this prototype New york Police department cruiser looks like almost any other squad car combing the streets of New york city.
said many departments adopt technology to increase the department s presence without having to place more officers on the street.
##The company got to thinking about building their own system, which eventually became Echo, the product Callassistant sells.##
About 15 seconds in, behind singing employees, a sign is taped on the wall. It reads,##English Only Policy!##
We sold software to manage the paperwork about chemicals used at factories, which are known as#material-safety data sheets.
#Hawaii s solar boom is so successful it s been blocked from further expansion Rooftop solar on a house in Hawaii.
they plunked down $35, 000 for a rooftop photovoltaic system. The couple looked forward to joining neighbors who had added panels,
And starting immediately, contractors and residents would need permission to connect most small rooftop systems to the grid.
Windshield wipers were invented in by the American property developer Mary Anderson who received a patent for her window cleaning device in 1903.
and Mrs Anderson noticed that drivers had to open the windows of their cars in order to see out of them.
to help those with disabilities better navigate urban streets. Of course, as in the upcoming video game Watch Dogs from Ubisoft, a bad guy could hack into the city and use its monitoring systems in nefarious ways.
and begin warming up the house, brewing a pot of coffee and switching off your security system.
while hurling a cement block We doubt anyone s gonna go around kicking this robot now. Big Dog s even bigger brother#LS3#carries 400 lbs
Maybe, but your kid s RC can t leap tall buildings in a single bound the way this little guy can.
and rescue workers get a look inside buildings and compounds from a safe distance away. With its big wheels, squat body,
he knew the gray skies outside his London apartment wouldn t do. So he shipped the 200-plus-pound contraption to Cairo,
They ve started#appearing in a small number of California homes to store electricity generated by rooftop solar panels,
#A big box retailer like Walmart could charge up a Tesla battery pack with cheap energy produced by its Solarcity rooftop photovoltaic array
which means only businesses with low-rise buildings and flat roof##retailers, corporate campuses##can take advantage of going solar.
The facility is a series of small buildings in the shadow of the looming Orot Rabin power station on Israel s northern coastline.
Mister launches simulated attacks against the computer systems of the trainees, who sit in an adjacent building.##
decorated with Star wars and Pac-Man murals and lines of code running off wall-mounted screens that show the hacking taking place live.
##In the cyber arena, when you fail to protect your system, the influence could be physical damage to your system.##
or it might use them to help move packages around its own warehouses. Calo was skeptical of the video offered up by Amazon
and the ability to fabricate space system components on-orbit instead of building them on the ground,
says Katie Hall, the chief technology officer of Witricity, a company that makes wireless charging equipment.
Meanwhile, in Arizona yesterday, the state s utility regulator turned back a request by Arizona Public service (APS) to#impose steep new fees on homeowners who install solar panels#on their roofs.
In Arizona, for instance, there were 900 solar arrays installed on Arizona residential rooftops in January 2009. By June of this year, that number had grown to 18,000 with 500 more photovoltaic systems being installed each month.
residential customers with rooftop solar do not pay for most of the electric service they use,
or don t want rooftop solar. The shifting of costs is unfair. It is also growing with every solar installation,
A $1000 3d printer that prints metal http://www. vimeo. com/78961565 The Mini Metal Maker prints 3d objects from digital files directly in precious metal clay, rather than in plastic.#
#Once these clay objects air-dry, they are fired in a kiln to produce beautiful solid metal objects of high purity and precision.
Using metal clay essentially replaces the entire wax-casting or lost-wax process ordinarily needed to do this.
*Refine the metal clay recipe for each of five different clay types:####Copper, Bronze, Steel, Silver & Gold.*
*Add a second print head for use with additional metal clays or support material.**Optimize the integrated motor carriage design
*Refine custom firmware for the printer to further optimize printing for clay.**Create the Mini Metal Forge software environment in order to foster a good user experience, particularly for the nontechnical craftsperson.*
In October 2012,#Mike Rogers#and Dutch#Ruppersberger, the chairman and ranking member of the#House Intelligence Committee, urged U s. companies to stop doing business with Huawei, the world s second
The window-mounted device uses a high-frequency laser microphone to pick up bothersome sounds then sends out sounds of its own at 180 degrees,
so sound is cancelled out before it even reaches your window. Its included suction cup mount has an##energy antenna##embedded inside to gather electromagnetic activity (such as from#Wi-fi signals) to translate for use as power,
allowing, for instance, a consumer to control his TV, house lights, and AC unit from a smartphone#or augmented reality devices like Glass##isn t actually all that far off.
