but it can still send data over Wi-fi. These prototype gadgets, developed by researchers at the University of Washington,
and battery-free sensors behind couches and cabinets could provide the detailed data needed to make such thermostats more effective. ou could throw these things wherever you want
the power required to actively transmit data is significantly higher. Harvesting ambient radio waves can collect on the order of tens of microwatts of power.
But sending data over Wi-fi requires at least tens of thousands of times more powerundreds of milliwatts at best
To send data to a smartphone for example, one of the new prototypes switches its antenna back and forth between modes that absorb
To send data to the battery-free device a conventional Wi-fi device sends a specific burst of packets that lets the receiving device know it should listen for a transmission.
The data is then is encoded in a stream of further packets with gaps interspersed between them.
is a much better source of data than the wrist because it offers an area where blood flows neatly in and out,
and Leboeuf contends it not necessary to keep them on constantly to collect useful data.
or outside the earbud) analyzes the data, removing oiselike skin movement or sunlight and extracting information like heart and respiration rates.
With accelerometer and blood-flow data, Leboeuf says, Valencell algorithms can also estimate things like the number of calories youe burned.
The data is sent then on to your smartphone. Leboeuf says Valencell technology has been validated by groups outside the company;
Accelerometer data already being collected by the earbuds could even be used to create a sort of 3-D stereoscopic audio experience
in theory, let you store tens or even hundreds of times as much data on your smartphone.
Like flash memory, RRAM can store data without a constant supply of power. Whereas flash memory stores bits of information in the form of charge in transistors
Some prototypes can store data densely enough to enable a terabyte chip the size of a postage stamp. hy don you have all the movies you would like on your iphone?
After decades as a technological laggard, medicine has entered its data age. Mobile technologies, sensors, genome sequencing,
here is a lot of data being gathered. That not enough, says Ed Martin, interim director of the Information Services Unit at the University of California San francisco School of medicine. t really about coming up with applications that make data actionable.
The business opportunity in making sense of that dataotentially $300 billion to $450 billion a year, according to consultants Mckinsey & Companys driving well-established companies like Apple, Qualcomm,
and IBM to invest in technologies from data-capturing smartphone apps to billion-dollar analytical systems.
and others, have invested more than $3 billion in health-care information technology since the beginning of 2013 rapid acceleration from previous years, according to data from Mercom Capital Group.
The groups that control the most medical data today are insurance companies and care providers, and their data analysis is already beginning to change health care.
and processes 1. 4 billion prescriptions a year, has scoured its data from doctorsoffices, pharmacies, and laboratories to detect patterns that might alert doctors to potential adverse drug interactions and other prescription issues.
Data brought in from electronic health records would add doctorsinsights, test results, and medical history. Genetic data would offer insight into
whether patients are predisposed to certain conditions or how they might react to treatments. e want to believe that most of the things we do in medicine are based on evidence,
Data is also changing the role of patients, offering them a chance to play a more central part in their own care.
and provides the patient doctor with treatment recommendations based on the data and established medical guidelines.
Ginger. io uses data collected (with permission) from a phone and other sensors to assess the behavior of people with mental illnesses such as depression.
The goal is to create a central repository where researchers can examine multiple sources of data simultaneously.
data that once would have been locked up in one academic researcher lab will now be readily available to many different experts. o much of that data is already out there,
These guys have gathered the largest historical data set on smoking ever compiled and study how its prevalence is correlated with the types of societies involved.
And yet the Swedes had access to the same data about the dangers of smoking at more or less the same time.
The puzzle is that the data on smoking shows exactly the reverse. Sweden was much slower to adopt smoking and much slower to stop.
According to data released by Alphabet Energy tetrahedrite costs about $4 per kilogram, whereas other thermoelectric materials cost between $24 and $146 per kilogram.
the project expects to be able to compare DNA data with detailed centralized health records (see hy the U k. Wants a Genomic National Health service.
