#Making Batteries with Portabella Mushrooms Can portabella mushrooms stop cell phone batteries from degrading over time?
future cell phones may see an increase in run time after many uses, rather than a decrease,
#Scientists grow organic semiconductor crystals vertically for first time Our smartphones, tablets, computers and biosensors all have improved because of the rapidly increasing efficiency of semiconductors.
ranging from cell phones to laptop computers and electric cars. But there may soon be a new type of battery based on materials that are far more abundant and less costly.
and be ready to take the advantage of the existing manufacturing processes of carbon anode materials. lectrical energy storage in batteries is essential not only for consumer products such as cell phones and computers,
Recent tests by one of America largest wireless carriers and by Deutsche telekom, the German telecom giant that owns a majority stake in U s. carrier T-Mobile,
For this reason, the radios in our phones and computers either use separate channels to send
Devices with Kumu technology mounted on top of cars played the role of cell phones linking to the network.
For example, when the devices playing the role of phones in the trial were close together, they sometimes interfered with each other.
and is a version of the small mobile base stations, known as small cells, used to improve coverage in busy locations such as stadiums.
He confident that the technology will eventually arrive in phones. It is already being talked about in the industry as one part of a future 5g wireless data standard. ee maybe one
but is rather different in that it targets read-heavy workloads for mobile and web apps.
Mahaffey and his partner in crime (for good) were able to perform any action possible from the car's touchscreen or Tesla's accompanying smartphone app.
"It's hoped this new hologram-creation method could be miniaturized into a smartphone, or even used to create 3d artwork and"smart windows".
if your brain is busy before interrupting There's a modern-day malady that everyone suffers from-getting distracted by phone notifications in the middle of something important and struggling to regain focus again.
Over the course of seven rather cryptic tweets on@Projectara, the modular smartphone team confirmed that they're still"busy making stuff
The phone was scheduled to debut in Puerto rico sometime later this year. It looks like those plans might have changed,
"so don't give up your dreams of a modular mobile just yet t
#How Siri will learn to recognise your voice at a crowded party AI assistants like Siri,
but the engineers believe it could be scaled down into a smartphone or similar device.""We've invented a sensing system that can efficiently,
"We think this could improve the performance of voice-activated devices like smartphones and game consoles while also reducing the complexity of the system
#The iphone 6s release date has leaked, but no points for guessing it Apple is set to launch two new phones at the start of September in the form of the iphone 6s and iphone 6s Plus,
with an announcement heavily rumoured for September 9. Two out of the three major carriers in Germany have told German publication Macerkopf that both phones will be ready to pick up in store on September 18.
It makes sense as it'll be the second Friday after the announcement-that's the date Apple has been letting its phones loose on the wider public in recent years.
Germany is a first-tier launch country for the iphone so it's likely many other countries will get the phone on the same day.
These countries include Australia, Canada, France, Hong kong, Japan, Singapore, the UK and the US. At the moment rumours of the iphone 6s suggest the design will stay the same with big changes coming in the form of the A9 processor
and Force Touch being adapted for the new phone's display y
#Algae inspiration could boost your phone's battery Materials engineers trying to work out a way of boosting the performance of lithium-ion batteries have hit upon an unlikely inspiration-algae from a local pond.
In nature, single cells of algae can grow to huge sizes. Now, a team at Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research has developed a new type of battery component out of carbon that mimics the way that single-celled algae forms,
and early testing shows a solid improvement on traditional batteries.""In nature, a great number of microorganisms, like diatoms, can assemble biominerals into intricate hierarchical three-dimensional architectures with great structural control,
"said Xi Li, who heads up the research group that made the discovery. Li and his team examined how the algae forms,
Last year in the we also saw amazing soundbar deals, Dualshock 4 game controllers for under half price, Google Chromecasts for under $23/£18, huge savings on iphones, amazing deals
#Sharp wants to sell you a little robot as your next smartphone Not taken by the Nexus 6p?
Turned off by the iphone 6s? A little cool on the Lumia 950 XL? If you remain to be convinced by any of the current handsets then Sharp
"a mixture of the Japanese words for"robot"and"phone")and it does everything from make phonecalls to project movies on your living room wall.
