#Manufacturers to reveal first bendable gadgets that will never break A prototype Samsung Windows smartphone.
We have gotten already a glimpse of the technology from manufacturers with Samsung showing off a foldable phone.
Experts say the technology, which could lead to virtually unbreakable gadgets, could soon be seen in everything from Apple s much-rumured iwatch to larger tablets.
It becomes a product designer s paradise#once the technology is sorted out, says Jonathan Melnick,
who analyzes display technology for Lux Research. There is no shortage of prototypes. South korea s Samsung Electronics this year showed off a display screen that extends from the side of a device
Screen technology#with the global small display market expected to more than double to around $72 billion by 2016,
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,
But the commercialization of Willow as a flexible product is some way off, James Clappin, who heads Corning s glass technology group
a UK consultant who has worked on several start-ups related to display technology, and holds patents in the field.
So while OLED and plastic would seem to be companion technologies they create an extra problem when laid together:
this can mean building prototypes such as those displayed at international technology shows. But that doesn t guarantee success in selling products.
says Zhang Jie, senior scientist at Singapore s Institute of Metals Research and Engineering. If Samsung s going to really drive this the application really needs to drive people
but a year later the company said the technology was still#oeunder development.##In an investment note last month Jefferies said that
They have managed to push the technique to new limits by cloning 581 mice all from a single original cell.
That s significant progress for a technique that Ian Wilmut had to employ 276 times before finally succeeding in cloning Dolly.
the technique opens up the possibility of cloning highly-valued animals such as prized cattle or racehorses,
and suggest that, with adequately efficient techniques, it may be possible to reclone animals indefinitely.##That s good news for those that have turned already to cloning to create a small pack ofsuper sniffing inspector dogs at airports,
If the current technique means limitless return on one s cloning efforts, it could entice more scientists to take the first step,
and the engineering of energy-producing microbes, #says Luciano Marraffini of Rockefeller University. The biotech revolution that created drugs like EPO for anemia
Two techniques for doing so were placed among the top innovations of 2012 by Science, and NIH director Francis Collins wrote in a blog post that they are#oerevealing tantalizing new possibilities for treating human diseases#in a blog post.
But this is the kind of technology that one would use to bring back Neanderthals or, for that matter, mammoths, when their actual DNA is lost to time.
Right now, scientists are using this technology largely on cells in laboratory dishes, not on whole organisms.
Sangamo Biosciences has been working to commercialize the earlier zinc finger nuclease technology as a form of medicine for more than a decade.
biotech is currently accelerating four times faster than digital technology, and the revival of extinct species is
Three Possible Techniques Around the same time as the attempted revival of the bucardo in 2003, Robert Lanza, Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology, took tissue from a Javan banteng (not yet extinct),
Currently there are three semi-successful techniques being experimented with for de-extinction. 1.)Selective back-breeding of existing descendants to recreate a primordial ancestor is being used for the revival of the European Aurochs,
some pregnancies produce living offspring of the extinct species. 3.)Allele replacement for precision crossbreeding of a living species with an extinct species is a new genome-editing technique developed by Harvard
If the technique proves successful (such as with the passenger pigeon), it might be applied to the many other extinct species that have left their#oeancient DNA#in museum specimens
Over the coming years many new techniques will undoubtedly come to life making it one of the hottest new areas of science.
to right the wrongs of the world, will get hijacked by businesses wanting to profit for the new technology.
in this case, apportioning) digital information under the influence of the various media technologies#satellite imagery, RFID tags, algorithmic glitches, and so on#through
and sheep laterality to the advantages of GPS imprecision and the possibility of high-tech herds bred to suit the topography of particular property.
even with all of the technologies that we have. If you take that concept of being able to manage in real time
However#and this is very important#all of these whizbang technologies are potentially great, but in the hands of somebody who is basically lazy,
#I mean a major train wreck#that could happen through using this technology. If you can be sitting in your office in Washington D c
you re right, we are getting smarter at developing technology that can interpret those numbers.
I think it s great that we have these technologies and I think we should use them.
The thing, first of all, about our technique is that it s not a one size fits All in other words
Examples of services discussed in the report Technology#oepetting Zoo#The Kent Free Library in Ohio#oehas hosted Technology Petting Zoos to give patrons
#Technology help According to the American Library Association, 35%of U s. public libraries offer one-on-one technology and/or research help with library staff.
