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for display purposes, are housed in a robust plastic coating. The cell is just 1 millimetre thick with a surface area of 80 square centimetres;

you are inherently close to a user of heat. So you can make use of that heat. ou cannot send heat down a power line;

both the user of electricity and the user of heat are there. he Ceres system,

New Software Could Make Better Personal Assistants You can already use your smartphone to locate the nearest Thai restaurant

A new software program that integrates with a phone's voice recognition system (such as Apple's computerized assistant,

works by allowing users to specify their preferences for example, by telling the software if they're willing to forgo going out for breakfast

in order to catch the right bus. 11 Odd and Intriguing Smart Home Technologies"The idea is that you really have a dialogue with this system.

which is developing the software. The program, known as the Personal Transportation system, or PTS, was conceived originally as a joint project between the MERS group, the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford university and aerospace giant Boeing,

This smart software understands what risks exist ranging from inclement weather to traffic jams as well as what kinds of risks a user is willing to take.

With this information, the program can help a user make plans that are feasible but that also reflect his or her preferences."

"Humans aren't very good at estimating risk, "Williams said.""We aren't very rational,

"While the flying car that the software was developed originally for is still a work in progress, there are plenty of other uses for a software system that can assess risk,

Williams said. For example, people who plan routes for mass transit systems could use the program to help them come up with the most efficient ways around a city.

the software can suggest other solutions that might work (such as having the buses reach their destination at 12-minute intervals instead of 10-minute ones).

These alternate solutions still keep the user's constraints or goals in mind, so even though the buses arrive less frequently,

when it is time to plug in, but also help people find the best place to recharge

and used an infrared laser to scan each mouse. The researchers found that the nanoparticles caused bright spots where cancer cells

Another printer uses a combination of conductive inks and filaments to print quadcopters already embedded with the electronics that allow them to hover in the air.

One company displayed a prototype of a 3d printed medical device that can automatically stitch up patients after surgery.

But you would use our printer to build things that aren't developed yet: theories, research.

and MC-2 printers were both on display at CES. The machines use a process known as stereolithography (SLA), in

This technique sets OWL's printers apart from other 3d printers on the market, such as Makerbot's Replicator or the Ultimaker 2, that use a process known as fused deposition modeling (FDM), not SLA.

But OWL's machines are advanced more than these printers, according to Liverman, who said that his company's machines print objects that are 200 times more accurate,

than objects created with other SLA printers. OWL is currently using its super-accurate printers to bring complex ideas to life.

For example, cancer researchers who want to deliver localized treatments to patients are using OWL's machines to build what Liverman called"microfluidic devices."

"You can inject stem cells into the scaffold that you build with the printer and then you can,

"Coming off the printer is not just a plastic shape but a fully functioning electronic device,"said Voxel8 cofounder Daniel Oliver.

At CES, Voxel8 showed off a quadcopter printed with its machine. The flying toy was built in layers the structure of the device was printed in plastic with cavities carved out for the control logic board and the motors.

The printer then used conductive ink (which takes the place of wires) on top of the plastic, connecting these electrical components.

Voxel8's printer is designed to do more than just print tiny drones. The company will also be releasing new printing materials in order to try its hand at printing resistors, sensors and, for future models of its printer, even lithium-ion batteries.

These objects are in addition to the custom circuit boards that Voxel8's printers have perfected already.""We're talking about printing out a circuit at your desk in less than 30 minutes,

"Oliver said. This represents a vast improvement over earlier options for printing custom circuit boards, a process that,

Oliver said, traditionally could take up to a month to complete. Engineers and developers will not only be able to realize their designs much quicker with a Voxel8 printer,

they'll also be able to try out unconventional geometries for their electronics, Oliver said. For example, rather than trying to get a rectangular circuit board to fit inside a curved object,

it will now be possible to customize the shape of a circuit so that it fits inside objects of any shape or size."

Light-based technologies such as optical fiber networks allow us to connect rapidly with people worldwide over the internet.

Light emitting diodes (LEDS) are now everywhere from consumer electronics like smart phones to light bulbs for home lighting.

