Using Dynamic LED Billboard Technology to Promote Your Brand

Billboards seem to have been around forever. Putting forward their offering for anyone passing to see. When they were invented they almost reigned supreme. They were big, they were noticeable and they got the message out there.  Now, with smartphones and other technologies capturing attention, static billboards tend to merge into the background unnoticed. With …

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Do 2018 US Productivity Numbers Show Start of a New Boom?

The Us Bureau of Labor reported a 1.0% labor productivity gain in 2017-2018. This number was better across the country than the 0.4% per year gain from 2007-2017. However, labor productivity was still only 1.3% versus the 2.8% labor productivity of the PC-Internet productivity boom from 1995-2007. The lack of a labor productivity boom that …

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Robots That Learn by Doing – Imagining Pictures and Goals #emdigitaltech

Sergey Levines is anAssistant Professor, UC BerkeleyRobots That Learn by Doing Sergey is talking about reinforcement learning. Robots can keep learning from its environment with reinforcement learning. We need algorithms for scalable off-policy reinforcement learning. Sergey has examples of a robot teaching itself how to walk forward in about one hour. Robots were able to …

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Graphene in shoes for more comfort and heat regulation

The ability of graphene to add functionality to common objects has been exploited in a new product on the market: footwear with better thermal properties. Developed by Graphene Flagship partners Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy, in collaboration with FADEL, a leading Italian shoe company based in Tuscany, the new GET® technology, patented by FADEL, gives …

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Cheap, mass produced solvent can scalably make Carbon nanotube-based dough

Northwestern University’s Jiaxing Huang is ready to reignite carbon nanotube research. And he’s doing so with a common chemical that was once used in household cleaners. By using an inexpensive, already mass produced, simple solvent called cresol, Huang has discovered a way to make disperse carbon nanotubes at unprecedentedly high concentrations without the need for …

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Roll-to-roll chemical vapor deposition system makes long sheets of high quality graphene

MIT has combined a roll-to-roll approach — a common industrial approach for continuous processing of thin foils — with the common graphene-fabrication technique of chemical vapor deposition, to manufacture high-quality graphene in large quantities and at a high rate. The system consists of two spools, connected by a conveyor belt that runs through a small …

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If you dare – personal Green Goblin like flight up to 90 mph, a mile high for ten minutes

Zapata’s Flyboard Air EX™ is the next generation of advanced individual mobility. An embedded stability program uses vectored thrust from six small turbine engines to create an intuitive, responsive, and imminently stable flying platform. Engineered for safety, the Flyboard Air EXP incorporates multiple redundancies to provide graceful degradation and safe landing in the event of …

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Waymo Shifts to Robot-Only Chauffeurs and will offer commercial service in 2018

Waymo has begun testing autonomous vehicles on public roads without human safety drivers at the wheel, and early next year will make its robotic chauffeurs available to Phoenix-area commuters. Waymo technicians are already hailing its Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans in and around Phoenix via a mobile app and leaving it to the artificial intelligence operating …

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Startup wants to sell time on remote operated lunar rovers to PC gamers starting in 2021

The company LUNATIX was created by the eight participants of SpaceTech 2016. The SpaceTech Master Programme of the Technical University of Graz, Austria, is aimed at international, mid-career professionals seeking expertise in space systems and business engineering. There is a 36 page plan presented at SpaceTech 2016. Lunatix wants to be the creative leader in …

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