Hawaii.
The couple looked forward to joining neighbors who had added panels, to cutting their $250 monthly power bills
##Their plans shifted the day after the PV panels went up in early October. The Walkers learned from a neighbor about a major change in the local utility s solar policy.
It led to those 18 panels sitting dormant nearly three months later. Hawaiian Electric Co,
whether grid upgrades are necessary. If they are residents adding solar must foot the bill.
The new HECO policy was included deep in the text of emails the Walkers solar contractor had sent,
They re now paying $300 per month on a loan for the panels, plus the $250 electric bill.##
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