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December 15, 2011

Graphene: The Pencil Material That Will Revolutionize Our Lives

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For materials-science fans, graphene is one of those substances that's easy to get excited about. Not only is graphene transparent and superstrong—a sheet with the thickness of Saran Wrap could support an elephant—but it also conducts electricity very quickly. It could lead to computer circuits that run 100 times faster.

December 12, 2011

Preparing for CES 2012: Trends, Tips, Keynotes, & Hotspots

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Anyone attending CES for the first time should follow these few cardinal rules before venturing out:

Wear comfortable shoes. This can't be stressed enough. Not comfortable as in fashionable and great to wear for a few hours. Comfortable as in you'll be on your feet, either standing still or walking, for at least 8 hours per day; likely more. So if you don't already own a pair, invest. You'll scoff at the dent it'll put in your wallet, but find that it was well worth the dough before day one is even over.

Plan your meetings based on location. When setting out your schedule, be mindful of where each client is located. You don't want to set up a meeting with one company who's in North Hall for 8 a.m., then schedule your next one for 8:45 all the way on the other side in South Hall, or offsite at a hotel. While everything in ‘Vegas appears to be just a few minutes walk away, it's deceiving. It'll take you longer to get to each destination than you realize, especially when braving both the crowds of walking people and of cars. Not to mention cab, shuttle buss, and even tram lineups that'll easily add significantly to commute times. So leave enough time, and plot your meetings to minimize run around....

December 7, 2011

Samsung unveils flexible tablet concept video

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If Samsung is to be believed, future tablets will be transparent, completely flexible and be able to project 3D holograms.

Concept videos are curious things - companies get to create their vision for a device that one day might exist, in a universe where holding a plastic screen in front of someone's face isn't regarded as anti-social

December 5, 2011

This "Miracle material" will change the world

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A radical new material made from a single carbon atom will soon have a pervasive impact on the U.S. economy - and the entire human race. Stronger than steel and lighter than a feather, this high-tech medium will shape virtually every part of our daily lives by the end of this decade.

The possible uses are almost limitless. No wonder the two scientists who discovered this substance won the Nobel Prize in physics last year. That alone should tell you something. It often takes decades for scientific breakthroughs like this to bag the world's biggest award. But these two Russians won it for a substance discovered just seven years ago.

The material that I'm talking about is called "graphene." And you might have guessed, graphene is related to the graphite used in pencils.

Graphene: The Miracle Material

If you've never before heard of graphene, don't worry - most investors haven't. In fact, most investors have never seen anything quite like this new miracle material. But it won't be long before you're benefiting from its potential. Even as you read this, researchers and scientists are looking for ways to transform this discovery into the Next Big Thing.

December 5, 2011

Space surgeons - Medical robotics experts advance NASA’s ‘satellite surgery’.

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Johns Hopkins engineers, recognized as experts in medical robotics, have turned their attention skyward to help NASA with a space dilemma: How can the agency fix valuable satellites that are breaking down or running out of fuel? Sending a human repair crew into space is costly, dangerous and sometimes not even possible for satellites in a distant orbit.

One answer? Send robots to the rescue and give them a little long-distance human help. Johns Hopkins scientists say that the same technology that allows doctors to steer a machine through delicate abdominal surgery could someday help an operator on Earth fix a faulty fuel line on the far side of the moon.

A brief preview of this technology was presented Nov. 29, when two graduate students at Johns Hopkins’ Homewood campus in Baltimore used a modified da Vinci medical console to manipulate an industrial robot at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., about 30 miles away. The demonstration took place during a tour of Goddard by three members of Maryland’s congressional delegation: U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski and U.S. Reps. Donna Edwards and Steny Hoyer.

December 5, 2011

DDR Corp. launches text-message deals for shoppers

Jumping on the mobile bandwagon, DDR Corp. has launched a cell phone-based marketing program at 27 shopping centers, including properties in Aurora, Macedonia and Solon.

