#Super-Fast Pixels Could Make Smartphones Brighter and Longer-Lasting Displays account for between 45 and 70 percent of the total energy consumption in portable electronics.
A new kind of liquid crystal display (LCD) with pixels that switch much more quickly could give smartphones brighter screens
and one green, that illuminate all of the pixels in the display in very rapid successionoo quickly for the eye to perceive.
Technology presented by Light Polymers at the 2014 Emerging Display Technologies conference in San jose this week could allow switching in less than 60 microseconds.
The new designnown as a sequential displayould help LCDS close the energy efficiency gap with another type of display, the OLED.
Marc Mcconnaughey, CEO of Light Polymers, says the company materials are being evaluated by flat-panel display manufacturers.
uses it in forearm-worn heart-rate monitors). But it also being used for a growing number of ear-worn devices,
including LG Heart rate Monitor Earphone and iriver iriveron Heart rate Monitoring Bluetooth Headset (available to consumers for $180 and $200, respectively) and a pair of earbuds from Intel,
#Cheap and Nearly Unbreakable Sapphire Screens Come into View This fall, rumor has it, Apple will start selling iphones with a sapphire screen that is just about impossible to scratch.
or tablet screen relatively cheaply (see our Next Smartphone Screen May be made of Sapphire. The manufacturing technology
and the screens on some high-end phones that cost as much as $10, 000. But sapphire has been too expensive for widespread use.
A screen made entirely out of sapphire as the forthcoming iphone may be, remains five times as expensive as a regular one,
Smartphone makers have taken long advantage of advances in glass production to make devices with stronger and more durable screens.
The most well-known of these screens is made from Corning Gorilla Glass, which is used in iphones.
#Prototype Display Lets You Say Goodbye to Reading Glasses Those of us who need glasses to see a TV
or laptop screen clearly could ditch the eyewear thanks to a display technology that corrects vision problems.
The technology uses algorithms to alter an image based on a person glasses prescription together with a light filter set in front of the display.
In addition to making it easier for people with simple vision problems to use all kinds of displays without glasses,
to whose display they had affixed an acrylic slab topped with a plastic screen pierced with thousands of tiny, evenly spaced holes.
Gordon Wetzstein, who coauthored the paper while a research scientist at MIT Media Lab, says the screen allows a regular two-dimensional display to work as what known as a ight field display.
This means the screen controls the way individual light rays emanate from the display, leading to a sharper image without degrading contrast.
Wetzstein says the next step is to build prototype displays that people can use in the real worldomething he expects could take a few years.
when we look at a display that doesn look right, we tend to naturally move around to improve the focus.
if researchers used a display with a high enough resolutionbout double the 326 pixels per inch of the ipod Touch used in the paperhe technology could be made to be used by more than one person at once t
One way is by using mobile technology to monitor sleep patterns, heart rate, activity levels, and so on.
rechargeable batteries that can be printed cheaply on commonly used industrial screen printers. Imprint Energy, of Alameda, California, has been testing its ultrathin zinc-polymer batteries in wrist-worn devices
where she collaborated with a researcher in Japan to produce microscopic zinc batteries using a 3-D printer.
and one is displays, says Steven Holmes, vice president of the New Devices Group and general manager of the Smart Device Innovation team at Intel.
monitors people known to be innocent and builds dossiers on everyone based on their Internet activity.
A mouse uses a flat two-dimensional surface as a proxy for a computer screen. Any movements of the mouse over the surface are translated then into movements on the screen.
These days a mouse also has a number of buttons and often scroll wheel that allow interaction with on-screen objects.
The mouse is a hugely useful device but it is also a two-dimensional one. But what of the three-dimensional world and the longstanding but growing promise of virtual reality.
and translate them onto 2-D screen. The problem here is that these devices are locked to a particular technology
Given the boom in fitness monitors and other wearable gadgets tethered wirelessly to smartphones, the technology could also allow confirmation that data streaming from the device is coming from the right person,
He does so by implanting electrodes into their brains to monitor neural activity. Now, as part of a sweeping $70 million program funded by the U s. military,
Video screens in both cabs show the drivers views of blind spots around the two vehicles.
