The arm moves vertically using a counterweight pulley system inspired by the construction crane lifts and drawing boards,
researchers from Delft University mixed the bio material into the concrete along with calcium lactate. When cracks in the concrete appear,
and water enters them, the water'awakens'the bacteria. Once active, the bacteria'eat'the calcium lactate
and measure rooms and objects, and a snapshot camera that can alter a photo's background after a photo has been taken.'
since poppies are very efficient natural factories, researchers say.''Poppies are not going to be displaced overnight by any stretch of the imagination,
such as the Eiffel Tower, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Sydney Opera house. They found the same neurons that fired for the images of each of the actors also fired
'The neuron initially firing to Jennifer Aniston started firing to the Eiffel Tower at the time the subject started remembering this association.'
when there's a big disaster in an urban environment, hundreds of houses collapsed, and there's only a certain number of trained dogs,
and improving the physiological sensors for use in animal shelters and hospitals.''This platform is an amazing tool,
The plants are kept hydrated by drips of water condensing on the inner walls of the biospheres,
and consists of nearly 17 miles of circular tunnels. It was shut down so that its energy levels could be doubled almost,
and replaced, after a Dutch company announced their plans to build prefab plastic roads that could slot together like Lego bricks.
would see Rotterdam become the first city in the world to lay down plastic road tiles made in a factory in advance.
The company behind the idea, construction firm Volkerwessels, said that the surface would require less maintenance than the traditional road building material asphalt
'Plastic offers all kinds of advantages compared to current road construction, both in laying the roads and maintenance,'Rolf Mars, the director of Volkerwessels'roads subdivision,
We have a"street lab"available where innovations like this can be tested. Mars said the idea had enormous potential for future developments.
your heart goes through the roof when he takes that corner, 'Cooper said.''From there, we looked at how we were going to take the heartbeat and express it throughout the car.'
The retired factory supervisor can now make out shapes with his eyes closed proof that the system is working.
that can imitate flying, roller coasters, and other planets all while burning calories and toning muscles. he first design model was developed on the basis of VR in 2012,
when windows are left open. At 10mm across, the chip is small enough to be installed inside double glazing on the frame that separate the two glass panes. hanks to this window space,
the solar cell obtains adequate light, even in the darkness of winter, said Fraunhofer. On the chip are magnetic
and acceleration sensors that measure how far the window is open, and radio that communicates this information to a basestation.
In the window application, sensors on the chip measure tilt and report if it is open
if a window is open while the heating is on, for example. The chip also detects shock,
and a crowbar levering open the window. he applications of the radio chip are diverse.
or warn if a window is still open when they leave the Home in addition, it offers reliable protection from intruders even for closed windows,
said the lab. Impetus came from Israeli firm Solchip which approached IMS for on-die solar cells two years ago.
Solchip has plans to use them to monitor street traffic and the climate in vineyards. here are a lot of application areas,
The solar radio sensor chip is on show this week at the BAU trade fair in Munich (Hall C2, Stand 119) a
and the details of the movement such as lift the arm, extend the arm, grasp the cup,
the app launches with no lift and tap or point and click required. According to the company, this updated look streamlines the interface, speeds up engagement with apps,
The gap between valence and conduction bands can be tuned precisely by adjusting the arsenic concentration. his allows us to produce materials with previously unattainable electronic and optical properties in an energy window that was hitherto inaccessible,
The gap between valence and conduction bands can be tuned precisely by adjusting the arsenic concentration. his allows us to produce materials with previously unattainable electronic and optical properties in an energy window that was hitherto inaccessible,
#Wize Mirror reads back vital signs Mirror mirror on the wall, am I at risk of heart disease?
the company has researched reconstructed skin for the past three decades, growing thousands of human skin specimens in a uman skin factory,
Using microscopic building blocks from human skin cells, the printing process involves a skin io inkthat is blended with a filler gel and tested in a tray.
