Barcodetechnology is usually used in supermarkets to determine the type and price of the goods to be purchased. However, the current barcode technology is not only used in the supermarket, at the funeral QR technology also can be applied.
The modern cemetery Chester Pearce, in Poole, Dorset, England applying barcode technology on a headstone. Barcode is located at the corner of the bottom of the headstone.
As quoted from Daily Mail, the application of technology to the headstone was intended to ascertain data on the deceased. Family left behind do not bother to write the date of birth or date of death on the headstone. All the detailed information on the profile of the deceased can be seen simply by scanning using a smartphone.
The barcode technology is called a QR memories. Not only the profiles, the family can also see a collection of photos and video of the deceased, in his lifetime. But of course the family are updating this information.
The Chester Pearce funeral director, Stephen Nimmo says the idea of using these technologies is to provide services that can be used to help those left behind. Families do not need to wonder about who is buried there. By using a QR code they can easily find out all he wanted to know.
Even so, of course, required additional charges are not cheap to get these advanced features. Users are charged 300 pounds (U.S. $ 484 or Rp. 4.6 million) for the installation of QR code and additional cost 95 pounds (U.S. $ 147 or Rp. 1.4 million) to hire a website hosting. *** [GI | DAILY MAIL | PIKIRAN RAKYAT 13092012]
Evacuation of the victims, especially the earthquake victims can take quite a long time. However, thanks to researchers at North Carolina State University, now it can be done quickly with the discovery of a new way.
Researchers turn Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches into remote control cockroach cyborgs. (Picture from: http://www.sciencespacerobots.com/)
They use the cockroaches are equipped with a small electronic backpack that can be driven by the controller.
A research paper recently released revealed that the engineers successfully tested a device that was strapped onto biobot Madagascar cockroach. To make biobot, the engineers used lightweight microchip and a wireless transceiver.
By using biobot tied over the head cockroach, engineers were able to direct these nocturnal animals along the curved line. With this success, the researchers hope to attach a miniature camera and sensors are used to monitor areas that are difficult to access.
"Our goal is to determine whether we can create a wireless interface with a cockroach biology strong and capable of breaking into small areas that are difficult to reach," said Alper Bozkurt, co-author of a paper and an assistant professor of electrical engineering at North Carofina State University.
"Ultimately, this discovery allows us to make the mobile web with smart sensors that use cockroaches to gather and transmit information. Accordingly, we can use it to find survivors in a building that had been destroyed by the earthquake," said Bozkurt.
Bozkurt also explain why researchers use a live cockroach than designing a robot with a small size. Bozkurt says. “We decided to use biobotic cockroaches in place of robots, as designing robots at that scale is very challenging and cockroaches are experts at performing in such a hostile environment." *** [SCIENCESPACEROBOTS | SRI | PIKIRAN RAKYAT 13092012] Note: Thisblogcan be accessedviayoursmartphone.
Scientists have developed a face cream for soldiers who not only serves as camouflage, but it can protect their face from the burns caused by a bomb blast.
As well as waves of pressure, exploding bombs emit blasts of heat that can exceed 600°C. Such a blast may only last a couple of seconds, but that’s long enough to cook human skin. A soldier’s conventional camouflage make-up only makes matters worse as it contains oil and wax.
Scientists have created face paint that protects soldiers against the heat of explosions. (Picture from: http://www.gizmag.com/)
Cream is made from materials that can be applied on the face like sunscreen. Materials or substances leaving a layer that is thinner than a sheet of paper, but it can protect the skin from overheating.
"We managed to achieve proof of (successful) concept and working prototype in a relatively smgkat," said Robert Lochhead, researchers from the University of Southern Mississippi, USA.
In laboratory experiments, the discovery Lochhead and colleagues were able to protect the skin of the face and hands of more than 15 seconds before finally appear first degree burns. In fact, in some tests, the cream to protect the skin for up to 60 seconds. Narrow time it was enough to help soldiers and firefighters to be protected from fire. In the video above, the temperatures of two panels are being measured as they are exposed to a blowtorch. The panel on the left is coated with the new heat-resistant camouflage make-up. As both panels are exposed to flames, the temperature of the painted panel rises far more slowly than the bare one on the right. The material was presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia (August 22, 2012).
