uses it in forearm-worn heart-rate monitors). But it also being used for a growing number of ear-worn devices,
including LG Heart rate Monitor Earphone and iriver iriveron Heart rate Monitoring Bluetooth Headset (available to consumers for $180 and $200, respectively) and a pair of earbuds from Intel,
#Cheap and Nearly Unbreakable Sapphire Screens Come into View This fall, rumor has it, Apple will start selling iphones with a sapphire screen that is just about impossible to scratch.
or tablet screen relatively cheaply (see our Next Smartphone Screen May be made of Sapphire. The manufacturing technology
and the screens on some high-end phones that cost as much as $10, 000. But sapphire has been too expensive for widespread use.
A screen made entirely out of sapphire as the forthcoming iphone may be, remains five times as expensive as a regular one,
Smartphone makers have taken long advantage of advances in glass production to make devices with stronger and more durable screens.
The most well-known of these screens is made from Corning Gorilla Glass, which is used in iphones.
The type of memory in question, resistive random access memory (RRAM), is being developed by several companies, but fabrication usually requires high-temperatures or voltages, making production difficult and expensive.
#Prototype Display Lets You Say Goodbye to Reading Glasses Those of us who need glasses to see a TV
or laptop screen clearly could ditch the eyewear thanks to a display technology that corrects vision problems.
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.
In addition to making it easier for people with simple vision problems to use all kinds of displays without glasses,
to whose display they had affixed an acrylic slab topped with a plastic screen pierced with thousands of tiny, evenly spaced holes.
Gordon Wetzstein, who coauthored the paper while a research scientist at MIT Media Lab, says the screen allows a regular two-dimensional display to work as what known as a ight field display.
This means the screen controls the way individual light rays emanate from the display, leading to a sharper image without degrading contrast.
Wetzstein says the next step is to build prototype displays that people can use in the real worldomething he expects could take a few years.
when we look at a display that doesn look right, we tend to naturally move around to improve the focus.
if researchers used a display with a high enough resolutionbout double the 326 pixels per inch of the ipod Touch used in the paperhe technology could be made to be used by more than one person at once t
One way is by using mobile technology to monitor sleep patterns, heart rate, activity levels, and so on.
rechargeable batteries that can be printed cheaply on commonly used industrial screen printers. Imprint Energy, of Alameda, California, has been testing its ultrathin zinc-polymer batteries in wrist-worn devices
where she collaborated with a researcher in Japan to produce microscopic zinc batteries using a 3-D printer.
and one is displays, says Steven Holmes, vice president of the New Devices Group and general manager of the Smart Device Innovation team at Intel.
The price of hard disk capacity per megabyte plummeted from $700 in 1981 to two-tenths of a cent in 2010.
monitors people known to be innocent and builds dossiers on everyone based on their Internet activity.
#How An Intelligent Thimble Could Replace the Mouse In 3d Virtual reality Worlds The way in
which humans interact with computers has been dominated by the mouse since it was invented in the 1960s by Doug Engelbert.
A mouse uses a flat two-dimensional surface as a proxy for a computer screen. Any movements of the mouse over the surface are translated then into movements on the screen.
These days a mouse also has a number of buttons and often scroll wheel that allow interaction with on-screen objects.
The mouse is a hugely useful device but it is also a two-dimensional one. But what of the three-dimensional world and the longstanding but growing promise of virtual reality.
What kind of device will take the place of the mouse when we begin to interact in three-dimensions?
Today we get to see one idea developed at the University of Wyoming in Laramie by Anh Nguyen and Amy Banic.
These guys have created an intelligent thimble that can sense its position accurately in three-dimensions
It s been possible to buy a computer mouse for some time that senses its position in three dimensions.
and translate them onto 2-D screen. The problem here is that these devices are locked to a particular technology
In addition the 3dtouch has an optical flow sensor that measures the movement of the device against a two-dimensional surface exactly like that inside an ordinary mouse.
A Wearable 3d Input device With An Optical Sensor And A 9-DOF Inertial Measurement Uni U
Given the boom in fitness monitors and other wearable gadgets tethered wirelessly to smartphones, the technology could also allow confirmation that data streaming from the device is coming from the right person,
Those tools range from cloud simulation platforms for theoretical work to new types of electronics for use in the super-cooled temperatures of quantum hardware experiments.
