"There is a trend in the scientific community to develop therapeutics in a more rational fashion,
which is attached later to the surface of clothes. Such technique has posed limitations in applying it for wearable displays
and the characteristics of fabric were ignored. For a solution, the research team discarded the tradition of creating light emitting displays on a plane board.
Instead, they focused on fibers, a component of fabrics, and developed a fiber-like light emitting diode that has the characteristics of both fabrics and displays.
The essence of this technology, the dip coating process, is to immerse and extract a three dimensional (3-D) board that looks like a thread in a solution.
Then, the regular levels of organic materials are formed as films on the board. The dip coating process allowed the layers of organic materials to be created easily on boards with a 3-D structure including a cylinder
which are fundamental elements of fabrics. Hopefully we can lower the barrier of wearable displays to enter the market."
"This technology will eventually allow the production of wearable displays to be as easily as making clothes
pockets of water vapor or gas accumulate in them by underwater evaporation or effervescence, just like a drop of water evaporates without having to boil it.
These gas pockets deflect water, keeping the surface dry, "he said. In a study published today (Aug 18) by the journal Scientific Reports,
"What we are proposing is a system that learns with the user to form an effective vocabulary that suits the person rather than the machine,
#Super water-repellant coatings can now take the pressure Conventional superhydrophobic coatings that repel liquids by trapping air inside microscopic surface pockets tend to lose their properties
when liquids are forced into those pockets. In this work, extremely water-repellant or superhydrophobic surfaces were fabricated that can withstand pressures that are 10 times greater than the average pressure a surface would experience resting in a room.
The surfaces resist the infiltration of liquid into the nanoscale pockets. The extent to which nanometer-size textured,
Devices like smart watches, headbands and belts will all work well using magnetic field human body communication
The new approach combines a battery-powered wearable bionic suit that enables people to move their legs in a step-like fashion,
Pollock has competed in ultra-endurance races across deserts, mountains and the polar ice caps. He also won silver and bronze medals in rowing at the Commonwealth Games and launched a motivational speaking business."
They found that interlocking two tubes in zipper-like fashion made them much stiffer and harder to twist or bend.
"The zipper configuration works even with tubes that have different angles of folding. By combining tubes with different geometries, the researchers can make many different three-dimensional structures,
which we think the zipper coupling is, you can explore applications in many different areas
and connected fabrics. The work was led by Rahul Panat and Indranath Dutta, researchers in Voiland College's School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering,
Sun powered cell phone chargers woven into the fabric of backpacks. A new generation of organic semiconductors may allow these kinds of flexible electronics to be manufactured at low cost,
Analyst firm Alite Group estimates that this vulnerability is adding up to $8 billion in incurred losses per year in the U s. Solutions have been proposed--such as integrated circuit cards and mobile wallets systems.
Optical fibers have long since been used for the transmission of data with light. But on a computer, data are processed still
Their experiment is thought to be the first to demonstrate that two brains can be linked directly to allow someone to accurately guess what is on another person's mind.
or"respondent,"wears a cap connected to an electroencephalography (EEG) machine that records electrical brain activity.
In future applications this newly discovered effect could be exploited to read out skyrmionic bits in a simple fashion.
which can be used to design new personalized drug regimens for SS patients based on their unique genetic makeup.
Next, the crystal drug is placed into a fat and protein coat, similar to what is done in making a coated ice-cream bar.
"Most drugs target stable pockets within proteins, so when we started out, people thought it would be impossible to inhibit the transient interface between two transcription factors,
The entire system can be carried in a small briefcase, handbag or laptop case, and requires just one operator with minimal training to conduct the test within 15 minutes--with no need for additional equipment or instruments.
"by taking really simple building blocks but organizing them in a fashion that results in really impressive mechanical properties."
and when a customer enters with an item of Heattech clothing, the RFID chip in the alarm tag activates the camera.
Then, when the customer tries on the clothing they can see exactly how much their body temperature is being raised by the garment, showing them its effectiveness.
