ProtoPrint's Fair Trade Recycled Filament. Self Assembling Robots and 2D Printing. Engineer invents safe way to transfer energy to medical chips. By Tom Abate Schecter Films Electrical engineer Ada Poon has invented a way to wirelessly transfer power deep inside the body. The technology could provide a path toward new medical devices. A Stanford electrical engineer has invented a way to wirelessly transfer power deep inside the body, and then use this power to run tiny electronic medical gadgets such as pacemakers, nerve stimulators or new sensors and devices yet to be developed. The discoveries reported May 19 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences culminate years of efforts by Ada Poon, assistant professor of electrical engineering, to eliminate the bulky batteries and clumsy recharging systems that prevent medical devices from being more widely used. The technology could provide a path toward a new type of medicine that allows physicians to treat diseases with electronics rather than drugs.
Poon's team built an electronic device smaller than a grain of rice that acts as a pacemaker. New generation of sensors 0 Share. The 3D Printing Landfill Of Opportunity. There are lots of reasons to love 3D printing. It democratizes manufacturing, putting consumers in granular control of the things they own — rather than requiring them to choose from a finite pre-made selection. The additive manufacturing technology also extrudes a bridge linking creativity and utility. You can turn a sketch on paper into a 3D object that can be held, turned, admired.
You can clone a cherished object you already own to create a spare. Or print a spare part to fix something that’s broken. However there’s a flip-side to this freedom. That will hopefully change — as 3D printers (and the materials they use) get better and more capable, meaning the quality of the the output increases, and (hopefully) the utility, longevity and sustainability of the objects printed will too.
At the consumer product level, humanity already has a massive waste problem when it comes to plastics. It’s not necessarily as simplistic as that though. Over to you. Clothes with hidden sensors act as an always-on doctor - tech - 03 April 2014. Read full article Continue reading page |1|2 Everyday clothes with invisible sensors woven in can monitor your vital signs. Future designs could tell you – or your doctor – when something is amiss HEY smarty pants. Your underwear could soon tell if you are falling ill before you know it yourself, notify others if you've fallen over or help doctors diagnose and treat diseases.
Clip-on sensors or wristbands can already monitor a wearer's vital signs, such as activity levels and sleep patterns. The next generation of wearable technology aims to embed sensors in your clothes, so you only need to get dressed to start monitoring your health. " With conductive or optical sensors woven into T-shirts, shorts and underwear, smart clothes will be able to pick up a greater range of body signals, at much higher sensitivities, than rigid sensors. "You can put the sensor wherever you want," says McMaster. What can these clothes tell you? One obvious area is preventing heart conditions. More from the web. Data-stealing Snoopy drone unveiled at Black Hat. 28 March 2014Last updated at 03:07 ET By Kim Gittleson BBC reporter, Black Hat, Singapore Glenn Wilkinson uses a quadcopter drone with the Snoopy software built inside to gather smartphone data Security firm SensePost has unveiled its Snoopy drone, which can steal data from unsuspecting smartphone users, at the Black Hat security conference in Singapore.
The drone uses the company's software, which is installed on a computer attached to a drone. That code can be used to hack smartphones and steal personal data - all without a user's knowledge. It does this by exploiting handsets looking for a wireless signal. Glenn Wilkinson, who developed Snoopy, says that when the software is attached to a drone flying around an area, it can gather everything from a user's home address to his or her bank information. "Every device we carry emits unique signatures - even pacemakers come with wi-fi today," Mr Wilkinson tells the BBC.
"And - holy smokes, what a bad idea. " Continue reading the main story. Mass unemployment fears over Google artificial intelligence plans. Self-Healing (MEND) Nanocomposite Polymeric–based Coatings Capable of Healing both Surface Scratches & Mesoscopic Damage. By AZoNano.com Staff Writers Topics Covered Introduction Solution from NEI Corporation NANOMYTE MEND Conclusion About NEI Corporation Introduction With coatings, materials, utilized for various consumer and industrial applications, can enhance their appearance and obtain protection from damages caused by weathering (for instance, acid rain and UV light), mechanical wear and corrosion.
