When Apple s new mapping software failed so spectacularly a year ago, he knew exactly why.
the fruit of several years of intensive research for them to taste, even take for themselves.
A Japanese research company has developed a robot that performs stereo imaging of strawberries to determine their ripeness before picking them,
#oebecause the owner gets a windfall for doing nothing.##2. Farming is now cool Farming in Africa is not only profitable,
whose goods it then sells at Dutch flower auctions. 3. International demand for Africa s crops is soaring Global prices for African cocoa,
Cocoa, the key ingredient in chocolate, commands double what it did in the 1990s, which means the farmers in Ghana who grow it are together collecting $2 billion annually.
Europe s surging demand for fresh vegetables and cut flowers has been a windfall for African farmers.
they grow fruits and vegetables. Greening projects are also succeeding in Mali Tanzania, and Ethiopia.
Colombia, found that cassava outperformed potatoes, maize, beans, bananas, millet, and sorghum in tests of 24 climate-prediction and crop-suitability models.
and fruits and vegetables from western and southern Africa adorned European tables. African farmers prospered,
from apples that stave off discoloration to Golden Rice and bright-orange bananas fortified with nutrients to improve the diets of people in the poorest countries.
Other next-generation crops will be created using advanced genetic manipulation techniques that allow high-precision editing of the plant s own genome.
could soon be seen in everything from Apple s much-rumured iwatch to larger tablets. The touted arrival this year of wearable gadgets such as computer displays strapped to wrists
Apple s iwatch concept A key selling point for Willow is more efficient production which involves so-called roll-to-roll manufacturing,
and environmental controls that regulate temperature, humidity and light to produce vegetables, fruits and other crops year-round.
as young people abandon native tongues in favor of English, Mandarin, or Spanish. Do we have a moral obligation to begin archiving our languages in a central repository as a way to preserve our cultures,
Also known as agbots, these are used to automate agricultural processes, such as harvesting, fruit picking, ploughing, soil maintenance, weeding,
Concord, Calif. 122,683 118 Erie, Pa. 101,454 117 Milwaukee 594,328 117 Toledo, Ohio 287,487 117 Newark 276,478 116 Orange, Calif
and built for the Google or Apple executive. The Apple headquarters boast more Teslas than a Tesla showroom.
Early buyers were not price-sensitive and placed a premium on service and design. Tesla identified their innovator customer segment
When early adopters around the world see Apple and Google executives driving a Tesla, they want to be the first in their city
create grow-to-fit wood products, color-changing leaves, personalized fruit, etc. 129. Molecular Gastronomists 130.
Final Thoughts In much the same way that the 1985 Apple Laserwriter gave birth to desktop publishing,
#Optical Technique Sorts Grapes for Wine Quality (ISNS) A team of German scientists has developed an automated process that sorts grapes into different levels of quality for winemaking.
While it's not ready for full-scale use for this year's harvest the scientists plan to have the Grape Sort technology ready by the fall of 2014.
The process relies on optical technology that recognizes the colors of individual grapes. Different colors correspond to different amounts of sugar in the grapes a basic criterion for their wine-making characteristics.
The technology has proved itself in preliminary tests on some of Germany's favorite home-grown varietals:
the grapes for white wines Riesling and Weisser Burgunder and those for the red wines Trollinger and Lemberger.
and insects such as beetles from the grapes a capability that some wineries already possess in other optical approaches.
Second the German technology goes beyond rival systems by distinguishing among different qualities of individual grapes.
and more objectively than manually sorting each individual grape a traditional but time-consuming method used by vintners.
Its high throughput allows us to harvest and select grapes which would not normally be worth harvesting he said.
In an experiment to compare optical grape-sorting with handpicking earlier this year Oberholster's team set up an optical sorter to exclude up to 10 percent of the berries on the basis of poor quality.
The German process uses a special conveying system to load de-stemmed grapes onto a belt that travels past a sorting module.
A high-speed line scan camera photographs the grapes as they pass. After the scan the system's software takes over.
Based on its analysis of the colors of individual items on the belt it controls air jets that blow bad grapes and detritus off the belt and sorts the remaining berries into grades for production of various qualities
In effect the software takes over the role of categorizing individual grapes from human experts. It does so more cheaply and consistently.
which allows us to sort the grapes based on different criteria Vieth said. When the grapes are scanned permanently by line-scan cameras the data stream is processed within tens of milliseconds.
