This approach could lead to devices to charge cellphones or other electronics using just the humidity in the air.
For example Miljkovic has calculated that at 1 microwatt per square centimeter a cube measuring about 50 centimeters on a side about the size of a typical camping cooler could be sufficient to fully charge a cellphone in about 12 hours.
Witricity Corp. recently unveiled a design for a smartphone and wireless charger powered by its technology.
The charger can charge two phones simultaneously and can be placed on top of a table or mounted underneath a table or desk.
Frustrated and standing half awake he contemplated ways to harness power from all around to charge the phone.
this didn t change#until companies began bringing Wireless internet access into hotel lobbies libraries airports and other public places.
#Own your own data Cellphone metadata has been in the news quite a bit lately but the National security agency isn t the only organization that collects information about people s online behavior.
Newly downloaded cellphone apps routinely ask to access your location information your address book or other apps and of course websites like Amazon or Netflix track your browsing history in the interest of making personalized recommendations.
At the same time a host of recent studies have demonstrated that it s shockingly easy to identify unnamed individuals in supposedly anonymized data sets even ones containing millions of records.
Any cellphone app online service or big data research team that wants to use your data has to query your data store
After an initial deployment involving 21 people who used openpds to regulate access to their medical records the researchers are now testing the system with several telecommunications companies in Italy and Denmark.
For years, Li-Shiuan Peh, the Singapore Research Professor of Electrical engineering and Computer science at MIT, has argued that the massively multicore chips of the future will need to resemble little Internets,
where each core has associated an router, and data travels between cores in packets of fixed size.
Groups of declarations reach the routers associated with the cores at discrete intervals intervals corresponding to the time it takes to pass from one end of the shadow network to another.
Each router can thus tabulate exactly how many requests were issued during which interval, and by which other cores.
Core 32 router may receive core 10 request well before it receives core 1 . But it will hold it until it passed along 1. This hierarchical ordering simulates the chronological ordering of requests sent over a bus,
and our clever communication protocol will sort out all the details. It a much simpler approach and a faster approach.
pulling it slightly toward the leak site. That distortion can be detected by force-resistive sensors via a carefully designed mechanical system (similar to the sensors used in computer trackpads),
By now most people feel comfortable conducting financial transactions on the Web. The cryptographic schemes that protect online banking
you may want your family to be able to share the pictures you post on a social-networking site.
DIG is directed by Tim Berners-Lee the inventor of the Web and the 3com Founders Professor of Engineering at MIT and it shares office space with the World wide web Consortium (W3c) the organization also led by Berners-Lee that oversees the development of Web protocols like HTTP XML and CSS.
DIG s role is to develop new technologies that exploit those protocols. With HTTPA each item of private data would be assigned its own uniform resource identifier (URI) a key component of the Semantic web a new set of technologies championed by W3c that would convert the Web from essentially a collection of searchable
text files into a giant database. Remote access to a Web server would be controlled much the way it is now through passwords and encryption.
But every time the server transmitted a piece of sensitive data it would also send a description of the restrictions on the data s use.
It s not that difficult to transform an existing website into an HTTPA-aware website Seneviratne says.
But using standard Semantic web techniques it would mark that record as derived from the PCP s record
For example, Clockworks may detect specific leaky valves or stuck dampers on air handlers in HVAC units that cause excessive heating or cooling.
Liberating data By bringing all this data about building equipment to the cloud, the technology has plugged into the nternet of thingsa concept where objects would be connected, via embedded chips and other methods, to the Internet for inventory and other purposes.
so people can read all data associated with it. s more and more devices are connected readily to the Internet,
The 65-watt Dart can power most laptops, smartphones, and tablets. By November, FINSIX aims to deliver its first shipment of around 4, 500 Darts to Kickstarter backers and other customers.
Google; the NSF Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines at MIT; and Jeremy and Joyce Wertheimer n
Next year the BAT will test its ability to power microgrids at a site south of Fairbanks Alaska in an 18-month trial funded by the Alaska Energy Authority.
which can be difficult to maneuver around certain sites. The modular BAT Rein says packs into two midsize shipping containers for transport
Target sites include areas where large diesel generators provide power such as military bases and industrial sites as well as island and rural communities in Hawaii northern Canada India Brazil and parts of Australia.
and bowling with training videos culled from Youtube. They found that according to metrics standard in the field of computer vision their algorithm identified new instances of the same activities more accurately than its predecessors.
