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		<title>A Star Trek Tricorder? &#8216;Scanadu Scout&#8217; Health Monitor Surges Past Indiegogo Funding Goal</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/24/a-star-trek-tricorder-scanadu-scout-health-monitor-surges-past-indiegogo-funding-goal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 14:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember Star Trek&#8216;s tricorder? The device Dr. McCoy usually whipped out and waved over people before declaring someone kaput? Yep, someone&#8217;s actually making one, or at least the early 21st century version of one. Meet Scanadu Scout, a small scanning device by California startup Scanadu (&#8220;scan&#8221; plus &#8220;Xanadu&#8221;?) that can quickly grab your vitals, then beam them to a smartphone. The Scout soared past its $100,000 Indiegogo funding goal just hours after launch, then proceeded to more than triple that figure with nearly a month to go What is it? A hockey puck-shaped object that can apparently measure your temperature, heart rate, oximetry (blood oxygenation), run an electrocardiogram, gauge heart rate variability, clock pulse wave transit time (related to blood pressure), perform a urine analysis and calculate a metric Scanadu refers to (vaguely) as &#8220;stress.&#8221; All you have to do to get these readings, urine analysis notwithstanding, is hold the Scout against your forehead and chest for a few seconds. &#8220;One of the problems with the current medical system is that you only connect with the system every now and then,&#8221; says Scanadu&#8217;s chief medical officer, Dr. Alan Greene, in the video below, followed by Scanadu CEO Walter de Brouwer, who makes a great point about the disparity between the recent explosion of personalized devices and biofeedback technology. &#8221;With your smartphone you can find out about anything, anywhere, but what you can&#8217;t find is information about your own body,&#8221; adds Greene. What typically happens first when you visit the doctor? Right, someone takes your vitals: blood pressure, heart rate, temperature and so forth. I&#8217;ve never knowingly had a pulse oximetry test before, but since I had a baby and that baby&#8217;s had chest colds, I&#8217;ve learned about this noninvasive procedure &#8212; a little clip that goes on his foot to check how well he&#8217;s oxygenating; the Scout can automatically grab that information, too. KurzweilAI reports that the device has a visible and near-IR LED and sensor (for the oximetry test), an ECG sensor, a far-IR sensor (for temperature) and a microphone (to gauge heart and breathing sounds). Scanadu<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163442&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NBD: Rocket Bike Goes 163 MPH</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/24/nbd-rocket-bike-goes-163-mph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 14:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diversions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a bicycle – slightly modified – that&#8217;s capable of hitting 163 miles per hour. By &#8220;slightly modified&#8221; I mean that there&#8217;s a rocket attached to the back of it. No big deal. And! You, too, can create your own bike-mounted rocket using items you have around the house. This bike&#8217;s rocket, for instance, is powered by hydrogen peroxide &#8212; the same stuff you feed your dog to make him throw up after he gets into your wife&#8217;s purse, somehow unwraps individual pieces of Trident with his paws, and eats them. How this rocket bike is propelled might – might – be slightly more complicated than strapping a tube full of hydrogen peroxide to your Huffy and lighting it on fire, but there&#8217;s no harm in trying.* Observe the video above as France&#8217;s own François Gissy sets a world record for smartest commuter fastest leisurely bike ride. Notice how he&#8217;s wearing a helmet? Always wear your helmet, kids. *There is harm in trying. Death Wish: 163MPH On A Rocket Powered Bicycle [Geekologie]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163447&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Airway Created with a 3D Printer Saved This Baby&#8217;s Life</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/23/an-airway-created-with-a-3d-printer-saved-this-babys-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 16:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think 3D printing&#8217;s overhyped with all this talk of plastic guns and strange, spider-like houses, you clearly haven&#8217;t seen this: a tiny airway splint created using a 3D printer that saved a three-month-old&#8217;s life. Doctors at C.S. Mott Children&#8217;s Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan (coincidentally, where my son was born not 10 months ago) paired their medical know-how with the latest 3D printing technology to generate a custom, synthetic bio-part that ultimately saved a child who&#8217;d lost the ability to breathe on his own. Kaiba Gionfriddo, who lives with his parents in Youngstown, Ohio, had a rare birth defect known as tracheobronchomalacia: just one in 2,200 are born with it. In babies with the condition, the airway walls are so weak they frequently