2009-01-27

GoEverywhere A Cloud-Based Workspace

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Symantec Launches GoEverywhere – Cloud-Based Workspace

Symantec corp is launching their GoEverywhere beta product, an offering that they’re describing as;

a secure SaaS-based workspace that allows users to access their preferred third party web-based email, IM, office and other online applications from one central online location

Clipped from: Your Cloud Workspace - Symantec GoEverywhere | AzureJournal - Windows Azure Blog

New things you will be able to do with goEverywhere:

Connect to and work from the internet on the same desktop from any computer
Log into any location on the internet with one user name and password
Access to many free applications and services on the internet
Sharing of data, documents and photos
Keep your data in one, secure and shareable location

Things you won’t have to do if you use goEverywhere as your desktop:

Choose between a PC and Mac, your can use either or both
Buy common software titles and utilities
Install & update software applications
Backup your files (if you use the storage service)
Upgrade your OS
Migrate to Vista

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Advantages

Personal Online Workspace

Advanced workspace navigation

Zero Management

No need to backup,install,update or reboot.

Online Application Collections

Easy access to free software titles & rich media content

Single Secure Password

One password for all your online applications & storage

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Personal Cloud Computing

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Introduction to the goEverywhere workspace

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Introduction to Open Places

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Setting up & using Safe Places

2009-01-26

Vuzix VR Glasses

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Vuzix VR Glasses - Wrap 920AV

These new VR Glasses look much better than the current models available, have a look at the photo below which compares them to the current Vuzix iWear Video goggles.

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The Wrap 920AV is the world’s “first in class” Video Eyewear that takes
the form of a standard pair of fashionable sunglasses with
revolutionary ‘see-thru’ Quantum optics technology that doesn’t block
out the world around you.

Connects to any video device

The Wrap 920AV is designed to connect to all NTSC or PAL audio/video
devices with video-out capabilities.

Supported devices include:

iPod®/iPhone
Portable DVD Players
Media Players
Digital Cameras
Camcorders
Cellular phones with video out
Video Game Systems
PCs & Laptops with S-Video

Features:

Unique ‘see-thru’ lens design
30 degree field of view
Equivalent to a 60” screen viewed from nine feet
Removable noise-cancelling earphones
Works with iPod® and iPhone
Works for six hours with 2 AA batteries
Weighs less than three ounces
Prescription inserts available from Vuzix

2009-01-25

Jumbo Hostel

Clipped from: Spend The Night In A 747 | The Daily Luxury News Blog from Luxury-Insider.com

Spend The Night In A 747

While spending long hours aboard a plane probably signal fitful sleep for most of us, a night’s rest on board a plane may soon become the coveted choice of sleep with the debut of Jumbo Hostel – the world’s first hostel in a plane.

Permanently stationed at the entrance to Stockholm Arlanda Airport, The Jumbo Hostel is easily accessible from the busy airport, providing an opportune alternative to transit stays.

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25 rooms

Jumbo Hostel offers 25 rooms with most three beds in each. All together, the hostel offers 72 beds; one more luxurious are to be found at the uper deck.

The cockpit suite

Do you want to stay the night in the cockpit of a jumbo jet? Then go to the Jumbo Hostel at Arlanda. Here, the aircraft’s cockpit has been converted into a de luxe suite with parts of the original interior saved as curiosities. From the suite’s panoramic windows you have a magnificent view of the air traffic at Arlanda.

2009-01-24

Long-Distance Teleportation Achieved

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Scientist Teleport Matter More Than Three Feet

Scientists have come a bit closer to achieving the "Star Trek" feat of teleportation.

No one is galaxy-hopping, or even beaming people around, but for the first time, information has been teleported between two separate atoms across a distance of a meter — about a yard.

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Quantum Teleportation Is a Go!

Researchers have accomplished teleportation, though not of the “Beam me up, Scotty” variety. Instead, they sent information between two individual atoms of the element ytterbium, which were suspended in separate containers three feet apart. Because the quantum information instantly hops from one atom to the other without ever crossing the space between the two, scientists call the transfer “teleportation” [Science News].