In most photovoltaic (PV) materials, a photon (a packet of sunlight) delivers energy that excites a molecule,
Kushman found a website on which algebra students posted word problems they were having difficulty with,
which is developing smart LED LIGHTS that can wirelessly connect to the Internet and change colors to match people moods p
Depending on several site factors, this produces anywhere from 30 to 400 kilowatts of electricity. Treated wastewater exits the reactor with 80 to 90 percent of pollutants removed,
Ecovolt, on the other hand, is applicable to a range of sites, and has demonstrated a more robust treatment process,
and sciences at MIT gets about 100 emails daily from people across the world interested in his bionic limbs.
smartphone-readable particle that they believe could be deployed to help authenticate currency, electronic parts, and luxury goods, among other products.
without impacting smartphone readout or requiring a complete redesign of the system. Another advantage to these particles is that they can be read without an expensive decoder like those required by most other anti-counterfeiting technologies.
Using a smartphone camera equipped with a lens offering twentyfold magnification anyone could image the particles after shining near-infrared light on them with a laser pointer.
The researchers are also working on a smartphone app that would further process the images and reveal the exact composition of the particles.
The filtering could also be applied to display screens on phones or computers so only those viewing from directly in front could see them.
which excites electrons that flow through the thylakoid membranes of the chloroplast. The plant captures this electrical energy
and survive at a distant site, the researchers say. Many of the proteins overexpressed in the more aggressive tumors are activated by the same cellular signaling pathways,
With the Internet boom in full swing he co-founded a couple of dot-coms but began viewing climate change and energy as the real challenges of my generation.
The simple readout could even be transmitted to a remote caregiver by a picture on a mobile phone.
These particles congregate at tumor sites where MMPS cleave hundreds of peptides which accumulate in the kidneys
and a bicycle-powered charging system for cellphones and lanterns. Davide Zaccagnini a vascular surgeon and program manager for the Science Monks and Technology Leadership Program says he was motivated to join because
and can recharge the signal processing chip in roughly two minutes. he idea with this design is that you could use a phone, with an adaptor,
which include banks retail firms and telecommunications companies worldwide. After the purchase the Ksplice team joined Oracle to help the company integrate the software in its products.
Mobile phone usage is far more prevalent in Kenya than traditional banking is and the system lets people transfer money by text message.
More memorable or lessthe system could ultimately be used in a smartphone app to allow people to modify a digital image of their face before uploading it to their social networking pages.
The research was funded by grants from Xerox Google Facebook and the Office of Naval Research h
Instead, the new device uses an encoding technique commonly used in the telecommunications industry to calculate the distance a signal has travelled
we can do calculations that are very common in the telecommunications world, to estimate different distances from the single signal.
a graduate student in the Media Lab. eople with shaky hands tend to take blurry photographs with their cellphones
This approach offers a huge array of recognition sites specific to different targets, and could be used to create sensors to monitor diseases such as cancer, inflammation,
Synthetic antibodies The new polymer-based sensors offer a synthetic design approach to the production of molecular recognition sites enabling, among other applications, the detection of a potentially infinite library of targets.
In the new paper, the researchers describe molecular recognition sites that enable the creation of sensors specific to riboflavin, estradiol (a form of estrogen),
but they are now working on sites for many other types of molecules, including neurotransmitters, carbohydrates, and proteins.
it forms a binding site, Strano says. Laurent Cognet, a senior scientist at the Institute of Optics at the University of Bordeaux, says this approach should prove useful for many applications requiring reliable detection of specific molecules. his new concept,
and Dust environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft had made history by using a pulsed laser beam to transmit data over the 239000 miles from the moon to Earth at a record-breaking data-download speed of 622 megabits per second (Mbps). This download speed is more than six times faster than the speed achieved by the best
LLCD also demonstrated a data-upload speed of 20 Mbps on a laser beam transmitted from a ground station in New mexico to the LADEE spacecraft in lunar orbit;
and delivered these various parts to the spacecraft and to the ground site. Finally we designed
and Systems Glover and MIT alumna Sanja Popovic 12 MENG 13 who is now at Google describes a new robot-vision algorithm based on the Bingham distribution that is 15 percent better than its best
Bear and others discovered that the loss of this gene results in exaggerated protein synthesis at synapses, the specialized sites of communication between neurons.
