#Smart Highway: Solar power Bike path Opens In Netherlands This Week On November 12, 2014, The netherlands will proudly open up the world first public solar powered road.
The smart highway connects the Amsterdam suburbs of Krommenie and Wormerveer. According to the Guardian, nearly 2000 cyclists ride the bike path every day.
Now, in addition to providing an easy path for commuters, the bike path will also provide energy to the town.
Collective-Evolution notes that the solar panels embedded in the concrete bike path are not as efficient as panels installed on homes
because they cannot be adjusted to the position of the sun. Of course, the solar panels on the smart highway cover about 75 yards of roadway which is slightly more than you can fit on a roof.
The netherlands TNO research institute also gave the road a nonadhesive finish and built it at a slight tilt
in order to keep it clean and give the road maximum exposure. The road will be expanded to a little over 100 yards by 2016
and will be able to produce enough energy to power three homes. The smart highway, officially called Solaroad by TNO, is just the beginning of Netherland solar transition.
The institute said that about 20%of Netherland roads could be converted to smart highways. The Solaroad may be the first solar-powered bike path
but it will soon have company. In 2009, two US engineers, Julie and Scott Brusaw, received a contract from the Federal Highway Administration to build a prototype in the United states
. If you happen to speak Dutch, you can check out a video about the Solaroad here.
If not, you can learn more about Solar Freakinroadways below l
#New'Twin peaks'Episodes To Air On Showtime In 2016 Yep, it true. David lynch is bringing Twin peaks back to television.
The award winning director caused Twitter mayhem last week when he sent out a cryptic tweet about some amn good coffee.
It been a little while since Twin peaks has been on the air so don feel bad
if you don get the joke. Lynch was referencing special agent Dale Cooper who loved himself a amn fine cup of coffee.
#Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 Shot Down Over Ukraine Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crashed today over the Ukraine.
The Boeing 777 was carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew members when it left Amsterdam on its way to Kuala lumpur International airport.
According to the Russian news agency Interfax Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over Eastern Ukraine after it failed to enter Russian airspace.#
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The airline did say in a Facebook post that it lost contact with flight MH17 over Ukraine airspace.//
and an official with the Russian Emergency Ministry told Gawker that bodies from flight#MH17 were scattered over a 10 mile radius.#BREAKING:
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#Spacex Postpones Cargo Launch Daring Rocket Test to Saturday Spacex has delayed its next robotic cargo launch toward the International space station
Spacex holds a $1. 6 billion contract with NASA to complete 12 cargo runs to the space station.
Orbital's first two flights went well, but the third was lost in late October when Antares exploded shortly after liftoff y
such as on ships and planes,"says Adams
#Monitor Diabetes From Your Smart Watch My son, Evan, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in August 2012.
and captured the USB traffic as it flowed between my computer and the receiver. With this data,
Why not tap into the GPS sensors in people phones and navigation systems, he says. GPS-equipped cellphones are ubiquitous in developing countries,
The development of the technology has proceeded by measured steps, much like the progress toward the driverless carirst antilock brakes, next GPS navigation, then adaptive cruise control and self-parking.
even though it will never duplicate the human body. e know an airplane isn better than a bird,
Keuka will likely face a long road to acceptance by the notoriously risk averse utility industry.
on small aircraft, it would power air conditioners and refrigeration systems. In addition to lowering CO2 EMISSION, the units produce little noise, making them suitable as mobile electricity generators in places, like field hospitals,
and oxygen gives you access to a completely carbon-free energy source for transportation. But so far, the efficiency of the process has been a bit disappointing,
The hope of spintronics stems from its use of the spin of electrons to encode information rather than the transport of electrical charge of electrons.
when taxis became tech companies, just wait until it happens to colleges n
#American Re-Urbanization Drives More On-Demand Innovation Editor Note: David Hirsch is a cofounder
2. 3 million more people moved into metro areas than in 2012, driven by the demands of America two most powerful demographics.