Over the years, teleportation experiments have demonstrated that quantum states - for example, the spin of a particle or the polarization of a photon - can be teleported using a variety of methods. But the researchers behind the latest experiment … claim that this is the first time information has been teleported between two separate atoms in unconnected enclosures [MSNBC].

Clipped from: Long-Distance Teleportation Between Two Atoms Achieved :: University Communications Newsdesk, University of Maryland

Long-Distance Teleportation Between Two Atoms Achieved

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Prof. Christopher Monroe's research group at the University of Maryland Department of Physics and Joint Quantum Institute

[...] focuses on the electromagnetic manipulation of individual atoms
and photons for fundamental studies of quantum mechanics and applications in quantum information science.

Quantum Teleportation Is a Go! | 80beats | Discover Magazine

University of Maryland Trapped Ion Quantum Computing Group

Long-Distance Teleportation Between Two Atoms Achieved :: University Communications Newsdesk, University of Maryland

Quantum Leap: Information Teleported between Ions at a Distance: Scientific American

Technology Review: A Quantum Memory Leap

One quantum leap - Cosmic Log - msnbc.com

Teleportation Milestone Achieved | LiveScience

Quantum T Quantum Technologies Move A Step Closer With Demonstration Of An 'Entanglement' Filter eleportation Between Distant Matter Qubits: First Between Atoms 1 Meter Apart

Quantum Teleportation Between Distant Matter Qubits -- Olmschenk et al. 323 (5913): 486 -- Science

2009-01-23

Ancient Nile Water Levels Indicate Sun-Climate Connection

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NASA Links Ancient Nile Records to Sun's Impact on Climate Change

NASA announced that a group of NASA and university scientists has found a convincing link between long-term solar and climate variability in a unique and unexpected source: directly measured ancient water level records of the Nile, Earth's longest river, which runs south to north through Egypt.

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"Since the time of the pharaohs, the water levels of the Nile were
accurately measured, since they were critically important for
agriculture and the preservation of temples in Egypt," she said. "These
records are highly accurate and were obtained directly, making them a
rare and unique resource for climatologists to peer back in time."

...

The researchers found some clear links between the sun's activity
and climate variations. The Nile water levels and aurora records had
two somewhat regularly occurring variations in common - one with a
period of about 88 years and the second with a period of about 200
years.

...

So what causes these cyclical links between solar variability and the Nile? The authors suggest that variations in the sun's ultraviolet energy cause adjustments in a climate pattern called the Northern Annular Mode, which affects climate in the atmosphere of the Northern Hemisphere during the winter. At sea level, this mode becomes the North Atlantic Oscillation, a large-scale seesaw in atmospheric mass that affects how air circulates over the Atlantic Ocean. During periods of high solar activity, the North Atlantic Oscillation's influence extends to the Indian Ocean. These adjustments may affect the distribution of air temperatures, which subsequently influence air circulation and rainfall at the Nile River's sources in eastern equatorial Africa. When solar activity is high, conditions are drier, and when it is low, conditions are wetter.

Related:
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2009-01-21

Paper House

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The Wall paper house offers cheap dry home for poor and displaced

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New Design Could Revolutionize World Slums

A new invention could soon change the face of shantytowns across the globe. Called "Universal World House," the structures are light, cheap -- and made of paper.

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Swiss Company Offers Paper Homes

A Swiss company known as The Wall AG, has created a $5,000, 390 square foot modular home.

This house is marketed towards third-world towns, for long-term refugees. The Universal World House can be transported and used almost anywhere. It is light, easily assembled, environmentally friendly, earthquake-proof and extremely cheap.

The Universal World House is crafted out of a resin-soaked cellulose, made from recycled paper, shaped into honeycomb walls, which provide structural integrity and insulation for the home. It also comes outfitted for plumbing and boarding facilities of up to 8 residents.

The home's inventor, Gerd Niemoeller, says that the paper house weighs just 1,763lb, which is lighter than a VW Golf. “Without the foundation block, the whole house actually weighs in at about 400kg,” says the design engineer. However, despite it being light, the house will not simply blow away.

