the invention was explained in the recent issue of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Lab on a Chip.
"We used the concept of lab on a chip, which compresses the entire function of a laboratory diagnostic test onto a tiny microfluidics chip,
to create lab in a needle, "explained Stephen T. C. Wong, Ph d.,P. E.,Chair of the Department of Systems Medicine and Bioengineering at Houston Methodist Research Institute."
and analyzed using lab on a chip methods which eliminates the need for wet laboratory work
. a professor of circuits and systems and biomedical engineering expert who is the Director of Virtus, the Centre of Excellence in IC Design, at NTU's School of Electrical and Electronic engineering."
"Sample preparation was accomplished on one chip that incorporated a miniature motor and microfluidics, while amplification was performed on a second connected chip,
said Wong, who is also a professor of radiology, neuroscience, pathology and laboratory medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College.
and analysis chips into a miniaturized device. A*STAR SIMTECH will tap on its manufacturing process capabilities to develop a cost effective lab in needle device that can be scaled up for mass production.
and the LMU Munich have now been able to visualize the transpiration of a finger with a special moisture sensor
so in developing a new moisture sensor. What they really want is to use it in touchless displays. ecause these sensors react in a very local manner to any increase in moisture,
it is quite conceivable that this sort of material with moisture-dependent properties could also be used for touchless displays
To this end, the scientists created a multilayer sandwich material with alternating layers of ultrathin phosphatoantimonate nanosheets and silicon dioxide (Sio2) or titanium dioxide nanoparticles (Tio2.
explained Katalin Szendrei. change in the thickness of the layers in this process is accompanied by a change in the colour of the sensor produced in a similar way to
The sensor does need not to be activated chemically and is rapid-acting within five minutes-enabling the targeted antibodies to be detected easily, even in complex clinical samples such as blood serum."
#Unique, Optics-Based Tracking Sensor Created for Harmonica-Like Device Demonstrating the life changing technologies being developed as a result of Governor Andrew Cuomo leadership in fostering public-private partnership opportunities,
has developed a unique, optics-based tracking sensor for the amboxx, a harmonica-like device created by My Music Machines,
UNY Poly CNSE is proud to play a role in the development of this sensor
The device consists of a tilt sensor for octave selection a pressure sensor to produce sound,
and a position sensor to track the movement of the mouthpiece. As designed, the position slider had to make physical contact with a sensor,
however, and over time the slider wore out and failed. After hearing about SUNY Poly CNSE Professor and Head of the Nanobioscience Constellation Dr. Jim Castracane research related to novel sensors, the Jamboxx creators connected with Dr. Castracane who found that a Self
-Balancing Position Sensitive Detector (SBPSD) would make the Jamboxx more resistant to normal wear by avoiding a contact-method to track an input.
The Silicon-based linear detector was fabricated in SUNY Poly cleanrooms and is designed to track an LED,
which was added to the mouthpiece of the Jamboxx. After obtaining research grants from the New york state Trade Adjustment Assistance Center (NYSTAAC) and funds from My Music Machine, Inc. and support from SUNY Poly CNSE,
the SBPSD was developed without the need for any external electronics. It is extremely low cost, and provides excellent time response. aving heard that SUNY Poly CNSE leading-edge researchers are deeply involved with photonics-based sensors,
we were eager to see if they might be able to offer a solution that would make our unique musical device, the Jamboxx,
able to withstand the amount of use it was seeing from our many inspired customers,
aid My Music Machines, Inc. Co-Owner Mike Dicesare. artnering with SUNY Poly CNSE, we saw firsthand how it is unmatched an resource for businesses like ours,
Additionally, discussions are underway to manufacture the sensors at a high-volume fabrication facility such as CNSE Smart System Technology
is inquiring how to use arrangements of such nanoparticles to improve solar cells and other optoelectronic devices.
which also includes an LED light source, power supply, control unit, optical system and image sensor, cost less than $3, 000 to construct.
The use of low-cost components such as LEDS, reflectors and USB detectors, combined with the all-plastic housing and lenses, will allow future versions of the prototype to be mass-produced h
Phones, laptops and other electronic devices all use memory chips to function. To be desireable they must be fast,
despite its extremely high conductivity, graphene has been used in few practical electronic devices. Three graphene-centric memory technologies have been described in different articles published in Nature Communications, Applied Physics Letters and Nano Letters journals.
