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Everyone hates jet lag, even the boffins at Formula 1 specialist McLaren who are using their distain for the post-travel blues to rid it from the world. According to a new paper published by the car company, McLaren’s Applied Technologies team (MAT) is working on a wearable that could spell the end for jet lag. Instead of spending the first two days of your holiday or work trip bleary-eyed and irritable, advanced wearables will reportedly prompt you ways of monitoring and adapting your behaviour to overcome the travel and time-difference troubles.
McLaren is developing a wearable that will spell the end of jet lag
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Dr Garth Webb, an optometrist in British Columbia, has developed a new lens that could give individuals perfect vision, and then some. According to Webb, his ‘Ocumetics Bionic Lens’ can improve vision to three times better than the 20/20 vision standard, as reported by CBC. The doctor claims you would be able to achieve perfect vision ‘no matter how crummy your eyes are’.
Forget 20/20 vision, bionic lenses are set to make super sight a reality
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The research team, which is led by ORNL’s Ivan Vlassiouk, has fabricated the graphene/polymer composite sheets that could pave the way for a new era in flexible electronics. If Vlassiouk and his team are able to reduce the cost and demonstrate scalability, teh researchers envision graphene being used in a wide variety of electronics (displays, printed electronics, thermal management) and energy (photovoltaics, filtration, energy storage) applications.
Has large-scale graphene fabrication become a commercial reality? - Electronics Eetimes
We are on the brink of a revolution that will completely change the way we use every-day products like cars, clothes, light bulbs, and even water. Leading the way is a fascinating material called graphene.
Ways graphene will change the world - Business Insider
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According to South Korean news agency Yonhap, flat panel maker LG Display has showcased a detachable flexible OLED panel, only 0.97mm thick, that could be stuck to a wall with a magnetic mat, and simply peeled off it. Weighing only 1.9kg and much thinner than the company's 4.3mm thick existing flagship models, the 55-inch wallpaper OLED panel was presented in Seoul as one of LG’s future displays.
Flexible OLED display peels off the wall - Electronics Eetimes
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According to a recently published study in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, an international team of physicists, chemists, and neuroscientists has developed an innovative new implant that can be injected directly into brain tissue, where it can then be used to excite individual neurons.
This Injectable Brain Implant Activates Individual Neurons | Digital Trends
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A new type of flexible electronic device shows promise for long-term brain mapping and could be a more effective way to provide therapeutic stimulation.
Flexible Electronics, Delivered to the Brain via Syringe | MIT Technology Review
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A swarm of small satellites could give critical infrastructure an Internet connection that never goes down.
Nano Satellites Will Stop the Internet of Things from Ever Going Offline | MIT Technology Review
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By harnessing the power of bacterial spores, researchers at Columbia University have discovered a way to power devices through evaporation. They created the world's first evaporation-powered car and have plenty of ideas on future innovations using this technology, including sport wear that responds to sweat. So add evaporation to the list of renewable energy sources we now have at our disposal.
Evaporation-powered car by Columbia - Business Insider
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Wi-Fi has become ubiquitous in homes and businesses thanks to the way anyone can set up their own network and start connecting up gadgets. Before long you may be similarly free to set up your own network to serve nearby smartphones using the high-speed LTE protocol currently exclusive to cellular networks. That would allow your home router or a business like Starbucks to offer fast LTE connections to mobile devices. It could create new competition for conventional cellular networks, giving consumers more ways to get high-speed data and pushing down prices. Internet service providers or other companies could build this new version of LTE into cable boxes or other home devices to create their own high-speed mobile data networks.
Qualcomm Has a Plan to Make 4G Cellular Hotspots as Easy to Set Up as Wi-Fi Networks | MIT Technology Review
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Researchers at the Stuttgart-based engineering company Bosch have worked with scientists at the Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research to create a graphene-based magnetic sensor which is 100 times more sensitive than an equivalent device based on silicon.
Bosch graphene-based sensor: 100x more sensitive than silicon equivalent - Electronics Eetimes
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