Mcdonald s has said that 50 percent of its NFC-based tap payments are already Apple Pay as of November
and advocating their alternatives. 50 percent of tap-to-pay transactions even at a large-scale national chain like Mcdonald s still doesn t amount to a huge number of payments relative to the general pool;
Since launching its pilot in earnest over the summer, Digit has saved more than $600, 000 for the users who have signed up, according to CEO Ethan Bloch.
Nokia mapping and navigation business Here says that it will now power maps for Baidu outside of China,
Mapping and navigation have long been hot areas for platform companies looking for strong positions in mobile.
Here offers maps for nearly 200 countries, with turn-by-turn navigation for 118 of them.
The program recruits and trains teachers and assistants, provides the curriculum, recruits the girls, curates guest speakers, manages field trips and offers mentorship to the girls during the course of each summer session.
Waze uses user-submitted traffic data to recommend the fastest driving route, which adjusts in real time as the user drives.
releasing pilots on its streaming service and then choosing what to greenlight based on audience response and viewing behavior.
The Fueloyal Is A Smart Fuel Cap For Truckers Breaker breaker 10-4 good buddy.
Now if they can just keep truckers from getting road hypnosis or getting picked up by Smokey than we might have something special e
you may be interested to hear that the company has jumped on the bitcoin wagon. The Redmond-based tech giant is now accepting bitcoins for buying games
And now Sidecar a perhaps lesser mentioned competitor in the taxis-that-aren-actuallyaxis arena that wee come to call idesharingfollows suit.
but the passenger gets to pick the driver based on the calculated trip price (or whatever other factor they care about,
In short but not-so-simple terms, qualifying businesses are required to a) measure total energy consumption, accounting for 90 percent of usage across all buildings, transport and industrial activities;
as well as bike messenger delivery trials t
#Didi Dache One Of China s Two Dominant Taxi App Firms Closes $700m Series D Round Another large sum of money is going in Asia taxi
app space following Softbank $250 million investment in Grabtaxi and Uber latest Asia-focused $1. 2 billion raise.
That because Didi Dache, one of China two dominant taxi app firms, announced that it has closed a whopper $700 million Series D round.
Didi Dache claims to have over 100 million registered users and more than 1 million taxi drivers on its platform.
Between them, the two are estimated to account for close to all of the taxi app bookings made in China.
Didi Dache core offering is a taxi booking service. It integrates with Tencent Wechat, China hugely popular chat app,
leaving it with a huge challenge to break their dominance in the country. idi will continue its commitment in providing mobile-based transportation services to more users,
The company believes in its mission of making transportation easier for everyone through mobile Internet
#From the very beginning we knew we had to take a different route if we wanted to add value to this market.
and according to head of Innovation and New Ventures Steve Yankovich, his is not a pilot for us.
While the original idea behind SDN separating the control from the data plane in network switches has turned out to be just one of many architectural approaches that have emerged
which will allow the case to support larger phablets like the iphone 6 Plus and Galaxy Note line down the road.
Crowdsourcing rapidly taps into a global talent pool of people who can solve any particular engineering challenge faster. 3d printers use less material,
reducing freight and distribution costs and speed time to market p
#Facebook Censors Blasphemous Page To Comply With Turkey#s Demand But Won t Publish It When Google and Twitter receive legal threats from countries to censor controversial content
For example the Arc of Northern Virginia an advocacy group has used Specialneedsware technology to create a program to help people with learning disabilities navigate public transportation.
#Malaysia Airlines Site Hacked By Lizard Squad Hacker group Lizard Squad which took down Xbox Live
The site currently displays a picture of a lizard in a top hat and monocle as well as the text 04-Plane Not Found (a reference to flight MH370 which disappeared in March) and acked by LIZARD SQUAD-OFFICIAL CYBER CALIPHATE.
Malaysia Airlines confirmed the attack on its Facebook page: In a tweet however Lizard Squad (which itself was hacked last week) claimed it had taken materials from Malaysia Airlinesservers.
It has shared already a screenshot of an inbox with passenger itineraries. Wee contacted Malaysia Airlines for more information
#YC-Backed Bluesmart Raises $2 Million For Its Self-Tracking Suitcase magine a world where you never lose your luggagesays CEO of Bluesmart Diego Saez-Gil.
which airports the case has been to how many miles traveled and how much time was spent in each country.
