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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.

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.

An independent laboratory that tests cell phones says that the system falls well below the danger exposure levels for human safety

#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 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

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.

The boron and nitrogen collectively add more catalytically active sites to the material than either element would add alone. he GQDS add to the system an enormous amount of edge

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

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?

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.

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.

if you roughen the surface of planar copper it would create more active sites for reactions with CO2. opper foam

#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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

The discovery of a way to trigger these flashes may lead to new telecommunications equipment

hours a day searching the internet for images and doing its best to understand them on its own.

But the scale of the Internet is so vast##Facebook alone holds more than 200 billion images that the only hope to analyze it all is to teach computers to do it largely by themselves.

A Google Image search for instance might convince NEIL that inkis just the name of a singer rather than a color. eople don t always know how or

The Office of Naval Research and Google Inc. support the project. The research team will present its findings on Dec 4 at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision in Sydney Australiasource:

And it s an important first step in advancing wireless signal processing and designing ultrathin efficient cell phones. ur devices are much smaller than any other sources of radio signals

For example Hone explains MEMS sensors figure out how your smartphone or tablet is tilted to rotate the screen.

They used low-frequency musical signals (both pure tones and songs from an iphone) to modulate the 100 MHZ carrier signal from the graphene

While graphene NEMS will not be used to replace conventional radio transmitters they have many applications in wireless signal processing. ue to the continuous shrinking of electrical circuits known as Moore s Law today s cell phones have more computing

and say it could open the door to better batteries for phones cars and other gadgets.

The electrodes worked for about 100 charge-discharge cycles without significantly losing their energy storage capacity. hat s still quite a way from the goal of about 500 cycles for cell phones

which excites electrons and causes them to flow in a certain direction. This flow of electrons is electric current.

and televisions LED TECHNOLOGY is becoming more popular as it becomes more versatile and brighter. According to Seshadri all of the recent advances in solid-state lighting have come from devices based on gallium nitride LEDS a technology that is largely credited to UC Santa barbara materials professor Shuji Nakamura who invented the first high-brightness

which uses very similar technology to a cellphone base station. This means the number of MKIDS that can be read out for a given price is increasing according to Moore s Lawâ##overall processing power for computers doubles every two yearsâ

but it s been coupled with 5-meter telescopesmazin says. he 8-to 10-meter telescopes such as Keck are at better sites with four times the collecting area. e hope to deploy MKID instruments in the next several

The device wirelessly converts the microwave signal to direct current voltage capable of recharging a cell phone battery or other small electronic device according to a report appearing in Applied Physics Letters.

The design process used to create our metamaterial array takes these effects into account allowing the cells to work together. ith additional modifications the researchers say the power harvesting metamaterial could potentially be built into a cell phone allowing the phone to recharge wirelessly while not in use.

This feature could in principle allow people living in locations without ready access to a conventional power outlet to harvest energy from a nearby cell phone tower

It can carry the bandwidth to search for mobile phone resonances to locate victims from their mobile phones even

when the phones are turned off or the batteries have no charge remaining. n addition to the applications discussed above such technology could be extended to other radiations such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and light detection and ranging (LIDAR)

#First supercapacitor on a silicon chip could power phones Vanderbilt University rightoriginal Studyposted by David Salisbury-VU on October 24 2013engineers have constructed the first supercapacitor made out of silicon.

In fact it should be possible to construct these power cells out of the excess silicon that exists in the current generation of solar cells sensors mobile phones

Like a radio tuned to different stations cell phone antennas have tuning circuits that quickly switch frequencies

Cell phone companies want to improve these circuits to pack more discrete signals into a finite allocation of spectrum

which drains cell phone batteries. The new type of tunable dielectric could greatly improve the performance of microwave circuit capacitors found in every cell phone

and greatly lower the films performance in circuitsâ##a problem cell phone companies would like to solve.

#Drop an internet in the ocean to detect tsunamis University at Buffalo rightoriginal Studyposted by Cory Nealon-Buffalo on October 14 2013a deep-sea internet network is expected to improve the way scientists detect tsunamis monitor pollution

and the projectâ#lead researcher. aking this information available to anyone with a smartphone or computer especially when a tsunami or other type of disaster occurs could help save lives. elodia will present his paper at the Association for Computing Machineryâ

and planned underwater sensor networks to laptops smartphones and other wireless devices in real time. Melodia tested the system recently in Lake erie a few miles south of downtown Buffalo.