That such nanostructures could even be made is because of the decades-long investment by the electronics industry in developing nanofabrication tools to make the tiny components in computers.

In a recent blog post and video, the billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist showed off what he called an"ingenious machine,

"a steam-powered sewage processor that burns up solid waste and creates both potable water and electricity.

Gates wrote in his blog post. But the solution to this devastating problem isn't to build more toilets.

and webcams that will let engineers in the United states control the machine remotely.""It might be many years before the processor is being used widely,

"Gates wrote in his blog post.""But I was impressed really with Janicki engineering. And I excited about the business model.

The processor wouldn just keep human waste out of the drinking water; it would turn waste into a commodity with real value in the marketplace.

It the ultimate example of that old expression: one man trash is another man treasure. t

For instance, Samsung introduced a computer monitor made of 30 percent recycled plastic that runs on less energy

when it's not in use than conventional monitors. Electronics company LG announced a whole line of"greener"home appliances that use less energy and water than the company's previous models

or Coinstar machine) that allows users to exchange old electronics for cold, hard cash. While it's not exactly new (the first ecoatm launched in 2009),

where onlookers crowded around to watch the machine assess the value of beloved smartphones. The electronics that ecoatm reclaims can be mined for the valuable and rare metals they contain.

Automatic lets you harness the computing power of your car for the sake of fuel efficiency.

Once plugged in, Automatic connects the car's computer system to your smartphone, relaying data about all of your car's subsystems from the gas tank to the engine.

Solpro Of course, the Misfit Shine isn't the only product at this year's CES that gets its power from the sun. Solar tech company Solpro unveiled its new solar-powered phone-charging device, the Helios Smart

These panels can absorb enough sunlight in 90 minutes to charge a standard smartphone according to the company.

"Pike told Live Science in an email. People want alternative, sustainable options for generating energy,

As fitness trackers and other wearable devices have flooded the market, a vast amount of data has been produced on everything from how often people tossed

Personalized preferences The early versions of fitness trackers would estimate how many calories a user burned based on weight and height.

It also lets users enter goals for themselves, such as maintaining their body weight, building muscle or controlling chronic health conditions.

Stonecrysus allows users to track the food they're eating with a user friendly picture of their mealthey can place portions of common foods on an image of a plate,

but past activity monitors haven't really taken advantage of that knowledge. But a new app called Lifeq takes data from wearables, such as movement and heart rate,

and then plugs them into a computer model that uses hundreds of mathematical equations that relates those variables to many others,

versus while typing at a computer. A small study suggests their system works: In a trial with 10 people exercising to 40 percent of their maximum effort, their model was able to accurately predict heart rate and respiration s

and it is nearly impossible for these printers to produce semiconductors or single crystalline metals,

Video game Therapy Proving Powerful for Stroke Patients (Op-Ed) The critical advance of this technology is the navigation tool,

From sensors that aim to halt asthma in its tracks, to home monitors that warn the family

several new trackers on display at the 2015 Consumer electronics Show are going far beyond older medical alert systems.

and allow that person to email health care providers, so that chances can be made to their daily medicines or lifestyle.

including a heart-rate monitor, sensors that track when someone got out of bed or made a phone call.

if the user has released a standby button, so that an onlooker can help administer it in case the owner of the pen is incapacitated p

That's the grim outlook from board members of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Frustrated with a lack of international action to address climate change and shrink nuclear arsenals,

to a computer that acted as a kind of artificial motor cortex. The computer used specific signals from the parietal cortex to detect what kind of movement Sorto intended to make,

and then translated that into signals for the robotic arm. Video: Tetraplegic Patient Controls Robotic Limb With His Brain In a video by the researchers, Sorto used the arm to serve himself a beer.

Sorto's ability to sip a brew came from the fact that the signals from the parietal cortex told the computer the general trajectory of the movement Sorto wanted to make,

and the computer could smooth out the movements of the artificial arm so that they resembled those of a real arm.

but in the new prosthesis, the computer looked at the whole picture of what Sorto intended to do just"get the beer,

what such perception could"feel like for a user, because there are many components that go into a person's perception of his or her own body.