GCS began going to the villages and selling solar-powered lamps, which also charge cellphones. Suddenly, its product started moving and fast. hat
and other devices such as the cellphone charger that GCS later developed. e called it our universal adapter,
#Drive-by heat mapping In 2007, Google unleashed a fleet of cars with roof-mounted cameras to provide street-level images of roads around the world.
But there were many challenges. ery expensive thermal cameras had lower resolution than your smartphone camera,
#Toward tiny, solar-powered sensors The latest buzz in the information technology industry regards he Internet of thingsthe idea that vehicles, appliances, civil-engineering structures, manufacturing equipment,
that can be tossed into potentially hazardous areas to instantly transmit panoramic images of those areas back to a smartphone. t basically gives a quick assessment of a dangerous situation,
and too expensive for wide use. started looking into low-cost, very simple technologies to pair with your smartphone,
but we still want to work with a first responder existing smartphone, Aguilar says. But the key innovation, Aguilar says,
or smartphone technologies. ur main focus is making sure the Explorer works well in the market,
or smartphones, the researchers say. They may also be useful for other applications where high power is needed in small volumes
is better power electronics for data centers run by Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other companies, to power the cloud.
biometric sensors will be featured in 40 percent of smartphones shipped to end users With the way technology is developing and the increasing consumer demand,
The technology uses mobile phones and tablets to collect data on where people are and how theye moving.
First the cell absorbs sunlight which excites electrons in the active layer of the cell.
A similar effect can be realized at a much smaller scale by using arrays of metallic nanostructures since light of certain wavelengths excites collective oscillations of free electrons known as plasmon resonances in such structures.
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Trying to print a cellphone is probably not the way to go Mcalpine said It is customization that gives the power to 3-D printing.
ACS Nano Publication Date (Web: November 29 2014 DOI: 10.1021/nn505420 0
#New technique allows low-cost creation of 3-D nanostructures Researchers from North carolina State university have developed a new lithography technique that uses nanoscale spheres to create three-dimensional (3-D) structures
Nanoporous metals offer an increased number of available sites for the adsorption of analytes a highly desirable feature for sensors.
Once injected, the material locks into place at the site of the injury and rapidly decreases the time it takes for blood to clot in some instances by a whopping 77 percent,
or she can inject the material into the wound site where it will trigger a rapid coagulation
and his colleagues solidifies at the site of the wound and begins promoting coagulation in the targeted area.
and then regain its shape once inside the body something necessary for locking itself in place at the wound site,
Blood rushes to the site of the injury and within minutes the flow stops as a plug forms at the site.
The tissue beneath and around the plug works to knit itself back together and eventually the plug disappears.
and enable the transition between a free-flowing fluid at the site and a viscous substance that brings healing factors to the injury.
of which are platelets the blood component that accumulates at the site of the wound to form the initial plug.
and congregate binding to the site of the injury and to each other. As they do so the platelets release chemicals that call other platelets to the site eventually plugging the wound.
But what happens when the injury is too severe or the patient is on anticoagulation medication
With surfaces functionalized with the same biochemical motifs found in their human counterparts these PLNS also can summon other platelets to the site
They posit that the microtubes could one day be implanted like stents to promote neuron regrowth at injury sites
#What exactly is Google's'cancer nanodetector'?'Last week US tech giants Google made a splash in the media announcing plans to develop new'disease-detecting magnetic nanoparticles'.
'This was welcomed almost universally after all trying to detect diseases earlier is something that's a focus of many research organisations including ours.
what Google are actually planning apart from getting a lot of coverage in the media he says.
But then they're Google he says. They do things differently. The way traditional science works is to map out all the possible risks demonstrate you've accounted for them
Google are doing the opposite they're saying'we want to get to here we'll worry about the details later'.
