#Samsung Finally Has a Phone That Runs Its Own Operating system After years of delays and false starts,
Samsung Electronics Co. has launched finally a smartphone that runs on its own Tizen operating system, a landmark move that may mark the beginning of the end of its dependence on Google Inc. Android system.
But the launch of the Z1 phone in India at a price of only $92 makes it clear how much the Korean has scaled down its ambitions for Tizen, at least in the short term,
and how far it still has to go before it can wean itself off Android.
The company has pared the offering down to a no-frills product aimed at first-time smartphone buyers at the bottom end of the market,
who won demand the comforts and capabilities of Android, still less Apple ios. Those two systems operate 19 out of every 20 smartphones worldwide.
In truth, Samsung had been left with little alternative after three failed launches last year frustrated the developers that it needs
The company has to engineer the product so as to make standard services like Twitter, Facebook and Youtube available without a Tizen-specific app,
according to the Wall street journal. Reuters quoted Samsung as saying that the phone will have more than 1, 000 apps available for downloadess than one-tenth of those available for Android and ios. At the bottom end of the market, that may be no great problem.
Samsung was deposed last year by Xiaomi as the largest smartphone maker in China. Tizen is already in use in Samsung smartwatches and cameras and, most recently, its TVS.
even in the world third biggest market for smartphones, Samsung can achieve enough scale for Tizen to persuade skeptical developers that making apps for it is worth their while.
At $92, the phone is almost four times as expensive as the ultra-basic Nokia 130 phone
The phone has a four-inch display, one front-facing camera and an ultra-power savings mode.
Determines Calories and More SCIO is currently available for pre-order on the company website with as estimated ship date of July 2015.
The site will maintain a free tier, but Martocci says it will migrate slowly toward charging for additional features. ee constantly building a backlog of the amazing things we think we can offer for premium services from the education side, the professional producersside,
of which are held in secure offline cold storage systems. We would like to reassure all Bitstamp customers that their balances held prior to our temporary suspension of services will not be affected
"The site is being transitioned onto a"new safe environment "and is expected to resume service in coming days,
The british leader said he also planned to discuss with Obama how the two countries could work more closely with big Internet companies such as Facebook
and Google to monitor communications between terror suspects. Reporting by Kylie Maclellan; Editing by Dominic Evans s
#Google Facebook Others Launch Sustainability Platform Unilever Coca-cola Google Facebook Nike Pepsico and dozens of other major companies and nonprofits have launched a digital sustainability platform
and the internet of things and combine test beds projects and activities from different sectors including smart manufacturing healthcare smart energy intelligent transportation and disaster response.
The city of San jos has installed a sensor demonstration platform using Intel Gateway Solutions for the Internet of things with an Intel Quark processor and third-party sensors.
Cancer cells would have a tough time leaving the original tumor site if it weren t for their ability to enter our bloodstream
and gain access to distant sites Wong says. So it s actually the entry of cancer cells into the bloodstream that allows the cancer to spread very quickly.
By analyzing physician social networks the researchers examined how doctors are connected professionally and pass information to each other and how that leads to increasing adoption.
The authors analyzed the social networks of critical care physicians in the medical intensive care unit (ICU) at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
or by email or automated reminders generated by the electronic health record. Interventions also can regularly audit doctors adoption.
They had more blood vessels at the site of injury and their heart function was better.##
and execute medical commands and report the completed activity via a tiny built-in radio antenna.""We think this will enable researchers to develop a new generation of tiny implants designed for a wide array of medical applications"says Amin Arbabian assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford university.
Arbabian's team recently presented a working prototype of this wireless medical implant system at the IEEE Custom Integrated circuits Conference in San jose California.
"Tiny wireless nodes such as these have the potential to become a key tool for addressing neurological disorders"says Florian Solzbacher professor of electrical and computer engineering at University of Utah and director of its Center for Engineering Innovation.
