MYO Pulsera inteligente

MIT makes transparent solar panels Transparent solar panels — think about it for a moment: Sheets of transparent glass or plastic film that also generate electricity. It’s almost the perfect solution for all our energy needs, generating free power from every available surface, window, and computer display. The concept of transparent solar panels isn’t new, of course, but it now looks like they’re finally finding their way to market: Ubiquitous Energy, a startup that was spun off from MIT last year, is developing a technology and patent portfolio and hopes to bring affordable transparent solar panels to market soon. At this point, you might be wondering how transparent solar cells actually work — after all, if it’s transparent, how can it absorb light energy? The simple answer is that light energy comes in many frequencies (colors), but as far as we humans are concerned, it is only the visible wavelengths — from blue, through green and yellow, to red — that really matter.

사물 인터넷 표준 프로토콜로 MQTT 선정 : OASIS 사물 인터넷 표준 프로토콜로 MQTT 선정 : OASIS Joab Jackson | IDG News Service OASIS(Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards)가 사물 인터넷(Internet of Thing)을 위한 메시징 프로토콜로 MQTT(Message Queuing Telemetry Transport)를 선정했다고 공표했다. 수백 조원 규모의 시장이 될 수도 있는 사물 인터넷의 기술적 기반이 정해진 것이다. IBM의 모바일 및 애플리케이션 통합 미들웨어 담당 부사장 마이크 리겔은 “사물 인터넷의 가장 큰 과제 중 하나는 명확한 공개 표준이 없다는 것”이라며, “이런 공개 표준 없이는 획기적인 발전이 불가능하다는 것은 그간의 경험으로 잘 알고 있다”고 강조했다. 리겔은 HTTP가 사람들이 웹을 통해 정보를 공유할 수 있는 기반을 만들었던 것과 마찬가지로 MQTT 역시 수십억의 저렴한 내장형 데이터 수집 측정 디바이스를 온라인화할 수 있는 기반이 될 수 있다고 평가했다. 사물 인터넷 자체는 네트워크가 아니지만, 최근 관련 업계는 네트워크로 연결된 임베디드 마이크로프로세서의 사용이 증가하고 있다는 점을 강조하고 있다. GSM연합은 2020년에는 이런 디바이스 중 150억 대가 온라인화될 것으로 추정하고 있다. MQTT는 제한된 컴퓨팅 성능과 빈약한 네트워크 연결 환경에 잘 맞는 메시징 프로토콜로, IBM과 시스템 공급업체인 유로테크(Eurotech)가 개발해 OASIS에 기증한 것이다. 한편 OASIS는 MQTT가 사물 인터넷의 표준 프로토콜로서 충분한 역할을 수행할 수 있도록 강화하기 위해 새로운 기술 위원회를 구성했다. 특히 MQTT를 처음 개발한 업체인 IBM은 조만간 개최될 자사의 연례 임팩트(Impact) 컨퍼런스에서 MQTT 관련 제품을 발표할 계획인 것으로 알려졌다. editor@itworld.co.kr

I used Google Glass: the future, with monthly updates The frosted-glass doors on the 11th floor of Google’s NYC headquarters part and a woman steps forward to greet me. This is an otherwise normal specimen of humanity. Normal height, slender build; her eyes are bright, inquisitive. She leans in to shake my hand and at that moment I become acutely aware of the device she’s wearing in the place you would expect eyeglasses: a thin strip of aluminum and plastic with a strange, prismatic lens just below her brow. What was a total oddity a year ago, and little more than an experiment just 18 months ago is now starting to look like a real product. But as I release from that handshake and study the bizarre device resting on my greeter’s brow, my mind begins to fixate on a single question: who would want to wear this thing in public? Sticky TOC engaged! Finding Glass Finding Glass I was about to beta test Glass myself. "Why are we even working on Glass? Steve goes on. I get it. Maybe, but obviously the Glass team doesn’t want to wait to find out.

Finger-free phones, full body gesturing, and our “touchscreen” future Understatement of the century: touchscreen technology evolved at a rapid pace in the past decade. In the days of Y2K, Palm Pilots were a big deal. Five years ago? The iPhone debuted and the corresponding touchscreen explosion hasn't slowed up since. Today we're at a point where we think we understand how all the innovations in touch technology can fit into our future. The locomotive of technological innovation has yet to be derailed, but it’s come to a point where we must find particular uses and integrations for all of these advancements. Envisioning the future From touch-enabled Ultrabooks to smartphones and tablets, consumers expect most gadgets to natively feature touch interaction. Located at its Redmond, WA campus, Microsoft’s Envisioning Center illustrates how the company imagines touch technology evolving to make the future “easier and more enjoyable.” The above concept room is focused on natural interactions with technology based on voice, gesture, and touch.