Data is stored by memory chips in the form of ones and zeroes. Silicon-based memory chips are classified as either volatile and nonvolatile.
In the RRAM chips metal oxides are changed between conductive and resistive states by the application of a small joly of electricity. in these RRAM chips.
By using a security tag equipped with sensors, the sender and the recipient can ensure, for example,
Previously, printing techniques have been applied to integrate electronics into plastic labels only, but with the VTT methods it is now also possible to produce more environmentally friendly paper-based security tags.
electronic circuits and sensors can be integrated directly into different materials by printing, thus producing novel security tags for sealing shipments
The security tag consists of a paper tag with an embedded battery and two coloured LEDS.
In the ROPAS project, VTT showed that roll-to-roll technology for printing electronics is suited also to the manufacturing of paper-based security tags.
and his team have developed an electrode designed to stimulate sensory nerve cells in the ulnar and median nerves in the arms.
The electrode which looks like a wagon wheel with open spaces between the pokes, allows the nerve to grow.
Ray also will implant a small cuff electrode, the current standard of care, to compare the performance.
Moran and the team will analyze how many different independent channels they can stimulate on the nerve to determine how many sensors will work on the prosthetic hand.
they can move different amounts of current around the nerve to activate different sectors to connect the touch sensors on the hand to a different sector on the nerve.
and his team will work with DARPA to determine how many sensors to put on the prosthetic hands. f the nervous system can handle more than eight
-and a'detector'that responds to the presence of a specific chemical, biosensors act as the switches
Now, Wyss Institute researchers led by Church have developed a new suite of such sensors reported in Nucleic acids Research journal,
VLC uses energy efficient light emitting diodes to transmit data inexpensively, securely, cleanly and with virtually unlimited bandwidth.
Any devices equipped with light sensors can recover data by monitoring light changes.""Here we are pushing the envelope further and ask:
But there are no cameras (high-fidelity sensors with privacy concerns) monitoring users or any on-body devices or sensors that users have to constantly wear or carry, just LED LIGHTS on the ceiling and photodiodes on the floor.
Compared to existing methods that use wireless radio signals such as Wi-fi to track user gestures, light-based sensing does not introduce electromagnetic interferences
They built the-first-of-its-kind light sensing testbed in the Dartnets lab using off-the-shelf LED LIGHTS, photodiodes, and microcontrollers.
It uses a custom-built piezoelectric sensor mounted in the bearing to measure the time of flight
This sensor is less expensive and significantly smaller than currently available, making it suitable for smaller turbines.
#Blast Motion and EASTON Introduce First-Ever Precision Swing Motion Sensor Easton Baseball/Softball, a leading manufacturer of baseball and softball equipment, in partnership with Blast Motion,
today launched the EASTON Power Sensor, the brand's first-ever precision swing motion sensor to help players of all abilities hit with more power and efficiency.
The EASTON Power Sensor slips over the knob of any baseball or softball bat and has been designed to capture highly accurate swing metrics
and deliver advanced performance analysis. Weighing in at just 7. 7 grams, the EASTON Power Sensor utilizes Bluetooth wireless technology to capture
and store a wide-range of 3d data, including time to contact, swing speed, energy transfer, bat path, power, overall efficiency and much more.
and softball enthusiasts our new EASTON Power Sensor that provides personalized swing biomechanics data, instant feedback to make real-time improvements and Blast Motion's patented video integration for playback and sharing."
"The EASTON Power Sensor was developed in exclusive partnership with Blast Motion, a leader in motion capture and analysis technology.
By leveraging Blast Motion's patented Smart Video Capture#and adaptive slow-mo technology, the EASTON Power Sensor intelligently combines video
"With the launch of the EASTON Power Sensor, we're excited to offer the marketplace an industry leading baseball
#New Bio-Inspired Ultrasound Sensor Identifies Structural Defects An ultrasound sensor for detecting dangerous cracks in structures such as aircraft engines,
and more secure way to communicate information between wearable electronic devices, providing an improved alternative to existing wireless communication systems,
An application of this technology would be a wireless sensor network for full-body health monitoring."
"In the future, people are going to be wearing more electronics, such as smart watches, fitness trackers and health monitors.
