The obvious way of doing it is to have an ultrasonic transducer in the corner of the windshield that would excite waves at around 30khz to bounce across the windshield.
reason, and engage in a much more natural and personalized way. IBM can already#figure out your personality by deciphering 200 of your tweets,
and the way to help them. IBM is working on a research project with the#Gwinnett County Public schools in Georgia,
the only way cities can manage is to have automation, where smarter cities can understand in real-time how billions of events occur as computers learn to understand what people need,
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.
In this way, the internet of things will become more central to society than the internet#as we know it today.#
The result is real-time traffic information that can be used by everyone. That smartphones gather traffic data without their users ever being aware that they re doing
Anticipatory computing and the end of interfaces Objects on our bodies (health monitors, smart glasses) and in our homes and businesses (smart thermostats, lights, appliances and security systems) can all be programmed to interact in complicated and unexpected ways
So what s required for more companies to tap into anticipatory computing? There are companies that specialize in reality mining,
but not by giving us another way to explicitly tell computers what we want. Instead, by sensing our actions,
And it s those duons that are expected to change the way physicians interpret human genomes and give clues for the treatments of diseases.##
which nature has exploited fully in unexpected ways.####Photo credit: Red Orbit Via RT Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorat i
Maybe, but your kid s RC can t leap tall buildings in a single bound the way this little guy can.
That is the equivalent of removing 2. 1 million cars from the road or planting 262
But, a team of scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago have figured out#a way to make synthetic gas inexpensively,
so the scientists looked for another way to make it work. The new solution is called a##co-catalyst##system.
Israeli hacking school that trains corporate cyber warriors Trainees work in front of their computers at the##Cyber Gym##center.
and infrastructure company employees train to defend against cyber attacks. The facility is a series of small buildings in the shadow of the looming Orot Rabin power station on Israel s northern coastline.
this gives us the unique capabilities to train other companies around the world##to defend against system hacking.
so there s no way for the defence teams to cheat. There s no set scenario or scripted attack;
they re performed in a different way, live by the hackers next door, ##he said.####If the hackers succeed,
Plunging the room into darkness is one of a number of ways the centre shows the practical outcome of a cyber attack,
that traffic lights would stop working or the banks would be paralysed, ##Lieutenant general Benny Gantz told a security conference in October.
UPS has a number of different ways it might utilize drones. It could offer something similar to Amazon s Prime Air,
##But a company like UPS could use drones to bring packages quickly and cheaply from a major airport or city to pick-up centers in more remote locations, speeding up delivery for a lot of customers.##
Humans are remarkably consistent in the way their noses wrinkle, say, or their eyebrows move as they experience certain emotions.
Face-reading technology may one day be paired with programs that have complementary ways of recognizing emotion,
a less stilted way of interacting with machines will ensue. For some, this type of technology raises an Orwellian specter.
##So far, the company s algorithms have been used mainly to monitor people s expressions as a way to test ads, movie trailers and television shows in advance.
The transport of compact materials instead of bulky finished products,##could reduce stowed volume tenfold and mass by 50 percent to 80 percent.##
The first step would be funding to update the Boeing/North american Aviation studies done in the 1970s.
##Given the way#NASA#is funded, Spiderfab is three years to five years out, ##Hoyt said.##
#Volocopter VC200 18-rotor electric helicopter takes flight Volocopter VC200 Greener transportation options have become a priority in the modern world.
Even helicopters are becoming greener. One German company, E-volo, designed several electric helicopters, and one of its models, the Volocopter VC200, recently passed its first flight tests.
Video)##E-volo s#vehicle may look bizarre, but the concept is actually brilliant. It has 18 rotors,
though, the VC200 comes equipped with a parachute. Recently a prototype of the VC200 took to the skies for its first series of test flights.
in the same way a human would, what links images, to help them better understand the visual world.##
##Images are the best way to learn visual properties, ##said Abhinav Gupta, assistant research professor in Carnegie mellon s Robotics Institute.##
##Examples of the links that NEIL has made include the facts that cars are found on roads
and has taken the cab industry by storm. Users can now hail actual taxis, black cars, lower cost Uberx drivers in regular cars,
or SUVS in the app. The company s success inspired a wave of startups such as Lyft, Sidecar, Instacab,
and not having enough cars on the roads is a fast way to lose customers and curb growth.
