1. Technology Review – Five Technologies to Watch in 2013 * Wireless charging – Around five million devices using wireless charging were sold in 2012, but we might see numbers closer to 100 million in the coming two to three years * 3-D printing – 3d printing grew in a few unexpected ways in 2012. …
The Quantum Wave Fund has raised over $30 million to invest and aims to collect $100 million. Quantum physics does indeed offer some intriguing ideas about how fiber optic data links, the Internet’s backbone, could be made more capacious and secure. New ways to handle individual or small groups of photons could allow existing fiber …
Graphite has been known as a typical diamagnetic material and can be levitated in the strong magnetic field. Researchers have shown that the magnetically levitating pyrolytic graphite can be moved in the arbitrary place by simple photoirradiation. It is notable that the optical motion control system described in this paper requires only NdFeB permanent magnets …
A new Ford Fiesta Van offers businesses an agile and good looking vehicle with class-leading fuel-efficiency – all diesel engines achieve sub-100 g/km CO2 emissions and 3.7 l/100 km (76.4 mpg) or better. The Fiesta Van offers new 75 PS 1.5-litre Duratorq TDCi diesel for the first time; Fiesta ECOnetic Van variant features enhanced fuel-saving …
A team at the Cognitive Systems lab put together inertial sensors, an accelerometer and a gyroscope on a knit glove. The retooled mitt recognizes letter and words and even sentences as its wearer draws them in the air. Airwriting: Hands-free Mobile Text Input by Spotting and Continuous Recognition of 3d-Space Handwriting with Inertial Sensors We …
NASA Glenn has been developing the next generation of ion thrusters for future missions. NASA’s Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT) Project has developed a 7-kilowatt ion thruster that can provide the capabilities needed in the future. An ion thruster produces small levels of thrust relative to chemical thrusters, but does so at higher specific impulse (or …
In the past, Henry IV of France and President Hoover made promises of a chicken in every pot. Even in the best-case scenarios, the number of people without electricity will tick up to 1.5 billion by 2030, as population growth outstrips electrification. According to a recent study by the International Finance Corporation, an arm of …
The United Nations Millenium Development goals have been part of important changes over the last 12 years. Governments, the United Nations family, the private sector and civil society have succeeded in saving many lives and improving conditions in the developing world. If the economies in the developing countries (China, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, African countries, South …
Accenture recently researched and identified three new trends in the smartphone market that are likely to have big business, technological and consumer impacts during the next several years: 1. The growth in the wireless charging market for smartphones and other types of cell phones There are two leading wireless charging standards. 1A. Qi, part of …
Every year, between 250,000 and 500,000 people of all ages die worldwide after getting seasonal flu, partly because few people are vaccinated for it. Flu comes back every year because when you catch it or are vaccinated, your immune system is only trained to identify the flu’s large surface proteins. These proteins change from year …
Researchers at the Atlas experiment finally updated the two-photon results. Observation and study of the Higgs boson candidate in the two photon decay channel with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. What they seem to have found is bizarre—so bizarre, in fact, that physicists assume something must be wrong with it. Instead of one clean …