We can use them to make more efficient displays for mobile devices, sensors with greater resolution,
When the DWLS is done printing, a much thicker layer of liquid crystal is applied, amplifying the pattern on the underlying thin film.
just like a regular printer. And it can also vary the intensity of the light.
Down to earth applications In addition to astronomy, the DWLS has found use in creating geometric phase holograms for use in mobile displays, holographic imaging,
For example, Escuti's university startup company, Imagineoptix Corporation, has created technologies ranging from an ultra-efficient pocket projector the size of a few quarters to components for active photonic hardware supporting internet traffic."
The Fraunhofer FIT will make the first public demonstration of the system alongside its ZETA imaging software that is used in drug research at the forthcoming BIOTECHNICA expo in Hanover, Germany, between October 6 8, 2015.
ZETA imaging software has been developed specifically for the High Content Analysis of live cell imaging data, in
While optical fibers have long been used for the transmission of data with light, inside a computer
But electronic exchange of data between processors and the memory limits the speed of modern computers.
it is not sufficient to optically connect memory and processor, as the optical signals have to be converted into electric signals again.
but also with the latest optical processors. The new memory can store data for decades even
The scientists conclude that permanent all-optical on-chip memories could onsiderably increase future performance of computers while reducing their energy consumption.
and with the potential collaboration of key chip-making partners like Intel, Sony, Samsung and TSMC.
Being able to 3d print a tablet offers the potential to create bespoke drugs based on the specific needs of patients,
according to experts. or the last 50 years we have manufactured tablets in factories and shipped them to hospitals
and for the first time this process means we can produce tablets much closer to the patient, said Dr Mohamed Albed Alhnan, a lecturer in pharmaceutics at the University of Central Lancashire.
and perform otherwise intractable mathematics calculations that aren't possible for supercomputers. Developed by a team from the University of Bristol and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. NTT) in Japan, the fully reprogrammable chip brings together a multitude of existing quantum experiments
much like they operate any other piece of software on a computer. They no longer need to convince a physicist to devote many months of their life to painstakingly build
Observing a mouse spinal cord through a microscope the researchers could watch in real time which cells were activated
and wirelessly transmit the result to mobile devices. The patented technology is already generating interest from the electronics, automotive and pharmaceutical sectors,
Many pharmaceutical companies are now developing tablets, produced using an injection molding process, into which 3d bar codes could be incorporated e
or allow video games to distinguish between players by the features of their hands. Under development by the University of Washington and Microsoft Research, the Hypercam uses both visible and near-infrared light to peer beneath the surface
and reveal unseen details. Multispectral and hyperspectral cameras used in industrial applications typically cost several thousands to tens of thousands of dollars,
and Microsoft Research that reveals details that are difficult or impossible to see with the naked eye.
Software analyzes the resulting images to present the user with the most useful information.""It mines all the different possible images,
"said Mayank Goel, a University of Washington doctoral student and Microsoft Research graduate fellow. Compared to an image taken with a normal camera (top),
This could aid in everything from gesture recognition to biometrics to distinguishing between two different people playing the same video game.
but the way this hardware was built you can probably imagine putting it in a mobile phone,
Next research steps will include addressing that problem and making the camera small enough to be incorporated into mobile devices,
The team developed new software capable of processing 10 terabytes of data from one hour of imaging in about two days.
#A Typing Test To Diagnose Parkinson's Whether it on a keyboard, a smartphone, or even a credit card reader, you spend a lot of your day typing.
they've developed software that can gauge the speed at which a typist is tapping the keyboard to help diagnose Parkinson disease.
--and that mostly has to do with the complexity of the engines hardware. If you look at a launch vehicle
requiring extra hardware and additional fuel. But with Rutherford, the engines turbopumps get a much more condensed energy source.
a Marine signals intelligence (SIGINT) specialist monitors web traffic while he lies on the ground, his assault rifle trained on a nearby building.
Amid the cacophony of cyber-noise in the city--the thousands of simultaneous, harmless Skype sessions, movie streams,
who is currently flipping through financial data on a spreadsheet. Perhaps the suspect will make a mistake,
The Marine glances at the vital statistics on the heads-up display. The heart rate of his point man has spiked suddenly up to 110.
