Harvard Study On Brain Architecture

Posted on September 6, 2016 by

Early experiences affect the development of brain architecture, which provides the foundation for all future learning, behavior, and health. Just as a weak foundation compromises the quality and strength of a house, adverse experiences early in life can impair brain architecture, with negative effects lasting into adulthood. The development of a child’s brain architecture provides the foundation for all future learning, behavior, and health.Brains are built over time, from t...

Apple’s Home Kit protocol

Posted on September 4, 2016 by

HomeKit. HomeKit is a framework for communicating with and controlling connected accessories in a user's home. HomeKit allows seamless integration between iOS devices and home automation accessories, by promoting a common protocol and providing a public API. With HomeKit, Apple’s machinations go significantly further, aiming to turn your iPhone or iPad into an engine that drives potentially countless smart accessories about your home. HomeKit allows seamless integration between iOS devi...

Leica Disto D810 Touch is the wireless laser distance meter

Posted on August 31, 2016 by

Leica Disto D810 Touch is the first laser distance meter with a touch screen for quick and intuitive operation. An integrated camera and advanced capabilities allows you to easily obtain measurements from pictures. Images can be downloaded to a computer through the USB interface. The high functionality is perfectly complemented by the smart free app Leica Disto sketch. Simply Touch it Large Touch Screen for Quick And Intuitive Operation^Measure With A Picture Width, Diameter of Round Item...

Carnegie Mellon University smartwatch can predict what wearer is up to

Posted on August 30, 2016August 30, 2016 by

Two new smartwatch prototypes developed at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, can guess what their wearer is up to by tracking subtle signals in their skin and muscles. The technology could allow the owner to answer calls, track activities, and more – all without needing to be touched. The first, named EM-Sense, can figure out what object its owner is touching. By fitting the smartwatch with a radio receiver, EM-Sense can use its wearer like a living antenna, picking up o...

University of Alabama’s Wearable cloud

Posted on August 12, 2016 by

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are exploring the concept of a wearable personal cloud — a fully functioning, yet compact and lightweight cloud computing system embedded into clothing. Ragib Hasan, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer and information sciences in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences, and Rasib Khan, Ph.D., a recent postdoctoral graduate student, presented the concept and prototype of a wearable cloud jacket at the 40th Institute of Electrical and Elect...

NASA Rover Game Released for Curiosity’s Anniversary

Posted on August 12, 2016 by

As Curiosity marks its fourth anniversary (in Earth years) since landing on Mars, the rover is working on collecting its 17th sample. While Curiosity explores Mars, gamers can join the fun via a new social media game, Mars Rover. On their mobile devices, players drive a rover through rough Martian terrain, challenging themselves to navigate and balance the rover while earning points along the way. The game also illustrates how NASA's next Mars rover, in development for launch in 2020, will us...

Pentaho Labs experts to incubate breakthrough data orchestration and advanced analytic capabilities

Posted on August 6, 2016 by

Pentaho, a Hitachi Group company, is a leading data integration and business analytics company with an enterprise-class, open source-based platform for diverse big data deployments. Pentaho’s unified data integration and analytics platform is comprehensive, completely embeddable and delivers governed data to power any analytics in any environment. Pentaho’s mission is to help organizations across multiple industries harness the value from all their data, including big data and IoT, enabling them...

MIT to use new models and big data to better understand financial risk

Posted on August 6, 2016 by

The financial crisis of 2008, which saw the failure of major investment banks Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, and the subsequent government bailout of insurance giant American International Group (AIG), had a ripple effect around the globe. How did America’s housing collapse lead to the downfall of these institutions? And why did that, in turn, translate into a severe economic downturn? Not having a clear picture of systemic risk in the financial system, an issue encapsulated in the “too bi...

App That Help With Student ‘Home Work’

Posted on August 5, 2016August 5, 2016 by

HwPic HwPic is a tutoring service that allows students to take send pictures of their homework to tutors, who will then respond within minutes to your questions with a step-by-step solution. There’s even an option to expedite the answers if a student is in a hurry. HwPic Co-Founder Tiklat Issa said that the app was initially rejected by Apple’s App Store, which believed it would promote cheating, but he successfully argued that just because someone uses the app in a way that it’s not meant t...

MIT: New institute will accelerate innovations in fibers and fabrics

Posted on August 5, 2016 by

An independent nonprofit founded by MIT has been selected to run a new, $317 million public-private partnership announced today by Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter. National public-private consortium led by MIT will involve manufacturers, universities, agencies, companies. The partnership, named the Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA) Institute, has won a national competition for federal funding to create the latest Manufacturing Innovation Institute. It is designed to acceler...

