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Thursday November 8, 2012 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines A challenge facing designers of future computer chips How to design proteins from scratch Medical devices powered by the ear itself Recyclable electronics: just add hot water How the Internet of everything will change the world A pressure switch inside the head Latest News A challenge facing designers of future computer chips November 8, 2012   To build the computer chips of the future, designers will need to understand how an electrical charge behaves when it is confined to metal wires only a few atom-widths in diameter. Researchers at at McGill University General Motors R&D, have shown that electrical current could be drastically reduced when wires from two dissimilar metals meet. … more… How to design proteins from scratch November 8, 2012   Given the exponential number of contortions possible for any chain of amino acids, dictating a sequence that will fold into a predictable protein structure has been a daunting task. Now a team from David Baker’s laboratory at the University of Washington reports that they can do just that, Nature News reports. By following a set of … more… Medical devices powered by the ear itself November 8, 2012   Deep in the inner ear of mammals is a natural battery — a chamber filled with ions that produces an electrical potential to drive neural signals. A team of researchers from MIT, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI) and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) have demonstrated for the first time … more… Recyclable electronics: just add hot water November 8, 2012   The National Physical Laboratory (NPL), along with partners In2Tec Ltd (UK) and Gwent Electronic Materials Ltd, have developed a printed circuit board (PCB) whose components can be easily separated by immersion in hot water. The project partners designed, developed and tested a series of unzippable polymeric layers that allow the assemblies to be easily separated … more… How the Internet of everything will change the world November 8, 2012   From the Internet of Things (IoT), where we are today, we are just beginning to enter a new realm: the Internet of Everything (IoE), where things will gain context awareness, increased processing power, and greater sensing abilities, says Cisco in their blog. Add people and information into the mix and you get a network of … more… A pressure switch inside the head November 8, 2012   An increase in cerebral pressure may cause dementia or even destroy the brain, but there’s no reliable sensor available (they quickly corrode), and current intracranial pressure systems keep patients in a hospital for days or weeks. So Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBMT) researchers have developed a small implantable sensor for cerebral pressure that’s waterproof, … more… New EVENTS   General Intelligence in Embodied Agents: Special Session in IEEE Symposium on Human-Level AI Dates: Apr 15 – 19, 2013 Location: Singapore, Singapore more... New VIDEOS   Prized Science — Chad Mirkin: gold nanoparticles & the future of medical diagnostics Visit KurzweilAI.net You are currently subscribed to the KurzweilAI.net newsletter as *|EMAIL|* To unsubscribe, please click here. To change your email preferences, please click here. *|LIST:ADDRESS|*.