and sensors to make sure you don't waste a single drop of precious, expensive water. That's a big deal here in California.
Spain explained to us that Weathertrak uses cloud computing technology, taking into account specific features of your landscape--from soil type to slope and water runoff to location-specific weather data--to figure out exactly how much water to use.
By day, a solar panel charges a battery. By night, the battery (set on a timer) powers a pair of patented light bulbs that lure insects in with one attractive wavelength
and disorient them with another. Within a foot of the bulb, the dizzy bugs drop, falling to their watery deaths inside a bucket.
and notes that the company spent $175 million to retrofit the navigation systems on its planes to calculate tighter flight paths
Rob Spiro, the former product lead for Google+and cofounder of social search engine Aardvark (Google acquired it) founded the company.
Tech, sustainability meet on the robotic marijuana farmmr. Greenthumb's latest gardening tool may just be...
forming a grate-like exoskeleton that gives it structural strength but also filters water and nutrients efficiently.
Much like the sea sponge maneuvers water through its latticelike exoskeleton, Lord Norman Foster's tower--officially 30 St mary Axe,
It's a battery-powered tube that mixes a nicotine cartridge with propylene glycol, delivering it in a controlled way
Dressed to kill, one atom at a time Nanotubes development could double battery life Nano-advances behind new architectural products Scientists create functioning transistor from a single atom
uninteresting to venture capitalists and Silicon valley wunderkinds, under the radar, and bottom-up. The revolution is now, in your house, on your time,
Unsurprisingly, social security numbers, health histories and other personal data from breached or stolen electronic health records are used routinely by identity thieves.
according to a study by the data privacy lab at Carnegie mellon University. So, too, has the number of people willing to pay for this information grown.
and federal agents much easier and deeper access to personal data, creating a host of unprecedented civil liberties issues.
handhelds and wireless sensors--is being spearheaded by Pepsico and Cambridge university on a pilot basis, as part of the food company's overriding agenda to develop an integrated crop management system that will help the company reduce the carbon emissions
This honey of a robot will fly like no other! Fly me to the moon.
It navigates better than a GPS. It unerringly returns the critter back to base every single time,
That's exactly what a group of artificial intelligence scientists in England have in, er, mind, the BBC reports.
we hope to eventually be able to produce an accurate and complete model that we can test within a flying robot.
The University of Sheffield is teaming with the University of Sussex to use graphics cards, rather than expensive supercomputers,
Too many obstacles to'smart homes'anytime soon: studywill home appliances soon be tuned into the Smart Grid to the point where they can deliver consumption data,
Will refrigerators soon be automatically placing orders to replenish food stocks identified by its sensors as running low?
A lot of the elements of the much-anticipated smart home will be arriving on the scene by 2020,
While the experts tilt slightly in favor of realizing the smart home vision by 2020, most of their comments suggest that many still see the well-connected home of the future as a marketing mirage.
The Internet of things and the subsequent world of smart systems, from smart cars and smart highways to smarter cities and smart homes is mostly overblown,
and the advent of truly smart homes may not occur anytime soon...Our houses will be connected IP. This is a fact.
Smart homes are on their way, but this development is being delayed. Not so much by lack of trust as by lack of alignment of the key players utilities, ISPS, manufacturers.
The company is hoping to benefit from the partnership with USC by developing a new ecosystem of media and entertainment according to head of gaming and transmedia at Orange, Jean-Fran ois Rodriguez.
Their batteries recharged, the chefs headed home to their various corners of the world. I'm going back to Spain with renewed energy and ideas
India has been a victim of misappropriation or bio-piracy of our genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge,
is comprised of off-the-shelf roadway sensors linked to software that tracks the speed and volume of vehicles oe either cars or bikes oe moving over the sensors.
Sensors measure the amount of urine entering the urinal and monitor ammonia levels. To determine where P-Planters are needed most,
Sensors in the bags alert passersby that the plant needs water or fertilizer or these signals can be sent to community members via text message.
New tech converts junk plastics into fuel Solar-powered trash cans World s cheapest light bulb Printable paper solar panels New battery can recharge itself using sunlight The future
This week, Lockheed martin is debuting an unmanned military drone that could be useful for information-gathering based on these silent, strong, one-winged, helicopter-like flyers.
