Category: Technology
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Provisional patent application – How to file your own?
USA moves the first to file patent system on March 16, 2013 after the enactment of the America Invents Act so file your patents NOW! You have to file your patent claim to get advantage of your patent. A provisional patent is a simple inexpensive document to preserve your rights to an invention while giving…
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Tailbots and Stickybots
As we move towards an era of robots, improvements in the design piece by piece takes place as the roboticists go along in their endeavors. Roboticists are using reptiles, ants and even grasshoppers as templates for the automatons, learning from the ways these non-human models have evolved in their ways of navigation, balance and stability.…
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Lasers – diffraction based authentication for medical device parts
When a coherent laser hits a surface, the laser light is diffracted in all directions. It is easy to take a laser pointer and do this experiment. The pattern that is emitted is a complex dotted pattern of bright and dark intensities. These intensities appear random but are actually a property of the material and…
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Innovation – How-to and quantitative measurement
Innovation: Simplistically, innovation has been defined as a creative solution to the problem. However, innovation is 1) Identification of the problem and 2) Definition of the problem. The solution to the problem will occur once the first two steps are complete. An creative person has to be agnostic to the solution and technology since the…
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If this then that… websites that talk back
The reasons to browse the web are many but often it is to check the status of something or find out more about something and ultimately do something about it. For example, one of the most often used ones is to probably check the weather. What we want to know is “whether it will rain…
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Technology assessment or how to present technology
How to present your ideas or plan in 5 minutes or less. Use these guidelines for VC, partners, funders or your boss. Why you?• What is the problem?• What solutions exist?• How is yours better? How?• What is your solution?• Technical details• What has been done till now?• Members of the team if relevant. Future• …
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Why do we blink? It is more than what you think
We blink about 10-40 times per minute. Almost all mammals blink and the rate is variable. For humans, the conventional mechanical explanation given for blinking is that we need to moisten our eyes, clean the debris from the eye and refresh the eyes. Obviously, having a eyelid in front of the eye can also prevent…
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Installing the Neurosky Mindwave Mobile on Windows 7 computer.
Acquiring a basic EEG signal is simple if you can afford to buy an off-the-shelf Neurosky device. There are several steps that go back and forth between the device and are useful to note. The steps are relatively simple if you have everything that is required. There is one critical step that is critical but…
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Technology: Does brain perform multi-tasking like computers?
The term multi-tasking probably originated from computer terminology wherein two simultaneous tasks are carried on by the computer by distribution of tasks to various processors. A “super”computer was defined as on which had many processors and a lot of memory that could process computations in parallel. The human brain is obviously capable of some elementary…
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Increasing In vitro protein production through gel
In vitro protein production is a very useful technique to quickly produce the protein of interest within a few days especially if your need s are for low amounts and you want to produce a variety of proteins or their modifications. Essentially, you mix the DNA template of interest with a cell extract. Incubate and…