WORLD-CLASS sprinters push themselves to the limit to achieve record-breaking speeds, but even Usain Bolt can’t keep going for an hour. Now the same principle is being used to create faster computer chips. Designed for quick “sprints” of computation rather than sustained performance, the chips could make your smartphone 10 times faster without frying the battery.
Posts tagged "mobile"
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'Sprinting' chips could push phones to the speed limit →
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Georgia Tech develops braille-like texting app →
Georgia Tech researchers have designed a texting solution that could become a modern substitute for passing notes under the table. BrailleTouch is a prototype texting app that requires only finger gestures to key in letters on touch screen devices - no sight required.
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Smart Phones Improve Memory →
A few decades ago, TV got a bad rap for turning brains into mush, and now smart phones are getting the same blame. But a new study published in the journal Neuropsychological Rehabilitation has found evidence that, for the latter device anyway, this may not be true. Researchers found that a smart phone training program specifically designed for people with memory loss can result in great improvements of day-to-day mental function.
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Can Treating Your Life As a Game Make You a Better Person? →
The experiment began at 11 a.m. in my bedroom in Brooklyn. I bought an app from the iTunes store called EpicWin, a fantasy-themed game designed to improve users’ lives by motivating them to accomplish real-world goals with virtual-world rewards. Before starting the game, I had to pick and customize an avatar that would represent me in the digital landscape of EpicWin. I chose a cadaverous warrior named Calcium Facebone. He held a blunt mallet in one hand. “Add new task,” the screen read. Since I was planning to write a story about my experience, I typed in “Start article.” A surge of ominous music rattled from the iPhone speakers, and Calcium Facebone appeared on a rumpled map on the screen. Miles traveled: 0.
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Siri Is Only The Beginning →
For decades, Hollywood has been portraying machines that humans can converse with, delegate tasks to, and command. Remember the HAL 9000, KITT the car, COMPUTER from Star Trek, or even the brilliantly conceived and visualized Apple “Knowledge Navigator” from over 20 years ago? The day is dawning.
Hello Siri.
The response to Siri has exceeded even my own imagination … and I have a rather vast imagination. I don’t believe it’s an accident that Siri has captivated as it has. It’s fun, it works well for most, and makes complex interactions simple. And while I don’t know what Apple plans to do with Siri going forward, you can bet that it’s going to get better and do more. I’ll be the first one in line for the iPhone 5, 6, and 7 just to get the latest Siri. (Better yet, I’ll just ask Siri to send me the latest model as they become available.)
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Android: Getting one step closer to turning your phone into a tricorder, Android app Radioactivity Counter uses the CMOS camera sensor on your phone to record radiation levels.
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Battery drain may influence app design →
The first systematic power profiles of microprocessors could help lower the energy consumption of small and large devices, say researchers.
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Molecular nanowires with potential applications from solar energy to quantum information →
The small molecule copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) is a well-known industrial pigment used to give blue colours to a range of everyday objects, such as cars or textiles. This molecule is part of a family of polyaromatic molecules which can also behave as semiconductors. These properties have given rise to the exciting field of “molecular electronics”, where molecules can be used to replace inorganic semiconductors such as silicon or gallium arsenide to produce flexible, low cost optoelectronic devices.
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Top 1% of Mobile Users Use Half of World’s Wireless Bandwidth →
The world’s congested mobile airwaves are being divided in a lopsided manner, with 1 percent of consumers generating half of all traffic. The top 10 percent of users, meanwhile, are consuming 90 percent of wireless bandwidth.
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Technological Healing →
Nanosensors patrolling your bloodstream for the first sign of an imminent stroke or heart attack, releasing anticlotting or anti-inflammatory drugs to stop it in its tracks. Cell phones that display your vital signs and take ultrasound images of your heart or abdomen. Genetic scans of malignant cells that match your cancer to the most effective treatment.
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Kenya Has Mobile Health App Fever →
Mobile health platforms are fast emerging in Kenya, where one startup’s newly launched mobile health platform is attracting nearly 1,000 downloads daily, and the dominant telecom, Safaricom, has forged a partnership that will give its 18 million subscribers access to doctors.
A World Bank official sees significant promise from such efforts, pointing to the fact that 50 percent of all Kenyan banking is already done on mobile phones—suggesting that the population is ready to go mobile with health care, too.
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Wearing Your Computer on Your Sleeve →
Technology often has a way of fixing the problems it creates. Here’s one that needs solving.
The invention of the smartphone has created a world where millions of people stroll through life constantly staring into a mobile device, like Narcissus at the edge of a pond.
I know. I’m one of them.
People are not going to put these devices down in the near future. Realistically, we will become only more absorbed by the Screen. Technology will have to solve this problem. It will do so by creating wearable computers.
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Biocompatible graphene transistor array reads cellular signals →
Researchers at Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) and the Juelich Research Center have demonstrated, for the first time, a graphene-based transistor array that is compatible with living biological cells and capable of recording the electrical signals they generate.
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Smart phone power consumption cut by more than 70 percent →
Researchers at Aalto University in Finland have designed a network proxy that can cut the power consumption of 3G smart phones up to 74 percent. This device enhances performance and significantly reduces power usage by serving as a middleman for mobile devices to connect to the Internet and handling the majority of the data transfer for the smart phone. Historically, the high energy requirements of mobile phones have slowed the adoption of mobile Internet services in developing countries.
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At TEDxBerlin, Fabian Hemmert demos one future of the mobile phone — a shape-shifting and weight-shifting handset that “displays” information nonvisually, offering a delightfully intuitive way to communicate.
