a full-sized HDMI port, a pair of USB ports and an SD card slot included. The systems will ship with a choice of just 16,32 or 64 GB internal storage,
These include sensors that aren't as accurate in determining the location and status of themselves and things around them as they could be,
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.
The sensor is scaled a-down version of a Fabry-Pérot interferometer. As such, it works by shining light of various wavelengths through an air sample.
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,
or negative electrodes, of lithium-ion batteries while also extending their lifetime and potentially allowing for faster battery charging
The new electrode, which makes use of aluminum/titanium"yolk -and-shell"nanoparticles, is reportedly simple to manufacture
The lithium-ion batteries in our phones, tablets and laptops store their energy-carrying ions inside negative electrodes made of graphite.
Other electrode materials could in theory do a far better job by packing in more energy
and contract very noticeably as the greatly increased number of lithium ions travel to and from the electrode with each charge cycle.
damages the electrode contacts and reduces the cell's capacity. The team led by MIT professor Ju Li claim to have found a way around this problem.
storing and releasing ions without damaging the structure of the electrode and leading to much longer-lasting, high-capacity batteries.
because the repeated expansion and shrinkage inside the electrode cause aluminium particles to shed their outer layer.
the new electrode can reportedly store over three times as much energy per unit mass (1. 2 Ah/g) at a normal charging rate.
which they fabricated using lithium iron phosphate for the positive electrode. Once this technology is ready for real world applications,
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
Even better, the stable and quickly reprogrammable nature of the chip's architecture changeable by means of software code means that a vast range of existing
it took seconds to reprogram the chip, and milliseconds for the chip to switch to the new experiment,"said University of Bristol Phd student
and research team member, Jacques Carolan.""We carried out a year worth of experiments in a matter of hours.
What wee really excited about is using these chips to discover new science that we haven even thought of yet...
This chip has been fabricated and packaged up, so that we never need to realign it. It sits there,
with plans to add even more chips in the near future.""Over the last decade, we have established an ecosystem for photonic quantum technologies,
and SLAC, contains 189 sensors, has a resolution equivalent to 800,000 eight-megapixel cameras, and includes a filter-changing mechanism and shutter for viewing different wavelengths from the near-ultraviolet to the near-infrared.
the human body is becoming host to an ever-increasing array of electronic devices that need to wirelessly communicate with each other.
such as smartwatches, implanted smart monitors, 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,
and therefore also carry relatively bulky batteries to power their transmitters. Though still in development, the engineers say their new system is superior to existing radio communications technologies in this field,
At one end of this arrangement, the wires terminate at a receiver and analyzer, while at the other end the wires are formed into coils that wind around three parts of the body:
but it would also reduce the size of ingestible transmitters to something much easier to swallow."
The feat was accomplished by running wires connected to electrodes on the patient's sensory cortex (the part of the brain responsible for identifying tactile sensations)
Torque sensors integrated into the device are able to detect when pressure is being applied to the prosthesis,
and a placeholder for a wireless video camera. Not the first stomach-inspecting device ever to be created to wirelessly transmit video from within a patient,
a sensor pad attached to the person can continue to capture and record subsequent images which a medical professional can then download
uses a touchscreen and helmet-mounted interface to visualize data collected from a host of sensors on the hull of the vehicle,
and the technology could scale up to include thousands, even millions of entangled quantum bits on a single chip.
and microwave radiation The technique could scale up to hold thousands, even millions of qubits on a single chip
what's known as a CNOT quantum logic gate. Together with a single controllable qubit, this is the basic building block of a quantum computer
and paves the way to quantum chips that can perform just about any operation. The scientists built this logic gate by taking two standard transistors, next to each other,
and reconfiguring them so they would only hold a single electron each. The spin of the electron sets a code of 0 or 1,
"Our team is looking for industrial partners to construct a chip that would contain between tens and hundreds of qubits,
and which uses the silicon-CMOS technology used today for most computer processor chips, "lead researcher Andrew Dzurak told us."
and the technology could scale up to include thousands, even millions of entangled quantum bits on a single chip.
what's known as a CNOT quantum logic gate. Together with a single controllable qubit, this is the basic building block of a quantum computer
and paves the way to quantum chips that can perform just about any operation. The scientists built this logic gate by taking two standard transistors, next to each other,
and reconfiguring them so they would only hold a single electron each. The spin of the electron sets a code of 0 or 1,
"Our team is looking for industrial partners to construct a chip that would contain between tens and hundreds of qubits,
and which uses the silicon-CMOS technology used today for most computer processor chips, "lead researcher Andrew Dzurak told us."
