smartphones will charge in your pocket as you wander around, televisions will flicker with no wires attached,
It great to see so much discussion of this technology on social media and the comments thread.
hat is the global internet community that Obama wants to turn the internet over to?
suggested that up to a quarter of the service boots on the ground could be replaced by smarter and leaner weaponry.
allowing printers to shift between colors. hat we find really innovative in our approach is we went back to the roots of paper printing
During a year and a half of development, they tried combining different colors of filament and different dyeing methods.
The best configuration, a honeycomb lattice with a 50 nanometer coat of alumina, is less dense than waterthat is,
#High-tech glasses help surgeons see cancer The glasses are designed to make it easy for surgeons to differentiate cancerous cells from healthy cells.
when viewed using the special glasses. Cancer cells are quite difficult to see even through high-powered magnification.
The special glasses are designed to make it easy for surgeons to differentiate cancerous cells from healthy cells allowing surgeons to make sure no cancer cells are left during surgery.
The glasses were developed by a team led by Samuel Achilefu Phd, a professor of radiology and biomedical engineering at the university.
when viewed through the glasses. The usual procedure for surgery requires doctors to remove tumors and neighboring tissue
if these glasses eliminated the need for follow-up surgery and the associated pain, inconvenience and anxiety.
Pointwise director of applied research. hat we are releasing today for production use is the result of a multi-year research effort Pointwise conducted with funding from the U s. Air force Arnold Engineering Development Complex,
which creates a pocket of liquid, quicksand-like material around the clam's body. That watery mix reduces drag
and a protein derived from silk called fibroin layering them together just like in nature.
so it won't likely be applicable to a Harry potter-esque suit-sized version. But it can conceal objects without distortion
which was developed as part of the Royal College of Art's Innovation Design Engineering course in collaboration with Tufts University silk lab,
is made from chloroplasts that are suspended in a silk protein matrix. The chloroplasts are derived from plant cells,
and the silk protein is extracted from natural silk fibers. Like the leaves of a plant, the material requires only exposure to sunlight and a small amount of water to produce oxygen."
"Silk Leaf is the first man-made biological leaf, "claimed Melchiorri.""It's very light, low energy-consuming,
the Silk Leaf could also be used as building material to produce clean air for buildings. Melchiorri has developed even some simple home uses for the material,
and other structures that are lined with Silk Leaf material. You can view a video presentation of the incredible Silk Leaf below w
#BMW offers free (and fast) EV charging Thinking about buying an electric car but worried about range and places to plug in?
There always the chance that regular riders on the route hat nice old lady from South Bristol who travels to Keynsham every Sunday to visit her sister re being propelled in part by their own poo.
#'Astroskin'smart shirt monitors astronauts'health in Antarctica Remember that pivotal scene in the movie"Apollo 13"in which crewmembers rip the biomedical sensors off their bodies?
In a few years, the same procedure could be as easy as taking off your shirt,
Astroskin, a prototype device to monitor astronaut health, is a garment that fits over a person's upper body
Before sending Canadian company Carré Technologies'smart shirt on a ride to orbit, however, a lot of testing must be done to make sure it works as well as the Canadian space agency (CSA) hopes it will.
This means the suit is getting tested during skiing, walking and climbing Antarctica's jagged peaks and glaciers.
The University of Quebec at Montreal is monitoring the suit both from the Antarctic and in its labs,
"They can have these shirts on them all the time. It can trigger alarms if something wrong is happening,
Other organizations are also developing advanced garments for use in space. Scientists with the European space agency and other institutions, for example, are working on a tight-fitting"skinsuit"that could help astronauts combat the back problems that are a common consequence of long-term spaceflight l
In July scientists will test the suit as a scientific tool off the coast of New england.
The pressurized suit has four 1. 6-horsepower thrusters to propel the diver up down forward backward or to the side.
#'Yarn muscles'100 times stronger than human muscles Using just coiled fishing line and sewing thread a team of scientists has developed a way to create super-strong artificial muscles.
