ROBOTS TO HELP IMMIGRANT CHILDREN LEARN GERMAN

Posted on October 7, 2016 by

With hundreds of thousands of refugee children entering the German school system, teachers face unprecedented challenges. Teaching a child a second language individually is something that most classrooms cannot do. However, language acquisition is imperative to integration. Could technical assistants be used to help prepare immigrant children for school and teach them a new language? L2TOR, pronounced 'el tutor' which stands for 'Second Language Tutoring Using Social Robots,' is a new project...

‘Gravity Sketch’ is an Intuitive 3D Design Tool

Posted on October 5, 2016 by

Gravity Sketch is shaking up the world of 3D creation. It is based on sketching, the most natural way to land your ideas. For years 3D design tools have been difficult to learn and a nightmare to use. We have designed a user experience that makes sense for everyone. We have lowered the barriers to 3D literacy, striving to make digital 3D creation easier for designers, artists, and makers alike. Our first product, Gravity Sketch iOS is already being used by thousands of creators all over th...

University of Virginia, has earned First Place in NASA’s 2015-2016 University Aeronautics Design Challenge for their concept of an electric-powered, commuter-sized airplane.

Posted on October 3, 2016 by

A team of 13 students from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA, has earned First Place in NASA’s 2015-2016 University Aeronautics Design Challenge for their concept of an electric-powered, commuter-sized airplane featuring “green aviation” technologies. Sponsored by NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, the engineering design contest specifically asked students to incorporate distributed electric propulsion, or DEP, in their concept for an airplane that could enter se...

Amazon’s Echo Dot

Posted on October 2, 2016 by

Amazon's Echo Dot is a 360 degree speaker that uses far-field voice recognition powered by the Amazon Alexa voice service/assistant. Design wise it looks like a hockey puck with two buttons on top and a rotating volume ring. If you've ever seen or own the original Echo, then it's basically the first inch and a half taken off the top of the Pringle can-like Bluetooth speaker. Echo Dot has everything the Echo has including long range, far-field voice capabilities, a microphone off button, an...

Purdue University Research mid-infrared photothermal microscope, an innovation that could bring insights into drug delivery and cancer treatment.

Posted on October 1, 2016 by

Chemical contrast has long been sought for label-free visualization of biomolecules and materials in complex living systems. Although infrared spectroscopic imaging has come a long way in this direction, it is thus far only applicable to dried tissues because of the strong infrared absorption by water. It also suffers from low spatial resolution due to long wavelengths and lacks optical sectioning capabilities. We overcome these limitations through sensing vibrational absorption–induced photothe...

Max Planck Institute and the University of Stuttgart have found a way of generating acoustic hologram . Sound can now be structured in three dimensions.

Posted on October 1, 2016October 1, 2016 by

Sound can now be structured in three dimensions. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the University of Stuttgart have found a way of generating acoustic holograms, which could improve ultrasound diagnostics and material testing. The holograms can also be used to move and manipulate particles. Shaped with ultrasound: Max Planck researchers from Stuttgart transmit ultrasonic waves through a bath of water © Kai Melde / MPI for Intelligent Systems Pee...

Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis Study finds adapted yoga feasible, beneficial for adults with traumatic brain injury

Posted on September 6, 2016 by

A research team, led by an IU School of Health and Rehabilitation faculty member at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, has determined that adapted yoga is both feasible and beneficial for adults with stroke or traumatic brain injury. Subjects in a recently published study of adults with traumatic brain injury demonstrated improved balance, flexibility, strength, endurance and walking speed after participation in adapted yoga. The study underscores the belief that adapted yoga m...

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...

Thonis-Heracleion was found after a thousand years underwater

Posted on August 15, 2016 by

Heracleion (Greek: Ἡράκλειον), also known as Thonis (Θῶνις), was an ancient Egyptian city near Alexandria whose ruins are located in Abu Qir Bay, currently 2.5 km off the coast, under 10 m (30 ft) of water. Its legendary beginnings go back to as early as the 12th century BC, and it is mentioned by ancient Greek historians. Its importance grew particularly during the waning days of the Pharaohs—the late period, when it was Egypt's main port for international trade and collection of taxes. Hera...