How else could stores use smart technology to demonstrate the benefits of their clothing i
or difficult to shove into your pocket, you ain seen nothing yet. Earlier today, Japanese electronics maker Sharp revealed a humanoid robot-shaped smartphone that
I promise won fit in your skinny jeans. It hard to say if it more phone or robot,
because Robohon has a badass leather carrying case that will make your mirrorless camera jealous.
when making a call with Robohon (or wearing sunglasses indoors hey, the LEDS were bright!).
assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Duke. hat becomes immediately obvious when you consider that we have over 200 cell types,
HIV antibodies previously tested in humans had shown disappointing results. 3bnc117 belongs to a new generation of broadly neutralizing antibodies that potently fight a wide range of HIV strains. hat special about these antibodies is that they have activity against over 80 percent
and to form two special pockets for binding zinc ions and protons along the cavity within the bundle.
One conformation opens up the pocket near one side of the membrane to grab zinc ions or protons.
Once the zinc ion binds to the pocket Rocker changes its shape to close off the pocket,
while opening up the second pocket near the other side of the membrane. This allows the ions from the closed pocket to travel to the second pocket before being released to the outside of the membrane.
The catch is that Rocker can have both pockets bind the ions at the same time, nor permit the cavity to open all the way through the membrane at one time
because this would leak down the ion concentration levels important for keeping cells intact and healthy.
Like a gatekeeper, the engineered transport protein controls what moves in and out of the cell from one side of the membrane to the other. ill Degrado and his postdoc
and the finished engineered protein. hat we used TACC for was to take the predicted model
Persson said. hat we can do is calculate the properties of a large number of molecules
he said. hat turns them on? What turns them off? are involved there pathways that we can target for therapies?
#USDA Scientists, International Colleagues Sequence Upland cotton Genome U s. Department of agriculture (USDA) scientists and their partners have sequenced the genome of the world most widely cultivated and genetically complex species of cotton,
a milestone that will make it easier to address increasing threats to cotton by tapping into its natural defenses.
Sequencing the genome of Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) will help breeders develop varieties of cotton that are equipped better to combat the pests,
Cotton growers have experienced a plateau in yields since the early 1990s and most commercial varieties lack genetic diversity, making cotton vulnerable to natural threats.
The findings will help researchers and breeders in the years ahead develop cotton varieties with improved fiber qualities, higher yields and more tolerance to heat, drought and diseases anticipated due to climate change.
Cotton is grown on 12 million acres in 17 states and is a $6 billion crop in the United states. here is untapped a vast
reservoir of genes in wild cotton plants that could offer us stronger and more effective defenses to the numerous challenges faced by cotton growers.
Sequencing of a genetic standard in cotton gives us the roadmap to identify and tap into that reservoir of genetic variability,
said Chavonda Jacobs-Young, administrator of the USDA Agricultural research service (ARS. ARS is USDA principal intramural scientific research agency.
because several of the scientists involved in today studies recently sequenced the two arentspecies of most commercial cotton varietiesn Old world cultivated cotton and a New world wild cotton.
and exploit cotton genetic diversity by tapping into the potential of genes found in the 10,000 accessions of exotic and wild cotton plants in the ARS Cotton Germplasm Collection in College Station, Texas t
and co-author of a paper published online this week in the journal Nature Communications. ou really now have the entire toolbox to change how you make these glasses for other chemistries.
press or grip objects in the virtual world. hat wee made is a glove that uses air to inflate bladders underneath your fingers,
says Shapiro. hat been a big focus when youe got a new cell line that never been tested in patients before.
For passive laser applications, like exit apertures (windows), the key is high quality. hat window, if it got any impurities or junk,
drawing it into optical fibers, and a lot of his success with spinel comes from that heritage of insisting on purity and quality. n optical fiber very long:
a bundle of protein threads that pull the chromosomes towards the opposite poles of the cell and distributes them equally between the new cells.
and predicts the stagnation point where the beads accumulate. hat is really cool is that the mechanism we used to get the particles to go upstream actually exists in nature
and that also have to be pointed very accurately toward the target. hat was probably one of the most challenging aspects,
Pickworth said. hat wee going to produce at the end of the day is going to be much better than the imaging systems that we currently have limited,
#Pressure-monitoring stockings to prevent wounds in diabetics Diabetics often have little feeling in their feet
Even small uneven areas or shoe pressure can lead to open wounds or damaged tissue on the foot.
researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC in Würzburg with support from industry partners and colleagues from the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated circuits IIS in Erlangen have developed a special stocking with integrated sensors.
only on the bottom of the foot using shoe inserts. Our sensors are attached to the stocking sole, at the heel, the top of the foot and the ankle,
Electronics transmit data to your smartphone The sensors are made from a soft and very stretchy elastomer silicone film that is easy to integrate into textiles.
and transmit the measurement signal via a conductive thread to a wireless electronics unit developed by researchers at Fraunhofer IIS
the electronics are attached to the end of the stocking. Wee planning to relocate them to a small,
either or glued between two layers of fabric, which makes the stockings more comfortable to put on
or take off. The stockings themselves are made from a blend of cotton and synthetic fibers. Brunner points out that the fabric is by necessity breathable,
moisture wicking and extremely comfortable to wear. his is important, since the wearer will need to wear them daily.
The range of potential applications is broad for instance the textile could be used in sports and fitness.
Joggers could use the integrated sensor stockings to analyze their running style and foot positioning y
#MIT engineers hand"cognitive"control to underwater robots For the last decade, scientists have deployed increasingly capable underwater robots to map
and monitor pockets of the ocean to track the health of fisheries, and survey marine habitats and species. In general, such robots are effective at carrying out low-level tasks,
Williams explains. hat the system does is, it makes those choices, but makes sure it satisfies all the timing constraints
which performed an asteroid flyby in 1999. hat was the first chance to demonstrate goal-directed autonomy in deep space,
offers a method to potentially improve the makeup and color of optical materials used in computer screens along with other consumer products.
scientists initiated a chemical reaction that allows molecular components to stick together in a particular fashion process some have compared to connecting Legos.
and always in the same direction. hat got our curiosity up, said Lin. hy is it bending in one direction?
which causes the Earth auroral displays the planet magnetic field interacting with the solar wind. hat we see on this object appears to be the same phenomenon wee seen on Jupiter, for example,
Fedeles says. hat gave us confidence that this phenomenon would in fact happen in human cells containing high levels of 5clc.
Yount said. hat was a huge finding that you don need an infection or interferon to increase the level of IFITM3.
replacing the damaged genetic code with healthy DNA. here is a trend in the scientific community to develop therapeutics in a more rational fashion,
Traditionally artemisinin has been sourced from the sweet wormwood tree in similar fashion to how opiates are refined from poppy.
they discovered that the seismic vibrations being detected by the equipment was caused by meltwater percolating down through the glacier and weaving its way through the complicated plumbing system in the interior of the ice.
who worked in collaboration with researchers at ETH Zurich. hat essentially what this robot is doing we can actually watch the improvement
Even cooler are the implications for future manned missions to the moon. hat interesting for space travel is you can have people on the surface for long periods because of the temperature extremes
and thus readily identifiable. hat useful because it means we had a way to do multicolor imaging within a very narrow emission window,
Kilian said. hat important, because once you have that architecture, then you can ask fundamental biological questions.
the control of polarization also enables simple gadgets such as 3-D glasses and polarized sunglasses. f you think of a modern microscope,
it has multiple components that have to be assembled carefully inside, Faraon says. ut with our platform,
It turns out that terahertz waves leak out a different angles depending on their frequency. hat means
Mittleman said. hat means theyl start coming up with clever ideas that are entirely different from this one
and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. hat we can engineer CAR T cells to have slightly different,
Analyst firm Alite Group estimates that this vulnerability is adding up to $8 billion in incurred losses per year in the U s. Solutions have been proposeduch as integrated circuit cards and mobile wallets systems.
hat is most exciting about this discovery is the possibility for us to use peptides
of which exactly three are bound to the genetic material something Drennan says surprised her. hat the best part about science,
#Researchers disguise drugs as platelets to target cancer Researchers have developed for the first time a technique that coats anticancer drugs in membranes made from a patient own platelets,
The work was tested successfully in an animal model. here are two key advantages to using platelet membranes to coat anticancer drugs,
such as the skin of the caps of portabella mushrooms, for making batteries. It is expected that nearly 900,000 tons of natural raw graphite would be needed for anode fabrication for nearly six million electric vehicle forecast to be built by 2020.
