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But the real findings of this report is the arrival of new powertrains including 48V mild hybrids (MH) (set to replace much conventional ICE and non-plug-in strong hybrid) and energy independent vehicles (EIV), the ultimate goal for an emission-free future. The Immortus car currently fundraising for manufacture in Australia is an example of an EIV as is the NFH-H tourist microbus already on sale in China. Both rely on unusually efficient, large areas of photovoltaics for power and nothing else. Indeed, the tourist bus is available without battery in ultra-light lizard mode, waking with the daylight.
Energy independent vehicles: the biggest market to come | Electronics EETimes
The world record breaking Nuon Solar Team from the Netherlands, with their solar racers crossing Australia fastest, has already spawned five startups and other solar racers have set records for photovoltaics and motor efficiency on land vehicles. Meanwhile, we are moving from range anxiety to range excess with PEVs as we await "unlimited" range of EIVs, Harrop notes.
Energy independent vehicles: the biggest market to come | Electronics EETimes
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A system designed by MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (Cambridge, MA) enables a single WiFi access point that can locate users within tens of centimetres; the team offers the prospect of safer drones, smarter homes, and password-free WiFi.
MIT system lets Wi-Fi locate users within tens of centimeters | Smart2.0
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University of Washington researchers have developed a novel technology that enables sensors and small electronics to be powered completely wirelessly from TV, radio, cell phone, and Wi-Fi signals. Using a principle called backscattering, UW researchers have developed miniature devices including cameras, motion sensors, temperature sensors, and other devices that don’t require a battery or any wiring. The devices are being built by a spin-off company called Jeeva Wireless and represent a major opportunity for IOT and even just basic consumer tech. So far devices can be powered wireless by signals up to 100 feet away, and as the technology improves, that distance may increase.
The Wireless Tech That Will Transform The Energy Industry | OilPrice.com
The company aims to produce a prototype chip by the end of 2017 that is significantly more complex than those built by other groups working on fully programmable quantum computers. The following generation of chips should be able to accelerate some kinds of machine learning and run highly accurate chemistry simulations that might unlock new kinds of industrial processes, says Chad Rigetti, the startup’s founder and CEO. “The chips we roll out will be able to solve very profound problems,” he says. As an example, Rigetti cites the Haber-Bosch process, used to manufacture ammonia for fertilizer production, which has been estimated to consume 2 percent of the world’s energy. Devising a more efficient catalyst for the reaction could be extremely valuable.
The Tiny Startup Racing Google to Build a Quantum Computing Chip
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Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the University of Nebraska (USA) and the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) have collaborated to grow an ultra-thin ferroelectric film on silicon, which they believe could become the favoured "universal" non-volatile memory material of the future, as well as for memristors in brain-line cognitive neuromorphic computers.
Russia, U.S. get closer to universal memory | Electronics EETimes
Google has spent several years building out high-speed fiber-optic Internet services in several U.S. cities. Now Facebook is developing technology to deliver broadband at similar speeds over the air. The social network has built a small prototype wireless network on its campus in Menlo Park, California, that can serve data at speeds of over one gigabit per second—matching the speed of Google Fiber and nearly 100 times that of the average U.S. broadband connection. Facebook will start operating a larger-scale test network in downtown San Jose later this year, and similar trials will take place in other cities around the world.
Facebook Is Testing a Super-Speed Public Wi-Fi System
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Skyrmions are nanoscale magnetic vortices. And they are hot candidates for future data storage and processing systems. One of their drawbacks: These spintronics objects hitherto have been proven only at very low temperatures. Scientists of the University of Kiel (Germany) and the Jülich Research Center now have submitted a proposal how they could be generated at normal room temperature.
Tiny magnetic vortices enable high-density data storage | Smart2.0
At SID 2016 in San Francisco, South Korean display manufacturer Samsung was exhibiting a 5.7-inch rollable display prototype, wrapping up to a 10-mm radius. The 0.3mm thin display (without a touch interface layer), boasted a 1920x1080 full HD resolution with the same vivid colours as offered on the company's current smartphones. Weighing only 5g, the flexible panel was in its bare form (which probably made it unfit for touch interaction).
Samsung demos rollable OLED HD display | Smart2.0
A little-known startup in China is gunning to be the first to sell bendable smartphones this year, seeking to upstage Samsung Electronics Co., which has started to dabble in flexible-screen technology. Moxi Group, based in Chongqing, says it will ship 100,000 of the devices in 2016. They are, at the very least, unique. The phones, which will sell for about 5,000 yuan ($765) apiece, are designed to be rolled into a bracelet and worn on the wrist. The touchscreens work when curled up, or can be unfurled into rectangles to use just like any other smartphone.
Bendable Smartphones Are Coming - Bloomberg
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Researchers there have developed a lens built of transparent quartz that’s coated with millions of microscopic titanium dioxide towers arranged in specific patterns to focus light. The end result is that light focused through a 600nm “metalens” can achieve the same resolution and magnification as a traditional 5-6cm glass lens. Best yet, metalenses are far cheaper to produce than traditional glass lenses and are fully compatible with silicon chip technology. Once researchers focus the entire visible spectrum into the same focal length using metalenses, they’ll be able to place them into smartphones, microscopes, DSLRs or any other imaging devices. Assuming everything pans out, we could see smartphones with DSLR-quality cameras arrive sooner than we think.