The hottest hot beverages in Manhattan are the sippable one brothsfrom Brodo single-service window, with add-ins like Calabrian chili oil, shiitake mushroom tea and fermented beet juice.
a 42-story commercial building overlooking the Statue of liberty and New york Harbor; by year end, IPSOFT will take over three more floors to accommodate its growing staff. eople argued with me,
They said this is the stupidest move to get seven floors in this building, says the 46-year-old Dube, clad in a designer blazer and bow tie,
It not just people on the street, Christian says. t also true for a lot of the people at the very places developing these technologies. hristian cites the example of Stuart Russell, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley,
Within the next decade you might pass somebody in the hallway and not be able to tell if it a human or an android.
The ater coolerconversations might have to happen in a chat room, and it uses Yammer for extracurricular discussions. t takes consistent and thorough communication,
The 8 Essential Steps to Building a Winning Company Cultureone of the biggest concerns of in-office managers who allow employees to work from home is knowing
supporting water conservation initiatives outside of your company walls reinforce efforts being made inside to preserve this precious commodity throughout the production process.
At the factory where they are made, the plastic sheets are cleaned first and processed to make them malleable enough to create the bags.
Right now, Google is focused on building what it calls the Spiral 2 device, a new version of the hardware that will include multiple modules, greater flexibility,
Spiral 2 also shifts from FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) to ASICS specialized application-specific integrated circuits with superior performance
a computer running a previous version of Windows can be upgraded by the end user to run the next version.
but system requirements on Windows haven budged in nine years. The average phone or tablet buyer has no way to upgrade their operating system
just like your phone can transfer from one cell tower to the next to maintain a connection.
or sculpt a clay statue using both hands. HP and Zspace are positioning the display primarily for science
With free access to Office and free upgrades to Windows 10, Microsoft is bowing to market realities.
but those devices are powered still by being tethered to a wall or a reserve power pack. What if you could generate power for your mobile devices simply by moving your body,
The researchers previously demonstrated something known as a uantum spin Hall statewhen they applied a magnetic field with an in-plane orientation.
RIBA (Robot for Interactive Body Assistance) is designed to gently lift patients into or out of bed,
#Low-cost, tunable smart windows developed with lectrokinetic pixelsresearchers at the University of Cincinnati with industry partners,
have created low-cost, smart window technology based on electro-kinetic pixels, which can dynamically adapt for brightness,
color temperatures and opacity something that neither blinds nor existing smart windows can do. This patent-pending research, supported by the National Science Foundation, will hopefully lead to low-cost window tinting that can provide a wide range of optical functionality such as adjusting for color and brightness.
What is the problem? Currently, most home and commercial windows use inexpensive, mechanical shades to provide privacy
and to block light, heat or cold. These (as you may have guessed) are quite effective, which has slowed the adoption of relatively expensive and seemingly unnecessary electronically controlled window tinting.
Previously these electronic windows could only mimic the clear-to-opaque performance of mechanical shades therefore offering no additional performance or functionality benefit,
but at a cost far greater than existing, and much simpler, age-old technology. For any real-world interest to gain hold, smart windows need to be both inexpensive
and offer something that shades cannot. What have the researchers actually created? The researchers have produced electrokinetic pixels for use as a fundamental smart window element.
These are capable of dimming light transmission and fully altering the color temperature of transmitted light.
They can be integrated easily into new windows or even easily applied to already existing windows,
by means of a roll-on coating consisting of a honeycomb of electrodes (see bottom right image).
or change the color of the light along a spectrum from cooler blue to warmer yellow The image to the above right shows the different potential states the window tiles could operate In this is a mock-up based on the results from the single device.
and the two companies (Merck and HP), was how to apply common e-paper technology to larger structures such as windows, but inexpensively.
For example, $30 per square foot is the industry standard for window manufacturing, so in order to become viable,
In summary, the work here provides a unique design for smart windows using existing e-ink technologies,
Rivals to this technology are based liquid-crystal wallpapers and windows, and electrochromic materials (such as vanadium dioxide).
and more formal while leaving room for two batteries to be placed inside a device instead of just one.
and the building blocks (spores) are naturally occurring. Places where access to electricity is limited to non-exist,
The router could even power the camera through a brick wall, demonstrating that it would be possible to attach the device outside
Country top industrial houses have pledged to invest over Rs. 4, 50,000 crores under Digital India.