The Arapahoe Library District in Colorado offers Book-a-Librarian help in English, Spanish and Russian.
The New River Library branch of the Pasco County Library System in Florida has Teen Technology Tutors who receive volunteer hours by tutoring older adults (ages 50+)one-on-one
Using this technology, users are able to hold up their mobile phones and see archival photos layered on top of the images visible through the camera s Phone in 2012,
the American Library Association recognized the library for offering cutting-edge technologies in library services.##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
The library frequently hosts technology petting zoos to teach patrons how to use the CCPL tool
To overcome many people s unfamiliarity with QR code technology, library staff created an online guide to Snap
#Books on Wheels The Catalyst Cafã program#oebrings people together each month to talk about technology and how it can serve individuals, neighborhoods, nonprofits and small business.#
and artistic happenings where teens can develop their creative talents, build tech skills, and dive deep into reading.#
and often teach patrons on technology in their own living rooms.#(#Poudre River Public library District, Fort Collins, CO) A birthday party (for a fish!:#
A big indoor#oefair at the library, with giant games, bowling in the stacks, musical entertainment, storytellers, crafts, an ice cream bar, a Tech Petting Zoo, and more.
#New LED light technology sheds light on the future of food LED growing lights, delivering sunlight whatever the weather.
And we need to incorporate zero-waste and low-energy technologies into the task of food production.
It takes advantage of the vertical space of city buildings rather than turning over wide expanses of land to agriculture and uses advanced greenhouse technology:
But the single technology that will be key to making vertical farms possible is lighting. New LED light technology is the key that makes it possible to build vertically integrated farms.
This kind of artificial light has an extremely high photoelectric conversion efficiency consuming only one eighth the power of incandescent lamp, half of the power of fluorescent lamp,
and through technology are getting closer to solving. Via Live Science Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati swfobject. embedswf (http://www. youtube. com/v/2nfqokzejxq&
where we begin to explore the implications of some future technology. Here s how this can be used as an effective futuring tool.
or design engineers wishing to gain a new perspective will all find this to be a valuable tool. 44 Examples of Situational Futuring It all starts with the initial idea,
Self-Cleaning House This long-time dream of housewives is finally within reach as smart home technology,
what technology could be used to fill the gaps? 15. Animal Communicator With early stage natural language translators already in existence for humans, the next step will be a technology that bridges the communication gap between humans and animals.
Will this ever be possible and how would this affect our human-animal relationships? 16.
and what are the implications of this kind of technology? 18. Space Based Power stations The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently announced its 25-year plan to build the world s first 1-gigawatt power plant in space.
Controlling Weather Weather control technology is still in its infancy. In what year will we see the first hurricane stopped by human intervention and
what is the technology that will be used? 23. Hyper-Individualized Medicine Professor Lee Cronin at the University of Glasgow believes we will soon be using 3d printers to replace traditional pharmaceuticals with hyper-individualized medicines that are printed specifically for the person at the time they ordered them.
What are the likely health and business implications from this kind of technology? 24. Crypto Currencies Bitcoin is the first crypto currency to make major inroads as an alternative to national currencies.
Atmospheric Water Harvesters Several new technologies have been developed to extract moisture directly from the air. These have become known as atmospheric water harvesters.
Once implemented, how will a technology like this affect the airline industry? 27. Genetically Engineered Athletes will engineered genetically designer babies,
Large scale 3d printing In April the Chinese company, Winsun Decoration Design Engineering, created the first 3d printed house.
How long before this same technology can be used to 3d print much larger items such as ships, stadiums, aircraft,
Water Bullets Nonlethal weapons employ many different technologies, but using water bullets could be the easiest to use and also the least dangerous.
Are water bullets a likely candidate for nonlethal weapon technology, and how long before police forces are equipped to use them?
What are some of the ways a technology like this can be used and how large of market could a technology like this create?
36. Downloadable Personalities If you had the ability to create a newpersonality for your conversational computer, with some new personality-builder software,
But this technology will also enable objects to be suspended in air with seemingly invisible support.
and how will achieving this milestone for ultra tiny storage particle change the tech industry?
Will this type of technology ever be practical? If so, how will movable holes be advertised and sold?
Even so, is it still a viable technology? Final Thoughts How much power and influence do predictions have?