The shopping center company, based in Beachwood, said customers at those open-air centers can choose to receive text messages for deals offered by nearby retailers. DDR will announce the program, which went live Thursday, today at the International Council of Shopping Centers conference in New York.

ValuText is an opt-in program that allows shoppers to sign up online or by text message. A technology called geo-fencing lets retailers send text messages to participating consumers in a specific geographic area.

December 4, 2011

Can Microsoft take over the living room with Xbox, Kinect, and Bing?

Connected Entertainment | Microsoft | Kinect | Gesture | Connectvity Domains

Microsoft will begin to roll out the next version of the Xbox experience, featuring a new dashboard that combines your living room TV with the Xbox 360. With voice and motion control powered by Kinect, and search powered by Bing, Microsoft hopes to begin a takeover of the living room and the family TV, one of the “3 screens” that along with a cloud are set to take us into the future of consumer software and engineering.

We’ve told you about the new dashboard before, and news is all over the web today as Microsoft has issued a press release on the upcoming free upgrade, so we’ll spare you the details. Instead, let’s take a bit of a look at what this announcement means, and could mean, to the future of the living room.

December 2, 2011

Graphene used to sniff out explosives

It sometimes seems as if there isn't anything that can't be done better with graphene. Now, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute say that the stuff can outperform leading commercial gas sensors in detecting potentially dangerous and explosive chemicals.

Their new sensor has successfully and repeatedly measured ammonia (NH3) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) at concentrations as small as 20 parts-per-million.

Made from continuous graphene nanosheets that grow into a foam-like structure about the size of a postage stamp and thickness of felt, the sensor is flexible and rugged.

"We are very excited about this new discovery, which we think could lead to new commercial gas sensors," says Rensselaer engineering professor Nikhil Koratkar.

December 2, 2011

Cambridge Scientists Develop Graphene Ink for Printed Electronics

It’s starting to seem like there is no limit to the new uses scientists can find for graphene, and now researchers at the University of Cambridge are using it to replace conductive inks and generate higher-performance printed electronics.

Traditional printed circuits (using inks that contain conducting polymers) are being used to make (among other things) disposable RFID tags and even toys. However, printed electronics don’t perform as well as conventional integrated circuits, and the inks are often unstable.

Graphene has already proven its worth in nanoelectronics; the Cambridge Nanomaterials and Spectroscopy Group has solved the problem of turning graphene into a printable ink. The researchers produced graphene by chemically chipping flakes off a block of graphite, filtering the material, then adding those flakes to a solvent called N-Methylpyrrolidone (NMP).

December 2, 2011

Whygo Launches 1st Private and Public Video & Telepresence Facilities Scheduler

The world’s leading online distributor of public videoconferencing and telepresence facilities today announced it has successfully re-designed, developed and implemented its next generation telepresence and videoconferencing scheduling platform, which now includes enterprise and B2B.

December 1, 2011

Could the UK's original ITV kill Apple iTV brand?

ITV, the largest commercial public service TV network in the UK, could move to block Apple's planned launch of an internet-connected TV offering next year called iTV, CBR understands.

Launched in 1955 to provide competition to the BBC, the broadcaster has certainly been using the three-letter acronym for long enough. The lower case 'i' in Apple's iTV may not be enough to differentiate if from ITV, and ITV plc uses the acronym in both lower and upper case formats (both ITV and itv).

The test of trademark infringement of course is whether the similarity is enough to cause customer confusion. Delta Airlines, Delta Faucet and Delta Dental can all coexist legally in the market because they are sufficiently different products or services to limit confusion.

December 1, 2011

Gesture recognition--first step toward 3D UIs?

Gesture recognition is the first step to fully 3D interaction with computing devices. The authors outline the challenges and techniques to overcome them in embedded systems.