The underlying idea is to make the phone more personal: like Siri in a physical form.
a phone that you feel like talking to, a phone that also wants to know you".
"Or at least a phone that wants to know you until the robot revolution arrives. Standing 19. 5cm tall (a robot head taller than the iphone 6s Plus) and weighing 390g (almost three times the Samsung galaxy S6),
Robohon has a 2-inch QVGA screen and can connect to 3g, 4g and Wi-fi networks.
Inside there's a 1. 2ghz CPU keeping everything moving...quite literally. It can make calls,
a Phd student in electrical and computer engineering at Duke and lead author of the paper. e think this could improve the performance of voice-activated devices like smart phones
scientists say Scientists say they have invented a new battery that could fully charge a smartphone in just one minute.
which they hope could replace the lithium models commonly found in laptops and mobile phones. And as well as the nprecedented charging timesof their aluminium prototype,
but also used anonymised data from third party navigation apps, including smartphone maps. e have agreements with a number of smartphone manufacturers,
so they provide us with real time GPS feeds wherever their smartphones are, says Nick Cohn, senior traffic expert at Tomtom.
When a driver hits a patch of congestion a red zone of a smartphone or satnav map it may be because of data that was collected,
whether it through satnav or simply the smartphones in our pockets better data in means we get better data out on the road.
They have smartphones, so there otential to do something with that, said Tomtom Cohn. think it be great as a pedestrian and a cyclist if
Figure 1 is an app that allows iphone and Android-owning doctors to share images of diseases, injuries and everything in between.
or phones, says Landy. ow we want to help people share images, enabling more eyes on more cases,
and forms part of their adoption of social media and the new smartphone and tablet tools that are increasingly being used in hospitals,
burglar alarms upgraded for the smartphone age As history has it, the young Isaac newton found inspiration for the theory of gravity by watching apples fall to the ground.
he said. assumed that there would be loads of easy smartphone connected alarm systems and there were not. e found that a lot of people who own an alarm don bother to set it either
Using smartphones to identify the various residents of the house or flat, the device learns their movements
The five cofounders of Cocoon have used smartphones and machine learning to filter out this noise and isolate the waves
Through an app on the phones of the residents, the device understands their movements and then builds up a model or rainaccording to the company of what happens
It knows when people are outside of the home as the phones will not be present.
The alert of an intruder can be sent to the smartphone of the residents and a camera on the device
There are potential problems. f you have no smartphone, the product is not for you. We think that the vast majority of the population do,
What if someone forgets their phone? f that happens then the system will not be armed. It will think that they are at home in the same way
The company argues that many children who do not have smartphones may be with their parents anyway. ou can really buy a phone that is not a smartphone any more.
It is only if you have not had a new phone for five years that it is not Android or ios,
#HTC One Max stored fingerprints where any app could see them HTC failed to lock down fingerprints captured by one of its phones,
a nearly two-year-old phone with a fingerprint reader, kept the fingerprints that it scanned in an unencrypted, world-readable file;
Fireeye's report suggests that other phones with fingerprint readers may have similar problems, though it only names the One Max.
The report also notes that certain phones failed to fully secure their fingerprint sensor, potentially allowing apps to step in
The One Max was never a particularly popular or successful phone, and it isn't known
and services that you visit on PCS, Chromebooks, smartphones, and anywhere you can find a web browser.
#Qualcomm's new Quick Charge will take batteries from 0 to 80 percent in 35 minutes Fast charging is an increasingly widespread and popular addition to modern smartphones.
this will mean that the typical smartphone can be recharged from a flat battery all the way to 80 percent in 35 minutes.
and cites a comment from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that VR will potentially be as disruptive as the smartphone.
and cites a comment from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that VR will potentially be as disruptive as the smartphone.
driven by an increasingly powerful mobile technology that is making portable VR a near-term possibility.
Sixense Rubin told me. very high-end smartphone sold from now on is a VR smartphone, he said, because of their very high resolution and processing power.
In fact, Rubin said he expects there could be tens of millions of smartphone-equipped VR headsets out there in the U s. within the next few years.
and switch to carrier networks (T-Mobile and Sprint) only when Wi-fi isn available. This approach to mobile communications is
and according to a 2013 study by Validas, smartphone users typically waste $28 each month on unused data.
