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and a bit of know-how, will be able to follow all the spacecraft from the ground. hat wee been able to do with Kicksat is tap into the developments in consumer electronics,

and understand everything that made an engine run, now the proliferation of sensors, computers, and safety devices makes this near impossible.

and member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). So the car of the future may come with one simple instruction DON read the manual t

Apollo spurred many advances, from portable cordless vacuums to microchips in your computer. China is hoping for a similar effect to make it more competitive globally.

which is the negative electrode, such as zinc, and a cathode, the positively charged electrode, such as copper.

The acid inside the potato forms a chemical reaction with the zinc and copper, and when the electrons flow from one material to another,

But you can put many materials between these two electrodes to get the same effect.

and copper electrodes generates portable energy at an estimated $9 per kilowatt hour, which is 50-fold cheaper than a typical 1. 5 volt AA alkaline cell or D cell battery,

With the boiled piths, they found they could power a single LED for more than 500 hours,

A zinc electrode that lasts about five months would cost about the same as a litre of kerosene

You could also use other electrodes, like magnesium or iron. But potato advocates must surmount another problem before their idea catches on:

electric cars are equipped with computers, sensors, and wireless connections that allow drivers to voluntarily share information on their driving

Indian real estate company DLF persuaded Jack Welch#then the chief executive of General electric (GE)# to set up a facility here,

Genpact's story best illustrates Gurgaon's success. The company began as a call centre within General electric,

#These companies include Siemens Industry Software. With design centres around India, they make software used for everything from designing car parts to building vehicles sent into space.

Behind them are huge posters of the Curiosity rover on Mars. Nasa's Jet propulsion laboratory used a portfolio of design software made by Siemens to digitally design,

says Suman Bose, Managing director of Siemens Industry Software. While the company has extensive R&d labs across the country,

Some of the major international companies located here include Coca-cola, Pepsi, IBM, American express, Agilent, Microsoft, and Bank of america."

#says Huang Deray, former director of Hsinchu Science Park, home to 400 hi-tech companies and a world leader in semiconductor manufacturing."

You may not have heard of the companies Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics, Pegatron, Wistron and Inventec, but together they make more than 90%of the laptops sold worldwide,

Its handsets do not have the features to compete with the likes of Apple and Samsung in advanced economies.

Until 2009 he was earning around double the average wage of a tech engineer at a company that designs integrated circuits.

for instance finding ways to make integrated circuits based on specifications created by overseas companies. They're not really inventing something new.#

which are designed to destroy electronics without causing any physical damage. Last year, Boeing released a video of its High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project (Champ)- a missile that essentially fries circuits by causing a surge in power.

#Other personal health sensors that use Bluetooth include the Cardiopad, an electrocardiography (ECG) machine developed to monitor heart activity in patients in remote areas of Cameroon,

Sensors could be linked via Bluetooth to sprinkler systems to automatically optimise moisture levels. The ability to use just the right amounts of water and fertiliser to produce a good harvest without wasting resources can improve crop yields and rural incomes.

"It's like trying to see the light from a feeble little LED 10cm away from a stadium floodlight,

and their accounts charged at point-of-sale terminals. Changamka pre-contracts prices with medical providers, and takes a 10%cut for services charged.

#Organs on chips: How to make a microchip that breathes Drug testing is a costly business.

Before any candidate can be tested in humans it has to be tested on animals to see

Researchers are creating microchips that mimic the structure and function of living organs, such as the lung and heart.

Each so-called"organ-on-chip#is composed of a clear flexible polymer that contains hollow microfluidic channels lined by living human cells.

where Dumeetha Luthra is amazed by the team's cellular reconstruction of a human lung on a microchip.

including the involvement of a former CEO of Sony Germany.""What Berlin gets right is that it attracts the right kind of people,

the chemical sensors that allow us to identify smells. At first Pluznick didn't believe her eyes.

System sensor The kidney is made up of miles of minuscule tubes, twisted into an exquisite lacework.

and sending out alerts to adjust the blood filtration rate. he macula densa is the only cell type in the kidney that you would think of as being a chemical sensor,

There's no better place for a chemical sensor, he points out, as the blood is the highway by

What's emerging is a picture of these receptors as a kind of general-purpose chemical sensor.

"But if you say that chemical sensors are in the kidney, I think it makes a heck of a lot of sense.