Mercier also serves as the co-director of the UC San diego Center for Wearable Sensors.
which uses the body as a vehicle to deliver magnetic energy between electronic devices. An advantage of this system is that magnetic fields are able to pass freely through biological tissues,
#Wearable Technology Combines Inertial and Electromyographic Sensors for Detecting Gestures A smart device that translates sign language
The wearable technology combines motion sensors and the measurement of electrical activity generated by muscles to interpret hand gestures,
notes Jafari who presented his research at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 12th Annual Body Sensor Networks Conference this past June.
Jafari system makes use of two distinct sensors. The first is an inertial sensor that responds to motion.
Consisting of an accelerometer and gyroscope the sensor measures the accelerations and angular velocities of the hand and arm, Jafari notes.
This sensor plays a major role in discriminating different signs by capturing the user hand orientations and hand and arm movements during a gesture.
However, a motion sensor alone wasn enough, Jafari explains. Certain signs in American sign language are similar in terms of the gestures required to convey the word.
With these gestures the overall movement of the hand may be the same for two different signs,
Jafari system makes use of another type of sensor that measures muscle activity. Known as an electromyographic sensor (semg), this sensor non-invasively measures the electrical potential of muscle activities,
Jafari explains. It is used to distinguish various hand and finger movements based on different muscle activities.
Essentially, it good at measuring finger movements and the muscle activity patterns for the hand and arm, working in tandem with the motion sensor to provide a more accurate interpretation of the gesture being signed,
In Jafari system both inertial sensors and electromyographic sensors are placed on the right wrist of the user where they detect gestures
he says his team will look to incorporate all of these functions into one wearable device by combining the hardware and reducing the overall size of the required electronics.
and expanding the system to both hands. he combination of muscle activation detection with motion sensors is a new and exciting way of understanding human intent with other applications in addition to enhanced SLR systems,
#Novel Sensor System Nondestructively Detects Risk of Corrosion in Concrete Structures Researchers of the Universitat Politècnica de València have developed a new sensor system able to quickly
which provides information on the intensity of the corrosion for every point in the network of sensors of the structure analysed,
and specific software for analysing the electrical response from each sensor. Today, the most common way to determine the corrosion speed of the rebars in a reinforced concrete structure is based on destructive techniques, for
BAE Systems engineers have adapted existing bone conduction technology often used in commercial headphones and hearing aids for the military domain.
The sensor is simple to use and it can detect tiny amounts of contamination in water,
sight (video cameras) hearing (audio recorders) and touch (TABLET PCS. But there is not yet a device that successfully captures information for smell or taste.
and adapted its function as a sensor element. The human nose is complicated more than receptors for two smell molecules,
#MIT Develops Protein-Based Sensor Capable of Killing Cancer cells MIT biological engineers have developed a modular system of proteins that can detect a particular DNA sequence in a cell
as detectors for the protein fibers implicated in the development of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.
They are now developing sensors for the amyloid fibrils that may allow experimenters to use droplets of liquid crystals in emulsion rather than the flat surfaces used in the proof-of-concept experiments.
or other body fluid using the new detectors, or for drug researchers to put the amyloid proteins in water,
which utilises the faster detectors present in modern PET systems to more accurately locate the source of each pair of rays.
mimics a single-storey flat and contains a network of Wi-fi cameras and sensors. Scientists believe it is the first time helper robots have been developed in a"real-life"environment.
Wi-fi cameras and sensors have also been installed on furniture, doors, medicine bottles, fridges, plugs and kettles inside the flat, dubbed the Personalised Assisted living facility.
The sensors will gather data to create a picture of a person's individual habits and needs.
just as important as the high tech sensors, computers, and voice synthesisers. Older people, have been recruited to help the lab scientists assess their work.
"allowing low energy devices from wearables to sensors to operate without being plugged in. The technology involves harvesting radio frequency energy from existing wireless and broadcast networks, from 4g to digital television.
where billions of small cheap sensors are online providing data about their operations. But Dean Bubley, a mobile technology analyst and founder of Disruptive Analysis, is cautious about the prospects for Freevolt.
After watching the demonstration he tells me the idea of air-quality sensors and crowdsourced monitoring is"fascinating".
