According to a Canadian Pet Market Outlook report, about half of Canadian households without children own pets.
because the technology and intellectual property has been floated to the public as an open source transportation solution.
The so-called Fingerreader, a prototype produced by a 3-D printer, fits like a ring on the user s finger, equipped with a small camera that scans text.
Special software tracks the finger movement identifies words and processes the information. The device has vibration motors that alert readers
Developing the gizmo has taken three years of software coding, experimenting with various designs and working on feedback from a test group of visually impaired people.
and offices offers cumbersome scanners that must process the desired script before it can be read aloud by character-recognition software installed on a computer or smartphone,
Audio cues in the software that processes information from the Fingerreader and vibration motors in the ring.
The Fingerreader can read papers, books, magazines, newspapers, computer screens and other devices, but it has problems with text on a touch screen,
said Shilkrot. That s because touching the screen with the tip of the finger would move text around,
producing unintended results. Disabling the touch-screen function eliminates the problem, he said. Berrier said affordable pricing could make the Fingerreader a key tool to help people with vision impairment integrate into the modern information economy.
Intel s latest chips have transistors with features as small as 14 nanometers, but it is unclear how the industry can keep scaling down silicon transistors much further or
A project at IBM is now aiming to have built transistors using carbon nanotubes ready to take over from silicon transistors soon after 2020.
transistors at that point must have features as small as five nanometers to keep up with the continuous miniaturization of computer chips.
New york. Nanotubes are the only technology that looks capable of keeping the advance of computer power from slowing down,
In 1998, researchers at IBM made one of the first working carbon nanotube transistors. And now after more than a decade of research, IBM is the first major company to commit to getting the technology ready for commercialization.
We previously worked on it as a sandbox type of thing, says James Hannon, head of IBM s molecular assemblies and devices group.
Hannon led IBM s nanotube work before Haensch, who took over in 2011 after a career working on manufacturing conventional chips.
Wilfried joined with a silicon technology background and our focus really shifted. Haensch s team chose the target for commercialization based on the timetable of technical improvements the chip industry has mapped out to keep alive Moore s Law
This is the point IBM hopes nanotubes can step in. The most recent report from the microchip industry group the ITRS says the so-called five-nanometernode is due in 2019.
IBM has made recently chips with 10 000 nanotube transistors. Now it is working on a transistor design that could be built on the silicon wafers used in the industry today with minimal changes to existing design and manufacturing methods.
IBM s chosen design uses six nanotubes lined up in parallel to make a single transistor.
The IBM team has tested nanotube transistors with that design, but so far it hasn t found a way to position the nanotubes closely enough together,
Last year researchers at Stanford created the first simple computer built using only nanotube transistors. But those components were bulky and slow compared to silicon transistors
says However, for now IBM s nanotube effort remains within its research labs, not its semiconductor business unit.
says IBM s Hannon. If nanotubes don t make it, there s little else that shows much potential to take over from silicon transistors in that time frame.
Although IBM hasn worked t out how to make nanotube transistors small enough for mass production, Mirta says it has made concrete steps,
They've developed software that can detect 400 different variations of humanmoods. They are now integrating this software into call centers that can help a sales assistant understand
and react to customer s emotions in real time. Better than that, the software itself can also pinpoint
and influence how consumers make decisions. For example, if this person is an innovator, you want to offer the latest and greatest product.
Mary Czerwinski is a cognitive psychologist at Microsoft Research doing pioneering work in Affect Computing.
Other technologies monitor how hard you're pounding on your keyboards (another possible indicator of mood.
Imagine if your computer flashed you a message: Don't send that e-mail! What does it all mean?
and tablets are entrenched becoming features within the corporate and consumer worlds. Companies like Intuit, ebay/Paypal,
#Starbucks partnering with Square#to be the main processor at thousands of locations is just one of many notable examples.
Retail UPS stores carrying pay-peruse printers, Makerbots in every school, a new brick in the Great Wall,
In less than ten years, you're probably going to be able to print your own open source clothes for a few cents,
it costs about $700 to build your own Openknit machine, with both the hardware and software still in the do-it-yourself stage.
