#Want More Wind And Solar energy? Invest A lot More In The Grid Want to increase the use of green energy
Oncor is using a small battery developed by Tesla motors. Microgrids are getting the attention of utilities, not as potential threats but as a possible complement to their business models.
The system won protect people, vehicles or buildings from direct hits by bombs, guns or shrapnel,
It also doesn cover an entire vehicle or area like an overturned cereal bowl, it just gets pointed in one direction.
It could cut down on delivery trucks, for instance, and change our expectations and interactions with companies. But the most exciting and important application of drone delivery would be in health care.
physician Ford Vox last year noted that Amazon customers could easily order illegal steroids, stimulants,
#The Ultimate Dash Cam Hits the Market Lyfelens, developers of premium and innovative auto solutions to make cars safer and smarter,
has announced the production of a dash cam that connects the car and smartphone to provide users with insight of actions happening in and around the vehicle via realtime data,
live video feeds and push notifications. Lyfelens uses dual-facing, wide-angle cameras to capture crisp 1080p resolution footage that allows for maximum visibility inside
and outside a user vehicle to easily track and monitor a number of incidents. Lyfelens monitors trigger eventsxcessive speed, abrupt movements such as hard braking or collisions
Motion and sound detection sensors also monitor a user vehicle for unsafe or suspicious activity,
and alerting the user. e designed Lyfelens with the goal of providing car owners with peace of mind, said cofounder
and CEO Allen Stone. yfelens keeps an eye on your car even when youe not there,
Outside of the vehicle, Lyfelens users can access real-time data, footage and push notifications by participation in a monthly subscription plan.
In addition to monitoring for incidents in and around the vehicle, Lyfelens features built-in GPS that provide access to the speed and location of the vehicle, mileage tracking and historical trip data,
when the user is in the vehicle, but the user will not have instant push notifications of vehicle activity,
the WIFI hotspot or automatic cloud storage of video/images (these would then only be stored on the device memory for the user to extract later).
and subscribers with multiple cars/Lyfelens devices will be given discounted subscription rates for more than one device e
and convoy vehicles from enemy radar r
#Facebook's first satellite will beam Internet to rural Africa starting in 2016 With the exception of a select few locations,
When deploying a AUVS (autonomous underwater vehicles), much of engineer time is spent writing scripts or low-level commands in order to direct a robot to carry out a plan of mission.
Principal developer Brian Williams stated that hese vehicles might arrange their own missions, and adapt, execute,
he added. ou might send ocean vessels that send one autonomous vehicle; however that does not show you lots.
including the increasing rate of HIV infections and car accidents. This is particularly troubling as these issues put the patient at an increased likelihood of needing a legitimate prescription for opioids to aid in the recovery from a planned procedure
such as in maintaining spacing between self-driving cars that are latoonedfollowing each other at close intervals.
The NCI could add 3d imaging to a variety of other devices and applications such as improving motion sensitivity in human machine interfaces and driverless cars.
with the company since revealing the vehicle cleared for use had already become obsolete. Things are now back on track with the FAA giving Amazon the green light to put its current models to the test.
Starting out as a food truck, it went on to become an app, and on Tuesday it became a published"author."
It's as if every time you push on the brake pedal in your car, you burn a little bit of gas."
We have seen the development of a similar vehicle intended to deliver tpa, which involved loading the drug into nanoparticles to improve the speed at
and autonomous vehicle recharging. And now the physics of snake scales may help to reduce friction and wear in mechanical systems.
The three-mirrored device is the size of a small car, tipping the scales at over 3 tons (2. 7 tonnes).
The versatile technology will allow the crew of an armored vehicle to see through the metal confines of their war machine,
allowing for unprecedented levels of combat awareness for the crews of combat vehicles. Maintaining a high level of situational awareness from the confines of a tank can't be an easy task.
uses a touchscreen and helmet-mounted interface to visualize data collected from a host of sensors on the hull of the vehicle,
and allow for the plotting of efficient vehicle and UAV routes. BAE states that the system will be highly versatile and adaptable to a wide range of military assets.
A demo unit has been installed on a CV90 tracked vehicle, for display at the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition in London this week
#Self-driving truck hits the highway in world first Daimler Trucks'has shifted gears in its ongoing effort to develop autonomous vehicles.
By fitting its Highway Pilot self-driving system to a Mercedes-benz Actros truck and steering it down a stretch of Autobahn 8 near Stuttgart,
Much like the posited advantages of self-driving cars, Daimler says improvements in driver safety are a compelling reason to pursue the technology in the road freight sector.
