Ever heard of a flying taxi service? I certainly hadn't until today. This made it even more of a surprise to find out that autonomous vehicles aren't sticking to the ground!
AAT or Autonomous Air Taxi test drove its self flying drone over the city of Dubai. The drone/helicopter hybrid made by German manufacturer Volocopter. Currently this two seater vehicle cruises at a nice 31 mph approximately 200 meters above the bustling city below. This remarkable autonomous taxi is scheduled to participate in testing over the course of the next 5 years while rules & regulations are established for this intriguing transportation method. Dubai anticipates this program to excel. Gaining and meeting 1/4 of the city's transportation needs by 2030! Sources:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/26/16365614/dubai-testing-uncrewed-two-person-flying-taxis-volocopter
http://www.ibtimes.com/watch-dubai-tests-flying-taxi-drone-future-ride-hailing-service-2594198
http://www.newsweek.com/dubai-video-shows-worlds-first-flight-automated-flying-taxis-over-emirati-city-671094
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Ever heard of Amazon's attempt at increasing ship time by utilizing drones to deliver packages quickly? It's likely you have, however have you ever thought of other uses a drone can have (outside of photography)? Zipline did.
Zipline is a California based company operating life saving drones over Rwanda and moving into Tanzania. Since the beginning of the company in 2016, Zipline has primarily transported blood supplying Rwanda with up to 20% of the nations blood supply. The company has just announced its plans to begin operations in Tanzania to better help the country reach its large population of rural citizens with crucial medical supplies. Apart from supplying the country with blood transport system Zipline will be adding anti venom and rabbies vaccines across the country. There will be 4 distribution centers spread across the country expected to maintain approximately 2,000 deliveries a day to a thousand different medical facilities. This will allow the supplies to be delivered in approximately 30 minutes. For more information please visit:
https://www.geekwire.com/2017/zipline-expands-medical-drone-delivery-tanzania-aid-gates-foundation/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/leifwalcutt/2017/08/24/zipline-is-launching-the-worlds-largest-drone-delivery-network-in-tanzania/#4d369bab293b
Believe it or not its possibility is closer to reality than not! A research team at Ohio State University has been working on a project to turn skin cells into any type of cell the body might need. To do this the team has created a black silicon chip, about the size of a finger nail, that is activated by a drop of genetic code and an energy source. The chip has yet to be tested on humans, however has seen very promising results on animals if applied within 72 hours of the damage occurrence. The non-abrasive procedure has the ability to take place in a variety of location due to its the procedure being non laboratory based. So far the team of twenty-six researchers covering the areas of engineering, medicine, and science have tested their technology on pigs as well as rats, focusing on rebuilding limbs and repairing brain damage.The leading researchers Sen and L. James Lee, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering in Ohio State’s College of Engineering recently published a letter in the Nature Nanotechnology journal, a peer-reviewed scientific publication about their innovation. Next steps for this innovate life changing technology is to begin trial testing on humans. Clinical testing with humans will begin next year. To find out more about this technology or review sources please visit http://www.timesreporter.com/news/20170808/ohio-state-researchers-report-breakthrough-in-cell-regeneration and https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/08/Ohio-state-genetic-device-breakthrough-organ-tissue-repair/and https://news.osu.edu/news/2017/08/07/regenerative-med-study/. If you've ever driven a motorcycle, motorbike, or scooter on a busy road filled with large cars you know the potentially fatal risks associated with being distracted. One wrong move and you can end up in intensive care or worse. Nuviz recognized this issue and have developed a better hands free all in one system to minimize distractions on the road. This new technology removes the need to use devices such as cell phones, cameras, or a gps. This handless attachment clips to the outside of your helmet and displays a variety of different functions. The functions:
For more information please visit: https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/27/nuviz-headsup-display/ and https://www.ridenuviz.com/. Both sites were used in the creation of this post. Never heard of it? No surprise. This revolutionary transportation method hasn't hit the streets yet, but when it does the concept of a plane being the fastest transportation method will be left in the dust! What exactly is the Hyperloop one? It is a train like vessel that speeds its passengers from one location to another faster than a plane! This was accomplished by creating a semi vacuum within a tub and adding magnetic levitating to the vessel to minimize friction and increase speed through the propulsion system. In recent months Hyperloop announced its pods to carry cargo and passengers. Plans show the pods being 28 foot made out of aluminum and carbon fiber. In May during the first successful full scale test of a hyperloop managed to reach speeds of 70mph in just over five seconds! Showing only a fraction of the 700mph estimated the pods will go once the system is up and running. Hyperloop One is planning an aggressive strategy to have 3 production systems up and running by 2021! For more information visit Hyperloop One's website at https://hyperloop-one.com/ . Hyperloop One's Youtube page at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgHxCbvEySG5jLmHOT1YkSQ/videos. Other sites used for this article include http://fortune.com/2017/07/13/hyperloop-one-test-nevada/ and https://www.wired.com/story/hyperloop-one-test-success/ Nearly everyone has heard of Amazon's Echo or similar smart speakers. If you live somewhere like America you probably can't go more than a couple days without hearing Alexa ordering someone's food or playing music throughout the house as an actor is accomplishing tasks. But have you ever really sat down and just looked at the the different features these amazing products actually have? Here are just a few of the uses often found in these products!