This will be stored on a 20 TB storage unit that should help to handle three months of data,
And because Law and co intend to store all the data produced by the Evryscope, it should also be handy for after-the-fact study of any event in the night sky.
and objects on minute-by-minute timescales in archival data, say Law and co. And they should do at the relatively low cost in the near future. e expect to deploy a prototype of the Evryscope system in early 2015,
Cyber-spies use rojansand ack doorsto access data on their targetscomputer networks, remotely monitor them,
The most effective method to protect data against cyber-spying is to process confidential information on dedicated computers that are connected not to the Internet.
That allows the data from each sensor to be compared and combined to produce a far more precise estimate of orientation than a single measurement alone.
which combines the data from all the sensors. The fused data is streamed then to a conventional laptop.
However Nguyen and Banic recognised the bulkiness of this set up. This wired connection later could be replaced by a wireless solution using a pair of XBEE modules they say.
#Facebook s Emotional Manipulation Study Is Just the Latest Effort to Prod Users With emotion-triggering effort, Facebook pushes beyond data-driven studies on voting, sharing,
With huge amounts of data flooding in from more than a billion users, the company has a unique position to study their every move
Mining personal data is a billion-dollar business (see he Data Made Me Do it designed to elicit purchases, garner eyeballs,
Facebook data use policy is far more vague, saying that it might use your data for nternal operations,
including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, and service improvement. This lack of consent is concerning to Antonio Damasio,
capture free over-the-air TV broadcasts on tiny antennas in data centersne antenna per customernd send that content over the Internet to individual subscribers,
and senior author of the JAMA study. think the data supports implementing tomosynthesis for screening,
the technology could also allow confirmation that data streaming from the device is coming from the right person,
That could mean anything from multimedia scavenger hunts to faster access to nutritional data. Bezos used the example of an app called Myfitnesspal
which could use Firefly to recognize something like a bag of Cheetos and show its nutrition data.
That would allow a quantum computer to process data many times faster than any conventional computer.
Microsoft research focuses on a type of qubit known as a topological qubit that theory suggests would encode data in a much more robust way.
Facebook Puts Its Apps on a Data Diet as Part of a Global Internet Campaign As Facebook eyes the six billion or so people in the world who don use its services,
Not with moneyrofits are growing healthilyut with the data demands that Facebook use places on mobile networks.
The data diet campaign began after a group of Facebook product managers traveled to several African countries last year. ur apps were crashing all the time
and they maxed out their data plan in 40 minutes, said Parikh. e now have a whole team of people focused on reducing data consumption.
There continual effort to drive data use down. That effort has seen already the data use of Facebook main Android app drop by 50 percent.
That trend continues across all of Facebook apps, said Parikh. The move to be thriftier with usersdata is a part of the Internet. org project launched by Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg last year.
Its stated aim is to bring affordable Internet access to everyone on the planet an effort that could incidentally supply Facebook with many new customers (see acebook Two Faces.
Parikh said that slashing app data use fits into an equally important arm of the project focused on people that can access Internet infrastructure
Making apps more economical with data is one thing that could help such people, he said.
and charge for data use. ee working with carriers to rethink how they price and offer data plans,
said Parikh t
#Designing Connections From the beginning, the MIT Mobile Experience Lab has focused on using digital technology to maintain human interaction and human connections at the community level.
and data about their communities using a smartphone application based on the Mobile Experience Lab Open Locast technology.
says the Google data shows progress. ore e-mail is being encrypted between mail servers, he says. ne would hope that a general,
To work properly, Tashev system also needs data on the position of the headphones as a person moves his head
It draws on online content and a company internal data to offer important information, context,
and cars to the Internet, unleashing new streams of data about our everyday lives, one mobile ad company scents a new opportunity.
when more and more data on people actions in the real world is becoming available as wearable devices, Internet-connected home automation equipment,
and cars with integrated data connections head to market. Those new data streams could form the basis for many new services and products,
and streams vehicle data to a smartphone app to help users track their driving, their fuel economy,
and their vehicle maintenance status. Kiip will use data from that device to target promotions inside the Mojio phone app.