Daimler's Highway Pilot system first debuted on the open road last year aboard the Mercedes-benz Future Truck 2025 a concept vehicle intended to demonstrate what a future of autonomous trucking might look like.
Then earlier this year another of the company's concept vehicles, the Freightliner Inspiration, received official licensing to roam the public highways in the state of Nevada.
and tested in something other than a concept vehicle for the first time. Onboard the modified Mercedes-benz Actros was Daimler executive Dr Wolfgang Bernhard and Winfried Kretschmann, Minister-President of the state of Baden-Württemberg,
who travelled along the Autobahn 8 between Denkendorf and Stuttgart with the Highway Pilot system helping guide the way.
The system uses a short-range radar that assess the vehicle's surroundings up to 230 ft (70 m) away in a forward-facing 130-degree arc,
These work in conjunction with Active Cruise control and Active Brake Assist along with a stereo camera that identifies road markings and guides steering.
and if they don't respond in time the truck is brought to a stop. To conduct this demonstration
allowing the truck to be driven semi-autonomously on highways at speeds of up to 80 km h (50 mph).
While widespread adoption of autonomous trucks still appears some way off, the opportunity to test out the technology in real-world scenarios will help speed up the process."
they were transferred then to the Honda Research Institute USA in Columbus OH, where they were compared then with known highly sensitive gas sensors.
Chief Scientist and project leader of Honda Research Institute USA Inc."Our approach combines novel nanomaterials with continuous UV light radiation in the sensor designs that have been developed in our laboratory by lead researcher
he said. ecause they have a DC bus in their genset, you could connect PV arrays and batteries on the DC bus. That, in turn,
ould allow you to eliminate all those inverters, and just use the inverter that comes with the Innovus generator,
Hoffman noted that this capability to link multiple DC generation sources into a single Innovus DC bus could lend an additional level of simplification to microgrid operators seeking the flexibility to grow with the times.
Florio proposal calls for policies that allow rooftop solar energy storage, plug-in vehicles energy efficiency, demand response,
#Apple car: Visit to BMW factory fuels further rumours of possible partnership During the visit executives from the technology company asked detailed questions about tooling and production,
and BMW board members signalled their readiness to license parts, according to a Reuters report that quoted sources at BMW.
Although there are no plans at present for jointly developing a passenger vehicle, according to BMW, one of the sources quoted by Reuters said exploratory talks between senior managers may be revived at a later stage.
Rumours of a possible partnership that would see Apple using the body of BMW's'i'vehicles as the basis for an Apple Car
have been circulating for months. Last year after a visit by Tim cook, Apple's CEO, to BMW's headquarters,
but news of the Leipzig visit only emerged in Germany's Manager-Magazin last week.
According to the Reuters sources discussions between Apple and BMW ended inconclusively. Apple appears to want to explore developing a passenger car on its own,
while BMW is said to be cautious about sharing its manufacturing know-how as it wants to avoid becoming a mere supplier to a software or internet giant.
Since the Leipzig visit, there has been a reshuffle at the top of BMW with Harald Krueger, appointed BMW Chief executive in May, in favour of establishing his own team and his plans for BMW by year end,
before engaging in new projects, a person familiar with his thinking told Reuters. A further complication is the departure of Herbert Diess,
the BMW's board member for development who played a leading role in initial discussions with Apple.
He defected to Volkswagen in December. Apple's car project is named code'Project Titan 'but details remain a closely guarded secret.
Recent hires by Apple have stoked also the rumour mill. In July Doug Betts a former senior vice-president at the Chrysler Group, joined Apple.
The company has hired also Paul Furgale, a researcher on autonomous vehicles, according to a report by The Wall street journal l
#'Brain training'game helps people with schizophrenia live a normal life Patients who played the game regularly for a month were four times better than non-players at remembering the kind of things that are critical for normal, day-to-day life,
researchers said. The computer game was based on scientific principles that are known to rainthe brain in episodic memory,
which helps people to remember events such as where they parked a car or placed a set of keys,
#Lexus Hoverboard is real, lets people glide around using magnets and liquid nitrogen Lexus has unveiled the first working hoverboard,
powered by magnets and nitrogen but we won be flying around like Back To The Future just yet.