collapse when breathing or coughing, shutting down the airway. Parents (and doctors) often miss the condition until the child suddenly stops breathing, which is how, terrifyingly, Kaiba&#8217;s parents discovered while eating at a restaurant that their six-week-old baby had it. &#8220;He turned blue and stopped breathing on us,&#8221; Kaiba&#8217;s mother April Gionfriddo told the Associated Press, at which point Kaiba&#8217;s father, Bryan, had to perform CPR to revive him. But the breathing problems continued, and Kaiba wound up on a breathing machine at Akron Children&#8217;s Hospital in Ohio; doctors there told Kaiba&#8217;s mother his chances of leaving the hospital alive were slim. So when one of those Akron doctors, Marc Nelson, mentioned that researchers in Michigan were experimenting with artificial airway splints, Kaiba&#8217;s parents wasted no time getting in touch with the hospital and doctors Glenn Green, M.D. and Scott Hollister, Ph.D. Writing of the situation on the Univeristy of Michigan&#8217;s health blog, Green notes that the timing was just right &#8212; he and Hollister had &#8220;been working on a type of device that would be perfect to help splint little Kaiba’s airway, keeping it clear for air to continually flow to the lungs.&#8221; According to Green: Scott and I had been exploring creating implants using a type of biodegradable polyester called polycaprolactone for a while, but it had never been<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163383&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally: DVDs That Smell Like Pizza After You&#8217;re Done Watching Them</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/22/finally-dvds-that-smell-like-pizza-after-youre-done-watching-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 14:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tell you what: Why doesn&#8217;t everyone take the rest of the week off (take Monday off, too, if you&#8217;re not American) and let&#8217;s all meet back here on Tuesday. Why? Because innovation as we know it has reached its apex. There&#8217;s no sense in trying to outdo DVD rentals with magical, odorous ink that heats up as the disc is spinning and smells like pizza when all is said and done. Oh, and the ink also turns into an ad for Domino&#8217;s. Domino&#8217;s sells pizza. It&#8217;s not good pizza, but it&#8217;s pizza. So how does such a mind-bending miracle of advertising work? According to AdAge: In partnership with 10 video rental stores in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the brand used rented DVDs as media. About 10 discs each of 10 different new release titles such as Argo, 007, Dread And Dark Knight were stamped with thermal ink and flavored varnish, both sensitive to the heat. While people were watching the movie, the heat of the DVD player affected the disc. When the movie ended and they ejected the disc, they smelled pizza. They also saw pizza: the discs were printed to look like mini pies, and carried the message: &#8220;Did you enjoy the movie? The next one will be even better with a hot and delicious Domino&#8217;s Pizza.&#8221; If there&#8217;s a problem with this concept, it&#8217;s that it&#8217;ll make you want pizza after you&#8217;re done watching a movie, which is not a sensation common to our evolutionary makeup. The whole point of a rented movie is that you can push food into your face for an hour and a half while using your own torso as a plate. Pizza afterwards would just be gluttonous. (To be fair, this advertising stunt recommends ordering pizza for consumption with your next rented movie.) Another minor quibble: DVDs. They&#8217;re just not that cool anymore. HOWEVER, what better way to rekindle people&#8217;s interest in DVDs than a rentable DVD that turned into an actual personal pizza during the previews so that you could<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163202&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Empowering Our Digital Sixth Sense with Google Glass, Augmented Reality and Wearable Health Gadgets</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/20/google-glass-and-augmented-reality-empowering-our-digital-sixth-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know about our five senses: sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing. Many people believe we also have a kinesthetic sense, which is what some folks believe is a sort of spiritual sense &#8212; for instance, when they perceive another person is in a room with them even though the other person is behind them and hasn&#8217;t made a sound. It&#8217;s as though they sensed them unconsciously. Personally, I seem to have another type of sense that I don&#8217;t know what to call, but it relates to anticipating things just before they happen; a lot of my experiences with this have been unsettling at times. These extra senses are difficult to qualify and in many cases even hard to explain, but we are about to enter an era where a digital sixth sense will become a reality. Not only can this sixth sense be qualified, but it can be repeated as needed. One of the more basic examples of a digital sixth sense comes from the many new wearable health monitors popping up these days: products like the Nike Fuel, Jawbone UP and Fitbit, to