Using a mouse mounted on the handguard of his M-16, the SIGINT specialist silently clicks open the video feed from the point man's head-mounted camera.
The Marine pushes out an alert to the rest of the platoon and then switches from dual-display mode to left-only as he raises his weapon to his eye.
instead of having his face in a phone or glued to a laptop, the Marine will be able to keep his gaze on the battlefield, increasing what the military calls"situational awareness."
found he couldn't monitor his Android device and hold a weapon at the same time.""He was patrolling with an infantry unit,
"He had the Android device, plus different antenna systems coming out of his backpack. So we talked about it,
and if he had a heads-up display, he could hold a weapons system, keep his head about him,
"Having eyes glued to a screen can cause a SIGINT Marine not to see real-world objects that might be relevant.
An MIT computer program called Lincoln Adaptable Real-time Information Assurance Testbed (LARIAT simulated the electronic activity of thousands of innocent civilians as well as a criminal network working to buy a large weapons system to use on the ships.
An added bonus to this method is that it allows the spinel to be pressed into shapes--for example, a dome for a new camera turret or a sloping panel that's flush with a wing.
It was recorded on seismic monitors as far away as Norway. Even two days after the quake, strong aftershocks are rattling the region,
all you need is a computer and time. An organization called the Humanitarian Openstreetmap Team (HOT) is looking for volunteers from all over the world to look through satellite imagery of Nepal and label and map roads, buildings,
Nanotechnology could be used to build the embedded control system, sensors and computers for any liquid metal robot.
which then sends it out via cell networks to a remote server. From there, presumably civil engineers have access to the data
#New Japanese Glasses Block Facial recognition Computers are really, really good at recognizing faces. Refined through work on millions of uploaded and tagged faces at sites like Facebook and elsewhere,
Previous attempts to hide faces from computers have resorted to eye-catching makeup or dangling lights from baseball caps.
#A Team Of MIT Bartender Robots Serves Beer More Efficiently Using robots, a team at MIT Computer science and Artificial intelligence Laboratory has solved an ancient problem:
Android and Chrome, is reorganizing. Instead of the massive supercompany called Google, it will be a massive supercompany called Alphabet,
while Sundar Pichai, the current head of Google android and Chrome divisions, will be the next CEO of Google.
Under the new operating structure, its main Google business will include search, ads, maps, apps, Youtube and Android and the related technical infrastructure (the oogle business.
Recently, researchers have looked to DNA as a method to store large amounts of digital information that are saved currently on hard drives.
Our hard drives may seem pretty stable for now, but because of what they're made of,
our hard drives can store up to five terabytes of data, encoded with the zeros and ones of binary code.
if the DNA would be able to retain information longer than a hard drive does now
It not likely that your next computer will store your data in DNA. It still prohibitively expensive,
The project, called Restoring Active Memory (RAM), could help people suffering from traumatic brain injury. The Defense department research wing shared both milestones last week at a conference called ait, What?
#The Future Of The DNA Hard drive Back in August at a chemistry conference, the worlds of science fiction and fact merged with the announcement of a technological advancement in data storage.
After all, imagine being able to store the entirety of the world data on one hard drive.
However, for one group of computer experts, better known as IBM, venturing into this foray is par fort the course.
The company has been part of computer history and known for developing such famous names as Mark 1, PC, ig Blue, and Watson.
I reached out to Dr. Spike Narayan. He the Director of Science and Technology at IBM Research and has a passion for taking the computerized world to new heights.
For him the DNA technology isn as new as we might think but hasn gained momentum for one particular reason:
This stability can provide far more than just a hard drive to last the ages. Because DNA is always present in a variety of biological environments
the idea of a personal DNA hard drive within the body may also be possible. According to Dr. Narayan, it already happening at the microbial level. everal years ago researchers built the first self-replicating bacterial cell
what we currently do today with computers. But while this may be possible, Dr. Narayan wonders if this might be the best approach.
There also another reason why this personalized biological hard drive may not be the best option. We do not yet have the technology to read it.
