#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.
"could lead to ultracompact optical systems such as advanced microscopes, displays, sensors, and cameras that can be mass-produced using the same photolithography techniques used to manufacture computer microchips."
"Currently, optical systems are made one component at a time, and the components are assembled often manually, "says Andrei Faraon (BS'04), an assistant professor of applied physics and materials science,
Manipulating the polarization of light is essential for the operation of advanced microscopes, cameras, and displays;
As well as offering new opportunities for industry, it will stimulate the search for even better basic catalysts
Catalysts come in multiple forms including: acids, solid metal nanoparticles, and large protein molecules or enzymes in human bodies.
Ninety percent of industrially important chemicals are made using catalysts. It is a major field in applied science;
and Xin decided to use existing data to train computer algorithms to make predictions of new materials,
an extremely useful chemical in industry for making plastics. his study opens a new way for designing metal-based catalysts with complexities, for example, geometry and composition, promoters and poisons, defects,
the lab assembled three-dimensional computer models of illared graphene nanostructures, akin to the boron nitride structures modeled in a previous study to analyze heat transfer between layers. his time we were interested in a comprehensive understanding of the elastic and inelastic properties
#Inexpensive new carbon-based catalysts can be tuned fine Researchers at MIT and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new type of catalyst that can be tuned to promote desired chemical reactions,
Catalysts enhance the rate of a chemical reaction but are consumed not in the process. As a result, the repeated action of very small amounts of a catalyst can have large and long-lasting effects.
By finding a way to make this material tunable in the same ways as molecular catalysts
In addition to their possible uses in fuel cells, such new catalysts could also be useful for enhancing chemical reactions,
and metamaterials offers tantalizing future prospects for technologies such as high resolution optical microscopes and superfast optical computers.
invisibility cloaks could prove useful for 3d displays s
#Physicists discover spiral vortex patterns from electron waves In their new study("Electron Vortices in Photoionization by Circularly Polarized Attosecond Pulses),
and printer right at the hospital to create custom nerve guides right on site to restore nerve function."
During the last decades these computers have become more and more powerful by integrating ever smaller components on silicon chips.
This is very difficult for a regular computer, while humans and possibly also our circuits can do this much better."
#New frontiers in 3d printing Three dimensional printing is revolutionizing the production of new devices and structures, including soft robots,
for the first time, allow for the simultaneous control of composition and geometry during printing. Lewis is a Core Faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard university and the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of engineering and Applied sciences (SEAS.
The goal of integrating different material and structural properties within printed objects has demanded the invention of new, flexible printing platforms.
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 re-scan it repeating the process until the desired spatial resolution is achieved before combining the data from each scan using a computer algorithm.
This is an important step on the way towards optical computers. Phase change materials that change their optical properties depending on the arrangement of the atoms allow for the storage of several bits in a single cell.
With optical elements, computers can work more rapidly and more efficiently. Optical fibers have long since been used for the transmission of data with light.
But on a computer, data are processed still and stored electronically. Electronic exchange of data between processors and the memory limits the speed of modern computers.
To overcome this so-called Von neumann bottleneck, it is not sufficient to optically connect memory and processor,
as the optical signals have to be converted into electric signals again. Scientists, hence, look for methods to carry out calculations and data storage in a purely optical manner.
but also with latest processors, Professor Harish Bhaskaran of Oxford university adds. The new memory can store data for decades even
Permanent all-optical on-chip memories might considerably increase future performance of computers and reduce their energy consumption.
a computer then reconstructs the path those photons must have taken, which generates an image of the target material--all without the lens that's required in conventional microscopy."
"The computer does the imaging part--forget about the lens, "explained Michael Zürch, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany and lead researcher."
"The computer emulates the lens.""Without a lens, the quality of the images primarily depends on the radiation source.
#Pioneering research develops new way to capture light-for the computers of tomorrow The key breakthrough will allow large quantities of data to be stored directly on an integrated optical chip,
data on a computer are processed still and stored electronically. The team of scientists from Germany and England have made a key breakthrough by capturing light on an integrated chip,
Our technology might also eventually be used to reproduce in computers the neural-type processing that is carried out by the human brain.
and our approach can define a new speed limit for future processors, by delivering extremely fast on-chip optical data storage In addition,
they can be arranged within the gel in practically any design that can be created on a computer.
With low-cost fabrication, long-term stability and a wide palette of colors, they have become a building blocks of the display technology,
improving the image quality of TV-SETS, tablets, and mobile phones. Exciting quantum dot applications are also emerging in the fields of green energy, optical sensing,
the IBM research lab Zurich (Switzerland) and the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) demonstrated a radically new approach to manipulate the light emission of quantum dots.
