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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nature has always inspired science for progress. Festo is creating an ecosystem of robots. Their latest creation, a robot kangaroo called <a href="http://www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/13704.htm">BionicKangaroo</a>, mimics the look and movements of the animal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its pneumatic (air-powered) muscles are controlled by two options: either by using an external compressor or an onboard high-pressure storage tank. Its electronics are powered by rechargeable lithium battery and are packed into its torso, concentrating its center of gravity to help with balance. Valves supply air and power to the chips that control its legs and tail. It is controlled by gestures with the <a href="http://www.trendguardian.com/2013/02/myo-next-generation-gesture-control.html">Myo armband from Thalmic Labs</a>. You can read their <a href="http://www.festo.com/net/SupportPortal/Files/334103/Festo_BionicKangaroo_en.pdf">report here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="color: #444444;">Festo</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.1875px;"> <span style="color: #444444;">is a privately owned </span></span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #444444; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;">German<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"> industrial control and automation company based in </span>Esslingen am Neckar<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">, </span>Germany<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">Festo is an engineering-driven company that sells pneumatic and electric transducers primarily to the automation industry.</span></span></span></center>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What if cancer cells can be killed with micro-explosions? Could modeling a human brain help us create faster computers? Bioengineering research is providing some promising solutions. We put together two bio-inspired, </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">promising </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">research projects. Rice University's quadrapeutic technique to kill cancer cells with nanoparticles, and Stanford's NeuroGrid, the most advanced circuit board modeled after the brain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cell biologist <a href="http://report.rice.edu/sir/faculty.detail?p=CB6232B6FD4CA32919AAC234C2BD3155">Dmitri Lapotko</a>, and his team at Rice University's lab <a href="http://pnblab.blogs.rice.edu/">Nanobubble Lab</a>, created a technique using nanoparticles to deliver targeted bursts and kill cancer cells. It works by quickly zapping a near-infrared laser to hollowed colloidal gold nanoparticles, making them burst and create a short-lived bubbles that can blow up the cells around it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nm.3484.html" style="border: 0px; color: #646464; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">study was pusblished on Nature</a>. Performed on hard-to-treat head and neck cancers, the nanoparticles were tagged with antibodies that target cancer cells and cause them to cluster inside. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When bubbles create micro-explosions that damage cancer cell membranes, the clustered nanoparticles release chemoteraphy drugs </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">directly into the cell cytoplasm, also serving to magnify the X-rays delivering radiation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A team of Stanford University engineers led by <a href="http://bioengineering.stanford.edu/faculty/boahen.html" style="border: 0px; color: #646464; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kwabena Boahen</a> has developed a circuit board and chips, that simulates the activity of a million neurons 9,000 times faster than a personal computer could and is 100,000 times more energy efficient. They <a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6805187" style="border: 0px; color: #646464; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</a> the findings in a recent issue of <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IEEE</em>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The circuit board, called Neurogrid, consists of 16 custom-designed Neurocore chips. Each chip simulates 65,536 neurons. The board can simulate 1 million neurons and billions of synaptic connections. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although more energy efficient, the prototype costed $40,000 to make, with expected bulk production to bring the price down to $400.</span><br />
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trendguardianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15960893298263236801noreply@blogger.com0Rice University and Stanford University29.7173941 -95.401831229.7036036 -95.4220012 29.7311846 -95.381661200000011tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1453650385021611114.post-16316325952472399562014-09-17T09:06:00.000-07:002014-09-23T08:32:04.443-07:00Humans Need Not Apply: Technological Unemployment Now<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">“Just as mechanical muscles made human labor less in demand, so are mechanical minds making human brain labor less in demand.” In the short documentary</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.5px;"> "Humans Need Not Apply," Grey shows why about half of the currently employed could struggle to find work once automation takes over.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 22.5px;">Backed up by statistics and current technologies, Grey illustrates that machines will take over slowly, without us realizing it. From <a href="http://www.trendguardian.com/2011/05/sebastian-thrun-googles-driverless-car.html">Google's self-driving cars</a> to <a href="http://www.trendguardian.com/2011/03/ibms-watson-makes-history-on-jeopardy.html">IBM's Watson</a> which won Jeopardy! and will be used to <a href="http://www.trendguardian.com/2012/11/ibm-and-cleveland-clinic-watson-for.html">sort medical data and give recommendations</a>, machines are populating the work force, proving to be more reliable, efficient and error-free. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.5px;">The replacement will not limited by physical labor but also in areas such as legal, medical, and even creative work.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.5px;"> <i>Even creatives will not be safe.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">Can you hear a conversation simply by looking at a person's lips? It sounds like a perfect spy skill to have. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">Researchers at MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed an algorithm that can reconstruct sound by analyzing vibrations of objects in a video. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 27.2000007629395px;">What if your cup could know what you are drinking? </span><a href="http://www.myvessyl.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 25.5px; text-decoration: none;">Vessyl</a><span style="line-height: 25.5px;"> is a smart cup </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 27.2000007629395px;">that can automatically determine what kind, how many calories, and other nutritional contents of any liquid that is poured in.</span></span><br />
