It was applied to the surface of mouse and pig hearts that had suffered from attacks and was found to drive tissue regeneration.
and printer right at the hospital to create custom nerve guides right on site to restore nerve function."
uses a touchscreen and helmet-mounted interface to visualize data collected from a host of sensors on the hull of the vehicle,
while the touchscreen provides a wider view of the unfolding tactical situation, allowing the user to switch perspectives to the viewpoint of other crew members.
A demo unit has been installed on a CV90 tracked vehicle, for display at the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition in London this week
and which uses the silicon-CMOS technology used today for most computer processor chips, "lead researcher Andrew Dzurak told us."
'and make a full-scale quantum processor. That final stage is likely to take 10-20 years."
and which uses the silicon-CMOS technology used today for most computer processor chips, "lead researcher Andrew Dzurak told us."
'and make a full-scale quantum processor. That final stage is likely to take 10-20 years."
without having to add any permanent hardware like metal or plastic implants that are used often to support
because internal hardware can pose a challenge with respect to being a potential site for infection, and can complicate MRI
or if youe a hardware provider, you can supply the technology to adapt to these prices.
because if a laboratory animal such as a mouse carries the mutation, it is highly likely to exhibit the functional problem
of which is engineering personalized tissue in this case, printing a personalized nerve scaffold for your post-injury healing.
This printing technology takes a slightly different approach: After 3d scanning a rat sciatic nerve, the researchers used a custom-built 3d printer to make silicone guides for nerve regeneration.
and printer right at the hospital to create custom nerve guides right on site to restore nerve function. n
when power is both on and off think of a CD, DVD or hard drive. But computers are limited in their speed by the transmission of electric data between a processor
and the memory stored in these devices called the Von neumann bottleneck. This means that faster processors don't necessarily mean better computing power
when it is speed the transmission of the data that is the limiting factor. Using light, or photons, to transfer data could
But until now, scientists had struggled to find a way to create a light-based device that can store data for a significant period of time. here no point using faster processors
which is used also in rewritable CDS and DVDS, to store data. Pulses of light can change the material's state from an ordered to a random state,
The same mouse model is used to study Alzheimer's and FTD, with researchers believing that a single gene in mice triggers the two conditions that have related differing,
-D printing of various materials has been a common trend in tissue engineering in the last decade,
After the printing had concluded, the support gel could then be melted away by heating it to body temperature (37°C,
in this growing field of science, most of these printers cost over $100, 000 (roughly £65, 000) and require a specialist team of operators to use.
and ackingit with open-source software and hardware, this research team have managed to replicate human organ structures for less than $1, 000 (£650) n
The drug is manufactured using a three-dimensional printer which creates a porous formulation that helps bioavailability and patient uptake,
This produced a therapeutic response in mouse models of sepsis, in human lung cells and an ex vivo human lung model.
We have formulated an ipad game that could drive the neural circuitry behind episodic memory by stimulating the ability to remember where things were on the screen,
which plays on the idea of having to remember different locations of characters on the screen of an ipad.
but harder to read on the tiny screens of mobiles. In doing so, it recognised one of the most important changes during its 17 years like Google itself,
the logo had been designed to be looked at on screens, but now a huge proportion of web browsing is done from phones and other mobile devices n
leaks show Force Touch display, subtly altered size The pictures are one of the first glimpses of the iphone 6s Plus,
which allows the phone screen to be pressure sensitive to allow extra input options. The pictures, reported to have leaked from the Taiwanese supply chain,
As well as the slightly larger size and changed display they appear to feature a bigger front camera.
As well as better hardware for more clear photos, the software will be improved ncluding a feature that will use the screen to create a flash for taking pictures in the dark.
but improving the internal hardware. Apple Force Touch powered by the small sensor that can be seen in the centre of the display allows the phone to tell how hard its screen is being pressed
and trigger extra events on screen. Some details of how exactly it will work have already been revealed
indicating that the hard press will trigger further menu options. Force Touch was launched with the Apple Watch in April,
helping users interact with its small screen. It was added then to Apple Macbooks, giving extra options for how quickly to fast forward, for instance d
. an innovative Japanese biomedical 3d printing company, has created a 3d bone printer capable of producing artificial bone structures for humans.
and is compatible with standard motherboards, servers, operating systems and applications. Memory1 represents a major evolution in server architecture.
with no changes to their hardware and software stacks, said Riccardo Badalone, Chief executive officer and Cofounder of Diablo Technologies. he business impact on datacenter economics and application performance is dramatic.