Chipotle shed or, more accurately, never adopted the volume-optimization processes of its onetime largest shareholder Mcdonald.
designed so as to ensure that the product is passed gently along the tank walls, as soon as it comes into contact with the deaeration tank specially designed cover.
the juice thus forms a very thin film over the tank walls. Utilising the tank entire surface area,
or stacking up Lego bricks. The algorithm helps to control BRETT learning by including a reward function that provides the robot with a score based on how well it doing,
Abbeel said. e still have a long way to go before our robots can learn to clean a house or sort laundry,
In use, the SQFT portal features a step-by-step listing process for sellers to include photos and features of their house
The SAGM is a new kind of grenade that can find an enemy hiding behind an object, a wall or other would-be cover.
say, low mud walls typical of battle environments like Afghanistan, they can avoid grenade rounds.
While in the air the SAGM will detect walls, without even relying on a range finder. After it passes the wall,
the SAGM explodes itself in the air above the target. To be truly versatile and effective downrange,
chairman of the House Homeland security Committee, said in a statement late Wednesday. Security experts told Foxnews. com that health data is extremely attractive to criminals. very crime needs motive and opportunity.
Here are three interesting programs that are building tiny intelligent flying and crawling robots-that all mimic familiar creatures,
These tiny robot construction crews could be deployed abroad to support humanitarian operations, like helping the Army Corps of Engineers build bridges and refuges.
and help rebuild buildings when it gone. A team of computer scientists and engineers from the Harvard School of engineering and Applied sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has created an autonomous robotic construction crew that will be capable of doing all that and more.
according to IDC. pple efforts to maintain ipad momentum have fallen flat so far, IDC said in a statement,
One of the few bright spots is Microsoft and Windows device makers. They are tapping into a shift toward large-screen tablets in certain markets, according to both IDC and Canalys.
And Lenovo a large Windows device maker ad its best ever quarter, said Canalys. It should be noted,
"said Jean Philippe Bouchard, an IDC analyst. icrosoft's new OS Windows 10, a general shift towards larger screen s nd technology innovations such as gesture interface that could be introduced in tablets will help the market maintain positive growth in 2015,
and chat rooms will be required to register their names with operators and promise in writing to avoid challenging the communist political system, further tightening control over Internet use.
and viruses examining how they grow in environments such as countertops factories and raw materials. The data will be used to investigate how bacteria interact with scientists hopeful the results will improve food safety management across the supply chain. t becoming extremely complex with the global supply chainjeff Welser lab director of IBM Almaden research center
and understand microorganisms and their impact in factory environments. Metagenomics is using genomics to identify the microorganisms in a sample to determine
Lade AS says that the ship hull will generate aerodynamic lift giving a pull in the ship direction.
which takes the ship to the necessary speed to generate aerodynamic lift on its hull. Additionally the Vindskip will employ a specialized computer program to analyze meteorological data
The Alesund-based company has already been awarded two patents for the hull ability to generate aerodynamic lift
Theoretically, the new missile system would pinpoint buildings and knock out their electrical grids, plunging the target into darkness and general disconnectedness.
Indeed, it is this capacity to target individual buildings and not cities at large that makes the new weapon so effective,
the new cognitive cooking app that brings the knowledge of the world-famous"Jeopardy"-beating supercomputer to the average household kitchen.
and brings it down to a concrete level. You look at Watson ability to help pharmaceutical researchers,
This is an interesting way to bring those capabilities to the kitchen, he added. Part of what is especially impressive,
A single electron caught in a semiconductor nanostructure can structure the most fundamental of building blocks for a quantum computer.
Launched Hololens 3d headset at Windows 10 Event On Windows 10 event, Microsoft introduced its Hololens 3d headset
when Windows 10 was showcased, which a major OS release from Microsoft. The company said the headset would be available around the same time that Windows 10 is released,
which is expected to be this year. Microsoft chief executive, Satya Nadella said ur industry progress is punctuated by moments of category creation.
Windows and holographic computing is one such moment. Hololens is a bit different from the virtual reality headset that has been focused by Samsung, Sony and many others.
Most of the event was dedicated to the Windows, which is in fact the biggest engine of the Company profit.