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Honeycomb Paper House.

SwissCell walls are based on hexagonal structures similar to honeycombs: the technique results in lightweight but strong boards, typical used in the vehicle and aircraft industry. Usually honeycomb boards are made of aluminum – an expensive and energy intensive material. SwissCell, by contrast, is a cellulose product, impregnated by synthetic resin.

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2009-01-19

Trispecs Stereo Bluetooth Sunglasses

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Sunglasses Combines Music Player, Bluetooth Headset

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Las Vegas, NV January 7, 2009 -- Tri-Specs® Inc., the company that combines high-tech and high-fashion in user-friendly consumer electronics, is now offering Bluetooth-enabled eyewear that combines the best acoustic technology for noise cancellation and voice quality in mobile communications with acoustically enhanced, premium stereo sound for a great MP3 music experience using buttons on the arms of the glasses.

TriSpecs™ are highly styled glasses with a simple user experience and STEP Labs' unsurpassed noise elimination acoustic technology. They combine dual microphones, dual speakers, and Bluetooth connectivity in a mobile accessory which produces the best voice quality and intelligibility on the market.

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CES 2009: Trispecs Designer Stereo Bluetooth Sunglasses

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Feature Run down:

* Power turns on by extending the in-ear speakers
* Voice prompts and voice dialing for easy, hands-free use
* Instant, dynamic volume to compensate for noise changes in the environment
* Retractable standard earbud speakers or upgrade with in-ear barrel speakers
* One-touch activation of phone calls
* MP3 and call control buttons on the arms of the glasses
* Available in black, white, and metallic with optional designs and style elements

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TriSpecs Bluetooth Shades Cut the Dork Factor

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Yeah, we thought the original sunglasses/earphones concept was a little dorky, too. But new TriSpecs shades look like something you might want to wear.

2009-01-18

Nano Machines and a Nano-GPS System to Combat Cancer

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Mini-”submarine” will be able to combat cancer within 3 years

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The unique invention will not carry curios scientist inside the human body, but will be made out of biological materials and will be able to deliver drugs in order to destroy cancer cells and faulty proteins.

These biological nano-machines can be targeted against a specific kind of cells, their ability to track down leukocytes in mice with ulcerative colitis already having been observed. The “submarine” will use a nano-sized carrier which works like a GPS in order to find the right cells and deliver their charge to them, leaving the healthy tissue untouched. Among the first to work by using this revolutionary idea, the new disease fighter uses a drug based on RNAi, which reprograms cells to function correctly and destroys the ones affected by cancer.

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A Nano-GPS System

"Our lab is creating biological nano-machines," says Dr. Peer. "These machines can target specific cells. In fact, we can target any protein that might be causing disease or disorder in the human body. This new invention treats the source, not the symptoms."

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Nanoparticle

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Figure 1 - Schematic representation of different mechanisms by which nanocarriers can deliver drugs to tumours.

From the following article:

Nanocarriers as an emerging platform for cancer therapy
Dan Peer, Jeffrey M. Karp, Seungpyo Hong, Omid C. Farokhzad, Rimona Margalit & Robert Langer
Nature Nanotechnology 2, 751 - 760 (2007)

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Dr. Dan Peer

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"We have tapped into the same ancient system the human body uses to protect itself from viruses," says Dr. Peer, who is also investigating a number of topical applications for his medical subs. "And the beauty of it is the basic material of our nano-carriers is natural," he says.

The Tel Aviv University team plans to launch their medical submarines, following FDA regulations, within three to five years. Their immediate focus is on blood, pancreatic, breast and brain cancers.

2009-01-17

IBM's NanoMRI Microscope

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IBM Research's nanoMRI microscope

IBM Research scientists, in collaboration with the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with volume resolution 100 million times finer than conventional MRI. This result, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), signals a significant step forward in tools for molecular biology and nanotechnology by offering the ability to study complex 3D structures at the nanoscale. By extending MRI to such fine resolution, the scientists have created a microscope that, with further development, may ultimately be powerful enough to unravel the structure and interactions of proteins, paving the way for new advances in personalized healthcare and targeted medicine. This achievement stands to impact the study of materials from proteins to integrated circuits for which a detailed understanding of atomic structure is essential.