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trendguardianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15960893298263236801noreply@blogger.com0San Francisco, California, USA37.776627 -122.3946009999999712.254592499999998 -163.70319499999997 63.298661499999994 -81.086006999999967tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1453650385021611114.post-16488314411423749792014-09-13T09:06:00.004-07:002014-09-23T08:33:05.873-07:00Disney: Using 3D Printing To Create Impossible Spinning Tops<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">What if the objects in your photo can come out to life? Researchers at Carnegie Mellon Robotic Institute and the University of California created a software</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"> that can manipulate 3D objects from a single photograph. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.9400005340576px;">What if we could see through walls with only WiFi? Scientists at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.9400005340576px;">UC Santa Barbara </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.9400005340576px;">have developed x-ray vision for robots that can see through walls using only WiFi signal. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">Since walls and objects reduce signal strength, the receiver can distinguish between empty and occupied spaces to create an accurate map of the area. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.9400005340576px;">This technology can help locate people trapped by rubble after an earthquake. </span><br />
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trendguardianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15960893298263236801noreply@blogger.com0The University of Texas at Dallas, TX, USA32.9843468 -96.74593049999998632.9577088 -96.786270999999985 33.010984799999996 -96.705589999999987tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1453650385021611114.post-63260013925398964582014-09-11T07:17:00.003-07:002014-09-23T08:34:03.617-07:00King's Assembly: All-in-One Computer Control System<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 30px;">For hardcore gamers, when playing, it is frustrating to have to </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">switch between the mouse and keyboard for fast action. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">Eric Charlton, a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">n American </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">engineer and founder of <a href="http://solidartlabs.com/" style="line-height: 30px;">Solid Art Labs</a>, designed the King's Assembly, an all-in-one system which allows you to control a keyboard, mouse and joystick simultaneously. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The King's Assembly are two devices, one for each hand, each with a 30 keys keyboard, a thumb module with five keys and 2-axis analog joystick. A contoured palm rest was designed to </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">suit a variety of hand sizes and </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">enable device movement while keeping your fingers free. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Teflon pads at the bottom allows the device to slide smoothly across your desk. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It needs no batteries, since the King's Asembly is powered by USB connection. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;">Their campaign on </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 30px;"><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/70308014/kings-assembly-a-computer-mouse-full-of-awesome">Kickstarter</a> was funded</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and shipping </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;">starts at a price range of $235-$280, depending on when you buy it.</span><br />
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trendguardianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15960893298263236801noreply@blogger.com0San Francisco, CA, USA37.7749295 -122.4194155000000137.373502 -123.06486250000002 38.176356999999996 -121.77396850000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1453650385021611114.post-47391860054651176682014-09-10T10:39:00.001-07:002014-09-10T11:01:21.979-07:00Malcolm Gladwell: The Unheard Story of David and Goliath<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let the weak lead the strong. David and Goliath has become a story to portray the underdog or an impossible victory, but is there more to the story than what is known? Malcolm Gladwell, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316017930/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0316017930&linkCode=as2&tag=trenguar-20&linkId=GPBJG2G52SA52DMD">Outliers</a>, presents his new book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316204366/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0316204366&linkCode=as2&tag=trenguar-20&linkId=OGF4VMDOGYYBFMUB">David and Goliath</a>, on the famous Bible story along with his journey to faith. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What seems to be a simple story of David, a shepherd boy, who defeats a mighty warrior might put light into misconceptions of strength and weakness, specially when it applies to overcoming obstacles that seem impossible; ex- when startups fight against big corporations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Malcolm Gladwell goes beyond the story and analyzes the medical implications and military technology at the time, even discussing the 'weapons of the spirit' that comes with faith. <span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">In the second video, Malcolm describes what this book meant for him in his journey to rediscover faith.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 25.2000007629395px;">What if displays had glasses so that people don't have to wear them? Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley created a display technology that automatically corrects for vision defects.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">Have you ever found yourself with no service when you most needed it? Now there is a solution. <a href="http://gotenna.com/">goTenna</a> launched a device that will let you receive signal off-the-grid to text anywhere you are, even where there is no network coverage. </span><br />