#Boron-doped graphene to enable ultrasensitive gas sensors As an atom-thick, two-dimensional material with high conductivity,
graphene is set to enable a stream of new electronic devices, including particularly sensitive sensors for the detection of various gases,
such as those produced by explosives. Now an international team of researchers led by Pennsylvania State university (Penn State) has created a graphene-boron amalgam that can detect particular gases down to mere parts per billion,
and may eventually lead to detectors with such sensitivity that they could detect infinitesimally tiny amounts of gas in the order of parts per quadrillion.
the researchers created sensors that are able to detect gas molecules at exceptionally low concentrations;
where they were compared then with known highly sensitive gas sensors. At the same time, the Novoselov lab at the University of Manchester, UK (where graphene was synthesized first
examined the electron transport function of the sensors, whilst contributing researchers in the US and Belgium established that boron atoms were melded into the graphene lattice
"This multidisciplinary research paves a new avenue for further exploration of ultrasensitive gas sensors, "says Dr. Avetik Harutyunyan,
Chief Scientist and project leader of Honda Research Institute USA Inc."Our approach combines novel nanomaterials with continuous UV light radiation in the sensor designs that have been developed in our laboratory by lead researcher
which is up to six orders of magnitude better sensitivity than current state-of-the-art sensors.""Suggested uses for these new types of sensors include safety alerts for workers in laboratories or commercial enterprises that use ammonia,
where leaks and spills are not only highly-corrosive but hazardous to health, or the detection of NOX leaks in automotive or industrial areas where exhaust fumes from engines containing the gas can prove lethal in confined spaces.
Already in use in some German pediatric clinics, the comb has conductive teeth that serve as electrodes.
trackers, and inverters, it appears utility-scale solar is here to stay and is positioned to be a very competitive source of electricity going forward.
and uses inverters to turn direct current into grid-ready alternating current, presents them with a serious set of challenges.
who previously held similar positions at aerospace giant Northrop grumman and inverter maker Advanced Energy. Innovus is looking to maintain high fuel efficiency
whether theye inverter-based renewable energy or battery storage systems, or traditional spinning generators. With the benefit of the Northern Power Systemspower converter
ould allow you to eliminate all those inverters, and just use the inverter that comes with the Innovus generator,
because it the same size as the system anyway. That a pretty attractive technology pathway and R&d pathway.
or predict the response of lots of household batteries and smart thermostats to rising and falling prices.
mart inverters will be on every new installation going forward, Hanley said, which will allow monitoring and control of solar, storage and EV chargers at homes and businesses.
smart thermostats and plug-in EVS to help defer distribution grid investments Ted Ko, policy director at behind-the-meter battery startup Stem,
Connected water heaters and smart thermostats could be added too, said Hanley. ou could be like us,
It great for Nest too--they can control their thermostats and adjust as needed. e
#How texting tools boost adherence rates In what is being hailed as a first step toward effective self-care,
#New Experiment Confirms Fundamental Symmetry In Nature With the help of the Large hadron collider (LHC) heavy ion detector ALICE (A large Ion Collider Experiment),
The team measured both the curvature of particle tracks within the detector magnetic field and the particlesflight time in order to calculate the mass-to-charge ratios.
After measuring both the curvature of particle tracks in the detector's magnetic field and the particles'time of flight
or even in sensors that measure magnetic fields. We could even see it used in future computer technology t
#Flexible wearable sensor enables 24-hour blood flow monitoring The best medical devices for measuring blood flow today require the patient to first show up at a clinic or hospital,
But an experimental sensor that clings to skin like a temporary tattoo could enable 24-hour monitoring of blood flow wherever a patient goes.
