It will generate between 1-3 Gallons Water/day depending on the humidity conditions and sun conditions.
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He cites a human study showing less sun damage to the skin of those who were administered the active ingredient
#7. Paper-thin flexible computers and phones In early 2013, consumer electronics shows debuted a prototype by European firm Plastic Logic of a product called the Papertab.
Users can give the phone commands by using#oebend gestures.##It consumes no power when not in use and is considerably harder to damage than an ordinary phone. 6. Tooth Regeneration Regeneration of body parts in humans seems permanently consigned to the realm of science fiction,
even though many species of animals are able to completely regrow lost parts. It s long been known that alligators are lost able toregrow teeth, for example,
displayed by a unit the size of a toaster. 4. Real-time Google earth At RAL Space in Oxford,
and use it to layer complex animations on top of Google earth, sometimes piecing together multiple camera angles to extrapolate the desired information.
which nuclear power plants produce energy) is much easier to control than nuclear fusion (the process by which the sun burns, and nuclear weapons work).
It will use a donut-shaped magnetic field to contain gases that will reach temperatures comparable to those at the core of the sun, in excess of 150 million degrees C (270 million F),
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working nights at an Air force Exchange Service Burger king as he built his book. In the late 1980s, there was a spontaneous move to Lincoln,
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#Proposal to Eliminate Forest fires Completely Futurist Thomas Frey: Over the past few days I ve been listening to news reports about the devastating fires burning in Colorado.
I was an engineer working as part of an IBM team to build a mobile satellite command and control center for monitoring missile launches from space.
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what s more, much of the software they use to do that is designed by and for African programmers.
and mobile-phone#oetrees#to explain everything from when to plant and weed to where and when to deliver the harvested crops.
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#Precision agriculture moves farmers into the high tech age A variable rate irrigation system installed to water crops saves hundreds of thousands of gallons of water.
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#Transgenics next wave of genetically modified crops could ease concerns over Frankenfoods Transgenic canola When the first genetically modified (GM) organisms were being developed for the farm,
including Monsanto s Bt cotton: a plant modified to produce a bacterial toxin that discourages destructive bollworms and cuts down on the need for pesticides.
At Rothamsted Research in Harpenden, UK, for example, scientists are working on GM plants that will need even less pesticide than Bt cotton,
Unlike Bt cotton and other existing GM organisms, such a crop would need no insect-killing chemical for protection from pests.
We have gotten already a glimpse of the technology from manufacturers with Samsung showing off a foldable phone.
said Kevin Morishige, a former engineer at Cisco, Hewlett-packard and Palm. LCD s dominance is already under threat from lighter Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDS) that don t need backlighting,
will provide phones with curved glass edges as soon as this year. It is also now promoting Willow Glass
popularized by the iphone, Corning is having to work hard to prepare customers for Willow displays.
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#Japanese scientists create 581 clones from the same mouse Scientists clone 581 mice from one mouse.
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#New protein discovery could change biotech forever The quest started with trying to make better yogurt.
The result is not so much like using a word processor as a biology lab version of what movie editors had to do back
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#Should We Revive Extinct Species? Futurist Thomas Frey: Like many others, I m a fan of TED Talks and a Feb 2013 talk by Stuart Brand titled#oethe dawn of de-extinction.
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a soft-spoken federal research scientist who admits to taping a paper list of telephone numbers on the back of his decidedly unsmart phone,
With the computer technology we have today, everything we do can be stored in memory, so you can learn about each animal,
or a telephone pole, or a stream, and they have had electrical stimulation there before, do they associate that rock or whatever with a limit boundary?
including online#oeask a librarian#-type research service, mobile library apps, library kiosks in the community,
#Mobile Apps and Websites The Goethe-Institut New york Library s Mobile Augmented Reality App#oeallows learners to explore German cultural heritage in New york city using archival documents, photographs,
#The Cuyahoga County Public library of Parma, Ohio#oecreated CCPL Mobile, an exciting new mobile app that enhances the library patron experience by giving patrons access to the unprecedented convenience of checking out
items using their smart phones. The free CCPL Mobile smartphone app features a Digital Books
& Media channel that makes finding and downloading e-books and e-audiobooks from the library s collection.
In addition to using the app to renew and reserve items, patrons can also use the tool to find library branches and hours of operation.