Finally the"smart chip"contains a radio antenna to beam back sensor readings or signal the completion of its therapeutic task.
or stop cancer from spreading from the original tumor site to other parts of the body
A companion smartphone application can automatically correlate the visual results to specific blood hemoglobin levels.
and then go specifically to the site of a serious injury they could help decrease the number of deaths associated with serious injuries.##
When they receive the right signals from a protein known as thrombin these precursors polymerize at the site of the bleeding.
About one micron in diameter the particles were developed originally to be used on the battlefield by wounded soldiers who might self-administer them using a device about the size of a smartphone.
and a web camera can detect subtle changes in facial skin color that indicate the uneven blood flow caused by atrial fibrillation a treatable but potentially dangerous heart condition.##
The contactless nature of the technology and the proliferation of web cameras could even eventually allow the screening to occur without interrupting the user.
while someone is reading their email on their tablet computer or smart phone. Other researchers from University of Rochester and from Xerox Corp. contributed to the study
HOW THEY WORK Christman oversaw one of the trial sites as one of the principal investigators at the University of Michigan.
The addresses then were overlaid on maps with the locations of agricultural chemical application sites based on the pesticide-use reports to determine residential proximity.
##The researchers found that during the study period approximately one-third of CHARGE Study participants lived in close proximityâ##within 1. 25 to 1. 75 kilometersâ##of commercial pesticide application sites.
Some associations were greater among mothers living closer to application sites and lower as residential proximity to the application sites decreased the researchers found.
Organophosphates applied over the course of pregnancy were associated with an elevated risk of autism spectrum disorder particularly for chlorpyrifos applications in the second trimester.
then transmit the data wirelessly using radio frequency waves. o one has ever put electronics inside the lens of the eye,
researchers built a prototype that uses radio frequency for wireless power and data transfer. A thin, circular antenna spans the perimeter of the deviceoughly tracing a person irisnd harnesses enough energy from the surrounding field to power a small pressure sensor chip.
or possibly built into a smartphone, Böhringer says. CHANGING EYE PRESSURE The current prototype is larger than it would need to be to fit into an artificial lens,
The researchers, including Brian Otis, associate professor of electrical engineering and also of Google Inc, . and former doctoral students Cagdas Varel and Yi-Chun Shih, have filed patents on the pressure-monitoring device prototype l
QUESTIONS FROM THE IPHONE APP Along with the software improvements that allow the device to adapt to widely varied individual dosage needs,
including a smartphone (iphone 4s) capable of practical wireless communication with two pumps delivering doses of insulin and glucagon.
Every five minutes the smartphone receives a blood sugar reading from an attached continuous glucose monitor,
The smartphone includes an application on which the patient enters information immediately before eating. But instead of the complex calculation patients typically do to estimate their carbohydrate intake,
of which will be a true home study only requiring that participants stay within an hour drive of the study site.
The team tested the wireless charging system in a pig and used it to power a tiny pacemaker in a rabbit.
and efficacy requirements for using this wireless charging system in commercial medical devices. But it has the potential to eliminate bulky batteries
An independent laboratory that tests cell phones says that the system falls well below the danger exposure levels for human safety
Either way, far-field electromagnetic waves have been ignored as a potential wireless power source for medical devices. Near-field waves can be used safely in wireless power systems.
#App analyzes your voice for mood swings Researchers are testing a smartphone app that monitors your mood by listening for changes in your voice.
HOW IT WORKS The app runs in the background on an ordinary smartphone, and automatically monitors the patientsvoice patterns during any calls made as well as during weekly conversations with a member of the patient care team.
The app currently runs on Android operating system phones, and complies with laws about recording conversations
while built-in switches direct traffic to storage sites on the chip. The result is an integrated circuit that controls small magnetic objects much like the way electrons are controlled on computer chips.