Andraka's research incuding writing to 200 science professors led to him developing a dipstick diagnostic test which searches for a biomarker for pancreatic cancer.

This led to the unexpected discovery that the majority of mutations actually reduced or abolished PKC activity,

led the molecular analysis of several pathways known to be involved in regulating longevity to find out how they might be different.

#Wearable sensor clears path to long-term EKG EMG monitoring Researchers from North carolina State university have developed a new, wearable sensor that uses silver nanowires to monitor electrophysiological signals, such as electrocardiography

The new sensor is as accurate as the"wet electrode"sensors used in hospitals, but can be used for long-term monitoring

and is more accurate than existing sensors when a patient is moving. Long-term monitoring of electrophysiological signals can be used to track patient health or assist in medical research,

Electrophysiological sensors used in hospitals, such as EKGS, use wet electrodes that rely on an electrolytic gel between the sensor

and the patient's skin to improve the sensor's ability to pick up the body's electrical signals.

However this technology poses problems for long-term monitoring, because the gel dries up-irritating the patient's skin and making the sensor less accurate.

The new nanowire sensor is comparable to the wet sensors in terms of signal quality, but is a"dry"electrode-it doesn't use a gel layer,

so doesn't pose the same problems that wet sensors do.""People have developed other dry electrodes in the past few years,

and some have demonstrated the potential to rival the wet electrodes, but our new electrode has better signal quality than most-if not all of the existing dry electrodes.

It is more accurate, "says Dr. Yong Zhu, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State and senior author of a paper describing the work."

"In addition, our electrode is mechanically robust, because the nanowires are inlaid in the polymer.""The sensors stem from Zhu's earlier work to create highly conductive and elastic conductors made from silver nanowires,

and consist of one layer of nanowires in a stretchable polymer. The new sensor is also more accurate than existing technologies at monitoring electrophysiological signals

when a patient is in motion.""The silver nanowire sensors conform to a patient's skin, creating close contact,

"Zhu says.""And, because the nanowires are so flexible, the sensor maintains that close contact even when the patient moves.

The nanowires are also highly conductive, which is key to the high signal quality.""The new sensors are also compatible with standard EKG

-and EMG-reading devices.""I think these sensors are essentially ready for use, "Zhu says"The raw materials of the sensor are comparable in cost to existing wet sensors,

but we are still exploring ways of improving the manufacturing process to reduce the overall cost

#New high-speed 3-D microscope--SCAPE--gives deeper view of living things Source: Columbia University School of engineering and Applied science-Opening new doors for biomedical and neuroscience research, Elizabeth Hillman, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering and of radiology at Columbia University Medical center

(CUMC), has developed a new microscope that can image living things in 3d at very high speeds.

In doing so, she has overcome some of the major hurdles faced by existing technologies, delivering 10 to 100 times faster 3d imaging speeds than laser scanning confocal, two-photon,

and light-sheet microscopy. Hillman's new approach uses a simple, single-objective imaging geometry that requires no sample mounting or translation,

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Shares in Renesas Electronics that helped that index those were up 35 percent on reports that a private equity firm KKR plans to invest nearly $1. 3 billion in the company.

Samsung Electronics was a strong performer there of nearly three percent recouping some of the losses that it suffered after its legal loss to Apple.

whether its request for a sales ban against eight Samsung devices is going to be granted. A U s. judge has set a December 6 court date to consider a permanent injunction which could delay the potential impact of a legal victory.

Apple was awarded just over $1 billion last week after a California jury found that Samsung had copied critical features of the iphone and the ipad.

The device consists of a chip with cell-trapping cups that are arranged strategically to capture

The device, called the Nanovelcro Chip, is a postage-stampized chip with nanowires that are 1,

000 times thinner than a human hair and are coated with antibodies that recognize circulating tumor cells.

When 2 milliliters of blood are run through the chip, the tumor cells stick to the nanowires like Velcro.

Tseng team needed to be able to separate the cells from the chip without damaging them.

the scientists used a technique called laser capture microdissection that was effective in removing individual cells from the chip without damaging them,

Plants monitor production in real time using sensors that feed quality and performance data to dashboards in real time.

That led to a prototype cigar-sized antenna that connects phones via public unlicensed airwaves.