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trendguardianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15960893298263236801noreply@blogger.com0Brooklyn, NY, USA40.6781784 -73.944157940.4854094 -74.266881399999988 40.8709474 -73.6214344tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1453650385021611114.post-64523985683457017132014-09-09T07:19:00.000-07:002014-09-23T08:36:50.154-07:00JIBO: The World's First Family Robot<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; line-height: 22.5px;">Robots are designed to interact with objects, why not human beings? MIT professor <a href="http://web.media.mit.edu/~cynthiab/">Cynthia Breazeal</a> wants to change this with <a href="http://www.myjibo.com/">Jibo</a>, the world's first family robot, created by </span></span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.monsoonco.com/">Monsoon</a>.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; line-height: 22.5px;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; line-height: 22.5px;">With a 5.7-inch screen, and a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; line-height: 22.5px;"> 11.5-inch body, Jibo</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555;"><span style="line-height: 22.5px;"> can interact and react with its human owners by talking, taking pictures, singing, and dancing. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; line-height: 22.5px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555;"><span style="line-height: 22.5px;">Jibo has touch sensors on its head, color stereoscopic cameras and a stereo microphone array (can hear the location of the sound source). Three actuators or motors gives it high-resolution velocity control and fluid mobility- it can rotate its head 360 degrees. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; line-height: 22.5px;">Jibo has Wi-Fi connectivity and Bluetooth. Cynthia hopes Jibo will become a platform for future robotic developments. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; line-height: 22.5px;">The project was funded at </span><a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/partners/monsoon" style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.5px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Indiegogo</span></a>. <span style="color: #444444;">Although still in prototype phase, you can pre-order for $499 - $899.</span></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: lime;">Cynthia Lynn Breazeal</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">, where she is the director of the Personal Robots Group (formerly the Robotic Life Group) at the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Media_Laboratory" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="MIT Media Laboratory">MIT Media Laboratory</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">.</span></span></center>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">What if you cold play games with holographic characters like in Star Wars? <a href="http://openvolumetric.org/">Voxiebox </a>is a holographic display, a</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 27.200000762939453px;"> glasses-free 3D device that is the first-ever</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 27.200000762939453px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volumetric_display" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #25a7d7; line-height: 27.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">volumetric</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 27.200000762939453px;"> </span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 27.200000762939453px;">entertainment system.</span><em style="line-height: 22px;"></em></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 27.200000762939453px;">The Voxiebox is equipped with a projector that shines a regular 2D picture upwards to the screen you are looking at it, but it creates the 3D effect by constantly vibrating the screen in an up and down motion. T</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 27.200000762939453px;">he screen oscillates at a rate of 20 hertz, which to the naked eye stacks into a moving picture that appears to have depth, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 27.200000762939453px;">displaying a consistent 3D image in all angles. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">The image resolution is low, but enough for </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">you to hold a gamepad in your hand and control a holographic image. <i>Imagine playing a simple game like chess remotely. </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"><i> </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 23px;">Ever wondered how much sun exposure you get and whether this can damage your skin? Meet June, a luxury designed Bluetooth bracelet that tells you how much sun exposure you're getting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;">Made by </span></span><a href="http://www.netatmo.com/" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(145, 185, 62); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 23px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Netatmo</span></a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"> <span style="color: #444444;">and designed by Louis Vuitton, June syncs over Bluetooth to a paired</span><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444;">iPhone</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;">, <span style="color: #444444;">with an app tracks how much sun you're getting. The bracelet's photovoltaic gem measures sun exposure and then recommends sunglasses, a hat or a specific sunscreen. It will cost $100 and come in platinum, gold, or gun metal available for sale later this year.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>This is the first luxury item that we have seen having an actual utility.