#Top 15 emerging agriculture technologies that will change the world Automation will help agriculture via large-scale robotic and microrobots.
Below are 15 emerging technologies related to agricultural and natural manufacturing under four key areas of accelerating change:
Sensors, Food, Automation and Engineering. Sensors help agriculture by enabling real-time traceability and diagnosis of crop, livestock and farm machine states.
Engineering involves technologies that extend the reach of agriculture to new means, new places and new areas of the economy.
when each technology will be scientifically viable (the kind of stuff that Google, governments and universities develop),
and financially viable (when the technology is generally available on Kickstarter). Sensors Air & soil sensors:
Building on existing geolocation technologies, future swath control could save on seed, minerals, fertilizer and herbicides by reducing overlapping inputs.
Further understanding of crop variability, geolocated weather data and precise sensors should allow improved automated decision-making and complementary planting techniques.
Using techniques similar to glass houses, vertical farms could augment natural light using energy-efficient lighting.
A booming tech start-up economy and a thriving arts and restaurant scene have helped this old Civil war tourist magnet do something that places across the USA have been trying to do for decades:
born of deep demographic shifts and the power of technology. Where traditional college towns have attracted long young people who get an education and then leave,
and she s editorial director at Bibliolabs, a small tech start-up that designs easy-to-navigate e-book lending websites for public libraries.
you ve got the tech opportunities, he says. He s also engaged, so he now hangs out atthe more chill spots downtown.
Lisa Maki, a cofounder of the tech start-up Pokitdok it helps consumers find low-cost health care providers says 15 of the company s 23 employees are based in Charleston.
and says she can hire good engineers here for about half the cost of comparable workers in Silicon valley.
including health-tech giant Benefitfocus, which opened in 2000 in a shuttered Walmart. When CEO Shawn Jenkins and a partner started the company,
People were telling me that you could never build a tech company here. They re now in the midst of an huge expansion at their headquarters east of downtown,
and at what rate new ideas and technologies spread through populations. As a young graduate student, Everett was studying one of the hottest innovations of the dayhybrid corn seed.
Specifically, he was trying to understand why some farmers were using this new improved technology,
I personally became aware of the diffusion of innovations theory in Geoffrey Moore scrossing the Chasm It was a bible of technology marketing when
The book put a special focus on the most difficult part of getting widespread market adoption for a new technology:
the tipping point for technology adoption. The first group, the innovators, are a small group of people who actively seek out risks and new challenges.
Musk and his team at Tesla have accelerated actually the development of technology for the market.
But if Musk sluxury cars for the tech-elite strategy works, it will ultimately allow Musk to sell electric-powered sedans and minivans to families in Ohio.
sensors and other technology controlled by a pilot on the ground. The sticker shock may be steep
but backers of the technology say the data they collect from identifying insect problems, watering issues, assessing crop yields
they concede the technology could be beneficial for some with the proper oversight. There are good uses for drones,
said the lack of rules from the FAA is the biggest challenge for farmers eager to embrace the technology.
The technology is extremely exciting. People just have to be careful right now with the political pressure and lack of rules.
There is no question this technology is moving forward and it s going to move fast, said Price.
With every science fiction movie that portrays technology as evil, and let s be honest, that s the theme of almost every science fiction movie that s ever existed,
However, much of today s technology is giving us superhuman attributes. The same technology that gets blamed for eliminating our jobs,
is also giving us capabilities beyond our wildest dreams. We have instant access to friends and family,
At the same time, every new technology also requires new skill sets for those working in those environments. Here are just a few of the skills that will be prized highly in the future. 14 Hot New Skills 1. Transitionists Those who can help make a transition. 2. Expansionists A talent for adapting
and this requires talented people who know how to scale things back in an orderly fashion. 7. Feedback Loopers Those who can devise the best possible feedback loops. 8. Backlashers Ever new technology will have its detractors,
and each backlash will require a response. 9. Last Milers Technologies commonly reach a point of diminishing returns as they attempt to extend their full capacity to the end user.
Contexualists In between the application and the big picture lays the operational context for every new technology. 11.
Business management, engineering, accounting, marketing, and sales are all necessary skills for the future, but the work involved will also be different.