NASA to sequence DNA in space for first time

Posted on August 3, 2016 by

July 16, a Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral to the International Space Station carrying a DNA sequencer into space for the first time. While this isn’t big-deal science, no one has ever tried to decode DNA in outer space before. Being able to is something that might come in handy on a Mars mission if a crewmember gets sick or alien mold appears in a spaceship. “Right now we culture stuff and return it to Earth, but if you send people to Mars you aren’t going to...

Amazon Machine Learning

Posted on July 28, 2016 by

Machine learning is a subfield of computer science (more particularly soft computing) that evolved from the study of pattern recognition and computational learning theory in artificial intelligence. In 1959, Arthur Samuel defined machine learning as a "Field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed". Machine learning explores the study and construction of algorithms that can learn from and make predictions on data. Such algorithms operate by building...

3D Printing Pen

Posted on July 25, 2016July 25, 2016 by

Renegade is not the smallest, thinnest, lightest or cheapest 3D pen in the world. It doesn't weld wires, burn wood, or cut through foam. While 3D printing pens are great tools for creating a broad range of things, from art, to fashion, and even to phone cases, there is an inevitable learning period for them where, lets just say, makers are figuring out how the tool works. For some it can be frustrating both for ecological and financial reasons to blow through a pack of 3D printing pen filamen...

‘Blips’ turns your iphone into a powerful microscope

Posted on July 21, 2016 by

BLIPS is an ultra portable and very affordable set of mini lenses which turn your devices into photo digital microscopes in seconds! The BLIPS (patent pending technology) is a set of two, extremely thin elements made of composite, multilayered structures So slim that you can keep BLIPS on your device, even in your pocket, without worrying to lose it. BLIPS works on all models of smartphones and tablets. The unique set of mini-objectives for smartphones allowing you to see deep inside the ...

AgIC allows you to draw circuit board

Posted on July 21, 2016 by

AgIC pushes the boundaries of printed electronics. Embed electronics into everything on the planet with printed electronics technology. AgIC transforms a home printer into a circuit board manufacturing equipment. The fastest and cheapest way to print circuits. The conductive ink, is a set of special paper and circuit draw marker. "For the corresponding paper" This marker is usually not normally conductive expression on paper, you can be used only in the glossy photo paper for special paper...

University of Washington Project – Wifi signal enabling gesture recognition

Posted on July 8, 2016 by

WiSee is a novel interaction interface that leverages ongoing wireless transmissions in the environment (e.g., WiFi) to enable whole-home sensing and recognition of human gestures. Since wireless signals do not require line-of-sight and can traverse through walls, WiSee can enable whole-home gesture recognition using few wireless sources (e.g., a Wi-Fi router and a few mobile devices in the living room). WiSee is the first wireless system that can identify gestures in line-of-sight, non-line-...

KoalaSafe Family Friendly Wireless Router with Parental Controls / Access Point / WiFi with Internet Safety for Kids Technology

Posted on July 5, 2016 by

Is your child obsessed with Minecraft? Do you find it difficult to maintain health screen time limits? The KoalaSafe parental control router makes parenting easier and kids healthier. This wireless router works on all devices. Not only is KoalaSafe for your desktop computer, you now have tablets with parental controls. It's a tool for parents to set up internet time limits, block inappropriate apps and sites, and see analytics of where kids spend time online, across all devices in the home, cont...

iPhly: Radio Control with iPhone

Posted on July 5, 2016July 5, 2016 by

The iPhly allows you to ditch the bulky and expensive R/C equipment for something more portable, like your iPhone. We’ve seen remote control accessories before, but they only work with accompanying vehicles. iPhly actually has the ability to control anything from airplanes to RC cars that you already own. How does it work? The iPhly connects to your iPhone via the accessory port. The device uses a pre existing frequency module, or you can purchase one along with the product. The developer ...

Wink Relay – Smart Home Wall Controller

Posted on July 4, 2016 by

Wink Relay is a wall-mountable touchscreen controller that runs the Wink app, giving you instant access to your smart products. Manage lights, locks, appliances, and more all from a central location. This beautifully designed command center is fully loaded with temperature, humidity, and proximity sensors, plus two smart light switches; it's like an entire smart home on your wall. 4.3" multi-touch screen allows access to all your smart products via the Wink app 2x smart light switches can ...

FDA has approved ‘KAMRA’ Inlay (“inlay”) a dark, ring-shaped device that is implanted in the cornea to improve near vision for patients

Posted on June 25, 2016 by

KAMRA Inlay ("inlay") is a dark, ring-shaped device that is implanted in the cornea, which is the clear, front surface of the eye. The inlay improves near vision in patients whose eyes have lost the ability to change focus for near vision, which is a normal part of aging (presbyopia). The device is 3.8 mm in diameter with a 1.6 mm diameter hole in the center. It has 8,400 tiny holes to allow oxygen and nutrients to flow across the cornea. How does it work? The eye surgeon uses a laser to make...