But smartphone service doesn have to be so costly. According to Cisco, about half (46 percent) of total mobile data traffic was offloaded through Wi-fi in 2014,
This would ensure that all phones use Wi-fi as the main communication method and only rely on cell service when absolutely necessary.
When you buy a phone through Google, Google will manage the relationship with Verizon instead of you.
Youe buying the phone from Google, youe paying Google, and youe calling Google support if you experience any issues.
And it only a matter of time before carriersrelevance to smartphone subscribers everywhere is diminished. The end is near d
tap your Stratos card to your mobile phone screen twice to see options appear while your phone is locked still.
The idea is connected that one credit card is easier to manage and safer than a wallet full of credit cards.
and mobile phones, Gan has efficient light emission capability, something silicon cannot duplicate. But silicon remains the defacto material of choice semidconductors
an alert is delivered to the home owner's smartphone, which they can then cancel if needed.
and noted that mobile and apps"has changed everything, "offering consumers a way to get information directly from a mobile app rather than via search."
"Going forward, we plan to not target hardware manufacturers that make smartphones, but to instead provide our biometric solutions to online service
and was built on the SAP Mobile Platform to provide Heidelberg University Hospital an intuitive interface to connect doctors with patients and vice versa.
The next step is to register your phone and connect it to your account. When you next login,
A password containing four characters will then be sent to your phone, verifying your identity through the linked device
#Windows 10 Mobile preview 10512 goes to testers It's been a month since Microsoft rolled out a new Windows 10 Mobile test Build on August 12,
Microsoft pulled the trigger on Build 10512, which it made available to Windows Insiders on the Fast Ring."
"Our major focus on Windows 10 Mobile right now is on improvements to core quality, "said Gabe Aul, the head of the Windows Insider program,
Among the list of what's new in today's new Windows 10 Mobile test build:
Microsoft is expected to make Windows 10 Mobile available on new Windows phones and to and existing Windows phone users later this fall l
The new technology is designed for conventional lithium-ion batteries now used in billions of cellphones laptops and other electronic devices as well as a growing number of cars and airplanes.
and cellphones are sold each year. We want to lower the odds of a battery fire to one in a billion or even to zero.
You might get a message on your phone telling you that the voltage has dropped to zero so the battery needs to be replaced Zhuo said.
#Smartphone understands hand gestures Professor Otmar Hilliges and his staff at ETH Zurich have developed a new app enabling users to operate their smartphone with gestures.
This development expands the range of potential interactions with such devices. It does seem slightly odd at first:
they are for controlling your smartphone. By mimicking the firing of a pistol for example a user can switch to another browser tab change the map's view from satellite to standard
Intelligent programming uses computer memorythe program uses the smartphone's built-in camera to register its environment.
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.
He is convinced that this new way of operating smartphones greatly increases the range of interactivity.
so that users can operate their smartphone effortlessly. But will smartphone users want to adapt to this new style of interaction?
Otmar Hilliges is confident they will. Gesture control will not replace touchscreen control but supplement it.
so they can safely exchange confidential information over the telephone.""Today, all telephone conversations are encrypted --i e. converted into gibberish
--but they are encrypted not all the way from phone to phone, and if a third party has access to one of the telephone masts through which the call passes,
they can listen in, "explains Lars Ramkilde Knudsen.""And even if the conversation is encrypted--in principle--it is still possible to decrypt it provided you have sufficient computer power,
The clever thing about it is that your phone can decrypt the information without knowing which system you have chosen.
and encryption method--and both are thrown away by the phone after each call and replaced by a new combination--the conversation is extremely difficult to decrypt
budgets and secret plans using phone tapping, for example. In the USA alone, the phenomenon costs businesses around USD 100 billion every year according to a 2014 report on the subject by security firm Mcafee.
It's really frustrating these days to find yourself in a building where your cellphone doesn't work.
Beyond the use for a harder spinel in armor windows there could be other potential Dod and civilian applications in better/stronger office windows smartphones and tablets screens military/civilian vehicles
offers the possibility that such devices may soon be as small as a typical smartphone.