Medical screening Elhaik coauthor Tatiana Tatarinova developed a website making GPS accessible to the public. o help people find their roots,
I developed a website that allows anyone who has had their DNA genotyped to upload their results
and wirelessly send updates to your cellphone or computer. The patches stick to the skin like a temporary tattoo
and transmits the information to a radio frequency identification reader held by a doctor. The wirelessly powered chip can be attached to implants
and the family crowdfunding site, the Scleroderma Cure Fund, helped support the research h
#Anticancer drug reverses schizophrenia symptoms in teen mice An experimental anticancer drug appears to reverse schizophrenia-related behavior
#Tiny circulator in phones could double bandwidth University of Texas at Austin rightoriginal Studyposted by Sandra Zaragoza-UT Austin on November 12 2014engineers have found a way to dramatically shrink a critical component of cellphones
A much smaller more efficient radio wave circulator has the potential to double the useful bandwidth in wireless communications by enabling full-duplex functionality#meaning devices can transmit
The researchers device works by mimicking the way magnetic materials break the symmetry in wave transmission between two points in space a critical function that allows magnetic circulators to selectively route radio waves.
which can free up chunks of bandwidth for more effective use. or telecommunications companies which pay for licenses to use frequencies allotted by the US Federal Communications Commission a more efficient use of the limited available bandwidth means significant cost advantages.
Additionally because the design of the circulator is scalable and capable of circuit integration it can potentially be placed in wireless devices. e envision micron-sized circulators embedded in cellphone technology.
When you consider cellphone traffic during high demand events such as a football game or a concert there are enormous implications opened by our technology including fewer dropped calls
Another advantage of nano-MRI is that the molecules can be labeled by isotopes providing a means for site-specific image contrast.
#Control your smartphone with pinchy fingers ETH Zurich Posted by Peter Ruegg-ETH Zurich on October 9 2014a new app uses a smartphone s built-in camera to detect hand gestures that resemble sign language.
however they re for controlling the smartphone. Holding the phone in one hand a user can use the other to move an index finger to the left sometimes to the right.
The program uses the smartphone s built-in camera to register its environment. It does not evaluate depth or color.
and is thus ideal for smartphones. He believes the application is the first of its kind that can run on a smartphone.
The app s minimal processing footprint means it could also run on smart watches or in augmented-reality glasses like the Apple Watch or Google glass.
Hilliges is convinced that this new way of operating smartphones greatly increases the range of interactivity.
so that users can operate their smartphone with very little effort. But will smartphone users want to adapt to this new style of interaction?
Hilliges is confident they will. Gesture control will not replace touchscreen control but supplement it. eople got used to operating computer games with their movements. ouchscreens Hilliges reminds us also required a very long adjustment period before making a big impact in consumers lives.
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while a second person speaks directly into a smartphone. The speech is converted to text sent to Glass
He says using a smartphone with Glass has several benefits as compared to using Glass by itself. lass has its own microphone
but it s designed for the wearersays Starner who is also a technical lead for Glass. he mobile phone puts a microphone directly next to the speaker s mouth reducing background noise
and helping to eliminate errors. tarner says the phone-to-Glass system is helpful because speakers are more likely to construct their sentences more clearly avoiding hsand ms
. However if captioning errors are sent to Glass the smartphone software also allows the speaker to edit the mistakes
which sends the changes to the person wearing the device. he smartphone uses the Android transcription API to convert the audio to textsays Jay Zuerndorfer
More information and support can be found at the project website here. Foley and the students are working with the Association Of late Deafened Adults in Atlanta to improve the program.
The same group is also working on a second project Translation on Glass that uses the same smartphone-Glass Bluetooth connection process to capture sentences spoken into the smartphone translate them to another language
The response is translated back to the original language on the smartphone. Two-way translations are currently available for English Spanish French Russian Korean
and Japanese. or both uses the person wearing Glass has to hand their smartphone to someone else to begin a conversationsays Starner. t s not ideal for strangers
#Double twist radio waves send data faster In the past, scientists have twisted light to send data super fast,
but new research shows that a similar technique with radio waves can also reach high speeds.
-and-a-half-long HD movies in one second and is 30 times faster than LTE wireless. ot only is this a way to transmit multiple spatially collocated radio data streams through a single aperture,
it is also one of the fastest data transmission via radio waves that has been demonstrated, says study leader Alan Willner, electrical engineering professor at the USC Viterbi School of engineering.
the team took a page from Willner previous work and twisted radio beams together. They passed each beamhich carried its own independent stream of datahrough a piral phase platethat twisted each radio beam into a unique and orthogonal DNA-like helical shape.