Unlike most 3-D printing, this technique does not require photoinitiators, compounds that promote photoreactivity
"If we can use SPRNT to screen for drugs that specifically disrupt the functioning of these proteins,
Using mouse models, the researchers tested their sunblock against direct ultraviolet rays and their ability to cause sunburn.
potentially outperforming traditional monitoring tools such as cardiac event monitors. The researchers published a paper on their patent-pending process in Advanced Materials.
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
physicists at the University of Düsseldorf have developed model computer simulations to further investigate torque coupling at the nanoscale.
Because we use essentially the same device technology as existing computer chips, we believe it will be much easier to manufacture a full-scale processor chip than for any of the leading designs,
which rely on more exotic technologies.""This makes the building of a quantum computer much more feasible,
since it is based on the same manufacturing technology as today's computer industry, "he added. The advance represents the final physical component needed to realise the promise of super-powerful silicon quantum computers,
which harness the science of the very small-the strange behaviour of subatomic particles-to solve computing challenges that are beyond the reach of even today's fastest supercomputers.
In classical computers, data is rendered as binary bits, which are always in one of two states:
"The silicon chip in your smartphone or tablet already has around one billion transistors on it, with each transistor less than 100 billionths of a metre in size,"said Dr Menno Veldhorst,
"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
leading to a local resistance change of the material. e were able to understand this effect by performing extensive numerical computer simulations of the electronic properties
ranging from cell phones to laptop computers and electric cars. But there may soon be a new type of battery based on materials that are far more abundant and less costly.
"Electrical energy storage in batteries is essential not only for consumer products such as cell phones and computers,
using computer programs that simulate the activity of place and grid cells in the brain. Crucial to the computational algorithm is the strength of the feedback mechanism between the grid cells and place cells,
and the calibration of the visual signals is integral to the map building process of the computer algorithm.
The computer navigation system assists the robot in situations where it is lost in a new environment,
These microscopic widgets could be customized into incredibly sensitive chemical detectors or long-lasting catalysts, to name a few possible applications.
What more, they discovered it by combining computer simulations with x-ray scattering and imaging methods to determine, for the first time,
next-generation health monitoring devices such as electronic stick-on tattoos (see for instance"wearing single-walled carbon nanotube electronics on your skin",a"temporary tattoo to monitor glucose levels"or"graphene nanosensor tattoo
on teeth monitors bacteria in your mouth")."In order for these wearable sensor devices to become fully integrated into sophisticated monitoring systems,
Modern computers use this principle in practically Every bit (unit of measurement for the digital information content) and the almost unbelievable increase in performance over the last decade was based on a very simple rule:
faster processors and more storage space. Standard memory devices are based on electrons which are displaced by applying voltage.
because there is not just one storage device in our computers, but several optimised ones, depending on the task."
as they do in computer chips. As a semimetal, graphene naturally has no bandgaps, making it a challenge for widespread industry adoption.
especially in printing highly viscous and sticky biological and polymeric materials where friction and contamination are major obstacles.
and make the processor work.""This architecture gives us the dense packing and parallel operation essential for scaling up the size of the quantum processor,"says Scientia Professor Sven Rogge, Head of the UNSW School of Physics."
"Ultimately, the structure is scalable to millions of qubits, required for a full-scale quantum processor."
"Background In classical computers, data is rendered as binary bits, which are always in one of two states:
0 or 1. However, a qubit can exist in both of these states at once, a condition known as a superposition.
As a result, quantum computers will exceed far today's most powerful super computers, and offer enormous advantages for a range of complex problems,
because it explores the world of'matter computers, 'where computations (including walking) are carried out by physical objects, rather than by electronic or magnetic shuttles.
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#Researchers create transplantation model for 3-D printed constructs Using sugar, silicone and a 3-D printer,
Bioengineering graduate student Samantha Paulsen and research technician Anderson Ta worked together to develop a proof-of-concept construct--a small silicone gel about the size of a small candy gummy bear--using 3-D printing.
Using an open-source 3-D printer that lays down individual filaments of sugar glass one layer at a time
Researchers around the world can access Professor Waterhouse's open source website to study the genomes of seven family members.
whether the solution was provided by a real human or by software. Facebook M is free of any charge
600 Million are on Android A few months ago the company Whatsapp revealed that it has at least 800 million users.
more than three quarters are reported to be using Android devices. This means that at least 600 million people use Whatsapp on Android.
The study was conducted by Globalwebindex (GWI), and it involved about 50,000 active internet users, with Whatsapp segment constituting around 12,606 users from 34 countries across the globe.