CEO of one of the companies that helped Lexus make the board, in a statement. he force is strong enough that the rider can stand
a pollutant gas commonly found in vehicle exhaust that also results from fossil fuel combustion. Prolonged exposure to nitrogen dioxide can be dangerous to human health,
said Van Essen, who is a principal investigator of the HCP. t is also a testament to the intense efforts by the HCP team to improve the methods of imaging data acquisition
a graduate student in Van Essen lab and a co-author on the study. In an interview with Nature News, Raichle cautioned that the findings of this study do not establish a cause-and-effect relationship between strong brain network connections and positive behavioral traits or between weak connections and negative traits.
a system developed by Boeing to be mounted on top of U s army vehicles. Both weapons forgo conventional bullets for"directed energy"a focused beam of energy that heats up
The first prototype of the Compact Laser weapons System is 40 percent lighter than the vehicle-mounted HEL MD system,
it's fixed to the top of a vehicle, so it can only go where the vehicle goes.
In the recent test in California, the smaller laser shot down a drone, but Boeing's goal is to develop a compact laser that can also shoot down incoming explosives, such as mortars,
Rather than melting drones in midair like Boeing's new Compact Laser weapons System, AUDS shoots the flying vehicles with something that doesn't destroy them radio waves.
and thermal imaging software to keep the flying vehicle in its sight. Once the drone gets close enough to the anti-drone system,
Futuristic Flying vehicles Could Vanish After Deliveries Picture this: A tiny, floating device delivers a package into your arms,
Creating vanishing delivery vehicles is the next order of business for DARPA, which recently announced a new program called ICARUS short for Inbound, Controlled, Air-Releasable,
which calls for the"design and prototyping of vanishing air delivery vehicles capable of precise, gentle drops of small payloads."
"The flying vehicles could be used to deliver materials such as food, water and vaccines to people living in remote parts of the world,
either return to collect the vehicles they used to drop the supplies or leave the vehicles on the ground to decompose.
The option to just drop something out of a plane and then totally forget about it hasn't existed, according to DARPA.
Just don't expect these vanishing vehicles to replace your local mail delivery person or even high-tech delivery drones.
#Real-life Sonic'Tractor Beam'Can Levitate Objects Using Sound waves It may seem straight out of"Star trek,
Scientists have created a sonic"tractor beam"that can pull, push and pirouette objects that levitate in thin air.
The sonic tractor beam relies on a precisely timed sequence of sound waves that create a region of low pressure that traps tiny objects that can then be manipulated solely by sound waves,
And in 2014, researchers at the University of Dundee in Scotland showed that acoustic holograms that act like a tractor beam could theoretically suck in objects."
But figuring out the exact pattern of sound waves to create this tractor force is difficult,
The team demonstrated their tractor beam using tiny balls of polystyrene the same material used in packing peanuts.
Car companies, the aviation industry as well as bridge manufacturers could be next in line. Corrosion resistance isn't the only super-trait of these metals.
and vehicles that can auto-dim when it bright out, but also store power as theye recharged by the sun. And as an extension of that idea,
and car exhausts affect humans who breathe in these harmful gases and also aggravate climate change up in the atmosphere.
and car exhausts affect humans who breathe in these harmful gases and also aggravate climate change up in the atmosphere.
"Imagine the electrons are like cars driving across a smooth track, "Yap says.""They circle around and around,
FOM workgroup leader prof. dr. Bart van Wees and his Phd student Ludo Cornelissen, both from the University of Groningen and FOM workgroup leader dr. Rembert
They are planned also for use in the next Mars rover vehicle.""But if they become easier and cheaper to make,
Nanoparticles wrapped inside human platelet membranes serve as new vehicles for targeted drug delivery The research,
"Cooler cars Zhu said the technology has significant potential for any outdoor device or system that demands cooling
"Say you have a car that is bright red, "Zhu said.""You really like that color,
but you'd also like to take advantage of anything that could aid in cooling your vehicle during hot days.
ranging from cell phones to laptop computers and electric cars. But there may soon be a new type of battery based on materials that are far more abundant and less costly.
Mcmaster engineers build better energy storage device Mcmaster Engineering researchers Emily Cranston and Igor Zhitomirsky are turning trees into energy storage devices capable of powering everything from a smart watch to a hybrid car.
and high-power electronics, such as wearable devices, portable power supplies and hybrid and electric vehicles.""Ultimately the goal of this research is to find ways to power current and future technology with efficiency
Lightweight and high-power density capacitors are of particular interest for the development of hybrid and electric vehicles.
in automobile converters and in the chemical industry because of its remarkable ability to facilitate a wide range of chemical reactions.
or cars which drive themselves and are out on our roads, "said Professor Hermann Kohlstedt and his colleague from Bochum,
#On the road to ANG vehicles: Berkeley Lab researchers find a better way to store natural gas as a transportation fuel Researchers with the U s. Department of energy (DOE)' s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a variety
which in turn has the potential to help make the driving range of an adsorbed-natural-gas (ANG) car comparable to that of a typical gasoline-powered car."