Kalanick is known for being an aggressive and driven entrepreneur#who won t let anything get in the way of Uber s growth,
##Helping people buy cars is a smart way to get more Uberx drivers. Uber drivers can make good money
Big data in the Connected car,##researchers at#IHS Automotive#forecasts there will be 152 million actively connected cars on roads globally by 2020,
Over the next few years, auto makers and suppliers will collect this datain a variety of ways:
Car rental companies have used GPS systems in their cars to#give customers a ticket #even though the police never caught them.
Video)##The flyer is only about eight centimeters in diameter##small enough to fit in the palm of your hand
##which have four helicopter rotors. The machines can catch a ball and perform other autonomous feats of balance and coordination.
##Let me think of new ways to fly.####He and his colleague, Stephen Childress, have considered a number of outlandish designs,
Of course, any practically useful version of the jellyfish would have to carry a small battery and a navigation system##right now,
all the navigation controls are manual ##but Ristroph is optimistic those problems could be solved. A more difficult problem is explaining the machine s stability in the air.
#Project Ara will be a simple way for users to individualize their phones, swapping out parts like the battery
#Heat from subways to warm homes in London London s subway will be supplying green energy to warm up more homes around the borough.
A new project announced by the#Islington council will redirect the heat from a Northern Line of London s subway to vent to homes across the city,
giving homeowners a new way to get through the cold season. The project will deliver cheap heating to 500 homes around the area.
Three scientists in China have found a#way#to create a metal that s liquid at room temperatures,
One way to extend the range of electric vehicles may be to provide power wirelessly through coils placed under the surface of a road.
Initial models indicate that placing charging coils in 10 percent of a roadway would extend the driving range of an EV from about 60 miles to 300 miles,
Precisely controlling when the roadway coils produce a magnetic field is important for safety reasons; if the field misses the car s receiving coils,
With the Utah system a bus could charge from coils placed under the road surface where passengers load or at traffic lights.
The Oak ridge National Laboratory is also working on ways to automatically match the wireless power transmitter
#The death of coal in America Train carrying coal to a power plant. The Great Energy Shift is happening in spurts
and we re always looking for new ways to innovate, ##Stubb says.####Bringing coding to students is something we are very aware of,
Beijing#is focused especially on security for government, energy, transport, and finance networks. In August, the#National Development and Reform Commission,#China s top economic planning body, published a statement setting cybersecurity standards for financial institutions, cloud computing and big data, information system secrecy
Airline seat concept that could morph to fit each passenger Morph airline seating. Traveling by air on a budget isn t pleasant.
Photos and video)##Passengers who can afford premium, business or first class have a choice and hence some control over their own experience,##says#Seymourpowell s head of transport Jeremy White.##
###Morph is a solution a standard product that meets the needs of lots of different kinds of people.##
##The semantics of the architecture and visual cues indicate that the back of the seat belongs to the passenger facing it,
which Seymourpowell says increases a passenger s sense of independence and control over their own space.
airline staff can effectively tailor each bench for its occupants. All three seats take up 54 inches of width##a fairly standard economy bench size.
When shared between a trio of passengers, that offers 18 inches each. However, there are times
This simple adjustment gives the father more lateral space than almost#any major airline would offer in economy
With some economy airlines charging significantly more to sit in an exit row or close to the front of the plane,
offering airlines and passengers a##premium##row for those would like to pay more for the space.
a pet-friendly airline. Several times a year Meeker and his wife travel to Chicago or Minnesota to see their parents,
like Purina, has to be careful to adapt in ways that don t mar its history.##
You have convenient metro systems, plenty of#gourmet dining choices#and endless shopping destinations. But with all that activity comes a whole lot of noise pollution.