Hexiwear – Complete IoT Development Solution

Posted on August 14, 2016 by

Hexiwear is a wearable development kit for the Internet of Things era. A small and sleek, low-power device packed with sensors to quantify yourself and the world around you. Wirelessly enabled, it can connect both to devices nearby – or to cloud servers far away. Developed in collaboration with NXP Semiconductors and funded through Kickstarter, Hexiwear is chiefly aimed at developers who need a complete IoT toolkit – low power yet versatile hardware, compatible smartphone and iOS apps, and cl...

MIT created a temporary tattoo that can control your connected devices

Posted on August 13, 2016 by

MIT created a temporary tattoo that can control your connected devices In the future, your tattoos could be as functional as they are expressive. MIT, in partnership with Microsoft, created a new touch interface, DuoSkin, that allows temporary tattoos to interact with smartphones or computers, display output based on body temperature changes and even transmit data using NFC. Another conference. “Great.” This one’s different, trust us. Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, PhD Learner at the MIT Media Lab, exp...

3D Printed Jaw

Posted on August 8, 2016 by

Media Arts and Science faculty member Zebulun Wood and his student researcher, 2016 graduate Cade B.T. Jacobs, created a prosthetic mandible utilizing digital scanning and 3-D sculpture and printing technology—revolutionizing a field that has long relied on more cumbersome materials and techniques. The subject for the project is a retired maintenance worker named Shirley Anderson, who had recurring tongue cancer. Radiation treatments resulted in osteoradionecrosis, also known as “bone death.”...

Consciousness

Posted on August 7, 2016 by

Researchers from the George Washington University have managed to switch consciousness on and off in an epileptic woman by stimulating a single region of the brain with electrical impulses. While this is a single case study, it provides an exciting insight into the neural mechanisms behind consciousness, a subject of great interest that is poorly understood despite decades of research. The study has been published in Epilepsy & Behavior. Consciousness is a fascinating topic that has both ...

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...

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...

Tiny1: The World’s Smallest Astronomy Camera

Posted on July 12, 2016 by

Tiny1 is the smallest, and arguably one of the smartest and most social astronomy cameras. Created by Grey Tan, Tiny1 allows you to capture the starry night sky and share photos in the palm of your hands. The device includes an interactive star map to easily locate and shoot celestial objects. Augmented Reality Star Maps guide users to the stars and constellations. The map shows a user stars and constellations in real time and has a search function as well. Capture presets a...

Metamaterials research for invisibility

Posted on July 5, 2016 by

Cloaking device is a theoretical or fictional stealth technology that can cause objects, such as spaceships or individuals, to be partially or wholly invisible to parts of the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum. However, over the entire spectrum, a cloaked object scatters more than an uncloaked object.[1] Fictional cloaking devices have been used as plot devices in various media for many years. Developments in scientific research show that real-world cloaking devices can obscure objects from at...

‘SkyLight’ – smartphone-microscope

Posted on June 30, 2016 by

SkyLight is a smartphone-microscope camera adapter that stands to revolutionize telemedicine by bringing together two previously disparate but widely available technologies: smartphones and microscopes. Attaching a smartphone with the SkyLight instantly upgrades available microscopes of any age, allowing diagnostic images to be captured on camera and securely transmitted from anywhere around the world to a trained expert able to make that life-saving diagnosis. And diagnostic images obtained wit...

New Mathematics Accurately Captures Liquids and Surfaces Moving in Synergy

Posted on June 18, 2016 by

Gas bubbles in a glass of champagne, thin films rupturing into tiny liquid droplets, blood flowing through a pumping heart and crashing ocean waves—although seemingly unrelated, these phenomena have something in common: they can all be mathematically modeled as interface dynamics coupled to the Navier-Stokes equations, a set of equations that predict how fluids flow. ' https://youtu.be/grf9PBPH9cs A new mathematical framework developed at Berkeley Lab allows researchers to capture fluid...

Biomimetics -learning from nature

Posted on June 15, 2016 by

Biomimetics or biomimicry is the imitation of the models, systems, and elements of nature for the purpose of solving complex human problems.[1] The terms "biomimetics" and "biomimicry" derive from Ancient Greek: βίος (bios), life, and μίμησις (mīmēsis), imitation, from μιμεῖσθαι (mīmeisthai), to imitate, from μῖμος (mimos), actor. A closely related field is bionics.[2] Living organisms have evolved well-adapted structures and materials over geological time through natural selection. Biomimeti...