##oeto help students keep pace with the fast-moving trend in e-books, online databases,
and other digital learning tools, Boston College High school adopted a cell phone policy at the start of the school year
and provide high-quality, authoritative web sites and online database resources via web addresses within the chat.#
via phone, chat, email, and text. Every day, except Sundays and holidays, anyone, of any age, from anywhere in the world can reach the library via various methods,
including by phone, text message, and online chat.##Libraries as incubators and creation spaces The Library as Incubator Project#oehighlights the ways that libraries
#Telescopes Other services Health and Government Assistance In Florida,#oethe Orange county Library System developed Right Service at the Right Time, a sophisticated database-driven web
#The library also has large type telephones; a machine that can enlarge newspaper print to 4 inches;
We don t require a card, just something of value like a backpack, instrument, cell phone, laptop.
in order to take advantage of the sun s energy, or grow indoors with the help of artificial lights.
So if you re getting too much sun on the beach, shining darkness on yourself becomes an easy solution.
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when each technology will be scientifically viable (the kind of stuff that Google, governments and universities develop),
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#Post college towns teem with college-educated young adults, jobs Young adults spend leisurely time at Marion Square in Charleston, SC.
founded eight years ago, employs 30 people, many of them software engineers. The median age hovers in the mid-20s,
WHERE THERE ARE JOBS#Alex Summer, a software developer from Newberry, S. C.,bought a three-bedroom house in suburban Mount Pleasant in 2009,
Eric Bowman, founder of local software start-up Sparc, says that among his 140 developers, the median age is about 28.
Every one of our developers can get a job in five days he says, so you have to treat your team members fairly.
a young developer who is working with the city to build acreative corridor on Meeting Street, an industrial thoroughfare once dominated by car dealerships.
All 15 are software engineers. She calls themour secret weapon and says she can hire good engineers here for about half the cost of comparable workers in Silicon valley.
Hoping to inspire his Web developers to design beautiful stuff, Jenkins has peppered the offices with handsome objects,
and built for the Google or Apple executive. The Apple headquarters boast more Teslas than a Tesla showroom.
and Google executives driving a Tesla, they want to be the first in their city and among their peer group to drive one.
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#The future of drones expected to transform agriculture 80%of the commercial market for drones will eventually be for agricultural uses.
While much of the attention regarding drones has focused recently on Amazon and UPS seeking to use them to deliver packages,
Our phones are continually ringing said Ellerbroek. Still, he said for drones to have a meaningful and long-lasting impact in agriculture,
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#162 Future Jobs: Preparing for Jobs that Don t Yet Exist Futurist Thomas Frey: Last week I was speaking at an event in Istanbul.
Impact Minimizers 7. Demand Optimizers 8. Secondary Opportunity Developers 9. Feedback Loopers 10. Construction Teams PRTS have the potential to become the largest infrastructure project the earth has seen ever,
Cost Estimators 59. 3dimensionalists Those with an innate ability to think three dimensionally. 60. 3d Printerink Developers 61. 3d Food Printer Chef 62.
IBM even created a starter kit to help people get started. 66. Locationists People who specialize in adding the relevance ofplace to our global online communities. 67.
Smart Contact App Developers Smart contact lenses superimpose information on the wearer s field of view. The bank of the future Crypto Currencies & Alternative Financial Systems In 2008 the entire world was beginning to panic as our global financial systems teetered ever so close to total meltdown.
Monetary Exchange Interface Experts 85. Standards Developers 86. Lending Tacticians 87. Seed Capitalists In the startup business world there is a huge gulf between initial concept and fundable prototypes.
This dearth of funding options will require an entirely new profession. 88. Privacy Managers If you think you have lost most of your privacy already,
Mass Energy Storage Developers We are still terrible at storing energy from one day to the next.
Driverless Operating system Engineers. 109. Emergency Crews for when things go wrong. Bio-Factories Based on using living systems
Strategists, and Developers 112. DNA Scientists 113. Gene Sequencers 114. Treatment Monitors Micro-Colleges The systems used to create colleges centuries ago seems justifiably primitive by today s standards.
Final Thoughts In much the same way that the 1985 Apple Laserwriter gave birth to desktop publishing,
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and one won't said Amy Mcgovern a computer scientist at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. Mcgovern and her colleagues are among the researchers trying to improve tornado predictions.
The team has done similar work to predict airplane turbulence with great success so once the database of simulated storms is built using them to predict real-world weather should be said successful she.
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#Cold war Nuclear Radiation Creates Anti-Poaching Tool (ISNS)--Radioactive carbon atoms created during 20th-century nuclear bomb tests could help save elephants
The lotus leaf on the other hand maintains its squeaky clean reputation with a waxy surface structure that repels water a property called superhydrophobicity.