As touchscreen technologies become more pervasive, users are becoming more expert at interacting with machines. Gesture recognition takes human interaction with machines even further. It’s long been researched with 2D vision, but the advent of 3D sensor technology means gesture recognition will be used more widely and in more diverse applications. Soon a person sitting on the couch will be able to control the lights and TV with a wave of the hand, and a car will automatically detect if a pedestrian is close by. Development of 3D gesture recognition is not without its difficulties, however.

December 1, 2011

Graphene transistors compatible with living cells

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A team at at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen says it's built the foundation for devices to communicate directly with the human brain.

The researchers' new graphene-based transistor array is compatible with living biological cells and can, for the first time, record the electrical signals they generate.

Silicon's problematic for use with living cells - it doesn't take well to getting wet, for example, and it's expensive.

However, the scientists say that graphene, which is is chemically stable and biologically inert, offers outstanding electronic performance, can easily be processed on flexible substrates, and should lend itself to large-scale, low-cost fabrication.

The researchers started with an array of 16 graphene solution-gated field-effect transistors (G-SGFETs) fabricated on copper foil by chemical vapor deposition and standard photolithographic and etching processes.

December 1, 2011

Robotics may impact future surgery

If you've ever walked through the underpass of Hackerman Hall and wondered what was going on in the mock operating room, what you are seeing is a state-of-the-art robotic surgery facility. Even more impressive is the work being done inside the building, around Hopkins and around the world. Robotically assisted surgery has become an increasingly present field in research and in practice, led in part by Hopkins inter-departmental collaboration with industry.

In a new paper published online last month in The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, a system is presented for minimally invasive surgery performed with Haptic feedback and visual feedback aids for surgeons. Haptics refers to the sense of touch, specifically the perception of objects as such. In the new work, the case of prostate cancer is examined, due to rising concerns over the effectiveness of robot assisted surgery for this application.

November 26, 2011

Why Apple Will Dominate the Gesture-Based Future

Touch And Gesture | Gesture Interaction | Microsoft Kinect | Gesture Domains

In the 50s, some futurists predicted food pills instead of meals. It never happened.

The biggest reason futurists fail is that too many predictions are based on the possible, rather than the desirable.

It’s now possible for anyone to take all their nutrition from pills. But people enjoy eating food. That’s why we don’t take pills instead.

If you want to predict the future, you need to deconstruct human nature. You also need to know what will be possible. Where these two things intersect is where accurate predictions can be made.

And that’s why I can already tell you what your iMac will be like in a few years.

Computers will be everywhere, of course — in the car, kitchen, bathroom and elsewhere — continuing the current trend. However, you’ll have a main desktop system that will essentially be a huge iMac set at a drafting table angle.

It won’t sit on a desk. It will replace the desk entirely. The screen will swivel to flat, so it can be used as a desk or for more than one person to use at once (for games and so on), and it will swivel to vertical to be used as a TV, for presentations or for using the computer from the other side of the room.

The mouse will be non-existent. Keyboards will be made of software. (A minority of writers, programmers and older users will continue to use physical keyboards, which will be built to sit on the angled screen.

November 24, 2011

First inkjet-Printed graphene computer circuit is transparent, flexible

You can add another crazy characteristic to graphene’s ever-expanding list of “wonder material” properties: It can now be used to create flexible, transparent thin-film transistors… using an inkjet printer.

The discovery comes from researchers at the University of Cambridge, UK, who were trying to ameliorate the lackluster performance of existing inkjet-printed electronics. As we covered last month, it’s possible to print standard CMOS transistors using different ferroelectric polymer inks, but the resultant circuit is so slow that it can’t actually function as a computer. If graphene could replace or augment the interconnects or transistors, these circuits would be a lot faster — and that’s what these Cambridge engineers have done.

November 23, 2011

Move over Kinect — Displair from Russia is gesture interaction in thin air

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The prototype will certainly need improving to get anywhere near the computer-generated scenes of Tom Cruise flipping through photos displayed in the air in the Minority Report, but unlike the movie, Displair is for real.

