Skype Translator was made available as a free download at the Windows Store for computers or tablets running on the latest version of Microsoft's operating software, according to Kahn.
It generates waves by pushing water back and forth against a wall that nearly 33 feet high.
or the decks of rocking boats. Touching down on uneven surfaces is something that today's helicopters are equipped just not to do, according to the Defense Advanced Projects Agency,
such as the deck of a rocking ship at sea. Watch the video below. The robotic system is very different from
#Smart Mirror Diagnoses Health problems Mirror, mirror on the wall, what my cholesterol level? The Wize Mirror, developed by 11 European research groups,
but also a gateway to the health of an individual
#China Announces World Largest Cap and Trade Program Chinese President Xi Jinping announced Friday that China will develop a carbon trading system as a way to reduce the country greenhouse gas emissions.
steel, cement and other industries producing most of the country greenhouse gas emissions. The program is meant to complement the Obama administration Clean Power Plan,
president of the World Resources Institute, a global natural resources think tank, said in a statement that Friday announcement lays a cornerstone for a global climate agreement in Paris in December. hese two countries have found common ground
because people really want windows that don shatter and you can say same thing for screens on laptops and phones.
mentioning technologies that would make buildings or vehicles more energy efficient as one example.""But as we tackle economy wide emissions
Theye voracious parasites that burrow into gut walls and devour nutrients like a nightmarish version of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
#Tiny ant takes on pesticide industry Few people like antshey bite and overrun kitchen counters.
who tests cure strategies. here really is zero room for error. Several previous studies have explored
During that time, the team took time-of-flight pictures of the distribution of atoms to capture the topology
what it opens up is a new window into the quantum world, where materials with new properties can be studied. oing forward,
including quantum Hall physics and topological insulators. e are adding new perspectives to physics, Ketterle says. e are touching on the unknown,
#A bipedal robot with human reflexes Deep in the basement of MIT Building 3, a two-legged robot named HERMES is wreaking controlled havoc:
As Ramos mimes punching through a wall, the robot does the same. When the robot fist hits the wall, Ramos feels a jolt at his waist.
By reflex, he leans back against the jolt, causing the robot to rock back, effectively balancing the robot against the force of its punch.
while the robot may successfully punch through a wall, it would also fall headlong into that wall.
The interface allows a human to remotely feel the robot shifting weight, and quickly adjust the robot balance by shifting his own weight.
As a result, the robot can carry out momentum-driven tasks like punching through walls, or swinging a bat
In one test, the robot unexpectedly got its arm stuck in the wall. But, because the human was in the loop,
and many street cars that can rotate upwards to increase traction on the tires by increasing drag
Other programmable materials could pay off in improved building environments. e want materials that transform themselves, depending on sunlight, moisture, humidity levels,
if we want to demonstrate a new architecture that wel be allowed to manipulate the factory in any way.
and rearrange material building blocks in almost any conceivable shape. The work suggests that engineers will be able to reach the next stage of materials design through fundamental control of a protein final assembled structure. atriarch could very well be the core of a new molecular design process,
and Environmental engineering (CEE) postdoc Tristan Giesa 5, co-author of the study. he idea is to start at ground level.
A bottom-up design process Given a few basic building blocks and instructions, Matriarch builds hierarchical structures of proteins
thus use Matriarch to perform building block substitutions, and structural changes, to study their effect on the functionality of a material. ur program is specialized on protein-based materials,
The team tested their program on collagen protein one of the most common building materials found in mammals, with a range of potential applications in synthetic design.
and how their subsequences organize themselves as building blocks on a variety of scales. Ultimately, they hope to create an extensible database of structures for engineers to estimate the final configuration that a new material
and generate an all-in-one building skin that is at once structural and transparent? she asks. ecause glass is at once structural and transparent,
But don think there are any huge barriersto building such a demonstration, he says. n theory,
and body movements as subtle as the rise and fall of a person chest from the other side of a house, allowing a mother to monitor a baby breathing
the team presents a new technology called RF Capture that picks up wireless reflections off the human body to see the silhouette of a human standing behind a wall.