Combined with low adhesion this is known as the lotus effect. The September 2012 study published in the journal Soft Matter by Dr. Bhushan
and butterfly wings combine the low drag of shark skin with the superhydrophobicity of the lotus leaf putting these surfaces at the top of the list of nature-made self-cleaners.
and lotus leaves rice leaves and butterfly wings have special properties that make them particularly resistant to fouling.
They exhibited lotus-like properties including superhydrophobicity and low adhesion. This effect was magnified in coated samples
and lotus effects and was published online in the journal Soft Matter on September 11 2012. DOI:
All the different colors can fit into a corner of a pixel in your iphone said Jay Guo professor of engineering
and computer science and lead author of the paper in Scientific Reports. Although researchers are currently only able to produce static photos on a glass surface they hope eventually to produce dynamic pictures on other surfaces.
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#Human Cloning? Stem Cell Advance Reignites Ethics Debate A new stem cell discovery has reawakened controversy about human cloning though technical challenges mean scientists are far from being able to create human babies as in Michael
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#Human-Powered Vehicles Can Drive Meaningful Change (Op-Ed) Mark Archibald professor of mechanical engineering at Grove City College in Pennsylvania
In short students learn the skills to excel in their chosen field of engineering. Â Women are underrepresented in engineering especially in mechanical engineering.
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#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.
#Precision farming Gains Global Foothold (Op-Ed) Lloyd Treinish leads the environmental science team in the Industry Solutions Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research center.
A co-developer of IBM's Deep Thunder precision agriculture system he contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:
At IBM we developed a precision agriculture weather-modeling service using Deep Thunder our Big data analytics technology for local customized high-resolution and rapid weather predictions.
Further examples include a Burritobot on Kickstarter last year and Google serving 3d printed pasta. Other 3d printing technologies have been investigated for use with food.
Whether the technology can truly move from the novelty sector will most likely depend on the ability to process a wider range of foods requiring influence from both the kitchen and from printer developers.
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What if unmanned arial vehicle (UAV) developers could imagine their inventions through the eyes of conservation field staff?
But what if UAV developers could imagine their inventions through the eyes of conservation field staff?
UAV developers might even conceive of a squadron of drones with heat-sensing cameras flying across the vast plains of Central asia's Ustyurt Plateau searching for signs of saiga-antelope poachers.
Powered by two solar panels pointed toward the sun the lab would rotate at two revolutions per minute (rpm) simulating Mars's gravity.
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#Google Goes Wild: How Off-road Tech Aids Conservation Google earth and Google street view have made it possible for anyone with an Internet connection to explore some of the world's most spectacular destinations right from their computer tablet or smartphone.
Now homebodies and wannabe globetrotters can dive into the Great Barrier reef uncover the history of the Roman Colosseum and even climb Mount everest for free and without the airport hassles.
Wildlife conservation is also getting a boost thanks to several groups'efforts to use some of these Google tools to track invasive species map populations of endangered species
One such effort has taken Google street view into the Amazon. Working with conservation organization Amazonas Sustainable Foundation (FAS) Google street view and Google earth teams have collected ground-and river-level images of the Rio Negro Sustainable Development Reserve a protected
area in the Brazilian Amazon. Google usually uses camera-equipped cars to take images for its Street view
but because the Rio Negro region is inaccessible by car the researchers had to come up with an alternative method.
To capture the images the teams strapped a camera onto a bicycle and pedaled it down dirt paths through the forests
and they even mounted it onto a boat to collect images of a section of the Rio Negro the Amazon's largest tributary Google explained on one of its Outreach pages.
The teams then amalgamated more than 2000 still images to create 360-degree panoramas of the Amazon jungle.
Stunning Photos of the Amazon For the project FAS uses Open Data Kit (ODK) a set of tools designed to help organizations collect
and analyzed using Google Fusion Tables Ribenboimsaid referring to Google's Web application for gathering visualizing and sharing data tables.
Both Google and FAS hope the project will raise awareness of conservation issues help protect Amazonian communities and even influence policymakers.
