and is expected to ship to backers in the second quarter could revolutionize the way people track the makeup of the food
or out-of-hours access. hat means there a real opportunity for Rentecarlo to tap into an established market without cannibalising existing players.
While Facebook could make an educated guess, it can answer that question with certainty. However, in a world where Facebook could combine financial transactions and social graphs,
By bringing the tools of an ophthalmology office into your pocket and offering a very simple and inexpensive way to take great pictures inside the eye doctors can visit locations in need
says Zhou. hat really had a lot of appeal to us. ndeed, in the US alone less than half of the 200 million people who wear corrective eyewear visit the eye doctor as often as they should.
Lexus is the latest to throw its hat into the ring, posting a teaser for its own hoverboard technology with at the promise of a long,
#Opternative Online Eye Exam Gets You A Glasses Prescription From Home The annoyance of going to the doctor keeps tons of people from finding out
if they need glasses or updating their prescription. But it turns out you don need one of those giant multi-lens machines to do an eye exam.
and send you back a prescription you can use to get glasses or contacts anywhere,
or a meatspace brick-and-mortar glasses shop. Opternative is now the only approved online eye exam.
For some tests, youl give your shoe size and be told to walk a certain number of heel-to-toe steps away from your computer before answering.
and send back an approved prescription for glasses or contacts. It $60 for both. One caveat:
you can only get an immediate prescription for glasses. If youe updating a prescription and submit your old one,
so if a glasses site potential customers haven been to an eye doctor lately, they can get the right specs.
A white-label digital wallet maker, Paydiant was known best for being the payments startup behind the mobile wallet from the merchant-owned network MCX,
and combine it with their knowledge of television radio billboard and print campaigns to tailor marketing messages and ultimately improve return on investment (ROI).
hat we saw is a way to get to very low costs of electricity. The plan had been for Siemens
#A Credit card Terminal That Takes Apps Last year Osama Bedier then the head of Google Wallet decided he was on the wrong side of the payments business.
Google s digital payment app Google Wallet offers consumers a number of payment-related features including a quick way to pay at stores by tapping a phone that contains a near-field
Although adoption of Google Wallet has been slow NFC technology is gaining in popularity and that is likely to accelerate with the introduction of a similar system from Apple called Apple Pay (see With Apple Pay Forget Cash Just Pull out Your Phone).
It accepts payments via NFC (used by services such as Google Wallet and Apple s new Apple Pay) and QR code.
Earlier this year, Wetzstein and colleagues used that technique to create a display that allows text to be read clearly by people not wearing their usual corrective lenses (see rototype Display Lets You Say Goodbye to Reading Glasses.
He previously worked on glasses-free 3-D displays based on similar methods. And last year, researchers at chip company Nvidia demonstrated a basic wearable display based on light fields.
His thesis project involved the unusual idea of developing an elastic suit to make vertical climbing easier:
and imagine an Iron man style suit. But he recently worked with Herr on a far more minimalistic approach focusing solely on providing mechanical power to the ankle to reduce the energy it needs for walking.
Their prototype a hiking boot attached to a brace on the lower leg and powered by a wearable battery pack is the first exoskeleton that can actually lower the metabolic costs of walking as demonstrated in a study published this May in the Journal of Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation.
Today he sometimes wears trousers cut off at the knees making his prostheses visible. Herr has never been concerned with appearing to have normal legs;
she says. hat said, I did go into it wanting to know a few specific things: if I had a high risk or genetic predisposition toward heart disease, diabetes, or Alzheimer.
Lennon says the site was modeled on Wikipedia. hat was the promise of the genome, that it should be for everybody,
#Can Apple Pay Do to Your Wallet What itunes Did for Music? The point-of-sale terminal at the CVS drugstore in Palo alto, California, can accept payments through a quick tap from a smartphone.
Out comes the leather wallet. Over the past decade, tech companies including Google, ebay Paypal,
and various retailers, have proclaimed all the eath of the wallet. The promise: their digital wallet equivalents would make paying for things in physical stores much easier.
Instead, they ran into countless technical glitches, resistance from merchants, banks, and phone carriers, and consumer indifference.
Irvine. ll of these mobile wallets are looking for a problem to solve. That was jumped before Apple into the market with Apple Pay in a bid to take mobile payments mainstream.
Standing in front of a photo of an overstuffed billfold, Apple CEO Tim cook unveiled its mobile wallet at a September 9 event where he also debuted new iphones and the Apple Watch.