Rus group has shown an important step forward in multirobot cooperation by demonstrating how three mobile arms can figure out how to assemble a chair,
Smartphones, DVRS, airplanes, the Internet without a clock, none of these could operate without frequent and serious complications.
#MIT Chemists Develop a Quantum dot Spectrometer Researchers from MIT have designed a quantum dot spectrometer that is small enough to function within a smartphone,
but MIT scientists have shown now they can create spectrometers small enough to fit inside a smartphone camera,
and placed on top of a photodetector such as the charge-coupled devices (CCDS) found in cellphone cameras. The researchers created an algorithm that analyzes the percentage of photons absorbed by each filter,
or smartphones, the researchers say. They may also be useful for other applications where high power is needed in small volumes
since patients need close supervision to ensure they are taking their medications on schedule. 3g technology is making a difference People in developed countries may think that 3g is outdated technology for smartphones,
Masabi is known for its comprehensive mobile ticketing platform already in use by 22 transit agencies worldwide.
The Mastercard/Masabi partnership allows riders to buy their tickets with a quick tap on their smartphone.
With the Mastercard/Masabi partnership, the smartphone is the common platform. The rechargeable contactless cards used by many transit systems also create two lines:
their smartphone is the kiosk. So far, the partners have announced only their joint work in Athens. On its own,
Recommind is working on tablet and smartphone integration. What about privacy, you ask? A tool like Decisiv Email will definitely make you think twice about what you write in an email or about
he would likely be dazzled by the smartphone, high definition video, and digital storage for music and movies--all#decedents#of technologies that he pioneered
#Why (and how) retailers should embrace'showrooming'More evidence emerged this week suggesting the power of smartphones to reshape how retailers stock,
New research from Deloitte suggests that more than 5 percent of store sales during 2012 will be influenced by smartphones.
price comparisons and other mobile application usage. By 2016, that influence will grow to 19 percent of sales,
and our research indicates that smartphone shoppers are 14 percent more likely to convert and make a purchase in the store than non-smartphone users.
This means that mobile is an important tool for retailers to incrementally drive traditional in store sales,
strengthening the relationship between retailer and consumer to increase engagement and loyalty. Smartphone Users Are More Frequent Shoppers Deloitte's research suggests that smartphone users aren't only becoming more common,
they are more likely to make a purchase than those who aren't using them.
48 percent of smartphone users said what they saw on a mobile application affected an in store purchase decision.
The other thing to consider is that smartphones aren't just influential in store. More than half of the smartphone users surveyed by Deloitte said they started doing research on the way to the store.
I'm hoping they weren't driving while they were doing that, but that's a whole other story.)
Retailers that do not engage shoppers through specialized mobile applications or targeted smartphone-based promotions leave the door open for competitors to reach a customer who is standing in the retailer's store and at the point of purchase.
To make the connection with consumers, retailers need to understand how mobile shoppers are willing to interact with their specific store category, format and merchandise, both inside and outside the store,
if someone decides to price shop with their smartphone while shopping in a store. The company allows retailers to attach technical support and service offerings, like installation,
and use other technology instead, such as smartphones and tablet computers. It's not merely that the two trade off economically;
A recent survey of college students in Colorado (where sending messages from smartphones while driving is not illegal) found that
while 75 per cent of users said they often used their phones while travelling by bus, train or as a passenger in a car,
How might this kind of technology relate to ipad and iphone maker Apple? The patent application is not a huge indicator,
Some mobile phone manufacturers are even distinguishing certain high-end models with wireless charging options. A few examples include the Lumia smartphone from Nokia, the Nexus 4 from LG Electronics,
and the Droid DNA from Verizon Wireless and HTC. And in the future, wireless charging technology won't be limited just to powering more mobile devices.
WPC has nearly 150 member companies including major mobile phone manufacturers and semiconductor companies. The consortium introduced the Qi inductive power standard in late 2010,
more than 30 companies have shipped mobile phones using its embedded wireless charging capabilities. Those phones are designed to power up on compatible charging mats and cradles, alarm clocks and music players,
and the inside surfaces of some new car models. Toyota announced in December that the 2013 Toyota Avalon Limited will be the first car to offer wireless charging with a Qi-powered console included under the dashboard.