Officers could throw the drones like boomerangs to photograph what is around the next corner or inside a building and report back.
They improve upon drones currently used by the military in that they can hover in place like helicopters
and be produced cheaply with 3d printing. Watch the video below (from 2010) to see the SAMARAI be launched like a boomerang,
Man uses fish poo, sensors to grow gardenin Oakland, California, a man grows veggies with fish excrement instead of soil.
Eric Maudu's garden is wired with sensors that let him know just how thirsty his plants are,
The garden has hooked sensors up, so Maudu can tell when the water is running low.
The plants have sensors that tweet updates so he can know in real-time how his garden is doing.
Watch robots climb trees, helicopter in and sniff bugsrobots do the darndest things. For your pre-long-weekend amusement,
here are three videos of wacky things robots (and one gadget) can do. First up:
Treebot, the tree-climbing robot. Yes, robots have climbed trees before, but Treebot is the first to do
so without any help--and to tackle trees that are complete strangers. Treebot's creators, Tin Lun Lam and Yangsheng Xu from The Chinese University of Hong kong, presented their research at the International Conference on Robotics and Animation.
In this video, you can see Treebot inch its way up thin stalks of bamboo as well as trees with much thicker diameters.
Second is a rolling robot that can helicopter in at a moment's notice. Yes, the idea of transformers is not new,
The robot s researchers, Alex Kossett and IEEE Fellow Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos of the University of Minnesota's Center for Distributed Robotics, are working on an upgraded version in
which the robot can run on autopilot and figure out on its own how to get to its destination.
Sensors inside the device detect the three signatures of a bed bug's scent: a combination of pheromones, carbon dioxide and methane.
which is billed as ET Water's first consumer application doesn't rely on any particular sensor technology.
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Why thousands of bees are flying around with sensors  Wireless data-collecting sensors are everywhere:
 Enter a swarm of sensors. Australia's national science agency, The  Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), is placing tiny sensors on the backs of 5, 000 honeybees.
 Using Radio frequency Identification sensors the researchers will be able to track the movement of the bees.
By doing this, researchers will be able to track bee behavior and look for environmental changes that could be harming bee colonies.
the way the scientists are able to attach the sensors to the bees is fascinating.
According to CSIRO, the bees are refrigerated first for a short time to put them in a rest state just long enough to attach the tiny sensors to their backs with an adhesive--younger hairy bees must be shaved first.
and the sensors appear to have no impact on the bee's ability to fly and carry out its normal duties,
  The sensors used on the bees are 2. 5mm x 2. 5 mm,
a dosimeter, a small radiation-measuring instrument GPS tracking a device that detects the monkey s distance from the ground as the radiation level is measured.
Better sensors? Brain scans? Robots doing autopsies? Probably not. Even before more human lead autopsies are done,
researchers will need a better understanding of female sexuality. Because even if Ostrazenki finds more little grapes,
We also built an open-source kit that will allow people to build these at home for a very low cost, about $1, 000.
Ted Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado, tells National geographic:
Bedbug genome uncovers pesticide resistance Beyond bedbugs-lay your head to rest in the greenest hotel Watch robots climb trees,  helicopter  in and sniff bugs
ZFD equipped slaughterhouse meat hooks with RFID Chips as part of the project which are used to record the weight of pigs before
The Meat Reassurance project is part of the Chinese governments efforts to promote the ŠInternet of things  oe equipping ordinary objects with microchips,
sensors and barcodes which allow them communicate information digitally. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao expressed his support for the industry in 2009,
and the Chinese government has designated the Internet of things amongst the list of Å strategic industries which will receive 1. 7 trillion USD in government investment over the next five years.
Most Internet of things investments will fund transport and logistics projects including GPS tagging for shipping containers,
and automated traffic control systems, according to the Internet of things Association in Shenzhen, southern China. The Chinese government sees the Internet of things as a way to automate and rationalise governance.
Å With a system like this, everyones role is clearer, and theres less room for individual mistakes, Â Yuan said.
