A Laptop that Knows Where You're Looking

There is a new laptop by Lenovo which it can sense where the user is looking. It uses the users eye motion to sense where they are looking. This is helpful because where you're reading a text at the bottom of the screen and you don't feel like scrolling down with your mouse the laptop will scroll down by itself with just your eye motions. Also when you aren't looking at the computer it will dim down to save some power. Tobii, a swedish company provided the eye motion software and prototype. The inventor want to make the navigation on the computer more natural. So far only 20 have been made. The computer works by having two cameras at the bottom of the screen one to track the pupil and the other to provide light to make a glint in the eye to make it easier. It is 0.5 degrees accurate. This is a prototype to also test out how ready eye tracking is ready for the market.

How chronic wounds may heal faster

It's obvious that chronic wounds heal faster than those of lesser damage, but what would you say if there was an agent that could speed the healing of these wounds. This would be such a huge advancement in the health of humans. For example, deadly infections could be  much more preventable because these wounds would have less exposure to the diseases and germs. This is done by inserting a bacteria called Clostridium histolyticum which produces collaganese and when added to the cells it causes a reaction allowing them to move faster. If this is made a reality, it can be used to assist troops on the battlefield, and all others who are in similar situations, it would make the world a much safer place.

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/37371/?ref=rss&a=f

Reprogrammable Chips Could Enable Instant Gadget Upgrades

"The new chips—made by a startup called Tabula—are a cheaper, more powerful competitor to an existing type of reprogrammable chip known as a field programmable gate array (FPGA)".This chip can be reconfigured to implement new designs, thus allowing device hardware to be upgraded. The technology needed to build stacked, 3-D chips is still restricted to research labs. Instead Teig found a way to make a chip with just one level behave as if it were eight different ones stacked up. Cycling between up to eight different layouts at up to 1.6 billion times per second.


http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/37406/?p1=A1

Practical Nanotube Electronics

Researchers have found a new way to make nanotube transistor arrays. They are promising for making display control circuits because its more efficient than silicon and can be arranged on very flexible surfaces. Before this creation it took much longer to make the nanotubes, but now they are much easier to make using the carbon nanotubes

Watson Goes to Work in the Hospital

Watson, the IBM supercomputer that appeared on Jeopardy has a new job. The same kind of analytics platform IBM developed for Watson is being used to help monitor and diagnose babies in Intensive Care Units. Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto is using a system called Artemis, which uses the special analytics platform, to collect the data needed to help diagnose these babies. The system can measure the babies blood pressure, temperature, heart rate and breathing rate. It can also access data from medical records, such as the baby’s birth weight.

Can an Algorithm Spot the Next Google?

A program called quid takes words and phrases from documents and constructs a technology genome that describes the primary focus of each of those 35,000 entities. The genomes are used by investors to find hints about interesting companies or ideas. These genomes can represent the seeds of new technology sectors. With these hints, technology is able to advance making things more advanced and most easier.

Emerging Technology

Apple is now looking into three dimensional cameras for their phones and ipods etc. Embodiment, separate luma, chroma and 3-D image sensors may be used to acquire the 3-D effect.The systems and methods may involve image sensing, capture, processing, rendering and/or generating images.

Apple's new link controls the way you hear your music

Apple's newest patent will alter the users music based on their environment. For example, your activities, pictures, and use of the accelerometer will tell the iPhone how to produce variations of the music in your library. In an excerpt from the patent, Apple states that mood and behavior strongly relates to the tempo of the music you listen to. One way for the phone to determine your mood is based on the pace that you walk or if you are exercising/running. The excerpt states, "In fact, some studies have shown that sedative music (low tempo) is great for stretching but bad for strength training, and that stimulating music (high tempo) is good for strength training but bad for stretching."For something that seems like it would be so far in the future to become a reality, Apple has a very well developed idea and the future of this technology is not very far away.

http://www.macnews.com/content/apple-files-patent-music-synchronization-arrangement-think-applenike

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/emergingtech/apple-patent-uses-photos-to-alter-music/2498?tag=mantle_skin;content

iMobots

UC Davis is commercializes a mobile robot that can function like an inchworm. This robot can raise one end of its figure into a platform an it has a camera on the end of it. he patent-pending iMobot could be used as a testbed tool for engineers studying control systems for individual robots or groups of robots. Unlike most commercial robots that are designed for a single purpose, iMobots operate as durable subunits that can function alone or be configured for a specific task. A single iMobot model has four controllable degrees, with two joints in the center section and two wheels, one on each end.