After the implementation of the community forest ODK monitoring program and the Street view for the Amazon FAS launched a new Web-based platform called Bolsa Floresta Platform to serve as an interactive tool where Bolsa Floresta
the Amazon forest and the culture of its local population Salviati told Livescience. Smartphones tablets and chimps On the other side of the world the Jane Goodall Institute an ape-conservation organization founded by renowned chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall is leading a similar effort.
and stores the data in Google Cloud Pintea told Livescience. Then through Google earth Engine and Google maps Engine the institute's researchers can visualize the multiple layers of data to model the suitability of chimpanzee habitat
and to predict the potential distribution of chimpanzees. Whereas traditional maps are limited to two dimensions Google earth's 3d high-resolution imagery makes it easier for the villagers to recognize the topography
so they can monitor forests and habitats Pintea said. Through this data-collection process the JGI has identified previously unknown threats to chimpanzees.
Concerned about the potential destruction of this tiger habitat WWF used Google earth to illustrate the effects of deforestation on the Bukit Tigapuluh region a critical tiger habitat.
along with a coalition of nongovernmental organizations called Eyes on the Forest worked with Google to build a catalog of maps detailing the changes in the region over time including shifts in the forest cover;
In addition the Google mapping project has helped WWF build public support to stop irresponsible logging companies that contribute to Sumatra's deforestation said Craig Kirkpatrick WWF's managing director for Borneo and Sumatra.
Although the long time between satellite images makes it difficult to actively search for threats to tigers he said Google technology has been helpful in illustrating the pace of deforestation in the region and its effects on tiger and elephant habitat.
Google maps Engine allows us to share the massive amounts of information we've collected over the years
and research is using Google technologies to help protect elephants from some of these dangers.
Save the Elephants then uses Google earth to visualize all of the data: By leveraging the application's satellite imagery researchers can zoom in on certain regions to follow the elephants in real time.
We've been using Google earth as a very easy way to find out what our elephants are up to
and where they are going Save the Elephants founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton said in a video hosted on Google's Outreach page.
and Android apps to researchers in the field or via Google earth to be viewed in more detail on a computer.
if a threat is detected Douglas-Hamilton said. 12 Strangest Sights on Google earth When an elephant stops moving we can then send a Google earth file indicating the place where the elephant is stopped he said.
Then the Kenyan Wildlife Service can send out a patrol to go out and investigate. We're at a crucial stage now where we can act
and displayed by Google earth. Several other organizations are also using Google technology for conservation purposes.
For instance Defenders of Wildlife is utilizing Google maps API to help demonstrate the impacts of the BP Deepwater horizon oil spill
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#Soil-Free Farming Grows Vegetables in the Desert With average summer precipitation of about 1 inch (2. 5 centimeters) temperatures higher than 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees
In one, a single country unilaterally pumps aerosols into the stratosphere to block the Sun's rays
Developers then used genetic control elements derived from pathogenic plant viruses such as the cauliflower mosaic virus to switch on the genes.
By revealing similar elements in plants'DNA, genome sequencing has liberated developers from having to borrow the viral sequences.
vice-president of the Amazon Conservation Association, based in WASHINGTON DC.""It s the capital of biodiversity.
Reicher, an attorney by training, previously headed Google s $1-billion initiative for investing in energy and climate, where he guided investments into solar technologies and electric transport.
Granbio and Fulcrum Bioenergy are all hoping to start producing cellulosic ethanol in commercial amounts in the United states
I have also read that in the early days of the earth being formed it had smaller companion in orbit around the sun
Not just the Van allen belts the Van allen belts protects us from the sun . As soon as you leave the belts
This is the future of space crafthttp://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Nautilus-XNOW compare that with the pod that was sent not to the moon.
But you have to realize that the heliosphere of our sun is gigantic. And in order for a solar wind to be deadly it requires whats called a coronal mass ejection
and while these happen quite frequently on the sun's surface the biggest ones that have the ability to do damage to us here as far away as we are On earth do not happen all the time.
http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Solar windand I have a final plea. Don't post about what you know little to nothing about.
And with that Levandowski has handed off control of his vehicle to software named Google Chauffeur. He takes his feet off the pedals and puts his hands in his lap.
It's not just Google that's developing the technology but also most of the major car manufacturers:
Following Google policy Levandowski drives through residential roads and surface streets himself while Chauffeur drives the freeways.
Levandowski works at Google's headquarters in Mountain view California. He's the business lead of Google's self-driving-car project an initiative that the company has been developing for the better part of a decade.
Google has a small fleet of driverless cars now plying public roads. They are test vehicles
but they are also simply doing their job: ferrying Google employees back and forth from work. Commuters in Silicon valley report seeing one of the cars easily identifiable by a spinning turret mounted on the roof an average of once an hour.