All Chinese cities with a populations above 1. 5 million people will be required to install a meat monitoring system over the next five years,
Å Government investment in the internet of things is likely to be huge and we hope to win a lot more contracts,
Turning algae into oil the NASA way Scientists create high-capacity batteries from algae Pressure-cooking method makes an algae-based biofuel Plane takes first flight on 100
Cloud computing and Internet services for agriculture are growing in popularity, allowing farmers to keep better track of their assets--from crops to livestock to expenses.
And while there are surgical simulators on the market oe including high-tech digital systems offering a virtual reality oe she believes the skills crucial to laparoscopic surgery might be taught better with something simple  something like a clementine.
Growflex is a machine to machine-machine network solution that includes battery -or solar-powered sensors that are distributed in a greenhouse or field.
These sensors connect to backend servers that process the data collected, and the information is displayed as requested by the customer.
So, for example, a farmer could monitor conditions for his or her field using a mobile phone,
and IBM supplied the computing power with its Blue Gene supercomputer. Meanwhile the USDA-ARS Subtropical Horticulture Research Station in Miami and researchers from UC Davis, Clemson, Indiana University, the Hudsonalpha Institute for Biotechnology and Washington state University participated.
But my affinity for it pales in comparison to that of Gizmodo's Matt Buchanan, who writes this morning of a coffee-pouring robot installed at Roy St. Coffee and Tea in Seattle, Wash.
Like all robots, the idea is to accomplish and repeat a specific task with precision.
but he does want to prove how difficult spoofing the sensor will be --and that biometric technology has moved on in recent years.
Basically people criticized the Touchid sensor as being insecure, thinking it was a typical fingerprint sensor from five years ago.
In reality it's a lot harder, and I was part of a vocal minority of security researchers who argued Apple did a good job.
has A LOT OF data centers to its name. The buyout actually increased the company's total operations footprint by almost 50 percent
Drones will produce 70,000 new U s. jobs, study sayslately, there has been a lot of controversy over the specter of pilotless drones buzzing across U s. skies,
spying on and targeting citizens on the ground. While there is potential for abuse, the use of drones also offers new capabilities in police work, mapping, agriculture, conservation and scientific studies.
As a result, a whole new industry will be created, proponents say. Photo credit: Aerovironment Media Relations That's the word from the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI),
which just published a new study that predicts the drone aircraft industry may potentially create more than 70,000 new American jobs in the first three years following the integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into U s. skies.
This is a politically charged time for the drone industry, with questions arising about privacy rights,
Jenkins observes that drones can be readily mass-produced and typically require bachelors-degree-level skills to develop.
Small drones are made from many of the same components as smartphones, and the economies of scale of that industry have driven the cost of gyroscopes, accelerometers, GPS chips,
and CPUS to the ground. As a result, the widespread use of drones in commerce is imminent.
Leading drone applications include the following: Precision agriculture: This is expected to be the largest market for drone technology,
the AUVSI study finds. UAS will help farmers monitor crops and distribute pesticides, which could not only help improve efficiency,
but also reduce the total amount of pesticides sprayed, saving money and reducing environmental impact. Public safety:
Drones have the capability to provide eyes in the sky to help police and firefighters at crime or fire scenes.
Drones will also aid in disaster management and wildfire mapping. News and entertainment: Drones will be instrumental in television news coverage, sporting events and movie-making.
Energy: Drones will play a role in oil and gas exploration. Utilities can also use drones to survey power lines.
Weather and environment: Pilotless drones can safely observe weather events such as hurricanes, as well as help monitor environmental conditions
Drugs-on-the-cob: growing new meds in cornscientists have found a way to use maize to produce an expensive drug.
Specifically, it's a drug for a rare and life-threatening lysosomal disease that could previously only be manufactured by expensive cell culture techniques.
We know that data centers consume their share of energy, but is this offset or compensated by the natural resources not consumed?