Google have been similarly vague about the precise form of nanotechnology they aim to use Graham points out:
This isn't all about Google says Graham. It's worth pointing out that Google are far from being the only show in town.
There are loads of different research groups looking into what is called collectively'biosensing'continuous monitoring of
it seems according to this article in Wired that Gambhir originally advised Google about nanotechnology. What are the current challenges facing nanodetectors?
So for Google's biomonitor they need to work out how to keep the particles in the body
This is something Google really seem to have ducked in their announcement. We don't need to dwell on it too much
but there's been a lot in the press in the last year about who has access to Google's data and under
what circumstances says Graham referring to reports of Government agencies accessing user data from tech companies like Google and Facebook.
Professor Graham's'take-home'message is that it's a mistake to see Google as the only organisation focusing on nanotechnology to detect disease it's a vibrant active field with incredible potential but still in its early days.
Google seeks way to search bodies for diseas s
#Cancer-killing nanodaisies NC State researchers have developed a potential new weapon in the fight against cancer:
So far in vivo testing in mice has shown that this approach produces significant accumulation of drugs in tumor sites instead of healthy organs.
The central technological revolution of the 20th century was the development of computers, leading to the communication and Internet era.
and tablets smart phones and other portable devices photovoltaics batteries and bioimaging. The technique has proved so successful that Hersam
along with a smartphone to immediately detect a lung infection, much like the device police use to gauge a driver's blood alcohol level.
of which shows this super accuracy adds Associate professor Andrea Morello from UNSW's School of Electrical engineering and Telecommunications.
Postdoctoral researcher Menno Veldhorst lead author on the paper reporting the artificial atom qubit says It is really amazing that we can make such an accurate qubit using pretty much the same devices as we have in our laptops and phones.
to specific cells and identifying sites of disease. Bin Liu of the A*STAR Institute of Materials Research
The doxorubicin that was released in the cell cytoplasm readily entered the nucleus its site of activity.
The new structures can lead to sensors and chips for future devices like smartphones computers and medical equipment.
This can impact the design of high-power RF devices that are used widely in the telecommunication industryor example, 4g wireless infrastructure.
The majority of today's touchscreen devices such as tablets and smartphones are made using indium tin oxide (ITO)
It's important to note that for the Gan micro-rod growth the very stable and inactive surface of graphene offers a small number of nucleation sites for Gan growth
fingernail-size mini-labs in mobile analytical devices could test a drop of blood for multiple diseases simultaneously
if mobile phones could be recharged fully in only a matter of minutes and if they kept working like new year after year?
It's really frustrating these days to find yourself in a building where your cellphone doesn't work.
"Personal electronic devices such as smart phones, ipads, etc. can last much longer before recharging.""In addition to potential commercial applications, there are many military uses for the technology.
Researchers develop method to measure positions of atomic sites with new precision More information: Real-time imaging and local elemental analysis of nanostructures in liquids.
In a simulated intraoperative scenario we tested both a static Raman imaging device and a mobile hand-held Raman scanner.
#Ultrafast graphene based photodetectors with data rates up to 50 GBIT/s In cooperation with Alcatel Lucent Bell labs researcher from AMO realized the worldwide fastest Graphene based photodetectors.
With this step ahead researchers at AMO and Alcatel Lucent Bell labs could not only set a new benchmark for graphene based photodetectors
Examples of applications are large displays, large interactive touch screens, photovoltaic solar panels, light-emitting diode panels, smart phones,
He suggests that reaching 5 percent power conversion efficiency would justify the investment for making small flexible solar panels to power devices such as smart phones.
So if a fraction of the 6. 6 billion mobile phone users globally changed to solar it would reduce our carbon footprint a lot.
which helps to understand how their reaction sites can be uncovered when they are at work. Most excitingly the team says these flexing
#Mobile phones come alive with the sound of music thanks to nanogenerators Charging mobile phones with sound, like chants from at football ground, could become a reality, according to a new collaboration between scientists from Queen Mary University of London and Nokia.