As quoted from Dailymail, a team of researchers also are developing substances that protect clothing, tents, and other materials from fire hazards. These substances are also available in various colors, suitable for day and night use. Also developed a colorless version for firefighters. *** [NEWSCIENTIST | RIF | PIKIRAN RAKYAT 30082012]
Wood pulp produced from the trees in the forest can be the belle of the material in the future. This material can be used as components of a computer, body armor, and other products.
During this time, the pulp from the forest-including Indonesia, is widely used to make paper. Of the latest findings, processed wood pulp material is called nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC).
This material is transparent, lightweight, and inexpensive. The structure is essentially formed from the composition of the needle like crystals. Its strength counted eight times stronger than stainless steel.
"This material is a natural and renewable version of the carbon nanotube," said researcher material physics, Jeff Youngblood, from NanoForestry Institute, Purdue University.
NCC-making process begins with purifying timber. Compounds lignin and hemicellulose from wood-shelled this material can be used as fuel such as ethanol. Wood pulp that is then milled and crushed into pulp.
Mixing with certain acids to make porridge thickens as pasta. Cooling makes this material be lightweight, able to absorb water, and can intercept the flow of electricity. "This material is very wonderful. Abundant amount," he said.
Even more interesting is the nano cellulose on NCC measuring 200 nanometers or twice the size of the HIV virus. Consequently, this material does not require a lot of wood. Factory harness enough branches, twigs, or sawdust. "As the converts waste into gold," he said.
The United States has opened the first NCC plant in Madison, Wisconsin, July 26, 2012. American think tank science institute, the National Science Foundation, predicted this material will be a large-scale industrial materials worth U.S. $ 600 billion by 2020.
Pioneer Electronics companies from Japan began using this material as a flexible electronic display. International Business Machines (IBM) use these materials to assemble computer components. *** [NEWSCIENTIST | ANTON WILLIAM | KORAN TEMPO 3979]
The intricate properties of the fingertips have been mimicked & recreated using semiconductor devicesin what researchers hope will lead to the development of advanced surgical gloves. (Picture from: http://www.sciencedaily.com/)
Scientists have created a device that can respond with high precision to the stresses and strains associated with finger touch and movement. To make this device, scientists must be able to replicate and recreate the intricate nature of the fingertips through the semiconductor device.
A newly-developed electronic finger cuff could lead to smarter surgical gloves that make performing surgery and scans as easy as pointing your finger. (Picture from: http://www.gizmag.com/)
"Imagine, the ability to sense the electrical properties of tissues and then raise it with the network of local ablation. Was all done with the fingertips using a smart surgical gloves," said Professor John Rogers, whose work was published in the journal Nanotechnology.
To create the device, a flexible polymer is repeatedly poured onto a model finger until it achieves the desired thickness. (Picture from: http://www.gizmag.com/)
The team believes that the new technology could open the door for surgical robots that can interact with the surrounding environment through touch.
The electronic circuit on the "skin" is made of patterns of gold conductive lines and ultrathin sheets of silicon, integrated onto a flexible polymer called polyimide. The sheet is then etched into an open mesh geometry and transferred to a thin sheet of silicone rubber moulded into the precise shape of a finger.
This electronic "skin", or finger cuff, was designed to measure the stresses and strains at the fingertip by measuring the change in capacitance -- the ability to store electrical charge -- of pairs of microelectrodes in the circuit. Applied forces decreased the spacing in the skin which, in turn, increased the capacitance.
The device is also equipped with fingertip sensors to measure movement and temperature. In addition, small-scale heating that act as actuators for ablation and other operations. *** [GIZMAG | SRI | PIKIRAN RAKYAT 30082012]
Today, mobile phone manufacturers began introducing mobile phones that use transparent OLED panels. Transparent OLED panel on mobile phone, measuring 2.4 inches.
OLED (organic light emitting diode) panel are devices that emit light themselves (self-luminous) and use a thin layer of organic light-producing material. OLED panel technology was first developed by researchers at the Eastman Kodak Co.Rochester, New York.
OLED panel consists of OLED cells. Tues OLED consists of electroluminesens organic materials that emit light when stimulated by electricity. Electroluminesens generally refers to the events of light emission by a material in response to the voltage applied to the material.
Basic OLED cell structure consists of a stack of thin organic layer inserted between a transparent anode and a metallic cathode. The organic layer consists of a layer of injection holes (positive charge carriers), hole transport layer, emisif layer, and an electron transport layer. Each organic layer has a thickness of about 100 nanometers.
When a certain voltage (typically a few volts in small quantities) is given on the OLED cell, positive and negative charges are injected be recombined in a layer emisif. The charge recombination events produce light.