After three years analyzing faces seen on webcams, Affectiva database now holds more than a billion facial expressions
He does so by implanting electrodes into their brains to monitor neural activity. Now, as part of a sweeping $70 million program funded by the U s. military,
Video screens in both cabs show the drivers views of blind spots around the two vehicles.
The technology is called a haptic stylus gadget connected to mechanical apparatus that gives force-feedback sensations to let artists eelwhat theye doing as they sculpt a 3-D image on the screen
Haptic styluses and similar hardware have been used for years for niche applications and for high-end 3-D design and medical trainingor example,
technologies that add physical sensations a common feature in products like computer mouses that vibrate and game joysticks that shake,
and even touch screens that vibrate, making you feel like there a sharp edge on a flat surface.
and printing for a variety of applications (see hat Yoda Taught Me About 3-D Printingand he Difference Between Makers and Manufacturers. 3d Systems,
for example, makes many 3-D printers and recently launched a sub-$1, 000 home model called Cube and a $400 handheld scanner that can, in a couple of minutes, generate a realistic 3-D drawing of a human head that as good as the ones produced by existing stationary systems
or a facial feature that you really can get just using a regular mouse. As a practical matter, it will also offer museum restoration artists
and a cartoonish face shown on a touch-screen display, is very easy and safe to work with.
its GPS coordinates and even the position of your computer mouse. The data is now on a public Web page and available for analysis and aggregation;
#Shape-Shifting Touch screen Buttons Head to Market As they peck out text on the featureless glass surface of their phone or tablet,
some people still mourn the passing of the physical keyboard. Now technology is heading to mass production that can offer the best of both worlds:
and elastic blisters to make buttons rise up from a device screen and then disappear without trace when theye no longer needed.
The design includes a transparent screen protector that covers the front of the device. However, sliding a mechanical control on the side of the case raises up a transparent set of buttons
or guides on the screen protector, over the touch keyboard, to make typing easier. Sliding the control back will cause those buttons to melt away
leaving a clear, smooth pane of glass. sers will still type on the screens as they do today,
Sliding the control on the left pushed fluid into a set of guides that rose up between keys on the virtual keyboard.
That they were ever there is discernable only by a close examination of the screen protector in the right light
when the fingers don directly hit a key, something that lacking on a typical touch screen.
Tactus has demonstrated both a prototype seven-inch tablet with its technology fully integrated into its display
when the keyboard appears. e are only at the beginning of what we expect to be a multiyear partnership,
morphing screen where the keyboard would usually be
#Microrobots, Working Together, Build with Metal, Glass, and Electronics Someone glancing through the door of Annjoe Wong-Foy lab at SRI International might think his equipment is infested by ants.
Much like 3-D printing technology, microrobots promise to be a more efficient way to make complex objects in small quantities than conventional mass-production technology,
Hobbyists and small companies working on electronics hardware today make few prototype circuit boards due to the time it takes to assemble them by hand
British spies scooped up millions of webcam images from Yahoo. In December, on Microsoft official blog, the company top lawyer, Brad Smith, said he had reason to view surreptitious overnment snoopingas no different from criminal malware.
#First hidden, real-time, screen-camera communication created Such applications include smart glasses communicating with screens to realise augmented reality
information is encoded into a visual frame shown on a screen, and any camera-equipped device can turn to the screen
and immediately fetch the information, researchers said. Operating on the visible light spectrum band, screen-camera communication is free of electromagnetic interference, offering a promising alternative for acquiring short-range information.
But these efforts commonly require displaying visible coded images, which interfere with the content the screen is playing
and create unpleasant viewing experiences. The team at Dartmouth College studied how to enable screens
and cameras to communicate without the need to show any coded images like QR code,
In the Hilight system, screens display content as they normally do and the content can change as users interact with the screens.
At the same time, screens transmit dynamic data instantaneously to any devices equipped with cameras behind the scene, unobtrusively, in real time.
Hilight supports communication atop any screen content, such as an image, movie, video clip, game, web page or any other application window,
so that camera-equipped devices can fetch the data by turning their cameras to the screen.
Hilight leverages the alpha channel, a well-known concept in computer graphics to encode bits into the pixel translucency change.