MIT ‘Holosuite’ Project – An Exploration into Interactive Holographic Telepresence

Posted on June 15, 2016 by

Holosuite is an optimized, multi-threaded implementation of end-to-end 3D telepresence operating on two remote PCs via internet. It can render visual output to holographic displays, as well as advanced 3D displays with motion parallax reprojection. There is a temptation to label Holosuite as “3D Skype” or “3D Videoconferencing”, but this fails to distinguish what is important about Holosuite, as it neglects the collaborative and interactive aspects of Holosuite. The Holosuite software proj...

Microsoft HoloLens used to explore human body using augmented reality technology.

Posted on June 7, 2016 by

Cleveland Clinic has partnered with Case Western Reserve University to release a Microsoft HoloLens app that allows users to explore the human body using augmented reality technology. The HoloLens is a headset that superimposes computer generated 3D graphics onto a person’s field of view, essentially blending reality with virtual reality. The HoloAnatomy app lets people explore a virtual human, to walk around it looking at details of different systems of the body, and to select which are show...

Blynk – is a new platform that allows you to quickly build interfaces for controlling and monitoring your hardware projects from your iOS and Android device.

Posted on May 18, 2016 by

Blynk is a Platform with iOS and Android apps to control Arduino, Raspberry Pi and the likes over the Internet. It's a digital dashboard where you can build a graphic interface for your project by simply dragging and dropping widgets. It's really simple to set everything up and you'll start tinkering in less than 5 mins. Blynk is not tied to some specific board or shield. Instead, it's supporting hardware of your choice. Whether your Arduino or Raspberry Pi is linked to the Internet ove...

International Baccalaureate® (IB) – international education that develop the intellectual, personal, emotional and social skills

Posted on May 1, 2016 by

Founded in 1968, the International Baccalaureate® (IB) is a non-profit educational foundation offering four highly respected programmes of international education that develop the intellectual, personal, emotional and social skills needed to live, learn and work in a rapidly globalizing world. Schools must be authorized, by the IB organization, to offer any of the programmes. The International Baccalaureate® aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a...

Japanese AI program has co-authored a short-form novel that passed the first round of screening for a national literary prize

Posted on April 26, 2016 by

Japanese AI program has co-authored a short-form novel that passed the first round of screening for a national literary prize. The novel is actually called The Day A Computer Writes A Novel, or “Konpyuta ga shosetsu wo kaku hi” in Japanese. The meta-narrative wasn’t enough to win first prize at the third Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award ceremony, but it did come close. Hitoshi Matsubara and his team at Future University Hakodate in Japan selected words and sentences, and set parameters...

Cool iOS projects for kids

Posted on April 16, 2016April 16, 2016 by

iOS projects for kids : Bluetooth Controlled Snowflake Sweater: LED matrix snowflake sweater with Bluetooth control. The animation and color can be controlled using the Adafruit Bluefruit LE Connect app for iOS or Android. (https://learn.adafruit.com/neopixel-matrix-snowflake-sweater?view=all) 3D Printed Halo Energy toy: an app-enabled sword built using an Adafruit Feather BLE 32u4 micro-controller. Lets you change the animation or color of the LEDs. (https://learn.adafruit.com/hal...

Apps to help your college and financial aid search

Posted on April 4, 2016 by

For high schoolers College Abacus helps high schoolers and their families search and compare side-by-side the estimated cost and financial-aid awards of multiple colleges. The estimates are gleaned directly from schools' Net Price Calculators. It gives users one place to enter financial and academic information so they don't have to re-enter them at every school website. Lynn O'Shaughnessy of The College Solution reviewed and recommend the app. Tractus Insight, in Beta form, wil...

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...

NASA’s High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) -See Earth LIVE 24×7

Posted on February 27, 2016 by

The High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment places four commercially available HD cameras on the exterior of the space station and uses them to stream live video of Earth for viewing online. The cameras are enclosed in a temperature specific housing and are exposed to the harsh radiation of space. Analysis of the effect of space on the video quality, over the time HDEV is operational, may help engineers decide which cameras are the best types to use on future missions. High school studen...

Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education

Posted on January 26, 2016 by

Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan with the aim of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. The organization produces short lectures in the form of YouTube videos. In addition to micro lectures, the organization's website features practice exercises and tools for educators. All resources are available for free to anyone around the world. Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education Microsoft Chairman Bil...