The technology is called a haptic stylus gadget connected to mechanical apparatus that gives force-feedback sensations to let artists eelwhat theye doing as they sculpt a 3-D image on the screen
and even touch screens that vibrate, making you feel like there a sharp edge on a flat surface.
and printing for a variety of applications (see hat Yoda Taught Me About 3-D Printingand he Difference Between Makers and Manufacturers. 3d Systems,
for example, makes many 3-D printers and recently launched a sub-$1, 000 home model called Cube and a $400 handheld scanner that can, in a couple of minutes, generate a realistic 3-D drawing of a human head that as good as the ones produced by existing stationary systems
and a cartoonish face shown on a touch-screen display, is very easy and safe to work with.
#Shape-Shifting Touch screen Buttons Head to Market As they peck out text on the featureless glass surface of their phone or tablet,
and elastic blisters to make buttons rise up from a device screen and then disappear without trace when theye no longer needed.
The design includes a transparent screen protector that covers the front of the device. However, sliding a mechanical control on the side of the case raises up a transparent set of buttons
or guides on the screen protector, over the touch keyboard, to make typing easier. Sliding the control back will cause those buttons to melt away
leaving a clear, smooth pane of glass. sers will still type on the screens as they do today,
That they were ever there is discernable only by a close examination of the screen protector in the right light
when the fingers don directly hit a key, something that lacking on a typical touch screen.
Tactus has demonstrated both a prototype seven-inch tablet with its technology fully integrated into its display
morphing screen where the keyboard would usually be
#Microrobots, Working Together, Build with Metal, Glass, and Electronics Someone glancing through the door of Annjoe Wong-Foy lab at SRI International might think his equipment is infested by ants.
Much like 3-D printing technology, microrobots promise to be a more efficient way to make complex objects in small quantities than conventional mass-production technology,
#First hidden, real-time, screen-camera communication created Such applications include smart glasses communicating with screens to realise augmented reality
information is encoded into a visual frame shown on a screen, and any camera-equipped device can turn to the screen
and immediately fetch the information, researchers said. Operating on the visible light spectrum band, screen-camera communication is free of electromagnetic interference, offering a promising alternative for acquiring short-range information.
But these efforts commonly require displaying visible coded images, which interfere with the content the screen is playing
and create unpleasant viewing experiences. The team at Dartmouth College studied how to enable screens
and cameras to communicate without the need to show any coded images like QR code,
In the Hilight system, screens display content as they normally do and the content can change as users interact with the screens.
At the same time, screens transmit dynamic data instantaneously to any devices equipped with cameras behind the scene, unobtrusively, in real time.
Hilight supports communication atop any screen content, such as an image, movie, video clip, game, web page or any other application window,
so that camera-equipped devices can fetch the data by turning their cameras to the screen.
Hilight leverages the alpha channel, a well-known concept in computer graphics to encode bits into the pixel translucency change.
It decouples communication and screen content image layers.""Our work provides an additional way for devices to communicate with one another without sacrificing their original functionality,
Existing screen-camera work either requires showing coded images obtrusively or cannot support arbitrary screen content that can be generated on the fly.
Our work advances the state-of-the-art by pushing screen-camera communication to the maximal flexibility, "said Zhou u
#Antioxidant helps to diagnose Alzheimer: Experts find proof In a major medical breakthrough, scientists at the National Brain Research Centre (NBRC) have reported clinical evidence supporting the role of a novel biomarker in diagnosing Alzheimer's disease.
This is an important step for the future production of large numbers of these cells for use in cell transplantation therapies or large-scale drug screens, researchers from the Molecular Medicine Institute in Lisbon,
which could soon produce self-healing nail polish and a cure for cracked mobile phone screens. A team at the University of Bristol has been quietly developing the technology for the past three years.
or 10 years we're going to see things like mobile phone screens that can heal themselves
which could soon produce self-healing nail polish and a cure for cracked mobile phone screens. A team at the University of Bristol has been quietly developing the technology for the past three years.
or 10 years we're going to see things like mobile phone screens that can heal themselves
A 3d printing company based in Amsterdam has developed a revolutionary robotic 3d printer that can'draw'structures in the air.
"Printing an intricate, ornate metal bridge for a special location to show what our robots and software engineers,
who helped develop the robotic 3d printer that combined the MX3D-Resin with a welder to be able to"draw"fast-setting metal structures.