Typical coatings applied are waxes, sealers, stains, paints and other chemical treatments. However, in due course, this protective layer weakens and experiences microscopic damage. This, in turn, leads to heavy damage or eventual failure, which needs recoating or replacement. Solution from NEI Corporation NEI Corporation, with the support from the US Department of Energy’s Industrial Technologies Program, has created self-healing nanocomposite polymeric–based coatings capable of healing both surface scratches and mesoscopic damage such as cavitation and micro-cracks.
Figure 1. Figure 2. Conclusion. Scientists Finally Admit There Is a Second, Secret DNA Code Which Controls Genes. The fascinating and recent discovery of a new, second DNA code further lends credence to what metaphysical scientists have been saying for millennia — the body speaks two different languages. Since the genetic code was deciphered in the 1960s, researchers have assumed that it was used exclusively to write information about proteins. But biologists have suspected for years that some kind of epigenetic inheritance occurs at the cellular level. The different kinds of cells in our bodies provide an example. Skin cells and brain cells have different forms and functions, despite having exactly the same DNA. No Such Thing As Junk DNA The human genome is packed with at least four million gene switches that reside in bits of DNA that once were dismissed as “junk” but it turns out that so-called junk DNA plays critical roles in controlling how cells, organs and other tissues behave.
The genetic code uses a 64-letter alphabet called codons. Controls Genes DNA Responds To Frequency. Are You Ready for the Second Machine Age? | Erik Brynjolfsson. Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, both at MIT's Sloan School of Management, are co-authors of "The Second Machine Age". James Manyika is head of the McKinsey Global Institute. As the worldwide slump stretches into its sixth year, we hear ever-louder and more insistent cries that we've reached the end of innovation, and that growth is dead. Don't believe them. It's natural for pessimism to spread during downturns, and the Great Recession was the worst slump in 70 years. When we look past the current business cycle, we are convinced that the next 30 years will deliver even greater innovation and economic bounty to America and the world. Is it fair to say that we're now entering a similarly transformative period? And digital technologies are mastering not only knowledge work, but also activities in the physical world.
Just 10 years ago, summaries of progress in autonomous vehicles, natural language processing, or robotic localization and mapping made for depressing reading. Giant 3D printer could build homes in under a day. Scientists in California say new technology will soon allow massive 3D printers to build entire multi-level houses in under a day. University of Southern California Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis has for years been working on a building printing technology called “contour crafting,” and has earned accolades from the likes of the National Inventors Hall of Fame and even NASA for his efforts.
Soon, he says, he’ll be able to use that system to create entire structures out of concrete using what is essentially a gigantic 3D printer. Just as basic hobbyist models let designers create three-dimensional objects from bottom to top, Khoshnevis says contour crafting is working on bringing that technology to the realm of urban construction. It is "basically scaling up 3D printing to the scale of building," Khoshnevis told MSN recently. Everything is being made automatically nowadays, the professor told reporters, from shoes and clothes to home appliances and automobiles. ‘Sorry, Dave, I can’t let you do that’: Robots learn, network without humans.
Starting Now, All Intel Microprocessors Are Conflict-Free: Here's How The Company Did It. Just six months into his role as CEO of Intel, Brian Krzanich announced today that the electronics giant hit a momentous goal in the world of corporate social responsibility: Starting right now, every microprocessor that Intel ships will be made entirely with conflict-free minerals. Every piece of tantalum, tungsten, gold, and tin found in the microprocessors will come from smelters that only source minerals mined outside the quagmire of armed conflict and human rights abuse that plague parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and surrounding countries.
The world of electronics manufacturing is complex. Large companies like Intel buy minerals in bulk from suppliers, which in turn buy them from smelters around the world--and so the electronic companies often aren't familiar with the origins of their minerals. "I was managing all of Intel's supply chain--not only factories, but everything we buy," he told Co.Exist in an interview. BI V2.0: The self-replicating 3D printer. 3D printing promises that one day we may be able to print out goods in our own homes rather than popping down to the shops or ordering widgets online. But what happens when the printers are able to print themselves? Boots Industries’ BI V2.0 takes a step down that road with a design aimed at self-replication. Currently the subject of a Kickstarter campaign, the open-source printer is capable of printing its own core components. Founded in 2012 by Jean Le Bouthillier and François Crête, Boots Industries already has several other printers on the market, but the BI V2.0 is something of a departure for the company.