There's also an online repository for open source digital patterns already up and running. Called Do Knit Yourself,
refinement, and much better printers and software. Eventually, printing clothes is going to be as easy as ordering a burger and fries from your smart watch.
Print green t-shirt, wear for a day, throw in the recycler, print blue-t-shirt (with recycled clothes matter) for tomorrow.
The cheap printing of socks and underwear doesn t look that far off, except that, unsurprisingly,
After all, just because I can build a computer (and I have built in fact every desktop I ve owned),
it doesn't mean I m going to have the time and resources to build some of the bleeding edge mobile computing hardware available today on the cheap.
So too for fashion. Printing socks and underwear may go on to reduce the difficulty of making jeans to making toast
Google is also increasing the maximum file size to 5tb larger than the largest hard drive on any PC available today.
or exceptionally large data files the kind of files usually stored on servers. The move to unlimited storage was inevitable Box CEO Aaron Levie predicted this day on Twitter#back in March
and Microsoft just increased its storage limit for Onedrive business customers from 20gb to 1tb#on Monday.
We ll march in lockstop with Android and ios . I don t see where any competitor has a better story in terms of cross-platform.
including those with heavy investments in Microsoft office. We want to remove all barriers to entry on getting efficiency out of these cloud tools.
Now, users will be able to edit Microsoft-formatted files directly within Google Apps without converting them to Google s file formats.
Those sync with Microsoft Active directory or with any generic LDAP framework, Johnston said. There will also be much better visibility into
On the security front, Google will offer encryption at rest on its servers. In addition to encryption in transit and between data centers,
and it seemed that Larry page was satisfied to keep the product around as a decent side business (advertising still makes up 90%of Google s more than $40 billion in annual revenue) and a thorn in Microsoft s side,
Dr Jeanette Garcia, from IBM s Almaden Research center in San jose, stumbled upon the first new class of thermosets in many years when she accidentally left one of three components out of a reaction.
who was in charge of the research at IBM, is excited by the possibilities. When a large or expensive component is damaged
allowing the printer to lay down more material with the same number of movements. But thicker layers means sacrificing the printer s resolution,
because the place where one layer ends and the next begins becomes obvious. So a national lab and a corporation set out in the past year to completely reinvent the concept of the 3d printer.
Oak ridge s monster machine Oak ridge National Laboratory decided to make a faster printer by embracing thicker layers.
which reported that BAAM is capable of printing objects as large as tables and chairs by extruding plastic in layers 0. 3 inches wide.
Chairs recently on display at the RAPID conference each took about 2 hours and 30 minutes to print.
On a normal printer, a chair would take days to print and need to be printed in pieces.
The printers deposit different colors and types of materials on phones whizzing past them on an oval-shaped track.
or a few nozzles to switch back and forth between colors. 3d Systems does make a line of color printers,
which have driven heavy interest in the 25 year old professional printer industry, only appeared 10 years ago.
and displays that information right on the outside of the cup. In a perfect world, you adjust your exercise intake accordingly.
That display is also customizable. In addition to calories, you can track, say, caffeineand make sure you re not ODING in the morning,
Over a Skype demo, Lee let me choose from maybe 60 different beverages he had on the table.
Every 5 minutes, a signal is sent wirelessly from a glucose monitor under the user s skin to an iphone app,
They argue that we should not let computers replace positions such as law makers, judges, or police officers.
I d rather take my chances with an impartial Computer experts estimate that by 2050,50 million jobs could be lost to automation.
-and-mortar store to see the colors and hardware for yourself. But you may still have trouble envisioning how the wall color
and matte paint and developed the augmented reality display system from scratch. The cost of each grid room is relatively low,
Customers using the Holoroom first use an ipad app to spec out the room they re remodeling.
The tablet serves as a kind of de facto goggle a giant monocle, really allowing couples to experience the illusion together.
Now, it feels within reach, Phil Rogers, a corporate fellow at Advanced micro devices, the computer chip maker,#told the New york times#in January.
Once limited to silvery#images#on credit cards, holography#made a splash#last year when University of Illinois computer scientists showed off an immersive holograph room, CAVE2, that projected images on an array of LED screens.