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Researchers Create Microscope With 100 Million Times Finer Resolution Than Current MRI

Electron micrograph showing the end of the silicon cantilever with several virus particles attached. Adapted from Fig. 1 of the PNAS article.

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Rendering of the key elements of a magnetic resonance force microscope. An ultrasensitive silicon cantilever detects the tiny magnetic force between a nanoscale magnetic tip (green) and the hydrogen nuclei present in the virus particles placed at the end of the cantilever (blue, seen in the reflection). Nanoscale magnetic resonance imaging is achieved by manipulating the hydrogen nuclei in the sample with a radiofrequency magnetic field generated by a "microwire" (red). A sensitivity improvement of 100 million is achieved compared to conventional magnetic resonance imaging.

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The IBM MRFM uses a magnetic sensor tip which picks up on the minute magnetic forces of hydrogen atoms in the sample, called a resonant slice. The slice sits beneath a tiny silicon cantilever which vibrates in the presence of minute magnetic fields. Vibrations are tracked by a laser interferometer, recording 3D details of whatever's at that location. Image courtesy of IBM.

2009-01-16

LightLane -- The Personal Bike Lane

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Bike Safety Concept of the Day: LightLane - The Personal Bike Lane.

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LightLane, a safety concept from the clever designers at Altitude, Inc. The system projects a virtual bike lane (using lasers!) on the ground around the cyclists, providing drivers with a recognizable boundary they can easily avoid. The idea is to allow riders to take safety into their own hands, rather than leaving it to the city.

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Light Lane - Concept from Altitude’s Alex Tee and Evan Gant

Instead of adapting cycling to established bike lanes, the bike lane should adapt to the cyclists. This is the idea behind the LightLane. Our system projects a crisply defined virtual bike lane onto pavement, using a laser, providing the driver with a familiar boundary to avoid. With a wider margin of safety, bikers will regain their confidence to ride at night, making the bike a more viable commuting alternative.

2009-01-15

Life on Mars

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Exclusive

Nasa reveals life on Mars

Proof ... NASA scientists detect
gas on the Red Planet

Nasa scientists say the gas emissions could have either a geological or
biological source - as The Sun exclusively revealed today.

Discovery ... Nasa created image of gas found on Mars

Mission ... probe on the surface of Mars

What a scoop ... Phoenix lander dug up chunks of ice last year

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Mars
NASA Explores the Red Planet

Martian Methane Reveals the Red Planet is not a Dead Planet

This image shows concentrations of Methane discovered on Mars.

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Scientists don't yet know enough to say with certainty what the source of the Martian methane is, but this artist's concept depicts a possibility. In this illustration, subsurface water, carbon dioxide and the planet's internal heat combine to release methane. Although we don’t have evidence on Mars of active volcanoes today, ancient methane trapped in ice "cages" might now be released.

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NASA | The Mystery of Martian Methane

2009-01-14

A Virus Nanomotor

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Clockwork That Drives Powerful Virus Nanomotor Discovered

ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2008) — Peering at structures only atoms across, researchers have identified the clockwork that drives a powerful virus nanomotor.

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Biologists learn structure, mechanism of powerful 'molecular motor' in virus

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The motor is needed to insert DNA into the capsid of the T4 virus, which is called a bacteriophage because it infects bacteria. The same kind of motor, however, also is likely present in other viruses, including the human herpes virus.

"Molecular motors in double-stranded DNA viruses have never been shown in such detail before," said Siyang Sun, a postdoctoral research associate working in Rossmann's lab.

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Biological Sciences

MICHAEL ROSSMANN

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Press Release 08-220
Viruses, Start Your Engines!

Researchers find what drives one of nature's powerful, nanoscale motors

Because of the motor's strength--to scale, twice that of an automobile--the new findings could inspire engineers designing sophisticated nanomachines. In addition, because a number of virus types may possess a similar motor, including the virus that causes herpes, the results may also assist pharmaceutical companies developing methods to sabotage virus machinery.