name just a few. For the past eight months I have been wearing the Nike Fuel on my wrist, a Fitbit clipped to my belt and a watch that can give me a pulse readout on demand. I have to admit that monitoring my health in any way was foreign to me until I had a triple bypass last June. Let&#8217;s just say that this was a serious wake-up call that got me more interested in my health on a lot of levels. Part of my recovery process included walking, simple weightlifting and various movements to get my heart health back and to help my body recover from this very invasive surgery. Luckily, these digital health monitoring tools had just come onto the market and my wife and son made sure I had at least two of them to help monitor myself and motivate me to move. In every sense of the word, these became<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163030&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zact: Build Your Own Wireless Plan, Down to the Last Detail</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/13/zact-build-your-own-wireless-plan-down-to-the-last-detail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 18:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to wireless service, every individual and family has different needs &#8212; and oftentimes, those needs vary from month to month. But you wouldn&#8217;t know that from the plans offered by the big U.S. carriers. Even at their most flexible, they just don&#8217;t offer enough options, and they generally encourage you to pay for more service than you actually need for fear of overages. And then there&#8217;s Zact. It&#8217;s a new wireless provider which, judging from a demo I recently received, comes as close as any I&#8217;ve ever seen to providing absolutely custom service plans. Rather than making you choose from one of a few offerings, it lets you choose from lots of them &#8212; and then allows you to refine those options further until you&#8217;re paying for exactly the service you use. It&#8217;s like a purveyor of beautifully custom-tailored suits in a world of S, M, L and XL. Zact&#8217;s service, which will be available next month, runs on Sprint&#8217;s network. But if you sign up, you&#8217;re a customer of a startup named ItsOn. Zact is ItsOn&#8217;s own consumer brand, but the company has built a software-and-service platform designed to let other companies provide similar offerings; if it&#8217;s a success, there could be many Zact-like services around the world. Zact offers contract-free service, which means you pay full price for phones but can leave whenever you like without paying an early termination fee. In some broad respects, it&#8217;s reminiscent of other price-conscious alternative wireless providers which don&#8217;t own their own networks, such as Ting and Republic Wireless. But it&#8217;s doing multiple things which are genuinely new. For instance, it gives you so much control over the services you pay for that you can choose to use a particular app without splurging on a full-blown data plan. $5 a month will get you access to Facebook &#8212; and nothing else. $1 a month lets you play Candy Crush with friends. And so on. More general-purpose options &#8212; voice, data and text &#8212; are available in multiple quantities, starting<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162651&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Reservations About Samsung&#8217;s 5G Speed &#8216;Breakthrough&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/13/some-reservations-about-samsungs-5g-speed-breakthrough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like a shop owner anticipating Christmas in July, Samsung Electronics is this morning touting new technology it claims will allow it to usher the world into the 5G era by 2020. If you can stand to wait seven years, the company&#8217;s talking about core &#8220;adaptive array transceiver&#8221; technology that delivers so-called fifth generation speeds &#8220;up to several hundred times faster&#8221; than today&#8217;s 4G networks. What&#8217;s that translate to in download speeds? Up to &#8220;several tens of Gbps per base station,&#8221; says Samsung, adding that this could allow users to sling around vast data files and ultra-HD movies &#8220;practically without limitation.&#8221; (In other words, Shazam!) The new technology reportedly solves limitations with millimeter-wave bands (operating at high frequencies) transmitting data over long distances due to atmospheric attenuation. (I don&#8217;t pretend to understand the atmospheric physics, but it involves, among other things, radio signals and the resonance of oxygen molecules, as well as &#8220;rain fade,&#8221; where radio signals are absorbed by ice, rain and snow.) Samsung says it&#8217;s been able to successfully work around this by using 64 antenna elements transmitting data at 1.056GBps at a frequency of 28GHz for up to 2 kilometers (a little over a mile). All well and good, but before we get all rapturous about downloading ultra-HD content in a blink, let&#8217;s revisit an arguably bigger problem we haven&#8217;t solved still, today &#8212; a problem higher speeds will only exacerbate. Imagine you&#8217;re zipping down the Interstate, and say the speed limit&#8217;s 80 m.p.h., but you&#8217;re &#8212; did I say zipping? &#8212; actually creeping along at half that because, you know, two lanes and rush hour &#8212; a real bumper-to-bumper slog. That&#8217;s what my smartphone&#8217;s data connection sometimes feels like living in a college town, say on (football) game day, during any of the city&#8217;s big summer festivals or, you know, when school&#8217;s in primetime session seven months a year. The trouble&#8217;s not that my 4G smartphone or tablet connection isn&#8217;t fast enough (in theory) to instantly stream high quality videos and music &#8212; even a 3G connection&#8217;s capable of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162634&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FCC Proposes Ridiculously Fast In-Flight Internet Speeds</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/10/fcc-proposes-actually-tolerable-in-flight-wi-fi-speeds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 17:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a slam dunk 4-0 vote, the Federal Communications Commission just proposed kicking off a process that could eventually make your experience cruising the Interwebs at 30,000 feet considerably less, shall we say, sedate. How? By auctioning off the rights to recently freed up airwaves, and allowing Internet service providers to share those airwaves with satellite companies. According to the FCC: The Commission proposes to establish an air-ground mobile broadband service, using a ground-based network to communicate with planes, by taking advantage of technical innovations to expand sharing of certain spectrum among users. Expanded availability of in-flight Wi-Fi will help meet demand from travelers to connect to a full range of communications services while flying in the contiguous United States. More options for in-flight broadband are likely to increase competition, improve the quality of service, and lead to lower prices. Today&#8217;s in-flight Internet service involves either satellite (an antenna mounted atop the plane) or air-to-ground systems (an antenna mounted beneath the plane, communicating with terrestrial towers). Anyone who&#8217;s used or had to pay monthly for satellite-based Internet knows it&#8217;s fraught with limitations, including speed (in particular latency) issues as well as high data usage prices and ridiculously punitive data caps. Air-to-ground communications are much less expensive, which is where this FCC proposal comes in, which &#8212; if it comes off, as hoped, within the next few years &#8212; could result in much more reliable in-flight broadband that matches or exceeds the speeds of existing ground-based service. How fast are we talking? As the New York Times reports: The new system would share the 14.0-14.5 gigahertz band of the electromagnetic spectrum, a 500-megahertz band that is far wider than the current 4-megahertz band used in air-to-ground systems. All of that means that the new system would be capable of transmitting data at up to 300 gigabits per second — or 30 times the average home broadband speed. [Update: the Times just issued a correction to this statement, writing that "The proposal envisions a combined service speed of up to 300 gigabits per second, to be shared among all the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162547&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, a Huggies Device that Lets Babies Tweet When They Pee</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/10/finally-a-huggies-device-that-lets-babies-tweet-when-they-pee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is important: a device, masterfully dubbed &#8220;Huggies TweetPee,&#8221; that attaches to your baby&#8217;s derriere, then relays Twitter-like alerts to your smartphone to let you know when it&#8217;s diaper change time. No, that&#8217;s not Spanish you&#8217;re hearing in the ad above &#8212; they speak Portuguese in Brazil, and the spot&#8217;s the work of a Brazilian ad agency &#8211; but it is an honest-to-goodness device made by Huggies (yes, that Huggies) that you clip to the front of your child&#8217;s diaper, after which it monitors the vicinity for sudden changes in humidity levels, dispatching tweet-style alerts to an app on your smartphone. Like (courtesy Google&#8217;s translation): &#8220;Time to change!!!&#8221; &#8220;Oops, did a few drops.&#8221; &#8220;All OK here.&#8221; The alerts can be sent via text messages or through social networks, according to the ad. It also keeps track of each diaper change, you know, for parents who like to toilet-trend-watch (it&#8217;s not clear if it automatically detects the change or that you have to manually enter this info). As Digital Trends notes, given the messaging intervals displayed in the ad video, the device, which resembles a tiny ovoid bluebird, probably checks at preset intervals &#8212; it&#8217;s not clear if it&#8217;s capable of alerting you on the fly. (It&#8217;s also not clear that&#8217;d be desirable, since your baby may only have piddled a little and doesn&#8217;t require an immediate change &#8212; no one wants an app that nags &#8220;Change me!