It decouples communication and screen content image layers.""Our work provides an additional way for devices to communicate with one another without sacrificing their original functionality,
Existing screen-camera work either requires showing coded images obtrusively or cannot support arbitrary screen content that can be generated on the fly.
Our work advances the state-of-the-art by pushing screen-camera communication to the maximal flexibility, "said Zhou u
#Antioxidant helps to diagnose Alzheimer: Experts find proof In a major medical breakthrough, scientists at the National Brain Research Centre (NBRC) have reported clinical evidence supporting the role of a novel biomarker in diagnosing Alzheimer's disease.
but this often sacrifices peripheral and night vision, according to the researchers at the Johns hopkins university and the University of Maryland.
but this often sacrifices peripheral and night vision, according to the researchers at the Johns hopkins university and the University of Maryland.
This is an important step for the future production of large numbers of these cells for use in cell transplantation therapies or large-scale drug screens, researchers from the Molecular Medicine Institute in Lisbon,
The team applied this simpler approach to mouse embryonic stem cells in a dish, which have the potential to become any cell type.
which could soon produce self-healing nail polish and a cure for cracked mobile phone screens. A team at the University of Bristol has been quietly developing the technology for the past three years.
or 10 years we're going to see things like mobile phone screens that can heal themselves
which could soon produce self-healing nail polish and a cure for cracked mobile phone screens. A team at the University of Bristol has been quietly developing the technology for the past three years.
or 10 years we're going to see things like mobile phone screens that can heal themselves
"Printing an intricate, ornate metal bridge for a special location to show what our robots and software engineers,
By printing multiple lines, the printer will be able to create a strong, complex structure that spans the canal-printing its own supports along the way
"Printing an intricate, ornate metal bridge for a special location to show what our robots and software engineers,
By printing multiple lines, the printer will be able to create a strong, complex structure that spans the canal-printing its own supports along the way
and will pave the way towards the realisation of atomically thin, flexible and transparent displays,
graphene could be perfect for the new generation of touchscreens. Rust-free cars Graphene repels water
and will pave the way towards the realisation of atomically thin, flexible and transparent displays,
graphene could be perfect for the new generation of touchscreens. Rust-free cars Graphene repels water
and transparent displays, and graphene-based on-chip optical communications,"said Hone
#In a first, drug offers hope for children with dwarfism An experimental drug, vying to become the first approved treatment for dwarfism, improved growth in children by a significant amount in a preliminary study, the drug's developer,
"The vaccine appears to work well in our mouse model to'prime'the antibody response,
'the headset and app monitors their level of concentration and a`volume bar'of brainwaves is displayed on the screen,
One of the project's prototypes features a twin battery back on both sides of the dog, a mounted webcam,
and a wireless USB adapter, among other technologies. Using a tablet to send signals to the harness and to the dog,
One of the project's prototypes features a twin battery back on both sides of the dog, a mounted webcam,
and a wireless USB adapter, among other technologies. Using a tablet to send signals to the harness and to the dog,
the researchers are also working on its application to monitor gas emissions from any source, be it an industry
which uses a laser device may be able to non-invasively monitor blood glucose levels and eliminate the need for daily finger pricking for diabetics.
One will be a finger-touch device similar to a computer mouse. The other will be a wearable version for continuous monitoring,
suggest that the new monitor has the potential to perform as well as conventional technologies. LONDON: A new technology developed by an Indian-origin scientist,
which uses a laser device may be able to non-invasively monitor blood glucose levels and eliminate the need for daily finger pricking for diabetics.
One will be a finger-touch device similar to a computer mouse. The other will be a wearable version for continuous monitoring,
suggest that the new monitor has the potential to perform as well as conventional technologies s
#utated lepto bacteria resistant to drugs, heatmumbai: Scientists at the premier Regional Medical Reference Centre (RMRC) at Port Blair have found that the bacterial species that causes leptospirosis is no longer socially aloof,
Users will be allowed to choose screen names. However if the screen name or profile pictures includea anything#illegal
or bad#the account will be deleted. In a statement issued on its website Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) informed that the real-name registration requirement will control the spread of rumors online.