That is indeed an easier process than the other digital wallets, which require unlocking the phone,
making mobile wallets appeal to the masses, starting with its influential army of iphone users. obile payment is finally hitting that pivotal moment
says Matthew de Ganon, senior vice president of product and commerce for Softcard, a rival mobile wallet joint venture of T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon.
Though Google Wallet and others have used tokens, Apple Pay will deploy them more widely. Notwithstanding Apple own recent icloud breach that exposed nude celebrity photos
which provides mobile wallet services to banks, retailers, and mobile operators. Improved security is even more important to banks
which are part of the Merchant Customer Exchange consortium pushing its own wallet app, say they won accept Apple Pay.
The Softcard mobile wallet joint venture of T-Mobile AT&T, and Verizon is touting its support of more than 80 Android phones
and Google continue to push their wallet apps as well. Individual retailers which have persuaded customers to use their own apps have no intention of replacing them with Apple Pay.
#Motorized Pants to Help Soldiers and Stroke Victims A soft exoskeleton being developed by researchers at Harvard could let soldiers carry heavy backpacks over long distances or help stroke victims walk more steadily.
and novel soft sensors made of silicone rubber are integrated into the suit. The sensors developed at another lab at Harvard include embedded channels filled with a conductive liquid that changes in resistivity as the silicone is stretched.
One developed with a startup called Volumental lets you snap a 3-D photo of your foot to get an accurate shoe size measurement something that could help with online shopping.
Conventional augmented reality glasses use lenses, beam splitters, waveguides, reflectors, and other optics to relay an image to the eye,
however, and the resulting glasses usually have limited a field of view. Together with three other researchers from the University of North carolina and two from Nvidia Research
and field of view that has been encountered in past glasses designs. The benefits of the approach over previous devices are significant.
While state-of-the-art commercial augmented reality glasses have a field of view of 40°or less early Pinlight prototypes have demonstrated fields of view of 100°or more.
I love to have all of things happen effortlessly in my glasses and when they do,
or ordinary glasses, creating a display that looks like ordinary glasses with the addition of an LCD panel.
The prototype suffers from low resolution and image quality, far below the level of existing commercial augmented reality glasses.
theye most likely ready to buy a car. hat a big deal, says the company senior executive for marketing,
#A New Chip Could Add Motion Sensing to Clothing A company called mcube has made a new kind of accelerometer, the device that senses motion from inside a smartphone or fitness monitor.
The component is small and cheap enough to lead to smart electronics in clothing and sports equipment.
and cheaper to make. ou could embed it into your clothing so that you don even know it there,
says mcube CEO Ben Lee. ou could put them in your golf shirt and pants,
Embedding motion sensors in clothing, mcube long-term goal, would require better ways of powering the devices
Depth cameras are quickly gaining prominence for their potential in pocket-sized devices, where the idea is that
while the iriver earbuds are attached to a sort of collar that sits on the neck and includes a battery and device controls.
#Prototype Display Lets You Say Goodbye to Reading Glasses Those of us who need glasses to see a TV
The technology uses algorithms to alter an image based on a person glasses prescription together with a light filter set in front of the display.
Researchers say the idea is to anticipate how your eyes will naturally distort whatever onscreenomething glasses
In addition to making it easier for people with simple vision problems to use all kinds of displays without glasses,
the technique may help those with more serious vision problems caused by physical defects that can be corrected with glasses or contacts,
and advances in analytic software now make it possible to capture vast amounts of information about our individual makeup and the environment around us.
Now it s Amazon s turn to try on the Darth Vader helmet.##Amazon is rolling out Zocalo a service that lets people store
other countries have followed suit, creating a cyber arms race that will continue to increase demand for exploits.
and to perform experiments by measuring how behavior changes under different conditions (see hat Facebook Knows.
hat different about this study is did that participants not explicitly consent to being part of an experimental manipulation for the study,
In some ways, Facebook published research is just part of a vast ongoing effort at Web-based manipulation. hat far more concerning is the lack of transparency about Facebook practices overall,
not only on the Web but in daily life, he says. hat is what advertising in general
it still very difficult to discern objects like a purse or a stuffed animal. That because there are all sorts of factors to consider
Billinghurst says. hat could help with how immersed you feel in a game or virtual environment or even with wearable devices
and printing for a variety of applications (see hat Yoda Taught Me About 3-D Printingand he Difference Between Makers and Manufacturers. 3d Systems,
says Lockhorn. hat kind of microtargeting becomes the real-world version of the targeting we can do online.
and Toyota, are following suit, both in the U s. and worldwide, using partnerships with wireless carriers to deliver the connectivity.
