Lasers software and a joystick After spending several years interviewing scientists and holding public forums to debate ethics and air concerns,
Rather, it a highly advanced single-cell micro-surgery, replete with cutting-edge lasers and imaging software and, yes, even a joystick,
Chances are the weather data you use to determine the answer comes from the roughly 20 satellites orbiting Earth that monitor weather systems.
With more satellites, the experience will be more akin to pulling up Google maps on a mobile device.
But until conducting recent computer simulations, scientists lacked the ability to predict the performance of nanocrystalline materials in extreme environments.
Using three different computer simulation methods the researchers studied the interaction between defects and grain boundaries on time scales ranging from picoseconds to microseconds (one-trillionth of a second to one-millionth of a second).
The Body Steering driver's seat of the Humancar The vehicle custom CPU operates off trigger buttons on the center brake handle to engage functions such as regenerative power,
Other available features include a human/machine interface (HMI) touch-screen display with GPS and biometric data logging, ipod integrated sound systems,
A report on CNN showed four people rowing for a couple of minutes generated enough electricity to power a PC for well over an hour.
or even create better brain-computer interfaces. Today, the gold standard in MEG technology are superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDS.
Although it is only around the size of a USB memory stick, the device mimics the complex 3d features of the human intestine.
most of the work is supervising the system by means of a remote dashboard on a computer
The system also incorporates software that takes location-specific factors such as plant properties, soil characteristics and water rationing limits into account.
Epler's thesis project for NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, the Kinograph uses software to stabilize a series of captured images and extract optical sound.
and embedded Linux on a Raspberry Pi, while Opencv, Processing, and AEO Sound applications are used for image and audio processing, with batch processing of crop rotation and color correction all possible.
which is comprised of individual microscopic tablets that interlock in a fashion similar to Lego blocks.
The researchers noticed that the boundaries between the tablets aren't straight but instead are wavy like the edges of jigsaw puzzle pieces.
"Using the hardware knowledge gleaned from their many years of snake robot construction, Choset and his team have created small, powerful,
"The architecture is built on Ethernet computer networking technology, "said Choset.""Ethernet doesn't require that the computers connected to it be of a specific type,
but that they all communicate with each other in the same way. The interfaces used in the modular architecture allow robot designers to focus on specific capabilities without having to worry about detailed systems issues
and software analysis that could have uses both On earth and in space. The ultimate goal is to produce zero emission proof-of-concept vehicles capable of self-navigation in difficult situations,
That slick, smartphone-sized portable looks like a design-forward mouse or set-top box but is actually a go-anywhere isometric exercise gizmo.
like the countless fitness monitors out there, TAO tasks its device with actually exercising you at home, work and on the go.
The display on the prototype was either out of battery power or a dummy so we didn't get to play with it.
and along with an LED lighting array features photovoltaic panels, a wind turbine, a battery pack, and an electronic control system that manages the flow of energy between those components.
#Scientists find that exposure to nanoparticles could impact cardiovascular health Due to its huge potential in applications ranging from cheaper vaccinations to energy-storing car panels there's plenty of excitement surrounding the emergence of nanotechnology.
The scientists from the Technion Rappaport Faculty of medicine Rambam Medical center and the Center of Excellence in Exposure Science and Environmental Health (TCEEH) worked with cultured laboratory mouse cells that resemble the cells of arterial walls
"The approximately 5, 680 total global patents break down into roughly 3, 350 fuel cell system software control patents, 1,
#Prototype system paves way for huge glasses-free 3d displays Using red/blue filters (anaglyph),
but we expect that new footage will be created especially for our displays perhaps with a much larger number of cameras,
According to the research team, compared to a movie screen, the display is also very vivid
and can be used easily outdoors, even in full sunlight. As a result, the new technology lends itself to applications such as 3d electronic billboards that could display different ads at the same time, dependent upon the angle of the viewer."
"Maybe someone wants to appeal specifically to the customers leaving the shop across the street,
the viewer must be positioned at a certain distance from the screen for the effect to work.