I got off the plane they couldn find my luggage. It days before Christmas I called everywhere.
No luggage. he airport did end up locating all his stuff but his family had to wait a week after Christmas for their gifts.
Bluesmart is working on a few distribution deals for its first suitcase particularly in the airports. According to Saez-Gil Bluesmart will be creating more connected travel items in the future.
whether the ship is ready to receive the cargo or not. Sensors could let the system know a ship hadn docked yet
and communicate this to truckers before they drive into the port area. This could reduce congestion and pollution around the port.
where it can warn other drivers coming down the same road about the impending danger.
Paper flyers on college campuses are one of the few ways labs sign up human guinea pigs.
as previously helicopters would have had to do this job, at great expense. Companies like Precision Hawk are developing software
These kinds of drones could be useful for cities with dense traffic. A drone like this could fly across heavy traffic
and deliver lifesaving equipment in under three minutes. For places with no roads to speak of,
companies like Matternet are creating drones that will deliver medicine. Then there are drones that will deliver life vests to drowning victims,
as the cost of running helicopters is compared very high to sending up a drone for a short period of time.
Transportation The idea of a drone taking you to work is still a Jetsons kind of idea,
Joby Aviation is building an ambitious aircraft: A personal craft that can lift off vertically, fly 200 miles and land vertically, all on battery power.
While still several years away, the technology this company is developing could pave the way for new advances in personal transportation.
Some people think that drones could be the next trend in personal transportation. While this is some ways off,
while avoiding all other air traffic. Youl leave roads, traffic lights, traffic jams and accidents behind. The Challenge for Entrepreneurs This leaves us entrepreneurs with some challenges.
Think about the huge opportunity of drones in the future, and what kind of software and hardware will have to be developed to manage that growth.
and wel update with a links to the Andriod version once it live though both are usable via a limited pilot to start with.
A lot of messaging apps (Microsoft Yammer being one of the notably early movers) have tried to tap into onsumerizationor getting enterprise apps to look
The fact that Rasmussen would not rule out advertising as an option down the road to me suggests that Facebook could consider tiers of its own where some businesses may pay for the product
#Ford#s Applink Will Soon Support Third-party Navigation Apps Most carsbuilt-in navigation systems tend to be compared a bit clunky to modern smartphone apps like of Google maps.
The next version of Applink its system for connecting smartphone apps to its SYNC infotainment system will allow third-party navigation apps to project their maps from the phone onto the built-in screens in its cars.
The company is already working with Alibaba to bring its navigation and music services to its in-vehicle screens.
#Uber Latest Experiment Is Uber Cargo A Logistics Service In Hong kong Uber is talked often about for its potential to develop into a global logistics service,
what that might look like after a new ent-a-vanservice called Uber Cargo launched in the city-state.
It launched bike couriers in New york last year, for example, and Uber Cargo looks to be another experiment that is telling of what the company is planning to offer beyond just taxis.
The Cargo service has actually been in quiet beta in Hong kong according to an Uber blog post.
Uber said that the service is ideal for ferrying any kind of item around: With Ubercargo, a van arrives wherever you want it to be in minutes.
and add Baidu as a strategic investor in China Uber Cargo is another reminder that new Uber initiatives can
Uber Cargo looks like it is primarily targeting business users, but Lalamove executive Blake Larson told Techcrunch earlier this week that he believes there is also a strong market for consumers.
but for now at least, there a large untapped market for the startup to tap into, though it does face competition from other startups including Ambi Climate and Tado
when Li pressed a button) was 35000 RMB (about $5600) to a truck driver. While Alibaba and Tencent already compete in e-commerce messaging
#Rentecarlo Launches U k. Peer-to-peer Car rental Marketplace Rentecarlo, the U k. startup and graduate of accelerator Ignite100, is officially launching today with a peer-to-peer car rental marketplace that lets anybody rent out their own car.
and CEO Jacob Aleksander. e want to be at the intersection of car sharing, car ownership and car rental,
which counteracts the increasingly crowded roads, traffic and pollution. In other words, this is a classic (and, dare
car pooling in its many forms from taxi-style services like Uber to ridesharing are a plenty.