It has already been put to work by British infantrymen in Afghanistan, scouting possible routes for enemy ambushes or secretively flying over enemy compound walls for a look inside.
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#Driverless cars to be launched on UK streets by 2015 ULTRA PRT#transport pod. Chances are if you have been to London s Heathrow Airport you have caught probably a glimpse of something called an ULTRA PRT#transport pod.
These driverless pods have been shuttling travelers from terminal to terminal at the massive airport sonce 2011.
and heading out into the city streets. Video)##The city of Milton Keynes lies just to the north of London.
meaning that the streets can get a tad congested from time to time. But thanks to a new fleet of pod cars, that might just be about to change.
Pedestrians wanting a lift to the shopping center, the train station or even their downtown office will be able to hail a pod by way of a simple smartphone app.
Fares will be set at#2 or just about $3. 15. Like their#Heathrow#counterparts, the Milton Keynes pod cars will run on electricity,
The pod cars are planned to run along the streets of Milton Keynes for five years as part of a pilot program.
Laying special lanes for the pods and building their charging stations is estimated to cost nearly $105 million.
smartphone-hailed pod cars will someday grace the streets of cities all across the world.
and they re doing it in your own backyard. The Motley Fool s free report##3 American Companies Set to Dominate the World##shows you how to profit.#
Volvo has yet to get beyond building a few of the panels but it is encouraged by early tests which show that the material stores energy much faster than conventional batteries.
500 square foot house in 20 hours Contour crafting. There have been huge advancements in 3d printing.##We have seen 3d printed oversized wrenches that measure 1. 2 meters in length.
Now. we can print an entire 2, 500 square foot house in 20 hours. Video)##In the TED Talk video below, Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), demonstrates automated construction,
using 3d printers to build an entire house in 20 hours. In manufacturing we use a process called CAD/CAM (computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing.
The size of the 3d printer is large enough to construct walls by depositing concrete based material layer upon layer to build a Wall in this video,
and has 60 in place at farms, fisheries and small factories in Japan and several abroad.##
Nikola Tesla, the inventor and rival to Thomas Edison, in the early 1900##s built the Wardenclyffe Tower, a 187-foot-high structure on Long island,
Financier J. Morgan backed the Wardenclyffe Tower. The project failed, and Tesla ended up broke.
Place your cellphone on a pad that s plugged into the wall, and it will recharge.
Plug a resonator into a wall outlet, and a device installed on a cellphone or an electric car receives the power
She started the MOOC Camp in September, meeting weekly with other students who were taking#Foundations of Business Strategy,
Every participant in a##MOOC Camp##will meet with an advisor from State seducationusa#program, which helps international students go to U s. colleges.
Also, MOOC Camp is running in some countries not known for freedom of speech like China and the former Soviet republic of Georgia,
when a pipeline or bridge structure is in danger or fractured. It uses proprietary algorithms to reduce false alarms.
expect it to use its core data-handling skills to shed new light on familiar age-related maladies.
and many are beginning to think in terms of houses that generate their own water supply, self-irrigating crops,
the ater Gardensare groupings of water-extracting towers for high volume and high quality water. Some of the planned uses are for forests, camping, fire suppression, agriculture, livestock,
and onto our streets. And most of our current bottles don degrade. A high percentage of the products we buy in grocery stores contain water.
To me, the handwriting is on the wall. Today steel pipes will soon be replaced with tomorrow air pipes,
Or temperature sensors throughout your house could communicate with thermostats to maintain an optimal temperature inside.
Some of those variables haveled the House of Lordsin the UK to deem theright to be forgotten ruling asunworkable, unreasonable and wrong in principle.
In a joint 300 million project, universities across Britain are coming together, alongside the Department of health, the Wellcome Trust, Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Medical Research Council.
#Smartphones to replace room keys at Hilton hotels The new smartphone key feature will arrive in six hotels in 2015.