Don t you wish you could program anything the same way, without worrying about dependencies? Whether you re a software developer, a manager,
even though manufacturers still have a long way to go to commercialize them.##This anticipation is demonstrated in a report recently released by Baidu with 93.1 percent of the interviewees familiar with the concept of wearables
The best way to understand this is to consider the case of a villager in Tanzania.
The Iot could improve our lives in numerous ways##making life more convenient, efficient, and sustainable.#
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.
#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.
That s all well and good, but now these driverless robo-cars are breaking free of their confines
the train station or even their downtown office will be able to hail a pod by way of a simple smartphone app.
Additional panels can power the drive train. Volvo has yet to get beyond building a few of the panels
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including the way its production and disposal raises resource issues and lets loose extremely negative environmental impacts.
and the only way forward is down. So while many solutions like this are not without hiccups or#detractors,
The way it works: Two devices resonate at the same frequency so that the magnetic waves can travel very precisely from one point to another.
and we all know one of the best ways to get there is to ensure that all people have access to high-quality education,
Art is one of the crazy ones who thinks it doesn have to be this way.
Art is one of the crazy ones who thinks it doesn have to be this way.
So I tremendously excited about the innovative new way wee funding this project. Now for the hard work!
Two architects invented this low-tech way of collecting dew and turning it into fresh water. It works well for collecting water in virtually any environment
In liquid form, water is heavy and difficult to transport. Plastic bottle made water far more transportable,
Every day, millions of plastic water bottles, cups and containers are transported around the world by exhaust-spewing steamships, trains,
The drought has pushed everyone to look for new ways to save water. So, the The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has joined forces with America beer brewers to change how farmer irrigate their crops.
(or dying) and the new farmers are looking for new and better ways of doing things
this provides a great way to get low-power Internet of things devices to communicate with a large swath of devices around us, Ranveer Chandra,
Users are looking at ways to quietly and privately communicate online. As companies begin to
I think you ll see a growing number of businesses either offering new ways to communicate
or featuring ways to pay to eliminate such intrusions on our privacy, Bakke continues. And I think you ll see more and more internet users willing to pay for such services.
This means the screen controls the way individual light rays emanate from the display, leading to a sharper image without degrading contrast.
The Google vision, where there are no human drivers, is already becoming a reference point#either as a vision of a fun campus of the future,
while, in the latter, a driverless car picks up a passenger and makes its own decision where to Go with no controls to grab,
the passenger just becomes freight. If one had to bet on whether Google s or Baidu s vision is more likely,
even as hands-free parking has gained popularity, the idea of a completely driverless car is already being welcomed in some quarters.
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With the ever-increasing pace of innovation, traditional colleges and universities are failing to train and retrain workers quickly enough.##
We have need a huge for some other way of getting people in the world educated, Frey said.
This dynamic works both ways. For example, in the wake of Facebook s purchase of Oculus Rift, the amount of job postings for virtual reality designers skyrocketed,
Jobs are going to transition in lots of different ways that we don t even understand yet, and we need to prepare for that.
In promotional materials, Audi and GM both emphasize 4G LTE service as a mechanism for users to get in-car entertainment, rather than for navigation or safety monitoring.
while Audi emphasizesfaster downloads and high-definition video streaming for up to eight devices used by passengers over the in-vehicle#Wi-fi#hotspot.
Audi is offering drivers their a new and data-intensive navigation system, which feeds the dashboard with information on#nearby gas stations, restaurants,
Beyond the obvious use cases of Netflix and#data-heavy navigation systems, 4G LTE service also means drivers can send#SMS#text messages by voice dictation,
While drivers and passengers might not necessarily need#high-speed Internet#in their cars it s arrived on the market
This is not the way it has always beenand this is not the way it has to be.
or right shoe will lead the way. Ducere was started by two Indian engineers who had studied
it cannot tell them which way to face or when to turn. That s where we come in
For example#joggers, mountain bikers or even tourists can plug in their destinations and not have to stop to check their phones as they move
The shoes can be used as a more accurate way to record distance traveled and calories burnt, said Mr. Lawrence.