The antennas are sold in pairs for $149. 99 with no additional service charges. The antennas make up the network

and the service operates independently from cellular or Wi-fi networks. The signal range is anywhere from 50 miles to several blocks depending on interference.``

Using ultraviolet and infrared rays as well as magnetic field sensors, the founder of Matsumura Engineering Co.,is targeting the fake U s. bills that are popping up in countries from South america to Asia and the Middle east.

and most of the detectors used in financial institutions are useless against themsays Matsumura. he paper

#Samsung Sticks It to Apple With Swiss Railways Deal (Updates with comment from SBB in fifth paragraph.

Samsung Electronics sent out a press release last week saying its gadgets had been chosen for a technology buildout at Swiss Federal Railways.

The history wasn't mentioned in Samsung's press release but you can bet the timing of the announcement was no coincidence.

A new trial kicked off on March 31 in Silicon valley where Apple is accusing Samsung of copying its designs for the iphone and ipad.

Apple's lawyers are trying to portray a culture of fast following at Samsung and to highlight Apple innovations.

Samsung declined to comment and Apple didn't respond to a request for comment. Reto Scharli a spokesman for SBB said the railway operator's decision to team up with Samsung was unrelated to the issue with Apple in 2012.

Swiss Railways publicly asked for bidders for the project and Samsung made the best offer he said.

Concerning Apple: We were proud that they had chosen our watch Scharli wrote in an e-mail.

Swiss Railways will use a smattering of Samsung gadgets#the Galaxy Note 3 Galaxy S4 Galaxy S4 Mini

and Galaxy Tab 3#for employee communication as well as for ticket purchasing and other train services Samsung said.

and stretched on disposable chips that fit the device. The results can be seen on both the smartphone

But, to do that, you need a different sensor, Kranz explained. For this application Elbit Systems adapted a commercial sensor developed by Lifebeam, an Israeli start-up company that developed such a sensor to monitor peak performance for extreme sportsathletes such as marathon runners, bicyclists and mountain climbers.

The sensor measures oxygen concentration in the blood, heartbeat and blood perfusion (the volume of blood that flows through to the tissues.

e are working with AFRL to study such applications. We will soon start the second phase

Kranz added. e embedded the sensor in our new-generation helmets that have integral processing capability on the helmet.

Helmets with integrated sensors were tested in a centrifuge under high G loads with pilots wearing G-suits.

On other tests pilots flew with them under loads of up to 6g. he test results we have collected so far have shown that the sensors performed predictably and reliably, monitoring the pilot condition

or ease the sharpness of the turn to reduce G. The sensor can profile each individual pilot

Printing Missiles Researchers at Raytheon Missile Systems say they have created already nearly every component of a guided weapon using additive manufacturing, more commonly known as 3-D printing.

a Raytheon engineer who has printed working rocket motors. achines making machines. The user could print on demand.

create housings for the company revolutionary gallium nitride transmitters, and fabricate fins for guided artillery shells.

said Raytheon engineer Travis Mayberry, who is researching future uses of additive manufacturing and 3-D printing. ee trying new designs for thermal improvements and lightweight structures,

additive manufacturing manager for Raytheon. hen we print something, we have fewer piece parts, so your supply chain becomes simpler,

a Raytheon materials expert who also serves as the chair of the executive committee of America Makes, an initiative of the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute.

Other printed elements include complex electronic circuits Engineers at the Raytheon University of Massachusetts Lowell Research Institute are developing ways to print such circuits,

said Chris Mccarroll, Raytheon director for the institute. t additive manufacturing. When we make integrated circuits now, it all subtractive.

We put down very expensive materials and wash away everything we don need. ircuits can already be printed with inkjet printers.

said Mccarroll. hat we see in the near future is printing the electronics and printing the structures,

and dielectrics needed for printed electronics. They can even lay down carbon nanotubes, tiny structures made of linked carbon atoms,

and the plastic connectors, the semiconductors for processors, and the energetics and propulsion systems. The hard part is then making the connections between these components,

At some relatively near-term point you may have to place chips down and interconnect them with printing.

The new mart Oceans BCPROGRAM will use marine sensors and data analysis to enhance environmental stewardship and public and marine safety along Canada West coast.

