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The pace and scale of technological progress is set to play a greater role than ever before in shaping the world we inhabit over the coming years.Geopolitical, social and economic forces will, of (4 Technology Megatrends Changing the World by Olaf... Via TechinBiz 
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It's not often that we get to witness aviation history being made, but when we do, it's often awesome. Such is the case with the U.S. Navy's X-47B which just became the first unmanned aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier. Via Szabolcs Kósa
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Optical computing — using light rather than electricity to perform calculations — could pay dividends for both conventional computers and quantum computers, largely hypothetical devices that could perform some types of computations exponentially faster than classical computers. Via Szabolcs Kósa
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9 great Apps to help you Secure your Business Smartphone http://su.pr/2yX4yn #tech #technology #smartphone #apps
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12 great online Tech Resources for managing your Business http://su.pr/1twCGc #biz #business #apps #ict #it #tech
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A great video displaying New Technologies in 2013 Via TechinBiz
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Our brains, which control our movements, may soon be able to control the movement of prosthetic limbs as well. Via TechinBiz
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The Start.Home is the Stanford University entry in the 2013 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon.
Integrating technology into a home that can grow as needs change, the Start.Home design allows for customization and additions that are based on a pre-engineered, pre-fabricated start.core that can meet net-zero energy efficiency standards. The Stanford design team aims to provide “efficiency without sacrificing creativity” such that each house can be an expression of its owner. The 12’x15’x10’ start.core features natural lighting, open spaces, a high roof that permits passive ventilation, and an emphasis on connecting the interior to the outdoors. The basic unit provides for a bathroom, kitchen, mechanical component access, and living areas. The start.core can be shipped on a standard truck trailer and installed on a lot for construction and customization. Learn more and view images at the original article... Via Lauren Moss
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June 10, 2013 9:45 PM
Net-Zero Start.Home à énergie solaire du Solar Decathlon vise à transformer Green Building d'accueil
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Is habitat building any of these homes?
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In the last decade or so, invisibility cloaks have captured the imagination of researchers and the public alike. The excitement is based on two advances.
The first is the idea of "transformation optics," or the ability to bend light around a region of space to make it look as if it weren't there. The second is the creation of metamaterials — synthetic substances with optical properties unknown in nature that can be designed to achieve this goal. One of the goals in this area is to create a Harry Potter-style cloak capable of hiding a human at all optical frequencies in all directions. A bonus would be the ability to make this device as big or small as required so that it can hide objects of any size — even ones as large as orbiting satellites, according to U.S. researchers.
Achieving all these features in a single gadget is currently impossible. The first cloak worked only at a single microwave frequency. More recent cloaks operate over the entire a range of optical frequencies but can only hide tiny objects over a limited viewing angle.
In a paper published on June 5, John Howell at the University of Rochester in New York and Benjamin Howell show how to make simple cloaks that hide huge objects over the entire optical spectrum, albeit with a significant compromise. One of their devices is big enough to cloak a person.
Their approach is head-slappingly simple. Instead of using complex metamaterials to steer light, the Howells do the same job with conventional lenses and mirrors. They simply create an array of lenses or mirrors that steer light around the region of space they want to hide. That means their cloaks are simple to build and easy to scale. Mirrors, in particular, can be made almost any size.
The results are impressive. Their images clearly show how they can cloak objects the size of children's toys across the entire optical range. And the cloak they have built using mirrors is big enough to hide a human. The image here shows how they've used it to cloak a chair with a trash can behind it. "This volume is sufficient to cloak a human, albeit with not as much convenience as Harry Potter's cloak," the Howells explain. The mirror cloak is not actually a new design and has been used for years by magicians, a point the Howells readily acknowledge. "The point we wish to emphasize is not the novelty but the ease of scaling to nearly arbitrary size," they say.
These cloaks aren't perfect by any means. In fact there is one very significant caveat in their design — they only work in one direction. View these cloaks from anything other than this direction and the ruse is quickly revealed.
Nevertheless, there are important applications for large, unidirectional cloaks. "The devices may have value, for example, in cloaking satellites in mid- to high-Earth orbit," the Howells point out.
That's a simple idea with impressive results. And one that might end up being used sooner rather than later. It's not hard to think of organizations that might want to cloak satellites as they orbit the Earth. But if that happens, how will we ever know? Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald
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A company has developed a camera-based system intended to give the visually impaired the ability to both “read” easily and move freely.
Liat Negrin, an Israeli who has been visually impaired since childhood, walked into a grocery store here recently, picked up a can of vegetables and easily read its label using a simple and unobtrusive camera attached to her glasses. Ms. Negrin, who has coloboma, a birth defect that perforates a structure of the eye and afflicts about 1 in 10,000 people, is an employee at OrCam, an Israeli start-up that has developed a camera-based system intended to give the visually impaired the ability to both “read” easily and move freely.
Until now reading aids for the visually impaired and the blind have been cumbersome devices that recognize text in restricted environments, or, more recently, have been software applications on smartphones that have limited capabilities.
In contrast, the OrCam device is a small camera worn in the style of Google Glass, connected by a thin cable to a portable computer designed to fit in the wearer’s pocket. The system clips on to the wearer’s glasses with a small magnet and uses a bone-conduction speaker to offer clear speech as it reads aloud the words or object pointed to by the user.
The system is designed to both recognize and speak “text in the wild,” a term used to describe newspaper articles as well as bus numbers, and objects as diverse as landmarks, traffic lights and the faces of friends.