and even distinguish between 15 different people through a wall with nearly 90 percent accuracy.
and move in a specific room full of cameras, says Phd student Fadel Adib, who is lead author on the new paper.
even if they are behind furniture or walls. The device's motion-capturing technology makes it equally valuable for smart homes,
or to adjust your heating by monitoring where you are in the house. Future versions could be integrated into gaming interfaces,
allowing you to interact with a game from different rooms or even trigger distinct actions based on
How it works The device works by transmitting wireless signals that traverse the wall and reflect off a person body back to the device.
#Wifi Calling offers coverage for UK homes, small offices EE on Tuesday announced the launch of Wifi Calling to make calls and texts available in every home and small office in the UK.
will benefit over 4 million people across the UK who lose connection in at least one room in their home.
000 adults) found almost one in ten people have one room or more in their home where they have no mobile connectivity.
What's more, the National Association of Estate agents said Wifi Calling can stop house sellers suffering from losing out because of poor mobile coverage.
when they're buying a house innovations like this can help sellers ensure they are maximizing the value of their home
"Wifi Calling will make a real difference to millions of customers across the UK, from basement flats in London to the most rural homes in the country."
These collagen building blocks can be used to create customized three-dimensional tissue and organs outside the body to support basic biological research,
what is known as a contractile ring is created in the interior wall of a cell membrane. As this ring contracts
The doctor then takes hold of the patient's heel and lifts it upward. With that motion, the two lights trace an arc that is recorded by a camera positioned about 1. 5 meters to the side of the patient.
After 3play's cofounders graduated from MIT Sloan, the company set up shop in a tiny apartment in Somerville, Massachusettshere the four, without computer-science backgrounds,
called to say they were coming to 3play's corporate headquartersour dumpy apartment, "Johnson says."
along with funding from the state of Kansas, the Hall Family Foundation and Bold Aspiration funding from KU's Office of the Provost, supported the work.
including coal and cement producers, whose business models were deemed no longer tenable because of climate change or environmental costs.
"Dr Nicola Stanley-Wall, of the University of Dundee's Division of Molecular Microbiology, said:"
lighter and with more'bars'so devices like these could be installed in meeting room tables
whether the panels are to be mounted directly on a roof or on open racks. Quality management of the manufacturing process.
In addition, the group aims to create guidelines for inspecting factories during module manufacturing. Durable and reliable design is paramount Assuring solar modules will last for decades Sarah Kurtz,
building a hardier module for the most difficult climates and a slimmed-down, less expensive module for milder climates.
open-rack and close roof. That new rating system will be managed alongside the current international standards, which should hasten the process.
if there's slippage in the factory. It's easier to confirm that each module functions correctly at the beginning of its life than it is to control the long-term reliability.
those hard-to-detect problems that occur over time can begin in the factory. Early last year, the IEC accepted the PVQAT's proposal,"Guidelines for Increased Confidence in Module Design Qualification and Type Approval."
System-level inspectionsssential for lenders and insurers Assuring solar modules will last for decades Work by Namaste Solar installing PV modules on the roof of the parking structure on NREL's South Table
632 solar modules installed on the garage roof and south facade. Credit: Dennis Schroeder The third leg of the stool is assuring that the entire systemade up of many modules
an airplane flyover that falls far short of capturing the detailed images needed to identify a potential problem."
This stems from the difficulties of diagnosing an infection in the field-poor sensitivity and a short window of spore secretion both limit the viability of acid-fast staining,
A project of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear research, the 17-mile LHC tunnel big enough to ride a bicycle through straddles the border between France and Switzerland.
"SMU is active on the LHC's ATLAS detector experimentwithin the big LHC tunnel, gigantic particle detectors at four interaction points along the ring record the proton collisions that are generated
"We're not stamping thousands of them out of a factory every day, there's only one of them on the planet
#Crystal breeding factory uncovered A breakthrough in understanding the way in which crystals develop will have a major impact for the pharmaceutical, chemical and food industries.