The fiber muscles can lift 100 times as much as human muscles of the same length
or even to make clothing with fibers that expand or contract to keep the wearer cool or warm.
and sewing thread (usually twisting with the aid of a power drill). The twisted fiber creates an artificial muscle that can drive a heavy rotor at a speed of more than 10000 revolutions per minute.
Similarly clothing designers might use the coiled muscles to create fashions that adapt to keep the wearer warm
when the air temperature warms to let the clothing breathe. Baughman has made artificial muscles out of carbon nanotube yarns before
but those are much more expensive and complicated to make. By contrast the fiber muscles are inexpensive to make
As with all artificial muscles the yarn muscles can't convert electrical to mechanical energy very efficiently yet.
The work ties into Obokata's other research into stress. As explained on her lab's web page All organisms possess instincts to survive exposures to external stresses by adapting to their environment and to some degree regenerating injured tissues or organs.
#$1. 7 million personal submarine lets you'fly'underwater Adventurers with deep pockets can now explore the hidden depths of the ocean,
thinner and faster in order to fit in our pockets and on our laps, you may look at modern day room-sized supercomputers and balk.
Your office is in your pants: How the smartphone is changing the way we live and work.
or hat the value of happiness? In fact you can. If your senator wants to cancel a high-speed rail line
and money to do these studies and you can do hat ifanalyses of alternatives. Which is all a very long-winded background to an interesting product that was announced today.
Nature News The global drive to eliminate the last pockets of polio infection is to receive a boost of more than half-a billion dollars from international donors.
Pockets of the disease exist in four countries: Nigeria, where polio vaccines were denounced by religious leaders,
The existence of residual pockets of infection is the main reason why the drive to completely erase the disease has failed so far,
yielding numerous discrete pockets of crystalline order within a larger, somewhat disordered polycrystalline structure. At temperatures above 1, 800 degrees Celsius and pressures of up to 15 gigapascals (roughly 150
The change is needed to mop up the last remaining pockets of polio, but experts say that it poses challenges in places such as Kaduna city,
By then, the country will also have reached a cap on the amount of money that it can borrow.
That s the configuration the belts were in when James Van allen first spotted them using satellite data half a century ago,
narrow belt of charged particles sandwiched between the inner ring and a now highly eroded outer ring."
Seven or eight days later, a third shock wave somehow restored the original structure of the two belts as depicted in textbooks,
NASATHE two Van allen Probes orbit through the radiation belts that surround Earth, shown in cross section in this artist's impression.
Baker goes on to say that data collected by the probes on 9 october revealed that"suddenly the whole outer belt was lit up again but with the middle ring gone.
demonstrate that solar outbursts are indeed a strong driving force behind the structure of the belts
details about the dramatic reshaping of the outer belt and the location of the month-long middle ring cannot be explained by current theory.#
The chip s power source is positioned under the skin behind the ear and connected via a thin cable#no glasses or camera required.
we need to move towards frameworks that allow you to program cells in a more scalable fashion,
"We wanted to show you can assemble a bunch of simple parts in a very easy fashion to give you many types of logical functions.
because the pockets in the crystalline sponge are not big enough. But Fujita says his team is trying to make sponges with larger pockets."
"Our next grand challenge is to apply this method to protein crystallography, he says
#Synthetic vaccine could prevent future outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease Virologists have devised a way to create an entirely synthetic vaccine for foot-and-mouth disease.
and why we cannot detect any curvature in the fabric of space (other than the tiny indentations caused by massive objects such as black holes).
But in one area of the 1b receptor, the binding pocket was wider than in the 2b receptor1.
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#'Hologram-lite'idea for 3d phone displays Now physicist David Fattal and his colleagues at Hewlett-packard Laboratories in Palo alto have developed a sort of'hologram-lite'approach.
"you don't need to guess what is happening#you can see it. The increased imaging power could,
though the current process can only create threads that perform a single type of task,
but hat happens next has been a mystery for 25 years, says Rick Huganir, Ph d.,director of the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience at the Johns hopkins university School of medicine.
are organized functionally in a seesaw-like fashion: when Agrp neurons are active, POMC neurons are not, and vice versa.