Sprague says that getting access to data from a car engine and safety systems could unlock some unprecedented approaches to ad targeting.
Similarly, Sprague says that gaining access to data from connected home gadgets, such as thermostats or home automation systems, could also allow for creative new ads.
Kiip hasn announced yet any partnerships that that might provide that data, though. Kiip currently sells ads to brands including General mills and American Apparel.
and some other companies make it clear that a person is getting a direct benefit in return for sharing data,
However, Kiip and other companies moving in that direction must try to find a way of offering advertisers new ways to reach people without leaving those people feeling that they no longer control their own data. he user that going to interact with your brand really needs to know what they are giving up,
because Geico looked at my data, I want to be the one in control. The way I drive my car is personal information. l
#An Easy Interface for the Internet of things With the advent of the Internet of things, potentially billions of devices will report data about themselves,
Bug Labs is giving people a simple one-click way to publish data from a hingto its own Web page (Bug Labs calls this weeting.
The data is now on a public Web page and available for analysis and aggregation; another click stops this sharing.
Prasad showed how Freeboard could quickly unlock the value of vehicle-generated data. He been experimenting with Freeboard using a car data interface called Open XC.
Prasad took data on the on-off state of windshield wipers to come up with a prototype of a warning alert that could someday be dispatched to a car a few kilometers back to warn the driver of wet roads. set it up
and did it in a matter of a few minutesnd I don code for a living,
and easily be turned into a weet streamof location or other data. Semmelhack showed off one application a Freeboard dashboard of a whiskey still in Washington built by of one of his developersfathers.
If you re using Firechat its nearby chat room lets you exchange messages with other users within 100 feet without sending data via your cellular provider.
The new feature of ios7 currently only supports data moving directly from one device to another and from one device to several others.
so that data can hop between two iphones out of range of one another via intermediary devices.
Recent revelations about large-scale surveillance of online services and the constant litany of data breaches make this a good time for apps that don t rely on central servers he says.
because the feature that Firechat relies on cannot be used to share data connectivity. Peer-to-peer mobile communications and mesh networks could prove especially important in countries with minimal communications infrastructure.
Data plans will cost extran average of around $16 a month. GM says it expects to sell 4g-equipped 2015 Chevrolets and other models starting in June.
since it pulling data from the car, it locked down before it ever gets into the vehicle.
In the longer term, apps will emerge that draw on data generated by the car, says GM Ross.
or driving efficiencyr to generate data for insurance discounts. Apps tapping information from many cars could alert drivers to accidents;
the amount of data vehicles produce. he car is already probably the densest sensor hub that an individual owns right now,
In Audi case, the service will cost $100 for up to five gigabytes of data over six months,
The U s. government circumvented Google security measures and secretly collected customer data. British spies scooped up millions of webcam images from Yahoo.
hoping to do for data what The swiss once did for Nazi gold and billionairesbank accounts. Thanks to its privacy laws and discreet culture, the country is emerging as a hub for advanced security technology.
At the same time, screens transmit dynamic data instantaneously to any devices equipped with cameras behind the scene, unobtrusively, in real time.
so that camera-equipped devices can fetch the data by turning their cameras to the screen.
and how it will collect facial data. The news come a week after the state launched its"Made in China"campaign,
and how it will collect facial data. The news come a week after the state launched its"Made in China"campaign,
The advantage of the"feeling prosthesis"is that the brain once again receives real data and can stop its frantic search."
The advantage of the"feeling prosthesis"is that the brain once again receives real data and can stop its frantic search."
and transmit that data to a tablet. This allows researchers and dog handlers to monitor the dog's physical well-being."
and transmit that data to a tablet. This allows researchers and dog handlers to monitor the dog's physical well-being."