-and Windows-enhanced cars will not start tapping into the next generation of Siri s, Google Now s and Cortana s intelligence.
sponsoring an event at the Innovation Pavilion in Centennial, Colorado. Former IBM engineer and noted futurist#Thomas Frey#addressed a gathering of business leaders,
In demonstration kiosks at the 12 pilot locations, Home depot employees can show customers how to print items like#replacement parts and product prototypes, CBS reports.
The current generation of 3-D printers are still relatively slow#printing an item the size of a Lego brick can take roughly half an hour
Both the Department of justice and prison-reform advocates have endorsed the change. It s a significant step forward in reversing decades of mass incarceration
##How large is America s prison problem? More than 2. 4 million people#are behind bars#in the United states today,
They re scattered throughout a constellation of 102 federal prisons, 1, 719 state prisons, 2, 259 juvenile facilities, 3, 283 local jails,
That graph is from a recent report by Prison Policy Initiative, an invaluable resource on mass incarceration.
#Disturbingly, many states prison populations outrank even those of dictatorships and illiberal democracies around the world.#
Starting in the 1970s with the rise of tough-on-crime politicians and the War on Drugs, America s prison population jumped eightfold between 1970 and 2010.
The graph below does not include local or territorial prisons. These two metricsthe international and the historicalhave to be seen together to understand how aberrant mass incarceration is.
For a great many poor people in America, particularly poor black men,#prison is a destination that braids through an ordinary life,
In truth, there are more black men in the grip of the criminal-justice systemin prison, on probation,
and scholars who ve worked on prison and criminal-justice reform for years. But for the general public
You will leave your house without your watch or wristband but you will never leave your house without your shoes.
Mr. Lawrence used his experience as a former U s.#patent prosecutor to get 24 international
#New LED light technology sheds light on the future of food LED growing lights, delivering sunlight whatever the weather.
or within existing buildings in a self-contained and sustainable manner without competing for resources. Such urban plots can be at ground level or on rooftops.
They can use greenhouses in order to take advantage of the sun s energy, or grow indoors with the help of artificial lights.
It takes advantage of the vertical space of city buildings rather than turning over wide expanses of land to agriculture and uses advanced greenhouse technology:
The state-by-state hiring data, released Friday by the Labor department, provides ammunition to the camp in favor of raising the minimum wage.
Realizing many young apartment dwellers also miss their pets, Mr. Ro is now working with a business partner to open up the city s first cat café,
Now, the100-lb. lap dog tags along on cottage getaways, hangs out at backyard barbeques, and listened to him explain the rules of soccer during the FIFA World cup.
They are all seeking interconnection under the initiative scluster 7 window, which closed on April 30, 2014.
Germany, on the other hand, has plans of building about 670 kilometers of new lines with target operations by 2025.
the window of opportunity might be closed, says IBM s Hannon. If nanotubes don t make it, there s little else that shows much potential to take over from silicon transistors in that time frame.
but in more residential areas, residents might be opposed to the cars roving past their windows and disrupting their privacy.
either by going after warehouse lines of credit or they loan out equity capital. Lending Club and Prosper,
Not unlike banks, wealth advisory is an inefficient cottage industry that traditionally comes loaded with fees and a total lack of transparency.
a new brick in the Great Wall, and guns, guns, guns, to name a few examples. Video) There has been a lot of hype lately about 3d printing,
and buy clothes like Martin Starr's character Gilfoyle disrupted that hotel bathroom in Silicon valley.
evolve, and create new and better products that add greater valuea cornerstone of the capitalist enterprise.
This digestion reaction allows the chemical building blocks, or monomers, to be reused. It was definitely fortuitous,
but I am allowed to say it will be used by an international mining house. We are also busy with a number of other customers who want to finalise their orders.
Other examples in this fast-developing future time include Bio-Factories. Based on using living systems bio-factories represent a new process for creating substances that are either too tricky
or too expensive to grow in nature or to make with petrochemicals. The rush to develop bio-factories as a means for production promises not only to revolutionize the chemical industry,
but also to transform the economy. Find more on Thomas Frey#here. However, from assembly line robots, ATMS,
#The Holoroom Lowe s launches holographic virtual reality showroom The Holoroom Brick-and-mortar retail has changed little
Say you re going to remodel your bathroom. You d likely go to a brick -and-mortar store to see the colors and hardware for yourself.
