and has 60 in place at farms, fisheries and small factories in Japan and several abroad.##
and many are beginning to think in terms of houses that generate their own water supply, self-irrigating crops,
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 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.
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
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.
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:
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.
Germany, on the other hand, has plans of building about 670 kilometers of new lines with target operations by 2025.
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.
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,
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,
building a complex system of projectors and computers. Hewlett-packard Co. recently spun out a company called Leia,
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.
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.
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.
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,
The gloves are the product of years of research and development, building upon original research at University of the West of England.
opening the door for companies pitching cost-effective tech tools. here a cottage industry now that sprung up around Common Core,
and the city now has fibre networks and thousands of sensors on buildings, vehicles and the ground.
#Wireless electricity is here In the house of the future, wire-free energy transfer could be as easy as wireless internet.
In the house of the future, wire-free energy transfer could be as easy as wireless internet.
But former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.)tweeted: hat is the global internet community that Obama wants to turn the internet over to?
the company said that by 2020 the battery cell output of the factory would be 35 gigawatt hours per year,
Given Tesla production goals outline above, the planned factory would more than double the current entire world lithium ion battery production.
Tesla factory could be the largest factory of any kind, anywhere in the world in terms of inputs in and outputs out, said Jaffe,
and Chinese lithium battery manufacturer Thunder Sky Group had been looking to build a battery factory in Russia working with Russian state run agency RUSNANO this would have been the largest lithium ion battery factory in the world (I not sure of the current
status of this factory). The second largest producer of batteries in the world in 2012 was Japan, with about 7 gigawatt hours.
Tesla factory will also be a competitive threat to Chinese battery production dominance and will help lower the overall price of lithium ion batteries globally. ust the threat of (Tesla CEO) Elon musk building this huge factory will lower prices,
says Wartena, as the companies will be willing to lower their margins to compete. Like Tesla has done with many of its strategies
It should be noted that Tesla hasn confirmed that Panasonic is the battery supplier partner for the planned factory.
which means batteries used for buildings, the grid and even homes. As wee reported before,
If Tesla is able to reduce the cost of lithium ion batteries by a third with its new factory,
the devices that we work with nowadays do not allow for building up skill on a motor control level.
but 2014 may leave skeptics even further behind developers and entrepreneurs are already hard at work building features on top of the Bitcoin protocol that will allow for the decentralized execution of financial services, from currency hedging to loans to stock
Microsoft SQL SERVER 2014 Fast Track is a program to develop reference architectures to give medium to large data warehouses a step-by-step guide to building out a data warehouse using well-tuned hardware.
whether it s a Meatless Monday or any other day we'd spare more than one billion animals from the horrors of factory farms
The solution provided was an installation of a kiosk with a fully automated inventory system with
The kiosk has an inventory scanner and a touch screen monitor to allow miners to interact with the system;
the Silk Leaf could also be used as building material to produce clean air for buildings. Melchiorri has developed even some simple home uses for the material,
Deforested land could potentially be offset with buildings and other structures that are lined with Silk Leaf material.
"It can be used on tall buildings with lots of windows or any kind of mobile device that demands high aesthetic quality like a phone or e reader.
These ultra-cold gemstones effectively acted as prisons trapping the electrons and allowing the scientists to accurately establish their spin or value.
According to the World Meteorological Association Lima has the highest air pollution levels in all of South america most of it related to transportation and factories.
I couldn pull my twins in our double trailerhe hill to our house was too steep.
if your house produced more energy than it consumed? Does that mean negative utility bills?
Japanese companies are fascinated with net-zero energy buildings, usually incorporating transportation as part of the mix.
Panasonic Eco Ideas House, with solar, a fuel cell, battery backup and a plug-in Toyota prius, has stood long next to a company headquarters in Tokyo,
The house (incorporating elements of Honda's Smart Home System, below) is furnished fully, and a UC-Davis employee is going to live in it for at least three years.
The company broke ground on the house last year, declaring it to be a"showplace for environmental innovation."
"Honda Smart Home The house design is pleasant enough, but you won see its green features just by looking at it.