It currently recognizes English-language text and beginning this week will be sold through the company’s Web site for $2,500, about the cost of a midrange hearing aid. It is the only product, so far, of the privately held company, which is part of the high-tech boom in Israel.
The device is quite different from other technology that has been developed to give some vision to people who are blind, like the artificial retina system called Argus II, made by Second Sight Medical Products. That system, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in February, allows visual signals to bypass a damaged retina and be transmitted to the brain.
Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald
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Study: Children using gadgets early face social and health risks Via TechinBiz
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Librarianship has lost its focus—our professional concern for people has been eclipsed by a preoccupation with collections and technology. This is understandable. Historically, libraries have been centered on bringing the world to our members through our collections. This problem of access was important to help solve, meeting a vital societal need. Likewise, our focus on information technologies and the web is natural, too. Throughout the years, these tools have presented some outstanding challenges, though generally they have aided tremendously in our mission to expand access to accumulated cultural knowledge and output. But our fixation on collections and technology is no longer serving us—nor our members. Via Fe Angela M. Verzosa
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The conventional PC business is now on the decline and yet the share prices of key players are moving up. Why? Via TechinBiz
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ATLAS was developed for DARPA by Boston Dynamics. Software-focused teams from Tracks B and C of the DARPA Robotics Challenge will use the robot to compete in the first physical competition of the Challenge in December 2013 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway. Via Szabolcs Kósa
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July 10, 2013 2:50 PM
A new 3D printing material could be used in bendable electronics.
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What’s next for Apple Technology after WWDC 2013 http://su.pr/1Kgmpe ; #tech #technology #Apple Via TechinBiz
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Household items could be the new way to take control of computer systems. Researchers from the MIT Media Lab have been busy developing a way to superimpose software functionality onto everyday objects – requiring only an iPad, simple processor and WiFi transceiver in the object you want to use as a physical control.
The software “maps” different functions onto the physical object you have chosen. Each area of the object can represent a different function and even movable parts can be used as controls thanks to motion tracking.
It’s a project that seems surprisingly easy – even the name “Smarter Objects” is straight forward – but when put into action probably has a lot more going on under the hood than most of us would want to think about. Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald
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Until recently, the wet lab has been a crucial component of every biologist. Today's advances in the production of massive amounts of data and the creation of machine-learning algorithms for processing that data are changing the face of biological science—making it possible to do real science without a wet lab. David Heckerman shares several examples of how this transformation in the area of genomics is changing the pace of scientific breakthroughs. Via Szabolcs Kósa, Dr. Stefan Gruenwald
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May 28, 2013 11:05 PM
This 36 min video is well worth the time spent - to get an idea (hopefully a transferrable one) about Big Data and the frontiers of science. In this case both "wet lab" (test tubes microscopes) and "dry lab" (computer modeling with machine learning) and needed and so is content as well as computational literacy.
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10 great advances in Technology from the future that already Exist http://su.pr/4AH6ou #innovation #leadership #tech #mgmt Via TechinBiz
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July 3, 2013 7:54 PM
Technology keeps advancing year after year. These 10 advances in technology actaully already exist today, and they will keep improving them as years go by. It is amazing how much technology has advanced over the years.
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A team of Australian industrial designers and scientists have unveiled their prototype for the world's first bionic eye.
It is hoped the device, which involves a microchip implanted in the skull and a digital camera attached to a pair of glasses, will allow recipients to see the outlines of their surroundings.
If successful, the bionic eye has the potential to help over 85 per cent of those people classified as legally blind.
With trials beginning next year, Monash University's Professor Mark Armstrong says the bionic eye should give recipients a degree of extra mobility. "There's a camera at the front and the camera is actually very similar to an iPhone camera, so it takes live action for color," he said. "And then that imagery is then distilled via a very sophisticated processor down to, let's say, a distilled signal.
"That signal is then transmitted wirelessly from what's called a coil, which is mounted at the back of the head and inside the brain there is an implant which consists of a series of little ceramic tiles and in each tile are microscopic electrodes which actually are embedded in the visual cortex of the brain."
Professor Armstrong says is it is hoped the technology will help those who completely blind, enabling them to navigate their way around. "What we believe the recipient will see is a sort of a low resolution dot image, but enough... [to] see, for example, the edge of a table or the silhouette of a loved one or a step into the gutter or something like that," he said. Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald
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A dream of scientists has been to visualize details of structures within our cells in real time, a breakthrough that would greatly aid in the study of their function. However, even the best of current microscopes can take minutes to recreate images of the internal machinery of cells at a usable resolution. Thanks to a technical tour de force, Yale University researchers can now generate accurate images of sub-cellular structures in milliseconds rather than minutes.
This image of microtubules, which act as a cellular scaffolding, was captured in just 33 milliseconds. “We can now see research come to life and tackle complex questions or conditions which require hundreds of images, something we have not been able to do before,” said Joerg Bewersdorf, assistant professor of cell biology and biomedical engineering and senior author of the research, published in the journal Nature Methods. Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald
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Tech News Update: Apples new iwatch, Amazons new Cloud Player http://su.pr/1tcT4q #tech #technews #technology #gadgets #geek #nerd
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Intel's perceptual computing isn't limited to PCs. The chipmaker demoed a tablet packing algorithms that keeps tabs on your heart. [Read more] Via TechinBiz
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Steve Case, co-founder of AOL `America Online` said that the second revolution of Internet would bring about significant changes in the Internet technology, and will improve education, health care, energy and transportation. Via TechinBiz
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June 1, 2013 12:33 PM
Promises, promises. Will this be real to real people? |