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Virus as Nano Motors Part 1 of 3

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Virus as Nano Motors Part 2 of 3

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Virus as Nano Motors Part 3 of 3

2009-01-13

MobVis -- Smart Mobile Vision

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Image Recognition Software Breakthrough

ScienceDaily (Jan. 7, 2009) — Image recognition is a long-standing challenge in science. But European researchers have achieved a breakthrough by developing a powerful image-recognition application with mass-market appeal. There is a bright future for the technology.

An image-recognition system developed by European researchers can hyperlink reality. It’s true. The MOBVIS system can recognise individual buildings in a photo you take with your camera-phone. Then it can apply icons that hyperlink to information about the building. Simply by looking at a picture, the system knows where you are and can tell what you are looking at.

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MobVis

Vision Technologies and Intelligent Maps for Mobile Attentive Interfaces in Urban Scenarios

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Summary

The MOBVIS project identifies the key issue for the realisation of smart mobile vision services to be the application of context to solve otherwise intractable vision tasks. In order to achieve this challenging goal, MOBVIS claims that three components, (1) multi-modal context awareness, (2) vision based object recognition, and (3) intelligent map technology, should be combined for the first time into a completely innovative system - the attentive interface.

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Demos

Object Awareness

Visual Localisation

Multimodal Positioning

Visual Context Awareness

Multimodal Context

Augmented Digital City Maps

Geo-Services & Incremental Map Updating

Visual Attention

2009-01-12

Tesla's High-Performance All-Electric Roadster Sport

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US: Tesla Motors launches Roadster Sport

The Californian EV maker Tesla Motors unveiled a new Sport version of its Roadster at the Detroit NAIAS show on 11 January. Tesla said it has begun taking orders for the US$128,500 car, which will be available in late June 2009. The Sport accelerates...

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Introducing the Roadster Sport from Tesla Motors

Going 0 to 60 mph in 3.7 seconds flat is the Roadster Sport from Tesla Motors. This baby is a , a high-performance sports car based on the world's leading all-electric, zero-emission vehicle.

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Tesla Roadster On the Road

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Tesla Roadster "best commercial ever" UPDATED!

2009-01-11

Fuel Producing Bacteria

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Luca Technologies raises $76 million for microbes that 'eat' coal, 'breathe out' natural gas

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Fuel from Coal-Eating Microbes

A process for converting coal into natural gas could help reduce emissions.

Luca Technologies, a startup based in Golden, CO, has raised $76 million to scale up a process that uses coal-digesting microorganisms to convert coal into methane. The process is designed to operate underground, inside coal beds. Methane, the key component of natural gas, can then be pumped out and used to generate electricity or power vehicles.

Gas bugs: Methane-generating bacteria on a coal sample from Wyoming's Powder River Basin, viewed by scanning electron microscopy.
Credit: Luca Technologies

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Technology Backgrounder Core Inventory Patents Bibliography Flash Photo Gallery

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How a Geobioreactor Functions

The biogenic creation of methane from a higher molecular weight hydrocarbon source is a multi-step process, most likely accomplished by a consortium of microorganisms acting together in a symbiotic fashion. Through a series of steps, various organisms in the consortium breakdown the large hydrocarbon molecules in coal or oil into intermediate, water-soluble compounds, which are then reduced to even smaller hydrocarbon molecules, and finally metabolized into methane by a group of organisms known as methanogens.

In order for a Geobioreactor to function, the appropriate environmental conditions must be present, including an abundant hydrocarbon substrate (such as a coal bed), a water-saturated environment, a complete absence of free oxygen, and the presence of the correct consortia of organisms.

2009-01-10

SDXC 2 Terabytes Memory Cards

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New SDXC Memory Card Spec Supports 2TB Capacities

The SD Association has announced a new card spec dubbed SDXC (eXtended Capacity) that can support memory capacities up to 2TB with read/write speeds to 104MB per second.