Users wore goggles to get the full 3d effect, and a wand allowed them to interact with the objects on the screens.
One setting they mocked up? Star trek s holodeck, of course. Perhaps the perfect kitchen feels like a dream barely within reach, too.
Like other computerscreens, the room displays inputs processed elsewhere. That means Lowe s has to scan every item before it can appear in the Holoroom.
This information is displayed on a touch screen in the dressing room, and if a customer desires a different size or color,
they can simply click on the changes on the screen. The system has a real time registry of the store s inventory
In addition, the touch screen can suggest complementary or similar items, which can also be requested for retrieval.
Created by#Accenture,#Microsoft, #and#Avanade, the Connected Fitting Room is currently in use at the department store Kohl s,
which has locations all throughout the US. In addition, talks are in process that would bring the technology to retailers in the UK as well.
together with many of the original partners, from AT&T to Autodesk. It s a failure of the community college system, the California state system,
back-end web developer, ios mobile developer, Android mobile developer, or data analyst. The first nanodegree will start this fall.
It s completely up-to-date with the latest software, it s problem-based, much (much) cheaper,
While people are starting to use mobile devices more and more to manage their health, it is still not the norm.
#HP announces plans to destroy Microsoft windows Moments after Meg Whitman, CEO of Hewlett-packard, announced the company grand new plan to compete with the Microsoft windows operating system,
she was thanking Microsoft for being a major sponsor of the conference and inviting the company new CEO, Satya Nadella, on stage.
Nadella joined Whitman and Intel new CEO Brian Krzanich for a fireside chat-style interview conducted by New york times columnist and author, Tom Friedman.
But just before Nadella joined via video conferencing, during Whitman keynote speech, CTO Martin Fink, head of HP Labs, showed off
what HP hopes will be a game-changing new data center computer. It internally calling that computer he Machine.
HP is creating a lot of new technology to build The Machine, especially a new form of memory known as emristorswhich won lose data if the power turns off (also known as on-volatile memory.
HP wants this computer to replace the servers being used in today data centers. But it also hopes the tech will become the basis for the next generation of PCS.
and open-source operating system and is inviting universities to help research and build it. He threw in a little dig at Microsoft
when announcing the news saying: e want to reignite in all of our universities around the world operating system research
which we think has been dormant or stagnant for decades. On top of that, HP is working on a brand new operating system for The Machine based on Linux.
And another one based on Android, Fink continued: e are, as part of The Machine, announcing our intent to build a new operating system all open source from the ground up,
optimized for nonvolatile memory systems. We also have a team that starting from a Linux environment
and stripping out all the bits we don need. So that way you maintain compatibility for apps.
What if we build a version of Android? We have a team that doing that, too.
Notice any operating systems not mentioned? Microsoft windows. You might argue that it would be difficult for HP to build an operating system based on Windows
since Microsoft doesn freely share that code. Windows is not free and open source as Linux and Android is.
You would be right. However, when Nadella and Krzanich were on stage, Whitman pointed out how all three companies have been doing joint R&d for 30 years.
In other words, HP could be doing a joint development project with Microsoft if it wanted to.
As Whitman said about the HP, Intel, Microsoft combo, ur partnership, the three companies it was the defining partnership of the industry for the last 30 years but sometimes 30-year marriages,
they need a little rejuvenation. That rejuvenation will obviously come in the form of Linux and Android.
It not wholly surprising that HP is building a new computer that will extricate itself from Microsoft,
and potentially from Intel, too, depending on who HP chooses to fabricate its new chip. Last year, Whitman called out Microsoft and Intel as competitors.
After a disappointing quarter for the company PC business she told Wall street analysts: P traditional highly profitable markets face significant disruption.
Wintel devices are being challenged by ARM-based devices. We are seeing profound changes in the competitive landscape.
Current partners like Intel and Microsoft are turning from partners to outright competitors. Since then, HP has introduced new Windows 8 PCS.
But it has introduced also new Google Chromebook laptops and an experimental new desktop aimed at businesses that runs Android.
This is a bold move by HP. The ability to process large amounts of data with little energy consumption plus nonvolatile memory could be a game changer on the hardware side.