A marble countertop, for example, could be rigged to charge a wireless coffeemaker and a blender along with a variety of phones, tablets and computers as needed.
or her field using a mobile phone, personal digital assistant or PC. Information that is collected includes temperature, humidity, and soil nutrients.
The two countriesleaders are reported to have talked via telephone on Tuesday. This is first time a presidential level discussion has happened since the Cuban revolution.
Held captive for five years, Gross was convicted for dissident after being caught smuggling cell phones to Cuba small Jewish population.
Cell phones are need already to link to GPS and Wi-fi services on top of 4g and other cellular networks.
Thus began my work on a truly ambulatory solution, based on a smartphone rather than a laptop.
but power limitations and closed frameworks made hooking up the receiver to an iphone far more difficult than to an Android phone.
I got a Motorola Droid Razr M phone and once I had the basic USB enumeration downo my phone could eethe receiver
when it was plugged in started decoding the G4 communication protocol. Using the same C# program as before,
But researchers are now working on more affordable, crowdsourced warning systems based on low-cost sensors and cellphone electronics.
off-the-shelf cellphone equipment that manages data gathering and communication. he sensor packages used by the USGS cost about US $30, 000 each,
Why not tap into the GPS sensors in people phones and navigation systems, he says. GPS-equipped cellphones are ubiquitous in developing countries,
and such a crowdsourced system would offer early warning at practically no cost. country like Nepal,
They subjected a Google Nexus smartphone and a commercial GPS module to displacements ranging from 10 centimeters to 2 meters.
They simulated smartphone responses based on census data around the earthquake epicenters and recorded a phone as triggered
If at least 100 phones were triggered, the system declared an earthquake. It took fewer than 5,
000 smartphones to detect the simulated California earthquake within 5 seconds, giving enough time to warn San francisco and San jose. For the Japan quake,
Brooks says. here would be challenges in terms of cellphone service in such a mountainous region, but we think it would be doable there eventually. d
#Full HD Voice Will Soon Give Your Phone an Audio Upgrade HD Voice, the first major upgrade to telephone sound quality since the vacuum-tube era, has finally become widely availableust in time for a new generation of phone service called Full-HD Voice to take its place.
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year, Fraunhofer IIS (Institute for Integrated circuits) demonstrated a system based on a combination of powerful standard algorithms that can encode
and decode in real time the full audio spectrum to 20 kilohertz in stereo. Switching to Full HD
And the powerful coding-decoding (codec) software can run as a smartphone app. e want to bring telephony into the 21st century,
Modern landline phones have a frequency range of 300 to 3, 400 hertz, a standard based on Bell labs studies of the requirements for intelligible speech dating back to the 1920s.
because it would have required upgrading the landline phone network. The first three generations of cellular phones instead retained the 3, 400-Hz narrowband landline audio,
but they often sounded worse because of the way they compressed speech to squeeze more calls into the limited mobile spectrum.
See hy Mobile Voice Quality Still Stinksnd How to Fix It IEEE Spectrum, October 2014.
but Voip calls into the phone network have been limited to 3, 400 Hz. Most 4g smartphones include dedicated circuits running algorithms to code
and decode 7, 000-Hz HD Voice, but they can connect at that rate only if both phones and every link between them can handle the signals.
In practice, that means it works only between 4g phones on the same carrier. Full HD will be able to bridge the audio gap regardless of the network
or the device connected to it. The technological heart of Full-HD Voice is called a standard the Enhanced Voice Services (EVS codec.
Full-HD Voice quality was possible even at data rates as low as 9. 6 kb/s. The processing power of modern smartphone chips is a key enabler for the new codecs.
000-Hz codecs in 4g smartphones are, or as apps running on a smartphone applications processor.
The EVS codec s not complex compared to the apps in a smartphone, says Baumeister.
Because Full-HD Voice can tolerate packet losses, it could feed compressed data directly into the Internet data stream for routing directly to other equipped devices,
like a Skype-to-Skype call between computers or smartphones. Fraunhofer Mobile World demonstration did that using apps on Google Nexus 5 phones.
With no need for network upgrades, Baumeister says, ou could conceptually roll out service this year,
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