Scaling it up to a display with many pixels is not a problem.""From first design to working prototype took three years,
and laptops are fighting a losing battle when it comes to keeping these devices juiced up
This may be about to change thanks to the Voxel8 a printer presented at CES that makes it much easier to blend plastic conductive ink
Special conductive inks and the right kind of printers already make it possible to build simple parts with embedded electronics.
Thanks to its unique software (which was developed specifically by CAD software giant Autodesk and is hosted in the cloud) the printing can also pause at predetermined points
so that users can manually insert the components that will be embedded in their 3d printed objects. As printers go this one appears to be on the higher end of the spectrum with features including a 4. 3-inch touchscreen USB
and Wi-fi connectivity and a kinematically coupled bed that uses magnets to ensure high-precision printing even after the various components are inserted manually.
The only two printing materials currently supported are standard PLA plastic and the silver conductive ink but the startup has said users will be able to upgrade their printer in the future as more functional
and matrix materials are released. Voxel8 printers are set to begin shipping late this year. The US$8999 standard price tag includes two PLA filament spools and five conductive ink cartridges.
Should you choose to pre-order which entails a $500 deposit you'll get double the printing materials.
The video below demonstrates what the printer can do? including printing a working quadcopter r
#BMW VW join forces to build fast-charging stations for electric cars in US German car companies, BMW and Volkswagen are teaming up with Chargepoint to install a network of fast-charging stations for electric cars in the U s. The companies plan to install nearly 100 Chargepoint ports on the U s. East
and West Coasts by the end of 2015 as part of an effort to promote greater sales of EVS such as the BMW i3 and the VW e-Golf.
#Roll to roll manufactured decorative solar panels to be 10 times cheaper Based on printing technologies, VTT Technical Centre of Finland has developed
Freedom of design increases the range of panel applications on the surfaces of interior and exterior building spaces.
VTT is also studying the feasibility of printing technology in the mass production of solar panels made from inorganic perovskite materials.
The panels can for example, be placed on windows and walls and on machines, devices and advertisement billboards.
Until now, it has only been possible to pattern OPV panels into a form of stripes.
and screen printing technologies is only around 0. 2 mm thick, and includes the electrodes
VTT is also currently examining how well the roll-to-roll printing methods are suited to the manufacturing of inorganic solar panels made from perovskite materials.
The research scientists have tested the feasibility of the method by printing leaf-shaped photovoltaic cells. Active surface of a one leaf is 0 0144 m2
The solar panels are manufactured with printing machines based on conventional printing methods using the roll-to-roll method,
and after use, the OPV panels can be recycled. The market for organic photovoltaic cells is developing,
The operating life of panel is few years which is enough for many applications. VTT is also developing a method to utilize light in wireless data transfer by using solar cells as data receivers.
#Abusive Spouses are Using Spyware to Track their Victims The use of surveillance software by abusive spouses to monitor the phones
and computers of their partners secretly has reached pidemic proportionsand police are ill-equipped to tackle it,
The proliferation of software packages, many of which are marketed openly as tools for covertly tracking a heating wife
computers and toys pre-loaded with spyware to infiltrate a target home. Polly Neate, chief executive of Women Aid, told The Independent:
and increase their control. e increasingly hear stories of abusers adding tracking software to phones,
placing spyware on personal computers and using the internet to gather information about their partner. Many software packages are marketed openly as tools for covertly tracking a heating wife
or girlfriendand cost less than £50 Many software packages are marketed openly as tools for covertly tracking a heating wife
or girlfriendand cost less than £50 (Rex) owever, in many cases the police are trained not to recognise
which once installed on a computer or smartphone is virtually untraceable to the user. Nearly all offer a GPS tracking function,
The software is being used routinely to exert psychological pressure or for harassment, allowing controlling or potentially violent men to confront their victims over their movements.
The company has been marketing a ell phone spy softwaredevice sold for £99. 99 with the ability o monitor SMS text messages,
states that the user of the targeted mobile device will not see the application running. The product listing featured a question from a customer stating she wanted to use the software to spy on her partner texts.