Not so fast, according to Ignite100 Paul Smith, citing a supply side problem in the car rental industry that sees 15 per cent of car rental requests go unfulfilled because of problems with supply
or out-of-hours access. hat means there a real opportunity for Rentecarlo to tap into an established market without cannibalising existing players.
To that end, Aleksander says weekly traffic and signups have tripled since leaving Ignite, although he doesn give specifics.
which then activates the instinctual fight-or-flight response in your brain to indirectly affect emotional response.
says Newman. own the road, the number of applications for this technology is much bigger. r
and permanent magnetsto achieve hover flight. The board is real enough to be undergoing testing with an actual skateboarder in Barcelona (with videos of actual use to follow)
and airport gate numbers a bit blurry, so I took Opternative test myself. The instructions were clear
In the first pilot three Street view cars collected 150 million air quality data points over a month of driving around Denver, Colo.
#Subway Teams Up With Paypal On Mobile payments Ordering your food or beverages by smartphone and then paying for it via an app is quickly becoming the new normal.
Subway and Paypal are working together to turn on Paypal Onetouch mobile checkout experience in an updated Subway app that work across the chain 27,000 U s. locations by the end of the year.
Subway had launched actually quietly a mobile payment solution in its app last fall, but only began discussing the details more publicly this May as it needed time to train staff
and work out the kinks. It still hasn made a huge, splashy public debut, however though that will change later this year as Subway begins to advertise its mobile ordering and payments app for ios and Android.
The app will allow Subway customers to build their sandwiches using their smartphones pay ahead of time (or while in line), then pick up their bag
and run when they arrive at the store. The sandwich chain mobile apps were created previously by Paydiant,
and yes Subway. Now that Paydiant is a Paypal company, it moving to integrate Paypal Onetouch mobile checkout into the Subway application as another checkout option, alongside the app support for Apple Pay and Android Pay.
The benefit to using Paypal Onetouch is that it works across all apps where Paypal is installed.
For Subway the company believes that this sort of simplified approach to payments makes sense for its own customer base,
which also embraces a igital lifestyle. he Paypal customer base is very complimentary to the customer base that would frequent Subway restaurants,
explains Ken Moy, Director of Global Payments and Emerging Commerce at Subway. o bringing together the convenience of
Moy wouldn speak to the traction the mobile payments solution within the current build of the Subway app has seen to date,
and the online ordering function on Subway website. e do anticipate this hockey stick will continue to happen as we put more resources to it,
Plus, Subway believes that the integration of the Paypal support will increase this usage even further,
however, its work with Subway is just the beginning of what the company indicates will be a series of announcements about Paydiant-built apps turning on Paypal checkout. ubway will be the most prominent initial launch partner for all that, notes Chris Gardner, cofounder of Paydiant.
Subway expects its Paypal-powered app to arrive before the end of the year a
but most consumers take a more circuitous route to their final decisions. The marketing funnel can be long especially for big purchases such as automobiles where people may do research for nine months before taking a test drive.
So does a plane crash that may hurt travel bookings. Sometimes though such events will cause a spike in discussion on social media here they are monitored
This relatively small but prosperous group is driving up the cost of housing, transportation, and other living expenses.
then the last chance for many people to find a route into the middle class may be in places like Foothill College.
Soon enough Herr began climbing harder routes than he'd mastered before his accident. That was deeply inspiring he says.
and ankle prosthesis that behaves as he puts it more like a motorcycle than a bicycle meaning that it puts energy into the system rather than relying solely on human power.
The dessert cart holds early designs for wearable exoskeletons that would allow people to commute to work on foot as quickly as they might on a bicycle or carry heavy loads without getting tired.