A deep-sea internet has many applications Melodia says including linking together buoy networks that detect tsunamis.

and marine mammals and find out how to best protect them from shipping traffic and other dangersmelodia says. n internet underwater has so many possibilities. ource:

But in this case that technology wasn t sensitive enough to identify the binding site of the expansin protein.

in computers and smartphones. The National Science Foundation funded the work at Cornell. Source: Cornell Universityyou are free to share this article under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noderivs 3. 0 Unported license 3

Unlikely odds#An unexpected find was the unique integration sites for the retrovirus in South american/European

#iphone artists help solve#fat finger#problem CARNEGIE MELLON (US) Using the data amassed with an iphone drawing game,

and Angelina jolie on their iphones can collectively guide and correct the drawing strokes of subsequent touchscreen users in an application created by researchers at Carnegie mellon University and Microsoft Research.

and his research team surmounted with an iphone drawing game. The game they created, Drawafriend

Real-time correction In Drawafriend, players take turns drawing faces of celebrities or of mutual friends from Facebook.

The National Science Foundation, Google, Qualcomm, Adobe, Intel, and the Okawa Foundation supported the research a

The researchers hope to conduct the first field tests of the solar steam waste sterilizer at three sites in Kenya. anitation technology isn glamorous,

That area of the ocean is also the site of military training and testing exercises that involve loud mid-frequency sonar signals.

and data-hogging downloads a thing of the past. In the simplest terms streamloading makes use of a video format that splits the video into two layers#a base layer

Streamloading allows users to pre-download the enhancement layer onto their devices in a location where wireless signal is strong#at home for example#and stream only the base layer at the time of viewing.

The National Science Foundation and the Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT) at NYU-Poly support the work.

But exfoliation is a time-consuming process that will never be practical for any of the many potential applications of graphene that require industrial mass production. httpv://www. youtube. com/watch?

Currently, scientists can grow sheets of graphene as large as a television screen by using chemical vapor deposition (CVD), in

a television screen that rolls up like a poster or ultrastrong composites that could replace carbon fiber.

#Nano web trips up bed bugs Stony Brook University Posted by James Montalto-Stony Brook on May 31 2013stony BROOK (US)# A new non-chemical solution literally stops bed bugs

The web consists of microfibers 50 times thinner than a human hair which entangle and trap bed bugs and other insects.#

and it not just the huge Internet companies like Apple, Google and Facebook that are doing this with their own infrastructure.

#Engineers have created a smartphone HIV test that costs $35 to make Let s be honest: Smartphones aren thought#t necessarily of as devices that help to slow the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

In fact research has found that transmission rates go up when hookup sites#even ones on the tamer end like Craigslist#come to town.

But smartphones are also capable of transforming into competitive diagnostic tools as a team of biomedical engineers out of Columbia University is showing with their new attachment that can detect both HIV and syphilis in a single 15-minute test.

The dongle as the team writes in the journal Science Translational Medicine costs just $34 to make (an amount that could drop further if mass produced.

It uses the phone#s power and data collection and incorporates simple optics and fluid control to process a finger prick of blood.

(i e. both iphones and Android phones) thanks to the compatibility of the jacks themselves. So the achievement isn#t so much in the test itself as it is in the components used to run that test simply and efficiently.

#Our work shows that a full laboratory-quality immunoassay can be run on a smartphone accessory#one researcher said#in the school news release.#

#Coupling microfluidics with recent advances in consumer electronics can make certain lab-based diagnostics accessible to almost any population with access to smartphones.

#We are on the cusp of a lot of exciting technology being connected to smartphone devices. But security ramping up volume price all those things are really important.#

while smartphones are still rare in many parts of the emerging and developing world cell phones are#ubiquitous.#

#Meanwhile in Lebanon Chile Jordan China Argentina South africa Malaysia and Venezuela at least one in three people now own a smartphone.

With more satellites, the experience will be more akin to pulling up Google maps on a mobile device.

Big players like Spacex and Google are looking at satellite-based internet. Spire is the first to name weather as a major part of its business plan. e are just unwilling to accept that the way people think about the weather is just the way it is said,

Biolite won top prize in the Vodafone Innovation Project recently, as well as first prize for the design with the lowest emissions at the ETHOS conference,

or to place an order head to Humancar's website

#Tiny new sensor could simplify brain wave research Two years ago, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the U s. developed a tiny magnetic sensor that could detect the human heartbeat without touching the subject's skin.

With this robotic milker, the farmer needn't come any closer to the action than a readout on a smartphone,

Using their smartphone, a farmer can access their network of FLOW-AIDS over the internet,

to check the moisture and nutrient levels of their soil. The system will notify them

which point they can start their irrigation system remotely via their phone. As soon as they see that sufficient moisture levels have been restored

they can use their phone to turn the irrigation back off. The system also incorporates software that takes location-specific factors such as plant properties,

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