Lancaster University chemists in collaboration with international colleagues have uncovered a'Crystal Nuclei Breeding Factory'which, they say,
"The breakthrough also sheds light on the longstanding question of how the distinct'handedness'of molecules of life might have arisen.
NRL's robot could help get aircraft from factory to fleet faster. NRL66. 3 robot applies,
#New software analyses the effect of climate change on buildings from the cloud Large Spanish construction companies have begun to use a simulation software package,
and Technology at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (CIT UPC) have developed the first-ever software to analyse the entire life of a building,
or group of buildings, from the cloud. The tool, named NECADA, allows the entire construction cycle to be simulated,
Even before its commercialization, Spanish construction groups such as Acciona and VIA had used already it in some of their projects.
"You can have a very ecological building, but in making it viable materials have been used which are not so ecological,
and customise the primary factors that have an impact on buildings.""It is also possible to calculate how much CO2 a building will emit,"notes Fonseca.
and design buildings that are adapted to European legislation. The algorithms that are implemented currently in the system are some of the heuristic classics uch as hill-climbing, simulated annealing, NSGA-II,
Starting with the shape and design of the building modelled in three dimensions with the open standard Building information modeling (BIM),
It also bears in mind the building's orientation and the area's climate""he stresses.
and their transportation, assembly and disassembly so the construction company can calculate the total cost of the building."
"For example, businesses that manage a number of buildings, such as hotel chains or public bodies and local administrations,
which could use it to completely evaluate the potential renovations they need to carry out on their buildings".
Taking a building or residential area's condition as a starting point, a number of alternatives to identify the best solution can be explored,
and analysing the way it would fit in a specific building.""Other possible uses would be for carrying out energy audits
within a few days of the poor July export data and other official figures showing factory-gate prices continued their three-year slide in July, touching a six-year
"said Nitesh Shahra, president of the refinery division of Ruchi Soya, the country's biggest edible oil refiner."
researchers have woven together a bridge strong enough to walk across. Made at the ETH Zurich Flying Machine Arena in Switzerland,
the bridge joins two scaffolds, and is the first full-scale load-bearing structure autonomously built by flying machines.
The feat represents one more step in the field of robotic aerial construction 1, 2 Except for the metal scaffolding at either end of the structure,
the bridge itself consists exclusively of Dyneema rope, a tensile material with a low weight-to-strength ratio that makes it ideal for aerial construction.
links and braids 3 and has a total rope length of about 120 m. How it works The project was developed at the Flying Machine Arena 4, a research and demonstration platform for aerial robotics.
The arena is equipped with a motion capture system that provides vehicle position and attitude measurements for the small custom quadrocopters.
all the connections and links of the bridge primary and bracing sections are without human intervention autonomously woven
in order to ensure that the quadrocopters behave as desired 5. The researchers then walk across the bridge to demonstrate its load-bearing ability.
Once the bridge itself is constructed, stabilizers are added to make it easier for a person to cross.
the locations of the narrow openings of the bridge must be measured and input to the system,
allowing for safe passage through the remainder of the gastrointestinal (GI TRACT. The material is also elastic,
the polymer gel dissolved, allowing for the safe passage of the small PCL pieces without obstruction.
This research was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the National institutes of health, and the Alexander Von humboldt Foundation e
During that time, the team took time-of-flight pictures of the distribution of atoms to capture the topology
what it opens up is a new window into the quantum world, where materials with new properties can be studied.
including quantum Hall physics and topological insulators. e are adding new perspectives to physics, Ketterle says. e are touching on the unknown,
With a solid electrolyte there no safety problem you could throw it against the wall, drive a nail through it there nothing there to burn. he proposed solid electrolyte also holds other advantages,
and the California Institute of technology have developed innovative flat, optical lenses that are capable of manipulating light in ways that are difficult
and generate an all-in-one building skin that is at once structural and transparent? she asks. ecause glass is at once structural and transparent,
and theye being eyed for use as building blocks in hybrid structures with unique properties for electronics,
Shahsavari is an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and of materials science and nanoengineering at Rice.