There is little doubt the future of the DNA hard drive is bright. Yet while the biological aspects may be suited perfectly for a variety of applications
For Dr. Narayan, the answer to the future of the DNA hard drive is clear. NA as a medium for archival storage may have place in digital storage.
For now, the devices need to be attached to a computer using a thin cable, but could someday connect wirelessly via Bluetooth,
and creating software that will be able to read and interpret the data and feed it back to the irrigation valves closing the loop on fully automated watering.
van der Lee explains at the project Github page. he open source Arduino platform, together with low cost gypsum soil moisture sensors, provides all that
#Plug Your Toaster Into the Sun Sunport lets you use solar power at homeithout the panels.
The colorful little widget monitors the amount of electricity that comes through it, then reports that use to your phone.
and Phone for Outlet Space is No more Samsung has released a monitor with a charging station at the base where users can wirelessly charge their phones.
The wireless charging station won take away from the monitor ability to display content, or even change the lines of the design,
Instead of dealing with either issue, users just set their phones at the base of the monitor
The monitor has multiple features catering to movie lovers and gamers. For workers, there a blue screen option where it will lower the amount of blue light emitted from the screen to help protect a user lens.
The monitor will also prevent flicking to occur that would strain user eyes. The screen has a smooth tracking system for all the action of today movies and games.
This prevents motion blur and ghost images to linger on screen. A user will automatically make these changes to the screen when switching to a game or movie.
The monitor will also auto-detect these changes to improve visuals based on the activity of the user.
For further information and updates about where to get the charging monitor and how much you can expect to pay,
check in at the Samsung blog. Samsung s
#This Museum Offers Special Glasses to Colorblind Visitors The museum experience relies on visuals. You step into the space expecting to see something new to lose yourself in stunning compositions anderhaps most importantlyivid colors.
But not all museum visitors can perceive color the same way. Visitors to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago can now pick up a pair of Enchroma glasses
and see artworks in their full color spectrum for the first time. By adjusting the separation within red and green coneshe colorblind condition occurs
The Orée Stylograph is an elegant ballpoint pen that pairs with a refillable notebook to record digital notes,
and recharges using a micro USB cable. The Stylograph comes with a leather covered notebook with specially patterned paper that will help record the digital notes.
The notebook holds 192 pages of refillable paper. Orée calls the Stylograph he first writing instrument suited for the digital age.
The pen meets the company design philosophy: legant, simple and lasting functionality crafted with the finest natural materials.
and directions normally provided by a smartphone or in-console GPS. No single technology used by the cube is new.
the image is uploaded automatically to Aipoly servers, where it is analyzed and tagged. This allows a description to be sent back to the user
Just ask Facebook, Google and Microsoft. With its promising application to video games and other in-real-time experiences, its no wonder the biggest tech players in the field are eager to explore AR possibilities.
And, as revealed by its new patent for augmented reality glasses it looks like Amazon wants to take a crack at it as well,
like tablet devices, is the lack of ability for consumers to immerse themselves in a tablet experience,
when youe watching the screen in front of you. On top of this, Amazon also purports a more comfortable version of augmented reality as well,
and more expensive than the photovoltaic panels that are now familiar on roofs the world over,
#Research method identifies stealth attacks on complicated computer systems Imagine millions of lines of instructions. Then try and picture how one extremely tiny anomaly could be found in almost real-time
"a trio of Virginia Tech computer scientists has tested their innovation against many real-world attacks. One type of attack is
when an adversary is able to remotely access a computer, bypassing authentication such as a login screen.
A second example of attack is called heap feng shui where attackers hijack the control of a browser by manipulating its memory layout.
Another example of attack is called directory harvesting where spammers interact with vulnerable mail servers to steal valid email addresses.
%Their findings are reported in an invited presentation at the 22nd Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Computer and Communications security, Denver."
"Stealthy attacks buried in long execution paths of a software program cannot be revealed by examining fragments of the path,"Yao,
"Over time, these stealthy attacks on computer systems have just become more and more sophisticated. The Virginia Tech computer scientists'secret formula in finding a stealth attack is in their algorithms.