While compressed natural gas-fueled vehicles are already on the road, the widespread use of natural gas as a transportation fuel has been hampered by cumbersome and expensive onboard gas storage tanks and the cost of dispensing compressed natural gas to vehicles.
The storage issue is especially keen for light-duty vehicles such as cars, in which the space available for onboard fuel storage is limited.
ANG has the potential to store high densities of methane within a porous material at ambient temperature and moderate pressures
when methane is delivered to accelerate the vehicle.""Crystallites that experience higher external pressures will have a greater free energy change associated with the phase transition
Long says that it should be possible to design MOF adsorbents of methane with even stronger gas binding sites and higher energy phase transitions for next generation ANG vehicles.
#Silk could be new'green'material for next-generation batteries Lithium-ion batteries have enabled many of today electronics, from portable gadgets to electric cars.
It also may be possible to create an active camouflage on the exterior of vehicles that would change color to better match the surrounding environment.
#Researchers probe nanoscale properties and mechanisms of lubricant films The pistons in your car engine rub up against their cylinder walls thousands of times a minute;
It can also generate byproducts in the exhaust that reduce the lifespan and efficiency of a car's pollutant-reducing catalytic converter.
"Considering the massive use of vehicles, a small gain in efficiency has a big impact in saving energy and reducing carbon emissions annually."
"The surfaces of a piston and cylinder in a car engine may look perfectly smooth to the naked eye,
there's a lot of opportunity to improve fuel economy in vehicles, but the scientific understanding of how all the additives work is still in development.
which was used to power light-emitting diodes, a liquid crystal display and a vehicle's keyless entry remote. The cloth worked for more than 12,000 cycles.
#Putting batteries on stage spotlights performance at the nanoscale Used in everything from electric vehicles to laptop computers,
These systems could allow electric cars to travel great distances between charges. Also, one day, such systems could store energy from wind and solar stations, making the intermittent energy available when needed d
Sabine van Rijt, CPC/ilbd, Helmholtz Zentrum Mnchen) Nanoparticles are extremely small particles that can be modified for a variety of uses in the medical field.
The team headed by Silke Meiners, Oliver Eickelberg and Sabine van Rijt from the Comprehensive Pneumology Center (HMGU
unless they are put into some kind of delivery vehicle. To find a way to deliver sirnas for curbing FL2,
as electrical vehicles and personal electronic devices become more ubiquitous in our daily lives, it is becoming increasingly necessary to have more efficient systems for localized electrical power generation and effective cooling mechanisms.
This first-ever ultra-fast propulsion and super-manoeuvrability demonstrated in underwater vehicles is unprecedented; and is the work of researchers and an engineer from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART.
"and Nature("Robot zips away like an octopus")and validates the physics of shape change (that forms the basis of jet propulsion of cephalopods) to give additional thrust to underwater vehicles.
while creating minimum turbulence an important feature in underwater research/survey vehicles. The skeleton within the robot keeps the final shape streamlined,
Currently, no autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) can achieve this ultra-fast performance except torpedoes which require a lot of fuel.
With further R&d, future AUVS and other marine vehicles can adopt this mechanism to help it evade threats or track something fast stealthily underwater without the need for much energy.
and implementing the technology on marine vehicles s
#Engineers invent two-dimensional liquid (Nanowerk News) Where water and oil meet, a two-dimensional world exists.
and make a nice suspension, meaning you can do work with them. However, people havent really done that in 2-D before.
Yajun Gao and Professor Paul H. M. van Loosdrecht from the University of Cologne have made now substantial progress in this field in collaboration with researchers from Jilin University (China) and the University of Nottingham (UK).
Frank Koppens and ICREA Prof. at ICFO Niek van Hulst, in collaboration with scientists from the research group led by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero at MIT
As Prof. van Hulst states""it is amazing how graphene allows direct nonlinear detecting of ultrafast femtosecond (fs) pulses".
the landscape passes by faster and faster, reaching a maximum at an angle of 90 degrees to the path of the vehicle.