According to the findings, 73%of those using Whatsapp use it from Android devices while those using the iphone followed from a distance with 22%of the market share.
This means that the remaining 5%is shared among users of Windows phone, Nokia, and Blackberry devices.
it is obvious that Android takes home the lion share, hence the unsurprising nature of the GWI report.
The general number of Android smartphones in the handset market is more than any other company;
Android is an open source operating system and for sure, it seems the door to new entrants to the platform won be closing anytime soon.
According to a recent study, there are over 24,000 unique Android manufacturers/devices, an increment of 28%from last year total.
A research by the IDC revealed that Android is used on more than 78%of devices around the world
while ios only manages 18.3%.%We see the same figures with Whatsapp for Android and Whatsapp for ios respectively e
#Researchers Develop 3d printed Brain tissue The brain is amazingly complex, with around 86 billion nerve cells. The challenge for researchers to create bench-top brain tissue from
Professor Wallace said. his paves the way for the use of more sophisticated printers to create structures with much finer resolution. 3d printing of layered brain-like structures using peptide modified gellan gum substrates
The facile ability to form discrete cell-containing layers validates the application of this novel printing technique to form complex, layered and viable 3d cell structures.
The rats were asked to choose between two identical visual shapes by pressing their nose against one of them on a touchscreen (similar to an ipad), in exchange for rewards in the form of sugar pellets.
and developers who design the software that decodes the neural signal. hat neural prosthetic devices do is communicate seamlessly to an external prosthesis,
Full open access research for mall-Molecule-Driven Direct Reprogramming of Mouse Fibroblasts into Functional Neuronsby Xiang Li, Xiaohan Zuo, Junzhan Jing, Yantao Ma,
The brain tissue here was mouse cerebral cortex. The rapid freezing method is able to prevent the water in the tissue from forming crystals,
Moreover, we were able to confirm that the alternative analytical method they proposed could not reliably detect very obvious computer-generated complementary visual field pairs,
and converts reath signalsinto words using pattern recognition software and an analogue-to-digital converter. A speech synthesizer then reads the words aloud.
DARPA portfolio of neurotechnology programs includes the Restoring Active Memory (RAM) and Systems-Based Neurotechnology for Emerging Therapies (SUBNETS) programs,
mouse model of Alzheimer disease developed at the RIKEN BSI by Takaomi Saido team. After showing how Scales treatment can preserve tissue,
-based screen in which the activity of each gene under investigation was knocked down, or silenced, to examine its effects on mitochondrial calcium levels.
The researchers began with a panel of 128 different genes but after initial screening narrowed the field to just 14 candidate PTP components.
This system, called Geos, uses a combination of computer vision to interpret diagrams, natural language processing to read
the computer roughly achieved an SAT score of 500 (out of 800), the average test score for 2015.
Our biggest challenge was converting the question to a computer-understandable language. One needs to go beyond standard pattern-matching approaches for problems like solving geometry questions that require in depth understanding of text, diagram and reasoning.
all data sets and software are available for other researchers to use. AI2 is also building systems that can tackle science tests,
Computation used a cluster computer awarded by Silicon Mechanics and the Campus Champion Allocation for Tufts University TG-TRA 130003 at the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment,
and represent it on a computer screen. In this article, Inserm researchers, using MRI, have succeeded in detecting natural shear waves in the brain using computational techniques borrowed from seismologists
Researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical school and Boston University have shown successfully neuroprotection in a Parkinson mouse model using new techniques to deliver drugs across the naturally impenetrable blood-brain barrier.
a dissolvable tablet that treats seizures. Aprecia Pharmaceuticals said Monday the FDA approved its drug Spritam for adults
The tablet is manufactured through a layered process via 3d printing and dissolves when taken with liquid. The Ohio-based company says its printing system can package potent drug doses of up to 1, 000 milligrams into individual tablets.
It expects to launch Spritam in the first quarter of 2016. The FDA has approved previously medical devices including prosthetics made with 3d printing.
An agency spokeswoman confirmed the new drug is the first prescription tablet approved that uses the process.
battery and display technology are all going to receive big overhauls. What likely to be includedthe big advancement with the iphone 6s we are likely to see is Force Touch screen technology reports Business Insider.
Apple debuted this new type of display with the Apple Watch and new Macbook earlier this year,
where the device can detect different pressures used when touching the screen. For example, when using the Apple Watch,
you can press down with slightly more force to change the watch face. Even though it hasn been announced yet,
claiming it will be as handy as the right mouse click is on a computer. While Apple fiddling around with the screen technology,
it also expected that both models will receive a higher screen resolution for a clearer display.
It also rumoured that they will finally have a sapphire glass screen which will help keep it protected from scratches and shattering when dropped.