&#8221; every 15 minutes.) Huggies claims the device is ergonomic (both &#8220;comfortable&#8221; and &#8220;safe&#8221;), that it&#8217;s easy to shift from diaper to diaper, that it can send alerts to anyone with permission to receive them and that you can even use the app to order new diapers (Huggies-only, surely) after it&#8217;s notified you your existing stash is low; yes, it&#8217;ll tabulate your diaper count, probably sending that info back to some master control database, which isn&#8217;t creepy at all. Undocumented, presumable bonus feature: Detecting spit-up that&#8217;s somehow found its way from your baby&#8217;s mouth past arms and short-sleeved onesie to soak the bottom of a pair of cargo<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162531&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Timelapse: Landsat Satellite Images of Climate Change, via Google Earth</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/timelapse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 12:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=162459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Las Vegas to Arctic glaciers, navigate through time and space as you explore changes to Earth&#8217;s surface over the last three decades. Timelapse: Landsat Satellite Images of Climate Change, via Google Earth Engine.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162459&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where Google Search Is Going</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/08/google-search/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 11:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://timenerdworld.wordpress.com/?p=162339</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1998, a new search engine from an obscure startup launched. It featured a logo, a text field and buttons for search and &#8220;I&#8217;m Feeling Lucky&#8221; &#8212; and not much else. Its name, as I don&#8217;t actually have to tell you, was Google, and it changed the way that the world interacted with information. It&#8217;s tempting to think of Google search as something that hasn&#8217;t evolved radically over the years, in part because the Google.com homepage hasn&#8217;t changed much &#8212; the logo, search field and dual buttons are all still there. Even the results, which now weave in images, videos, Knowledge Graph summaries and other elements, are still dominated by straightforward text results of the sort that many a would-be Google rival has derided as &#8220;ten blue links.&#8221; Under the surface, however, Google has changed plenty, in increasingly profound ways. The way we interact with it has also evolved. And if the company&#8217;s ambitious plans pay off, the Google of just a few years from now could be a new kind of search engine. In a recent visit to Google&#8217;s Silicon Valley headquarters, I discussed the future of Google search with Amit Singhal, a 22-year veteran of the search field and the company&#8217;s senior vice president in charge of search, and some of his colleagues. They didn&#8217;t clue me in on any top-secret projects. (I didn&#8217;t even get to try on Google Glass.) But I did leave with a greater understanding of where Google thinks search should go, and the steps it&#8217;s taking to get there. Google Amit Singhal As Singhal stresses, all Google is doing is continuing a journey it&#8217;s already on. &#8220;Over the 12 years I&#8217;ve been here, we have changed Google every two to four years,&#8221; he says. &#8220;There have been four or five huge milestones &#8230; Google&#8217;s beauty is what hides behind that simple interface: incredibly complex mathematics.&#8221; For search research, Singhal says, &#8220;these are supremely interesting times.&#8221; But when he describes his ideal version of Google, it doesn&#8217;t sound all that much like Google as we&#8217;ve<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162339&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Breathalyzer Meets iPhone</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/07/video-breathalyzer-meets-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 22:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The $150 BACtrack Mobile Breathalyzer connects to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch and lets you measure your blood alcohol content. But like all good gadgets, it takes things a step further by letting you see other drunkards around you on a map (said drunkards must also be using the BACtrack) and share your drunkenness with friends, family or the general public. In a world where everything has to be social, why shouldn&#8217;t your blood alcohol content be as well? Past coverage: Bluetooth Breathalyzer Lets You Share Your Drunkenness with the World Past videos here&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162329&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>3D-Printed Gun Successfully Fired</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/06/3d-printed-gun-successfully-fired/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 12:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forbes&#8216; Andy Greenberg details the test-firing of a 16-piece plastic gun created with an $8,000 3D printer. All the pieces except for one were printed: &#8220;The only non-printed piece is a common hardware store nail used as its firing pin,&#8221; writes Greenberg. Meet