With specific matrix-based pattern recognition, the three were able to analyze the execution path of a software program
and discover correlations among events.""The idea is to profile the program's behavior, determine how often some events are supposed to occur,
as they do in computer chips. As a semimetal, graphene naturally has no bandgaps, making it a challenge for widespread industry adoption.
said senior author Erez Lieberman Aiden, a geneticist and computer scientist with joint appointments at Baylor and Rice. hen one day,
reflectors, and USB detectors, combined with the all-plastic housing and lenses will allow for future versions of the prototype to be mass-produced.
Catalysts can split water into its constituent hydrogen and oxygen atoms, a process required for fuel cells.
detailed in Nature Communications, is a significant step toward lower-cost catalysts for energy production, according to the researchers. hat unique about this paper is that we show not the use of metal particles, not the use of metal nanoparticles,
Wee getting away with very little cobalt to make a catalyst that nearly matches the best platinum catalysts.
Tour said single-atom catalysts have been realized in liquids, but rarely on a surface. his way we can build electrodes out of it,
He noted platinum-carbon catalysts still boast the lowest onset voltage. o question, theye the best.
including computer chips and other optoelectronic components.""Our results demonstrate relatively fast modulation from fundamentally slow phosphorescent light emitters,
One example could be optical communications networks on computer chips. Prototype on-chip networks have used semiconductor lasers as light emitters.
and the liquid crystalline phases that are used to create an image on certain electronic displays,
#Promising technique improves hydrogen production of affordable alternative to platinum Scientists have demonstrated that microwaves can help create nanostructured molybdenum disulfide (Mos2) catalysts with an improved ability to produce hydrogen.
"The microwave-assisted strategy could be a viable way to design advanced molybdenum disulfide catalysts for hydrogen production
Earth-abundant materials that could provide low-cost alternatives to platinum-based catalysts. Platinum is an extremely efficient catalyst for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen
the device then monitors how these reflections vary as someone moves in the environment and intelligently stitches the person reflections across time to reconstruct his silhouette into a single image.
the device then monitors how these reflections vary as someone moves in the environment and intelligently stitches the person reflections across time to reconstruct his silhouette into a single image.
In the lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries we use in our laptops and smartphones, the negative electrode is made of graphite (a form of carbon),
#Researchers create transplantation model for 3-D printed constructs Using sugar, silicone and a 3-D printer,
-D printing. But rather than printing a whole construct directly, the researchers fabricated sacrificial templates for the vessels that would be inside the construct.
Using an open-source 3-D printer that lays down individual filaments of sugar glass one layer at a time
Scientists have experimented for decades with a class of catalysts known as zeolites that transform alcohols such as ethanol into higher-grade hydrocarbons.
Instead, an energy-producing"hydrocarbon pool"mechanism allows the zeolite catalysts to directly produce longer hydrocarbon chains from the original alcohols."
There is increasing evidence that computer-assisted training can help people with schizophrenia overcome some of their symptoms, with better outcomes in their daily lives.
In the healthcare industry, these printers are used by dentists to create replicas of jaws and teeth as well as some finished dental implants and orthopedic surgeons have tested them to make customized hip replacements.
which is the size of a laptop and resembles a skateboard more than a car. The slender Walkcar is made from aluminum
#Electronic skin sensors to control mobile gadgets A skin-worn sensor that turns the human body into a touch sensitive surface for controlling mobile devices has been developed by scientists in Germany. iskin is made from biocompatible silicone rubber
allowing them to use their own body to control mobile devices. Developed by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University,
A roll up keyboard for use with a smart watch has also been designed. iskin's thin,
soft and flexible design presents new possibilities for mobile interaction that have not been possible with existing hardware, according to co-developer Martin Weigel."
However, we are the first to look into how we can use it on the body to control mobile devices;
After creating the tattoo-like designs on a computer, a laser cutter traces out the design
The current prototypes are wired to a computer, although the technology could evolve to use integrated microchips.