"This discovery was made possible by using 30 years of data and biologic specimens. Rappocciolo and her colleagues searched for patterns in gene expression,
as data from a trial in Guinea showed a vaccine was 100 percent effective. Initial results from the trial,
As data began to emerge showing the very high protection rates in those vaccinated immediately,
Samsung T1 series will support data transfer speed up to 450mb per second. Samsung will offer the drive by the end of January in US
SSD market has grown faster due to the data write and read speed. Also, with improved performance, consumers don mind shelling out extra money for SSD.
and boasts integration with high speed LED data. All the functions of the virtual cockpit are controllable by voice commands.
the data proved to be not as informative as they needed for operating. wasn going to operate on her based on the data that we already had said
wee seen how various medical imaging data including CT SCANS and MRIS, among others, have been used to create digital 3d models that are printed then out and used as a replica of a patient actual body part for the sake of practicing a surgical procedure in advance of an operation
Within just three seconds, the scanner gathers all the necessary data for a digital rendering. Selecting one of the available shoe shapes (there are ten available designs at the moment),
while also collecting data on how to continually make the experience more seamless. Ultimately, the goal is to develop
Onsight will use real rover data and extend the Curiosity mission existing planning tools by creating a 3-D simulation of the Martian environment where scientists around the world can meet.
The Onsight system uses holographic computing to overlay visual information and rover data into the user field of view.
and data from this mission will advance understanding of this form of propulsion. This first Lightsail mission specifically is designed to test the spacecraft critical systems,
During the next month, the Lightsail team will receive data from the satellite in space. As part of its agreement with NASA, the Planetary Society will provide the agency a report on outcomes and scientific findings.
By comparing the Chandra data to prior images of dust clouds detected by the Mopra radio telescope in Australia
The radio data provides the distance to the different clouds and the X-ray echo determines the location of Circinus X-1 relative to the clouds.
An analysis of the rings with the combined radio data allows researchers to use simple geometry to accurately determine the distance of Circinus X-1 from Earth. e like to call this system the ord of the Rings,
The new Chandra data allows astronomers to make a detailed three-dimensional map of the dust clouds between Circinus X-1 and us, providing a valuable probe of the structure of the galaxy.
and helps in relaying game data to other players through the cloud. On the basis of the game you play,
the researchers need to subtract the data from the images and integrate the same by means of single particle 3d reconstruction
"We are presenting applications data at this week's ASMS Conference, and plan to commence shipments in Q3 2015."
and characterizing, at the single cell level, whole proteomes--data that shows globally within such a cell
This was the first time anyone had applied machine learning to Fourier Transform light scattering data, Park said. They are now looking to extend their initial work to see
based partly on data from simulations used by the medical community. They found that the gold-bonded iodine-125 emitted six times as many low energy electrons as plain iodine-125.
generating valuable data and insights that will transform consumer experiences. n the highly competitive consumer market of inertial sensors,
The power of this innovative instrument is to simultaneously process large amounts of data, thus addressing a major bottleneck in pharmaceutical research:
rapid, data-rich biomedical imaging. By merging data simultaneously collected by thousands of microlenses optical elements each smaller than the width of a human hair this new multispectral microscope is able to produce a continuous series of datasets that essentially reveal how much of multiple colors
are present at each point in a single biological sample. harmaceutical research is awash with cutting-edge equipment that tries to image
Multispectral Imaging Color and Data Combinemultispectral imaging is used for a variety of scientific and medical research applications.
it also provides data about specific colors, or frequencies, in that image. Medical researchers are able to study these frequencies to learn about the composition
however, is very data intensive and slow since current multispectral microscopes can only survey a single point at a time with few color channels,
which massive amounts of data and calculations are handled simultaneous by multicore processors. In the case of imaging,
each responsible for collecting multispectral data for a very narrow portion of each sample. To capture this data,
a laser is focused onto a small spot on the sample by each microlens. The laser light causes the sample to fluoresce,
The Challenge of Big Datathis novel approach initially presented a challenge in the data pipeline.
and process a tremendous amount of data each second. Over time, the availability and prices of fast cameras and fast hard drives have come down considerably,
The current limiting factor is loading the recorded data from hard drives to active computer memory to produce an image.
