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So that way you maintain compatibility for apps. What if we build a version of Android?
and technology giants try to find new ways to bring content to life. Microsoft corp. and Advanced micro devices Inc. are both working on their own virtual reality rooms
every way you retrieve data, he said. Via Wall street Journa i
#Smart rifle uses Google glass to let you shoot around corners Google glass-equipped smart rifle. Trackingpoint is the company behind the U s army s new#smart rifle.
and zinc become the primary storage devices for transportation, for backing up renewable power sites, for electronic devices and for industry and defense.
so it requires designing the edges in such a way that the right geometric structure is created ultimately.
#Classcraft a new way to teach students by turning the classroom into a giant role-playing game Classcraft Shawn Young,
It goes both ways. As the Games master, you buy into that, but then when they die they get these horrible consequences.
he tried various ways of getting kids to collaborate better in class, something he believes is important in a 21st century that s proving a boom time for sharing, not least through social media.
That way, pupils can still access the customizable features, but it will be the teachers who hold the keys to the gold.
at its core, a challenge to the school budgeting system and a way of making Classcraft available to all, according to Young.
or freemium pay models are the only way his class can keep using Classcraft. I would love to say my principal would purchase the premium access for us,
it does provide an innovative and unique way of capturing those pupils that might otherwise shrug their way through school.
Video games in a very short time, have become this common cultural reference point that everybody knows,
In the next stage of the experiment, the research team demonstrated the ability to weaken this circuitry by stimulating the same nerves with a memory-erasing, low-frequency train of optical pulses.
scientists found they could reactivate the lost memory by re-stimulating the same nerves with a memory-forming, high-frequency train of optical pulses.
noted that the beta amyloid peptide that accumulates in the brains of people with Alzheimer s disease weakens synaptic connections in much the same way that low-frequency stimulation erased memories in the rats.
You could even tap into a large group of strangers to help you track down a stolen bike.
the suitcase is equipped also with a GPS navigator, a burglar alarm and a horn. Weighing about 15 pounds, Mr. He ulti-functional suitcaseis powered by a lithium battery
The model captures the electrical and mechanical behavior of the heart in one of the most realistic and vivid ways yet to be seen.
Just the way the wave is formed and the power behind it, he tells me. t going to be a game-changer, both from a coaching point of view and a surfing point of view.
Andrew Cotton from Devon recently surfed one of the largest recorded waves around 24m (80ft) off the coast of Portugal. t a good way to get people in to surfing.
Some doctors bristle at the fact that many patients now shop for physicians in the same way they shop for restaurants and plumbers:
when they get down to the job of examining the patient in a scientific way. Also, new technology in doctors offices may not help matters.
and other parts of medical life. t way too early to tellif Glass will become standard in medical schools,
Last year, Princeton physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed was analyzing the formulas in search of a better way to simplify these quantum calculations.
#he discovered#a new kind of geometric shape called an amplituhedron one that hints at a new way of seeing the universe.
providing a possible way to imagine a world not woven of this fabric. The new shape is intriguing,
If wee moving down this road of increasing autonomy in robotics and that the same as Google cars as it is for military robots, we should begin now to do the research to how far can we get in ensuring the robot systems are safe
the country has installed an astonishing amount of solar photovoltaic (PV) power setting multiple solar power generation records along the way.
lithium ions travel from the anode to the cathode through the electrolyte, creating a chemical reaction that allows electrons to be harvested along the way.
Other companies are looking at ways to engineer carbon to make batteries better. Energ2 is one of those startups,
while they want to do some early pilot line production themselves, they know they need a large manufacturing partner
Later down the road, they could try to tackle electric cars. An electric car with a battery pack of dual-carbon batteries could charge much faster and last much longer on the road, giving it a higher resale value.
Currently the team is supplying batteries for a Go-cart in a transportation proof-of-concept partnership.
Vibrating and pulsing its way all the way to the bottom of your hamper the Luna Wash finishes its cycle by blowing your#fresh-cleaned#clothes dry with hot air.
Oleg Rogynskyy, thought there was a better way. He saw that by putting Lexalyticstechnology in the cloud,
Since then, technology has advanced in countless ways, not only making it doable, but for Japan, making it the best available option for controlling its own destiny.
peering out over Tokyo Bay and seeing a man-made island in the harbor that is 2 miles across.