A receiver at the other end of the room then untwisted and recovered the different data streams. his technology could have very important applications in ultra-high-speed links for the wireless ackhaulthat connects base stations of next-generation cellular systems,
He describes the thread s width as phenomenally small only a few atoms across hundreds of thousands of times smaller than an optical fiber enormously thinner that an average human hair. heory by our coauthor Vin Crespi
The purpose of the ALMA Observatory is to search for cosmic origins through an array of 66 sensitive radio antennas from the high elevation and dry air of northern Chile s Atacama desert.
The radiation extends across the entire electromagnetic spectrum from radio waves and visible light to X-rays and gamma rays.
The technology uses aluminum nanoparticles to create the vivid red blue and green hues found in today s top-of-the-line LCD televisions and monitors.
#Ant-size radios could help create Internet of things A new radio the size of an ant can gather all the power it needs from the same electromagnetic waves that carry signals to its receiving antenna no batteries required.
and relay commands this tiny wireless chip costs pennies to Make it's cheap enough to become the missing link between the internet as we know it
We have the internet to carry commands around the globe and computers and smartphones to issue the commands.
What's missing is a wireless controller cheap enough to so that it can be installed on any gadget anywhere. ow do you put a bidirectional wireless control system on every lightbulb?
Arbabian asks. y putting all the essential elements of a radio on a single chip that costs pennies to make. ost is critical
Everything hinged on squeezing all the electronics found in say the typical Bluetooth device down into a single ant-sized silicon chip.
The antenna had to be small one-tenth the size of a Wi-fi antenna and operate at the incredibly fast rate of 24 billion cycles per second.
Arbabian has used these prototypes to prove that the devices work they can receive signals harvest energy from incoming radio signals
He thinks this technology can provide the web of connectivity and control between the global internet and smart household devices. heap tiny self-powered radio controllers are an essential requirement for the Internet of Thingssays Arbabian.
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#Detector could vastly improve night-vision goggles Monash University right Original Studyposted by Glynis Smalley-Monash on September 8 2014 Researchers have developed a light detector that could revolutionize chemical-sensing equipment and night-vision technology.
#This smartphone case is 3x harder than steel Yale university Posted by Jim Shelton-Yale on September 5 2014a new smartphone case is lightweight thin harder than steel
Smartphone cases were a natural but challenging next step. t s obvious. The important properties in a cell phone case are hardness
and weightschroers says. He and his team produce the cases by blow-molding BMG sheets into brass molds to precise specifications.
which constitutes a huge advance in making smartphones more waterproof. With the right manufacturing partner Schroers says he could scale up production by late 2015.
A number of battery-free technologies exist that are powered by solar and ambient radio frequency waves.
and radio waves can t always penetrate such as inside walls or bridges and below ground where there might be at least small temperature fluctuations.
With our web page and source code others can download and build their own power harvesters. dditional researchers from University of Washington
The technology is featured in the journal Advanced Optical Materials. t opens a lot of area to deploy solar energy in a nonintrusive waylunt says. t can be used on tall buildings with lots of windows or any kind of mobile device that demands high aesthetic quality like a phone or e reader.
The technology could potentially help hundreds of millions of people who currently need corrective lenses to use their smartphones tablets and computers.
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#Wi-fi backscatter could make Internet of things real A new method uses radio frequency signals as a power source
and reuses existing Wi-fi infrastructure to provide internet connectivity to battery-free devices. Called Wi-fi backscatter this technology is the first that can connect battery-free devices to Wi-fi infrastructure.
Imagine a world in which your wristwatch or other wearable device communicates directly with your online profiles storing information about your daily activities where you can best access it all without requiring batteries.
and connect these devices to the internet has kept this from taking off. f Internet of things devices are going to take off we must provide connectivity to the potentially billions of battery-free devices that will be embedded in everyday objectssays Shyam Gollakota an assistant professor of computer science
and engineering at the University of Washington. e now have the ability to enable Wi-fi connectivity for devices
what Wi-fi typically requires. he researchers will publish their results at the Association for Computing Machinery s Special interest Group on Data communication s annual conference this month in Chicago.
or cords by harnessing energy from existing radio TV and wireless signals in the air. This work takes that a step further by connecting each individual device to the internet
which previously wasn t possible. The challenge in providing Wi-fi connectivity to these devices is that conventional low-power Wi-fi consumes three to four orders of magnitude more power than can be harvested in these wireless signals.