#First hidden, real-time, screen-camera communication created Such applications include smart glasses communicating with screens to realise augmented reality
as well as in clothing, providing the garment has a lining. NEW YORK: Ever heard of a battery made of wood pulp?
as well as in clothing, providing the garment has a lining g
#Engineered E coli to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria WASHINGTON: Researchers have engineered successfully E coli bacteria to produce new forms of antibiotics including three that show promise in fighting drug-resistant bacteria.
fishing rods and bike helmets could be just around the corner. The cosmetics firm L'oreal has contacted also the team to register its interest in self-healing nail varnish.
fishing rods and bike helmets could be just around the corner. The cosmetics firm L'oreal has contacted also the team to register its interest in self-healing nail varnish.
the 2014 Humanitech Challenge jointly organised by the Red Helmets Foundation and Orange and EDF's'Sharing energy in the city, 2030'challenge.
'A technical feasibility study was carried out on the balloon last November in partnership with EDF, Dassault systemes, the Red Helmets Foundation and the Institute of Research and development on Photovoltaic Energy (IRDEP.
the 2014 Humanitech Challenge jointly organised by the Red Helmets Foundation and Orange and EDF's'Sharing energy in the city, 2030'challenge.
'A technical feasibility study was carried out on the balloon last November in partnership with EDF, Dassault systemes, the Red Helmets Foundation and the Institute of Research and development on Photovoltaic Energy (IRDEP.
adds Matt. hat exactly why wee open sourcing everything we do with Dustin Words. From user testing, to device sketching and iteration
While tests for everything from shampoos and makeup to various household cleaners have been conducted on animals to test their safety,
#Start-up Jiaodukeji launches first Chinese 3d foot scanner and 10 pairs of 3d printed shoe As 3d printed accessories and even entire outfits are slowly
it has always been just a matter of time before footwear followed. But despite numerous attempts, it has proven to be exceptionally difficult to 3d print shoes that not only fit well,
because the shoe industry has always been focused on standard shoe sizes, instead of on customized feetwear. It therefore not surprising that shoes aren comfortablt,
Selecting one of the available shoe shapes (there are ten available designs at the moment), a custom set of shoes is sent 3d printed
and discussing with a number of well-known footwear manufacturers, Xu Chaoyi is therefore very confident about the startup future. e are the country's first launcher and official seller of 3d printed shoes,
Could this become the future of footwear c
#The 3d printed Peek smartphone adapter helps diagnose eye disease in developing countries While we come across so many interesting 3d printed applications,
In addition to less damage being made to the environment and a user wallet the design also causes less wear on the roadways, too."
proliferate and transform into neuron-like cells. hat without any additional growth factors or signaling that people usually have to use to induce differentiation into neuron-like cells,
"We hope our work will open up a route to manufacture novel fibre structures in silica and other glasses for a wide range of applications, covering telecommunications, sensing, lab-in-a-fibre, metamaterial fibre,
& the Dawn of a New Age of Clothing We hope youe dressed for the occasion because the much anticipated 3d printer for clothes is finally here!
Peleg was inspired by the evolutionaryidea that someday people might be able to print ready to wear fashion on the go.
but, for now, she must continue charging ahead with her 3d printed Tricolor into the world of fashion design.
She spent 9 months researching and a total of 2, 000 hours 3d printing the textiles for her garments.
After she had her design she made a 3d model of the jacket with Blender.
and created different patterns to develop a lacelike textile for her other four garments. Peleg says that each piece took about 400 hours to complete from the idea to the final result
Don Miss Intel 3d printed Dress to Ward off Potential Attackers Tibbit feels that this new technique will reach millions of 3d printer users soon,
This will allow the users to play in first person in the game using the smart glasses like Google glass, Epson Moverio, etc.
Right now, Lyteshot has teamed up with Epson to incorporate Lyteshot gaming with Moverio BT-200 smart glasses from Epson.
#CAP-XX Introduces Thinline Supercapacitors with Unique Nanotechnology Construction Examples include wearables (medical, fitness and health monitors, smart watches, drug delivery systems), portables (active
CAP-XX supercapacitors benefit from a unique nanotechnology construction that stores electrical charge in engineered carbon electrodes on aluminium foil,
and maximize capacitance (scroll down to CAP-XX Nanotechnology to view diagrams at www. cap-xx. com/products/photo-gallery).