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SDXC expands SD into Terabyte territory

Turning mobile phones into media centers

SDXC allows users to enjoy more from their mobile phones. Larger capacity and faster transfer speeds allow for expanded entertainment and data storage. A 2TB SDXC memory card can store 100 HD movies, 480 hours of HD recording or 136,000 fine-grade photos.

Shooting pictures at the speed of life

SDXC is also the first memory card specification to provide 2TB storage without hindering the high-speed performance necessary for high-end photography. It will provide maximum speeds even when the SDXC specification achieves its maximum 2TB storage capacity.

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Association Press Releases

SD Card Association Announces SDXC

2009-01-09

World’s First Internet Car Radio

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Blaupunkt partners with miRoamer for Internet Radio for the Car

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This year’s CES will see Blaupunkt and miRoamer put Internet radio into car dashboards for the first time. According to miRoamer founder and CEO George Parthimos, “miRoamer’s development with Blaupunkt is the first seamless Internet radio solution. With the simple push of a button, users can access AM/FM stations or Internet radio’s thousands of music, entertainment, news and talk stations from around the world, all from the same car stereo.”

The first model will connect to a 3G/HSDPA/HSPA device via Bluetooth for Internet connectivity. When connecting to the Internet from an external device (Like an iPhone), the customer’s existing service provider is the default network. They have various models in the pipeline which may have their own internal modem.

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miRoamer Partners with Blaupunkt to Introduce the World’s First Internet Car Radio

About miRoamer

miRoamer is an Australian-based subsidiary of Mi Media Holdings Limited. Their miRoamer technology is a category-leading software for enhanced Internet radio entertainment, which can be installed in a variety of consumer electronic products, including car radios, smart phones, digital picture frames, and audio-visual equipment from televisions to home stereo systems. Users have access to media content from a common platform, using as many electronic products as they wish. The miRoamer Internet portal allows users to access favorite content providers and stations, as well as customize how they access them. For more information, call 317-806-1900 x120 or visit
www.miroamer.com.

About Blaupunkt

For information about Blaupunkt visit www.blaupunkt.com.

2009-01-08

'Love spray' being developed?

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Could we reduce love to a pill? Maybe, says expert

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 2009 (Reuters) — Could a pill or a squirt up your nose save your marriage? Maybe, according to a researcher who is studying the chemical basis of that most elusive of emotions -- love.

"Biologists may soon be able to reduce certain mental states associated with love to a biochemical chain of events," Young, of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University in Atlanta, wrote in the journal Nature.

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Love spray being developed by scientists

Love really could be a drug, say scientists, who believe that one day the feelings may be induced by popping a pill or smelling perfume.

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'Love potion' being developed

Love is in the air...or a nose spray

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Love is a drug, scientists find

Chemical reaction: Dr Young says circuitry and neurochemicals underlie love. (AAP: Paul Miller )

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Is love just a chemical cocktail

A rich experience, or just a bunch of chemicals?

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It could be as easy as popping a pill: Scientists race to unlock 'love drug'

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Scientists To Develop ‘Love Spray’ Soon!

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Behavioral
Neuroscience

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Behavioral neuroscience is the main research interest of more than 30 Faculty in the Neuroscience Program. Strengths include computational and functional imaging studies of brain alterations in drugs dependence, neurobiology of learning and memory, alterations of cognitive function in ageing, psychobiology of motivation, regulation of neuroendocrine functions, molecular and neurochemical substrates of social behavior and fear conditioning, functional integration of motor and vestibular information in control of eye movements, neural basis of visual attention and neural substrates of motor control in normal and pathological conditions.

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Larry J. Young

Principal Investigator

2009-01-07

Japanese Nurse Robot Twendy-One

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Would You Trust Your Patients to Twendy-One?

PTC (The Product Development Company® of Needham, Massachusetts) is reporting that one of its software products has been selected by Waseda University's Sugano Laboratory as "the main engineering tool for the development of a human-symbiotic robot."