Knight said. hat we found instead was very surprising. If you simply give food to the mouse,
and he believes the new research may provide a new perspective on these efforts. hat probably drives obesity is the rewarding aspect of food.
Specifically, the molecule, called Brichos, sticks to threads made up of malfunctioning proteins, called amyloid fibrils,
By doing so, it stops these threads from coming into contact with other proteins, thereby helping to avoid the formation of highly toxic clusters that enable the condition to proliferate in the brain.
because it is anchored to the polyacrylate gel. hat youe left with is a three-dimensional, fluorescent cast of the original material.
and manipulate these fields, in a relatively blunt fashion, with implants and wires. But it like working with oven mitts on.
#Brain-Sensing Headband Helps Users Manage Stress Technology and relaxation don always go hand in hand. However, a brain-sensing headband that reads brain waves
and provides real-time feedback has been developed to help users better focus and manage stress. The Muse headband is lined with seven EEG sensors that detect the brain electrical activity
and sends information about the user state of mind to a smartphone app, Calm, which is available on both ios and Android.
Interaxon, the company behind the Muse headband and a Mars venture client, claims that sustained use of the device will train one brain to stay more naturally calm and focused.
and starting with 3 to 5 minutes can dramatically help you with mental exercises like meditation. he Muse headband costs $300
the multifunction handheld device used by Starfleet officers to analyze just about any material and resolve dangling plot threads with pseudoscientific expository dialogue.
or even scan the composition of your clothing and jewelry. Iris Scanner Identifies A Person 40 Feet Awayto manage the high-octane number crunching required, SCIO uses cloud technology and a kind of crowdsourcing solution.
You can pre-order the SCIO pocket sensor now for $249 or if you want to design your own apps,
either a white or blue hat to wear atop their head. They can all see each other hat.
Without communicating with each other they are left to work out the color of the hat by
what the others are wearing. Up until now, only peopleot robotsave been able to solve this riddle.
suggesting that B2m is part of a pathway that affects the brain. hat this shows is that you can manipulate the blood, rather than the brain, to potentially treat memory problems,
The new approach dubbed G-HAT for Glimpsing Heat from Alien Technologies makes no assumptions about
The G-HAT team combed through the catalogue of images generated by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer or WISE
or from water pockets that wouldn't last long enough for life to get a toehold.
One of the alternative models was just little pockets of water driving the jets and in that model you wouldn't have much in the way of life
For now he says making heavier antiparticles is not doable in a small lab in a cheap fashion.
Coe-Sullivan enrolled in 15.390 (New Ventures) to further develop a business model. hat led to the more rigorous formation of a sales and marketing plans,
compared with today more common 260-foot towers. hat site-dependent, Smith adds. f you go somewhere in the Midwest where there open plains,
and can even play basketball with his friends. hat was, and is, so amazing to me that research has the potential to totally give a person their life back,
#Spinning out a company has been the best way to validate the technology especially with novel power-electronics hardware Dawson says.
They adjusted parameters such as speed of deployment and the speed of the belt, and observed how the cable coiled as it hit the surface.
and tangles, Reis says. hat can lead to signal attenuation. But if the boat is traveling faster,
including the speed of the belt and the spool. The team used a digital video camera to record the filamentsmotion as they hit the belt,
and observed three main patterns: meandering waves, alternating loops, and repeated coils. A Hollywood makeover To see
and cloth notoriously difficult features to animate realistically for films including he Hobbitand Disney angled. he eye is very good at picking up what physical and what not,
Grinspun says. e want to capture the motion of hair and clothing in a realistic way,
it can resemble rope or thread, drizzling onto a surface in wavelike patterns. Reis wondered if the same code could be adopted to simulate the coiling of cables. e realized that I using geometry to scale up and down problems,
spinning out nanofibers for use in water filters body armor and smart textiles; or propulsion systems for fist-sized nanosatellites.