These points of contact between the materialsalled heterojunctionsre what make the digital on/off switch possible. magine the electrons are like cars driving across a smooth track,
Suspensions of colloidal particles are most familiar to us as beverages, cosmetics and paints. At a diameter in the range of ten to one hundred nanometres, a single such particle is invisible to the naked eye.
Inspired by this result, Michi-To Suzuki and Ryotaro Arita from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, in collaboration with Hiroaki Ikeda from Ritsumeikan University in Japan, investigated the mechanism of electron pairing in 2si2
and orbitals, says Suzuki. he finding urges us to reconsider the mechanism of superconductivity. c
low-power embedded systems-the computing devices found in everything from thermostats to automobiles.""Using our techniques,
They are planned also for use in the next Mars rover vehicle.""But if they become easier and cheaper to make,
and uses non-corrosive, nontoxic 2d nanomaterial suspension in liquid form, such as graphene oxide, as the pressure sensing element to recognise force-induced changes.
such as running a car tyre over it, the electrical output was uniformed highly and there was no damage to the functionality of the device.
Increased demand for hydrogen as a clean fuel for vehicles and other applications is anticipated, but it is produced currently from fossil fuel.
"When driving a car, the clutch mechanically carries the torque produced by the engine to the chassis of the vehicle-a coupling that has long been tested
and optimized in such macroscopic machines, giving us highly efficient engines. For microscopic machines, however, developing a clutch
Flame retardants are added to foams found in mattresses, sofas, car upholstery and many other consumer products.
ranging from cell phones to laptop computers and electric cars. But there may soon be a new type of battery based on materials that are far more abundant and less costly.
or cars which drive themselves and are out on our roads, "said Professor Hermann Kohlstedt and his colleague from Bochum,
a pollutant gas commonly found in vehicle exhaust that also results from fossil fuel combustion. Prolonged exposure to nitrogen dioxide can be dangerous to human health,
ride steel subway cars over steel rails to our offices in steel-framed building. Steel screws hold together broken bones,
and trucks mostly built of steel. While various grades of steel have been developed over the past 50 years,
Once fabricated, the researchers sent boron graphene samples to researchers at the Honda Research Institute USA Inc.,Columbus, Ohio, who tested the samples against their own highly sensitive gas sensors.
chief scientist and project leader at Honda Research Institute USA Inc."Our approach combines novel nanomaterials with continuous ultraviolet light radiation in the sensor design that have been developed in our laboratory by lead researcher Dr
a dangerous atmospheric pollutant emitted from automobile tailpipes. In addition to detecting toxic or flammable gases, theoretical work indicates that boron-doped graphene could lead to improved lithium-ion batteries
ACS) Today, lithium-ion batteries are the storage technology of choice for many applications, from electric cars to smartphones.
For example, Tesla, the maker of luxury electric cars, is ambitiously expanding its lithium-ion technology to fill that niche
Chang and his colleagues studied 182 participants who were shown negative photos (bodily injuries, acts of aggression, hate groups, car wrecks, human feces) and neutral photos.
On the other hand, the brain is the seat of natural vibrations created by the blood pulsating in the arteries and the circulating cerebrospinal fluid.
self-driving cars, Google glass, internet balloons, health care, GOOGLE TV mobile payments, home automation and its Google+social network, among others.
The projects include self-driving cars, Google glass, internet balloons, drones, health care, GOOGLE TV, mobile payments, home automation and its Google+social network, among others.
#Human cruise control app steers people on their way For a few days last summer, a handful of students walked through a park behind the University of Hannover in Germany.
One of the students compared the feeling to cruise control in a car, where the driver can take control back
"This article appeared in print under the headline"Human cruise control r
#Womb milk nourishes human embryo during first weeks of pregnancy Call it the milk of life not breast milk,
just like checking oil levels in a car. The dipstick is already available and can save lives,
#ipstickin the brain could predict damage just in time TO CHECK a car oil levels, use a dipstick.
the team led by Ghent Dries Van Thourhout suggests that electrical injection-a necessity for true photonic integration-could be achieved readily with the incorporation of a suitable blend of narrow-bandgap semiconductor material in the future.
Van Thourhout and colleagues made an array of distributed feedback (DFB) indium phosphide (Inp) lasers on a 300 mm diameter wafer,
Van Thourhout and colleagues outlined how these challenges could be met. he in-plane laser configuration employed makes it straightforward to adopt well-studied electrical injection schemes,
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