Pedal Power - Charge your gadgets while cycling

Siva Cycle Atom Uses Your Bike To Charge Your Phone

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In recent years, cycling has become less of a transportation choice and more of a passionate lifestyle, something people wear as a badge of honor and extoll like a religion. These cyclists already have all the reasons they need to choose a bike over any other mode of transport, and one new Kickstarter campaign is giving them another reason to choose pedal power. As smartphones and other devices become more integrated into our daily lives, it has become important to keep them fully charged at all times. This is rarely a problem for those who drive instead of ride, but diehard cyclists have had to look for other power options. The idea of transforming a turning wheel into power isn’t new, but Aaron Latzke and David Delcourt have fine tuned this approach with the easy-to-install Siva Cycle Atom, a bicycle-powered generator for the modern city dweller. Like other generators, the Atom uses a turning wheel to capture energy and hold it for later use. Unlike most others, however, it stores this energy in a removable and waterproof battery pack. As shown off in their Kickstarter video, cyclists ride to their local coffee shop, remove the Atom battery pack and charge their iPhones as they enjoy a morning cup of joe. The Atom can be plugged back into the generator afterwards and gather even more energy from the wheels.

A step forward in Mimicking Natural skin.

New research shows how arrays of tiny electronic devices can achieve human-skin-like sensitivity to mechanical force.
    

Arrays of transistors made of nanowires could form the basis of a new class of devices nearly as sensitive to mechanical force as human skin is. The inventor of the technology, Zhong Lin Wang, a professor of materials science and engineering at Georgia Tech, says it has immediate applications in human-machine interfaces. For example, it could be used to capture electronic signatures by recording the distinctive force an individual applies while signing. Down the road, says Wang, his group’s pressure sensor arrays could equip robotics and prosthetics with a human-like sense of touch.
    Electronically replicating the sensitivity of the human sense of touch has proved extremely challenging. Recently, some research groups have demonstrated that micro- or nanoelectronics assembled on flexible, bendable substrates could monitor pressure changes at a fairly high level of detail and thus could potentially act as a kind of “artificial skin.” In the new research, Wang’s group demonstrates nanoelectronics that offer at least a 15-fold enhancement in sensor density and spatial resolution compared to the previous approaches. Further, the electronic properties of the nanowires allowed the researchers to demonstrate through high-resolution imaging an improvement in sensitivity of two to three orders of magnitude. The density, resolution, and sensitivity of the sensors, says Wang, is comparable to that of the skin of a human finger.

Elastic touch screens -- redefining the touch screen experience

     When touchscreens first became widespread on our mobile devices, the main complaint from touchscreen detractors was that it felt weird to poke at a flat surface rather than tactile buttons. Eventually, most of the mobile phone audience grew to either love or live with the flat touchscreen. Now, with an elastic touchscreen you can pull and poke, a project out of MIT’s Media Lab aims to put tactile sensation back into using your devices.

Must beleive -- Injectable Electronics

Miniature LED circuit

 If you think electronic implantation inside the human body is the most advanced medical technique then you are utterly wrong..Soon this concept of implanting electronic circuits inside the body is going to become obsolete. Now we are moving towards the age of Injectable electronics..
What is Injectable electronics?
Making electronic implants for the body is hard to do: Tissue is delicate and stiff components can irritate it. Then there’s getting those implants into the
                                                                                                relevant organ without invasive surgery.

3D solar panels to be tested in space soon...

International Space Station (ISS)

An experimental 3D-textured solar cell is set to be bolted to the outside of the International Space Station (ISS), where it will experience 16 "sunrises" each day as part of a harsh performance test.

A proposal submitted by W. Jud Ready, a professor of materials science at Georgia Tech, to study the performance of his "3D" textured solar cell in space was recently accepted by the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the organization that manages research onboard the ISS. His solar cell, made from carbon nanotubes coated in an experimental light-absorbing material, will hitch a ride to the ISS sometime next year.

Synthetic Malarial drug -- A Trump card to kick Deadly Malaria out of sight...

Malaria awareness

Malaria is  a fatal disease that is responsible for so many deaths in the world.Though there is a approved treatment available for malaria, the malaria drugs are obtained naturally from plants. Due to fluctuations in the climatic conditions of the earth  the supply of this drug is not consistent. This created a big void between supply and demand which took away many lives. There is an estimate that Malaria sickens millions of people each year, killing at least 650,000 annually, mostly children. This made biologists think about synthetic ways to produce malaria drug. 

For the first time, researchers have successfully engineered a strain of baker’s yeast capable of supplying  malaria drugs on an industrial scale.The French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi has already begun brewing the microbes and announced plans to generate 70 million doses this year.The advance is the result of a 10-year odyssey in synthetic biology, the wholesale engineering of an organism’s genetic and metabolic system for practical purposes. 
    “This is the first synthetic biology project that has been scaled up to industrial manufacturing and will have a real impact in the world,” says Jack Newman, chief scientific officer at Amyris. “There should never been a shortage of artemisinin ever again.”

Will we ever transmit thoughts telepathically from one brain to other?

There’s tantalising evidence that technology could one day allow us to transmit thoughts telepathically between two brains. The question is how far can we go?

In a lab at Harvard Medical School, a man is using his mind to wag a rat’s tail. To send his command, he merely glances at a strobe light flickering on a computer screen, and a set of electrodes stuck to his scalp detects the activity triggered in his brain. A computer processes and relays the electrodes’ signal to an ultrasound machine poised over the rat’s head. The machine delivers a train of low-energy ultrasound pulses into the rat’s brain,

Travelwide - Your perfect companion When you are on a move..

Click here to see what this cam is capable of.

If you are a hardcore photographer and you feel your camera as a part of your body, This cam is for you people to carry your cam when you are on the go.

Large format photography is often associated with heavy metal box studio cameras that, put simply, aren't ideal for lugging around.

Chicago-based camera company Wanderlust is hoping to lighten the load. Last week, the duo — Ben Syverson and Justin Lundquist — started a Kickstarter campaign for a portable and ultralight 4x5 film camera called Travelwide.

"SAGE III Ozone Sensor" To Be Installed On Space Station Next Year.

          

  NASA is planning to launch a new, highly-sophisticated space-based ozone sensor to help monitor the layer of atmosphere that helps protect the planet from some of the sun’s harshest UV rays, the US space agency announced on Friday.Dubbed the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III (SAGE III), the sensor is currently scheduled to be installed on the International Space Station (ISS) sometime in 2014. According to NASA, SAGE III will be using the sun and moon as light sources to help monitor the recovery of the ozone layer, which blocks solar UV rays that would otherwise burn skin and cause cancer.

Al Worden: ‘The loneliest human being’

     

AI Worden

Imagine being alone in a dark place in a forest with cent percent silence...This might be the scariest moment we ever think of..We feel we are completely isolated and lonely but there is man who spent much time with himself leaving all of us by a largest distance possible.. This is the actual definition of loneliness..

 Seven men in the history of humanity stand apart from the rest of us. These are the Apollo command module pilots who spent time alone in orbit around the Moon, while their colleagues walked on the lunar surface. When they were on the far side of the Moon, these astronauts were completely out of contact, and further from Earth, than anyone had ever been before. Or has ever been since. out of these seven only five are alive and one among them is Worden.