and an assistant professor of chemistry in the College of Science at Oregon State university. hat assumption is said incorrect,
So we have to find alternatives. hat alternative he said, may be potassium, which is 880 times more abundant in the Earth crust than lithium.
and vice versa. hat wee done is alter the sensitivity and specificity of different probes in a way that independent and decoupled,
or peppering it with a little more of the protector. hat a reasonable analogy for what wee doing:
said Crawford. hat is needed desperately is a technology for manipulating one element at a time. It fell to Pratiksha Thakore, a Phd student in Gersbach lab,
Wang says this work has demonstrated hat you can actively modify the rate of nucleation. It has not been shown previously that this is possible. ower plant operators are rightly conservative about making changes,
the cell protein-building machinery uses a cap, a building block that has been modified through a process called methylation,
this cap becomes inoperative, shutting down the protein-making machinery. The researchers have discovered that during this shutdown phase,
heat shock genes employ an alternate methyl cap, called m6a, to recruit the protein-building apparatus to make heat shock proteins.
A cloaking device for magnetic fields could make it easier for doctors to utilize MRI during operations by idingthe field from surgical instruments. hat just one application.
and discovered that the magnetic field within the sphere could be rendered invisible to outside detection. hat essentially
and its movement in a random fashion is different from movement seen in other studies. his is an important step forward in developing nanoscale nucleic acid machines that can autonomously act under a variety of conditions,
and it very resourceful at acquiring resistance. hat we have now may not work in a few years,
have versions of it. hat we discovered earlier this year is that the human and bacterial versions bind molecules differently,
like a zipper, is responsible for separating DNA into two single strands in preparation for replication.
and even furniture and clothing, he says a
#Google Bids to Make its Sideshows into Main Attractions Google founders Larry page and Sergey Brin seem determined to prove they gave the world more than a great advertising business.
How long that will take is anybody guess. Calico looks to be the mooniest of moonshots.
In a 1998 experiment, also at Case Western, a volunteer named Jim Jatich used signals collected from an EEG cap he wore over his head to trigger an early FES device known as Freehand,
#Tesla Model S hack marks third incident in two weeks Talk about a hat trick. Hackers sorry, security experts at mobile cybersecurity firm Lookout have compromised successfully a Tesla Model S. This is the third connected car hack in the last two weeks,
or white hats Mahaffey and partner Marc Rogers of web performance and security firm Cloudflare have worked already with Tesla to issue an over-the-air security update the week of Def Con before publishing their findings.
Short after, another white hat hacker revealed a flaw in Onstar's connected system that left any General motors car equipped with the service wide open to remote door unlocks and ignition starts.
and uses a headband to detect when you're concentrating on something. Changes in blood flow in the prefrontal cortex can signal brain activity,
and in 2014 it exploded across the rest of the world in unprecedented fashion. Forget Prime Day.
and shoppers ravenously scooped up deals on tech, games and clothing in what was in many countries the biggest weekend of online shopping in history.
Boots and Game's websites all requiring smelling salts. The Currys website in the UK crashed
"The weather meant that clothing retailers had a lot of stock left to shift, so they used the cover of Black Friday to mark down stock."
but says he hopes that fashion brands and other kinds of retail would be"more confident holding their price."
co-senior author of the paper and an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State. hat compression helps push the drug out of the microcapsule.
Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) cap, the system allows users to move forwards, turn left and right, sit
with EEG caps and hardware now emerging on the consumer market. It only took volunteers a few minutes to be trained in how to operate the system
meaning they remain magnetic in the absence of a field. aving such a small variety of magnetic materials limits our ability to tailor magnetic systems to the needs of applications without using very rare
In bull-eye fashion, each concentric ring alternates between bright and dark. The distance between the rings determines the optical properties of the lens
whether it through satnav or simply the smartphones in our pockets better data in means we get better data out on the road.