Wireless power transmission Space transportation Construction of large structures in orbit Satellite attitude and orbit control Space-based power generation Power management Of these six challenges,
William C Brown, the inventor of the cross-field amplifier, used a remote control helicopter to demonstrate his breakthroughs using wireless microwave power on the Walter Cronkite 6: 00 pm news. Citing Tesla same logic,
or delayed flights It can be hard to a book flight on an airline website,
That why airlines will fight you very hard not to give you your money back.
According to Airhelp, only 0. 1 percent of eligible passengers get their compensation. Not only Airhelp will do the hard work for you,
It bets that passengers are willing to give up that much because they wouldn have gotten any compensation without Airhelp. f passengers try
and claim themselves, theyl have to send tons of documents, theyl experience dead links. And if you get through that hurdle,
youe likely to be rejected by the airline saying that it an extraordinary circumstance, Michaelsen said. e auto-generate the legal documents that you should send to the airline.
Digging through all your email could take a while. So after connecting to your Gmail account
including year-round crop production, protection from weather, support urban food autonomy and reduced transport costs. Scientifically viable in 2023;
#Volvo testing self-driving cars on public roads in Sweden Volvo Car Group rive Meproject featuring 100 self-driving Volvos on public roads in everyday driving conditions is moving forward rapidly,
legislators, transport authorities, a major city, a vehicle manufacturer, and real customers. The customers will drive the 100 cars in everyday driving conditions on approximately 50 kilometers of selected roads in and around Gothenburg.
These roads are typical commuter arteries, including motorway conditions and frequent queues. rive Me self-driving cars for sustainable mobilityis a joint initiative between Volvo Car Group, the Swedish Transport Administration, the Swedish Transport Agency, Lindholmen Science
Park and the City of Gothenburg. The Swedish Government is endorsing the project. Volvo Cars will play a leading role in the world first large-scale autonomous driving pilot project in
which 100 self-driving Volvo cars will use public roads in everyday driving conditions around the Swedish city of Gothenburg.
The ground-breaking project rive Me Self-driving cars for sustainable mobilityis a joint initiative between Volvo Car Group, the Swedish Transport Administration, the Swedish Transport Agency, Lindholmen
Science Park and the City of Gothenburg. The rive Meproject is endorsed by the Swedish Government.
The aim is to pinpoint the societal benefits of autonomous driving and position Sweden and Volvo Cars as leaders in the development of future mobility e
and rewire anything, just plug the LED tube in the same way the older fluorescents do.
and students who would have worked their way through college a few years ago, and added that many parents in the past paid for college by refinancing mortgages, an alternative no longer available to many families.
she hoped to treat them the same way as materials composed of synthetic particles. That idea might have been a bit naïve, she now acknowledges.
Mu Glove for Music will change the way we make music. The time has arrived! We are making the first Mi.
We feel there could be a better way that is more like the experiences we have with traditional instruments:
We wanted to make a wireless glove that almost any musician could adapt to their way of making music.
and invested in Better to create a powerful way for people to connect with Mayo Clinic in their homes and communities,
At $20 million, Facebook found its way into the drone space for a third of
With the FAA and other civil aviation authorities moving toward policies that allow for the commercial operation of drones in civilian airspace,
Bünger says of the recent acquisitions. don know why in the world Whatsapp was valued the way it was,
while also developing advanced algorithms to help the aircraft better traverse wind patterns and flight routes.
the Solara 50, is actually larger than a Boeing 767 jetliner, boasting a 164-foot wingspan.
and follows the line back the way it came i
#Electric car sales growing 100%every year Actually, electric car sales are growing a little bit more than 100%.%Every year more and more electric car models are hitting the market.
with the exception of some aircraft carriers and 72 submarines that rely on nuclear propulsion. Moving away from that reliance would free the military from fuel shortages
Philip Cullom. e are in very challenging times where we really do have to think in pretty innovative ways to look at how we create energy,
The breakthrough came after scientists developed a way to extract carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas from seawater.
really is something that reinvents a lot of the way we can do business when you think about logistics, readiness.
Storedot has apparently found a way around this limitation, and that itl even work with existing technology.
whereby service providers could potentially prioritize certain types of traffic as long as it doesn degrade access to other rival services.