This work represents a very interesting genetic method for killing antibiotic-resistant bacteria in a directed fashion
Instead of climbing into a conventional bulky gas-pressurized suit an astronaut may don a lightweight stretchy garment lined with tiny musclelike coils.
and essentially shrinkwrap the garment around her body. The skintight pressurized suit would not only support the astronaut
but would give her much more freedom to move during planetary exploration. To take the suit off she would only have to apply modest force returning the suit to its looser form.
Now MIT researchers are one step closer to engineering such an active second-skin spacesuit: Dava Newman a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at MIT and her colleagues have engineered active compression garments that incorporate small springlike coils that contract in response to heat.
The coils are made from a shape-memory alloy (SMA) a type of material that remembers an engineered shape
Ultimately the big advantage is mobility and a very lightweight suit for planetary exploration. The coil design was conceived by Bradley Holschuh a postdoc in Newman s lab. Holschuh
how to squeeze in and out of a pressurized suit that s engineered to be extremely tight.
when heated to produce a significant amount of force given its slight mass ideal for use in a lightweight compression garment.
The researchers rigged an array of coils to an elastic cuff attaching each coil to a small thread linked to the cuff.
Between 60 and 160 C the coils contracted pulling the attached threads and tightening the cuff.
Once you put the suit on you can run a current through all these little features
and the suit will shrinkwrap you and pull closed. Keeping it tightthe group s next challenge is finding a way to keep the suit tight.
To do this Holschuh says there are only two options: either maintaining a constant toasty temperature or incorporating a locking mechanism to keep the coils from loosening.
For instance an array of coils may be incorporated into the center of a suit with each coil attached to a thread that radiates to the suit s extremities.
As the coils activate they could pull on the attached threads much like the strings of a puppet to tighten
and pressurize the suit. Or smaller arrays of coils could be placed in strategic locations within a spacesuit to produce localized tension
If your suit happens to have sensors it could tourniquet you in the event of injury without you even having to think about it.
An integrated suit is exciting to think about to enhance human performance Newman adds. We re trying to keep our astronauts alive safe
and tailor them for different applications without having to build everything from scratch, he says. But companies developing cameras, sensors,
or wireless gloves to seamlessly scroll through and manipulate visual data on a wall-sized, panoramic screen.
a professor of mechanical science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. hat is just enough to make cells of different sizes
Knezevic says. hat not simple for engineers today, since with other software it not feasible to simulate large structures in full 3-D detail.
along with Leurent who actually started FEA work with Patera group back in 2000 earned a Deshpande innovation grant for their upercomputing-on-a-smartphoneinnovation. hat was a trigger,
Chen says. hat technology can be translated easily. t is important that we consider the life cycles of the materials in large-scale energy systems,
This technique which cuts the amount of time required to analyze epigenetic modifications could be a valuable research tool as well as a diagnostic device for cancer patients says Andrea Armani a professor of chemical engineering
It s a really innovative approach Armani says. Not only could it impact diagnostics but on a broader scale it could impact our understanding
Since the material is flexible Wang says that it may even be woven into fabric to create rain-resistant clothing.
he says. hat gives us a lot of information about the sound that going on around the object,
#Vision-correcting displays Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have developed a new display technology that automatically corrects for vision defects no glasses (or contact lenses) required.
The technique could lead to dashboard-mounted GPS displays that farsighted drivers can consult without putting their glasses on
or electronic readers that eliminate the need for reading glasses among other applications. The first spectacles were invented in the 13th century says Gordon Wetzstein a research scientist at the Media Lab and one of the display's co-creators.
We have a different solution that basically puts the glasses on the display rather than on your head.
The display is a variation on a glasses-free 3-D technology also developed by the Camera Culture group.
and correct for vision defects all glasses-free. They could also reproduce another Camera Culture project which diagnoses vision defects.
Ghasemi says. hat exciting for us because wee come up with a new approach to solar steam generation.
The structure bottom layer is a carbon foam that contains pockets of air to keep the foam afloat
Wearing the robot a user could use one hand to for instance hold the base of a bottle while twisting off its cap.
There s even talk of a helmet powered wirelessly via backpack specifically for military applications. At present Witricity technology#charges devices#at around 6 to 12 inches with roughly 95 percent efficiency#12 watts for mobile devices and up to 6. 6 kilowatts for cars.
