Prototype mobile devices that can change shape on-demand will be unveiled today [Monday 29 April] and could lay down the foundation for creating high shape resolution devices of the future.
Posts tagged "mobile"
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Shape-shifting mobile devices →
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Teenage boy gets Britain's first bionic hand to be controlled by an iPhone app →
A teenager who lost his hand to meningitis has become the first in Britain to be fitted with a revolutionary bionic replacement - operated using an iPhone.
Patrick Kane, 16, can now control his state-of-the-art left hand using a mobile application on his iPhone 5 which gives him 24 different pre-set grips.
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Pants-Fetching 'Bots Power Store of the Future, and Could Slow Amazon's March →
It’s the rare software startup where you find yourself standing in your underwear behind a curtain while the founder talks tech.
I should probably blame Jeff Bezos.
If not for him, the digital reckoning forced on the retail world by Amazon might not have happened, and radical re-imaginings of shopping like the store I’m in might not have been necessary. As it is, I’m at Hointer, as shop that possibly represents the most radical synthesis of offline and online retail yet. I’m trying on expensive jeans to find out what clothes-buying feels like when the shop is powered by Amazon-caliber algorithms and machines set in motion by the tap of an app. The short answer is that it feels like you’ve stepped physically into a shopping website, a sort of e-commerce sequel to Tron.
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New Voices For The Voiceless: Synthetic Speech Gets An Upgrade →
Ever since she was a small child, Samantha Grimaldo has had to carry her voice with her.
Grimaldo was born with a rare disorder, Perisylvian syndrome, which means that though she’s physically capable in many ways, she’s never been able to speak. Instead, she’s used a device to speak. She types in what she wants to say, and the device says those words out loud. Her mother, Ruane Grimaldo, says that when Samantha was very young, the voice she used came in a heavy gray box.
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The first flexible, fiber-optic solar cell that can be woven into clothes →
An international team of engineers, physicists, and chemists have created the first fiber-optic solar cell. These fibers are thinner than human hair, flexible, and yet they produce electricity, just like a normal solar cell. The US military is already interested in weaving these threads into clothing, to provide a wearable power source for soldiers.
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Google’s Searches for UnGoogleable Information to Make Mobile Search Smarter →
The company wants to improve its mobile search services by automatically delivering information you wouldn’t think to search for online.
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Vuzix Smart Glasses →
Just as smartphones forever changed the telephone, the Vuzix smart glasses M100 redefines our interface to the ever-expanding digital world. Vuzix smart glasses M100 is the world’s first enhanced “Hands Free” smartphone display and communications system for on-the-go data access from your Smartphone and the Internet. Running applications under the Android operating system; text, video, email, mapping, audio and all we have come to expect from smartphones is available through this wireless personal information display system. Vuzix smart glasses offer a wearable visual connection to the Cloud, through your smartphone or other compatible smart device, wherever you go.
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Researchers promise doubled wireless spectrum efficiency →
Wireless carriers love to talk about a Spectrum Crunch. Like oil, wireless spectrum is a finite resource. Companies like AT&T warn that smartphone proliferation is eventually going to leave those “wells” dry. Carriers’ answers to the problem usually involve government (less regulations, and more federally-owned spectrum released). However, researchers at U.C. Riverside have another solution: make those networks more efficient. -
Organic solar cells with high electric potential for portable electronics →
A new breakthrough in solar technology means portable electronic devices such as e-book readers could soon be re-charged on the move in low light levels and partial shading. Scientists from the University of Warwick, in collaboration with spin-out company Molecular Solar, have created an organic solar cell that generates a sufficiently high voltage to recharge a lithium-ion battery directly, without the need to connect multiple individual cells in series. Modules of these high voltage cells perform well in different light conditions including partial shade making them well matched to consumer electronic devices such as e-book readers, cameras and some mobile phones.
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Logging In with Your Heartbeat →
Smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles and other devices may soon recognize their owners at a touch. The gadgets will identify users by measuring their heartbeats through their fingertips.
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iPhone Sensors Test If Your Food Really Is Organic →
But is something totally different. It’s an appcessory billed as a “personal environment monitor,” and through its collection of four peripherals, Lapka gathers analog measures of humidity/temperature, radiation, electromagnetic frequencies (EMF), and organicity (whether or not a food is truly organic). And it does so beautifully, with a mix of plastic and wood components—aesthetics that were considered down to the circuit boards, which will also match in white.
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Digital pills make their way to market →
Digestible microchips embedded in drugs may soon tell doctors whether a patient is taking their medications as prescribed. These sensors are the first ingestible devices approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). To some, they signify the beginning of an era in digital medicine.
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App uses Earth's magnetic field to guide you indoors →
The Earth’s magnetic field once helped pioneering explorers discover exciting new lands and untold riches. Now, it could stop you getting lost at the shops, thanks to an upcoming smartphone app that uses magnetic fluctuations to map indoor locations, guiding you around places that GPS can’t penetrate.
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Firefox OS coming to budget smartphones by early 2013 →
Mozilla has announced that its Firefox OS mobile operating system will be appearing on handsets in Brazil from early 2013, available through Telefónica’s commercial brand, Vivo. Firefox OS is based on Mozilla’s existing Boot to Gecko technology and each app for the platform is to be constructed in HTML5, the markup language increasingly used for structuring online content such as media and web apps.
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Handheld DMR spectrometer diagnoses cancer in an hour →
When we think of Magnetic resonance we think of the massive multimillion dollar magnetic resonance imaging machines into whose gaping mouth we are slowly propelled on a motorized table, ready to have our smallest flaws exposed. But the phenomenon of magnetic resonance has other medical uses. A team of physicians and scientists led by Prof. Ralph Weissleder of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has developed a handheld diagnostic magnetic resonance (DMR) device that can diagnose cancer in an hour with greatly improved accuracy compared to the current gold standard. The DMR technique is sensitive enough that only material from a fine needle aspiration biopsy is needed for the test - a far less painful experience compared to the usual surgical or core needle biopsies.