The &#8216;Liberator&#8217;: Test-Firing The World&#8217;s First Fully 3D-Printed Gun [Forbes]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162123&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Wing and a Tether: Tiny Robotic Insects Now Capable of Controlled Flight</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/03/a-wing-and-a-tether-tiny-robotic-insects-now-capable-of-controlled-flight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 13:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of recent insect-inspired feats of digital derring-do &#8212; I just wrote about a clever bug-eyed camera yesterday &#8212; let&#8217;s hear it for RoboBees, tiny insectile robots that took to the air with purpose for the first time last summer, and who finally hit the interwebs this week. By purpose, I mean they buzzed around for more than a few seconds, executing aerial maneuvers the opposite of haphazardly. We&#8217;ve already seen creepy/cool flying robots capable of sophisticated airborne coordination, but RoboBees &#8212; designed by researchers at Harvard&#8217;s robotics laboratory &#8212; are some of the tiniest around: roughly the size of a quarter and weighing less than a tenth of a gram (down in &#8220;grain of sand&#8221; or &#8220;drop of water&#8221; territory, in other words). Despite the name &#8220;RoboBees,&#8221; they&#8217;re actually inspired by the fly biology, their tiny dragonfly-like wings (moving 120 times a second) and slender vertical bodies micro-manufactured at the sub-millimeter scale. And now they&#8217;re responding to sophisticated orders: In the video, one leaps into the air, hovers for a few seconds, then twists ever-so-gently in place; later, you can see its arguably more impressive maneuver, gliding left and right several times to indicate its responsiveness &#8212; crude for a biological fly, sure, but astonishing for a fly-bot. &#8220;This is what I have been trying to do for literally the last 12 years,&#8221; said Harvard professor Robert J. Wood, principal investigator on the project, in Harvard&#8217;s press writeup. &#8220;It’s really only because of this lab’s recent breakthroughs in manufacturing, materials, and design that we have even been able to try this. And it just worked, spectacularly well.&#8221; In a paper on the technology, published today in Science, the team describes its fly-like micro-bots as using &#8220;high-power-density piezoelectric flight muscles.&#8221; Piezoelectric actuators can convert mechanical signals into electrical ones or vice versa (think microphones or earphones), and they work especially well in tiny robotic systems because they&#8217;re lightweight and consume relatively little power. In this case, the actuators are made of ceramic strips that expand and contract when subjected to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161780&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, a Digital Camera That Lets You See Like a Bug</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/02/finally-a-digital-camera-that-lets-you-see-like-a-bug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 16:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lens-stippled glass dome that looks a little like something you&#8217;d find on a mutant Dalek in Doctor Who &#8212; that&#8217;s one way of describing an experimental digital camera designed to function like a bug&#8217;s eye by capturing high-resolution panoramas and continuous depth of field. Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well as the University of Colorado at Boulder wanted to mimic that sort of imaging system, one that could marry wide-angle field of view with enhanced motion perception and infinite depth of field, and all of that without optical distortions. Easier said than done: The trouble with existing digital technology is that it tends to be both orthogonal and inflexible. &#8220;In biology, everything is curvy,&#8221; quipped one of the project&#8217;s scientists, John Rogers, to science journal Nature. In a human eye, a single lens focuses light onto the retina, which harbors individual photoreceptors (the &#8220;rods&#8221; and &#8220;cones&#8221; you may recall from Biology 101). But in insects, each photoreceptor gathers light and visual information discretely. Imagine what we might be able to do if we had bulging, insect-like eyeballs, apportioned into dozens, hundreds, even thousands of discrete ommatidia (photoreceptors), each pointed in a slightly different direction, each sending a unique image to the brain &#8212; a hive of appositional (side-by-side) ocular sensors working in tandem, extremely sensitive to motion and able to fine-focus on distant as well as nearby objects simultaneously. It&#8217;s this sense of visual superiority (at certain tasks, anyway) in insects with compound eyes that fuels so many of our bug-anthropomorphized superhero fantasies. Think about all the comic book heroes (and yes, villains) over the years with extrasensory abilities modeled on insect behavior, say the uncanny visual acuity of a simple housefly &#8212; difficult to catch because of its preternatural sensitivity to motion. That ability to detect and almost presciently react to motion isn&#8217;t some weird, quasi-psychic sixth sense, it&#8217;s simply evolutionary biology. In order to emulate that, the University of Illinois researchers placed 180 micro-lenses tethered to posts on an inflatable half-sphere to create an artificial &#8220;eye&#8221; with a wide field of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161654&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Noteworthy Startups from TechCrunch Disrupt NY</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/02/five-noteworthy-startups-from-techcrunch-disrupt-ny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 14:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Lombard</dc:creator>
