10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know for 2008. Internet advertisers have pioneered the "pay-per-click" advertising model, but now a similar concept is ready to make the jump into the real world, with billboards that watch you watch them. In 2007, Canadian startup Xuuk introduced eye-tracking technology that uses infrared sensors to look for the red-eye phenomenon familiar from family snapshots. The device looks like a small webcam and can detect a passing glance from over 30 feet away.
This year, the company will roll out its Eyeanalytics software, letting advertisers monitor how many people are looking at each of their ads, and for how long. The implications for the ad world are clear: "You could sell ads by the eyeball," says Xuuk's CEO, Roel Vertegaal. That model has paid off for companies like Google in the online world--and they're watching Xuuk closely. The immediate application, though, is to help advertisers target their ads more effectively. IOP Selfhealingmaterials. Het IOP Self Healing Materials houdt zich bezig met onderzoek naar het zelfherstellende vermogen van materialen.
De regeling is gesloten, u kunt geen aanvragen meer indienen. Het onderzoek binnen IOP Self Healing Materials richt zich op 5 verschillende materiaalklassen: polymeren & composieten, metalen & keramische materialen, beton & asfalt, coatings, en functionele materialen zoals batterijen en microelektronica. In dit programma doen 5 Nederlandse universiteiten, TNO en NLR en circa 65 Nederlandse bedrijven mee. Waarom dit onderzoeksprogramma? Het Innovatiegerichte onderzoeksprogramma (IOP) is opgezet om de interactie tussen het bedrijfsleven en de onderzoekswereld te verbeteren. Een IOP geeft een tijdelijke impuls aan een onderzoeksterrein. Het is de bedoeling dat de kennisinfrastructuur en het Nederlandse bedrijfsleven blijvend gaan samenwerken in innovatieve technologische ontwikkelingen. Voor wie?
Budget De regeling is gesloten, u kunt geen aanvragen meer indienen. Google Image Result for. First Self-Healing Coatings. When a car’s underbody or a ship’s hull begins to corrode, it usually ends up junked. New protective coatings developed at the University of Illinois heal over their own scratches with no external intervention, protecting the underlying metal. The self-healing elements, enclosed in microcapsules that rip open when the coating is scratched, are compatible with a wide range of paints and protective coatings. The coatings, being marketed by Autonomic Materials of Champaign, IL, may be on the market in as soon as four months. The materials, described online this week in the journal Advanced Materials, were developed by Paul Braun and Scott White, both professors in the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Illinois researchers scratched steel plates, some coated with the material and some with a conventional coating, then immersed them in salt water for five days.
Google Image Result for. Self-Healing Metal Coating. Self-Healing Metal Coating A self-healing metal coating has been devised by intrepid researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation in Stuttgart, Germany. The self-healing coating is just 15 micrometers thick, so it is not capable of any sort of large-scale repair. However, if the coating is scratched, polymer capsules just a few hundred nanometers thick rupture and release their healing contents - a polymer that seals the crack or even corrosion-resistant liquids. (Self-healing metal coating) The liquid inside the nanocapsules could be tailored to a variety of purposes.
For instance, capsules in the plating of ball bearings could be filled with mineral oils to make the bearings self-lubricating. Capsules filled with colored liquids or scented oils could make metal parts that change color or release an odor when they are damaged. I love self-healing materials of all kinds, and I can't wait to own them and have them work for me. Home Made Lightsaber? Capsules for Self-Healing Circuits.
Dropping a cell phone or laptop can, of course, cause irreparable damage. Now researchers are developing a material that could let a circuit self-repair small but critical damage caused by such an impact. Capsules, filled with conductive nanotubes, that rip open under mechanical stress could be placed on circuit boards in failure-prone areas. When stress causes a crack in the circuit, some of the capsules would also rupture and release nanotubes to bridge the break. The researchers, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, are also working on capsule additives designed to heal failures in lithium-ion battery electrodes, to prevent the short-circuiting that can sometimes cause a fire.
Previous research into self-healing materials has mostly focused on restoring mechanical properties after a damaging event. To make their self-healing material, Braun and Moore encapsulated carbon nanotubes inside polymer spheres about 200 micrometers in diameter each. Dr. David Huw Jones. Scratch Shield | NISSAN | TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES. Scratch Shield is a clearcoat that is more scratch resistant compared with conventional clearcoats, helping a vehicle maintain its new look for a longer period of time. The paint also repairs fine scratches, restoring a vehicle's surface close to its original state. Nissan will continue to expand the adoption of Scratch Shield globally. After being scratched, a car surface painted with Scratch Shield will have five times less the number of scratches compared with a vehicle painted with a conventional clearcoat.
Scratch Shield repaires fine scratches, restoring painted surfaces close to their original state anywhere from one day to one week. A special highly elastic resin has been combined with a conventional clearcoat to increase the paint's flexibility. -The paint does not self-repair if scratches are deep enough to sever the bonds within the clearcoat or if the clearcoat has been peeled off.