A wearable sensor could mean the difference between taking what is essentially a snapshot of a patient health
This attraction prevents any motion between the sensor and skin that could affect the accuracy of readings.
what we were trying to do was remove the relative motion between the body and detector system,
Most of the sensor bulk comes from a 40-micrometer-thick layer of silicone. Each of the other layers has a thickness of just tens or hundreds of nanometers.
Two rings of sensors around the actuator detect the temperature differences in the heat patterns with a precision within 0. 01 degrees Celsius.
Such flexible sensors could also be placed on internal organs, surgical tools, or implantable devices. For now, Webb and his colleagues continue to refine the heat-mapping blood flow device with the goal of making it smaller.
it will follow a special transmitter or go in preprogrammed routes. The drone is waterproof and small,
A firm called Equivital makes a chest-mounted wearable sensor that measures heart rate, stress, breathing, skin temperature and body position.
Humanyze, meanwhile, makes mart work badgescontaining microphones so employeesvoices can be analysed. Chris Brauer, director of innovation at Goldsmiths, University of London, said financial traders may soon produce their own iometric CVSTO prove to prospective employers that they have
They show a slightly bigger phone that contains a sensor for Apple Force Touch technology
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
which houses control electronics and the video camera holder o
#Diablo Rolls Out All-Flash DDR4 Memory Today Diablo Technologies announced the launch of Memory1, the first all-flash server system memory technology.
excited by the light are accumulated in the negative electrode. In the future, experts intend to create a mart box
The trick lies in the fact that the scientists were able to make the electrodes exceptionally thin just 80 nanometers.
These improved materials which have been used in batteries lithium iron phosphate positive electrode and lithium titanate negative.
and built-in sensors collect information about users to create an environment, customized for the current needs of man.
turning the paper into an electric circuit. he first thing I thought (upon first seeing the conductive ink) was that this has huge potential to change the (notions) of electric circuits,
Agic CEO Shinya Shimizu said in a recent interview with The Japan Times. Shimizu has a number of ideas on how the circuit marker can be utilized
The innovative part of the technology is that it can print electric circuits on large paper a few meters wide.
In the future, Shimizu said the technology could possibly be used to install electric circuits with sensors on wallpaper to create a smart home in
Electric circuits need to be drawn or printed on special paper coated with a chemical sold by Agic.
He also learned about electric circuits while at university and worked on it as a hobby. He initially hoped to become a graduate school researcher,
a University of Tokyo professor. n electric circuit is installed in so many things that you can hardly find things without it,
because this is a new form of electric circuit. n 2014, Shimizu, along with Kawahara, founded Agic in an effort to apply the technology to the business world.
compact rectangular box fitted with an antenna, a signal amplifier and a battery, which can be carried easily
The fabrics were three times as sensitive to nitrogen dioxide in air compared to another reduced graphene oxide sensor previously prepared on a flat material.
"This sensor can bring a significant change to our daily life since it was developed with flexible and widely used fibers,
unlike the gas sensors invariably developed with the existing solid substrates, "says Hyung-Kun Lee,
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,
The device was designed as an inverse of a traditional Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor machine, which shines a laser into the patient eye
and measures the refracted light with a photon sensor to find optical aberrations that affect eyesight.
Essentially, Netra replaces the expensive sensor with a smartphone display. Because the red and green light goes through different parts of the eye,
The robotic exoskeleton's sensors and motors are programmed to detect how much"help"a patient is capable of giving,
the Ekso's sensors and motors adjust, and provide less stepping power. Challenged to do more,
or used complex arrays of coils paired with sensors to locate the mice and deliver power."
Rather, the mouse bodies interact with surrounding magnetic fields, helping focus energy like a lens from the transmitter to the receiver in the implant.