#Samsung launches Portable 1tb SSD DRIVE Samsung has launched a portable SSD DRIVE with one terabyte capacity. The Samsung portable SSD DRIVE is with small form factor
and weighs only 30 grams. The SSD DRIVE measures 71x53 mm and is 9 mm thick.
The solid state drive is smaller than a business card in size. Samsung has launched Portable SS T1 in 250gb, 500gb and 1tb variants.
Samsung has offered an amazing portable storage option for consumers, powered by 3d V-NAND memory technology.
It#s certainly starting to look that way as reports are surfacing that the Japanese government will also begin heavily investing in this very human branch of 3d bio printing technology.
For reports have surfaced that they will invest a massive sum of 25 billion yen in the development of transplantable human organ printing over the next five years
and Engineering (IMRE), have used successfully this new material to print various electronic prototypes including a USB connector that can light up a LED bulb, complex three-dimensional circuits and a wearable,
the Atlas has proven to be a highly-accurate 3d printer that is capable of printing large prototypes reliably over time.
The printer can be designed to any desired build space of up to 6x 6x 4 For those looking for more customized options
said Founder and CEO Clay Guillory. e fully expect this printer to be a game changer in the 3d printing industry. hile the Atlas may share many of the same attributes of a well-built desktop 3d printer,
#Procter & gamble jumps into 3d bio printing with grant program in Singapore May 26, 2015 By Simonit no secret that one of the most exciting developments in the additive manufacturing industry has been in the advancements in 3d bio printing-the printing
2015 has been a reakthroughyear that has shown significantly more promise for bio printing technologies-including the announcement of an upcoming surgery that will see a 3d printed thyroid gland be implanted for testing-a first of its kind.
the printing can also be used to replace what has largely been a controversial practice for years now:
bio printing technologies will allow for companies to use synthetic living tissue as needed. Among other companies that have been actively looking into how they can leverage bio printing to their advantage is none other than Procter & gamble-the largest consumer goods company in the world.
and Tide to Bounty and Crest-is launching a grant competition in Singapore that asks those in academia to submit research proposals on 3d bio printing applications that would be of relevance to the consumer goods brand. e want to look at the possibilities of bioprinting.
-whose interest in the technology has gone so far as to partnering with bio printing startup Organovo to develop 3d printed skin.
what they are calling the world first universal bioink, with optimal biocompatibility and printing fidelity.
or very little printing experience, to be able to replicate this, to be able to use this for new applications,
But of course you should play around with your own nozzle diameter, printing speed settings, and layer height to get the best response from your machine,
the engineers at Utilight have been actively developing a new type of additive manufacturing technology called Pattern Transfer Printing (PTP) that allows for the immediate implementation in the photovoltaic metallization process of c-Si solar cells.
with only an addition of one module with a minimal investment, providing savings of up to 70%in silver paste and an increased efficiency of up to. 4%.With a PTP printer,
adds the company. s today leading photovoltaic cell manufacturers have reached the limits of conventional screen printing metallization processes for solar cells;
Called GDP 3d printing (short for Gel Dispensing Printing), they believe their upcoming 3d printers are capable of igniting a market explosion in the 3d printing industry and beyond it.
And by the face of it, that could really happen. t the heart of the GDP process is Massivit unique printing gel & smart support.
curing, and the material properties of their ilament ll of these together enable the printing of relatively thick layers with linear movement of the dispensing
and the printer can be utilized at the same time to also print another object Perhaps printing Eve?,they speculate.
which will be on display at Ecomotion, a gathering of people from the Smart Transportation industry. Lior Zeno, community manager of Ecomotion, told reporters that innovations like this are exactly
Like many other modern hardware devices, the Byzee was brought to life thanks to the low cost of 3d printing.
entitled hree-dimensional printing of high-content graphene scaffolds for electronic and biomedical applications. 3d printed graphene appeared on the cover.
3d bioprinting is a hot topic in the field of tissue engineering. owever it usually requires a printing environment that isn't compatible with living cells
the key difference between bio 3d printing and traditional printing is in the printhead used. here are two kinds of printhead used in bio 3d printing:
When printing out membranes, he says, the machine sprays out a fiber-like ink onto biological paper that simulates the collagen structures found in body.