Walt Disney building smart toys and IOT devices

Posted on June 16, 2016 by

Walt Disney Co.'s lab network, together with scientists from MIT, the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon, has developed systems that the company could use to help robots identify individuals, as well as to track everyday interactions between people and things. RapID is similar to an older Disney Research project called ID-Sense (see RFID for Reading People's Reactions). The goal of the ID-Sense project was to develop a system for identifying human-object interactions within a home o...

Digital Forensics Platform For Smartphone

Posted on June 15, 2016 by

Every day around the world, digital data is impacting investigations. Making it intelligent and actionable takes new workflows powered by a unified platform — the Cellebrite UFED Digital Forensics Platform. With powerful data acquisition, management and analysis tools, it will unify teams and unlock the intelligence of mobile data to accelerate investigations and produce defensible evidence. Cellebrite's innovative UFED Pro Series is designed for the forensic examiners and investigators that ...

NASA’s research on impact on the immune system

Posted on May 21, 2016 by

Studies have shown that spending a long time in space has a negative impact on the immune system of crew members. Medical scientists are particularly concerned about disruption of the development of white blood cells which are our first line of defense against illness. The BONEMAC investigation analyze some defense cells from mouse bone marrow, and find that their numbers increase a lot faster during space flight than on the ground. Space flight also has an impact on coagulation, or blood c...

Implants to assist you with body functions

Posted on May 8, 2016 by

Cochlear Implant A cochlear implant is an electronic medical device that replaces the function of the damaged inner ear. Unlike hearing aids, which make sounds louder, cochlear implants do the work of damaged parts of the inner ear (cochlea) to provide sound signals to the brain. Deep brain neurostimulator Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a neurosurgical procedure involving the implantation of a medical device called a neurostimulator (sometimes referred to as a 'brain pace...

University of Tokyo’s 6th sense headband

Posted on April 27, 2016 by

University of Tokyo is developing a wearable and modular device allowing users to perceive and respond to spatial information using haptic cues in an intuitive and unobtrusive way. The system is composed of an array of "optical-hair modules", each of which senses range information and transduces it as an appropriate vibro-tactile cue on the skin directly beneath it (the module can be embedded on clothes or strapped to body parts as in the figures below). An analogy for our artificial sensory sys...

ASCII – Computer alphabets

Posted on April 10, 2016 by

ASCII abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character-encoding scheme (the IANA prefers the name US-ASCII). ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, though they support many additional characters. ASCII was the most common character encoding on the World Wide Web until December 2007, when it was surpassed by UTF-8, which is fully backward compa...

NASA – 3D Printing in space

Posted on April 6, 2016April 6, 2016 by

The 3D Printing In Zero-G Technology Demonstration serves as a proof-of-concept test of the properties of melt deposition modeling additive manufacturing in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station (ISS). The lessons learned from this technology demonstration can be applied in the next generation of melt deposition modeling in the permanent NanoRacks Additive Manufacturing Facility (AMF), as well as for any future additive manufacturing technology. This includes any future...

Micro Phone Lens Turns a Phone into a Microscope

Posted on March 10, 2016 by 41629066

Turn your smartphone into a microscope. The Micro Phone Lens allows you to take images at a magnification of 150X using just a smartphone or tablet. The lens attaches to these devices using an adhesive backing and in combination with the slides and sufficient, quality lighting, it allows users to take pictures at a fraction of the cost of a regular microscope. Simply press down the lens on to the camera lens, focus the device, and capture a picture or video. Its features include: 1. O...

Dutch startup plans first 3D printed steel bridge to span Amsterdam canal.

Posted on December 26, 2015 by

A Dutch startup has unveiled plans to use robotic printers to weld the structure drop-by-drop in the first large-scale test of the technology. The company has unveiled plans to build the world’s first 3D-printed bridge across an Amsterdam canal, a technique that could become standard on future construction sites. Using robotic printers “that can ‘draw’ steel structures in 3D, we will print a (pedestrian) bridge over water in the centre of Amsterdam,” engineering startup company MX3D said in a st...

PIXELIO Transforms Your Smartphone into a 3D Scanning Planetary Arm

Posted on December 23, 2015 by

A new UK-based startup, Smart 3D Company, Ltd., has come out with an innovative and easy-to-use device that, combined with a smartphone, will allow users to scan small objects in 3D, as well as take pictures or shoot 360° time lapse videos. The device is not only useful for photographers or 3D printer users, but also architects, engineers, graphic designers, bloggers and many more. PIXELIO, in combination with free software installed on your smartphone (eg. Autodesk 123D Catch), will allow us...