Next-Gen Video Format H.265 Is Approved, Paving The Way For High-Quality Video On Low-Bandwidth Networks The ITU has approved a new video format that could bring 4k video to future broadband networks, while also making streaming HD video available even on bandwidth-constrained mobile networks. The H.265 standard, also informally known as High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), is designed to provide high-quality streaming video, even on low-bandwidth networks. The new video format is the successor to the H.264 codec, which nearly every video publisher has standardized after the release of the iPad and several other connected devices. It seems crazy now, but once upon a time, Apple’s adoption of H.264 and insistence on HTML5-based video players was controversial — especially since most video before the iPad was encoded in VP6 to play through Adobe’s proprietary Flash player. The hope is that, through improved compression techniques, H.265 will enable publishers to stream 1080p video with about half as many bits as required today.

디지털을 말한다. By oojoo :: 포스트 스마트폰 시대, 코닥의 딜레마 카메라 시장에서 세계 최대, 최고의 기업이었던 130년 전통의 코닥은 2012년초 파산 보호 신청을 냈다. 코닥의 성공과 몰락은 와해성 혁신 기술이 가져온 현대 산업사회에서 기업이 혁신에 잠시라도 방심하고, 지속적인 변화 추구를 게을리하면 도태될 수 있음을 보여주는 대표적 사례이다. ✓ 참고기사 : 동아비즈니스리뷰 앞선 기술 가지고도 디지털 시장 거부 코닥의 몰락 사실 코닥은 1975년 세계 최초의 디지털 카메라를 개발했던 회사이다. 나만 해도 1996년에 코닥의 DC50 디카를 구매했었다. 38만 화소에 불과했던 이 카메라를 당시 90여만원이나 되는 거금으로 구입했었다. 코닥으로서는 최초로 디카를 개발하며 시장을 선도했지만, 그 혁신을 지속하진 못했다. 코닥의 딜레마는 많은 기업이 현재 겪고 있는 문제이다. FOCUS, 메트로, 노컷뉴스, 벼룩시장 등의 무가지는 스마트폰으로 냉대를 받고 있다. 스마트폰은 IT 기업에만 영향을 주는 것이 아니라 비IT 산업에도 큰 영향을 주고 있다. "포스트 스마트폰, 경계의 붕괴"에서는 스마트폰 이후의 ICT 기술이 우리 사회, 개인 그리고 산업과 경제에 어떤 영향을 줄 것인지 기술했다. 책 구매 : 예스24 / 교보문고 / 알라딘 / 다음책 / 네이버 책 관련 동영상 강의 : 오마이스쿨 IoT 관련 정보 공유 : 페이스북 IoT 그룹

The first flexible, fiber-optic solar cell that can be woven into clothes An international team of engineers, physicists, and chemists have created the first fiber-optic solar cell. These fibers are thinner than human hair, flexible, and yet they produce electricity, just like a normal solar cell. The US military is already interested in weaving these threads into clothing, to provide a wearable power source for soldiers. In essence, the research team started with optical fibers made from glass — and then, using high-pressure chemical vapor deposition, injected n-, i-, and p-type silicon into the fiber, turning it into a solar cell. The lead researcher, John Badding of Penn State University, says the team has already produced “meters-long fiber,” and that their new technique could be used to create “bendable silicon solar-cell fibers of over 10 meters in length.” Moving forward, the potential for flexible, woven solar cells is enormous. These fibers also have two other intriguing properties that still need to be investigated.

Microsoft's voice-enabled assistant technology still in the works Back in 2011, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was touting heavily the idea that voice-enabled assistants would become key to the way users interacted with their PCs and devices. Since that time, Microsoft execs have gone largely quiet on that front. Even at this week's TechFest Microsoft Research fair (at least on the day that was open to invited external guests), Microsoft had little to show or tell about developments on the voice-control front. In spite of the silence, Microsoft's work on this front is alive and well. The Envisioning Center features demos of technologies that Microsoft officials believe are between three and 10 years away from widespread usage. I got a tour of the Envisioning Center this week while on Microsoft's Redmond campus. In these demos, users could ask their displays to pull up information then refine their queries without having to figure out specific keywords or artfully craft and hone their search queries.

Leap Motion controllers to ship in mid-May for $80 | Cutting Edge Leap Motion, which has developed an innovative motion-control system that's accurate to the hundredth of a millimeter, said today that it will begin shipping its controller on May 13. The controller, which gives users the ability to control what's on their computers with touch-free pinch-to-zoom gestures, will sell for $80 -- though customers who have already pre-ordered it will pay $70 -- and will ship to pre-order customers on May 13, and be available to everyone else on May 19. The device will be available in the U.S. only through Leap Motion's Web site, and at Best Buy's stores and Web site and wherever Asus computer bundles are sold. BestBuy.com will begin taking pre-orders today, Leap Motion said. Buckwald wouldn't say exactly how many units Leap Motion is producing, but did say that the number of pre-orders was already in the hundreds of thousands.