Working with brick-like blocks of gold nanoantennas, the Berkeley researchers fashioned a kin cloakbarely 80 nanometers in thickness,
Working with brick-like blocks of gold nanoantennas, the Berkeley researchers fashioned a kin cloakbarely 80 nanometers in thickness,
Atoms are the building blocks of all matter On earth, and the patterns in which they are arranged dictate how strong,
and one on the other side of the heart wall. The clinician then deploys the patch and turns on the catheter UV light.
But don think there are any huge barriersto building such a demonstration he says. n theory,
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#New Memristors Could Usher in Bionic Brains Last month we saw researchers in the US push the envelope of nonvolatile memory devices based on resistance switching to the point where they are now capable of mimicking the neurons in the human brain.
#See through Walls by the Glow of Your Wi-fi It used to be that a bad guy besieged by police could just shoot out the lights and hide in the dark.
tomorrow thugs may also have to worry about the soft radio glow of wireless routers and mobile communications towers.
and mobile telephone signals to eepeople moving, even behind masonry walls 25 centimeters thick. The method
Other researchersotably Dina Katabi and Fadel Adib of MITAVE built through-wall radars in the household communication bands,
#A Driving App That Crowdsources the Weather It a cold day in winter and youe driving on dry pavement when your dashboard flashes a warning:
and could allow them to be used as windows that serve the dual function of letting light into a building
and could allow them to be used as windows that serve the dual function of letting light into a building
and have widespread rooftop, mobile, and spaceborne applications. They added that kirigami systems might also be phased useful for array radar and optical beam steering.
The ohm, the SI unit of electrical resistance, is calibrated by taking advantage of the quantum Hall effect.
The Hall effect occurs when a magnetic field is applied perpendicular to the flow of current. The resulting force on electrons causes them to migrate to the side,
In the quantum version of the Hall effect, which occurs in a thin layer of material,
Conveniently, the quantum Hall resistance is expected to be completely independent of the kind of device that built.
The heat-generating resistance comes mainly from the passage of current through gaps between the nanotubes.
#Tunnel Transistor May Meet Power Needs of Future Chips A new kind of transistor consumes 90 percent less power than conventional transistors,
which serve as the building blocks of most microchips. Transistors act like switches that flick on and off to represent data as zeroes and ones.
One way that scientists have sought to overcome this limit is with tunnel FETS (TFETS. These devices take advantage of the ability of electrons to penetrate barriers,
#MIT's 3-D Microwave Camera Can See through Walls Visible light is all well and good for things like eyeballs,
which can be used to image objects through walls, in 3-D. A microwave camera is sort of like a cross between a visible light camera and a radar imaging system,
Like radar, microwaves don really notice things like darkness or fog or walls, but unlike radar theye not confused by the kinds of angled surfaces that make the stealth fighter so stealthy.
Here's a video showing the microwave camera taking pictures of (among other things) a mannequin through a solid wall:
just in case whatever is on the other side of the wall has extra limbs, which means you probably don want to enter that room.
One other trick that the microwave camera is capable of is multispectral imaging. As the camera takes each measurement
After that, Kingsmore team used in-house software to search through the mutations for those associated with a disease that matched the baby symptoms.
what may be the world longest building. These machines accelerate charged particles using either a pulse of radio frequency radiation
or a wakefield (using high energy unchesof electrons to blast a tunnel through plasma; when the tunnel collapses back on itself,
following particles accelerate by riding the charged wake of the collapsing front). RF accelerators can reach energies of a few tens of mega electron volts before the RF energy itself begins to destabilize the mechanism in what called plasma breakdown.
The quartz walls are 270 m thick, leaving a central vacuum 400 m in diameter.
When the terahertz pulse reflects off the left wall (around the injection pinhole) it catches the electrons,
OLEDS have enabled a new generation of bright, high-quality, low-cost, power-efficient, flexible, lightweight flat panel displays.
and currently there is room for growth across the value chain. Already this year, wee seen a $50m investment into drone maker 3d Robotics and a $95m investment into microsatellite company Planet Labs, both of which count agriculture as key early market opportunities.
