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Dear Aspiring Tech Entrepreneur and Tech Start-ups, You Won't Want To Miss This
June 4, 2012 10:22 am | News | CommentsIf you are an aspiring tech entrepreneur with an innovative concept worth developing, or a fledgling tech start-up who just needs the critical support to transform your dream into reality, don’t miss the bus! TechLaunch, New Jersey’s Technology Accelerator, is still taking applications at www.
5 Ways Mobile Tech Can Improve Your Health
June 1, 2012 12:28 pm | by Edna Boone, Senior Director of mHIMSS | News | CommentsJ ust a decade ago, if someone had said that Steve Jobs would have a huge effect on how medical professionals administer care, that prediction would have been met with an eye roll. But the reality is people increasingly access healthcare services via mobile, or “mHealth.” The result: Mobile is having a transformative effect on the way physicians and nurses care for patients.
MU to Help Rebuild Engineering Education in Iraq
June 1, 2012 11:17 am | News | CommentsFor thousands of years, the area that is now Iraq has been a center of learning, but after decades of tyranny and war, Iraqi educational institutions face the challenge of rebuilding their programs and reentering the global academic community. Recently, the University of Missouri College of Engineering received a grant from the U.
Controlling Your Phone With Motion
May 31, 2012 11:14 am | by Kent German, CNET | News | CommentsHillcrest Labs isn't a household name, but if you have a Roku 2 streaming player (and really, you should) the company has entered your home. Based in Rockville, Md., Hillcrest developed the motion-sensing technology used in Roku's remote. So when you're flipping through menus or playing Angry Birds , Hillcrest is behind how it all works.
CML Microcircuits has Shipped over 1 Million RF Devices
May 31, 2012 6:15 am | News | CommentsCML Microcircuits has announced that they have shipped more than one million RF devices. The one million milestone is a testament to CML Microcircuits’ on-going success in the niche market of high-performance, low-power RF semiconductors for wireless data and two-way radio markets. Neil Ball – CML’s Director of Sales states “Our RF customers demand market-leading products which exhibit high-performance, flexibility and low power consumption.
Stanford Psychologists Aim to Help Computers Understand You Better
May 30, 2012 1:02 pm | News | CommentsLanguage is so much more than a string of words. To understand what someone means, you need context. Consider the phrase, "Man on first." It doesn't make much sense unless you're at a baseball game. Or imagine a sign outside a children's boutique that reads, "Baby sale - One week only!" You easily infer from the situation that the store isn't selling babies but advertising bargains on gear for them.
Calling All Gadget Gurus! You Might Want To See This..
May 30, 2012 10:01 am | News | CommentsMore than 15,000 companies, along with countless enthusiasts, researchers and inventors, are developing innovative products with Bluetooth wireless technology. From the wondrous to the wacky, these products promise to make life easier—and sometimes even more fun. Sony SmartWatch hits the market Sony jumped into the emerging smart watch market at CES in January with a new device named simply the Sony SmartWatch .
Biochip-based Device for Cell Analysis
May 30, 2012 9:42 am | News | CommentsInexpensive, portable devices that can rapidly screen cells for leukemia or HIV may soon be possible thanks to a chip that can produce three-dimensional focusing of a stream of cells, according to researchers. "HIV is diagnosed based on counting CD4 cells," said Tony Jun Huang, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics, Penn State.
Coatings with Nanoparticles that Interact with Sunlight and Eliminate Contaminants are Developed
May 30, 2012 9:35 am | News | CommentsResearchers of the UPNA-Public University of Navarre have developed a type of coating for construction materials. It is based on nanoparticles that interact with sunlight and trigger a chemical reaction that eliminates certain air pollutants. It is reckoned that the reduction in atmospheric pollution could be 90% of nitrogen oxides, 80% of hydrocarbons, and 75% of carbon monoxides emitted.
Microreactors to Produce Explosive Materials
May 30, 2012 9:31 am | News | CommentsThe larger the reaction vessel, the quicker products can be made – or so you might think. Microreactors show just how wrong that assumption is: in fact, they can be used to produce explosive materials – nitroglycerine, for instance – around ten times faster than in conventional vessels, and much more safely as well.
The Wireless Future of Medicine
May 29, 2012 11:02 am | News | CommentsEric Topol says we'll soon use our smartphones to monitor our vital signs and chronic conditions. At TEDMED, he highlights several of the most important wireless devices in medicine's future -- all helping to keep more of us out of hospital beds. Eric Topol is a leading cardiologist who has embraced the study of genomics and the latest advances in technology to treat chronic disease TED Talks Posted by Janine E.
Researchers Take Virus-tracking Software Worldwide
May 29, 2012 6:10 am | News | CommentsA biomedical informatics researcher who tracks dangerous viruses as they spread around the globe has restructured his innovative tracking software to promote even wider use of the program around the world. Associate Professor Daniel Janies, Ph.D., an expert in computational genomics at the Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University (OSU), is working with software engineers at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) to expand the reach of SUPRAMAP (supramap.
Tongue Analysis Software Developed at MU Uses Ancient Chinese Medicine to Warn of Disease
May 29, 2012 6:04 am | News | CommentsFor 5,000 years, the Chinese have used a system of medicine based on the flow and balance of positive and negative energies in the body. In this system, the appearance of the tongue is one of the measures used to classify the overall physical status of the body, or zheng . Now, University of Missouri researchers have developed computer software that combines the ancient practices and modern medicine by providing an automated system for analyzing images of the tongue.