The technology that the process uses to separate grapes of different wine-making characteristics remains secret.
However Vieth said we use color both visible and non-visible light and geometry features to separate the qualities.
When German vineyards wanted an automatic process for sorting their grapes Fraunhofer IOSB presented an obvious choice owing to its experience developing machines that sort tobacco minerals foods and more.
and Ingenierubã ro Waidelich of Tubingen worked on the mechanical tasks such as de-stemming the grapes and some of the electrical processes.
and developing sorting systems we lacked knowledge of grapes Vieth said. So the team incorporated experts from Geisenheim University s Grape Breeding Institute an institution that offers higher degrees in winemaking and dates back to 1872.
The university is related responsible for everything to wine growing selecting the grapes for the tests performing all the laboratory analysis
and making wine out of the selected grapes Vieth said. University viticulture experts will also put the resulting wines through taste tests.
This story was provided by Inside Science News Service. A former science editor of Newsweek Peter Gwynne is a freelance science writer based in Sandwich Massachusetts i
and fruits that far or to store them for many months. In fact very few foods remain viable over such durations without losing many of the characteristics that make them wholesome and nutritious.
At least in the early years Red planet residents will not have access to fruits containing Vitamin c so they would have to rely on vitamins
#The Natural Way to Keep Fruit Fresh and Stop the Rot (Op-Ed) This article was published originally at The Conversation.
But new technology that prolongs the life of fresh fruit and vegetables can help minimise this huge amount of waste.
It is a sad irony that we waste so much food especially fruit and vegetables but still fail to feed the world s ever increasing population.
Clearly our ability to produce larger quantities of fruit and vegetables is not the only guarantee for global food security.
The use of natural biodegradable products as an alternative to synthetic chemicals has shown remarkable improvements in maintaining fruit quality
It has been shown to significantly maintain papaya fruit when applied to it. In combination with Gum arabic (hardened sap obtained from the acacia tree) it can also delay the ripening of bananas.
Gum arabic can also be used on its own to enhance the shelf life and postharvest quality of tomatoes.
Cinnamon oil is another natural product that has been shown to delay postharvest rotting in bananas and extending their storage life for up to 28 days.
and enhance their phenolic content as well as extending the life of dragon fruit for up to 28 days.
and shelf life of fresh fruit to help stop it going to waste. The way that fresh food is packaged is crucial to how long it can last.
but consumers worry about the chemical residues they leave on fruit their environmental impact and the potential for pathogens to become resistant to them.
#Forging Biodegradable Plastic From Methane and Plant Waste Molly Morse is chief executive officer of Mango Materials Inc. This article was prepared by the U s. National Science Foundation for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Scientists at Stanford university and a Palo alto Calif.-based start-up company called Mango Materials have come up with a new way to make PHA from waste methane gas.
And with funding from the U s. National Science Foundation Mango Materials is advancing the process toward commercialization.
Mango Materials'process uses bacteria grown in fermenters to transform methane and oxygen along with added nutrients (to supply excess carbon) into PHA.
or with additives Mango Materials has identified a range of applications. We are focused currently on applications where biodegradability is key says Molly Morse CEO at Mango Materials.
However we're open to all sorts of applications and are eager to bring PHA bioplastics to market.
whereas Mango Materials uses waste methane which is considerably less expensive than sugar. By using methane gas as the feedstock we can significantly drive down costs of production Morse says.
This stands in contrast to the processes many biotech companies use that require high-purity genetically engineered cultures says Allison Pieja Director of Technology at Mango Materials.
This estimate is based on Mango Materials'internal calculations using its own rates and yields. Mango Materials has vetted this technology
and achieved excellent yields at the laboratory scale. Field studies have shown that the methane-consuming cultures grow just as well on waste biogas
hydroponics or aeroponics and environmental controls that regulate temperature humidity and light to produce vegetables fruits and other crops year-round.
I think wearables is a technology for the next decade said Rob Shaddock chief technology officer of The swiss technology company TE Connectivity.
and share that information with their social network almost like a diary of your life Shaddock said.