Do you wake up to a blaring alarm clock every morning? Then immediately begin multitasking. It can be difficult juggling your phone, toothbrush, and makeup when preparing for the day. Skip the hassle just ask “What is on my calendar today? Or ask for the traffic report, weather, or news without ever lifting a finger!
There are so many uses for these products all you have to do is ask. So, next time your running late or too comfy on the couch to move just tell your smart speaker what to do! For more information please visit https://www.yahoo.com/tech/amazons-echo-smart-speakers-much-realize-185719709.html or https://www.digitaltrends.com/home/amazon-echo-tips-and-tricks/2/. Have you ever thought "what if I could understand everyone around me?" I have. Just the other day I went to go get Boba at a nearby Vietnamese restaurant. Me being the curious person I am, wished I could understand what they were snickering about. Now there is a solution! The solution is BabelOn. A device that allows you to speak and understand anyone through language barriers. This LA based product was created by Marcy and Strath Hamilton when they noticed the increased demand of dubbing within the film industry. Their daughter Daisy has since grown it into what we see now. The BabelOn technology will revolutionize Ai and how the world overcomes language barriers. BabelOn will be a hardware and software platform that will be able to read and relay each persons individual voice. The platform will not only capture the words themselves, but shall also capture timber, emotion intent, and tone. With this BabelOn will translate between a multitude of languages. Initial targets for this technology mainly include the entertainment world. BabelOn has been working hand in hand with film studios dubbing sectors, as well as a senior scientist at NASA. They have received lots of interest from publications and video game companies. I look forward to seeing the bright future BabelOn has ahead! For more information about Babelon please visit http://www.babelon.net/about_us and https://www.forbes.com/sites/alextaub/2017/06/29/meet-babelon-an-la-based-startup-helping-you-speak-to-anyone-and-be-understood-by-everyone/2/#23755dc57910. The Super Bowl is here! Time for players to show off their skills and play the best they can at the ultimate Football showdown. So many aspects go into the game and make it fun and one of the most important SAFETY. In recent years there have been controversies regarding injuries sustained to the head and how to prevent the damage being done. Has Sam Browd, a neurosurgeon at Seattle Children's Hospital thought that there had to be something to better protect the head for his young athletes and so he partnered with Dave Marver and Per Reihall. All three are connected with Seattle based universities and have backgrounds in medical technology and mechanical engineering. Together they began VICIS, a company addressing ways to deduce concussions. VICIS worked on producing a better helmet intended for football players and last month they released the Zero1 helmet with help from the University of Washington. As stated by Forbes this helmet is unlike any seen before. This is because VICIS through out the conventional helmet approaches and started from scratch with a purpose of protecting the head from concussions. This revolutionary new helmet has the elements of physics behind it and is works to disperse the impact given. Due to the uniqueness of the helmet and the quality of its product the helmet has the price tag of $1,500. The reason for this as stated by Marver is, "We didn’t seek to make the least expensive helmet. We sought to develop the best helmet that we could, the safest helmet that we could." The product will initially be available for select NFL players and as it is perfected VICIS would like to bring it down to the college and high school levels. As time and technology progress the company plans on releasing newer and cheaper versions. To find out more about the helmets and VICIS please go to the Forbes article below. http://www.forbes.com/sites/abigailtracy/2016/02/04/nfl-cte-football-concussions-injuries-helmet-vicis-zero1-super-bowl/#6325fd9759c5 Supercomputing is explained using flop or floating points of operation per second. 1-exaflop is capable of performing 1 million trillion flops and we already have systems that can do this. However this is not enough for Erik DeBenedictis. The computer engineer at Sandia National Laboratories wants to push the limit and create a 10 exaflop or greater in a super computer. A feat such as that will require major changes in computing technologies and computer architectures.
DeBenedictis has been pursing this endeavor with the assistance of IEEE Rebooting Computing initiative and International Technology Roadmap. Three different approaches to this are titles "Breaking Moore's Law" presented at International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. These approaches are the millivolt switch, 3-D integration, and specialized architecture. When this technology is fully developed it has the potential to revolutionize the world of supercomputing. The article continues with an interview between IEEE Spectrum and DeBenedictis discussing in further detail supercomputing and DeBenedictis future in this endeavor. Please see the source at bottom for reference to it. ~Alex Source: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/how-supercomputing-can-survive-beyond-moores-law |
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