NC has a world-leading marine sensor network and associated expertisesays IBM President Dan Fortin.

and skills-training to ensure ONC has the capacity to analyse data from the new sensors coming online

Solarwindow#also generates electricity from both natural and artificial light sources such as fluorescent, light emitting diodes (LED),

using intricate sensors to avoid obstacles and collisions. As a result, these pods will reinforce current road safety initiatives

enabling passengers to easily travel between terminals and car parks. Their ability to provide a safe and effortless mode of transportation for the general public has resulted in the government considering implementing the pods as part of an eventual national campaign to manufacture

The company has a growing customer base for its energy saving thermostat. The announcement came from Rep. Lloyd Doggett district near Austin.*

Weighing less than five pounds and with a cord that's 20 feet long this device offers a range of features including a LED charging indicator waterproofing for outdoor charging all-environment operation and built-in thermal sensors for protection

The design seems to have been well thought out as on one end of the cord there is a small and rugged module that contains all of the miniaturized electronics

They accomplished this by building in a tiny chip-scale commercially available battery into the device.

#New Sensor Easily Detects Greenhouse gases Scientists have created a highly sensitive portable sensor to test the air for the most damaging greenhouse gases.

and the QEPAS sensor findings compared favorably with the lab much larger instrument, Tittel says. his was a milestone for trace-gas sensing,

because they are based on existing chip-manufacturing technology; and ease of energy storage, because of their reliance on heat.

See our earlier story on a technique that one expert said could lead to miniature power supplies and lighter portable electronics e

and LG Electronics USA today announced the landmark achievement of GREENGUARD Certification for LG newest OLED TV, model 55ec9300.

This all-new 55-inch class (54.6 inches measured diagonally) LG Curved OLED is being launched this month at various retailers nationwide. s we bring more and more electronics into our living and working environments,

LG taking the leadership role in obtaining GREENGUARD Certification for its new OLED TV demonstrates the company ongoing commitment to bringing safer and healthier products to market.

Senior vice president, Home Entertainment at LG Electronics USA, said, G OLED TVS are designed to deliver superior picture quality with infinite contrast ratio achieving the deepest blacks imaginable

and displaying colors that appear richer and brighter. Our new 55-inch model is taking the industry by storm,

For example, the energy efficient 55ec9300 also is among the first OLED TVS to be certified ENERGY STAR, according to the U s. Environmental protection agency.

Find more about the LG OLED TV and other UL Environment Certified and Validated LG Electronics products at this link on UL Environment online Sustainable Product Guide (www. ul. com/SPG), used by purchasers, specifiers,

and consumers worldwide to assist them in identifying and purchasing healthier, more sustainable products. The new 55-inch class LG OLED TV, on sale now at a suggested price of $3, 499, is amazingly thin 4. 5 millimeters at its thinnest point (11/64ths

of an inch) or the depth of a few credit cards. Its gentle curved screen makes quite a design statement

About LG Electronics USA LG Electronics USA, Inc.,based in Englewood Cliffs, N. J.,is the North american subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc.,a $53 billion global force and technology leader in consumer electronics, home appliances and mobile communications.

In the United states, LG Electronics sells a range of stylish and innovative home entertainment products, mobile phones, home appliances, commercial displays, air conditioning systems and solar energy solutions, all under LG ife Goodmarketing theme.

LG Electronics is a 2014 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year. For more information please visit www. lg. com. About LG Electronics, Inc. LG Electronics, Inc. KSE:

066570. KS) is a global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics, mobile communications and home appliances, employing 82,000 people working in 119 locations around the world.

With 2013 global sales of USD 53.10 billion (KRW 58.14 trillion), LG comprises five business units Home Entertainment, Mobile Communications, Home appliances,

Air conditioning & Energy solutions and Vehicle Components and is one of the world leading producers of flat panel TVS, mobile devices, air conditioners, washing machines and refrigerators.

a system of sensors and webcams that will let Janicki engineers control the processor remotely

#Smart sensors that harvest power from sun heat or vibrations European researchers have developed advanced energy harvesting technology that allows wireless sensor networks to power themselves from the sun, heat or vibrations.

wireless sensor networks promise to make our lives more comfortable, safer and more productive. But while many of the challenges to deploying networks of tiny sensor devices have been addressed, one key issue remains:

how to power them. Like any electronic device, sensors need energy to operate. Until now this has largely been solved by hooking them up to the grid

or using batteries, but both approaches have considerable drawbacks. Grid-connected sensors need cables, limiting where they can be used,

and contribute to electricity consumption and CO2 EMISSIONS, while battery-powered ones only last as long as their battery life.