Communications technology will shift more toward wearable devices Shaddock predicts. Reminiscent of the VISOR worn by the character Geordi La Forge in Star trek:
The applications of wearable technology are limited only by people's imaginations Shaddock said. With more and more devices measuring personal data
but the technology is there to solve the problem Shaddock said. Follow Tanya Lewis on Twitter and Google+.
Fruits and vegetables including cherry tomatoes lettuce cucumbers and melons have been proven to grow well on the film.
For countries like the UAE which imports 90 percent of its food this technology could be crucial for fighting food scarcity and conserving water.
People aren't discussing apples and oranges, they are talking about apples and oranges and Porsches and whales and moons,
he says. Testing solar-radiation management techniques on a global scale is given particularly daunting that detecting changes in the climate system caused by geoengineering would be nearly as difficult as measuring global warming itself.
US regulation misses some GM cropsit took scientists 85 years to breed a commercial apple that could fend off apple scab,
and apples trees were becoming infected again. Breeders were back to square one. Even armed with modern breeding techniques and 15 Â known defence genes in the apple family
it would take another 40  years to breed a resistant strain conventionally, says Henk  Schouten, a plant scientist at Wageningen University in The netherlands.
Because he wants to insert DNA only from related apple varieties, Schouten argues that his product should not be regulated in the same way as genetically modified (GM CROPS that are engineered with bacterial or VIRAL DNA.
and small companies to pursue speciality crops, such as apples, that have so far been ignored by biotechnology giants."
is trying to use genes from grape varieties to engineer a wine grape that is resistant to Pierce s disease a condition caused by a bacterium that has made it difficult to grow wine grapes in the state.
Schouten, meanwhile, did not skirt regulation for his apples after all. In April 2012, APHIS told him that the agency would regulate his variety
in spite of the fact that the genes he introduced came from other apples. This was used because he Agrobacterium to insert the genes it did not matter to regulators that no trace of Agrobacterium DNA remained in his plants.
the fruit of several years of intensive research for them to taste even take for themselves.
You can't really blame Apple for your inability to keep your phone safe. Cool1:
if apple is ripping off Nokia with these bright colors???Fire that person1: 31 the iphone 5c will cost $100 for 16gb and $200 for 32gb.
48 better battery life than the last iphone says apple. That's good that matters. 1: 51 I cheated
The camera is unheralded as maybe THE main thing that puts the iphone above android phones in quality--apple's image processing is amazing way better than even flashy HTC
if the NSA demands it apple will turn over your fingerprint which will then be connected to your entire online identity and location.
05 oh apple says they encrypt the fingerprints. Cool because its not like it was revealed just last week that the NSA has been working for decades to break just that kind of encryption oh wait2:
and is limited as a liveblogging tool. 2: 12 apple says we really love music. Whoooooooa maybe you shoulda workshopped that sentiment man2:
Dan is complaining about fundamentally Apple things yet still owns an iphone. If you don't like the lack of 4g the terrible glass on the back the poor html get a different phone!
Especially with how long Apple goes between releases. The more real competition the better it is for us consumers!@
http://live. theverge. com/apple-iphone-5s-liveblog/I do not understand how this guy still has a job...
You can't really blame Apple for your inability to keep your phone safe. Second your phone isn't old.
Apple's addition of a fingerprint reader in its latest smartphone the iphone 5s is part of its strategy to double down on device security. by Zack Whittaker September 10 2013 12:27 PM PDT Apple has unveiled its smartphone
a fingerprint reader it's calling Touch ID. With its move Apple could end up making the technology commonplace as rivals might feel compelled to follow suit.
Most likely Apple fanboys but aside from that Popsci is a science magazine yes but it isn't like they are accredited a scholarly science journal.
What of the works by important American authors like James Baldwin that you want to pass from generation to generation?
U s. airplanes used lime-green zinc chromate; the Japanese had a red primer. The team will have to get a close look.
I really want to make a Heads-up display using a Raspberry Pi with this soon! Interesting thing would be nice wireless
And let us best compare apples to apples and not take things to extremes shall we as it becomes laughable.
and grocery stores will be pressed hard to keep the shelves stocked certainly not with fruits and vegetables other than whatã¢Â#Â#s canned
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i mac apples! or oranges! guilty or not kings and queen'severy leader! that know's the term opec!