Rapid and Inexpensive Modulator for Future Data Tansmission In February 1880 in his laboratory in Washington the American inventor Alexander graham bell developed a device
Today, huge amounts of data are sent incredibly fast through fibre optic-cables cables as light pulses. For that purpose they first have to be converted from electrical signals,
and thus to create the pulses necessary for data transfer, the researchers use the working principle of an interferometer.
Every year increasing amounts of data need to be transmitted at ever higher speed, which leads to an increasing energy consumption.
which is a way of saying that I would prefer to generate a hypothesis from the data
"The researchers have begun the process of mining their imaging data by looking first at an area of the brain that receives sensory information from mouse whiskers,
"As long as data is showing you things that are unexpected, then you're definitely doing the right thing.
when we look at this data that we don't see something that we've never seen before
#Data Translation's ARM-Based Dynamic Signal Analyzer Module for Noise and Vibration Measurement To assist OEM users complete source code is provided that can be modified
where software processes all the data and relays it to her avatar. Huber shoulder pad is part of the akrobatik@home project.
The data are deciphered then to reveal details about subsurface structures. Each survey can cost tens of millions of dollars,
Another cable connects the sensor array to a platform in order to collect data in real time. The sensors record ambient seismic waves traveling through Earth's crust.
Linktop cloud thermometer can get the measurement data very quickly, which far surpasses other thermometers in the market.
and the users can read real time measurement data from an easy to use but highly sophisticated app.
Users can also share the data with others by uploading them to the cloud. During CES, Linktop will present many more new and innovative products,
NASA's Earth observing missions and NOAA JPSS constellation. ris is proven technology that is already providing high-quality environmental data to the meteorological and climate communities on Suomi NPP,
and additional data for analysis of signal scattering and reflections to help researchers develop network protocols that account for distortions.
The data is quantified then directly in the field for immediate feedback. The small droplets enable the device to produce millions of copies of any specified DNA sequence in minutes.
a need for more radio spectrum, an ever-increasing demand for data, and consumersincreasing unwillingness to pay for it.
A home automation sensor, for example, may periodically transmit state information with a low data requirement,
and the key is more high-quality weather data.""Pyxis will track GPS signals traveling through Earth's atmosphere and convert them into dense, precise measurements of global temperature,
pressure and water vapor similar to data collected by weather balloons but on a global scale using a technique called GPS Radio Occultation (GPS-RO).
or more than 10 times the amount of data available from GPS-RO sensors currently on orbit.
However, the amount of GPS-RO data available to date has been sparse. The Pyxis sensor development team is based in Boulder
#The PAC1921, available in a 10-lead 3x3 mm VDFN package, was designed with the 2-Wire bus to maximize data and diagnostic reporting,
while having the analog output to minimize data latency. The analog output can also be adjusted for use with 3v, 2v, 1. 5v or 1v microcontroller inputs.
It has the ability to integrate more than two seconds of power-consumption data. Additionally, the PAC1921 has a READ/INT pin for host control of the measurement period;
"The PAC1921 accomplishes this by combining a digital current sensor to maximize data and diagnostic reporting,
together with an analog current sensor to minimize data latency. c
#New Wireless Temperature and Vibration Sensor from Banner Engineering for Excellent Machine Monitoring Banner Engineering introduces its wireless vibration and temperature sensor.
and temperature data to the gateway for collection and trending. anner wireless sensor provides continuous vibration
All data logging and readings are easily visible, and the main display also incorporates real-time trend graphing
which will allow sensors to be incorporated into electronic apparel for measuring biological data, including heart rate and muscle contraction.
and encrypt data. n
#DIRHA Prototype Enables People with Disabilities to use Voice as a Remote control to Access Home Devices Based on advanced voice recognition and audio signal processing technology,
The latest version of the GF320 now embeds GPS data into the image allowing workers to pinpoint the location of the leak
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