It’s an open, large build-volume printer with clearances designed to allow for maximum use of the space inside the frame for high-precision printing. The key to the BI V2.0 is that it’s a delta-style 3D printer, based on the delta robots developed in the 1980s for picking up small objects rapidly and precisely. New system allows for high-accuracy, through-wall, 3-D motion tracking. Imagine playing a video game like Call of Duty or Battlefield and having the ability to lead your virtual army unit while moving freely throughout your house. Gaming could become this realistic, thanks to new technology developed by Dina Katabi’s research group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) that allows for highly accurate, 3-D motion tracking.
The new system, dubbed “WiTrack”, uses radio signals to track a person through walls and obstructions, pinpointing her 3-D location to within 10 to 20 centimeters — about the width of an adult hand. The researchers will present their findings during the Usenix Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation in April 2014. Earlier this year, Katabi and her graduate student Fadel Adib unveiled WiVi, a system that detects humans through walls and can track the direction of their movement using WiFi signals. Here’s Why You Should Convert Your Music To 432 Hz.
MIT Actually Reinvented The Wheel. Watch a robotic cube walk and balance under its own power. Cubes aren't usually the go-to shape when creating an object that's meant to move around, but researchers in Switzerland have created one that can do just that — along with a handful of other surprising talents. Called the Cubli, it measures nearly 6 inches on each side and can walk around by continually flipping itself over.
Perhaps more impressively, it can also balance on any of its sides or even just a single corner. As the research team from ETH Zurich's Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control demonstrates in a video, the cube can even remain balanced while a surface is raised up at an angle beneath it. Though it's a moving cube, the Cubli still relies on a series of spinning wheels to get going. Three internal wheels angled along a different axis each will spin faster or slower in order to maintain enough momentum to keep the cube balanced. By quickly halting a spinning wheel, the cube can also be caused to flip over, effectively allowing it to move around. Video of China's Historic Moon Landing Released.
It’s been a busy weekend for China’s moon mission Chang’e 3. After a successful landing on Saturday, the Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center commanded the lander’s rover to roll onto the lunar surface early Sunday morning (Beijing Time). Now, a beautiful video has been released of the full landing sequence, shown here. At approximately 3 minutes into the video, the Chang’e 3 lander rotates to begin its vertical descent onto Sinus Iridum (the Bay of Rainbows), an ancient lava plain in the moon’s northern hemisphere. The descent onto lunar regolith had a very Apollo-landing feel as the lander’s thrusters blew moon dust away from the landing site at around the 6 minute mark. Then, as the lander reached 4 meters from the surface, its engines switched off, causing the robot to drop, unaided, the rest of the way. More Discovery News coverage of China’s moon landing: Video credit: Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center.
Scientists Build a Low-Cost, Open-Source 3D Metal Printer. OK, so maybe you aren’t interested in making your own toys, cellphone cases, or glow-in-the-dark Christmas decorations. How about a brake drum? Until now, 3D printing has been a polymer affair, with most people in the maker community using the machines to make all manner of plastic consumer goods, from tent stakes to chess sets. A new low-cost 3D printer developed by Michigan Technological University’s Joshua Pearce and his team could add hammers to that list.
The detailed plans, software and firmware are all freely available and open-source, meaning anyone can use them to make their own metal 3D printer. Pearce is the first to admit that his new printer is a work in progress. Using under $1,500 worth of materials, including a small commercial MIG welder and an open-source microcontroller, Pearce’s team built a 3D metal printer than can lay down thin layers of steel to form complex geometric objects. Eyes-On Glasses Let Doctors See Through Your Skin. What’s the difference between a digital camera and inserting a needle into a vein? The former is simply ‘point and shoot’ whereas the latter is much more complicated than that.
It isn’t just ‘point and shoot’ and may require a number of attempts before success is achieved however, this trial and error method is actually painful for the patient. Well science can’t just stand aloof of this pain and therefore we have a solution to this problem. Imagine if you could actually see a patient’s veins when you were about to insert the needle. That would greatly help and chances of error would be zero. The best part is that unlike other glasses out there which include 3D glasses and smart glasses, these medical glasses can be worn while you have your regular glasses on.
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