In time, this will allow on-demand organ printing to take place. In case of the Redura membrane
These two companies are key leaders in this market from a hardware and filament perspective and collaborating with them allows us to bring Eastman Amphora (TM) 3d polymer to a broader audience in the right way. t the same time as this speaks of the firm foundation that Aleph Objects
and Microsoft look to dominate the software and hardware of 3d printing, Eastman, Mistubishi, and Natureworks are looking at the materials side of the industry.
that the printer would also be equipped to handle viscous materials, like food. Now that printer has hit Kickstarter revealing its specs, pricing, name and All the printer from 3d By Flow,
called Focus, is indeed portable and, more than that, it designed to use a wide variety of materials,
The printer is designed to fold into a suitcase, weighing only 7 kg. The unfolding and setup process is meant only to take 20 seconds, with printing ready in just two minutes.
This is possible due to a lack of leveling or calibration as the printbed is fixed completely. An SD card reader allows for untethered printing,
though a USB capable allows for printing from a computer as well. The Focus also has bed a heat that can reach up to 100°C. And,
once you get printing, you should be able to achieve Z-axis resolutions of 5 microns, according to the company.
You can see the full specifications below: 3dbyflow has constructed already 20 printers and field tested them in various locations,
including the Albert Hejin supermarket, as previously noted. With a solid Kickstarter campaign, the company plans to both construct the Focus for all of their backers, before eventually launching a second printer for the healthcare industry, the MKB printer measuring at 50x50x50cm,
and a third specifically for chocolate. The early bird packages for the printer start at around $2,
200, increasing to about $2, 400 after that. Not a bad price for a compact and capable printer,
if it delivers on all of its promised specifications. I don like getting my hopes up in this industry anymore
but I definitely hopeful about this compact and versatile printer. Check out the Kickstarter page for more information and watch the video below c
collaborate, and have fun through immersive displays. It is easy to see the potential gaming applications of such a device
As is becoming a common policy even in hardware development, the Holus will be offered in two varieties:
and emphatic commitment to education values that Necropsynth also shares. f Printrbot believes they can put a printer in every school in the US,
Eventually she decided that the Witbox worked best for her printing needs and that is the printer she used to print all 5 outfits in her collection.
Finding a flexible PLA based filament proved more difficult. On her website, she explains, spent a month
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternitéd printing style
#British scientists develop self-healing aircraft wing technology Researchers at the University of Bristol have developed a new technology that will allow aircraft wings
Aerojet Rocketdyne develops the majority of International space station power-system hardware at its Los angeles facility. Earlier this month, the company completed initial on-orbit validation testing of XR-5a Hall Thruster on the unmanned X-37 spacecraft t
rover operations required scientists to examine Mars imagery on a computer screen, and make inferences about
our Mars explorers have been stuck on one side of a computer screen. This tool gives them the ability to explore the rover surroundings
Once this unique technique comes to play in majority of printers among users it will surprise them for sure.
as days progress many companies will start applying this technology in their printer will bring the price down n
This is possible with sensor-based peripherals which are used by the device and are compatible with your mobile phone and by bringing in augmented reality.
A set of peripherals have been developed by Lyteshot which are attached to the Lyter so that it can then be 3d printed in the shape of a gun, staff, wand, bow,
#CAP-XX Introduces Thinline Supercapacitors with Unique Nanotechnology Construction Examples include wearables (medical, fitness and health monitors, smart watches, drug delivery systems), portables (active
Bluetooth Smart, Zigbee, Z-Wave, Ant, active RFID), electronic paper and OLED displays, haptic or tactile feedback, vibration alerts, GPS acquisition,
or design novel catalysts for speeding up a variety of chemical reactions,"Gang said. Our work demonstrates the versatility of this approach
#CDTI Introduces Nanoscale BMARS Powder-Based Catalysts BMARS is one of CDTI's new, key enabling catalytic powder materials developed to reduce the dependence on the use of costly platinum group metals (PGMS) in vehicle emission control systems currently undergoing vehicle
Initial tests reveal that BMARS delivers superior oxides of nitrogen (NOX) reduction on modern turbo-charged gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines compared to OEM catalysts,
rhodium (Rh) is the key PGM used to drive NOX conversion in gasoline three-way catalysts.
Commercialization efforts for OEM and aftermarket applications of BMARS powder-based catalysts are well underway.
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