Jeff Janukowicz, Research director for Solid state drives and Enabling Technologies at IDC said, he cloud, virtualization, big data and analytics are pressuring the infrastructure of many of today enterprise datacenters.
and can be printed using an inkjet printer. Shimizu stressed that it is tough to have both features at the same time,
it usually clogs the heads of the printer ink cartridge. But Agic he said, has succeeded in preventing this.
#Scientists Create LEDS From Food, Beverage Waste Most Christmas lights, DVD players, televisions and flashlights have one thing in common:
#Mobile Eye-test Device Could Lead to Prescription Virtual-reality Screens After five years of development and about 40,000 tests worldwide,
But on the heels of its commercial release, Eyenetra says it been courting offers from virtual-reality companies seeking to use the technology to develop ision-correctedvirtual-reality displays. s
Users attach a smartphone, with the startup app, to the front and peer through the headset at the phone display.
or circles, appear on the screen. The user turns a dial to align the patterns
The app then displays the refractive powers, axis of astigmatism, and pupillary distance required for eyeglasses prescriptions.
is to use the startup technology to develop custom screens to fit a user eyeglass prescription.
Prescription screens could make virtual-reality devices more formfitting for a more immersive and comfortable experience,
Therefore, companies could use these precise measurements to develop screens that are corrected pre to a user specific refraction errors. t personalized correction
and viewers used the phone keyboard to align the patterns. The device was designed as an inverse of a traditional Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor machine,
Essentially, Netra replaces the expensive sensor with a smartphone display. Because the red and green light goes through different parts of the eye,
"The challenge now is to incorporate these wonderful natural catalysts into materials capable of doing the specific chemical job we need.
Three-dimensional printers can create items from a wide variety of materials: plastic, ceramic, glass, metal and even more unusual ingredients such as living cells.
just as ordinary printers lay down ink, except 3d printers can also lay down flat layers on top of each other to build 3d objects.
Best Places to See'Shooting stars'This Week The annual Perseid meteor shower is typically the most spectacular"shooting star"display for people in the Northern hemisphere,
taking them out briefly to be put on display or for study. However for facilities in the developing world this can be a problem as the energy needed to power dehumidifiers
"Now the researchers have created implantable wirelessly powered brain-stimulating devices by essentially using the mouse's body to help collect energy."
Rather, the mouse bodies interact with surrounding magnetic fields, helping focus energy like a lens from the transmitter to the receiver in the implant.
The device was implanted in a region of the mouse brain known the infralimbic cortex, which is implicated in animal models of depression and anxiety."
and the number-crunching processors in the same tiny space, said Max Shulaker, one of the designers of the chip,
Long commute time The main roadblock to faster computers is not flagging processor speed, but a memory problem, Shulaker said.
the computer must shuttle that information via an electrical signal back and forth across the (relatively) vast inches of wire between the computer's memory (typically a hard drive)
and the processors, facing the speed bump of electrical resistance along the entire path.""If you try to run that in your computer,
"While the Central processing unit (CPU) waits for a piece of data to make the return trip from the memory, for instance,
Solving the memory-CPU"commute time, "however, is tricky. The two components can't be put in the same wafer
while many of the metal elements in hard drives (or solid state drives) melt at those temperatures, Shulaker said.
The Dot watch has a Braille reader on its face and can connect to a smartphone via Bluetooth for programming.
The developers also plan for the device to display text messages and other notifications, as well as one day even pair up with external devices like public cash machines and information displays to offer Braille capability just about anywhere e
#Use of Ultrasound to Promote Faster Healing of Wounds Sometimes discoveries in science are not about the development of new medical devices or drugs,
This may allow clinicians to quickly screen patients for sepsis and begin antibiotic treatment a full day earlier than is now typically possible c
#3d Tissue Printing Using a DNA Guidance System Researchers at UCSF have developed a method called DNA Programmed Assembly of Cells (DPAC) that brings us one step closer to being able to print fully functional living organs.
DNA-Guided 3-D Printing of Human Tissue is Unveile s
#Brain-Machine Interface Learns to Control Robot Arm Based on User Error Brain signals Brain-machine interfaces (BMIS) restore
The hardware is equipped with a light source and magnifying lens that gives a phone camera lens excellent visualization of any abnormalities in the cervical tissue.