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HISTORY

WENDY (Waseda Engineering Designed sYmbiont)

TWENDY-ONE is an advanced version of the WENDY robot (Waseda Engineering Designed　sYmbiont) which was developed in 1999 in Sugano Laboratory,

Egg breaking

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CONCEPT

TWENDY-ONE

When TWENDY-ONE manipulates an object with various shape, it is easy for TWENDY-ONE to adapt to the object by passivity to absorb external force generated by the positioning deviation. In the same way, TWENDY-ONE can adapt to human motion and hold a human. As a result, TWENDY-ONE can manipulate an object dexterously as well as support a human.

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DEMO

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2009-01-06

Sharklet's Antibacterial Surfaces

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Sharklet Technology Bets on Antibacterial Topographies

Sharklet Technologies, LLC, an Alachua, Fla. firm, says that they have figured out a new way to control infections on artificial surfaces. After extensively studying shark's skin, the company says its proprietary Sharklet™ surface technology can control the growth of microorganisms and bacteria including Staph aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and E. coli. The most interesting thing about the Sharklet™ is that the antibacterial properties of the surface come not from the chemicals but rather from the shape and microscopic pattern alone.

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Medical Design

Shark skin shows how to keeps surfaces clean

The six panels come from a 21-day study that monitored the growth of Staphylococcus aureus on a smooth surface (left column of Dow Corning Silastic T-2 elastomer) and a Sharklet surface. Top row shows bacterial growth after seven days, the middle row after 14, and bottom row after 21. The bacteria have been highlighted with color.

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Sharklet Technologies

Sharklet Technologies is a biotechnology company that develops and brings to market surface technologies that are designed to inhibit or enhance microorganism growth to make the world a healthier, environmentally safer and better place.

Sharklet^TM
Surface Technology

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The engineered topograpy approach to designing surfaces evaluates the effects on bioadhesion of systematically altering the following surface properties (depicted in the image below):

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Market Opportunities for Sharklet™

Sharklet Technologies believes that the Sharklet™ surface technology is a versatile solution for the complex problem of hospital acquired infections.

Hygienic Surfaces

Medical Devices

Marine Applications

In addition to the healthcare sector, Sharklet^TM holds great potential to provide the maritime industries with an environmentally-friendly alternative to metal-based antifouling paints.

2009-01-05

Mind Reading and Thought Identification

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Scientists move a step closer to mind-reading

Scientists have developed a method for reading a person's mind using brain scans.

Once it has been trained on an individual subject's thoughts, the computer model can analyse new brain scan images and work out which noun a person is thinking about - even with words that the model has never encountered before.

The model is based on the way nouns are associated in the brain with verbs such as see, hear, listen and taste. The research will inevitably raise fears that scientists could soon be able to read a person's mind without them realising.

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A Computer That Can 'Read' Your Mind

Research team's work with brain scans and computational modeling an important breakthrough in understanding the brain and developing new computational tools

Predicted fMRI images for "celery" and "airplane" show significant similarities with the observed images for each word. Red indicates areas of high activity, blue indicates low activity.

Clipped from: How Technology May Soon "Read" Your Mind, 60 Minutes: Incredible Research Lets Scientists Get A Glimpse At Your Thoughts - CBS News

CBS News

How Technology May Soon "Read" Your Mind

The technology that is transforming what once was science fiction into just plain science is a specialized use of MRI scanning called "functional MRI," fMRI for short. It makes it possible to see what's going on inside the brain while people are thinking.

"You know, every time I walk into that scanner room and I see the person's brain appear on the screen, when I see those patterns, it is just incredible, unthinkable," neuroscientist Marcel Just told Stahl.

He calls it "thought identification."

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Clipped from: May 29: Computer Model Reveals How Brain Represents Meaning - Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon Computer Model
Reveals How Brain Represents Meaning

Predicts Brain Activation Patterns for Thousands of Concrete Nouns

The team, led by computer scientist Tom M. Mitchell and cognitive neuroscientist Marcel Just, constructed the computational model by using fMRI activation patterns for 60 concrete nouns and by statistically analyzing a set of texts totaling more than a trillion words, called a text corpus. The computer model combines this information about how words are used in text to predict the activation patterns for thousands of concrete nouns contained in the text corpus with accuracies significantly greater than chance.