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		<title>Could Nanowire Transistors Rescue Moore&#8217;s Law from Obsolescence?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/01/could-nanowire-transistors-rescue-moores-law-from-obsolescence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 17:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago today I wrote a story titled &#8220;The Collapse of Moore’s Law: Physicist Says It’s Already Happening&#8220; highlighting theoretical physicist Michio Kaku&#8217;s argument that Moore&#8217;s Law &#8212; the notion that the number of transistors on a computer chip will double every two years &#8212; is on the verge of collapse. Kaku put the terminal timeframe for Intel co-founder Gordon Moore&#8217;s exponential forecast at roughly 10 years out, thus somewhere in the early 2020s. For every claim foretelling Moore&#8217;s Law&#8217;s demise, you can find another pitching its redemption. Like this one noticed by IEEE Spectrum, starring, of all things, nanowires, referring to wiring at the nanoscopic scale &#8212; one nanometer is equal to one-billionth of a meter. Moore&#8217;s Law, which has pretty reliably accounted for periodic increases in computer power without chips exploding in size or radically increasing in power consumption, is coming up hard against basic spatial limits and physical laws (that is, actual laws). In order to keep increasingly powerful chips reasonably small and power-sipping, engineers have to cram incredible numbers of transistors into ever-smaller spaces (transistors, now well into the billions per chip, are how a CPU controls current). But you eventually run out of room, and even if you could prolong the shrinking game, you eventually spring current leaks you can&#8217;t insulate around &#8212; that, and once you&#8217;re down to atom-sized transistors, it&#8217;s pretty much everyone out of the pool, time to go home. Well, unless we come up with some seemingly unorthodox workarounds. Take Intel&#8217;s tri-gate technology (the company&#8217;s so-called &#8220;3D processors&#8221;), which offers a stop-gap measure by stacking &#8220;gates&#8221; (electric circuits) to give electrons a threefold increase in space, reducing leakage, increasing efficiency and reducing power consumption dramatically. Even then, as Kaku notes, &#8220;there is an ultimate limit set by the laws of thermal dynamics and set by the laws of quantum mechanics as to how much computing power you can do with silicon.&#8221; But what if we could fundamentally change how the transistors themselves were designed, such that we could enjoy all the benefits of them being transistors but with<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161461&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tiny Toon: IBM Makes a Movie Out of Atoms</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/01/tiny-toon-ibm-makes-a-movie-out-of-atoms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 04:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Boy and His Atom is less than 90 seconds long. It doesn&#8217;t have much of a plot, or any big laughs. And the animation is rudimentary — it&#8217;s monochromatic, blocky and generally reminiscent of the graphics I programmed on my Radio Shack TRS-80 computer in 1978, only not quite as fancy. And yet IBM’s new cartoon — yes, IBM made a cartoon — is remarkable. It was produced at IBM Research&#8217;s Almaden Research Center in Northern California, by a bunch of scientists who used a scanning tunneling microscope as their animation tool. The pixels are individual atoms, nudged into place to form a picture. (The Guinness folks have certified this as the smallest movie ever made.) IBM has been playing around with individual atoms for a long time: two of its Zurich-based researchers invented the scanning tunneling microscope in 1981 and won the Nobel Prize in Physics for it in 1986. The company&#8217;s Silicon Valley lab — where the hard disk was born in 1956 — uses the microscope to explore futuristic storage technologies. By using a tiny magnet, it&#8217;s shown that it&#8217;s possible to store one bit of information using 12 atoms, versus the 1 million atoms a hard drive needs to do the job. That discovery could eventually lead to digital storage that crams radically more data into far less space than any existing technology. IBM IBM&#8217;s atomic-animation equipment The microscope needs &#8220;a low temperature in a very, very clean environment, so the only atoms that are there are the ones we want to be there,&#8221; says IBM researcher Andreas Heinrich. &#8220;The devil is in the details, as usual — it&#8217;s a complicated machine, but it can work very reliably.