Apple has been putting a lot of emphasis on the iphone as a photography device, and that looking to take a step even further with the iphone 6s.
so don expect any new screen sizes or a new design. At best, they might introduce a new colour,
Despite it being a favourite feature by Android users and even featuring on the Apple Watch,
tablets and watches. ee introducing a new logo and identity family that reflects this reality
and shows you when the Google magic is working for you, even on the tiniest screens,
which were built originally for a single desktop browser page, and updated them for a world of seamless computing across an endless number of devices
will include search, ads, maps, Youtube, Android and related technology infrastructure. The revised design unveiled on Tuesday features the same mix of blue
Google also invented a new typeface called roduct Sansthat is meant to resemble the simple printing in a grade-school book.
The overhaul also will change the appearance of the letter that Google uses as its shorthand logo on the smaller screens of smartphones and other mobile devices.
he told Motherboard. ur biggest initial worry was about whether it would stay on the tail,
they will be required to linkto show the facial recognition scan software that they are a real person.
People in intensive care are hooked already up to a host of monitors, which together keep track of numerous parameters including heart rate and levels of glucose and oxygen in the blood.
People in intensive care are hooked already up to a host of monitors which keep track of things such as heart rate and levels of glucose and oxygen in the blood.
Traditional computers rely on ordered circuits that follow preprogrammed rules, but this strategy limits how efficient they can be. he best microprocessors you can buy in a store now can do 1011 operations per second
the algorithm found the voltages that transformed the system into any one of the six ogic gatesthat are the building blocks of conventional computer chips.
Van der Wiel hopes the research will lead to specialised processors that can solve problems such as pattern recognition
which are difficult for computers that do calculations one after the other. If a whole clump of grains is doing the calculation,
using an algorithm on a tablet computer or a phone to monitor a person blood glucose. When levels rise
Traditional computers rely on ordered circuits that follow preprogrammed rules, but this limits their efficiency. he best microprocessors you can buy in a store now can do 1011 operations per second,
The team was able to find voltages to transform the system into any one of the six ogic gatesthat are the building blocks of computer chips.
Van der Wiel hopes the work will lead to specialised processors that can solve problems that are difficult for computers, such as pattern recognition.
It works like a scaffold, allowing the printing of intricate patterns that would collapse without its support such as nested Russian-doll-like structures and thin
Printing into supportive gel gets around that challenge preventing the creations from sagging or buckling before they solidify.
and diagnosis. Catheline hopes his technique will eventually help doctors diagnose diseases and monitor the success of their treatment.
including Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook. The decision is the culmination of a case that Austrian lawyer Max Schrems brought against Facebook in 2013 for participation in US mass surveillance.
An invisibility cloak built for a mouse could hide warm bodies from predators with thermal vision
using it to hunt down their prey. e want to simulate the scene of catching a mouse,
leaving a 2. 7-centimetre-wide cavity in the middle for the toy mouse. The camera was placed on one side.
The germanium sent infrared rays from behind the mouse on a curved path around the cavity, then bent them back into straight lines for the camera,
Last year, a system using IBM Watson AI technology, called The Knowledge Integration Toolkit (Knit),
IBM says Knit is automated now fully to work without human oversight. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the US is also working on technology
physics and the remaining hard sciences, learning from how users interact with software as it goes. e have very specific goals along the way for semantic intensity how deep into a paper our system can get to see what it about,
#Your Pill Is Printing: FDA Approves First 3-D-Printed Drug In a first, the Food and Drug Administration has given approval to a drug that is produced on a 3-D printer.
The pill, produced by Aprecia Pharmaceuticals, treats seizures. It's expected to hit the market in the first quarter of 2016.
"The new tablets are manufactured using 3-D printing, which creates objects by very precisely spewing out one layer of a substance on top of another. 3-D printing is being used to make all sorts of things these days."
"The FDA had approved previously medical devices made with 3-D printing. The company that makes Spritam says the 3-D-printed version of the drug allows it to dissolve more quickly,
which makes it easier to swallow.""Another benefit of the process, says Aprecia, the drug's maker, is that it allows a high drug load up to 1,
Aprecia says it based its printing platform on technology that originated at the Massachusetts institute of technology o
They manufactured the implant with a $1. 3 million metal printer at a government-run lab. The printer uses an electron beam to melt titanium powder,
The printer then paints each layer of the device one on top of another.""As each layer is fused,
As metallic printers become more common, she wrote, so will printed 3-D implants. Surgeons typically use a combination of flat plates,
The 3-D printing technology allowed the surgeons to create an implant that"fitted like glove"in the man's chest, Dr. Jose Aranda
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