Last year, Dr Joe Briscoe and Dr Steve Dunn from QMUL's School of engineering and Materials science found that playing pop
Nokia worked with the QMUL team to create an energy harvesting prototype (a nanogenerator) that could be used to charge a mobile phone using everyday background noise such as traffic,
The ultimate device was the same size as a Nokia Lumina 925 and generates five volts,
which is enough to charge a phone. Could plugging your phone into the mains socket be a thing of past?
Dr Joe Briscoe commented:""Being able to keep mobile devices working for longer, or do away with batteries completely by tapping into the stray energy that is all around us is an exciting concept.
"It creates exciting opportunities for mobile power supplies for many applications from cell phones to electric vehicles. v
ultraflexible electronics into the brain and allow them to become fully integrated with the existing biological web of neurons.
The film can be applied onto degradable nanoparticles for injection into local sites or used to coat permanent devices such as orthopedic implants.
and physically stick it to a flexible mobile phone Felice said. The goal of the 18 month project is to design develop
and telecommunications medical devices and security he says. If these could be made flexible they could be integrated in clothes rolled up
which can be hidden in cell phones and mobile devices.""PETN has more nitro functional groups and is more electron deficient than the DNT we detected in our experiments,
since way to smaller and smaller laptops, smartphones and devices that most of us carry around in our pockets.
"In a liquid and gas, it's mobile and people understand that, but in a solid we don't expect this behavior.
In that case collision of a hot carrier with a valence-band electron excites it across the energy gap Klimov said.
and phones is made with silicon substrates, the surface on which memory chips are built. To obtain medical information from a patient such as heart rate or brainwave data,
It could change everything from the production of cell phones and televisions to counterfeit-proof money, improved solar energy systems or quick identification of troops in combat.
Cell phones and other portable electronic devices could use less power and last longer on a charge.
to use this synthetic approach for quantum dot enabled televisions, smartphones and other devices d
#Antimicrobial coatings with a long-term effect for surfaces Researchers at the INM Leibniz Institute for New Materials have produced now antimicrobial abrasion-resistant coatings with both silver
#Shatterproof screens that save smartphones University of Akron polymer scientists have developed a transparent electrode that could change the face of smartphones, literally,
"The annoying problem of cracked smartphone screens may be solved once and for all with this flexible touchscreen. The team's findings are published in the American Chemical Society's journal ACS Nano in the article titled"A Tough and High-performance Transparent Electrode from a Scalable and Transfer-Free Method
New nanotech may provide power storage in electric cables clothes Imagine being able to carry all the juice you needed to power your MP3 PLAYER, smartphone and electric car in the fabric of your jacket?
or the image can be processed automatically by a smartphone application. In trials conducted earlier this year in Cambridge
The researchers are developing a prototype smartphone-based test suitable for both clinical and home testing of diabetes and other clinically relevant conditions."
Last year, Samsung even unveiled a smartphone with a curved screenut it was solid, not flexible;
Virtually all flat-screen TVS and smartphones are made up of thin film transistors today; they form the basis of both LEDS and LCDS (liquid crystal displays."
Although very compact (only a few square centimeters) the lab-on-a-chip hosts various sensing sites distributed across a network of fluidic micro-channels that enables it to conduct multiple analyses.
or site-specific manufacturing of highly functional products Chen said. Chen's lab has demonstrated already the ability to print complex 3-D microstructures such as blood vessels in mere seconds out of soft biocompatible hydrogels that contain living cells.
#Graphene photonics breakthrough promises fast-speed low-cost communications Swinburne researchers have developed a high-quality continuous graphene oxide thin film that shows potential for ultrafast telecommunications.
"Currently with telecommunications or all optical communications you have to fabricate each component individually and try to integrate them together."
A team from Japanese#mobile carrier#NTT Docomo created augmented reality glasses that scan for text in Japanese translate the text through an online database
#Google Has added Quantum physics To'Minecraft'Video#Minecraft the Lego-style build-your-own-game game has been the canvas for some awesome projects.
Now Google's Quantum A i. Lab is taking it in an even weirder direction: quantum physics.
From a post on#Google+#announcing the game: We talked to our friends at Minecraftedu
and Google admits as much:##Of course qcraft isn t a perfect scientific simulation but it s a fun way for players to experience a few parts of quantum mechanics outside of thought experiments or dense textbook examples.#
Google via Polygon
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