Maplin reply stated: nstalling on the phone is very fast and simple, you will be able to read all texts sent
Over a period of 25 years, between 1955 and 1980, more than 50 corporations left New york city, including IBM, Gulf Oil, Texaco, Union carbide, General Telephone, Xerox, Pepsico and U s. Tobacco.
is a design element in everything from Android phones to car steering wheels. Because the technology is currently relatively primitive in the mass market,
it mainly used for more day-to-day purposes like simulating the feel of a tactile keyboard on a smartphone
or simulating the shaking of an explosion in a specialized video game controller. Check out Youtube Video Article by Neal Ungerleider Article Source:
Besides the aging simulation exercise, they viewed a Powerpoint presentation defining dementia and were trained, in the hall Dementia Experience Center, to perform hand massage in nursing homes. hat did
he would rather flip open his laptop in his room to watch the lecture, streamed live over the campus network.
and watch through a computer. Across the country, online education is exploding: 4. 6 million students took a college-level online course during fall 2008, up 17 percent from a year earlier, according to the Sloan Survey of Online learning.
and students join a virtual classroom once a week using a conferencing software called Wiziq. i, everyone, welcome to Week 9. Hello!
her laptop open on the dining room table. As Dr. Joos lectured, a chat box scrolled with studentscomments and questions.
consumers could tap into through their computers or cellphones. The ne step forward, one step backtraceability requirement for processed food and produce is designed to make it easier for the Food
or micro-percussion markers that make tiny indents. hey each believe they have the holy grail product tracking solutions sitting in their laptop,
Paul Chang, who leads the traceability initiative at IBM, said the company is basically taking the tracking system it uses for the pharmaceutical industry
Harvestmark provides him with a laptop computer and preprinted bar code stickers for his melons. And during harvesting, he takes the laptop to a bank
or some other place with Internet service to upload the data to Harvestmark. One day he was surprised to get a letter from an unhappy customer who had tracked down his address from the Harvestmark sticker.
It has infrared two monitors mounted on the trunk that record any numbers it sees##such as license plates and addresses.
and microprocessors that monitors the body s internal changes and alters the flow of blood as needed.
#3d printed eye cells could one day cure blindness Researchers have printed actually viable retina cells using an inkjet printer.
using an inkjet printer, of all things. The printer was able to first print a layer of retinal ganglion cells and then a layer of glial cells on top of them,
all while keeping the tiny structures vital. In doing so, the Cambridge research team was able to prove that eyes
Instead, a call-center worker in Utah or the Philippines is pressing buttons on a computer, playing through a marketing pitch without actually speaking.
##At its best, computer system and operator merge like a character from the movie#Avatar#and his or her steed.
The keyboard has hotkeys that can play different sound clips that were recorded by a perfect English speaker.
I found three other companies that sell cyborg call-center software or services like this, all of which are based in Utah.#
they expressed skepticism that the system found in the#Time#recordings could be a computer.
It opens with these words flashing on the screen:####Level Up. Step up. Stand out. Work with the pros
We sold software to manage the paperwork about chemicals used at factories, which are known as#material-safety data sheets.
what was on the screen. My manager, whose name was asked Jim that we call him Jimbo,
##The software can improve the experience people are already having.####Often, when we look around our world at the technologies we have,
The couple looked forward to joining neighbors who had added panels, to cutting their $250 monthly power bills
##Their plans shifted the day after the PV panels went up in early October. The Walkers learned from a neighbor about a major change in the local utility s solar policy.
It led to those 18 panels sitting dormant nearly three months later. Hawaiian Electric Co,
They re now paying $300 per month on a loan for the panels, plus the $250 electric bill.##
or default, method for number generation in the BSAFE software, according to two sources familiar with the contract.
and Microsoft initially#hummed its way through calls for a Skype transparency report before#giving in#to pressure from privacy groups.
In May, Microsoft said its Xbox One console would have an#always-on microphone, constantly listening to whatever people say near it.
It alleged that the NSA had#direct access to the servers#of the big U s. tech firms, such as Google, Microsoft and Apple.
involving malware and hacking into desktop and#mobile devices. It can also involve knocking on the door of Google or Facebook.