The move appeared to be an attempt to let the search engine giant focus on its more creative and ambitious projects,
the Google unit will encompass the core search engine traditionally associated with the company as well Google maps and Youtube.
the fifth such modification since the search engine giant started in 1998, the company said in a blog post.
and shared by a global network of computers and therefore is virtually tamper-proof. The Bank of england has dedicated a team to it
"The researchers also looked at the process in a mouse model and found that Grb2 depletion results in the development of multiple tumors in the vicinity of a primary tumour,
and reprogram your hard drive, this virus reprogrammed the genetic machinery of the M1t1 strep into a more virulent form,
Bogyo's team has developed ways of conducting high-throughput screens of small molecules to speedily test their ability to inhibit
whose lab is adept at using mouse models of C. difficile infection. The researchers incubated Toxin B in a solution either containing
Bogyo and colleagues tested ebselen in a mouse model that more accurately mimics a clinical scenario in
The data demonstrates the value of high-coverage sequencing for constructing population-specific variant panels, which covers 99.0%SNVS of minor allele frequency?
which has a technology that uses an inkjet printer to deposit flexible circuits onto plastic.
And the inkjet printing fabrication process suggests how a network of sensors could be deposited over a flexible layer and folded over a prosthetic hand."
"If the fluorescence molecules glow, this indicates that the mouse is developing chronic epileptic seizures, "says the molecular biologist Prof.
and computer laptops if you have the technical know-how. Most of the time, communications are approved officially by NASA.
and his team at Cocoa Motors, have created a laptop-sized personal vehicle that weighs less than seven pounds.
and sending whole messages using printed QWERTY-style keyboard interfaces. Depending on what level of control the user requires,
and offers great stability. here are many catalysts that are sophisticated considerably more than nickel and often involving obscure and expensive precious metals,
While this means the method won be suitable for sending data from wearable devices to remote gadgets (such as audio speakers or a computer), for personalised applications,
For the prototype that was put on display in Tokyo last month, they altered the transparent oxides used for the negative electrode to achieve incredibly thin, transparent electrodes.
another possibility for the technology is self-charging smartphone screens made from transparent lithium-ion batteries.
a professor of neuroscience and psychiatry at Icahn School of medicine at Mount sinai, told Tech Insider that using all the compounds in marijuana simultaneously is like"throwing 400 tablets in a cocktail
A computer scientist in the UK has invented a new type of chess artificial intelligence that's able to get up to the International Master level after just 72 hours of tuition.
Chess-playing computers aren't new of course-IBM's Deep Blue scored the first AI triumph over a human world champion by beating Garry Kasparov in 1997-but Lai's approach works differently.
with minimal hand-crafted knowledge given by the programmer";"he also says it's"the most successful attempt thus far at using end-to-end machine learning to play chess".
Right now, Giraffe's main drawback is that it takes longer than other computer players to make a move,
his research may help computers get better at teaching themselves to do everything from driving a car to making an omelette,
Light-based computers are increasingly looking like our best shot at clearing the biggest roadblock to faster computers:
Right now, the speed at which our computers transmit data is slower than the speed at
because wee hit the limit for how fast electrons can travel between the processor and the memory."
"There no point using faster processors if the limiting factor is the shuttling of information to-and-from the memory-the so-called Von-neumann bottleneck,"one of the researchers,
"Making light-based computers isn as simple as replacing electrons with light particles-or photons-in current computers.
when the data reaches our computer. This slows everything back down again and consumes a whole lot of extra energy,
Instead, we need to completely redesign the way our computers work, running them on light instead of electricity,
and this new light-based computer chip brings us one step closer to that goal. Known as photonic memory, light-based memory is not a new concept,
Not only have previous attempts at light-based computer chips turned out to be quite volatile, theye all required power to store data,
and unless wee prepared to keep our computers on, you know, forever, that not exactly practical.
"It stores data using the same material that found in rewritable CDS and DVDS-a phase-change alloy of germanium-antimony-tellurium known as GST."
and solid state, this magnet material displays physical phase transitions when gradually cooled right down to almost freezing."
because it displays properties that have yet to be found in nature, the complex nanomagnet structure has the potential to provide new methods of information transfer and memory storage,
thanks to a new kind of brain-computer interface that can reroute his thoughts to his legs, bypassing his spinal cord entirely.
These are processed then by a computer algorithm and transmitted to electrodes attached to the subject knees,
Software processed his thoughts and isolated the brain waves associated with leg movement. This progressed to the man using his thoughts to control the walking of a virtual reality avatar,
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