It s no secret that data centers ââ oe especially those run by social networking leaders such as Google
These providers are even taking care to make sure that they build their latest and greatest data centers within range of hydroelectric power sources.
and many across the industry are pressing data center operators and solutions providers to go green,
Lead from recycled U s. batteries polluting Mexico Clean energy policy is political priority for Americans survey The Morning Briefing:
World s largest underwater hotel More smart home ideas: Next big thing: ââ Ëoesee through HDTVS Smart toilet remembers to put seat down,
freshens the air With LED, researchers build a ââ Ëoewallpaper TV A bed that makes itself Finally,
Dole food Company donating salad bars to schools Fenugreen Freshpaper keeps produce fresh for longer Ripeness sensor developed to monitor produce
Facebook plans Subarctic data center Iceland cometh
GE Water sustainability chief Jeff Fulgham: We need a price on waterwhy doesn't water get more attention?
Distributed systems: like the grid, we will see a rise into smaller distributed wastewater systems, serving 1,
It has an open source project known as ZXING to allow cell phones and cameras to scan barcodes without using a server.
GPS saves gas for produce delivery companymichael Gilbert says the Navman Wireless installation paid for itself in 90 days.
more evidence emerges that global positioning satellite (GPS RECEIVERS and telematics devices are fabulous tools for improving fleet efficiency.
The company tested the GPS SYSTEMS and application in 20 trucks before deploying them to the entire 65-vehicle fleet a few months later.
the road Scientists create high-capacity batteries from algae
Green initiatives highlighted at international flower showthe theme of this year's  Philadelphia International Flower Show,
using GPS devices to track their drivers on a minute-by-minute basis . But such tools are generally beyond the reach of small businesses.
How milk jugs can make 3d printing cheaperwith 3d printing, anyone with a 3d printer can make just about anything using a digital design and plastic filament.
And while you can get simple open-source printers for surprisingly cheap (anywhere from $250-$500),
one kilogram of the plastic filament can set you back between $30-$50. But there's one solution that might be sitting in your refrigerator right now:
Researchers at Michigan Technological University are looking to milk jugs as a way for 3d printing to gain more widespread use.
The design for the Recyclebot is open-source and available here. Of course, you get what you pay for.
which isn't ideal for 3d printing, but the team says that the disadvantages to using this type of plastic aren't  overwhelming.
and measures gas concentration using infrared sensors. A pair of wings pops out after it enters the stomach
IBM supercomputer named world's fastest, lands new jobonce again, America can brag about having the world Â's fastest supercomputer.
Two years after being ousted by China Â's Tianhe-1a, IBM Â's Sequoia helped regained the top spot on the TOP500 list of the world s top supercomputers.
Drawing from 1, 572,864 cores, the IBM Bluegene/Q system clocked in at 16.32 petaflops per second, according to the LINPACK benchmark.
Last year Â's supercomputing champion, Fujitsu s Å K Computer Â, finished in second place with a benchmark score of 10.51 Pflop/s. It Â
which registered at 8. 15 petaflop/s. In fact, of the top 10 fastest supercomputers, half of them were built by Big Blue.
China unveils world s longest sea bridge Robot solves Rubik's cube in 5 seconds,
sets world record video Is this 400-mile electric car battery for real
Icon Carol Bartz, former CEO, Autodesk and Yahoo! Carol Bartz isn't afraid to get her hands dirty.
One main obstacle to eating insects is the exoskeleton, but the food processor quickly solves the problem.
This was achieved using NASA imagery from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft, the Quikscat scatterometer satellite and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
space station s streaming webcam to let users spy on earthlings More interactive maps and graphics:
Only recently did Apple lift restrictions on voice over ip which has been standard fare on PCS for years and a savior for parents with kids overseas.
A French company has developed a sensor that can detect if food has been abused Å temperature, Â or stored at an inappropriately cold or hot level.
the sensor will block out a portion of the product barcode, prohibiting a customer from purchasing it.
But it could be tough to find a market for this sensor, she added, because of potential liability issues.
Printed electronic sensors that make it clear when food is still safe to eat could prevent such waste,
the sensors themselves would have to be recyclable. Another option is to remove and sort the sensors,
which would likely be small enough to be melted down and remade. Innovation at what cost?
The computer scientists--experts in biometrics and face recognition technology--spent eight years collecting and photographing leaves,
Meanwhile, crude oil's efficiency value is 87. 5g CO2/mj. Here are the data (g CO2/mj) from the EU documents,
Growstuff uses open source software to help Melburnians track what they are planting and harvesting, while providing them with a practical local guide to growing their own food.