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Scientists move a step closer to mind-reading | Science | guardian.co.uk
nsf.gov - National Science Foundation (NSF) News - A Computer That Can 'Read' Your Mind - US National Science Foundation (NSF)
How Technology May Soon "Read" Your Mind, 60 Minutes: Incredible Research Lets Scientists Get A Glimpse At Your Thoughts - CBS News
May 29: Computer Model Reveals How Brain Represents Meaning - Carnegie Mellon University
Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging
Machine Learning Department - Carnegie Mellon University

2009-01-04

Android for Netbooks

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Android is not just an operating system for mobile phones and it's likely that it will be used for netbooks, ultra-portable laptops which started to become popular last year. Daniel Hartmann managed to install Android on an Asus EEEPC 1000H "with nearly all of the necessary hardware you'd want (including graphics, sound and the wireless card for internet) running". It's also interesting to see that some Android code references Asus Eee 701, the first Asus netbook.

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The Open Handset Alliance, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies, developed Android: the first complete, open, and free mobile platform.

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The Android platform is a software stack for mobile devices including an operating system, middleware and key applications. Developers can create applications for the platform using the Android SDK. Applications are written using the Java programming language and run on Dalvik, a custom virtual machine designed for embedded use, which runs on top of a Linux kernel.

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A Netbook With Android: Far-Fetched or Coming Soon?

With 2008 coming to a close and CES just around the corner, I’m thinking about what 2009 will bring us. One idea, which at first may sound far-fetched, gets easier to believe if one considers two of the hottest trends right now: netbooks and Android. Could they actually go together, like peanut butter and chocolate? With help from Qualcomm, another Open Handset Alliance member, they just might.

Clipped from: Android for Netbooks?

VentureBeat speculates that we could see the first netbooks preloaded with Android in less than a year, but Android could become a general-purpose operating system for any kind of devices. Installing apps for your car or TV is not too far fetched.

Clipped from: Android netbooks on their way, likely by 2010 » VentureBeat

Android netbooks on their way, likely by 2010

The image above shows a netbook Asus EEEPC 1000H running on Google’s mobile operating system Android.

Clipped from: An FAQ about those Android netbooks » VentureBeat

An FAQ about those Android netbooks

Do you think Android could run on laptops or PCs?

The simple answer is “yes, with an asterisk.” [...]

Are laptops or PCs too complex as pieces hardware compared to a netbook?

No, they are not too complex. [...]

Why does Google not use Linux?

We don’t know. ...]

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Android netbooks on their way, likely by 2010 » VentureBeat
An FAQ about those Android netbooks » VentureBeat
Android wants to be on any device, not just your phone » VentureBeat
Google Watch - Google Operating System - Is a Google Operating System Built on Android, Gears in the Cards?

2009-01-03

Micro Dwellings -- A Micro Home Concept

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Micro Dwellings by N55

Here’s another micro home concept from the artists of N55. It’s a housing system constructed from truncated octahedrons. Due to the perfect symmetry of a truncated octahedron multiple units can be joined to form larger more complex structures. It has 8 regular hexagonal faces and 6 square faces. When assembled these flat faces also form the supporting structure. The size is limited only by the material’s size and strength.

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MICRO DWELLINGS

Construction:

Door with lock. Windows
and doors also function as docking ports with other modules.

Detachable legs mounted on hydraulic jacks.

Interior with combined table and bed.

Truncated octahedra, truncated tetrahedra and cuboctahedra
combined.

MICRO DWELLING SITUATIONS:

MICRO DWELLINGS, London 2006

MICRO DWELLING submerged version, In collaboration
with UC3 Nautilus, Copenhagen 2008

Gate Tower Building

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Amazing Gate Tower Building in Japan

The building has a double core construction. The Umeda Exit of the Ikeda Route of the Hanshin Expressway system passes through the fifth through seventh floors of this building. The expressway is the tenant of those floors. The elevator passes through the floors without stopping. The floors through which the highway passes consist primarily of elevators, stairways and similar things.

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The Hanshin Expressway penetrates a building 阪神高速道路梅田出口

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