This camera lens breakthrough could lead to smartphones that outperform DSLRs - TechSpot
The early results are promising. 5G will deliver speeds that are hundreds of times faster than your current cable or DSL connection. During CNET's visit to Verizon's Basking Ridge, New Jersey, headquarters in February, the company demonstrated a connection speed of 3.77 gigabits a second, or enough to download the entire "Simpsons" series -- nearly 600 high-definition episodes -- in about half an hour.
With 5G, Verizon could be anyone's crazy-fast home broadband provider - CNET
We’ve all squeezed a fruit to see if it’s ripe. What if you could gauge its exact calorie count and sugar and fat content while you were at it? A startup in Israel called Consumer Physics has developed a keychain-size device called the SCiO that can shoot a beam of light at, say, an avocado and instantly tell you just that. Above, Hello World host Ashlee Vance takes the SCiO for a spin in a Tel Aviv market, joined by Consumer Physics’s chief executive officer, Dror Sharon. They zap cheese, meat, and even a dog to figure out what makes them tick. Beyond analyzing food, the SCiO can spot watered-down fuel at the pump and even tell counterfeit drugs from real ones.
This Handheld Laser Could Replace the Vegetable Squeeze Test - Bloomberg
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French Startup Pixium Vision is moving fast in the field of vision restauration. The company is not only developing two distinct retinal-implant technologies to circumvent retinal degenerative diseases, it also hopes to be able one day to feed visual stimulation (from its proprietary bioinspired neuromorphic imaging sensor) directly to the visual cortex.
From implantable retinal pixels to visual cortex stimulation | Electronics EETimes
One nanometer would hold 10 atoms of helium, and a Zika virus is 40nm in diameter. Comparatively, human hair is 75,000nm in diameter. Yes, the nanoscale (the length scale between 1-100 nanometers) is incredibly small. Still, if you’ve ever been sick, you know just how powerful small organisms like viruses and bacteria can be. Inside your body, these living (or semi-living) organisms do all sorts of damage — from reprogramming your cells to producing toxins laying waste to your immune system, and worse... A team of scientists from Israel’s Bar-Ilan University started human trials including drug-delivering nanobots in early 2016. The bots are made of the specially folded DNA that serves as a vessel for cancer-treating drugs. Unlike chemotherapy and radiation therapy, which cause damage to healthy and cancerous cells alike, DNA nanobots attack selectively and precisely. Only when they encounter a cancerous cell (and they can recognize 12 types) do they open up and release their payload, maximizing efficiency, while greatly reducing the damaging effect of the drug on the surrounding tissue.
Nanobots are waiting in the wings to cure cancer and clean up ocean pollution - MarketWatch
These nanorobots, dubbed “respirocytes” by theorist Robert Freitas, could beat your regular blood cells at their own game. Within their spherical shell, they would hold 236 times more of the pressurized oxygen and carbon dioxide, transferring them from lungs to tissue, and vice versa. If red blood cells would be replaced by respirocytes, you’d become almost superhuman. How so? On a single breath, you could dive for hours or run at top speed for 15 minutes. A heart-attack victim could survive for hours, enabling him to reach the hospital in time for treatment.
Nanobots are waiting in the wings to cure cancer and clean up ocean pollution - MarketWatch
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'admin' pid='67906' datel Wrote:
But the real findings of this report is the arrival of new powertrains including 48V mild hybrids (MH) (set to replace much conventional ICE and non-plug-in strong hybrid) and energy independent vehicles (EIV), the ultimate goal for an emission-free future. The Immortus car currently fundraising for manufacture in Australia is an example of an EIV as is the NFH-H tourist microbus already on sale in China. Both rely on unusually efficient, large areas of photovoltaics for power and nothing else. Indeed, the tourist bus is available without battery in ultra-light lizard mode, waking with the daylight.
Damn the darkness of night! Damn the clouds!
I like my EV powered by the atom. Fueled at 2 am when the grid is looking for places to push electrons.
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'ArtM72' pid='73583' datel Wrote:
'admin' pid='67906' datel Wrote:
But the real findings of this report is the arrival of new powertrains including 48V mild hybrids (MH) (set to replace much conventional ICE and non-plug-in strong hybrid) and energy independent vehicles (EIV), the ultimate goal for an emission-free future. The Immortus car currently fundraising for manufacture in Australia is an example of an EIV as is the NFH-H tourist microbus already on sale in China. Both rely on unusually efficient, large areas of photovoltaics for power and nothing else. Indeed, the tourist bus is available without battery in ultra-light lizard mode, waking with the daylight.
Damn the darkness of night! Damn the clouds!
I like my EV powered by the atom. Fueled at 2 am when the grid is looking for places to push electrons.
Well, at least nobody can steal that lizard bus at night..
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Vesper has now demonstrated the first commercially available quiescent-sensing MEMS device, providing designers the possibility of acoustic event-detection devices at virtually zero power draw at 3 µA of current while in listening mode.
Always-on MEMS mic uses sound energy to wake a system | Smart2.0
Sound-insulating windows have proved to be rather effective in that they keep the noise out of the sleeping room. Nevertheless, they have their drawbacks: Their design limits the view or they require more installation space. The Fraunhofer institute for structural durability and system reliability (LBF) has developed a counter-noise system that can be integrated into the window frame.
Slim loudspeakers in the window frame reduce noise from outside | Smart2.0
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