A month ago, the crowdsourcing invention incubator Quirky teamed with GE Garages and asked the Quirky community to take an everyday,
and places the jug on a base that contains a PH sensor, an LED display, scale, wireless transceiver and a rechargeable battery.
When the sensor detects a PH level outside of the safe range, it triggers the LEDS to turn from green to yellow.
The jug itself contains a temperature sensor that will alert the user if the milk has been left outside the fridge for long enough for bacteria to form.
and the power needed to recharge its battery.)So now what? Quirky will take the Milkmaid through its final steps,
They put sensors on the field that track nutrient levels and moisture levels, so you can be more precise in how you use resources.
You won't'collapse in terror'because of Google glass Apple vs. San francisco fountain: Retail power gone too far?
Wearable computing is'profoundly interesting 'What are the top 20 most valuable brands in the world?
New ripeness sensor developed to monitor produceflickr/DC Central Kitchen Scientists at MIT have created a sensor that has the ability to detect the ripeness of produce.
The sensor works by detecting levels of ethylene, a ripening hormone in fruits and vegetables.
and oranges, the sensor was successful in measuring how much ethylene was secreted. Warehouses have expensive systems to monitor gas composition in produce
but this sensor provides a low-cost and easy to use alternative that could be used in smaller facilities as well.
along with a group of students, envisions the inexpensive sensors  attached to cardboard boxes of produce
This summer Zaman hopes to develop the system into an online search engine where marketers, politicians, grass roots organizations,
and EOOS received a $40, 000 special recognition prize for their design of a toilet user interface.
Picarro sensors can read'nature's bar code'You may have read about Picarro, which makes sensors for detecting
and measuring various carbon and gas emissions. Those sensors have typically been used for finding gas leaks
or for measuring how changes in weather patterns. Now, Picarro is working with agriculture and food products companies to apply the sensors to measuring the isotopes in foods.
The intention: help food companies spot check and confirm the origins of the ingredients more cost-effectively.
or  cause a pileup due to religiously following GPS technology now, would you? Image credit:
app FTC creates guidelines for facial recognition technology use The spy-free app you can use to stop surveillance
and even a crowdsourced multimedia campaign with visions for Mexico of the Future  which includes submissions such as a solar panel on every house  and respect for flora and fauna.
Should we'ban killer robots before it's too late'?'World bank chief: Climate change will be'devastating'Fedex,
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He now has $3 million in funding--$1. 5 million from aâ crowdsourced campaign that was matched then by various venture capitalists.
You have mentioned you'd like to make Soylent open source, so that it could be made freely by anyone.
I'm a huge advocate of open source and sharing information. There's still always going to be a strong market for us making it
They are working on things like better batteries to replace oil used in transportation. And they are doing natural gas research.
Tiffani Williams, computer scientist, on creating an open source tree of lifethe Open Tree of Life project culls years'worth of segmented scientific research in an effort to create a current, open source version of our knowledge
Johns hopkins university in Baltimore  observed that people who took a caffeine pill scored higher on memory tests than did swallowed those who a dummy tablet, the BBC reportsâ in a summary of an article in Nature Neuroscience.
The two groups scored equally on easier memory tasks. None of the subjects were regular caffeine consumers.
ICESAT was using a laser technology similar to radar, called lidar, to measure global topography, vegetation, the mass of ice sheets and the height of aersols and clouds.
Scientists create artificial bee eye for potential robot, flying vehicle usebees are known to have great vision
The system could be applied to flying vehicles like drones and robots. The lightweight imaging system, detailed in the Bioinspiration & Biometrics journal, features an artificial bee eye with a camera that aims to recreate an insect's processing and navigation skills.
It is suited also well for mobile robots, in particular on flying vehicles that need lightweight sensors
Marine creatures are always on the move following tides and currents. â Å Some fish in one area of the sea are contaminated,
and her student Kyle Gilpin at MIT's Distributed Robotics Laboratory (DRL). In May, at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation the world premier robotics conference Rus and Gilpin will present a paper outlining the algorithms that will make such smart sand possible.
They've already tested their algorithms using 10-millimeter cubes that contain microprocessors and magnets on four sides.
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