Details here. 1. Station Designers & Architects 2. Circulation Engineers 3. Traffic Flow Analyzers 4. Command Center Operators 5. Traffic Transitionists 6
Genetic Modification Designers and Engineers 34. Body modification Ethicists 35. Athlete Qualification Analyzers 36. Cradle to Grave Lifecycle Managers 37.
Drone Docking Designers and Engineers 43. Operator Certification Specialists 44. Environmental Minimizers Sound diminution engineers, visual aesthetic reductionists, etc. 45.
Drone Traffic Optmizers 46. Automation Engineers 47. Backlash Minimizers Ever new technology has its detractors
this perhaps more than most. On the path to a trillion sensors Our Trillion-Sensor Future Industry experts are now projecting that we will reach 1 trillion sensors in the world by 2024,
and 100 trillion by 2036.48. Sensor Inventors, Designers, and Engineers 49. Data Stream Organizers 50.
Failure Point Assessors 51. Data transmission Optimizers 52. System Anthropologists 53. Data Actuaries 54. Last Milers People who specialize in bridging the gap between where the data fields end
me action figure 3d printing 3d printing was named recently by Goldman sachs as one of eight technologies destined to creatively destroy how we do business.
Design Engineers 58. Cost Estimators 59. 3dimensionalists Those with an innate ability to think three dimensionally. 60. 3d Printerink Developers 61. 3d Food Printer Chef 62.
Structural Engineers 100. Site Planners 101 Setup Teams 102. Tear down Teams 103. Cleanup Teams Drivers need not apply!
Automated Traffic Architects and Engineers 107. Driverlessride Experience Designers 108. Driverless Operating system Engineers. 109. Emergency Crews for when things go wrong.
Bio-Factories Based on using living systems bio-factories represent a new process for creating substances that are either too tricky
Bio-Meat Factory Engineers 131. Supply Chain Optimizers 132. Urban Agriculturalists Why ship food all the way around the world when it can be grown next door 133.
Heavy Air Engineers Compressed air is useful in a wide variety of ways. However, we have yet to figure out how to compress streams of air as they pass through our existing atmosphere.
The soil on Brown's land thanks to some innovative soil-enhancing farming techniques holds about three times as much water as a conventional farm.
O'connor an agricultural water policy analyst says the FCIP should be reformed to encourage risk-reducing farming techniques like those championed by Gabe Brown
Brown is among a growing number of farmers who use a suite of techniques to build soil's natural capacity to retain moisture discourage weeds and pests and nurture crops.
Reaping the Benefits of Cover crops (Op-Ed) Using techniques that protect and improve soil health provides a built-in buffer against weather extremes
So let's encourage techniques that help rather than hurt. NRDC has been working with farmers for decades to help promote sustainable farming techniques
and to develop tools and policies that help make our agricultural industry healthier and more sustainable over the long term.
Reforming the FCIP to encourage soil-protective climate-proofing techniques will make our farms more resilient
The answer according to tornado experts and building engineers is yes though there are roadblocks in the way.
or EF5 tornado said Darryl James a professor of mechanical engineering at Texas Tech University. The question is who could afford it?
Colorado State university engineer V. Chandrasekar and his team are working to deploy small networks of radar in urban areas.
For example today's technology takes about 5 minutes to get an update we can provide updates every 30 seconds to a minute.
Building in tornado country Even in Tornado Alley buildings are designed to withstand only 90 mph (145 km h) straight-line winds said Partha Sarkar who studies wind engineering and aerodynamics at Iowa State university.
and we feel that is higher than will ever be experienced at the ground level in a tornado said Ernst Kiesling a mechanical engineer at Texas Tech and the executive director of the National Storm Shelter Association.
The dating technique could help wildlife investigators for the first time to reliably determine if ivory was obtained legally by indicating
In their new study Uno and his team tested the radiocarbon dating technique on the tusks of two elephants that died in 2006 and 2008 as well as elephant and hippo teeth monkey hair and oryx horn.
The researchers showed that under ideal conditions the dating technique could pinpoint the date of death to within about one year for most tissues.
Uno estimates the technique should work for dating new tissue for the next 15 years or so by
and Uno are also using the radiocarbon dating technique to investigate the growth rate of animals. Now that we can determine growth rates in teeth we can use them as a tape recorder of sorts Uno said.
Wasser envisioned the carbon-14 dating technique being useful in a variety of ways. For example if used in combination with other methods that use DNA to determine the geographical origin of an ivory sample the carbon-14 dating technique could help investigators determine how recently hotspots for elephant poaching have been active.
