Category: Technology
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Aquaporin
Aquaporin is a protein that is a water channel in cell membranes. One company with the same name is using the protein in artificial membranes to extract the water. In typical reverse osmosis process, the water is pumped at a high pressure on one side of the membrane and that pushes the relatively free water…
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Discoveries and Publicity
A university in Netherlands, Eindhoven institute of technology discovered a protein that is a variety of luciferase that generates light based on the concentration of the analyte. They also modified it so that another protein that is integrated to the same protein converts the light that is emitted to another color based on the binding…
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Which technologies will succeed? Make it simple and they will come…
Most of the studies that predict which books will be a hit, which tweet will get the most attention and what social media post will go “viral” have not been very successful. There have been many studies to understand and evaluate which technologies will succeed and which of those will fail. These studies hope to…
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Sensors – massive scale for oceans
Sensors have always been thought of as small tiny pieces of silicon that measures something flowing past its sensing surface. However, Draper Labs in Boston showed a waste plastic sensor on Oct 5th, 2018 at their laboratories in Cambridge, MA. These sensors allow the optical detection of soluble plastics in the ocean. The design is…
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Tools for Virtual Reality (VR) and 3D printers
Biological Organic chemistry can be hard. There are several molecules and many of them are complex in shape and characteristics. To really understand molecular function and structure, it would be great to have molecules that you can rotate in 3D as well as see and feel with your hands. This has been traditionally possible only…
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What if objects could communicate with us
Pedro Lopes from MIT has been doing some fantastic work on combining image sensing and providing feedback to the human. Typical VR (Virtual Reality) setup’s are problematic because though user can see things they cannot feel it. Pedro is using electrical stimulation to provide feedback as this video shows: {youtube}OcSmCamMKfs{/youtube} But take that a step…
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Hospital corridors
Hospital corridors are boring Why are hospital corridors boring? The patients could do with a little knowledge while they wait or even some entertainment. Right now, they are just bored – they look at the walls or they would most probably look at the phone. Is that the best thing that they should be…
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Technology for ALS
The Prize4Life foundation is hosting a hackathon and to help people prepare it has written out specifications very clearly. 1. Emergency communication: Refining the Microsoft GazeSpeak application Creating a faster way for communicating a few words in emergency situations Improving the alarm system activating in case of Bipap failure 2. Speech devices: Building a dual…
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ALS needs
Technologists often think that the solution to most problems can be solved with technology and when you ask people what can help them – they often also answer technology. For example on the Facebook page of Prize for life the patients with ALS were asked what can help them and here are the 12…
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Warheads and Confidentiality
Key by usinlife on Sketchfab This article is more to do with confidentiality than warheads. There is a proof in cryptography called zero knowledge proof which states that it is possible to confirm a statement from one party by another party without doing a measurement. A recent paper in Nature has created a zero…