He said on Thursday about two billion Powerpacks could store enough electricity to meet the entire world needs. hat may seem like an insane number,
The shoes are the first illustration of a new method of weaving in three dimensions created by Nigerian American industrial designer Oluwaseyi Sosanya.
Sitting somewhere between the traditional art of weaving and the recent home availability of 3d printers,
Sosanya has created a way to weave materials such as wool and cotton in three dimensions before they are sealed to maintain a rigid structure.
The method he said, could be applied to protective clothing in sports, for making bulletproof vests and in constructing buildings.
Sosanya is in the early states of developing the new weaving method, an idea which came to the 31-year-old
This shirt that I am wearing right now is woven in the same way as a shirt that was made 3, 000 years ago,
It was with this in mind that he found himself in Huddersfield talking to veteran weavers in mills who explained to him in detail the traditional ways of weaving cloths.
Lengthwise yarns the warp are interwoven over and under with yarns called the weft. But what was not being done was weaving in three dimensions
nor was it being done seemingly by anyone else, according to patent research. Back in London, Sosanya had learned to weave
and used his background in mechanical engineering and computer programming to handbuild a machine which guides yarn in set patterns over layers to create the 3d shapes such as those used on the soles of the navy shoes he created.
Above those tubes is a mechanised eederwhich winds the fabric for example cotton around them in shapes dictated by a set pattern programmed into a computer.
The tubes act as scaffolding for the grid of fabric to be built on top. To make the structure rigid
the thread is coated in silicone which then solidifies. When the desired shape is completed, the tray at the bottom of the machine is slid out and the mesh
Where traditional weaving has the warp and the weft, Sosanya has replaced the warp with the rigid tubes
As there is one continuous piece of thread which is used through the whole structure, further strength is added.
Different fabrics can be used at different stages of the weave and the density and pattern can be altered throughout,
Sosanya is now investigating how the new method of weaving could be used practically. Custom-made shoes are one of the first potential uses. ou have all of these opportunities now where you can do customisation around footwear,
he said. ith this weaving system you can pre-programme the density. At the ball of your foot, you may want a denser material.
which play into the performance of our footwear. Now with 3d printing you can scan your foot
or even a whole sole or the whole shoe at some point. he designer and the chiropodist can say that you need to remove some material here
You have all of these opportunities now where you can do customisation around footwear. i
#Brain-training game helps'minimise impact of schizophrenia on life'A rain traininggame improves the cognitive function of people with schizophrenia
for the launch on Monday, concierges in red shirts met guests to help them order.
Not far from San francisco, a hotel in Sunnyvale, the Aloft Cupertino, recently began testing a robot that assists its human colleagues with daily tasks such as changing linens
for example, and a lot depends on the dress code workers are asked to comply with skirts are cooler than trousers, after all
The cap-and-trade system, which is due to come into effect in 2017, will be announced by Chinese president Xi Jinping during A white house summit meeting with President Obama on Friday.
Under the agreement, China's government will place a cap on annual carbon emissions, forcing any firms that go over that limit to buy permits allowing them to do so.
introducing cap-and-trade schemes in seven provinces in 2012 as trials for the nationwide program.
President Obama attempted to introduce his own cap-and-trade system during his first term,
and loosely ties into NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton, was an all-Apple affair. Dre announced the album on his own Beats 1 radio show, The Pharmacy,
"said CEO Jonathan Nelson in a statement. hat can we do to help address gender bias in the innovation capital of the world?
it still has its fans--in Phoenix. Guess the desert community just hasn caught up with the rest of the world.
The irish court rejected the suit and Schrems appealed to the European high court.""This decision is a major blow for U s. global surveillance that heavily relies on private partners.
in this computer-generated virtual clothes showroom, I could choose from an in-the-air menu
whether to peruse clothing, shoes, gift cards, or other options. As prompted, I chose shoes.
Grabbing and throwing a shoe created an in-the-air shoe profile, with a video clip, size
Grabbing and throwing the shoe at a clothed manikin in the center of the showroom attached the shoe to the dummy foot,
Rubin said, in your pajamas. Of course, if such VR shopping did redefine e-commerce, it could become yet another reason for physical retailers to fear for their lives
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