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which is inhaled/ingested is a hugely false comparison (so is comparing it to bananas or radiation from watching TV etc.)
Enjoy your fruit. Doctors say it's good for you. 5 servings daily. I do agree with Anyicon's statement about comparison to air travel yes it's by all means the safest mode of travel out there
It produces 10 times more antioxidant than blueberries. The yield of sorghum hybrids with those traits aren't quite
and replicated the unique structural elements that create the bright iridescent blue color of a tropical plant's fruit.
For seeds and fruit in particular bright color is thought to have evolved to attract the agents of seed dispersal especially birds.
The fruit of the South american tropical plant Margaritaria nobilis commonly called bastard hogberry is an intriguing example of this adaptation.
The ultra-bright blue fruit which is low in nutritious content mimics a more fleshy and nutritious competitor.
Deceived birds eat the fruit and ultimately release its seeds over a wide geographic area. The fruit of this bastard hogberry plant was scientifically delightful to pick says principal investigator Peter Vukusic Associate professor in Natural Photonics at the University of Exeter.
The light-manipulating architecture its surface layer presents which has evolved to serve a specific biological function has inspired an extremely useful and interesting technological design.
The team replicated the key structural elements of the fruit to create flexible stretchable and color-changing photonic fibers using an innovative roll up mechanism perfected in the Harvard laboratories.
For our artificial structure we cut down the complexity of the fruit to just its key elements explains Kolle.
and stalks rather than fruits and seeds becoming long and leggy as they reach for the sky.
or to flower and make fruit. Based on the light available the phytochrome cycles between an inactive and active state.
#New persimmon milkshake with high antioxidant potential created by scientistsa team of researchers of the Universitat Politã cnica de Valã ncia have made a new persimmon milkshake with high antioxidant potential.
Persimmons are an important source of antioxidant compounds due to their content of carotenoids and tannins.
According to the tests developed in the laboratories one of these shakes could contain the same quantity of carotenoids as a whole persimmon.
The key to making a drink with these properties is used a technique in fruit processing:
This technique increases the lifespan of persimmons and produces a new food with high nutritional value.
HHP is a nonthermal technology that keeps the quality attributes of the persimmon and facilitates the extraction of bioactive compounds from cells such as carotenoids
The persimmon is a seasonal fruit that cannot be consumed throughout the year. This technique allows us to go beyond its seasonal nature
and preserve all the properties of the product so we can consume the fruit alone or as an ingredient of shakes like those we have made in our laboratories says Amparo Quiles.
This includes growing fruits and vegetables. We're hoping to take advantage of what these and other students are developing
and the SPOTS have the ability to monitor their fruit's or vegetables'soil humidity
and grasp a fruit or vegetable. If an astronaut requests tomatoes for a salad the system decides which specific plants have the ripest tomatoes
Who doesn't love to pick a fresh strawberry? For Daniel Zukowski who is also working on a master's in computer science the X-Hab Challenge is an opportunity to use terrestrial-based know-how
#New technology for greenhouses developedagricultural and fruit producers could acquire high-tech greenhouses at a considerably less cost thanks to experts from the Autonomous University of Zacatecas (UAZ) in the North of Mexico developing computer systems to control
For example the systems biology approach could be applied in research to develop sweeter citrus fruit disease-resistant rice or drought-resistant trees.
#The better to bite fruit with: Natural selection shapes mechanical advantage in batsmechanical advantage--the efficiency in transmitting force--can be decisive
or a bat with a short face that gives it the bite force to penetrate hard figs.
Glossophaga soricina a nectar bat feeding on the flowers of a banana plant. Nectar feeding bats comprised one of three evolutionary optima for mechanical advantage among New world Leaf-nosed bats.
These bats of which there are almost 200 species eat a variety of foods including insects frogs lizards fruit nectar and even blood.
and eat hard fruits; snouts of species that eat other foods are intermediate in shape.
and the specialized fig-eating Short-faced bat Centurio senex (C). They then analyzed the models to determine structural strength and mechanical advantage--the efficiency and hardness of the bats'bite.
which gives them the high bite forces needed to pierce through the hardest figs. Nectar feeders have very low mechanical advantage--a trade-off for having long narrow snouts that fit into the flowers in
fig-eating frugivores: E) Artibeus jamaicensis F) Chiroderma villosum; and short-faced bats: G) Phyllops falcatus H) Centurio senex.