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#1 Pinprick Test Could Detect Hundreds of Viruses Doctors often don't have a complete picture of their patients'health histories they only know about past illnesses that a patient remembers

the resulting technology could offer new ways to make displays or study high-temperature phenomena at small scales,

#Water Droplet-Powered Computers Could Run Mini Science labs A computer made using water and magnets can move droplets around inside itself like clockwork,

The device demonstrates a new way to merge computer calculations with the manipulation of matter, scientists added.

the goal is not to compete with electronic computers on traditional computing tasks such as word processing. Rather

the aim is to develop a completely new class of computers to precisely control matter.

7 Robotic Futures"The fundamental limits of computation, such as how fast you can go or how small devices can be,

"We flipped that idea on its head why can't we use computations to manipulate physical entities?"

The presence of a droplet in any given space represents a one in computer data

interactions among the droplets are analogous to computations, the researchers said. The layout of the bars on these new microfluidic chips is analogous to the layout of circuits on microchips, controlling interactions among the droplets.

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#Elusive New Pentaquark Particle Discovered After 50-Year Hunt After 50 years, the hunt is over.

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#Novel Use of WI-FI Signals to Power Remote Devices, named Powi-Fi The scientists from the University of Washington have devised a method to utilize Wi-fi signals to power a battery-free camera,

demonstrating the possibility of using Wi-fi signals to broadcast power to remote devices. They have named the new approach as'Powi-Fi'signifying'power over Wi-fi'.

'In a report published in the MIT Technology Review, Vamsi Talla, an Indian origin scientist along with colleagues at the University of Washington in Seattle have asserted that Wi-fi radio broadcasts are a form of energy

and a simple antenna with the receivers can pick up this energy. Talla demonstrated his claim by connecting an antenna to a temperature sensor

and placing it close to a Wi-fi router. The resulting voltage in the device was measured then

and it was observed for how long the device can operate on the remote power source. When the team connected a camera to their antenna

Talla informed,"The battery-free camera can operate up to about five meters from the router,

Moreover, the researcher claimed that the router could even power the camera through a brick wall.

The team also used Wi-fi signals to charge a Jawbone fitness device from a no-charge state to 41%charged state in 2. 5 hours.

The MIT report stated that power-over-Wi-fi could be the enabling technology that finally brings the'Internet of things'to life e

or a computer that can be folded up and carried on your person. This electron microscope image shows tiny nanoparticles of bismuth ferrite embedded in a polymer film.

Multi-ferroric materials such as this could be used in high-density energy efficient memory and switches in wearable devices.

or other therapies safely to sites of disease are already seeing the light of day.

researchers at the University of Bonn in Germany made a skeletal muscle of a mouse contract in response to light.

The team introduced a gene into a mouse that codes for a protein normally produced by light sensing blue-green algae.

but by producing it within the mouse own cells, it has the same effect of contracting muscle cells

The researchers specifically focused on the larynx that they removed from the mouse so that light can be delivered correctly.

Here a video of a mouse larynx being opened and closed in response to light g

#Rice Microendoscope Hopes to Make Esophageal Biopsies Thing of Past (VIDEO) At Rice university engineers have been working on making certain biopsies unnecessary by imaging suspected tissues without excising them.

#Robotic Arm System Senses Quadriplegic Man Intentions for Movement Control Brain-computer interfaces have been used in the past to control prosthetic devices.

The researchers created software that processed and decoded the signals, which then were converted into control signals to move the robotic arm.

in order to improve the overall function prostheses controlled by brain computer interfaces. Here an example of the patient using the new robotic arm system controlled via the posterior parietal cortex:

It smaller than any other comparable device and unlike other primary cell systems, it comes with a wireless remote that can be used by the patient to adjust therapy options.

The device is programmed via the Illumina 3d software that takes into account the spatial positioning of the leads

said Dr. Simon Thomson, a consultant in Pain Management and Neuromodulation at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals, UK. he simplicity of the programming software saves valuable time in the operating theatre,

Unlike any other primary cell system, the Precision Novi intuitive Illumina 3d neural targeting software incorporates three-dimensional lead location,

This point-and-click technology automatically calculates the optimal programming configuration to target the selected pain area.