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><span style="color: lime;">Louis Vuitton </span></b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> <span style="color: #444444;">is a French fashion house founded in 1854 by </span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Vuitton_(designer)" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" title="Louis Vuitton (designer)">Louis Vuitton</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">. The label's LV </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogram" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" title="Monogram">monogram</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> appears on most of its products, ranging from </span>luxury<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> trunks and leather goods to ready-to-wear, shoes, watches, jewelry, accessories, sunglasses, and books. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">What can be more immersive than running for your life when a giant rock or zombie in behind you? This is not crazy as it seems.</span> <a href="http://www.glassfitgames.com/race-yourself.html" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(163, 74, 144); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 23px; orphans: 4; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Race Yourself</span></a><a href="http://www.glassfitgames.com/race-yourself.html" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(163, 74, 144); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #364e85; line-height: 23px; orphans: 4; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">,</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px; orphans: 4;"> <span style="color: #444444;">a new Google Glass app development company, has come up with an app using augmented reality to do this. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px; orphans: 4;">The app lets you race against giant boulders, zombies, fire, virtual friends, and an oncoming train. It is </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px; orphans: 4;">in beta now, with the team working on perfecting the game with Glass's small processing power and relatively low battery life. They are planning to release the full version when <a href="http://www.trendguardian.com/2012/04/projectglass-googles-augmented-reality.html">Google Glass</a> is launched for the public in 2014. Get ready!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Ever wondered how</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> <a href="http://www.trendguardian.com/2010/03/boston-dynamics-presents-its-nightmare.html" style="color: #3d85c6;">robots can stand with accurate balance even when abruptly pushed</a><span style="color: #444444;">?</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> </span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">The Dynamic Systems and Control lab at the Swiss engineering school ETH Zurich created </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.idsc.ethz.ch/Research_DAndrea/Cubli" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Cubli</a>,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> a balancing cube that seems to defy gravity. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Cubli a 6 inch by 6 inch metal block with three spinning wheels and algorithm controlled motor torques to balance itself and do tricks. It can also “walk,” using angular momentum to flip itself from face to face.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">The stabilization is the result from the precise choreography of the internal spinning wheels–a similar </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">system</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">to what keeps satellites oriented in space. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What can be more portable than a smart watch? A smart ring. A team of engineers from India created the "Smarty Ring", </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6em;">the world’s first smart ring.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6em;">It is </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6em;">13 millimeters wide and 4 millimeters thick, waterproof with a monochrome LED screen. When connected with a smartphone via low power bluetooth, it displays online notifications. </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6em;">It can also be used as a remote control panel for many smartphone functions, like activating the camera, controlling music playback, etc. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6em;">It is also anti-theft, allowing wearers to track their connected devices. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6em;">The ring sounds an alert if the person is more than 30 meters away from his or her phone. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6em;">They recently completed</span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6em;"> </span><a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/smarty-ring" style="color: #006791; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">a successful Indiegogo campaign</a><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">A promotional video only shows mocks of the ring, but they promise that a prototype will be soon ready. Among all features, this one seems the most impressive if it can be done: a rechargeable 22</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">milliampere-hour battery that lasts all day, weighing only a few grams.<i> If the smart ring could be developed, it will be a smartphone or </i><i>smartwatch killer. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">When </span><a class="profile" href="http://www.fastcompany.com/person/michael-gore" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #364e85; line-height: 23.99305534362793px; text-decoration: none;">Michael Gore</a><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 23.99305534362793px;"> broke his back in a work accident, he lost all function and feeling in his legs</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 23.984375px;">. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 23.99305534362793px;">Engineers at t</span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 23.984375px;">he Center for Intelligent Mechatronics at Vanderbilt University and Parker Hannifin built </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 23.99305534362793px;">the </span><a href="http://www.parker.com/portal/site/Market-Tech/menuitem.e9f921bc8ae21676de92b210237ad1ca/?vgnextoid=1914d3ae3339a310VgnVCM100000200c1dacRCRD&vgnextfmt=default" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #364e85; line-height: 23.99305534362793px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Indego Exoskeleton</a><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 23.984375px;">; </span></span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 23.99305534362793px;">now Gore</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 23.984375px;"> can get up and walk again.</span></span><br />