By printing multiple lines, the printer will be able to create a strong, complex structure that spans the canal-printing its own supports along the way
A 3d printing company based in Amsterdam has developed a revolutionary robotic 3d printer that can'draw'structures in the air.
"Printing an intricate, ornate metal bridge for a special location to show what our robots and software engineers,
who helped develop the robotic 3d printer that combined the MX3D-Resin with a welder to be able to"draw"fast-setting metal structures.
By printing multiple lines, the printer will be able to create a strong, complex structure that spans the canal-printing its own supports along the way
and will pave the way towards the realisation of atomically thin, flexible and transparent displays,
and will pave the way towards the realisation of atomically thin, flexible and transparent displays,
and transparent displays, and graphene-based on-chip optical communications,"said Hone
#In a first, drug offers hope for children with dwarfism An experimental drug, vying to become the first approved treatment for dwarfism, improved growth in children by a significant amount in a preliminary study, the drug's developer,
'the headset and app monitors their level of concentration and a`volume bar'of brainwaves is displayed on the screen,
the researchers are also working on its application to monitor gas emissions from any source, be it an industry
which uses a laser device may be able to non-invasively monitor blood glucose levels and eliminate the need for daily finger pricking for diabetics.
suggest that the new monitor has the potential to perform as well as conventional technologies. LONDON: A new technology developed by an Indian-origin scientist,
which uses a laser device may be able to non-invasively monitor blood glucose levels and eliminate the need for daily finger pricking for diabetics.
suggest that the new monitor has the potential to perform as well as conventional technologies s
#utated lepto bacteria resistant to drugs, heatmumbai: Scientists at the premier Regional Medical Reference Centre (RMRC) at Port Blair have found that the bacterial species that causes leptospirosis is no longer socially aloof,
Users will be allowed to choose screen names. However if the screen name or profile pictures includea anything#illegal
or bad#the account will be deleted. In a statement issued on its website Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) informed that the real-name registration requirement will control the spread of rumors online.
It#s certainly starting to look that way as reports are surfacing that the Japanese government will also begin heavily investing in this very human branch of 3d bio printing technology.
And just a few weeks ago in early December we learned of a collaboration between 3d printing company Organovo and the Yale School of medicine that aims to pioneer 3d bioprinted surgical tissues themselves.
For reports have surfaced that they will invest a massive sum of 25 billion yen in the development of transplantable human organ printing over the next five years
And as an estimated 100000 people are on the waiting list for organ transplantation in the US alone it#s no wonder that the medical field is turning its focus towards 3d printing r
#Design Lab Workshop merges 3d printing with solar energy for glowing architecture As more architects look into ways of using additive manufacturing as a way of constructing their buildings,
wee been seeing new ways of creating modular structures to even large-scale 3d printers that are capable of printing an entire house (or multiples) within a day.
Historically, architects have been using 3d printers for years to create small-scale mockups of concepts to present to clients or colleagues,
what possible with 3d printing and architecture are Design Lab Workshop Brian Peters and Daphne Firos.
the design team has been focusing on an experimental structure that highlights the potential of architecture including new fabrication techniques (3d printing),
and used as a 3d print head to create a makeshift Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) 3d printer for the project.
and 3d printing space, be sure to check out the rest of their portfolio over at Design Lab Workspace.
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#Recent developments in 3d printed plastic electronics showing promise With today's printed plastic electronics performing nearly just as well as
With these facts in mind, the conversation then turns into how advancements in 3d printing can
#Doctors use 3d printing to aid successful open-heart surgery on four-year old Jan 15, 2015 By Simon Born with a heart condition that resulted in her having two open heart surgeries before the time she was even four years old, Adaenelie Gonzalez, a four-year old from Miami, Florida in the United states,
However unlike her previous open heart surgeries, the use of 3d printing enabled doctors to perform a third open heart surgery last week that may just be her last.
Creating an anatomically-correct 3d print of a patient heart is far from your run-of-the-mill 3d printing project, however.
who then 3d printed the complex heart model over a 24-hour period using Stratasys 3d printers. said that beautiful,
Thanks to the success of Gonzalez surgery, Miami Children Hospital plans on using 3d printing in the future for other surgical procedures."