Tiny Planet-Finding Mirrors Borrow from Webb Telescope Playbook
May 29, 2012 5:55 am | News | CommentsNASA's next flagship mission — the James Webb Space Telescope — will carry the largest primary mirror ever deployed. This segmented behemoth will unfold to 21.3 feet in diameter once the observatory reaches its orbit in 2018. A team of scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
NIH-funded Study Examines Use of Mobile Technology to Improve Diet and Physical Activity Behavior
May 29, 2012 5:51 am | News | CommentsWhat : A new study, supported in part by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health, suggests that a combination of mobile technology and remote coaching holds promise in encouraging healthier eating and physical activity behavior in adults. The study focused on the best way to change multiple health behaviors.
NTU and I²R Scientists Invent Revolutionary Chipset for High-speed Wireless Data Transfer
May 29, 2012 5:37 am | by Here is a new microchip that can transfer data the size of 80 MP3 song files (or 250 megabytes) wirelessly between mobile devices, in the flick of a second. | News | CommentsData can now be transmitted 1,000 times faster than Bluetooth Or how about transferring a typical 2-hour, 8-gigabyte DVD movie in just half a minute compared to 8.5 hours on Bluetooth? Such unprecedented speeds on the wireless platform are now a reality as scientists from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R) have developed a revolutionary microchip that can transmit large volumes of data at ultra-high speeds of 2 Gigabits per second (or 1,000 times faster than Bluetooth^).
Sensing the Infrared: Researchers Improve IR Detectors with Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes
May 29, 2012 5:20 am | News | CommentsWhether used in telescopes or optoelectronic communications, infrared detectors must be continuously cooled to avoid being overwhelmed by stray thermal radiation. Now, a team of researchers from Peking University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Duke University (USA) is harnessing the remarkable properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) to create highly sensitive, "uncooled" photovoltaic infrared detectors.
Making Microscopic Machines Using Metallic Glass
May 23, 2012 5:30 am | News | CommentsResearchers in Ireland have developed a new technology using materials called bulk metallic glasses to produce high-precision molds for making tiny plastic components. The components, with detailed microscopically patterned surfaces could be used in the next generation of computer memory devices and microscale testing kits and chemical reactors.
Days of ‘One-size-fits-all’ Cloud Contracts are Numbered, Report Finds
May 23, 2012 5:27 am | News | CommentsCombined legal and market factors may force online companies to offer more flexible contract terms, suggests new research from Queen Mary, University of London . The paper examines how and why companies providing IT services over the internet, also known as cloud computing, have begun to negotiate standard contract terms to better meet cloud users’ needs, minimise operating risks and address legal compliance obligations.
Bluetooth Baby
May 23, 2012 5:23 am | News | CommentsChecking the heart of the unborn baby usually involves a stethoscope. However, an inexpensive and accurate Bluetooth fetal heart rate monitoring system has now been developed by researchers in India for long-term home care. Details are reported in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Computers in Healthcare .
Protocol Enables Wireless and Secure Biometric Acquisition with Web Services
May 23, 2012 5:21 am | News | CommentsResearchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed and published a new protocol for communicating with biometric sensors over wired and wireless networks—using some of the same technologies that underpin the web. The new protocol, called WS-Biometric Devices (WS-BD), allows desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones to access sensors that capture biometric data such as fingerprints, iris images and face images using web services.
Getting in Tune: Researchers Solve Tuning Problem For Wireless Power Transfer Systems
May 23, 2012 5:19 am | by Researchers have shown that it is possible to transmit power wirelessly by using magnetic resonance. Even minor changes in how the transmitter or receiver is tuned, however, can result in faulty power transmission. | News | CommentsResearchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new way to fine-tune wireless power transfer (WPT) receivers, making the systems more efficient and functional. WPT systems hold promise for charging electric vehicles, electronic devices and other technologies. A new prototype developed at NC State addresses the problem by automatically – and precisely – re-tuning the receivers in WPT systems.
Quantum Computing: The Light At The End Of The Tunnel May Be A Single Photon
May 23, 2012 5:18 am | News | CommentsQuantum physics promises faster and more powerful computers, but quantum versions of basic logic functions are still needed to bring this technology to fruition. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. have taken one step toward this goal by creating an all-semiconductor quantum logic gate, a controlled-NOT (CNOT) gate.
Navy Pilot Training Enhanced by AEMASE ‘Smart Machine’
May 23, 2012 5:15 am | News | CommentsNavy pilots and other flight specialists soon will have a new “smart machine” installed in training simulators that learns from expert instructors to more efficiently train their students. Sandia National Laboratories’ Automated Expert Modeling & Student Evaluation (AEMASE, pronounced “amaze”) is being provided to the Navy as a component of flight simulators.
Life-size 3-D Hologram-like Telepods May Revolutionize Videoconferencing in the Future
May 23, 2012 5:10 am | by Posted by Janine E. Mooney, Editor | News | CommentsQueen's University's Roel Vertegaal's Star Trek-like 3D cylindrical display is probably as close to teleportation as we will ever get A Queen's University researcher has created a Star Trek-like human-scale 3D videoconferencing pod that allows people in different locations to video conference as if they are standing in front of each other.