A soil bacterium called Bacillus subtilis wrinkles as it dries out like a grape becoming a raisin forming a tough dormant spore.
Unlike raisins which cannot reform into grapes spores can take on water and almost immediately restore themselves to their original shape.
Insects frogs lizards fruit nectar and even blood. The bats'skulls of today reflect this dietary diversity.
while short-faced bats have exceptionally short wide palates for eating hard fruits. Species that eat other foods have shaped snouts somewhere in between.
which gives them the high bite forces needed to pierce through the hardest figs. Nectar feeders have very low mechanical advantage
Dave Bartlett, the Vice president of IBM's Smarter Buildings Initiative, recently made predictions for the top five building trends that are going to make a big impact in 2012,
In a conversation with Smartplanet, Bartlett explained his predictions and let us in on some projects that are already taking place to help these predictions come to fruition.
Neighborhoods, said Bartlett, are a great place to gain momentum for what we need to do at a city level.
According to Bartlett, this system helped IBM identify carbon in unexpected places like in methane leaks from utilities.
said Bartlett. We use a lot of resources without really understanding how we can change. Seeing the energy or water we use per task, then
said Bartlett. He called this environmental crowd sourcing, or the ability of a citizen to use their smartphone to alert the city to building issues,
Bartlett said that IBM has found that people want to be involved in the improvement of their communities,
More energy options for buildings Bartlett predicts that in the near future, as we develop more low carbon energy sources,
Bartlett, because depending on your own needs and how much you want to be a part of this, it puts people in control instead of having to take
said Bartlett. Smart building initiatives will help them listen to how their buildings are wasting energy and money,
Bartlett said. Currently, the cost of energy use in New york city municipal buildings is more than $800 million per year,
Bartlett. The price of alternative technology is starting drop due to the technology getting more efficient,
The kiosk was a large orange and white box with monitors that announced when a drink was ready
which integrates weather forecasts, via a computer or a free Apple iphone application. Cyber-Rain claims that the system investment might be covered in certain places by water utility rebate programs.
prunes wastei finally had a revelation about the REAL difference between business intelligence and business analytics software this week.
that produces various fruits and vegetables on approximately 12,000 acres of farmland across the state of California.
which specializes in table grapes, peppers, stone fruits and citrus varieties, can now look at everything from unit costs
And how that differs depending on the type of fruit. This information has helped it balance labor resources on the farm,
productivity with IBM analyticsanalytics technology that has enabled a Michigan agricultural cooperative better account for the source of fruits
-based Cherry Central's supply chain business partners as the food makes its way to grocery or market shelves.
Cherry Central reported that its database was growing at a rate of 1. 6 million records per month.
Its ability to pull up that information more quickly differentiates Cherry Central from other organization that have weed to through paperwork
The technology that Cherry Central is using includes IBM DB2 Web Query running on the Power system platform.
The low-hanging fruit is, let's reduce the amount of consumption. The higher fruit is changing the ways you run your plant.
Smartplanet: When we talk about the smart grid, we talk about the point where green starts to make business sense.
Israel has been very proactive in this area--in the areas of olives and dates, they can irrigate them with brackish or partial saltwater.
What's the low-hanging fruit? Then there's the technology to do it. Then it's repairing stuff in place--companies like Insituform--how do you repair that pipe without digging it up?
whether or not cocoa beans are from a legitimate source or whether they might be from an area of conflict in the Ivory coast.
Do not rely on Apple's ios 6 Mapsaustralian police have warned that motorists should rely less on technology
when relying on Apple's disappointing mapping system--especially as the number of drivers ending up in peculiar locations is on the rise.
Apple was earmarked for criticism this September when Google maps was removed from ios 6, forcing the firm's customers to use their own brand of mapping technology on gadgets including the iphone and ipad.
Apple's maps met with poor reviews and inaccurate data when compared to Google's software
The force has asked Apple to fix the issue, but in the meantime, perhaps rival firm Google's mapping service or a traditional A to Z would be a better option.
Foxconn plans U s. manufacturing expansion Apple will begin manufacturing Macs in U s. next year Apple says app store has generated 300,000 jobs so far Apple rejects Ëoequestionable US drone strike tracker
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