Square Marketing is a set of tools that lets brick and mortar businesses act more like online retailers when it comes to setting up
and tracking the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. Email marketing has grown more sophisticated over the years,
and they can do it right from their phones that a tectonic shift in that arena. The suite of tools Square is building out like Register
the Control is actually a removable button/dial that you can carry from room to room to control lighting
The Bluetooth-powered device can stick to your wall or you can put it on any surface.
The idea for Building code Kingdoms followed on from Targett and his cofounder spending time volunteering in schools teaching kids programming,
survey farm land, inspect cell towers, patrol property, or do search & rescue, Now wel see just how many businesses will pay a monthly subscription for Airware to power their drones for industrial inspections, agriculture management, anti-poaching, and more.
the Ground Control Station that lets a single user operate a fleet of drones from a Windows laptop or tablet,
These widgets are actually the main reason Airware is sticking with Windows for its tablet app.
building on Windows will allow them to download the same app to each tablet but provide different interfaces by simply checking off
Plenty of companies need to inspect factories and pipelines monitor farm land, and survey big tracts of land.
and Windows smart application running on the same smart phone. The scanned information is sent then to a remote server in Ozcan laboratory
Today, the lower house of The french Parliament overwhelmingly voted for this new law, making it highly likely to be implemented definitely in a couple of months.
But 438 out of 566 members of the lower house from all parties voted for the law.
The fact is that hackers have succeeded in using photographs to lift fingerprints and access personal accounts.
as soon as they enter a brick-and-mortar store. Theoretically, in the new era of NFC payments, customers would be able to choose whatever items they wish
and shapes appear on walls and floors. It also allows for multi-user interaction one designer can sketch some furniture
for example designing a living room, they can test different furniture options according to the scale and even work on the interior detailing.
whether we will be able to drape a concave fabric screen over our living rooms so we can move IKEA furniture around in real-time in 3d a
Nebia flat, circular shower head is made of a high-density polymer with nozzles that spray out micro droplets.
where depth could capture a real environment (like an apartment for sale or a teleconferencing room)
and unearthed clay minerals after drilling Martian rock again suggesting an aquatic environment in the planet past.
DOM Indoors is a robotic system that can reconfigure any room within minutes. Seriously: It looks like a cross between a Terminator movie and LEGOS.
Little blocks rise out of the floor to create walls, tables and surfaces, and sink back down again in a fluid motion.
That because all of the building materials enough 5-inch tiles and aluminum studs construct thousands of 6-inch cubes are packed flat
Wish your studio apartment could be a bedroom at night and an open workspace during the day?
ASMBLD is in talks with a large co-working space to implement the robotic flooring in its facilities. hink about a business space where the large conference rooms that are used once a day are the biggest spaces in the building,
For a 500-square-foot room, it would cost around $12, 000 to install, Asmbld reports,
when labor and material costs are zero for each subsequent wall configuration. If a robot senses something above it that heavier than usual,
Construction and demolition waste comprises 40 percent of landfill mass in the U s, . and 60 percent of building demolition is due to changes in tenant requirements, not physical condition.
And this doesn account for the massive savings in time and labor costs when you replace human workers with DOM robots. hen youe building a building there coordination,
you don just have walls, you have electrical conduits, lights, and outlets. n order for DOM Indoors to be viable in real life,
A plastic tiled wall is one thing, but tables and beds clearly require a different composition. ee not expecting people to start using this right away as daily reconfiguration,
and analysing the data was developed in-house and around Rs 100 crore value could be put for that,
Excepting the radome that houses the radar, all other systems were domestically sourced.""The radome which is radio frequency transparent was not available in the country,
and analysing the data was developed in-house and around Rs 100 crore value could be put for that,
Excepting the radome that houses the radar, all other systems were domestically sourced.""The radome which is radio frequency transparent was not available in the country,
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