#Medtronic Minimed Connect Wirelessly Monitors CGM, Insulin Pump Medtronic just received FDA clearance and will soon make available its new Minimed Connect device to keep an eye on insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors.

The device wirelessly interfaces with Medtronic Minimed Minimed 530g with Enlite or the Minimed Paradigm Revel insulin pumps,

which in turn have access to continuous glucose monitor sensor data. All this is passed via Bluetooth to the patient smartphone,

where glucose charts and insulin injections are tracked automatically. The readings can be shared with loved ones and caretakers,

The data can be viewed using a smartphone app or via a browser accessible website. Moreover

or when an alarm on the pump is addressed not quickly by the user. The Minimed Connect device will be available for over-the-counter purchase for about $200.

It is currently compatible with iphones and ipod Touch devices, while an Android app is already in the works.

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#Gastrisail Lights Up Stomach from Within for Accurate Sleeve Gastrectomy Procedures Medtronic just released in the U s. the Gastrisail gastric positioning system for sleeve gastrectomy procedures.

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#World First Prosthetic Leg With Real Sense of Feeling Researchers at the University of Applied sciences Upper Austria are reporting the installation of the first prosthetic leg with the ability of letting the wearer feel the ground beneath.

The camera detects objects in front of the user, sending signals to the intraoral device that has an array of electrodes on the surface.

allowing the user to get a general idea of what ahead. The technology certainly doesn come close to natural vision in being able to recognize objects,

the researchers wrote a computer program that spots the relevant parameters within OCT scan data. The results come back as a 3d color map of the tissue under the probe,

The team used a motorized robot that was controlled via an ECG cap by the user thoughts alone.

The users underwent about 10 days of training before testing their skills against other users.

This way the user can provide overall directions, and the robot figuring out the details of how to get from point A to B. Here an EPFL video showing off the technology n

#Flexible Wiring to Make Garments Into Body Sensors Wearable devices for measuring various diagnostic parameters are becoming more common by the day,

#Scientists 3d Print Bone Tissue With Live Cells and Pre-Loaded Proteins Printing bone tissue sounds like a great idea,

Now a partnership between scientists at University of Nottingham in the UK and Cornell University in New york have developed a way of printing bonelike biocompatible material at room temperature

and accompanying software that lets users type by simply looking at letters on a screen,

and software that is calibrated for the user unique needs. It can be used to issue a general alarm

#St jude Medical Invisible Trial System Uses ipads, ipods to Control Pain Relieving Neurostimulator St jude Medical landed FDA approval to introduce its Invisible Trial System,

ruining the experience for many potential users of the technology. The Invisible Trial System instead uses an Apple ipod touch and an ipad mini as the control system, improving how both patients

and physicians program and control the temporary stimulator. Moreover, the system relies on wireless Bluetooth connectivity to talk to the neurostimulator

completely getting rid of cables that have been used in the past to connect to the device. The ipad mini is used by the physician to program the neurostimulator

and assess its effectiveness in treating pain, while the ipod touch is for the patient to control the level of therapy throughout the day.

It also HAS LED a tiny built-in that can deliver light to the implantation site because it was developed originally for studying optogenetics,

#Wize Mirror to Monitor Health, Prevent Cardio-Metabolic Diseases Seasoned primary care physicians often have an uncanny ability to notice symptoms by simply looking at their patients.

as well as harnessing the results to provide health guidance to the user. The team has developed a prototype device called a Wize Mirror,

and facial recognition software identifies how stressed or calm you are. There is also a gas analyzer that will tell you

saline solution--making the entire process safe and harmless,"according to SALT Corp.,at their website. Even better

It even comes equipped with a USB port for charging smartphone batteries. In the event that you don't carry a bag of salt with you,

There enough interest, Suriol says, that he fields upward of 200 emails a day from people inquiring about the turbine.

#New Honeycomb-Inspired Design Protects Against Impacts Conventional honeycomb structures are insular panels of repeating, often hexagonal-shaped cells in a range of sizes and configurations.