For example, if a display item has embedded an LED light pulsing a signal at a specific frequency,
However, it clear that Google believes that future hardware shouldn be confined to wraps around the wrist or the body.
At the macroscale, among other applications, invisibility cloaks could prove useful for 3d displays i
we believe it will be much easier to manufacture a full-scale processor chip than for any of the leading designs,
"He said that a key next step for the project is to identify the right industry partners to work with to manufacture the full-scale quantum processor chip.
Such a full-scale quantum processor would have major applications in the finance, security and healthcare sectors, allowing the identification
and aid research to manufacture advanced technologies such as quantum computers and ultra-high-resolution displays. The device, fabricated at Purdue University's Birck Nanotechnology Center, uses a cylindrical gold"nanoantenna"with a diameter of 320 nanometers,
ultra-resolution"opto#uidic"displays; and plasmonic circuitry for quantum logic units. The nanotweezer might be used to create devices containing nanodiamond particles
The system also makes it possible to create patterns to project images, potentially for displays with ultra-fine resolution.
while a first pulse excites the sample under study, a second pulse monitors the change in the sample.
and tapping on our keyboards release energy that largely dissipates, unused. Several years ago, scientists figured out how to capture some of that energy
"The University of Bristol's pioneering'Quantum in the Cloud'is the first and only service to make a quantum processor publicly accessible
high-performance electronics and new 3-D printing technologies,"says Benjamin J. Leever, Ph d, . who is at the Air force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air force base."
The researchers also are developing the same approach to monitor pilots'health. This involves a biosensor system that can measure heartbeat,
Another key advance is the use of active, inexpensive catalysts for fuel production. The photoanode requires a catalyst to drive the essential water-splitting reaction.
Rare and expensive metals such as platinum can serve as effective catalysts, but in its work the team discovered that it could create a much cheaper,
This catalyst is among the most active known catalysts for splitting water molecules into oxygen
This is a crucial step in creating a new generation of foldable electronics-think a flat-screen television that can be rolled up for easy portability-and implantable medical devices.
The researchers used mouse embryonic fibroblast cells to determine biocompatibility; that, along with the fact that the stretchability of gold nanomesh on a slippery substrate resembles the bioenvironment of tissue
"and our approach can define a new speed limit for future processors, by delivering extremely fast on-chip optical data storage"In addition,
"If we can use SPRNT to screen for drugs that specifically disrupt the functioning of these proteins,
potentially outperforming traditional monitoring tools such as cardiac event monitors. The researchers published a paper on their patent-pending process in Advanced Materials on Sept. 23.
which is similar in scope to 3-D printing but different in that material is removed instead of added.
"We are trying to add more types of sensors including blood pressure and oxygen saturation monitors to the low-cost patch."
They are expected also to be used for precise color matching in light-emitting devices and displays,
These attributes should lead to new LEDS and display devices not only with precisely matched colors--better color accuracy and brightness--but also with improved performance lifetime and improved ease of manufacturing."
"QDS are already in use in display devices (e g. Amazon Kindle and a new Samsung TV
#Single atom alloy platinum-copper catalysts cut costs, boost green technology: New generation of catalysts demonstrated for selective hydrogenation of butadiene Abstract:
A new generation of platinum-copper catalysts that require very low concentrations of platinum in the form of individual atoms to cleanly
and cheaply perform important chemical reactions is reported today by Tufts University researchers in the journal Nature Communications.
They synthesized small quantities of realistic catalysts, such as platinum-copper single atom alloy nanoparticles supported on an alumina substrate,
"To our delight, these catalysts worked very well and their performance was steady for many days,
and value-added chemicals from bio-renewable feedstocks, the new, less expensive platinum-copper catalysts could facilitate broader adoption of such environmentally friendly devices and processes,
Together we embarked on a new direction involving single atom alloys as catalysts for selective hydrogenation reactions.
"Sykes and Flytzani-Stephanopoulos have used this approach to design a variety of single atom alloy catalysts that have,
Armed with this knowledge, we are now ready to compare the stability of these single atom alloy catalysts to single atom catalysts supported on various oxide or carbon surfaces.
faster processors and more storage space. Standard memory devices are based on electrons which are displaced by applying voltage.
The possible input is determined by the hardware. This means that all these approaches face a fundamental challenge
not only avoiding the limitations posed by the hardware but we also make the technological implementation scalable."
This new material-of-many-colors offers intriguing possibilities for an entirely new class of display technologies, color-shifting camouflage,
and beetles to create a particularly iridescent display of color. Controlling light with structures rather than traditional optics is not new.