The solar will generate more than enough energy to heat the house, supply the appliances, and power a Honda Fit electric car.
The Home energy management System (HEMS) optimizes the house microgrid, so that the Fit can charge during the low-demand nighttime,
The property is also five times more water-efficient than the normal house, with low-flow fixtures and short-run hot-water pipes.
Over a year, the house is expected to generate a 2. 6-megawatt-hour surplus (compared to the average home consumption of 13.3 megawatts.
Here's a video overview of the Honda Smart House, and if you want to learn more,
explore this infographic which goes into more detail about how the house works e
#Synthetic yeast chromosome paves the way for designer genomes A chunk of the genetic blueprint for yeast has been created
The researchers could make millions and millions of different decks of genetic cards which could give yeast totally new properties.
He predicts that designer mini-chromosomes will be developed first building on gene therapy which seeks to treat diseases by replacing defective genes with functional ones.
so that a nearby delivery person could have it to my house within minutes or a few hours of ordering.
It called BIM or Building Information Modelling. This lets them make changes and see the results on the fly;
As Stewart noted in her Economist articlethey are following up with modules for transit roads highways and buildings.
the Gates Foundation will promote the building of self-powered Omniprocessor facilities in other parts of the world (Gates specifically mentions India) where clean drinking water
and if particulate filters in cars and factories become more common o
#Obama appoints first federal IT chief: Nature News The Blackberry-toting Barack Obama last week took a step towards modernizing the US government's information system by appointing Vivek Kundra to the newly created post of chief information officer.
The budget includes#3. 8#billion for a new building at Sasai s centre, with planned projects being largely collaborative ventures with Japanese businesses.
Three female health workers, accompanied by a community leader, dart from house to house, squeezing a few drops of polio vaccine into the mouths of all the young children they can find,
Although Leigh s rotaxane mimics the ribosome in its sequential building of peptides, the sulphur-assisted amino acid transfer is found elsewhere in biology:
-),started building in 2006, when Todd Sacktor at the SUNY Downstate Medical center in New york city wiped out established spatial memories in rats.
and the House in pre-dawn votes on 1 and 2 january keeps researchers on tenterhooks for at least another two months by delaying mandatory spending cuts that could threaten science funding.
Called the European Lead Factory, the consortium consists of 30 academic and corporate partners, and aims to fill company pipelines with promising drug candidates.
Lead-factory scientists will run these assays free of charge and confirm any promising results, working mainly in laboratory space closed by Merck in 2011 at Oss in The netherlands.
Factory partners will get first right of refusal in licensing deals. Such restrictions are essential
where he can run analyses without having to set up the infrastructure in-house. The cost is about $100 per person.
Taxidermist Johannes Erritzoe at the House of Birdresearch in Christiansfeld Denmark, has noticed also a decline in the number vehicle-killed birds around Denmark,
#Robotic Bricklayer Can Build A House in Two Days Yes, robots are taking over a worrisome number of jobs,
and working around-the-clock Picav says Hadrian can complete a standard house structure within two days.
the Wi-fi trash cans provide a strong signal that not blocked by buildings or other structures.
and Wi-fi hot spots. More than 10,000 refurbished pay phone kiosks are set to go live by the end of the year.
Want to find out who is dumping waste near your house? You need to call the space detectives.
And it won't cost much more than having your house surveyed Harris says. It might seem a simple matter for someone to use Google earth say
They can also heat buildings and double as portable power-packs for computers or other kit used in the field.
A tabletop device just 10 square metres in size can spit out energetic bursts of positrons as dense as those kicked out by the giant particle-factories at CERN.
The astronauts will rendezvous with the Tiangong 1 (Heavenly Palace 1) space module which has been orbiting Earth since September 2011.
so it might be more of a comet factory says van der Marel. We really hope that in the next coming years we're going to find similar dust traps around other stars where they are close enough to the star that they can form a planet she says.
they soon found themselves up all night in a lab in Building 13, fleshing out a business strategy.
Smith explains. ut there no way to weld together a tower in a factory that 20 feet in diameter and ship it to the wind farm.