The researchers instead developed an ultra-low power tag prototype with an antenna and circuitry that can talk to Wi-fi-enabled laptops or smartphones while consuming negligible power.
These tags work by essentially ookingfor Wi-fi signals moving between the router and a laptop or smartphone.
They encode data by either reflecting or not reflecting the Wi-fi router s signals slightly changing the wireless signal.
Wi-fi-enabled devices like laptops and smartphones would detect these minute changes and receive data from the tag.
In this way your smart watch could download emails or offload your workout data onto a Google spreadsheet. ou might think how could this possibly work
when you have a low-power device making such a tiny change in the wireless signal?
But the point is if you re looking for specific patterns you can find it among all the other Wi-fi reflections in an environmentsays coauthor Joshua Smith an associate professor of computer science and engineering and of electrical engineering.
The Wi-fi backscatter tag has communicated with a Wi-fi device at rates of 1 kilobit per second with about 2 meters between the devices.
They plan to extend the range to about 20 meters and have filed patents on the technology.
The University of Washington Commercialization Gap Fund the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Washington Research Foundation the National Science Foundation and the University of Washington supported the work.
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It's easy to capture video with smartphones Gopro cameras and Google glass but viewing it can get boring.
or Google glass for example and quickly upload thumbnail trailers to social media. The summarization process avoids generating costly internet data charges and tedious manual editing on long videos.
This application along with the surveillance camera auto-summarization is now being developed for the retail market by Panoptus Inc. a startup founded by the inventors of Livelight.
Google, the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research and the Air force Office of Scientific research supported the work r
US Attorney general Eric holder Jr. was quoted recently in news reports as having xtreme extreme concernabout Yemeni bomb makers joining forces with Syrian militants to develop these hard-to-detect explosives which can be hidden in cell phones and mobile devices.
#Vibrating glove could teach you Braille A new wireless computing glove can help people learn to read
and outputs of this process but a microscopic quantum mechanical description of how the light excites the electrons is lacking.
and optical communications that are the basis for the internet and cable TV. The optical and electronic properties of metals cause excitons to last no longer than approximately 100 attoseconds (0. 1 quadrillionth of a second.
and their collaborators, offers the possibility that such devices may soon be as small as a typical smartphone.
and that excites the quartz tuning fork. he tuning fork is a piezoelectric element, so when the wave causes it to vibrate,
and bacteria that create a protective web of cellulose. ith this in mind cellulose nanomaterials are inherently renewable sustainable biodegradable and carbon-neutral like the sources from
or of cars driving by to power your smartphone. That s the concept researchers at the Georgia Institute of technology are developing using
##or even rain falling. e are able to deliver small amounts of portable power for today s mobile
The Rice university lab of chemist James Tour in collaboration with Lockheed martin developed the compound to protect marine and airborne radars with a robust coating that is also transparent to radio frequencies.
and metallic elements must be installed far from the source of radio signals to keep from interfering. t s very hard to deice these alumina domestour says. t takes a lot of power to heat them
because they re very poor conductors. nter graphene the single-atom-thick sheet of carbon that both conducts electricity and because it s so thin allows radio frequencies to pass unhindered.
Further experiments found them to be nearly invisible to radio frequencies. Tour says the availability of nanoribbons is no longer an issue
and telecommunications says Alexander Kildishev associate research professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University.
and telecommunications conventional photonic devices cannot be miniaturized because the wavelength of light is too large to fit in tiny components needed for integrated circuits.
#Search tool finds pics of you based on tag relationships University of Toronto Posted by Michael Kennedy-Toronto on December 2 2013a new algorithm could profoundly change the way we find photos among the billions on social media sites such as Facebook
or social networks. envision the interface would be exactly like you use Facebook searchâ##for users nothing would change.
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