"For consumers, this chameleon material could be used in a new class of display technologies, adding brilliant color presentations to outdoor entertainment venues.
They established a method to integrate silicon photonic chips with the processor in the same package,
resulting in a large distance between the processor chip and the optical components. Offrein and his IBM colleagues from Europe
the United states and Japan instead proposed an integration scheme in which the silicon photonic chips are treated similarly to ordinary silicon processor chips
and are attached directly to the processor package without preassembling them into standard transceiver housings. This improves the performance
#Revolutionary 3-D printing technology uses continuous liquid interface production (w/video) A 3d printing technology developed by Silicon valley startup,
and use it to light up a small LCD display. American Chemical Society) Sang-Woo Kim
Currently, colors on computer and iphone screens come from dye materials pre-placed on the pixels.
The new technology may hold promise for many applications such as for jewelry, automotive interior trim, aviation, signage, colored keypads, electronics and wearable displays s
scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum Mnchen (HMGU) and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt (LMU) in Munich have developed nanocarriers that site-selectively release medicines/drugs at the tumor site in human and mouse lungs.
In the journal, ACS Nano("Protease-Mediated Release of Chemotherapeutics from Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles to ex Vivo Human and Mouse Lung Tumors"),the scientists reported that this approach led to a significant increase
and verify the clinical efficacy in an advanced lung tumour mouse model l
#Artificial hand able to respond sensitively thanks to muscles made from smart metal wires Engineers at Saarland University have taken a leaf out of natures book by equipping an artificial hand with muscles made from shape-memory wire.
#Switchable adhesion principle enables damage-free handling of sensitive devices even in vacuum Components with highly sensitive surfaces are used in automotive, semiconductor and display technologies as well as for complex optical lens systems.
However, a quantum computer displays its talents only for such special tasks: For normal types of basic computations, it is pitifully slow w
and his team at Washington University in St louis were able to see blood flow, blood oxygenation, oxygen metabolism and other functions inside a living mouse brain at faster rates than ever before.
The results are published March 30 in Nature Methods advanced online publication("High-speed label-free functional photoacoustic microscopy of mouse brain in action".
TPM and wide-field optical microscopy, have provided information about the structure, blood oxygenation and flow dynamics of the mouse brain.
which allowed them to get high-resolution, high-speed images of a living mouse brain through an intact skull.
"In addition, we were able to map the mouse brain oxygenation vessel by vessel using this method.""
Touchless touchscreen and heat-sensitive cameras As demonstrated by experiments, the cyberwood sensor can identify warm bodies even at distance;
for instance, in the development of a'touchless touchscreen'that reacts to gestures, with the gestures recorded by multiple sensors.
Researchers are optimistic that the approach can be applied readily to other multimetallic catalysts potentially lowering the cost of catalytic material production.
The Pt3ni nanoframe catalysts achieved a more than 36-fold and 22-fold enhancement in two different measures of catalytic activity (mass and specific activities, respectively) for the oxygen reduction reaction in comparison to state-of-the-art
carbon-supported Pt catalysts (Pt/C) during prolonged exposure to reaction conditions. This work is a significant advance towards developing more efficient electrocatalysts for water-splitting reactions and fuel generation.
and surface composition should be readily applicable to other multimetallic catalysts s
#Plant cell structure discovery could lead to improved renewable materials (Nanowerk News) Major steps forward in the use of plants for renewable materials,
Unlike conventional computers that store data on transistors and hard drives, quantum computers encode data in the quantum states of microscopic objects called qubits.
"Considering that it could potentially be necessary to fabricate millions of FETS for display applications,
The same bonding that makes the molecules soluble for printing fabrication processes also leaves them prone to low melting points,
Today the most commercially successful organic electronic devices are OLEDS (organic light emitting diodes) found in smart phone displays.
"displays the development of a powerful synthetic method that enables rapid access to para-functionalized benzene derivatives to construct libraries of bioactive compounds that are useful in medicinal chemistry.
and, with the help of STEVE, she/he can discover its interior components, such as nucleus and organelles, on any screen and in a limitless amount of colors.
a full 3d image of the cell is displayed on the computer screen. Nanolives technology was published in Nature Photonics in 2013("Marker-free phase nanoscopy),
"Bimetallic lanthanide complexes that display a ratiometric response to oxygen concentration"in the periodical Chemical sciences and"Spectrally resolved confocal microscopy using lanthanide centred near-IR emission"in Chemical Communications.