Also if the ivory in a large seizure included samples of multiple ages it might suggest that the ivory was obtained from government stockpiles
#Engineers Follow Mother Nature's Lead on Keeping Clean This Behind the Scenes article was provided to Livescience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.
With 3. 5 billion years of research and development under her belt Mother Nature could be considered the world's most experienced biological engineer.
It's therefore not surprising that today's engineers are looking to nature for inspiration
Living nature is full of engineering marvels from the micro to the macro scale that have inspired mankind for centuries says Bharat Bhushan senior author of the study and director of the Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio-and Nanotechnology and Biomimetics
and engineering graduate student Greg Bixler shows that rice leaves 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.
The researchers depicted in Behind the Scenes articles have been supported by the National Science Foundation the federal agency charged with funding basic research and education across all fields of science and engineering.
Scientists at the University of Michigan think they have a technology that emulates this process to display pictures without chemicals or electrical power.
Eventually the technology could replace the displays now used on smartphones tablets and computer screens with strikingly high definition.
All the different colors can fit into a corner of a pixel in your iphone said Jay Guo professor of engineering
To simulate the peacock effect the Michigan researchers combined the techniques. They etched nanoscale grooves on a piece of glass with the same technology used to etch computer chips.
Each groove was made just the right size to absorb a certain color and then the coated the glass with silver
But the technology is green; it doesn't require any chemicals. Guo that said prints made this way would be permanent
A reflective display using this plasmonic technology would require no such power and is brighter.
but it's a critical tool to fight poaching of elephants said Uno co-author of a study detailing the technique published today (July 1) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
 Luckily the technique can work with a small amount of ivory just a pinch of material Uno said.
The technique complements another developed in 2004 that uses DNA from tusks to find out where the tusks came from.
and its results could prove very important for addressing illegal trade said Sam Wasser a researcher at the University of Washington who developed the DNA-based technique
By combining the techniques researchers could collaborate with wildlife rangers to protect certain hotspots Wasser told Livescience.
Instead scientists attempting to treat diseases of the cell's powerhouse the mitochondria refined the technique
In this technique scientists take an unfertilized egg cell and remove the DNA in the nucleus keeping its MITOCHONDRIAL DNA intact.
While cloning is not the goal of the controversial new technique scientists say it would be naã ve to ignore the fact that the new research brings them one step closer to being able to create human clones.
Refining the technique is naturally helpful to anyone out there who might want to start cloning people Knoepfler said.
As the technology advances I think the legal and ethical and political dialogue should also go along with it
#Human-Powered Vehicles Can Drive Meaningful Change (Op-Ed) Mark Archibald professor of mechanical engineering at Grove City College in Pennsylvania
Each year at locations around the globe teams of mechanical-engineering students gather to demonstrate and race vehicles they have designed.
The vehicles demonstrate remarkable engineering design and vehicle performance. The event Is powered the Human Vehicle Challenge (HPVC)
The American Society of Mechanical engineers (ASME) organizes and manages the competition. Â There are many other collegiate engineering competitions quite a few
of which involve vehicles of one type or another. There are races for off-road vehicles Formula 1 race cars and snowmobiles.
It also stands out because it encouragesâ womenâ a group significantly underrepresented in mechanical engineering to participate
 For the first few years teams entering that class struggled to develop viable technologies that would lead to high-performance practical vehicles.
They compete in four events an engineering design event a speed event an innovation event
 All real engineering projects involve constraints. Good engineering combines innovative thinking and compromise all within a framework of budgetary regulatory physical and manufacturing constraints that lead to improved products and performance.
It is a balancing act that is difficult to learn in the confines of the classroom.
In short students learn the skills to excel in their chosen field of engineering. Â Women are underrepresented in engineering especially in mechanical engineering.
This is a shame as women engineers bring measurable benefits to design teams. Teams with women are more innovative and competitive
and result in greater business success. The HPVC has a long tradition of encouraging and supporting female engineering students.
The speed event is actually two events one for men and one for women. Teams must have both men
 These practices teach men and women to work together on a challenging project important skills for early-career engineers.
what each gender brings to the engineering profession. Â The vehicles that students design and race are variations on the familiar bicycle.
They are better engineers. They are better able to help advise guide and lead the next generation.
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