The same thing could be achieved with a battery and low-power transmitter.""He says there are also questions to answer about the possible impact on the mobile networks,
The sensor does need not to be activated chemically and is rapid-acting within five minutes-enabling the targeted antibodies to be detected easily, even in complex clinical samples such as blood serum."
and ultra-low cost vaccine manufacturing, says Govind Rao who leads the research at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Center for Advanced Sensor Technology.
flat-chip bioreactors the size of cigarette packs for continuous processing. The scientists are also working on making purification portable.
and ultra-low cost vaccine manufacturing, says Govind Rao who leads the research at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Center for Advanced Sensor Technology.
flat-chip bioreactors the size of cigarette packs for continuous processing. The scientists are also working on making purification portable.
Key to this technology is the memristor (a combination of"memory"and"resistor"),an electronic component
Unlike conventional transistors, which rely on the drift and diffusion of electrons and their holes through semiconducting material,
the resulting device would have to be loaded enormous with multitudes of transistors that would require far more energy."
and memory storage devices users will continue to seek long after the proliferation of digital transistors predicted by Moore's Law becomes too unwieldy for conventional electronics."
The very next step would be to integrate a memristor neural network with conventional semiconductor technology,
and his team have developed an electrode designed to stimulate sensory nerve cells in the ulnar and median nerves in the arms.
Ray also will implant a small cuff electrode, the current standard of care, to compare the performance.
In particular, Moran and the team will analyze how many different independent channels they can stimulate on the nerve to determine how many sensors will work on the prosthetic hand.
they can move different amounts of current around the nerve to activate different sectors to connect the touch sensors on the hand to a different sector on the nerve.
Moran and his team will work with DARPA to determine how many sensors to put on the prosthetic hands. f the nervous system can handle more than eight
the new commercial device is a plastic chip with three chambers: a middle chamber for hydrogel and any cell type, such as cancer cells or endothelial cells (which line blood vessels),
and serves as the body primary glucose sensor as it relays signals in the pancreas
#Study Reveals the Genetic Start-up of a Human Embryo An international team of scientists led from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet has mapped for the first time all the genes that are activated in the first few days of a fertilized human egg.
said principal investigator Michael Rafii, M d.,Ph d.,assistant professor of neurosciences and interim co-director of the Alzheimer Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS) at UC San diego. The 3-year study
The ADCS was founded by the late Leon Thal M d.,a world leader in Alzheimer research, to promote the discovery, development and testing of new drugs for the treatment of AD.
and made it a light sensor, said Catherine Drennan, a professor of chemistry and biology at MIT.
we think you shouldn have to equip yourself with a microelectronics facility, and you shouldn have to do embryonic dissections
#Identifying Cancer's Food Sensors May Help Halt Tumor Growth Oxford university researchers have identified a protein used by tumors to help them detect food supplies.
with new chips and kits released every 3-6 months. n a few years time, people who may be removed several steps from basic genomic research,
Small molecules also are key elements in technologies like solar cells and LEDS. However, small molecules are notoriously difficult to make in a lab. Traditionally
Researchers placed electrodes at strategic points on the skin at the lower back and near the tailbone and then administered a unique pattern of electrical currents.
#Real-time Data For Cancer Therapy, MIT Study Biochemical sensor implanted at initial biopsy could allow doctors to better monitor
Now, researchers at MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research are closing that information gap by developing a tiny biochemical sensor that can be implanted in cancerous tissue during the initial biopsy.
The sensor then wirelessly sends data about telltale biomarkers to an external eaderdevice, allowing doctors to better monitor a patient progress
the David H. Koch (1962) Professor in Engineering in the Department of Materials science and engineering and a Koch Institute investigator who oversaw the sensor development. ather than waiting months to see
Two MIT doctoral students in Cima lab worked with him on the sensor project: Vincent Liu, now a postdoc at MIT,
Their research is featured in a paper in the journal Lab on a Chip that has been published online.
Measurements without MRI The sensors developed by Cima team provide real-time, on-demand data concerning two biomarkers linked to a tumor response to treatment:
these sensors, read over time, could let you see how hypoxia was changing in the tumor,
The sensor housing, made of a biocompatible plastic, is small enough to fit into the tip of a biopsy needle.
Devising a power source for these sensors was critical, Cima explains. Four years ago, his team built a similar implantable sensor that could be read by an MRI SCANNER.
RI scans are expensive and not easy to make part of routine care, he says. e wanted to take the next step
and put some electronics on the device so we could take these measurements without an MRI.