Monetizing over-the-top (OTT) traffic via so-called pecialized servicesthat get special treatment has received a little clarification with today vote,
and General electric wants to lead the way A 20-year-old Indonesian student has helped General electric save considerable sums of money in development
in reality it just a fraction of the overall manufacturing process and General electric wants to lead the way.
And in 2012, GE Aviation was formed from the acquisition of Morris Technologies as the company wanted to learn more about additive manufacturing.
and should be doing more. dditive manufacturing is not just another way to produce parts,
Furstoss said. t a way to change how I work. It a way to say,
I can introduce products faster than ever before. Why? Because additive manufacturing gives me the opportunity to conduct faster prototyping.
which helps it to learn how to develop the more difficult or traditionally expensive parts for aviation, oil and gas, healthcare,
Furstoss said by 2020, the company aims to print more than 100,000 parts for aviation. In the meantime, the company continues to focus on transforming its repair processes for industrial components.
and create products that could not be made in any other way. his is the opportunity we can waste,
He said the Education Foundation is working with local teachers on classroom pilots to try out startup products in a realistic environment.
If the captain happens to be on the bow or the stern rather than up on the bridge when there an emergency,
The captain just signs in to the nearest console and enters a password, as if he doing some online banking.
t the same ways that we protect information in classified networks, through having processes and procedures to make sure the password is sophisticated.
It incumbent on the captain not to share it with anybody. Everyone got to protect their password,
Even if an impostor did succeed in tricking the ship into thinking he was the captain, it unlikely a hacker could fire the weaponshat process involves more than one person.
Such initiatives must impact numerous areas, from the provision of transport, energy, and healthcare services, to the state of public safety and government services.
Here in the UK, the government has announced over £150m of funding into smart city research and this runs alongside investment in intelligent transport systems
Glasgow aims to open up data to demonstrate how providing integrated health, transport, energy and public safety services can improve both the local economy and the quality of life for the city citizens.
saying cities will move quickly from research and evaluation to investment in pilots. What are thoughts your on how we can develop intelligent infrastructure and the smart cities of the future s
which have so far been held back by limited battery lives. he idea of eliminating cables would allow us to redesign things in ways that we haven yet thought of,
Bitcoin the currency As a currency, bitcoin is in many ways the antithesis of modern fiat currencies.
inclusive process to find a new international oversight structure for the group. othing will be done in any way to jeopardize the security and stability of the Internet,
and an uncloaked sphere blocking the way. The results clearly show that the cloaking device makes it appear as though the sound waves reflected off an empty surface. e conducted our tests in the air,
In January, the Army successfully tested a robotic self-driving convoy that would reduce the number of personnel exposed to roadside explosives in war zones like Iraq and Afghanistan.
a hard ban on robots capable of making kill decisions is the only way to ensure that machines never have the power of life
overwhelmingly believed that the way they access money and pay for things will be completely different in five years. s consumers,
and it using an unusual way of working with Panasonic. Navigant Jaffe called the method unique combination of carrot and stick.
But his machines were fixed-wing fliers that could move only at constant speeds and had to fly at different heights to avoid collisions.
but real fliers face other problems. The big enemies are noise and delay, says Vicsek.
The fliers also need time to receive and process those signals, and these lags mean the drones often get too close to one another
It a folding plate puzzle consisting of a loop of eight square shaped tiles that can be transformed in a variety of surprising ways.
Users can physically bend the phone in ways that resemble real-world behaviors, with input and output becoming virtually indistinguishable.
The cameras capture light reflected off small infrared reflective markers (like the material used in reflectors on bikes.
Our data pave the way for such a stem cell therapy, Blau said. Other recent work in stem cell therapy has looked similarly for ways the cells could improve functioning of existing organs, rather than building replacements through regenerative medicine.
For instance one recent study suggested that the cells may be able to kick-start insulin-making in pancreas in Type-1 diabetics by replacing Beta cells.
In the same way that IP and the infrastructure of network nodes that make up the Internet now support functions from e-mail to video streaming
in the same way that second-layer services like Buffer or Hootsuite use the Twitter API to present
So, all bankers and stockbrokers might not go the way of the coal miner, telephone operator, or record store clerk.
But the hard lessons of other upturned industries may now be relevant to the financial sector in ways they never were before.