A room is packed with 100 wine glasses each filled with a different level of wine to ensure a different resonant frequency.
If an opera singer belts out a note inside that room the glass with the corresponding frequency accumulates enough energy to shatter
but none of the other glasses will resonate enough to break he says. A 2010 paper published in Applied Physics Letters by Soljacic
Reis says. hat reversibility is why this is pretty interesting; you can switch the drag-reducing effect on and off,
so do some track suits worn by competitive runners. For many purposes, such as in golf and soccer, constant dimpling is adequate,
say, a data point every 15 minutes from a utility meter. hat gives a lot more detail,
KGS Buildingsfoundation The KGS cofounders met as participants in the MIT entry for the 2007 Solar Decathlon an annual competition where college teams build small-scale, solar-powered homes to display at the National Mall
and often. hat means keep at it, keep adapting and adjusting, and if you get it wrong,
Moving forward, FINSIX is looking at getting its first product, Dart, into the market and developing higher-and lower-power products to suit customer needs u
hat has very critical macroscopic properties as a result of the nanostructure. While eumelanin molecules all share a basic chemistry,
and to correlate their neuronal activity with their behavior. hat very impressive about it is that it is such an elegantly simple implementation,
#Glasses-free 3-D projector Over the past three years, researchers in the Camera Culture group at the MIT Media Lab have refined steadily a design for a glasses-free, multiperspective, 3-D video screen,
With the technology that has historically been used to produce glasses-free 3-D images known as a parallax barrier simultaneously projecting eight different viewing angles would mean allotting each angle one-eighth of the light emitted by the projector
Wetzstein explains. hat the full contrast, but in practice, all modulators have something like 0. 1 to 1
Spreading pixels Oliver Cossairt, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Northwestern University, once worked for a company that was attempting to commercialize glasses-free 3-D projectors. hat
Cossairt says. hat that means is that if you take the 3-D image size
Cossairt continues. hat allowed them to break this invariance
#High-flying turbine produces more power For Altaeros Energies a startup launched out of MIT the sky s the limit
Surrounded by a circular 35-foot-long inflatable shell made of the same heavy-duty fabric used in blimps
Anderson says. hat doesn mean it easy to deliver RNA to the liver, but it does mean that
they did not enter liver hepatocytes. hat interesting is that by changing the chemistry of the nanoparticle you can affect delivery to different parts of the body,
Van Voorhis says. hat the reason that 50 years ago they couldn compute these things
he says. hat youe looking to do in space is maximize reuse, while minimizing energetics. If we look at Earth as the spaceship, it the same problem.
an MIT postdoc and lead author of the PNAS paper. hat we wanted to do was come up with one way of measuring all DNA repair pathways at the same time so you have a single readout that easy to measure.
he says. hat separates our system from other anti-counterfeiting technologies is this ability to rapidly
and inexpensively tailor material properties to meet the needs of very different and challenging requirements,
whose currencies are pegged to the Euro. hat is surprising about our paper is that we found the law of one price,
Apple, H&m, Ikea, and Zara. Online pricing data was crapedusing a harvesting technique that Rigobon and Cavallo first developed for the illion Prices Project,
Cavallo says. hat points to the fact it not the flexibility or rigidity of the exchange rate that explains the differences.
if those prices diverged. hat possibly driving this, Cavallo says. r it could be that these firms just think about their pricing just in terms of currencies.
Gita Gopinath, an economics professor at Harvard university, calls the work terrific paperthat adds new information to the field. hat we did not know,
and genetic makeup. For example the so-called cellsrespond only to upward motion and express an adhesion molecule called JAM-B that helps them connect with the other cells they need to communicate with.
who was involved not in this research. hat nice here is that this is a comprehensive approach to try to get a good amount of data on many different cells.
who is also an associate member of the Broad Institute. hat that means is youe really going to be able to do anything you want in short periods of time.
an associate professor of chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute who was not part of the research team. hat
and can be used to create custom genes to give cells new functions. hat what our aim is to have next-day or two-day delivery of these peptide units,
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