Restoring Sight With Stem Cells Grown on Contact Lenses?

Three patients with severe damage to the corneas of their eyes have achieved dramatic improvements in their vision thanks to contact lenses coated with their own stem cells.

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Talking to Animals

Researchers have endowed lab mice with the human version of a gene involved in language, and while the mice didn’t exactly sit up and start reciting poetry about cheese, they did show some intriguing differences in both their vocal patterns and brain structure.

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Samsung Mobile Display show 6.5 inch Flexible AMOLED Display

Samsung Mobile Display's (SMD) prototype is more flexible than any previous model before. Also it is a new processes that does not require low-temperatures to produce the display and productions costs are lower than other competitive products. The new process is simpler and improves efficiencies necessary for mass production.

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TriCorder Device

In partnership with the Technical Support Working Group (TSWG), Boeing and Washington University's School of Medicine in St. Louis, S&T's Tech Solutions group is developing the Standoff Patient Triage Tool (SPTT), a device that classic Star Trek fans will recognize for its resemblance to the medical diagnostic tool known as the tricorder. The device can check body temperature, heart rate and respiration of victims up to 40 feet away.

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Japan claim that new underware can burn fat for diets

Fabric specialist Teijin promises to weave its new Nanofront fiber into underwear that willbe on the market by next summer. It claims the garment’s nanotech fibers create tiny amounts of friction that, multiplied across the surface of the skin, is enough to burn subcutaneous fat.

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World’s first 3D digicam

The unnamed device is set to join the FinePix range later this year and will be the first digicam to combine two snaps taken from dual lenses into a 3D photograph. As with a normal camera, those appear on a rear screen for glasses-free viewing, plus they can be printed on magical extra-dimensional paper.

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Japanese University Robot Research

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BrainPort

The sunglasses are part of a breakthrough vision device known as BrainPort, under development by the NEI-supported researchers of Wicab, Inc., for which Hogle serves as director of product development. BrainPort is built on the concept of sensory substitution, which means that when one sense malfunctions, another sense can compensate, serving as a stand-in.

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Air Battery

Researchers at the University of St Andrews, with associates at Strathclyde and Newcastle, have developed a new type of air-fueled battery that could provide up to 10 times the energy storage of existing designs, paving the way for a new generation of electric cars and portable devices.

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The ENose

The ENose is able to determine what are the exact contaminants in the air with a sensitivity level that allows it to accurately select a ‘smell’ of one out of approximately 10,000 parts per million. Through experiments performed by the Brain Mapping Foundation, it was found that ENose was able to distinctly pick up the smell of healthy human cells and cancerous cells.

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Artificial Trees That Harvest Sun and Wind to Generate Electricity

Place thousands of these units, dubbed nanoleaves, on a natural-looking, though fake plastic tree—and one could have electricity production without spoiling natural landscapes.

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Solar Botanic

A rotating Space Elevator

“The idea came by itself,” Golubović told PhysOrg.com. “I was thinking how to make things move easily and quickly up the traditional Tsiolkovsky-type space elevators. In my kitchen, I was mixing coffee in my cup too vigorously and the centrifugal force on the rotating coffee won over gravity to make some of the coffee lift and splash out the cup. This was my ‘eureka’ that lead to adding a similar conceptual feature to the old space elevator idea, the internal rotation. Indeed, much like the coffee would lift and splash out the cup if rotated fast enough, the climbers on our Rotating Space Elevator will be lifted up by the centrifugal force winning over gravity.”

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Using Gravitational Waves to Generate Radio Signals

The mechanism is straightforward. Create a uniform magnetic field of the same scale as a gravitational wave and place it in the path of an incoming wave. The subsequent squeezing and shaking of this magnetic field should then generate electromagnetic radiation, just as any other kind of shaking would.

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Large-Scale Model of Mammalian Thalamocortical Systems

Does it have consciousness? That is the question.

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Kill chip

The basic model would consist of a tiny GPS transceiver placed in a capsule and inserted under a person's skin, so that authorities could track him easily.

Model B would have an extra function — a dose of cyanide to remotely kill the wearer without muss or fuss if authorities deemed he'd become a public threat.

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Digital Watermarking

Digital watermarking is a process of invisibly embedding information on the entire surface of a still image. The information can be retrieved even if the image is edited (trimmed, rotated, embossed, etc) or compressed. Therefore, the technology is applicable to digital rights management, providing information on the destination and origin of data in case it is leaked to unauthorized users.

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Fujitsu develops world’s fastest processor

While its 45-nanometer architecture doesn't pack its components together as tightly as Intel's latest 32-nanometer configuration, it accomplishes that world-record blistering speed while sipping one third the power of Intel's flagship chip.