#Computing at the speed of light Engineers have taken a step forward in creating the next generation of computers and mobile devices capable of speeds millions of times faster than current machines.

The Utah engineers have developed an ultracompact beamsplitter the smallest on record for dividing light waves into two separate channels of information.

Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Rajesh Menon and colleagues describe their invention today in the journal Nature Photonics.

Silicon photonics could significantly increase the power and speed of machines such as supercomputers data center servers and the specialized computers that direct autonomous cars and drones with collision detection.

Eventually, the technology could reach home computers and mobile devices and improve applications from gaming to video streaming. ight is the fastest thing you can use to transmit information,

says Menon. ut that information has to be converted to electrons when it comes into your laptop.

In that conversion, youe slowing things down. The vision is to do everything in light. hotons of light carry information over the Internet through fiber-optic networks.

But once a data stream reaches a home or office destination the photons of light must be converted to electrons before a router

or computer can handle the information. That bottleneck could be eliminated if the data stream remained as light within computer processors. ith all light,

computing can eventually be millions of times faster, says Menon. To help do that, the U engineers created a much smaller form of a polarization beamsplitter

(which looks somewhat like a barcode) on top of a silicon chip that can split guided incoming light into its two components.

Before, such a beamsplitter was over 100 by 100 microns. Thanks to a new algorithm for designing the splitter

Menon team has shrunk it to 2. 4 by 2. 4 microns, or one-fiftieth the width of a human hair and close to the limit of what is physically possible.

The beamsplitter would be just one of a multitude of passive devices placed on a silicon chip to direct light waves in different ways.

mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets built with this technology would consume less power, have longer battery life

and generate less heat than existing mobile devices. The first supercomputers using silicon photonics already under development at companies such as Intel

and IBM will use hybrid processors that remain partly electronic. Menon believes his beamsplitter could be used in those computers in about three years.

Data centers that require faster connections between computers also could implement the technology soon, he says.

Image: The overhead view of a new beamsplitter for silicon photonics chips that is the size of one-fiftieth the width of a human hair.

University of Utah Electrical and Computer engineering Associate professor Rajesh Menon is leading a team that has created the world smallest beamsplitter for silicon photonic chips.

The discovery will lead to computers and mobile devices that could be millions of times faster than machines today

because the information or data that is computed or shuttled is done through light instead of electrons. Photo credit:

Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineering Source: http://unews. utah. edu/news releases/..

#Charting quantum signatures of electronic transport in graphene Over the last seven years, Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi has built several hundred nanoscale stacked graphene systems to study their electronic properties."

What excites physicists is that this butterfly is one of the rare examples of a fractal pattern in quantum physics."

non-biodegradable and potentially toxic materials-are discarded at an alarming rate in consumers'pursuit of the next best electronic gadget.

and computer engineering professor Zhenqiang"Jack"Ma, described the new device in a paper published May 26, 2015 by the journal Nature Communications("High-performance green flexible electronics based on biodegradable

or support layer, of a computer chip, with cellulose nanofibril (CNF), a flexible, biodegradable material made from wood."

Yei Hwan Jung, a graduate student in electrical and computer engineering and a co-author of the paper,

Surface diffusion is atoms hopping around, site to site, somewhat chaotically, almost like a fluid.

We have an array of emitters that can be thought of as a dot matrix-printer printer where you would be able to individually control each emitter to print deposits of nanofibers. angled talenanofibers are useful for any application that benefits from a high ratio of surface area to volume solar cells, for instance,

We have an array of emitters that can be thought of as a dot matrix-printer printer where you would be able to individually control each emitter to print deposits of nanofibers. angled talenanofibers are useful for any application that benefits from a high ratio of surface area to volume solar cells, for instance,

right Visible light Emission from Graphene, is published in the Advance Online Publication (AOP) on Nature Nanotechnology's website on June 15."

and transparent displays, and graphene-based on-chip optical communications.""Creating light in small structures on the surface of a chip is crucial for developing fully integrated'photonic'circuits that do with light

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