The company is even talking about how fusion reactors could one day power ships and planes.
an entrepreneur who owns two Subway sandwich franchises in Taipei. Lick, who is adopted, says he became interested in genetics
traffic to interpretation-only sites jumped. Interpretome maintained by Konrad Karczewski, a postdoctoral researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital,
and creating new escape routes in case the worst happens (see Saving Holland. Dutch researchers aren t the only ones working to share the knowledge they ve gained about flood control.
and generally include major cities harbors farms and forests. Irina Overeem research scientist for the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System at the University of Colorado says the proportion of world deltas vulnerable to flooding is expected to increase by 50 percent this century.
and clicking on Google alletapp intended to allow instant payment and taps the terminal. Nothing happens.
When Apple Pay launches Monday on new iphone 6 models, all it will take to buy a sandwich at Subway
and the ability to pay at retailers including Mcdonald, Subway, and Walgreens. Paypal, soon to split off from ebay,
and researchers at MIT are developing shape-shifting materials that could make aircraft simpler and lighter potentially saving fuel.
They can be integrated into aircraft easily replacing the need for more complex hydraulic actuators motors and hinges.
You can find them in cars airplanes robots and medical implants. But their use has been limited in aircraft
because many can t handle the conditions planes are exposed to such as extreme temperature changes says Christophe Cros a technology program leader at Airbus. The MIT approach has a number of advantages Cros says.
First most shape-shifting materials don t use carbon composites which are common in aircraft because of their light weight and high strength.
And though others have worked on carbon composites that can respond to a specific stimulus such as heat Cros says in the new approach the carbon composites can be paired with a variety of shape-shifting materials that respond to different environmental triggers.
The Norcem Brevik cement works tucked into a scenic harbor south of Oslo has used waste heat to drive a process called amine scrubbing that at test scales removed between 30 and 40 percent of the total emissions
Three percent might not seem like much but for context air travel accounts for 2 percent of worldwide carbon dioxide emissions.
the US Department of energy has set a number of targets that these materials must meet to be considered viable technologies for future transport systems.
In this way, Shen and co say production rates could be increased by orders of magnitude. own the road,
Eyerover was steered along a specific route around a chair sofa and other obstacles a few times. It then repeated the route by itself.
In a second demo the robot was taught to come when a person beckoned to it.
#Smart Headlight Illuminates the Road without Blinding Other Drivers If you hate it when the driver in the opposite lane blinds you with his high beams
which scans the road ahead using an infrared camera and can locate other drivers and selectively disable the light directed at them
Although it reduces glare for oncoming drivers it doesn't make the road noticeably darker for the person behind the wheel.
and in other low-visibility scenarios could help save at least some of the 32000 people who die in car accidents each year in the U s
Whereas a person can walk 3. 5 miles using the energy in a single cookie an electric bike requires a battery weighing 10 times as much to travel the same distance.
But Alnylam and partner companies notably the Canadian startup Tekmira were making steady progress in the lab. Researchers identified one part of the lipid nanoparticles that was keeping them from delivering its cargo of RNA to the right part of a cell.
If researchers can figure out how to make the stuff in large quantities it could be used as a structural material for making planes and trucks as well as in battery electrodes.
And research published in 2011 showed that the machine s chip harbors the right kind of quantum physics needed for quantum computing.
It can only run a specific algorithm used for a specific kind of problem that requires selecting the best option in a situation with many competing requirements for example determining the most efficient delivery route around a city.
and the hydrogen can be used to replace fossil fuels not only in electricity production but also in industry and transportation
Google Waze an app allowing drivers to share local real-time traffic and road information; and Uber a mobile app that connects people seeking taxicabs or ridesharing services.
You can use an ipad to tap between different realistic-looking fabric options that change via an overhead projector.
Luth current and former clients include Subway, Microsoft, Walmart, the San diego padres, Nickelodeon, and Netflix. The information it collects can help companies decide where to spend advertising dollars.
and bicycles in video of a road intersection. A nearby laptop that had been programed to do the same task processed the footage 100 times slower than real time
The effect could be applied in navigation and gaming applications, and it suggests possibilities in mobile and wearable technology as well.
such as the transit of exoplanets across other stars, binary stars that eclipse, gamma ray bursts and so on. Capturing the changes associated with these events requires a much more rapid way of photographing the entire sky.
These gestures include a finger tap a double tap and a press gesture. And having more than one 3dtouch on different fingers allows multitouch interaction.
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