Obvious benefits are longer life of mobile devices more processing power on the device for things like speech recognition, instant on/off functioning, superior servers, removing most of the device cooling engineering,
and lower energy costs for storage and server providers. There hasn been a real hardware advancement in decades.
As the article points out, this opens the door for a change in operating systems, and hp is interested clearly not in helping Microsoft,
and prefers open source OSS. Intel also might be left out in the cold. If hp has the goods
and delivers, this technology will become THE big data system, and take over the server world just for the energy savings alone.
Pricing will be the adoption issue for consumer mobile devices. When the price points are attractive the mobile phone and tablet suppliers will switch too.
Nice tech advancement we all can benefit from. And, if u have investment money for speculation,
hp stock could be a nice retirement plan. Since snubbing Microsoft seems to be the sport of tech royalty this year,
shorting MS stock might be fun money too t
#Ostendo Technologies chip to bring holograms to smartphones Ostendo chip that can produce a hologram Virtual reality won t require strapping a bulky contraption to your head in the future.
Instead, you may just step into an empty room and then suddenly seeing life-size, 3-D images of people and furniture.
Or look down at a smartwatch and#see virtual objects float #and bounce above the wrist,
like the holographic Princess Leia beamed by R2-D2 in the moviestar Wars.####A key to this future may lay in Carlsbad, Calif,
. where startup Ostendo Technologies Inc. has spent the past nine years quietly working on miniature projectors designed to emit crisp videos and glasses-free 3-D images for smartphones and giant screens.
Other companies have shown they can project floating images that appear to be holograms, but many involve large machines employing a system of mirrors to direct light with limited viewing angles.
For instance, the lifelike image of the late rapper Tupac shakur, which graced the Coachella music festival stage in 2012,
was a combination of computer graphics and video projection that relied on visual effects first designed in the 19th century.
Ostendo s projectors in contrast, are roughly the size of Tic Tacs, powered by a computer chip that can control the color, brightness and angle of each beam of light across one million pixels.
One chipset, small enough to fit into a smartphone, is capable of projecting video on a surface with a 48-inch diagonal.
A patchwork of chips, laid together, can form far larger and more complex images. The first iteration of the chip,
Dr. El-Ghoroury, who in 1998 sold Commquest Technologies, a mobile chipset company, to#International business machines#Corp. IBM for about $250 million in cash and stock.
but what is missing is comparable advancement in display. The race to disrupt the screen is intensifying as both upstarts
and technology giants try to find new ways to bring content to life. Microsoft corp. and Advanced micro devices Inc. are both working on their own virtual reality rooms
building a complex system of projectors and computers. Hewlett-packard Co. recently spun out a company called Leia,
that like Ostendo, is trying to bring 3d imaging to smartphones. Meanwhile, Facebook Inc. agreed in March to spend $2 billion to buy Oculus VR Inc.,maker of the Oculus Rift headset that pulls users into a 360-degree virtual environments.
Facebook CEO#Mark Zuckerberg#was convinced, in part of the value of virtual reality after he accidentally tried to set down a real world object on a virtual table
which fuses an image processor with a wafer containing micro light-emitting diodes, or LEDS, alongside software that helps the unit properly render images.
During a recent test reviewed by The Wall street journal, Ostendo showed a working prototype: a set of six chips laid together that beamed a 3-D image of green dice spinning in the air.
According to Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor at the Massachusetts institute of technology, who is working on 3-D displays for MIT s Media Lab,
The Retina display on Apple Inc. s#iphone, for example, has about 300 dots per inch,
the larger vision is to have Ostendo s chips everywhere electronic displays are needed, whether it is a glasses-free 3-D television screen, a smartwatch,
or tables that can project hologram-like images. So what happens in a world where 3-D
and what it does is link your smart rifle s sight to your phone, tablet or Google glass.
you simply select your scope as your Wi-fi server, open your Shotview app and you re suddenly able to see whatever your barrel is pointed at.
and the other has posted an unpublished paper on the preprint server arxiv. The research team also included scientists at Fudan University in Shanghai, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Diamond Light source.