#China and India race to fully harness thorium for nuclear power Thorium is an alternative to uranium as a way of doing nuclear fission.
preferring to go the uranium route. Critics say thorium was pushed aside because uranium was an easier component for nuclear weapons.
Thorium is an alternative to uranium as a way of doing nuclear fission he told Metro.
He said thorium is safer because an overheating thorium reactor can be switched simply off, avoiding the problem that occurred at Fukushima, for instance.
they re also looking at other ways of generating power. Thorium is not without its critics,
flexible and can encourage the regrowth of healthy bone in the same way as current methods,
Aside from the temperature issue, scaffolds made in this way sometimes retain unwanted binder residues, while during sintering, parts shrink sometimes in an uneven way that can cause cracking.
Now, researchers in the U s. have developed a new way of printing in calcium phosphate that can be done at relatively low temperatures which results in a scaffold that is mechanically strong
biologically compatible with human bone and stays close to the original dimensions of the design being used.
In other words, in the same way that game recognizes game, (to borrow a phrase from LL COOL J),
and has to be protected in ways that add size and bulk. While zinc is more stable, the water-based electrolytes in conventional zinc batteries cause zinc to form dendrites,
He has even found a way to sterilize the paper models for use in the operating room.
This is just one way of how Mcor is consistently innovating their already unique technology. More details on Mcor can be found on their#website
Mr. Ro says he iscasually dating a lifestyle decision that fits into his busy schedule the same way hisindependent cat fit in previously.
It s also a challenge for CAISO and the other state agencies tasked withcoming up with ways to value storage
when lots of distributed solar generation pushes midday energy use way down, then fades away just as a steep rise in evening energy usage sets in.
High-speed rail (HSR) will connect not only cities, states and countries in the future, but also far-reaching continents. In about 15 to 20 years from now, one could travel seamlessly from London, UK to Beijing,
China and even have a detour within the Gulf countries using the global high-speed rail network.
Some of these lines are designated passenger lines (PDL), while others are also capable of carrying freight, known as high-speed logistics.
The total cost of Chinese HSR ambitions is billed at around $300 billion USD when completed.
What is defined as high-speed rail in the US (speeds of 120 kilometers per hour) is considered figuratively similar to the speed of a bull-drawn cart in 19th century China.
2013, Elon musk, chief executive of Tesla motors TSLA+2. 28%and Spacex, revealed details of a new super fast mode of transportation called the Hyperloop.
500 kilometers or 900 miles apart and is based on the principle of transporting high-speed transport capsules in a dedicated tube (partial vacuum).
it is still a significant breakthrough in high-speed mass transportation because the technology and intellectual property has been floated to the public as an open source transportation solution.
Yet the Hyperloop is not the only radical transport solution currently in development, the Canadian firm Magnovate aims to commercialize Magline, a proprietary magnetic levitation transport solution.
Magline further improves on system economics by utilizing apacket switching model that enables offline stops without slowing traffic on the mainline.
This enables more vehicles that are connected not to one another to run more often on the network.
A project is being developed to connect the cities of Edmonton and Calgary with one of their tracks.
Meanwhile, in about 15 years the Japanese will have inaugurated the Chuo Shinkansen Maglev train between Tokyo and Nagoya.
With the top speed of a these trains just 25 percent less than the average speed of a commercial airplane (which travels at about 800 kilometers per hour), one can travel faster between city center to city center
and the need to travel outside of cities to reach airports hours in advance. By 2027
next-generation rolling stock and signal upgrades are expected to raise high-speed rail services in the excess of 320 kilometers per hour.