The company uses a stream of cold fog to project images onto it and an infrared camera to capture gestures. Unlike oversized body movements which Microsoft Kinect analyze and process using motion camera and infrared depth sensors, Displair solves a bigger challenge of detecting and interpreting finer movements of hands.

November 21, 2011

Internet comes to TV

Internet TV | IPTV | Connected Television | Connectivity Domains

Major communication innovation is historically driven by the distribution mechanism; the first transatlantic cable was laid nearly a hundred years ago and has enabled the great leaps in communications for the last century that we're only just capitalising on.

The television business is on the threshold of another great innovation leap- connected television.

Not since the introduction of cable and satellite television has such a radical transformation occurred that looks set to effect consumer behaviour & the value chain supporting current broadcast offerings.

By comparison, video recorders, flatscreen TV's, High Definition TV, 3D television represents incremental innovation. So what's driving the change?

November 20, 2011

What is Graphene?

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It’s a natural enough question on a site dedicated to evaluating the investment potential of the 21st century’s sister to diamond.

Graphene was first discovered by the Nobel Laureate Professor Andre Geim whilst working at Manchester University. It is a 2D material made from sp2 bonded carbon atoms arranged hexagonally with only one atom depth. The arrangement of atoms allows electrons to move rapidly across the material and the configuration provides the material with a surprising degree of strength.

The material was discovered whilst conducting experiments into carbon transistors with its infancy being in experiments involving graphite and scotch tape. Such inauspicious beginnings, however, conceal the remarkable potential of the miracle material.

November 29, 2011

Graphene lights up with new possibilities

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The future brightened for organic chemistry when researchers at Rice University found a highly controllable way to attach organic molecules to pristine graphene, making the miracle material suitable for a range of new applications.

The Rice lab of chemist James Tour, building upon a set of previous finds in the manipulation of graphene, discovered a two-step method that turned what was a single-atom-thick sheet of carbon into a superlattice for use in organic chemistry. The work could lead to advances in graphene-based chemical sensors, thermoelectric devices and metamaterials.

The work appeared this week in the online journal Nature Communications.

Graphene alone is inert to many organic reactions and, as a semimetal, has no band gap; this limits its usefulness in electronics. But the project led by the Tour Lab's Zhengzong Sun and Rice graduate Cary Pint, now a researcher at Intel, demonstrated that graphene, the strongest material there is because of the robust nature of carbon-carbon bonds, can be made suitable for novel types of chemistry.

November 28, 2011

University of Washington developing computer-like contact lenses

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Washington University researchers are looking to develop contact lenses that would allow you to check your email, surf the web, and more , all with the blink of an eye.

The line between technology and human biology has become increasingly blurred over the years. We have come to rely on technology to augment or supplement our bodies own natural functions in many different ways, often to great success. You need not look further than the hearing aid, pacemaker, or laser eye surgery to see examples of technology intimately interfacing with our everyday lives and improving on it. In this digital age, even today’s smartphones perform functions we were resigned to doing on larger computers and devices no more than ten years ago.

With computers and smart devices decreasing in size and increasing in function, it seems that researchers at the University Washington are taking that concept even further. A team from the University has recently completed trials on a new generation of Terminator-like contact lenses that would allow wearers of the next-gen lenses to receive emails directly to their eyes and even supplement their vision with various information from the internet.

November 28, 2011

EU Claims Breakthrough In Robotic Neurosurgery

The European Commission has claimed that EU-funded researchers from Germany, Italy, Israel and Britain have achieved a breakthrough in robotic neurosurgery.

The ROBOCAST project has developed a new type of robot that gives two important advantages to surgeons: 13 degrees (types) of movement, compared to the four available to human hands during minimally invasive surgery, and "haptic feedback" the physical cues which allow surgeons to assess tissue and perceive the amount of force applied during surgery.