In one of the most shocking revelations, it turned out the NSA has been#betraying its partners#in the computer security industry
Google, Microsoft, Apple and others appeared utterly complicit with the NSA, as though they were happily inviting them into their data centers for a look around,
Fallout The post-Snowden months have seen a rash of interest in privacy-protecting#plug-ins,#search engines#and#anonymous surfing appliances,
Early warnings from IBM and Cisco indicate that some big U s. tech firms are already seeing a#significant drop-off#in orders
which delighted privacy advocates in July by releasing an Android feature called#App Ops#that made it possible to turn off specific tracking functionalities in individual apps,
pulled that feature in a later Android update, claiming it had been included by accident. The online ad industry is also doing its best to ensure everyone remains trackable.
Anyone carrying a mobile device should now understand that they are being tracked constantly. Now we must address the fundamental questions of our time.
However, experts suggest it may make use of ultrasound to create tiny vibrations on the screen
#IBM unveils top 5 technology predictions for the next 5 years This year s ideas are based on the fact that everything will learn.
IBM reveals its five big innovation predictions that will change our lives within five years.
now that IBM has made predictions about technology, and this year s prognostications are sure to get people talking.#
#We discussed them with Bernie Meyerson, the vice president of innovation at IBM, and he told us that the goal of the predictions is to better marshal the company s resources
##In a nutshell, IBM says: The classroom will learn you. Buying local will beat online. Doctors will use your DNA to keep you well.
IBM can already#figure out your personality by deciphering 200 of your tweets, and its capability to read your wishes will only get better.
IBM believes the technologies will be developed with the appropriate safeguards for privacy and security, but each of these predictions raises additional privacy and security issues.
As computers get smarter and more compact, they will be built into more devices that help us do things
IBM believes that these breakthroughs in computing will amplify our human abilities. The company came up with the predictions by querying its 220,000 technical people in a bottoms-up fashion
But IBM believes the classrooms of the future will give educators the tools to learn about every student,
##In the next five years, IBM believes teachers will use##longitudinal data##such as test scores, attendance,
IBM is working on a research project with the#Gwinnett County Public schools in Georgia, the 14th largest school district in the U s. with 170,000 students.
IBM believes it can harness big data to help students out.####You ll be able to pick up problems like dyslexia instantly,
Retailers could rely on artificial intelligence akin to IBM s Watson which played#Jeopardy#better than many human competitors.
IBM wants computers to help doctors understand how a tumor affects a patient down to their DNA.
IBM recently made a#breakthrough with a nanomedicine#that it can engineer to latch on to fungal cells in the body
IBM envisions a#digital guardian that will become trained to focus on the people and items it s entrusted with.
##The city will help you live in it IBM says that, by 2030, the towns and cities of the developing world will make up 80 percent of urban humanity and by 2050,
where smarter cities can understand in real-time how billions of events occur as computers learn to understand what people need,
IBM predicts that cities will digest#information freely provided by citizens to place resources where they are needed.
Mobile devices and social engagement will help citizens strike up a conversation with their city leaders. Such a concept is already in motion in Brazil,
where IBM researchers are working with#a crowdsourcing toolthat people can use to report accessibility problems, via their mobile phones,
Of course, as in the upcoming video game Watch Dogs from Ubisoft, a bad guy could hack into the city and use its monitoring systems in nefarious ways.
#What happens when we put computers in our brains? This may seem like a wild idea,
This is the first step in creating computers more powerful than human brains, says futurist Ray Kurzweil, in#The Singularity is Near.##
##Today, computers capable of crunching this amount of data do not exist, but IBM experts believe that supercomputers with increased computational
and memory capacity that can process this data will be available within three years. Nano engineer John Burch, commenting on this molecular nanotechnology#video,
Our artificial brain will allow wireless interface with computers and other digital technologies. We could access the Internet
But its role will be reduced to that of a language for displaying content on screens, which are likely to be more ubiquitous but less necessary.
or Android phone to#know its position in space with centimeter precision. You can think of ibeacon as a version of GPS that works indoors
Right now#companies like Estimote#are#pitching to retailers#the hardware##beacons##that broadcast the signal required to make ibeacon work.
That Apple has made ibeacon open enough to work with third-party hardware providers like Estimote shows that Apple wants the standard to spread.
