Reporte #117
The future of sensory technology
MIT News – Engineering
MIT.nano hosts its first major research symposium.
Abundant biomass to support solar in desalination Project
The Engineer
Seawater could be converted into drinking water using biomass energy as a heat source in a new project between academics in England and Egypt.
Researchers design moisture-responsive workout suit
MIT News – Engineering
Ventilating flaps lined with live cells open and close in response to an athlete’s sweat.
Will Energy Offer the Next Market for Blockchain?
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
Electric devices that operate at what is sometimes known as the edge of the power grid—devices that range from electric vehicles to rooftop solar arrays—could help upend the utility business model and further decentralize energy production. Helping in that process is a tool more familiar to accounting wonks than to power producers: blockchain ledgers.
Fujitsu Liquid Immersion Not All Hot Air When It Comes to Cooling Data Centers
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
Given the prodigious heat generated by the trillions of transistors switching on and off 24 hours a day in data centers, air conditioning has become a major operating expense. Consequently, engineers have come up with several imaginative ways to ameliorate such costs, which can amount to a third or more of data center operations.
Rivers on three worlds tell different tales
MIT News – Engineering
Study finds history of Titan’s landscape resembles that of Mars, not Earth.
3 Ways Ford Cars Could Monitor Your Health
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
People can form intimate connections to their cars in the course of daily commutes, frustrating traffic jams, and liberating road trips. How would you feel, though, if your car knew detailed information about your insides, such as the regularity of your heartbeat and the amount of glucose in your blood?
Technology promises biometric gait recognition for battery-free wearables
The Engineer
Rearchers at Australian research agency CSIRO have claimed a step forward in battery free wearable technology with the development of a prototype system that harvests energy from a user’s gait, and uses this pattern of energy usage as a form of biometric authentication.
Using Bitcoin to prevent identity theft
MIT News – Engineering
System piggybacks on the digital currency’s security protocols to thwart hijacked servers.
A Neuromorphic Chip that Makes Music
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
A chip made by researchers at IMEC in Belgium uses brain-inspired circuits to compose melodies. The prototype neuromorphic chip learns the rules of musical composition by detecting patterns in the songs it’s exposed to. It then creates its own song in the same style. It’s an early demo from a project to develop low-power, general purpose learning accelerators that could help tailor medical sensors to their wearers and enable personal electronics to learn their users’ patterns of behavior.