2015 By Simonconsidering all of the developments that wee been seeing in the space of both new 3d printers and 3d printing filament in the past six months alone, there a lot for makers, designers, engineers,
it is perhaps the 3d printing materials themselves that have been making a huge splash. Previously, wee seen how Made in Space is making their pace-approvedfilament available to the general public for creating their own pace-readytools
and parts as well as developments in making 3d printing material recipes open source-such as Autodesk decision to release the recipe of their Ember 3d printer resin.
Now, scientists from Singapore have invented a new type of thermoplastic filament that can be used in existing 3d printers to create functional circuits for use in electrical gadgets.
for 3d printing. In comparison, Protoplant conductive PLA filament has a resistivity of about 15 Wcm
and easily using existing desktop 3d printers rather than entirely new systems. e believe that our material will encourage more innovation
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#Titan Robotics announces new high-quality large-scale 3d printer called The Atlas May 21, 2015 By Simonalthough wee been seeing dozens of new 3d printers and material options in recent memory,
very few have been focused on relative size-particularly when it comes to 3d printing large-scale objects. While there are large 3d printers in existence,
many are made with lightweight and inefficient components that can take a serious toll on the print quality
if high-quality results are desired. However, The Atlas, a new 3d printer from Titan Robotics just might change that.
Founded by mechanical engineer Clay Guillory who calls himself mechanical engineer by day, and a mechanical engineer by night, Titan Robotics focuses on doing one thing and one thing very well:
designing large 3d printers that are designed to last a lifetime. Among other applications that Clay has used his 3d printing know-how towards include prosthetic hands
-which started as a request from a mother whose 8-year old boy was need in of a low-cost solution Titan Roboticsatlas 3d printer was named after the famous Greek god who was known for fighting alongside the Titans
and then later charged to bear the weight of the heavens on his shoulders. According to Clay, he strength of this Greek god is an accurate depiction of the strength
and size of this new 3d printer With over a year in development including real-world testing in various manufacturing facilities,
the Atlas has proven to be a highly-accurate 3d printer that is capable of printing large prototypes reliably over time.
which ultimately helps set the bar for other large scale 3d printers. Additionally, the scalable frame is comprised of welded
The printer can be designed to any desired build space of up to 6x 6x 4 For those looking for more customized options
-whether through the single or double extruder options. e are excited to introduce such a high quality 3d printer,
said Founder and CEO Clay Guillory. e fully expect this printer to be a game changer in the 3d printing industry. hile the Atlas may share many of the same attributes of a well-built desktop 3d printer,
its unique size opens an entire plethora of possibilities that no desktop 3d printer can replicate in a single print session.
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Dustins Words communication tool brought to life via 3d printing May 21, 2015 By Simonalthough wee no doubt seen how additive manufacturing has been a breakthrough for creating low cost and customizable prosthetic devices for both humans and their four-legged friend alike,
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2015 By Simonwhile wee seen how developments to additive manufacturing technologies have helped both bring down the cost of getting something 3d printing as well as delivering results faster,
While wee still a few years away from seeing 3d bioprinting technologies that are capable of 3d printing entirely-new, 3d printed organs such as livers or kidneys,
More recently, doctors at the Xiangya Hospital of Urology at Central South University in China were able to leverage 3d printing technology in an effort to help successfully remove a tumor from a 60-year-old woman kidney.
Dr. Qi Lin, chose to use 3d printing to assist in the process of planning the surgery. To create the accurate replica of the patient kidney
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#Procter & gamble jumps into 3d bio printing with grant program in Singapore May 26, 2015 By Simonit no secret that one of the most exciting developments in the additive manufacturing industry has been in the advancements in 3d bio
printing-the printing of living human tissue. While wee been hearing promises about the technology from a variety of companies over the past few years,
2015 has been a reakthroughyear that has shown significantly more promise for bio printing technologies-including the announcement of an upcoming surgery that will see a 3d printed thyroid gland be implanted for testing-a first of its kind.
the printing can also be used to replace what has largely been a controversial practice for years now:
bio printing technologies will allow for companies to use synthetic living tissue as needed. Among other companies that have been actively looking into how they can leverage bio printing to their advantage is none other than Procter & gamble-the largest consumer goods company in the world.
and Tide to Bounty and Crest-is launching a grant competition in Singapore that asks those in academia to submit research proposals on 3d bio printing applications that would be of relevance to the consumer goods brand. e want to look at the possibilities of bioprinting.