Google itself reports that collectively the cars have driven more than 500000 miles without crashing. At a ceremony at Google headquarters last year where Governor Jerry brown signed California's self-driving-car bill into law Google cofounder Sergey Brin said you can count on one hand
the number of years until ordinary people can experience this. In other words a self-driving car will be parked on a street near you by 2018.
Yet releasing a car will require more than a website and a click here to download button.
In the language particular to Google the researchers are dogfooding the car driving to work each morning in the same way that Levandowski does.
Google needs to put the car in the hands of ordinary drivers in order to test the user experience.
We have a saying here at Google says Levandowski. In God we trust all others must bring data.
This spring Chris Urmson the director of Google's self-driving-car project told a government audience in Washington D c. that the vast majority of those are nothing to worry about.
For the errors worrisome enough to require human hands back on the wheel Google's crew of young testers have been trained in extreme driving techniques including emergency braking high-speed lane changes
There has been reported only one accident that can conceivably be blamed on Google. A self-driving car near Google's headquarters rear-ended another Prius with enough force to push it forward
and impact another two cars falling-dominoes style. The incident took place two years ago the Stone age in the foreshortened timelines of software development
and according to Google spokespeople the car was not in self-driving mode at the time so the accident wasn't Chauffeur's fault.
Considering that the Google self-driving program has clocked already half a million miles the argument could be made that Google Chauffeur is already as safe as the average human driver.
It's not an argument Google makes to the public because Levandowski says the system hasn't encountered enough challenging situations in its real-world commutes.
Google has been uncommonly secretive about its self-driving-car program. Though it began in 2009 the company first announced the project in a blog post a year later.
Google is still not saying much to reporters (including this one) about its plans but since it was accused of being the bad guy in a real-life Matrix the company has made a concerted effort to reach out to potential partners.
Google lobbyists have made the rounds with legislators in Washington. Its engineers have made pilgrimages to Detroit and abroad.
Google wants to make available to the rest of the auto industry all of the building blocks that we ourselves use he said
and then ticked off the goodies the Android operating system search voice social maps navigation even Chauffeur.
Instead of rebuilding a whole operating system from scratch he said automakers should focus on making the user experience their own.
if Google is proposing to give away the software. For the car companies the real cost of implementing the technology would be specialized in the peripheral that Chauffeur needs to run:
But at $75000 to $85000 each Google's lidar costs more than every other component in the self-driving car combined including the car itself.
A grizzled maverick of an engineer named David Hall designed the lidar that Google uses.
Industry scuttlebutt has it that Ford is giving Google the most serious consideration. Hall confirms that a major automaker recently summoned him to its headquarters to ask
Google to its credit shows no signs that it's allowing Detroit to slow it down.
Google is not a car manufacturer. Nor does it intend to be one Levandowski says. So what's the plan?
In other words Google thinks a new generation of bot-rodders may kick things off. Google won't say anything more
but since there's really only one place to turn for the all-important lidar I ask David Hall
and the super-high-resolution Google maps that go with it Hall doesn't see the point. He imagines talking to potential customers.
âÂ#ÂALMOST as good as Google's?''âÂ# The other fight is the legal one.
The Google car doesn't work without one as Chauffeur needs to be able to hand back the reins with 10 20 or maybe even 30 seconds'notice.
Some states prodded by Google lobbyists and looking to get ahead of the curve have made the cars explicitly legal.
What's going to happen no matter what the law says is people are going to get sued Urmson the director of Google's self-driving-car project allows.
Wayne Gerdes the father of hypermiling can nearly double the rated efficiency of cars using fuel-sipping techniques that could be incorporated into auto-driving software.
All kinds of problems crop up in real-world testing says auto-drive consultant Brad Templeton who worked with Google on its self-driving-car project for two years.
Google is betting that established car manufacturers working with low-cost radar and camera components will never adequately bridge that gap.
NHTSA's former deputy director Ron Medford has signed just on as Google's director of safety for the self-driving-car project.
Google's main focus and vision says Medford is for a level-four vehicle. Watching the video it reminded me of the old Test Driving video game on the PC a long time ago. lol---In space no one can hear a tree fall in the forest.
or 4 of the Microsoft Kinect devices put in various parts of the car to determine a 3d area?
Google would buy it right now.:Do not try and bend the spoon. That is impossible. Only try and realize the truth-there is no spoon.
To that end Google needs to do what it did for 1g fiber. Take it to some place where it can control the environment.
@jabailo...Google is way ahead of you...http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Google driverless car...they have logged a multitude of fully autonomous miles much more difficult than above
and with a legally blind driver as the article at the link explains cheers.>>we need 99.99999
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