But you may still have trouble envisioning how the wall color tiles and taps will look together.
Step into the Holoroom, where they will be displayed in augmented reality. We know that for many homeowners,
the struggle to visualize a completed home improvement project or to share that vision with others can stop a project in its tracks.
we felt that those rooms didn t design the level of detail that would be appropriate for a retail environment.
similar rooms will make their way into many stores. All told, Lowe s boasts 15 million customers every week.
which consists of walls with grids on them that the phone uses to track with technology similar to#Google s Tango.
when University of Illinois computer scientists showed off an immersive holograph room, CAVE2, that projected images on an array of LED screens.
Perhaps the perfect kitchen feels like a dream barely within reach, too. Well, it may remain a dream for a few more months.
The company is beginning with bathrooms and will continue to expand to other rooms as well as locations beyond the pioneering Toronto store in coming months.
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#Comfy a new app that solves the No. 1 complaint about offices Comfy You go to work on a hot summer day,
it actually can end up shaving as much as 15%to 20%off a building s HVAC bill.
when people aren t in a particular part of the building. If you look at a typical office building,
even though he personally thought the building was always cold. He never thought that anyone would possibly disagree with him,
it might be personal preference and not some eternal truth about the building. He started bringing in a sweater.
as Apple s new ibeacon technology makes it easier to pinpoint a person at an exact location inside the building,
#The Connected Fitting Room eliminates personal interaction with salespeople The Connected Fitting Room Retailers rely heavily on online shopping.
and this is only possible through actually going into a fitting room.####Surprisingly, despite the significance of the fitting room in making a purchase,
retailers have done little to improve the fitting room experience. With these opportunities in mind, the#Connected Fitting Room#was born.
The Connected Fitting Room uses RFID tags to register the items a customer brings into a fitting room,
making note of the items, the specific colors, and the size. This information is displayed on a touch screen in the dressing room,
and if a customer desires a different size or color, they can simply click on the changes on the screen.
and can bring the additional items straight to the fitting room. In addition, the touch screen can suggest complementary or similar items,
Seeing what items customers bring into the fitting room and whether or not they purchase those items,
#and#Avanade, the Connected Fitting Room is currently in use at the department store Kohl s, which has locations all throughout the US.
And The Machine will not use Windows. In fact Fink announced on Thursday that the company is working on a brand new free
You might argue that it would be difficult for HP to build an operating system based on Windows
Windows is not free and open source as Linux and Android is. You would be right.
Instead, you may just step into an empty room and then suddenly seeing life-size, 3-D images of people and furniture.
Microsoft corp. and Advanced micro devices Inc. are both working on their own virtual reality rooms building a complex system of projectors and computers.
Hewlett-packard Co. recently spun out a company called Leia, that like Ostendo, is trying to bring 3d imaging to smartphones.
Every major institution said this would be horrible and lead to violence and blood in the streets.
There s some kids that just can t be in building, shifting through nine different classes for six hours a day, sitting in their seats.
and then taking advantage of the interactions between two strands of DNA to bring the chemical building blocks together to create new ones.
DNA-templated synthesis allows researchers without a lot of expensive equipment to more quickly evaluate all the potential small molecule interactions that could occur from a library of building blocks. single student with only minimal equipment
. according to data presented this past week at the NCWIT summit for Women in IT by Ed Lazowska, the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer science and Engineering at the University of Washington,
such as the bridge, nose pads and the bars that rest on the ears. These sensors then measure the electrical potential of the eye movement;
There will be an optional attery headbandavailable for purchase that will extend battery life to about 16 hours It is anticipated to be compatible with Mac, Windows, ios,
A prototype has been built near the Spanish city of San sebastian. An underwater foil operates beneath a pier that runs the length of the lagoon.
who surfs in the Basque Country. very surfer dreams of having the perfect wave in his backyard.
An aluminium factory used to stand on the site but was closed down in 2007. The freshwater lagoon will be 300m long
#Toshiba s new vegetable factory to bring perfect produce to Japan When you hear the name Toshiba,
by introducing 100 percent pesticide free vegetable factories in Japan. The first Toshiba vegetable factory will open in a few months in Yokusuka, Japan.