So for the Windows users it is a good time to upgrade to Windows 10,
This would help Microsoft to get hundreds of millions of users running the older versions of Windows to upgrade quickly to the newest version.
Executive vice president at Microsoft Terry Myerson said indows 10 is so much more than the latest version of Windows.
Windows 10 changes the rules of the game and redefines the relationship between us and our customers.
to Windows 10 that was previously available only for Windows phone o
#Researchers developed hydrophobic metals using laser Engineers have spent decades studying super-hydrophobic surfaces because of the plethora of real-life applications.
or prevent oil from building up on bolts, scientists are also aiming to uncovering characteristics that might lead to large-scale solutions for society.
Nanoflares have been very useful for researchers that operate in the arena of quantifying gene expression. Aurasense, Inc.,a biotechnology company that licensed the Nanoflare technology from the university,
The findings could forge the way for the creation of tem cell factories? the mass production of human embryonic (pluripotent) stem cells that could provide an off-the-shelf product for clinical use in the treatment of the heart, liver, and brain.
In many cases, genetic mutations that cause cancer involve chemical changes to individual building blocks of DNAREATING DNA ADDUCTS."
it may therefore be possible to expand DNA sequencing from the four basic DNA building blocks to include adducts. he scientific community would have an important tool for making a detailed analysis of the molecular mechanisms involved in the initiation of cancer
we only have about 28 days after obtaining the grafts from organ donors before the tissues are no longer useful for implantation into patients. ost of this 28-day window of time is used for testing the tissues to ensure they are safe for use.
Unlike Guo laser-treated metals, the Teflon kitchen tools are not super-hydrophobic. The difference is that to make water to roll off a Teflon coated material,
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United states Air force Office of Scientific research provided funding for the work p
Shire said it anticipates synergies approximating 25-35%of the Street's consensus forecast of NPS Pharma's standalone future operating cost base from 2017 onward.
that's the point where many groups hit a wall. After a genome is sequenced, scientists are left with billions of data points to analyze before any truly useful information can be gleaned for use in research and clinical settings."
"This study has used the latest DNA sequencing technologies to provide a window into the development of testicular cancer,
#Scientists Smell Success for Treatment of Spinal cord Injuries Three years after they treated patients with spinal cord injury in a randomized clinical trial with transplanted cells from the patients'olfactory mucosa to build a bridge
and is currently freely available online as an unedited early e-pub. The researchers added that autologous olfactory ensheathing cells (OECS) are known to show high levels of nerve growth factor and neurotrophic receptor expression.
Once inside the cell, the virus creates a long strand of a large viral protein that must be cut at specific points to release individual proteins that serve various functions in building new virus particles.
In a paper (ell-cell communication in yeast using auxin biosynthesis and auxin responsive CRISPR transcription factors published in the American Chemical Society's ACS Synthetic biology journal,
While inter-microtubule bridges in the mitotic spindle had been seen before, the researchers were the first to view the mesh."
and this gave the impression that'bridges'linked microtubules together, continued Dr. Royle. his had been known since the 1970s.
All of a sudden, tilting the fiber in 3d showed us that the bridges were not single struts at all
When the patch is applied like a plaster, the needles pierce the top layer of skin
"The findings from this study were published recently in Nature Communications through an article entitled ell cycle regulator 14-3-3s opposes
"Our new protein-making factory holds promise to expand the genetic code in a unique and transformative way, providing exciting opportunities for synthetic biology and biomolecular engineering."
#PCR Makes the Jump to Light speed The amplification of minute amounts of genetic material is the cornerstone of every molecular biology laboratory
As a result, EL panels have generally been restricted to flat or slightly curved surfaces. However, researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of technology (KIT) and Franz Binder Gmbh & Co have developed now a new manufacturing process to print EL panels directly onto the surface of almost any convex and concave shape.
#Ballistic wallpaper to help protect soldiers seeking temporary shelter It sounds like an old Goon Show joke,
but soldiers may one day protect themselves from blasts by wallpapering temporary shelters. It may not be very decorative,
but the new ballistic wallpaper under development by the US ARMY Corps of Engineers uses a special fiber inlay to help prevent walls from collapsing under blast effects.
you can still spot obscure windows dating back to the Second world war showing traces of sticky tape that the owners never bothered to strip off.