For example, a keyboard sticker could be used to type and send messages. Currently the sensor stickers are connected via cable to a computer system.
Images showing the development of a human tumour implanted into a mouse, produced using the new device,
#Using lasers to tailor the properties of graphene Carbon nanomaterials display extraordinary physical properties, outstanding among any other substance available,
and the traditional technology used for silicon-based processors (solid state) is not suitable for graphene processing (molecular material).
They then used electrohydrodynamic jet (e-jet) printing technology to precisely print the QD-embedded polymers onto photonic crystal structures.
and more efficient displays. ince screens consume large amounts of energy in devices like laptops, phones,
because the display would only draw half as much power as conventional displays. To demonstrate the technology,
These catalysts work by binding to carbon dioxide molecules, orienting them in a way that is ideal for chemical reactions.
"We're interested in finding new catalytic reactions that will be more efficient than the current catalysts,
Meanwhile, the researchers are interested in searching for other catalysts that might even outperform their copper tetramer.
These catalysts can be varied in size, composition and support material, which results in a list of more than 2, 000 potential combinations, Vajda said.
and then test the catalysts that seem most promising.""We haven't yet found a catalyst better than the copper tetramer,
and evaluated the penetration capability by using mouse brains in vitro/in vivo. In addition, as an actual needle application, we demonstrated fluorescenctce particle depth injection into the brain in vivo,
rather than just relying on traditional chemical screens, says Hubbard, an assistant professor of pharmacology in the University of Albertas Faculty of medicine & Dentistry.
"The University of Bristol's pioneering'Quantum in the Cloud'is the first and only service to make a quantum processor publicly accessible
#A new material for transparent electronics he performance of solar cells, flat panel displays, and other electronics are limited by today's materials.
The development of high-performance transparent conducting oxides (TCOS) is critical to many technologies ranging from flat panel displays to solar cells.
and their small footprint offers large storage capacity all these attributes make them well suited to new data storage applications or high-resolution displays.
or in displays with resolutions that have thus far been hard to attain.""This makes possible displays along the lines of the Kindle reader with a pixel size that is thousand times smaller and a much faster response time,
"the scientist explains s
#New research could help build computers from DNA Scientists have found a way to'switch'the structure of DNA using copper salts
An embedded system with common peripherals. To understand the new technique, you have to know a little about embedded systems.
One part consists of"power stage"hardware that controls the storage and flow of power.
The controller can be designed a specifically circuit or a separate processor which runs special control software.
and incorporated the power converter software into the embedded system processor. These methods guarantee that the other software on the embedded system's processor will not disturb the power converter's correct operation,
"Dean explains.""This eliminates the need for a separate processor or controller circuit on the power converter itself,
which in turn makes the overall system less expensive.""It also makes the embedded system smaller, lighter and more flexible."
"Because the embedded system software and power converter software are using a shared processor on a single chip,
#Turning clothing into information displays Researchers from Holst Centre (set up by TNO and imec), imec and CMST,
imec associated lab at Ghent University, have demonstrated the world first stretchable and conformable thin-film transistor (TFT) driven LED display laminated into textiles.
This paves the way to wearable displays in clothing providing users with feedback. Wearable devices such as healthcare monitors and activity trackers are now a part of everyday life for many people.
Today wearables are separate devices that users must remember to wear. The next step forward will be to integrate these devices into our clothing.
A key step towards realizing wearable devices in clothing is creating displays that can be integrated into textiles to allow interaction with the wearer. earable devices allow people to monitor their fitness
The conformable display is very thin and mechanically stretchable. A fine-grain version of the proven meander interconnect technology was developed by the CMST lab at Ghent University
and Holst Centre to link standard (rigid) LEDS into a flexible and stretchable display. The LED displays are fabricated on a polyimide substrate
and encapsulated in rubber, allowing the displays to be laminated in to textiles that can be washed.
Importantly, the technology uses fabrication steps that are known to the manufacturing industry enabling rapid industrialization.
Following an initial demonstration at the Society for Information Display Display Week in San jose, USA earlier this year, Holst Centre has presented the next generation of the display at the International Meeting on Information Display
These second-generation displays offer higher pitch and increased, average brightness. The presentation will feature a 32x32 pixel demonstrator with a resolution of 13 pixels per inch (ppi) and average brightness above 200 candelas per square meter (cd/m2.
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