But what if sensors could harness energy directly from their environment from the sun, from ambient heat, from radio waves or vibrations?

The result would be sensors and sensor networks that can be set up anywhere with ease

and in theory would operate perpetually with little or no maintenance or environmental impact. And that is precisely what a team of EU-funded researchers are achieving in the SWAP('Symbiotic Wireless Autonomous Powered system')project.

and expertise to develop the next generation of innovative, autonomously powered wireless sensors. n recent years,

wireless sensor networks have enjoyed a tremendous upsurge and the field has reached a level of maturity, says Professor Michele Rossi from Consorzio Ferrara Ricerche and the University of Padova,

testing and deploying novel technologies that enable sensors to use solar and thermal energy as well as radio waves and vibrations to power themselves.

the SWAP team has developed an advanced sensor platform to validate the approach, and the industrial partners are incorporating the algorithms and hardware innovations into commercial products.

For example, autonomous sensor networks that can be deployed quickly and easily anywhere will greatly improve disaster and emergency management,

Sensor networks already play a crucial role in environmental weather and climate monitoring. Making them better will serve to improve the efficiency of such applications.

for example there is a 3d visualisation, all the terminal, indoor and outdoor, is modelled by one of our technological partners."

"The TASS test sensors at Heathrow monitor everything from cargo to car parks added Hazzani:""We have the location of the different vehicles,

even the location of passengers-anonymously-but we can see the flow of passengers inside the terminal.

and acting as early warning systems for overstretched local authorities. here are so many rivers that it would be impossible to monitor them all with sensors,

explains project coordinator Fabio Ciravegna from the University of Sheffield in the UK. ot all necessary information can be captured with sensors.

often the cost of the communication infrastructure to transmit data dwarves the cost of the sensors themselves.

They can also help by reading existing sensors and sending authorities the data via mobile apps.

electronic equipment and other products is adapting assembly lines to produce different sizes, shapes and styles of such complex items.

In addition to aerospace, the XPRESS technology has also been tested in electronics, for manufacturing industrial switches; and in automobiles, for making car bodies.

#A portable asbestos detector that could save thousands of lives. A European research project, ALERT, has developed an asbestos detection device that could save thousands of lives.

The project team is building the first real-time, portable detector of asbestos fibres in the air. The low-cost ALERT Rapid Asbestos Detection (ARAD) tool,

portable detector. ur challenge was to take this science and turn it into a practical and affordable instrument capable of alerting people to the potential presence of this lethal airborne carcinogen,

and there are currently no portable real-time airborne detectors on the market, he says. Until now, the only test possible was a laboratory analysis,

The team developed a generic modular adaptive control platform sensors processes and actuator systems for the milling turning gun-drilling

The full system adaptation is controlled by sensors. The results were overwhelmingly positive with consistent improvements in production recorded following the introduction of adaptive manufacturing. he system also has environmental benefitssays project coordinator Dr Dra en Veselovac Chair of Manufacturing Technology

In each an industrial partner teamed up with a university and a sensor provider. In the case study involving Daimler one of the biggest automotive manufacturers in Europe the research led to a new milling strategy to reduce the manufacturing time for new gear concepts.

as well as sensors that control how hard the hand grips an object. e have designed and produced an artificial hand that gives a person a realistic sensation of having a natural hand,

and movements that the robot uses to get the required results. he hand needs to be equipped with various sensors to collect as much information as possible about

Using video cameras, the robot studies its surroundings before planning its movements. From its database, it chooses the right actions to complete the task successfully. t uses a colour camera that collects distance data to detect the required object and any possible obstacles.

and thanks to fingertip sensors, it can be sure that the grasp it has chosen is correct,

These real-time, multi-data gathering techniques use state-of-the-art sensors and inspection equipment, with ntelligentactuators, or micro-machines, to automatically respond

including developing new inspection techniques, sensors, statistical and mechanistic models, intelligent fixtures, and decision-making tools.

and the system made up of electrodes which sit on the scalp translates user intentions into electronic commands. brain-computer interface captures various electrical impulses from the head of the user,

and read by the electrodes. s soon as we have understood the electroencephalography patterns produced by the groups of neurons in the brain,

this technology makes home electronics more accessible. A user can navigate through various on-screen menus by simply focusing attention on the commands.

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