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Foam Car

a car that manages 100 miles to the gallon and has a respectable top speed of 70 miles an hour. It's made out of 90% foam.

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Dynamic Lamp

It has a dynamo on the inside of the globe that converts kinetic energy and gets its glow going.

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Electronic Inks

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati’s Novel Devices Laboratory have developed what they call electrofluidic display technology over the past two years in collaboration with color experts from ink and pigments manufacturer Sun Chemical Corp. Sun Chemical also funded the work and has applied for a patent on the technology with the university.

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Mind-Controlled Robot

Honda Research Institute have unveiled the world’s first brain to machine interface.

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Dasher

Dasher is a one finger user interface that allows text entry.




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Copulins

Men seem to lose all ability to think clearly when exposed.

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Intel's CloneCloud

Gaming may lead the way to a new technology era: the 3rd rebirth of computing, when incompatibility between devices, games and platforms will become a distant memory. Instead, the private cloud will funnel resources to smartclients -- more than thin clients but less than PCs. Intel's CloneCloud project could help make this idea a reality.

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WolframAlpha

WolframAlpha, a powerful new service that can answer a broad range of queries, has become one of the most anticipated Web products of the year.

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Glowing Bandaid

Scientists have unveiled a revolutionary sticking plaster that can kill off skin cancer cells. The technology uses OLEDs, or organic light-emitting diodes, to zap tumors, and can also heal conventional wounds. And, unlike existing skin cancer treatments, which usually take place in hospital, the OLED band-aid will allow the disease to be treated while the patient is at home — or work.

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Vertical Farms

A vertical farm such as the Harvest Green Tower would also have other benefits beyond greening a skyline. Power generated from methane emissions, collected rainwater and wind turbines could also be given back to the grid if it produces more than it uses. Harvest could also provide space for agriculture students and scientists to study animals and seeds.

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Company in the News

ETV Motors, a year-old Israeli startup developing turbine powertrains for electric vehicles, has raised $12 million in a first round of venture financing led by The Quercus Trust.

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Robotic Hand Powered by Compressed Air and Rubber Bands

It's name is RAPHaEL (Robotic Air Powered Hand with Elastic Ligaments), and it was built by four Virginia Tech mechanical engineering students as part of a larger project to create a humanoid robot. The arm alone, having no motors, and a safe, inexpensive design with adjustable grip, has potential for use as a prosthesis. Its four creators have already won a slew of engineering awards - here's hoping their next trophy is for turning it into a medical device.

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Transparent plastic solar cells

Solar company Konarka has developed a transparent solar cell that it hopes will be built onto electricity-generating windows.

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Seed Bombs

This design concept aims to drop these beneficial guided missiles — each loaded with multiple warheads of artificial soil and seeds — onto areas that have been foolishly raped by deforestation.

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Warp Drive not impossible

Some physicists say the faster-than-light travel technology may one day enable humans to jet between stars for weekend getaways. Clearly it won't be an easy task. The science is complex, but not strictly impossible, according to some researchers studying how to make it happen.

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Spinning Fan lifts flying car

Entecho is using a proprietary centrifugal fan that allows for the creation of an extremely compact craft with VTOL capabilities and high lifting efficiencies. The company currently has two VTOL platforms; the Hoverpod, a manned Personal Aerial Vehicle (PAV) and the Mupod, a micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV).

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Human blood fuel cells

Researchers at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver have developed a tiny fuel cell that uses brewer's yeast feeding on the sugar in human blood to generate electricity.

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We can now grow organs

As the sheep-based chimera organ technology stands at the moment, says the man who is pioneering it, the only viable destination for the pancreas underneath his sheep would be a diabetic chimpanzee.

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Prosthetic Speech Implant Turns Your Thoughts to Words

People who have lost their ability to speak still have active speech centers in their brain. Seeking to tap into the neurons firing in those centers, researchers at Boston University implanted a series of electrodes into the brain of Erik Ramsey, a man who has been in a locked-in state since a brain stem injury when he was 16. The researchers have had to come up with complex software to decode the raw signals into speech — in other words, to translate Ramsey's thoughts about speaking into actual sounds.

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Mind Control Orchestra

Most musicians spend years training their bodies to draw beautiful sounds from their instruments, but not the Multimodal Brain Orchestra. This group of musicians from the University Pompeu Fabra in Spain create both music and video through a direct reading of their brain waves, working in concert with an 'emotional conductor'.

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Flying Exoskeleton

The "exoskeleton flying vehicle" is described by the company as a "single operator power lift vehicle."

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Bendable Concrete Heals Itself

Traditional concrete is brittle and is easily fractured during an earthquake or by overuse. By contrast, the new concrete composite can bend into a U-shape without breaking. When strained, the material forms hairline cracks, which auto-seal after a few days of light rain.

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