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DARPA seeks smartphone app developer for ADAPT program

December 8, 2011

ADAPT

DARPA is looking to tap the smartphone application development community with experience in creating “adaptive applications.”

Current sensor systems, like those being developed for DARPA’s Adaptable Sensor System (ADAPT) program, are increasingly complex; they offer advances in capabilities far beyond their current use. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), for example, have become indispensible intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms on today’s battlefield.

Controlling… read more

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Internet/Telecom | Survival/Defense | VR/Augmented Reality/Computer Graphics

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Discovery raises hopes for levitating trains

June 4, 2007

University of Sherbrooke physicists have discovered a “quantum oscillation signature” that may be the key to figuring out what causes electrons in some special metals to switch to superconducting behavior.

With that insight, they expect to be able to tweak the structure at the microscopic level to trigger superconducting at room temperatures.

One of the most promising applications for such superconducting metals is in magnetic levitation trains, which… read more

Topics: Physics/Cosmology | Quantum

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Specially Bred Mice May Hold Keys to Personalized Medicine

June 5, 2007

Scientists at the Jackson Laboratory have developed a genetically diverse panel of mice bred to match the genetic makeup of most human genetic profiles to help predict how people with specific genotypes will respond to experimental drugs.

Topics: Biomed/Longevity

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Hydrogen Fuel Closer to Fruition

September 3, 2004

A new “solar hydrogen” method could produce cheap hydrogen from water in seven years, using a commercial solar panel

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New Products Bring Side Effect: Nanophobia

December 5, 2008

Some doctors, scientists and consumer advocates are concerned that many industries are adopting nanotechnology ahead of studies that would establish whether regular ingestion, inhalation or dermal penetration of these particles constitute a health or environmental hazard.

Topics: Nanotech/Materials Science | Survival/Defense

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‘Brainlink’ lets you remotely control toy robots and other gadgets

December 16, 2011

Brainlink

Carnegie Mellon University spin-off BirdBrain Technologies has developed a device called Brainlink that adds a wireless Bluetooth link to robots and other gadgets, allowing users to remotely control them with an Android-based smartphone or computer.

The Brainlink system uses a small triangular controller that you attach to the gadget, with a Bluetooth range of 30 feet.

Auxiliary connectors allow you to add… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Electronics | Social Networking/Web/Education

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‘Junk’ DNA makes compulsive reading

June 14, 2007

DNA generates far more RNA than the standard dogma predicts it should — even some “junk” DNA gets transcribed, the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project has found.

None of the extra RNA fragments gets translated into proteins, so the race is on to discover just what their function is.

Topics: Biotech

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Amazon to Take Searches on Web to a New Depth

September 15, 2004

A9.com, a start-up owned by Amazon.com, plans an advanced technology that the company says will take searches beyond mere retrieval of Web pages to let users more fully manage the information they find.

The new A9.com service, launched Tuesday night, offers users the ability to store and edit bookmarks on an A9.com central server computer, keep track of each link clicked on previous visits to a Web… read more

Topics: Internet/Telecom

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Living In De-material World: On Microsoft, Train SIM and the Virtual Everything

December 11, 2008

Microsoft wants to use its ESP program to model the entire world as accurately as possible, embedding “real” physics into the system.

Microsoft ESP is a visual simulation platform that to engage users in immersive experiences with very realistic land, sea and air environments by integrating with, for example, Virtual Earth. The model will grow over time and become more realistic.

Topics: VR/Augmented Reality/Computer Graphics

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Better organic semiconductors may lead to flexible electronics, cheaper solar panels

December 22, 2011

Organic semiconductors

By packing molecules closer together, Stanford University chemical engineers have improved the electrical conductivity of organic semiconductors. The advance could herald flexible electronics, more efficient solar panels, and perhaps even better television screens.

While organic semiconductors could usher in an era of foldable smartphones, better high-definition television screens and solar clothing that turns sunlight into electricity for recharging devices, current organic semiconductors do not conduct electricity very… read more

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Electronics | Nanotech/Materials Science | Social Networking/Web/Education

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Our Microbial Menagerie

June 21, 2007

New ultrafast DNA-sequencing technologies allow scientists to study the genetic makeup of entire microbial communities, each of which may contain hundreds or thousands of different species.

For the first time, microbiologists can compare genetic snapshots of all the microbes inhabiting people who differ by age, origin, and health status. By analyzing the functions of those microbes’ genes, they can figure out the main roles the organisms play in our… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity | Biotech

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Engineering God in a Petri Dish

September 29, 2004

Advisors to the International Association for Divine Taxonomy, which include biochemists, biophysicists, ecologists, geneticists and zoologists from the University of California at Berkeley, the Smithsonian and other institutions, are attempting to determine where on the phylogenetic map to put God.

If evolutionary theory is accurate, God’s genetic makeup should most resemble Earth’s first life forms. Or if creationists are right, God’s DNA is more like the life forms he… read more

Topics: Biotech

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New Tooth Cavity Protection: Nanoparticles Make Surface Too Slippery For Bacteria To Adhere

December 22, 2008

Clarkson University Center for Advanced Materials Processing scientists have discovered a new method of protecting teeth from cavities by ultrafine polishing with silica nanoparticles.

Topics: Biomed/Longevity

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Jeff Han on a Better Interface

July 5, 2007

The inventor of the multitouch screen that influenced the iPhone displays his work in a video, “TOUCHING MIRROR WORLDS.”

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | VR/Augmented Reality/Computer Graphics

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Visionaries outline web’s future

October 11, 2004

Brewster Kahle has suggested digitally scanning all 26 million books in the US Library of Congress, the world’s biggest library, at a cost of only $260 million.

He estimated that the scanned images would take up about a terabyte of space, cost about $60,000 to store, and fit on a single shelf.

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