#3d Computer Chips Could Be 1, 000 Times Faster Than Existing Ones A new method of designing and building computer chips could lead to blisteringly quick processing at least 1,
000 times faster than the best existing chips are capable of, researchers say. The new method,
which relies on materials called carbon nanotubes, allows scientists to build the chip in three dimensions. The 3d design enables scientists to interweave memory,
and the number-crunching processors in the same tiny space, said Max Shulaker, one of the designers of the chip,
the researchers figured out that drilling holes at certain spots within the chip can ensure that even a chip with wayward tubes would work as expected.
Those few conducting tubes can ruin an entire chip, and having to toss even a fraction of the chips wouldn't make financial sense, Shulaker added.
As a remedy, Shulaker and his colleagues essentially"turn off"all the semiconducting CNTS, leaving huge jolts of current to circulate through the remaining conducting nanotubes.
the team has built a variety of sensor wafers that can detect everything from infrared light to particular chemicals in the environment.
to make even bigger, more complicated chips s
#Thermal'Invisibility Cloak'Could Keep People Cool A new thermal"invisibility cloak"that channels heat around whatever it is trying to hide may one day help keep people and satellites cool,
It could help protect sensitive electronic components on microchips such as mobile devices, high-power engines and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI SCANNERS from the heat,
he added say, by unfolding antennas. But the futuristic technology is still in its infancy,
In addition, they are"currently considering placing sensors on the cloak, such that the cloak can sense the temperature of the environment
The new distance record was set using advanced single-photon detectors made of superconducting wires of molybdenum silicide that were about 150 nanometers
"We never could have done this experiment without these new detectors, which can measure this incredibly weak signal."
"The detectors used in this new experiment could record more than 80 percent of arriving photons, according to the scientists.
In comparison, the previous record-holder had operated detectors that with about 75 percent efficiency at best. Moreover, the new experiment detected 10 times fewer stray photons than the previous record-holder.
The researchers now plan to develop even better single-photon detectors to push distances for quantum teleportation even farther,
For example, sophisticated technologies (such as environmental sensors or communications tools) are used often on battlefields and then are left behind, where they can be scooped up by people who aren't authorized to use them,
#Braille Smartwatch Helps Blind People Communicate, Navigate, Read Ebooks There a new smartwatch soon to be coming to market,
but it designed for blind people, especially those who already know or are learning to read in Braille.
The implant has a set of electrodes leading to muscles on the weak side of the spine,
The technology is based on the error-related potential (Errp) measured non-invasively using electroencephalographic (EEG) electrode arrays.
Equipped with stereoscopic cameras for depth perception, five thrusters for stability, GPS and pitch-and-roll sensors,
In order to walk, the patient wore a cap with electrodes that detected his brain signals. These electrical signals the same as those a doctor looks at when running an electroencephalogram (EEG) test were sent to a computer,
The electrolyte used for the battery positive electrode is made mostly from lithium iron phosphate, while the electrolytes used for the negative electrode include lithium titanate,
and lithium hexafluorophosphate. Those are all common ingredients used in Li-ion rechargeable batteries but the thickness of these electrodes are just 80 to 90 nanometers,
which allows a lot of light to pass through and makes these batteries almost completely transparent. But by changing the chemical makeup of the negative electrode,
the Japanese researchers have found a way to make these transparent batteries now recharge themselves in the presence of sunlight,
The original mass sensor consists of a fluid-filled microchannel etched in a tiny silicon cantilever that vibrates inside a vacuum cavity.
They are also using the PLL approach to increase throughput by operating many cantilevers on a single chip m
way to improve methods for detecting polluting emissions using a sensor at the nanoscale. The paper was published in Nanotechnology.
The sensor was tested in conditions similar to ambient air since future devices developed from this method will need to operate in these conditions.
the copper oxide nanowire was made part of an electric circuit. The researchers detected carbon monoxide indirectly, by measuring the change in the resulting circuit electrical resistance in presence of the gas.
The next step is to detect different gases at the same time by using multiple sensor devices, with each device utilizing a different type of nanoparticle.
nanowire gas sensors will be cheaper and potentially easier to mass produce. The main energy cost in operating this kind of a sensor will be the high temperatures necessary to facilitate the chemical reactions for ensuring certain electrical response.