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trendguardianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15960893298263236801noreply@blogger.comVanderbilt University36.1443747 -86.80274370000000836.1187297 -86.8430842 36.1700197 -86.762403200000008tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1453650385021611114.post-29990573330981521962013-12-15T15:24:00.002-08:002013-12-15T15:31:40.740-08:00U. Penn: Treating Cancer Like the Common Cold<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">What if cancer could be treated like the common cold? 4 year old Nick Wilkins was diagnosed with leukemia and when his cancer kept coming back, he had one chance to try a new therapy from t</span><span style="color: #444444;">he</span> <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/researchdir/">University of Pennsylvania</a>: killing cancer like the common cold.</span><br />
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trendguardianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15960893298263236801noreply@blogger.comUniversity of Pennsylvania39.9522188 -75.193213739.927873299999995 -75.2335542 39.9765643 -75.1528732tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1453650385021611114.post-60030410534793681012013-12-14T13:17:00.000-08:002013-12-14T13:17:15.466-08:00YotaPhone: The E-ink Display Phone<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.99652862548828px;">What if you can have an e-reader in your phone? The YotaPhone is a phone that includes a 4.3-inch 360 by 640 e-ink second display screen</span><span style="background-color: white;"> for saving battery life and e-reading</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.99652862548828px;">.</span></span><br />
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trendguardianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15960893298263236801noreply@blogger.comRussia61.52401 105.31875600000001-4.8284340000000086 -59.915618999999992 90 -89.446868999999992tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1453650385021611114.post-21232359880953072052013-12-14T10:00:00.001-08:002013-12-14T11:48:39.691-08:00Russell: Robot Helps Autistic Children Develop Social Skills<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 21px; padding: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Autistic children have a deep interest in technology. Russell is a humanoid robot <a href="http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1113009667/autism-teaching-robot-russell-112113/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #364e85; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">created by scientists</a><span style="line-height: 24px;"> at Vanderbilt University with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) </span>that helps autistic children develop social skills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the video, Russell tries to engage Madeline, a 3-year-old autistic girl. <span style="line-height: 24px;">Cameras and a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Xbox-Kinect-Sensor-360-Pc/dp/B009XD5YV0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1387043493&sr=8-2&keywords=kinect">Microsoft </a></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Xbox-Kinect-Sensor-360-Pc/dp/B009XD5YV0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1387043493&sr=8-2&keywords=kinect">Kinect sensor</a><span style="line-height: 24px;"> track and record the child's movements and send the information wirelessly to Russell, who then gauges how engaged the child is and provides feedback accordingly. In this way, Russell helps autistic children gain social skills in the ability to imitate others, a skill essential to learning.</span></span></div>
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trendguardianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15960893298263236801noreply@blogger.comVanderbilt University36.1443747 -86.80274370000000836.1187297 -86.8430842 36.1700197 -86.762403200000008tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1453650385021611114.post-63537739400102200052013-12-08T06:42:00.006-08:002013-12-08T06:42:54.308-08:00Amazon Prime Air: 30 Minutes Delivery by Drones<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Want 30 minutes delivery fulfilled by Amazon? That dream is around the corner, the best part: delivery by drones. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link_396647742_3?ie=UTF8&node=8037720011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=auto-sparkle&pf_rd_r=1YG69F3AQT698DJRQ8SG&pf_rd_t=301&pf_rd_p=1682988622&pf_rd_i=drone">Amazon Prime Air</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">has been working on its "octocopter" drones project in a secret research and development lab at its Seattle, Washington headquarters. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">The flying drones will pick up small packages from Amazon's fulfillment centers and deliver it to customers in as little as 30 minutes after they hit the "buy" button. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">However, the service won't be ready until 4-5 years from now as the program has to go through safety and regulatory rules by the U.S. </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Federal Aviation Administration. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">This short documentary will show you an inside look at Amazon's warehouses as well as Bezos' life, ideas and thoughts, that culminated in the creation of Amazon's vision. <i>An unique opportunity to know what Amazon stands for: its founder's philosophy.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;"><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">Jeffrey Preston</b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"> "</span><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">Jeff</b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">" </span><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">Bezos</b></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"> is an American Internet entrepreneur and investor. He is a technology entrepreneur who has played a key role in the growth of </span>e-commerce<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"> as the founder and CEO of </span>Amazon.com<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">, an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products. Under his guidance, Amazon.com became the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and a top model for Internet sales.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"> In 2013, Bezos purchased </span><i style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">The Washington Post</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"> newspaper.</span></span></center>
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