Though there isn t yet a good way to cheaply scale the process up to an industrial level,
way to engage students and that how the company startedhe said. Witty president and CEO of KSHARE Inc. said his Aristotl Learning Platform is sophisticated a yet simple-to-use virtual classroom
Marketing and an Aristotl advisor said Witty is taking an innovative approach to meeting today education needs. e moving the mountain over to students so the way teachers interact with students is in their worldvan Eron said.
Numerical simulations in real time provide the best way to study these processes, but such simulations can be extremely expensive.
Supermicro high-performance 4u 4-way SYS-4048b-TRFT Superserver optimized for IO-intensive environments, enables rapid,
and show how and when to deploy delivery trucks to ensure immediate shipment an especially important factor in farmlands where the lack of paved roads can paralyze distribution.
and predicting of weather effects on transportation networks can help farmers make better decisions about which routes and methods will be fastest to transport harvested food.
That is especially critical in countries like Brazil where many of the roads are unpaved and heavy rain can cause trucks to get stuck in mud.
Coupling predictive analytics and modeling techniques with other sophisticated farming methods can prove to be quite beneficial
but work on Shrilk continues in the lab exploring ways to use the material in moist environments (it becomes flexible
That's the way the brain works. It's not that you have one brain that does the recognition
this editor was afraid his asthma might flare up as he made his way around CES in Las vegas last week.
and the impact of removing cyanide from transport networks. Sodium cyanide is highly toxic but vital for extracting metals such as gold from its ore.
This technology eliminates the need to transport, store or handle both solid and liquid sodium cyanide.
Through an extensive R&d program, Imergy has developed a way to produce flow batteries with vanadium at a 98%purity level that can be harvested from environmental waste sites.
and the mine water to be treated in a more environmentally sound way, CSIRO scientist Dr Grant Douglas said. educing the amount of sludge is beneficial
and Chile. t is a more efficient and economic way to treat wastewater and is enabling the global mining industry to reduce its environmental footprint and extract wealth from waste.
Equipment is driven manually to a transition zone, where the operator leaves the vehicle cab. The equipment operator then goes into the Integrated Remote Operations center (IROC) that contains two operator stations and a spotter.
The operator control station is designed to exactly mirror the control center in the cab, allowing seamless transitions for the workers between manual and remote control.
when it senses obstacles A new smart bicycle has been unveiled in The netherlands and its high-tech gadgetry might be the closest thing to a Pee-wee Herman bike on the market but far less accident prone.
In fact the bike is loaded with safety features and was designed specifically for the purpose of reducing the high accident rate in the bicycle-loving country particularly among elderly cyclists reports Discovery News. The bicycle
which is slated to officially go on sale within the next two years sports a radar system mounted below the handlebars that can detect approaching obstacles.
A small camera in the rear mudguard keeps a watchful eye on your backside. When an obstacle approaches from the front
and talk to the bicycle through a dedicated application. The full medley of devices will be particularly useful for cyclists propelled along by the bicycle's electrical motor
which can reach a top speed of 16 miles per hour h
#What's a Twike? It's half-bike half-electric car Meet the Twike. It a made-in-Germany combination of an electric bicycle with an EV.
It may be that wel see more of these hybrids popping up as our cities get less friendly to gas guzzlers.
Driving 60 miles is going to cost you $2 the company says. The Twike youe looking at is one of the few in the U s
One drives with a central tiller (as in the earliest days of motoring) and the passenger in this two-seater can pedal too.
There are about 1000 Twikes on European roads that have covered 37 million miles but very few in the U s. It can be registered as a motorcycle
The ELF built by Organic Transit isn quite as luxurious as the Twike but it a lot cheaper $5495 for the standard model.
It's also possible to extend the range by adding extra e-bike type li-ion battery packs.
Organic Transit's ELF on its way to Boston. Photo: Jim Motavalli) Rob Cotter CEO and founder of Organic Transit describes the Twike and ELF as the same but different.
The weight of a Twike is almost 4x an ELF so the gains from pedaling
It was sponsored by Lufthansa and looked basically identical to today's Twike. I'm sure it has a lot more power than the ELF.
Highway friendly they're not but OK on lightly trafficked local roads. The smart battery research at the University of Cincinnati is interesting.
According to Jay Lee the IMS director the cells in a battery pack typically degrade (and charge) at different rates and that throws off the efficiency and longevity.