For power, these new sensors rely on the reader. Specifically, there a metal coil inside the reader and a much smaller coil in the sensor itself.
An electric current magnetizes the coil inside the reader, and that magnetic field creates a voltage in the sensor coil
when the two coils are close together a process called mutual inductance. The reader sends out a series of pulses,
and the sensor ings back, as Cima puts it. The variation in this return signal over time is interpreted by a computer to
Additional applications Cima team successfully tested the sensors in lab experiments including implanting them in rodents.
While the sensors were implanted only for a few weeks, Cima believes they could be used to monitor a person health over many years. here are thousands of people alive today,
because they have implantable electronics, like pacemakers and defibrillators, he says. ee making these sensors out of materials that are in these kinds of long-term implants,
and given that theye so small, I don think there will be a problem. These initial experiments showed that the sensors could quickly, reliably,
and accurately detect ph and oxygen concentration in tissue. The researchers next want to see how well the sensors do measuring changes in ph over an extended period of time. want to push these probes
so we can use them to monitor tumor response, Cima says. e did a little bit of that in these experiments,
While the primary application of these sensors would be cancer care, Cima is also eager to collaborate with researchers in other fields, such as environmental science. or example,
Cima says. excited about using these sensors to bring big data to environmental monitoring
#Modified Yeast Produce Opiates From Sugar, Stanford university Study It typically takes a year to produce hydrocodone from plants,
and image sensor, cost less than $3, 000 to construct. At production levels upwards of 10,000 units,
The use of low cost components such as LEDS reflectors, and USB detectors, combined with the all-plastic housing and lenses will allow for future versions of the prototype to be mass-produced
#Scientists Produce Beneficial Natural Compounds In Tomato--Industrial Scale up Potential, Study Reveals Scientists produce beneficial natural compounds in tomato--industrial scale up potential Scientists at the John Innes Centre have found a way to produce industrial quantities of useful natural compounds efficiently,
#New lab-on-chip device promises faster TB diagnosis Singapore: US researchers have developed a new low-cost lab-on-a-chip device to aid analysis of sputum from patients with pulmonary diseases such as tuberculosis and asthma.
The study published in the journal Lab on a Chip elaborated that the new method will help in easing diagnosis for patients and aid in early detection and speedy recovery.
"This is the first on-chip sputum liquefier anyone has developed so far. The device will aid in accurate diagnosis
North korea's hack of Sony Pictures in December was unprecedented in both size and scope, downing Sony's system and releasing upwards of 11 terabytes of internal company data.
And the State department is still struggling to purge Russian hackers from its system 6 months after suffering its"worst ever"attack.
AP Photo/Ahn Young-joonpeople walk past a TV screen showing a poster of Sony Picture's"The Interview"in a news report
Jamie Mccarthy/Getty Images for Roc Nationthe modern event space featured areas where guests could try Tidal on expensive headphones,
as well as watches, razors, camping equipment, headphones, and drones. Once the poll closes, Massdrop will reach out to the brand of the top-voted product.
and headphones with aftermarket car parts, dog and cat products, and RC cars a
#The Apple Pay effect is real n-store mobile payments volume will top $800 billion in 2019 Mobile payments the use of phones to complete transactions in stores instead of cash
laptops, mobile phones, tablets, cameras, even coffee makers and thermostats. By 2020, there will be an estimated 50 billion devices online.
The crew is part of the University of Hawaii's fourth Hawaii space exploration analog and simulation (HI-SEAS) mission,
The Dane told a preflight news conference on Tuesday that he had shaved his right leg to allow Volkov to better apply electrodes during scientific experiments in space.
clothing and electronics that helped power the country's economic ascent. Now, factories are rapidly replacing those workers with automation,
according to Goldman sachs. Companies such as electronics maker TCL Corp. are using robots to produce higher-value goods. At one factory in Shenzhen,
The highlight of the technique we developed is you put a drop of blood on our electrodes,
The electrodes used to detect the electrical current can be had for five to 10 cents each,
and instead send messages through a computer algorithm to electrodes placed around the patient's knees to trigger controlled leg muscle movements.
or brain, allowing for clearer reception of the neural messages and perhaps the delivery of pressure sensation from sensors in the foot back to the brai i
The Consumer electronics Association has forecast that 700,000 drones will be sold this holiday season, and Foxx said it's especially important that new drone users be taught the responsibilities that come with flying.
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