&#8221; It occurred to the Almaden researchers that if you can use a subminiature magnet to flip bits on and off, you could also use it to create frames of animation. Over roughly 10 18-hour workdays, a team of four people created the cartoon, with storytelling assistance from an animation company called 1st Ave. Machine. Using the microscope to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161293&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Living History: Computing Pioneer Harry Huskey Is Honored at 97</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/30/living-history-computing-pioneer-harry-huskey-is-honored-at-97/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday evening, I was a very happy attendee of the Computer History Museum&#8217;s Fellow Awards, an inspiring annual event which celebrates the contributions of individuals whose work has changed the course of computing history. Three people were honored this year: Ed Catmull, Harry Huskey and Bob Taylor. Ed Catmull, as I knew, started out as a computer graphics scientist, became one of the founders of Pixar and is now the president of both that extraordinary company and Walt Disney Feature Animation. I was also well aware that Bob Taylor headed up the research efforts at ARPA and Xerox PARC which produced the Internet, the modern graphical user interface, Ethernet, the laser printer and other utterly essential technologies. But Harry Huskey? I&#8217;d never heard of the man. Turns out that he did an awful lot &#8212; and, having been born in 1916, he did much of it in the very early days of the computing industry, even before the word &#8220;computer&#8221; came into use. Computer History Museum Harry Huskey with SWAC in the 1950s During World War II, Huskey worked on ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer. He also collaborated with Alan Turing (1914-1952), still perhaps the most influential computer scientist of all time. In the 1950s, he designed a machine called SWAC which was the fastest computer in the world for a while and the Bendix G15, which was, in a sense, the first personal computer. (It was the first one designed to be operated by one individual.) Then he spent more than 30 years teaching; numerous important computer scientists were among his students. Oh, and in 1950, Huskey was a guest on Groucho Marx&#8217;s You Bet Your Life radio quiz. (A losing one &#8212; during the Computer History Museum ceremony, he gave a gracious speech in which he joked that he still didn&#8217;t know the answer to the question which he and his game-playing partner, a junk dealer, fumbled in the category &#8220;Adjacent States.&#8221;) 63 years later, Groucho&#8217;s dismantling of the very idea of an &#8220;electronic brain&#8221; is<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161427&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yay? Facebook-Connected Beer Glasses Let You Friend Randos with a Quick Clank</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/29/yay-facebook-connected-beer-glasses-let-you-friend-randos-with-a-quick-clank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the Buddy Cup, created by Budweiser Brazil. The cup connects to your Facebook account, and when you clank it against someone else&#8217;s Buddy Cup, the two of you become friends on Facebook. So you have the best of both worlds here: the most delicious beer in existence, and the ability to quickly add strangers as Facebook friends. I&#8217;m assuming, of course, that you like beer that tastes like warm paint no matter how cold it is, and your definition of &#8220;friend&#8221; is something along the lines of &#8220;person who was in a bar at the same time I was once.&#8221; All surliness aside, this actually looks pretty cool. According to the above video, people attending a Budweiser-sponsored event were able to scan a little chip on the bottom of each cup using their smartphone and then link that cup to their Facebook account. The video continues on to say, &#8220;So, they just did the same as always: went out drinking Bud and making friends.&#8221; I know that&#8217;s how I roll. I used to frequent a bar in Minneapolis where you could buy your own mug for $20. They&#8217;d keep the mug behind the bar for you, and every time you went there, you&#8217;d get to drink out of your own mug and each beer would cost less than it&#8217;d cost non-regulars. Now THAT&#8217;s how you create alcoholism loyalty. There was a lengthy waiting list for a mug, all the regulars knew each other by virtue of the fact we all had mugs, and several of us clanked our mugs together for various reasons. None of us drank Budweiser. What I&#8217;m saying is: instead of rolling this out at one-off Budweiser events, go back in time and do this at the Green Mill on Hennepin Ave. in Uptown when I was still a Mug Club member there. I don&#8217;t even think we had Facebook back then, so bonus: We&#8217;re all filthy stinkin&#8217; rich now for accidentally creating the world&#8217;s most popular social network with all our mug clanking. Buds<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161277&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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