It s going to turn heads in an education system used to strict budgets and paying per-head for software solutions,
and check their stats on the screen projected at the front of the room. When the bell rings, its time for a random event,
or, as in Young s case, the kids can use their laptops to interact with it in real-time.
with an ios app set for release and an Android version to follow. Cutting class and eating chocolate As the Game Master,
Noschese told me over Skype. At least, he believes, not when kids are striving to earn rewards in a game.
And interestingly, they ll also be able to buy these coins through the ios app and on itunes. Young knows this is a huge move for an educational product.
It won t have customizable avatars, pets, ios app support, or interactive class forums. However, the base game will still be fully functional.
The ios app due in September will enable the whole system to run on a teacher s ipad
Video games in a very short time, have become this common cultural reference point that everybody knows,
In 2013, Tile made news for being the most successful campaign to use open source crowdfunding software elfstarter, on its own website to raise funds.
but a groundbreaking idea could change the face of medicine for good. 3d software design companies Dassault systèmes
the teams developed a realistic 3d model of a human heart featuring software designed to make it function just like the real thing.
There will be an optional attery headbandavailable for purchase that will extend battery life to about 16 hours It is anticipated to be compatible with Mac, Windows, ios,
and Android devices, and will be available in both English and Japanese languageshough there is no word on overseas sales beyond their upcoming 2015 launch in Japan.
It is complicated a mix. he computer simulation of fluid dynamics has changed dramatically in the last 5 years,
you probably think about electronics products like televisions and computers. Thanks to its CT and other diagnostic imaging machines and technology, Toshiba has made a name for itself in the healthcare industry, too.
doctors can sometimes be preoccupied with their handheld computers. Patients can feel ignored. And doctors sometimes simply must give patients bad news. Some doctors believe bad news in the exam room can cause bad feelings that turn into bad reviews on sites like Healthgrades. com
and perhaps nly half require students to use a laptop or tablet. But, she added,
While lithium ion batteries are the dominant batteries these days for laptops, cell phones and early electric cars,
(which explains why your laptop battery dies every couple of years), and they can catch on fire under extreme impact.
and software sectors theye brought on Japanese battery cathode expert Kaname Takeya, who developed the cathode tech used today in the Toyota prius
when he looked at accounting software for small business. Unlike consumer technology, which was quickly moving to a web-based approach,
business software was sold still in boxes. That made it difficult to integrate with other software
and almost impossible for the people who used it to collaborate effectively. So he went to his friend and accountant
and together they decided to build a software company that centered on the relationship between small businesses and their accountants.
it seamlessly integrates with a wide array of add-on software tools, from point-of-sale to timesheets to invoicing and payroll.
think back to how software used to work. You would buy a package from a vendor
and it would be installed on your company server or PC. Through partnerships and acquisitions, the software company would could then offer you additional products with expanded capability.
This was not only time consuming and expensive, but it limited you to the vision of your software provider.
If you had a restaurant and wanted to start selling takeout on the Web, you had to either buy a product that was compatible with your accounting software or basically run two sets of books.
In the best case you were held hostage to the partnerships and acquisitions your vendor saw fit to make.
Most of the time though, your ability to was hampered by the strategies and vision of your software provider.
Power has shifted from software companies to everyday consumers. Large scale Disruptions Most data are unstructured. Everyday there are millions of social media posts,
Lexalytics developed one of the most powerful text analysis software packages for exactly that purpose. The company product can analyze tremendous amounts of content for meaning.
but also improve the software. Because all of the data is housed together rather than distributed on clientsservers,
Microsoft or Oracle, sign up for a platform as a service and be up and running in minutes. Competition is fierce
This panel will be suspended by 6-mile-long wires connected to a small bus which will house the satellite controls and communication systems.
Using a technique called gravity gradient stabilization, the bus acts as a counterweight to the huge panel.
The panel, which will be closer to Earth, will experience more gravitational pull down toward the planet and less centrifugal force away from it,
Since the photovoltaic panel orientation is fixed the amount of sunlight that hits it varies greatly as the geosynchronous satellite and Earth spin.
The mirrors will be positioned so they can direct light onto two photovoltaic panels 24 hours a day.
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