The Commission said in a statement on Monday that the robot had performed accurate keyhole neurosurgery on dummies, and when ready for humans, could ease the suffering of millions of Europeans diagnosed with tumors, and conditions such as epilepsy, Parkinson's disease and Tourette syndrome.

November 10, 2011

New company focused on providing Cloud based NFC Payment Service

Toppan Forms Co., Ltd. has announced today that it will establish Toppan Forms Payment Service (TFPS) and it will begin operations from the 1st of December, 2011. TFPS will be providing a payment settlement platform for Near Field Communications (NFC) and contactless based payment services.

Toppan Forms currently provides hardware and software development, consulting and sales for NFC devices and modules that comply with international NFC standards

TFPS will leverage its payment settlement platform off the collaboration between Toppan Forms and Hewlett Packard Japan which was announced in February 2011 and scheduled for completion by the end of the year. With the forecast growth in NFC based payments, TFPS aims to grow the platform through strategic partnerships with major domestic eMoney and credit card services as well as various foreign payment settlement services. The TFPS payment settlement platform is scheduled to be in service from April 2012.

October 14, 2010

O2 Turns on Geo-fencing for Starbucks, L’Oreal in UK

Geo-fencing is getting a major showcase with a roll-out today by UK mobile operator O2, which is launching a program that will target a million subscribers with Starbucks and L’Oreal coupons. The discounts will work through O2 More, an opt-in offer program that currently allows companies to offer O2 subscribers discounts based on preferences and demographic information they’ve submitted. The program will now support a new geo-fencing trial service from Placecast creating 1,500 geographically restricted areas in which Starbucks and L’Oreal are able to offer deals to nearby customers.

When customers come within about a half mile of a Starbucks store, they’ll get a text message with a discount on Starbucks VIA Ready Brew. L’Oreal customers who travel near local drug store chain Superdrug will receive an SMS offering buy-one, get-one free deals on L’Oréal Elvive hair care products. Placecast CEO Alistair Goodman said this is the largest launch of a carrier-led geo-fencing program to date.

June 24, 2010

Is Geofencing the Next Evolution for Location Apps? Location Labs Thinks So

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Wait, what the heck is geofencing? No, it's not some virtual sword fighting app for your phone. Geofencing, or a geofence, is exactly what its name implies - a virtually fenced-off geographic location. When this concept is applied to mobile phones, it refers to a device's ability to receive automatic alerts or notifications when entering, leaving or moving within a specific geographic area. Location Labs, providers of location services for mobile developers, announced earlier this week the release of its library that will allow iPhone developers to build geofencing apps thanks in no small part to new features included in the new iOS 4.0.

To get an idea of how geofencing technology could improve on existing location-based applications, just look at the current popular apps. Apps like Foursquare and Gowalla could implement this infrastructure to allow users to automatically check-in when entering the geofence of a particular location.

I can't even count the times I've been out and forgotten to check-in at various locations, robbing myself of precious Foursquare points. With geofencing, I could have been automatically checking in as I went from place-to-place, or perhaps a push notification would have reminded me after I was within the perimeter of the geofence for a certain amount of time.

July 16, 2010

Five geofencing ideas for mobile marketing from brands and retailers

Geo-Fencing | Geo-Fence | Location Based Marketing | Proximity

Geofencing and background processing have arrived. Many mobile devices including the latest iPhone 4 can detect when a user has entered or left a certain area and alert an application or service. This technology is known as “geofencing.”

While we have all grimaced at the annoying geofence example of “walking by the Starbucks and getting a coupon” for years, we nevertheless intuitively feel that this type of location and real-time context should yield real value to marketers.

Background processing on Apple’s iOS4 plus the success of the check-in model begs the answer to the question: How can mobile marketers use this new technology in ways that make consumers smile instead of grimace?

We think there are five key geofence use cases that marketers will capitalize on:

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