Britons would crisscross their windows with ordinary tape to keep the glass from turning into flying daggers during bomber attacks.
and the principle is being revived to reinforce not windows, but whole walls. According to Nick Boone, a research mechanical engineer with the US ARMY Corps of Engineers'Engineer Research and development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, Mississippi, soldiers will often take temporary shelter in abandoned buildings made of masonry, brick, cinderblock,
or other materials. These may seem substantial, but when struck by an explosive shell or missile,
they can collapse into dangerous rubble. The new wallpaper, which was unveiled at the Pentagon on May 14 as part of Department of defense Lab Day,
lightweight means of quickly reinforcing existing walls. It consists of rolls of adhesive wallpaper made of flexible polymer film,
and keeps blast-damaged walls from turning into a hail of flying debris. Boone says that the wallpaper has undergone already blast testing at Fort Polk, Louisiana, and Eglin Air force base,
The video below demonstrates the quick (and painless) lift and release via robot b
#Wi-fi signals used to perform a head count The technology is basically the same as that previously used by Mostofi's team to look through walls.
But rather than identifying the position and outline of stationary objects within a walled structure,
but also locate people behind solid walls. The video below explains the head-counting Wi-fi technology,
the new fluidic computer uses electromagnetic fields to accurately pump these droplets around a set of physical gates to perform logical operations.
to enable everyone to design new circuits based on building blocks we describe in this paper or discover new blocks,
if you're in a narrow street that won't let you do a proper U-turn.
Even plastics factory making small household items required as much manual labor as a metal works turning out petrol engines.
Because the tube's wall is thicker on one side than the other, the tube as a whole coils towards the thinner side as it stiffens with the higher air pressure.
More recently, researchers have laid the foundations for building three-dimensional objects out of graphene, though this did not extend to 3d printing.
and the periodic floods, the locals have had to resort to energy-inefficient terrace farming. This is not an isolated problem:
The evaporating sea water condenses on the inner walls of the biosphere, creating a high-humidity environment (up to 85 percent) that favors crop growth.
"In addition, the material can be used as a sealant, sticking to the tissue at the site of injury and creating a barrier over a wound."
"The team is now working on building a larger prototype, with the hope that this technology could be used to better integrate photoelectrochemical cells within the smart grid.
and building on technology the team had developed last year, the scientists assembled a thin, flat rectangle-shaped transmitter.
On a sunny day, that just as good as a 5v/2a wall charger. Solar Paper also has some built-in smarts to help users get the most out of it.
but things stray from the norm at the bloated seat tube, which houses the battery and electric motor drive.
It also houses four separate chambers for carrying drugs directly to the brain and cellular-scale inorganic light-emitting diode(-ILED) arrays, allowing it to shine light on targeted cells.
#Smart low-carbon Solcer House generates more electricity that it uses A Welsh university claims to have built the UK first low-cost, low-carbon, energy-positive house.
The Solcer House was built by Cardiff University Solcer Project, part of the LCRI Program (Low Carbon Research Institute.
The house is located in Pyle near Bridgend and follows the"Buildings as Power stations"concept developed by the SPECIFIC Innovation and Knowledge Centre.
Energy-positive status is achieved by way of reduced energy demand, renewable energy supply and storing energy for later use.
Low-carbon cement was used for the construction of the Solcer House. To reduce its demand for energy
the house has high levels of thermal insulation, structural insulated panels (SIPS), external insulation and low-emissivity double-glazed aluminum-clad timber frame windows and doors.
Transpired solar collectors (TSC) are employed also. These comprise a perforated skin on the exterior of the house that draws air into the cavity
and warms it via the sun's rays. It is drawn then into the house as a low-cost means of heating via ventilation.
Electricity is generated by way of a 4. 3 kwp glazed photovoltaic solar panel array. This is fully integrated into the south-facing roof of the house
eliminating the need to have bolted it on. Energy that is not immediately required is stored in the house's 6. 9-kwh battery.
Electricity generated and stored is used to power the heating, ventilation, hot water system and household appliances. The Solcer House took 16 weeks to build
and was completed in February this year. The video below shows the construction of the Solcer House e
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