In this study 350 degree centigrade was used. However, different nanowire-nanoparticle material configurations are currently being investigated in order to lower the operating temperature of this system."
way to improve methods for detecting polluting emissions using a sensor at the nanoscale. The paper was published in Nanotechnology.
The sensor was tested in conditions similar to ambient air since future devices developed from this method will need to operate in these conditions.
the copper oxide nanowire was made part of an electric circuit. The researchers detected carbon monoxide indirectly, by measuring the change in the resulting circuit electrical resistance in presence of the gas.
The next step is to detect different gases at the same time by using multiple sensor devices, with each device utilizing a different type of nanoparticle.
nanowire gas sensors will be cheaper and potentially easier to mass produce. The main energy cost in operating this kind of a sensor will be the high temperatures necessary to facilitate the chemical reactions for ensuring certain electrical response.
In this study 350 degree centigrade was used. However, different nanowire-nanoparticle material configurations are currently being investigated in order to lower the operating temperature of this system."
The finding demonstrates that the stress of crystal deformation can impart a newfound degree of control over magnetic and electrical behavior in spintronic devices and sensors.
and power of lithium-ion batteries One big problem faced by electrodes in rechargeable batteries, as they go through repeated cycles of charging
creating an electrode made of nanoparticles with a solid shell, and a olkinside that can change size again and again without affecting the shell.
which use aluminum as the key material for the lithium-ion battery negative electrode, or anode, are reported in the journal Nature Communications, in a paper by MIT professor Ju Li and six others.
As a result, previous attempts to develop an aluminum electrode for lithium-ion batteries had failed.
hat separates the aluminum from the liquid electrolytebetween the battery two electrodes. The shell does not expand
but the inside of the electrode remains clean with no buildup of the SEIS, proving the shell fully encloses the aluminum
The result is an electrode that gives more than three times the capacity of graphite (1. 2 Ah/g) at a normal charging rate
This breakthrough could allow manufacturers to easily use graphene nanoribbons in hybrid integrated circuits which promise to significantly boost the performance of next-generation electronic devices.
This technology could also have specific uses in industrial and military applications, such as sensors that detect specific chemical and biological species
and photonic devices that manipulate light. In a paper published August 10, 2015 in the journal Nature Communications, Michael Arnold, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at UW-Madison, Phd student Robert Jacobberger,
the material most commonly found in today's computer chips. But to exploit graphene remarkable electronic properties in semiconductor applications where current must be switched on and off,
A team of users and staff working at the Molecular Foundry have created a thermal imaging technique that can eehow temperature changes from point to point inside the smallest electronic circuits.
which are directly related to the local temperature within an integrated circuit or transistor. Based on these principles
#Butterfly wings help break the status quo in gas sensing The unique properties found in the stunning iridescent wings of a tropical blue butterfly could hold the key to developing new highly selective gas detection sensors.
has replicated the surface chemistry found in the iridescent scales of the Morpho butterfly to create an innovative gas sensor.
The ground-breaking findings could help inspire new designs for sensors that could be used in a range of sectors,
The research, published in the highly respected scientific journal, Nature Communications on September 1st, describes how the composition of gases in different environments can be detected by measuring small colour changes of the innovative bio-inspired sensor.
which we can advance sensor and detector technology rapidly. Tiny treelike nanostructures in the scales of Morpho wings are known to be responsible for the butterfly brilliant iridescence.
This selective response to vapour molecules is the key to this bio-inspired gas sensor.
and Air force Research Laboratory, produced these new kind of colorimetric sensors that favourably compete with conventional gas sensor arrays in simplicity, stability,
At present, reliable and cost-effective sensors for detection of small but meaningful gas leaks in a multitude of industrial processes remain an unmet environmental, health,
The research team believe this highly selective colorimetric sensor could represent a significant advancement in gas leak detection performance in the future.
and fabricated a new kind of gas sensor based on these principles. hese new sensors not only selectively detect separate gases
Our next goal is to make these sensors in a cost-effective manner to offer new attractive sensing solutions in the marketplace.
ur research into these bio-inspired sensors demonstrates the huge value in applying the scientific learnings from the biological world to develop technologies for real world applications. d
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