A finger-sized device can be integrated into smartphones and tablets to bring medical testing to the bedside. New devices like highly efficient cell sorting can create new capabilities in cancer detection that go beyond what is possible today. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian …
Chicago researchers seek to produce an advanced prosthetic limb that will not only provide robust movement, but also authentic sensations. Trailblazers in brain stimulation, Bensmaia’s team works with rhesus macaque monkeys whose sense of touch is nearly identical to that of humans. “They use their hands to manipulate objects and to explore their environment the …
Spacex reviewed the September 29th, 2013 launch of the upgraded falcon rocket. They included a picture of the first stage re-igniting its ending just above the ocean. This was to demonstrate using the engines to slow down and land for reusable rockets. Though not a primary mission objective, SpaceX was also able to initiate two …
In a series of experiments run by researchers at Princeton, Harvard, and the University of Warwick, low-income people who were primed to think about financial problems performed poorly on a series of cognition tests, saddled with a mental load that was the equivalent of losing an entire night’s sleep. Put another way, the condition of …
For lawn mowing, there’s already several robotic solutions. * Honda sells the Miimo * a company called LawnBott offers a variety of lawn bots * Friendly Robotics has a bunch of really friendly looking mowing robots. * Husqvarna is a company with a long history in the grasscutting biz. Husqvarna also has deep experience with …
Bain and Company’s Macro Trends Group (32 page pdf) set out to understand how underlying capital trends will influence the longer-term global investment environment by investigating how the quantity and scale of assets on the world balance sheet have evolved over time. We discovered that the relationship between the financial economy and the underlying real …
Extremetech speculates on the Elon Musk Hyperloop transportation system Elon Musk comment was that the Hyperloop will be a “cross between a Concorde and a railgun and an air hockey table. Acoustic Wave Hyperloop Theory A research group that levitated arbitrarily shaped objects in acoustic waves. This technique involves an acoustic phenomenon called standing waves …
Vern Brownell had spent 11 years at Goldman Sachs (GS) as the New York bank’s chief technology officer. He had grown cynical from startups pitching for a sliver of the billion dollars a year Goldman spends on technology. D-Wave Systems is a Canadian startup in the nascent field of quantum computing. “Once I came out …
1. This year, utilities have announced the retirement of four reactors, bringing the number remaining in the United States to 100. Three had expensive mechanical problems but one, Kewaunee in Wisconsin, was running well, and its owner, Dominion, had secured permission to run it an additional 20 years. But it was losing money, because of …
Ontario is home to about 40 percent of Canada’s population and accounts for 48 percent of Canada’s gross domestic product. It’s the fourth-largest population center in North America, after Mexico City, New York, and Los Angeles, and it produces more cars than any other region in North America, including Michigan. Ontario also has the Americas’ …
NASA has a space propulsion technology roadmap The major technical challenges for In-Space Propulsion Systems Technology Area (ISPSTA) were identified and prioritized through team consensus based on perceived mission need or potential impact on future in-space transportation systems. These challenges were then categorized into near- (present to 2016), mid- (2017–2022), and far-term (2023–2028) time frames, …