Notably, the signals broadcast by any ibeacon-compatible radio (which broadcast signals known as Bluetooth Low energy) can also be picked up by Android and Windows phones,
Anticipatory computing and the end of interfaces Objects on our bodies (health monitors, smart glasses) and in our homes and businesses (smart thermostats, lights, appliances and security systems) can all be programmed to interact in complicated and unexpected ways
but add in data about who else is present and a computer algorithm can tell you#how likely you are to get the flu.
Finding the connections##in other words, meaning##in all this data is key to making it useful.##
##Mike Bell, head of the new devices group at Intel, says that the future of smart devices,
##whether it s a wearable computer or a next-generation tablet replacement, will have a real user interface,
can t talk about what Intel is currently working on, but I d guess from our conversations that it s more likely to look like a wristband fitness monitor than another cell Phone in other words,
the internet of things will replace the internet, but not by giving us another way to explicitly tell computers what we want.
Instead, by sensing our actions, the internet-connected devices around us will react automatically, and their representations in the cloud will be updated accordingly.
In some ways, interacting with computers in the future could be more about telling them what not to do##at least until they re smart enough to realize that we are modifying our daily routine.
and are directed for the most part by computers, the world becomes#something like a living creature.####We believe the digital world
sand-fed 3-D printer, he knew the gray skies outside his London apartment wouldn t do.
##The idea for the printer first came to Kayser a few months earlier. He wanted to find a project in which the sun did more than just power a device.
Markus Kayser s homebuilt 3-D printer created this glass bowl out of heated sand from the Sahara For the printer to work efficiently
and solar panels at the other, can pivot from straight overhead down to a 45-degree angle to chase the sun. directed by a CAD design from a connected laptop,
the printer uses the concentrated beam of sunlight to slowly trace an object into the sandbox layer by layer.
Sensors inside detect the shadows and feed the data on their position to Kayser s computer,
The printer s motors the electronics, cameras and a laptop all run on batteries charged by the solar panels PRINTING Kayser first designs the object he wants to print in a CAD program.
His computer sends instructions to the printer, which works from the bottom up. After a layer has cooled into glass,
he adds more sand to the sandbox in the center of the machine and flattens it out,
and the printer begins heating the next layer. Kayser s first major piece, a bowl, took about four and a half hours to print.
POWER Two photovoltaic panels, one on either side of the machine keep the printer powered
. since the panels are attached to the same arms as the lens, they also benefit from the sun tracking,
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In the U s.,the outlook for solar power is bright and sunny. The solar industry in America has recorded its second largest quarter ever in the third quarter of 2013,
a transparent display specialist and military head up screen supplier, is wading into the wearable computing market, revealing a new#developer#kit that, unlike#Google s Glass, offers full augmented reality support.
but where Google s headset has a small display-block suspended in the corner, the entire right lens of the Lumus wearable is in fact a 640 x 480 display.
That means developers building apps for the Android-powered headset can overlay graphics directly on top of the real-world view
rather than simply sliding in separate notifications as Glass does.####Lumus might not be the household name that Google is,
but it has some history in#wearable#displays. The company developed a patented##Light-guide Optical Element##(LOE) in effect a tiny projector that projects onto a special lens
so that the computer-generated image is see-through and has been supplying it to industrial and military customers for some years,
including the helmet displays the US Air force has deployed in the F-16 and A-10. The company s consumer plans have been a little later to the game,
Whereas the last Lumus prototype we saw#the OE-31 wearable display back in March 2012#was somewhat geeky in its appearance,
The VGA-resolution display with 25-degree field of view is integrated into the right lens, while the block section on the side accommodates the 5-megapixel camera,#
#processor, battery, and sensors. Android runs on an OMAP processor Lumus isn t saying which one specifically
and there s a motion sensor with 9 degrees-of-freedom to do precise head tracking, important when you want to exactly match what s on-screen with what s in front of the wearer.
Lumus is billing the DK-40 as completely wire-free, though not commenting on battery life expectations as yet.
For developers, there ll be an SDK to get them up to speed with coding Android apps to take advantage of the platform,
It s not the first lens-as-display wearable we ve seen in recent months,
that has two transparent screens, one for each eye, unlike the single-display Lumus. Unfortunately, while Lumus intends to start shipping the DK-40 monocular dev kit at the end of Q1 2014,
The end-goal is still to sell the displays to other companies who will put them into their own consumer products,
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