For example, phase 2 of the Haramain High-speed rail Project in Saudi arabia (450 kilometers connecting Mecca and Medina) was awarded to a Saudi-Spanish consortium.
operating and finally transferring railway systems to the rest of the world l
#Bag2go smart luggage that will text you when it gets lost Bag2go It can take hours
or even days to hear from someone at an airline to tell you where your lost luggage has ended up
and even contacting airlines directly when they get lost. The jumbo jet maker Airbus introduced a concept design for smart luggage at the Paris Air Show last year.
and can weigh itself to ensure that it meets airline requirements. AT&T unveiled a similar concept at a demonstration of itsnext-generation technologies in May.
The ultimate plan is to for the luggage to work with airlines IT systems, contacting the carriers directly and arranging for delivery to your home or hotel.
U s. airlines mishandled over 141,000 bags in April, according to government statistics, or about three bags for every 1, 000 passengers.
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#The ongoing newspaper crisis by the numbers Publishers have failed to adequately respond to the new ways that consumers get information.
About ten years after the commercial debut of the Internet, America s newspapers posted record high advertising sales of $49. 4 billion in 2005.
it is clear that publishers have failed for the better part of a decade to adequately respond to the new ways that consumers get information
It s the largest-ever college, by enrollment, to be shut down in this way. It all started in January
if it successfully gets candidates elected in its 2014 pilot campaign it plans to raise orders of magnitude more money to elect an an more pro-campaign finance reform congress in 2016,
by offering a practical way to make both smaller and faster transistors, he says. In 1998, researchers at IBM made one of the first working carbon nanotube transistors.
but so far it hasn t found a way to position the nanotubes closely enough together,
There is a new field of affect computing coming your way that will give entrepreneurs and marketers a real unfair advantage.
#Skytran an on-demand levitating monorail Skytran There are many people who advocate for public transportation but there are also those who are accustomed to being able to move about in an individual manner with cars.
However, a futuristic on-demand 500m monorail test loop being built at the#Israel Aerospace industry (IAI) campus#in Lod,
and might have you thinking differently about transit.####Skytran, which was developed by Stanford Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering graduate Douglas J. Malewicki,
has big plans to bring its transportation idea to markets in the United states, India and Europe but will it catch on?
Skytran is based a maglev monorail, a combination of technologies that has the potential to evoke both admiration (due to Japan s blazingly fast#maglev train system) and derision (due to the infamous Simpsons episode#Marge vs
. the Monorail). A unique physical aspect of this particular combination of the systems is that it s#suspended 20 feet above#the ground,
allowing it to take advantage of an unused, and therefore less congested, part of the urban landscape.
Privacy is a key pivot point of Skytrain s case for itself in a different way
however, because unlike most mass transit, it s meant to be a personal system. Instead of large vehicles that run on a schedule,
The system s automated nature, transit expert Joe Dignan told#BBC News, could be a good test of
It s also a test of whether anti-train elected officials actually hold such views for practical reasons,
Of course, it wasn t an easy road for either company. Both had to survive significant regulatory scrutiny and approval by the SEC,
and Fundly are giving people and businesses an easier way to test, build and fund their products, invest in businesses,
To those startups that aim to fundamentally change the way we transact for the better,
and home-based fashionistas disrupting the way we make and buy clothes like Martin Starr's character Gilfoyle disrupted that hotel bathroom in Silicon valley.
Drive is a way to get started, you don t have to change your existing workflows. To that end,
In addition to encryption in transit and between data centers, which was already in place.)Overall, the improvements are an important indication that Google has given not up on the enterprise.
The system is an ingenious way to work around the typically tricky process of building a full-color 3d printer,
But Oak ridge and 3d Systems are proving that there are other ways, and in the future other techniques could trickle down to desktop 3d printers.
including Personal Rapid transit Systems, costing literally trillions of dollars and employing hundreds of millions of people.
But a number of retailers are looking for ways to leverage technology to get shoppers excited about buying in store again.
tiles and taps will look together. Step into the Holoroom, where they will be displayed in augmented reality.
similar rooms will make their way into many stores. All told, Lowe s boasts 15 million customers every week.
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