CAP-XX Thinline supercapacitors support power requirements in Iot devices including wireless communication (Bluetooth Bluetooth Smart, Zigbee, Z-Wave, Ant, active RFID), electronic paper and OLED displays, haptic or tactile feedback, vibration alerts, GPS acquisition,
and thickness,"explained Anthony Kongats, CAP-XX CEO. Thinline works with thin-film, solid-state, and other low-power batteries such as coin cells/button cells, energy harvesting modules (solar, vibration/kinetic, RF,
CAP-XX Thinline supercapacitors are available in three footprints: Suggested retail price for all 0. 6mm cells is less than US$1 in large volumes.
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#Scientists Develop Entirely Artificial Molecular Pump The new machine mimics the pumping mechanism of life-sustaining proteins that move small molecules around living cells to metabolize and store energy from food.
Not only dating but this stylish t-shirt may be used in your daily life, business events (of course with your jacket),
About Famous Company of Kind Nerdsfckn. cool provides stainless nanotech tshirts for the clothing industry. Start-up established in 2015
Finally, the whole structure looks like a group of several tennis balls pushed one the after the other into a tight shirt sleeve,
both at Georgia Tech. hat was surprising was finding a solvent that allows the assembly of structures more easily than in water.
Vuletic says. hat is new in our system is, for the first time on the atomic scale, we can see this transition from friction to superlubricity.
which may help pull another atom and so on. hat we can do is adjust at will the distance between the atoms to either be matched to the optical lattice for maximum friction,
or incorporated into clothing-are bringing science fiction gadgets closer to real life. Dr Madhu Bhaskaran, project leader
they studied one of the samples over several months with an X-ray photoelectron spectrometer to determine its exact chemical makeup. y taking the measurement every week or two,
Cima says. hat really captures people imaginations. That study, combined with ongoing efforts in contraceptive-delivery microchips,
he says. hat the next major challenge. k
#Keysight Technologies Introduces 9500 AFM With Integrated Software and Hardware for Ultrafast Scan Rates Keysight Technologies, Inc. NYSE:
and now also hat is it? at the nanoscale. a
#Researchers Use Colloidal Mix to Understand Fluid Behavior in Micron-Sized Channels The study, which has been led by Dr Rodrigo Ledesma-Aguilar;
captures harmful gas and weaves transistors into shirts and dresses. otton is one of the most fascinating and misunderstood materials,
ibers are everywhere from your underwear, pajamas, toothbrushes, tires, shoes, car seats, air filtration systems and even your clothes.
Abbey Liebman 0 created a dress using conductive cotton threads capable of charging an iphone.
With ultrathin solar panels for trim and a USB charger tucked into the waist, the Southwest-inspired garment captured enough sunshine to charge cell phones
and other handheld devices allowing the wearer to stay plugged in. The technology may be embedded into shirts to measure heart rate
or analyze sweat, sewn into pillows to monitor brain signals or applied to interactive textiles with heating and cooling capabilities. revious technologies have achieved similar functionalities,
Two of Hinestroza students created a hooded bodysuit embedded with insecticides using metal organic framework molecules,
the antimalarial garment can be worn during the day to provide extra protection and does not dissipate like skin-based repellants.
but have it remain flexible and as comfortable as a t-shirt or an old pair of jeans. c
if it weren for the unique culture at UC San diego that fosters entrepreneurship. hat one of the reasons
said Orth. hat makes our microscope particularly powerful is that it records many different colors at once,
The study also suggests the broader potential for adapting nanoscale drug-delivery techniques developed for use in environmental remediation. hat we can apply some of the highly sophisticated,
he added. hat all the platinum we have now, so we need to find the most efficient way to use it.
hat was unusual in this case was that there was no clearly defined technical goal at the outset,
and testing how the sensor technology could be integrated directly into clothing e
#New Technique Probes the Sea floor Using Ocean's Weak Seismic Waves A technology developed by Stanford scientists for passively probing the seafloor using weak seismic waves generated by the ocean could revolutionize offshore oil and natural gas extraction
and look for hazards such as hidden gas pockets. Reflection seismology involves ships towing arrays of"air guns"that explode every 10 to 15 seconds to produce loud sound pulses.
The Saturas sensing system tailors irrigation to the crop's real-time water needs resulting in more efficient water use
"Technology and fashion are two forces that are driving the market of wristwatches today, why not combine them and make a different watch?