But this isn just a greenhouse: Toshiba plant factory will be a high-tech facility. Itl include optimized lights set to a wavelength to grow perfect plants
and specialized air-conditioning that keeps temperature and humidity set to a constant level. Managers can remotely monitor the factory from another location
and keep an eye on plant growth, with the ability to change settings as needed. The factory itself will be completely sterile,
creating a super-clean facility with plants that won need pesticides. Because of the clean environment, all plants will be germfree,
If successful, Toshiba may build a larger plant outside of Japan and sell its plant factory technology to other cities worldwide.
where patient-physician encounters about specific diseases will be transmitted in real time over 16 miles between the medical center and a lecture hall.
if you live in a sprawling mansion or a tiny apartment, one thing is for sure, you know laundry day will be a long and laborious task.#
to help keep the factories of the Keihin industrial zone humming and the neon lights of Shibuya shining bright.
Every year of technological advancement brings a drop in the cost of building it. In the 1980s, the cost was estimated to be over $1 trillion.
hoping to use it to beam power to buildings, cars, and dirigibles until his funding was canceled by J p morgan.
window cleaners and street market vendors to grow their business and sell on the go using smartphones. Clinkle is introducing a mobile wallet for day to day transactions
you can just close the window and do something else. Youl receive an email with interesting stats and potential claims a few hours later.
Can be used for monitoring vibrations and material conditions in buildings, bridges, factories, farms and other infrastructure.
Building on existing geolocation technologies, future swath control could save on seed, minerals, fertilizer and herbicides by reducing overlapping inputs.
Using techniques similar to glass houses, vertical farms could augment natural light using energy-efficient lighting. The advantages are numerous,
In a basement lab a few hundred yards from Lewis office, her group has jury-rigged a 3-D printer, equipped with a microscope,
The gloves are the product of years of research and development, building upon original research at University of the West of England.
That impossible with an old-school plaster castut not with a 3d printed cast of the future.
but as yet largely unproven technology that Google hopes can help beam internet access to areas of the globe that remain unserved by cellphone towers or telephone wires.
is that you can scan anything you need to buy again in your kitchen before you run out.
and durable enough to survive regular kitchen-based wear and tear. The Dash is currently free but y invitation only, according to its website,
opening the door for companies pitching cost-effective tech tools. here a cottage industry now that sprung up around Common Core,
If the captain happens to be on the bow or the stern rather than up on the bridge when there an emergency,
the turbine helium-inflated housing is durable enough for deployment in either the blazing sun or freezing snow.
and the city now has fibre networks and thousands of sensors on buildings, vehicles and the ground.
deliver advanced street lighting and enhance building energy efficiency. Glasgow aims to open up data to demonstrate how providing integrated health, transport,
a large vending machine that sells a variety of items like toiletries, groceries like milk and eggs, kitchen items, pet food, and more.
#Wireless electricity is here In the house of the future, wire-free energy transfer could be as easy as wireless internet.
When Katie Hall saw a light-bulb glowing in the middle of a room with no wires attached she was shocked.
a tiny room filled with gigantic copper refrigerator coils the kind you see if you cracked open the back of your freezer.
says Dr Hall, now Chief Technology Officer at Witricity a start-up developing wireless esonancetechnology. ut,
explains Dr Hall. And like that, the bulb lights up. Wireless homes Don worry about getting zapped:
Hall assures that the magnetic fields used to transfer energy are erfectly safein fact, they are the same kind of fields used in Wi-fi routers.
In the house of the future, wire-free energy transfer could be as easy as wireless internet.
Hall sees a bright future for the family without wires: e just don think about it anymore:
World outside Beyond these effort-saving applications, Hall sees more revolutionary steps. When Hall first saw the wireless bulb, she immediately thought of medical technology seeing that devices transplanted beneath the skin could be charged non-intrusively.
Witricity is now working with a medical company to recharge a left-ventricular assist device heart-pump essentially.
This distance Hall explains is linked to the size of the coil, and Witricity wants to perfect the same long-distance transfers to today small-scale devices.
For Hall, the applications are endless: always say kids will say: hy is called it wireless??
Dr Hall discussed Tesla briefly in her interview with Nick Glass: Nick Glass: Given that Tesla
Dr Hall: I don think they realized exactly what wee done. They were certainly dreaming of wireless power there no question about that.
power already being transferred by wires to homes and rooms and things of that nature, so we had a much different problem,
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