Another use for the Smart Battery Watchdog Agent Dr. Lee said is to plot the optimal route to where youe going based on your past driving behavior the availability of charging stations along the way and other factors.
The computer had to detect people, bicyclists, cars and other vehicles in a photo, and identify each object correctly.
the way Apple's voice-controlled Siri program operates, he said. That is, Siri outsources the computation to other computers via a network instead of performing it locally on a device.
"We've come a long way, but there's a long way to go, "Modha said o
#Real-life Transformer: Robotic bug springs to life The latest advancement in robotics may not look like much just a few small batteries attached to a flat sheet of paper
Researchers say the self-assembling robot represents a new way to build bots, a process that will make it easier to churn out complex machines in less time.
"NASA is researching different ways to produce oxygen for long-distance space journeys to let us live in space.
"It opens a lot of area to deploy solar energy in a non-intrusive way, "said Lunt.""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.
and allows us to address the complex needs of advanced materials for applications in transportation, microelectronic or advanced manufacturing."
and turns it into purified air Billboards often line busy roads and highways where there's lots of traffic and by association lots of air pollution.
But what if those billboards could be transformed into giant air purifiers scrubbing the air and turning polluted areas into fresh ones?
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.
Large cities in the U s. with poor air quality and high traffic such as Los angeles and Houston would be good places to implement the technology.
but the researchers were able to do it by way of a transporter, a protein that moves materials across cell membranes.
"The research paves the way for"designer"organisms with custom-made genomes that are capable of performing useful tasks, like making drugs.
#Cargo bikes: The new way to move kids stuff and pizza Order a Domino pizza in Portland, Ore.
and chances are it will arrive by bicycle. The Portland Mercury newspaper is delivered that way, too,
and the local Splendid Cycles which specializes in cargo bikes is expanding. Now, admittedly, Portland is ground zero for cargo bikes parodied on"Portlandia"and everything.
But moving kids, pizzas and even entire households with pedal power is catching on big time in the U s. Cargo bikes are he new station wagon,
says the Wall street journal. It not just Amsterdam and Copenhagen anymore biking is having a renaissance,
and it going beyond Sunday recreation. Jim Motavalli on a carbo bike The author investigates a Belgian Ecopostale van at the International Transport Forum.
Photo: Randy Rzewnicki) That where Marin county, California Liz Canning comes in. She making a documentary called"Less Car More Go,
"and both crowdsourcing video for it and raising money through a Kickstarter campaign. She wants a modest $40, 000,
000. always loved riding my bike, Canning said, ut it got so I couldn pull my twins in our double trailerhe hill to our house was too steep.
even though I was already a fit cyclist who commuted into San francisco, it changed my life.
Now there was no reason not to take the bike everywhere. Bike with a wheelbarrow in front You can watch the trailer for"Less Car More Go"here:
In part because most of her o-directorssent in footage of them ferrying their kids around,
but Canning agrees that cargo bikes can work for a living. She said the finished film will have pedicabs, bicycle messengers, food delivery and, yes,
pizza guys. t would be great if a big company, like Whole Foods, launched a large fleet of electric cargo bikes,
Canning said. e need something on that scale. Less Car More Go DHL's courier services are mounted often bike in Europe.
Photo courtesy of"Less Car More Go")Cargo bikes have reached scale in Europe. For instance, DHL Netherlands,
which does parcel delivery, replaced 33 trucks with cargo bikes, saving 152 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually.
Arne Melse of DHL says that 10 percent of the company vehicles are bikes. rom our pilots in four EU countries,
we see that it is indeed possible to deliver by cycle. There are already 2, 000 to 3, 000 cargo bikes in London,
and importer Andrea Casalotti estimates that sales will be up 20 percent this year. Ecopostale is using bike vans to deliver the mail in Belgium (see photo above.
UPS is testing pedal-power delivery vans in Germany. According to Dr. Randy Rzewnicki, a transplanted Bostonian who now works for Europe-based Cyclelogistics,
t is boom time for cargo bikes. Up to 70 percent of delivery costs are in the last mile,
and these bikes can save money and increase efficiency. It a credible solution for young businesses.
but you have to watch this local cyclists band together to move an entire apartment. And it looks like theye having loads of fun doing it t
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