For that process, professionals drive to a house and feed aluminum coils into one end of a specialized machine that shapes the metal into a seamless gutter. t a better alternative to buying individual sections
As part of the Mediated Matter Group, he focused on converting a robotic arm to a computer controlled arm, capable of printing projects, like houses.
since they can act as embedded insulation for the house. Because of the scale of the work, Spielberg and Keating encountered some obstacles.
and to build something that looks like a functional house, which is really hard to do with a construction crane.
hangar-like space inside MIT Building 41, a small, Roomba-like robot is trying to make up its mind.
Indeed Bhattacharyya built the main structural components of the robot using a 3-D printer in Asada s lab. Half of the robot the half with the flattened panel is waterproof and houses the electronics.
The other half is permeable and houses the propulsion system which consists of six pumps that expel water through rubber tubes.
Used for mapping out large-scale structures such as mining equipment, buildings, and oil rigs these simulations require intensive computation done by powerful computers over many hours, costing engineering firms much time and money.
but also light much as window blinds tilt to filter the sun. Researchers say the work could lead to waterproofing and anti-glare applications such as smart windows for buildings and cars.
#Diagnosing broken buildings to make them greener The cofounders of MIT spinout KGS Buildings have a saying:
ll buildings are broken. Energy wasted through faulty or inefficient equipment, they say, can lead to hundreds of thousands of dollars in avoidable annual costs.
That why KGS aims to ake buildings betterwith cloud-based software, called Clockworks, that collects existing data on a building equipment specifically in HVAC (heating, ventilation,
to cool rooms. he idea is to make buildings better, by helping people save time, energy,
Phd 0. The software is now operating in more than 300 buildings across nine countries, collecting more than 2 billion data points monthly.
The company estimates these buildings will save an average of 7 to 9 percent in avoidable costs per year;
if it a poor-performing building, it could be much higher, maybe 15 to 20 percent, says Gayeski,
who graduated from MIT Building Technology Program, along with his two cofounders. Last month, MIT commissioned the software for more than 60 of its own buildings, monitoring more than 7, 000 pieces of equipment over 10 million square feet.
Previously, in a yearlong trial for one MIT building, the software saved MIT $286, 000. Benefits, however, extend beyond financial savings,
Gayeski says. here are people in those buildings: What their quality of life? There are people who work on those buildings.
We can provide them with better information to do their jobs, he says. The software can also help buildings earn additional incentives by participating in utility programs. e have major opportunities in some utility territories,
where energy-efficiency has been incentivized. We can help buildings meet energy-efficiency goals that are significant in many states,
including Massachusetts, says Alex Grace, director of business development for KGS. Other customers include universities, health-care and life-science facilities, schools,
and retail buildings. Equipment-level detection Fault-detection and diagnostics research spans about 50 years with contributions by early KGS advisors
and MIT professors of architecture Les Norford and Leon Glicksman and about a dozen companies now operate in the field.
and boilers that can be tailored to specific equipment that varies greatly from building to building.
After the competition, the cofounders started a company with a broad goal of making buildings better through energy savings.
Seeing building data as an emerging tool for fault-detection and diagnostics, however, they turned to Samouhosphd dissertation,
About 180 new buildings were added to Clockworks in the past year; by the end of 2014, KGS projects it could deploy its software to 800 buildings. arger companies are starting to catch on,
Gayeski says. ajor health-care institutions, global pharmaceuticals, universities, and others are starting to see the value
as technology to monitor houses such as automated thermostats and other sensors begins to nlock the data in the residential scale,
which houses computers for automation and control, and expandable 20,000-gallon treatment units. In these units, microbes called xoelectrogensexecute a unique process, electromethanogenesis which is being used for the first time ever in treating wastewater.