Firemotion ads can seamlessly connect to a universal shopping cart Passbook Google Wallet or Payments. A person who interacts with a Firemotion mobile ad can purchase the product in the ad instead of going to a different webpage keeping the entire purchase
and suggest treatment. hat kind of information has been unavailable until now, Yoon said. The mouth guard is an improvement over traditional bruxism therapies,
Kathryn believes that new research integrating electronics directly into the fabric of clothing could move us a step closer to this smart technology.
Smart textiles, which allow accurate and reliable electronic sensors to be built into everyday clothing, could be the solution.
In the article, Kathryn talks about research she's currently involved in at NPL and Coventry University, printing conductive circuits directly onto the fibres of garments.
This allows complex circuits to be printed onto clothing, which still perform after stretching and washing.
which converts video images from a miniature video camera worn on his glasses. He can now make out the direction of white lines on a computer screen using the retinal implant.
"The bionic eye implant receives its visual information from a miniature camera mounted on glasses worn by the patient.
so that the medical team could be sure that the visual information was coming via the camera on his glasses and the implant.
an F-box protein that constitutes ubiquitin ligase complex plays a balancing role in the circadian rhythm by binding to a pocket on the CRY protein,
called the flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) binding pocket, promoting the degradation of CRY.""Very few molecules have been known that directly acts upon clock proteins
This molecule exhibits period-lengthening activities by binding to the FAD-biding pocket of CRY in competition with FBXL3."
"We found that the KL001 derivatives function by binding to the CRY protein at the same FAD-binding pocket as KL001 and FBXL3."
both organic and inorganic, can organize self-DNA into a liquid crystalline structure that binds strongly to the TLR9 receptors like the teeth on either side of a zipper.
Brown said. hat we didn know is what the organisms were and what they were capable of doing.
said Alvarez-Buylla. hat is incredible is that the neurons that are produced in the embryo are extremely different than the neurons produced for the adult.
Cima said. hat really captures people imaginations. That study, combined with ongoing efforts in contraceptive-delivery microchips,
he said. hat the next major challenge. k
#SAPH-ire Helps Scientists Prioritize Protein Modification Research Researchers have developed a new informatics technology that analyzes existing data repositories of protein modifications
That is because the microbial makeup of the gut varies from person to person, meaning that a particular species might be the dominant bacteria in one patient,
Alexander said in a news release. hat we are doing here is paving the way for the manufacture of stem cells in large numbers
each of the subjects put on an electrode-studded hat capable of analysing their brain signals. They then instructed the robot to move,
So everything comes out of their pocket, and theye banking everything on two years of harvest.
he said. hat 1, 200 trees from our newest planting, the most beautiful trees Hawaii has seen ever. hat means I lost more 22 percent of my trees in that orchard.
That was the youngest newest orchard in the state of Hawaii, and Ed Olson effort at revitalizing the macadamia nut industry for the future by planting new orchards. n our older orchard,
On the cover of this book is a cat wearing a red and white striped hat t
#Intel is spending $125 million to solve one of the biggest problems in Silicon valley (INTC) Intel is opening its wallet to solve one of the biggest problems in Silicon valley:
The basis of this led to the production of the sensor cap for milk cartons.
The entire microscope is small enough to fit in a pocket nearly weightless, and incredibly sturdy it can be dropped,
and things you would keep inside your wallet, like loyalty cards, Graafstra said. Dangerous Things/Facebookimplanting a RFID tag only takes a few minutes
It also throws weight behind a carbon pricing scheme that may turn out more robust than the prevalent patchwork quilt of cap-and-trade systems.
This could allow future physicians to tailor pharmaceutical treatments to individual patients.""One of our goals is to use this method to provide personalised medicine to patients,
Implant promises vision three times better than 20/20-and won't deteriorate over time From glasses to standard lenses
when worn with a pair of Samsung 3d glasses, could magnify scenes by 2. 8 times. The lens-glasses combination was designed to help restore the sight of people suffering from age-related macular degeneration, or blindness.
The 8mm contact lenses were fitted with a 1. 17mm magnifying ring around the edge and small aluminium mirrors were fitted into this magnifying ring.
When the lenses are being worn in'ordinary mode'this magnified image is blocked by polarising filters fitted to a pair of modified Samsung 3d glasses.
and work with a pair of lightweight glasses. Google is also working on'smart lenses'that contain a control circuit, an image capture component and an image sensor.
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