-whose interest in the technology has gone so far as to partnering with bio printing startup Organovo to develop 3d printed skin.
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2015 By Simonwhile wee been seeing an ever-increasing range of 3d printers including both those that incorporate additional manufacturing processes as well as those that aim to be more minimal and low-cost,
wee also been seeing an increase in interesting and useful 3d printing materials as well. More recently, researchers at Bucktown Polymers have developed a new type of 3d printing material that cures rapidly
when exposed to light yet remains water soluble after curing: Rinse Out Resin (ROR. The company-which is based in Chicago,
With this in mind, the water soluble materials can be formulated for compatibility with many existing desktop 3d printers
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While lives are already being saved by high-level 3d printing in academic hospitals all over the world, most of these cases involve 3d printed implants
Doubtlessly, the real 3d printing revolution in the medical world is yet to come: bio 3d printing.
Involving special bio-inks made from biocompatible polymers and cells, these could be used for 3d printing just about everything in the human body, from cartilage, to bone structures and theoretically even entire new organs.
And now a Swedish start-up called CELLINK has developed a bioink that could make this medical revolution happen as soon as possible.
what they are calling the world first universal bioink, with optimal biocompatibility and printing fidelity.
The commonly used and much slower method involves 3d printing bioink and another polymer like material together slowly,
And that is exactly why Anthromod completely relies on 3d printing technology. his reads right about 10 channels of the brain,
All the while, 3d printing technology is key in keeping the costs as low as possible while keeping all design options open. o 3d printing allows you to create something that's humanlike,
something that's extremely customized, again for a very low cost, which for certain applications such as prosthetics, is a really big part of it,
we want someone that has a 3d printer, or very little printing experience, to be able to replicate this,
to be able to use this for new applications, to be able to adapt it into new situations,
and 3d printing techniques to revolutionize this industry and provide fitting, comfortable shoes for everyone. But 3d design of square parts is difficult enough, let alone for the complex shapes of our feet.
but are more comfortable than ever thanks to 3d printing technology. They are made to fit your foot size,
And thanks to 3d printing technology, these custom shoes can be made cheaper than ever before somewhere in the range of a few hundred RMBS (or around $50.
It just another example that proves that 3d printing isn just about toys and fun but also about lives and the quality of life everywhere i
#MIT professor develops highly stretchable & tough hydrogels for 3d printing ears, noses & joints Jun 3,
material developments and 3d printing applications announced within the last six months, among those that have been gathering the most attention include applications and technologies for 3d bioprinting.
and Columbia University published a paper in the industry journal Advanced Materials describing the process of 3d printing highly-stretchable and tough hydrogels into complex cellularized structures.
a new ink for 3d printing of biocompatible-tough hydrogel, explains Zhao. ach material individually is very weak and brittle,
but the demonstration that one can achieve similar mechanical performance with a common biomedical polymer is a substantial advance iit is also quite exciting that these new tough gels can be used for 3d printing,
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#Formfutura unveils Easywood Olive and Ebony, two new wood-like 3d printer filaments Jun 9, 2015 By Alecwith an internet full of 3d printable designs,
it obvious that you can create just about anything with a 3d printer. But in reality, most of us continue to limit ourselves to regular plastic designs made in either PLA or ABS filaments.
or SLA 3d printer to add some variety to your prints? There are currently dozens of other types of filament, each with their own unique properties and applications, on the market,
and selling a wide range of interesting filaments for the more unusual 3d printing projects, and these two new Easywood filaments are no exception.
these two filaments like the already available Coconut filament are perfect for 3d printing wood-like structures. ll three Easywood#type of filaments look,
which makes this filament a perfect match with all common desktop FDM 3d printers, the Dutch team says.
But of course you should play around with your own nozzle diameter, printing speed settings, and layer height to get the best response from your machine,
as with every filament and 3d printer. The already available Coconut. And to get that perfect wood-like finish,
why shouldn we start 3d printing in wood? If you're interested, go here for more info on ordering.
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