But for applications where heat is desired the output whether for heating buildings, cooking, or powering heat-based industrial processes this could provide an opportunity for the expansion of solar power into new realms. t could change the game,
If you re in a world that is not which to be honest is everywhere outside a factory situation then you start to lose some of your advantage.
the APA is now being used by all four military branches on the battlefield and in training to climb mountains, buildings, and ships.
hoists for workers at dams, buildings, bridges, and massive wind turbines; as well as for first responders. here a broad spectrum of users people who use rope access as part of their work for
#Creating synthetic antibodies MIT chemical engineers have developed a novel way to generate nanoparticles that can recognize specific molecules, opening up a new approach to building durable sensors for many different compounds
Armies of mobile cubes could temporarily repair bridges or buildings during emergencies, or raise and reconfigure scaffolding for building projects.
The startup deploys cars with thermal-imaging rooftop rigs that create heat maps of thousands of homes and buildings per hour, detecting fixable leaks in uilding envelopeswindows, doors, walls,
But the startup also works with the U s. Department of defense to help identify energy-wasting buildings on their bases.
since more than 4 million homes and buildings in cities across the United states for military, commercial,
ouldn it be easier to just throw it on a car and drive by the house??
which eat up about 50 percent of energy used in homes and buildings. HVAC system efficiency is affected by the system itself, by household behavioral factors such as thermostat and window usage and
and realize there a tree in front of the building and, in the image, it hard to figure out where the tree is
and where the building is, Sarma says. That when they had to install the Lidar system,
Vuletic says. here force building up, and then there suddenly a catastrophic release of energy. he group continued to stretch
is that factories using the method can be scaled up by simply adding identical units. With traditional lithium-ion production
while collapsed buildings can conceal survivors. Now Bounce Imaging, founded by an MIT alumnus, is giving officers and rescuers a safe glimpse into the unknown.
that a mobile device uses to quickly grab those images ecause a burning building probably isn going to have Wi-fi,
Nano Letters pubs. acs. org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl503817 7
#'Trojan horse'proteins are step forward for nanoparticle-based anticancer and anti-dementia therapeutic approaches Scientists at Brunel University London have found a way of targeting hard-to-reach cancers
pubs. acs. org/doi/full/10.1021/nl503430 0
#Scanning tunnelling microscopy: Computer simulations sharpen insights into molecules The resolution of scanning tunnelling microscopes can be improved dramatically by attaching small molecules or atoms to their tip.
they soon found themselves up all night in a lab in Building 13, fleshing out a business strategy.
Using an in-house built microscope, the research team was able to measure the intensity of the CARS light on a series of single nanodiamonds of different sizes.
earlier the group developed the Pulsed laser deposition technique (PLD)# for this building the materials one atomic layer at a time.
Oleshko points out that the young rapidly emerging field of additive manufacturing which creates devices by building up component materials layer by layer often needs to analyze its creations in a noninvasive way.
and shows how an effective academic-industrial partnership is key to help move graphene from the lab to the factory floor.""
ACS Nano pubs. acs. org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn500914 i
#Atomically thin material opens door for integrated nanophotonic circuits A new combination of materials can efficiently guide electricity
The organic photovoltaic samples used in this study were developed in house at NIST. The 100 nm thick device has a three-layer structure top semitransparent electrode, the organic photovoltaic,
Nano Letters pubs. acs. org/doi/pdf/10.1021/nl502209 9
#Magnetic nanoparticles break the capacity barrier for antibody purification Monoclonal antibodies represent the largest and fastest-growing segment of international biopharma.
For example it might eventually be embed possible to these printed flexible optoelectronic devices into clothes packaging wall papers posters touch screens or even buildings.
and each was the world's tallest building when completed. But the Washington monument is a massive stone structure,
versus after having already caught on and spread to many areas of the house. An international team of researchers led by ICFO-Institute of Photonic Sciences in Castelldefels announce the successful development of a lab-on-a-chip platform capable of detecting protein cancer markers in the blood using the very latest advances
v=-e8tsg4uit0) and we've finally got ourselves a holo-deck! Sweet! Amazing! I can't wait to see where the future takes this.
But hey maybe we can look forward to our own robot-designed sand castles one day.
Printing buildings our of unreinforced concrete is a dangerous idea. Our interface is like a 3d printer
You could print a MASSIVE heat exchanger to reclaim heat from waste water power plants your house...You like fresh air
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