One type of existing OLED panel is transparent OLED panel (TOLED / transparent organic light emitting diode). Transparent OLED development was first claimed by researchers at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. The approach they use to create transparent OLED is to use a TFT (thin film transistor) made of transparent zinc tin oxide layer with a thickness of 100 nm which transmits more than 90 percent of visible light.
TFTs and OLED pixels in a transparent OLED panels are placed next to each other. Due to the size TFT layers are thin, layers can be deposited over a large area with the usual techniques for the manufacture of transparent OLED panel.
Transparent OLED panel has a component substrate, cathode and a transparent anode. When disabled (off), to 85% remains transparent substrates. When a transparent OLED panel is turned on (on) or electrified, this panel channel light in two directions (up and down). Because of that ability, transparent OLED panels can be used for heads-up panels, bulkhead light (a device that is almost invisible during the day and the light scattered / diffuse at night), lights, light canopy, windshield displays navigation and warning , and architectural glass.
Transparent OLED panels can be made with a passive matrix arrangement (known as PMOLED) and active matrix (known as AMOLED). PMOLED (passive matrix OLED) is a type of OLED which has a structure such as the blades of cathode, organic layers, and the blades of the anode. The blades crossing the anode fitted with blades of cathode. Intersections on the cross between the anode and the cathode is a pixel dots. The resulting number of pixels depends on the amount of electric current that flows from the source / power voltage at the anode and cathode blades that have been determined. The greater the current flow, the brighter the light produced.
PMOLED easy to make, but the power consumption is greater than with other types of OLED. PMOLED most efficiently used to display text and icons and the most suitable for the smaller screen size (diagonal screen size of 2 to 3 inches) as the panel on the HP and MP3 player.
The AMOLED (active matrix OLED) is a type of OLED which has a structure layer of cathode, organic molecules and anode which are shaped overlay. Overlay layer anode on an array of TFT AMOLED which form a matrix. Composition of TFT itself is nothing but a series that determines the selection of pixels for the formation of an image.
The electric power consumed by AMOLED smaller than the electrical power consumed PMOLED. This is because the presence of the circuit in the form of TFT devices that require less power than the external circuit used PMOLED. Therefore, more efficient AMOLED used for large panels such as computer monitors, large screen television, and electronic billboards. *** [DEDE NURROSYID | PIKIRAN RAKYAT 30082012]
Hundreds of vehicles starting fitted with a device that makes cars that can "communicate" each other. The system is currently undergoing testing on the roads of Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.
Some 3,000 vehicles equipped with wireless technology that allows them to communicate have taken to the roads in the Ann Arbor in the world's biggest field test of V2V and V2I technology. (Picture from: http://www.gizmag.com/)
The technology is designed to alert drivers to potentially dangerous situations in an effort to reduce the number of accidents. This step is carried out by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Data gained from the model deployment will help authorities examine the effectiveness of V2V and V2I systems in improving road safety. (Picture from: http://www.gizmag.com/)
"This cutting-edge technology offers real promise for improving both the safety and efficiency of our roads," said U.S. Transportation SecretaryRay LaHood. "That is a winning combination for drivers across America."
It is very important because more than 32,000 peoples died on the streets of America in 2011 because of an accident. The government expects 80 percent of accidents can be reduced if the technology works.
Drivers will be warned of dangers they might not be able to see to reduce the risk of a collision. (Picture from: http://www.bbc.com/)
Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Toyota, and Volkswagen provide a vehicle for use in testing this technology. The project is to swallow the budget by 25 million U.S. dollars.
Nearly 500 trucks and buses are equipped with communication devices based wi-fi signals. In October, the figure rose to 2,800 vehicles. This tool makes the car able to send data to other cars and some other types of road infrastructure.
Drivers will get a warning from the system, such as if there is a possibility of an accident with another vehicle when their view is limited. Then, if another vehicle lane without looking and if there is danger of collision with the car ahead for a sudden stop.
Alternative technologies involved in this project already on the market. For example, using the Bosch brand that offers ultrasonic sensors to detect objects at a distance of 3 meters from the side of the car.
Nissan also introduced a car with a radar that monitors the road and automatically activate the brakes if the estimated impact. Volvo is also working on an alternative wireless technology "follow" the car in front of him, follow all the action and form a convoy formation.
This technology is designed so that the driver can control the vehicle to turn over the computer and a little chill in the trip. *** [VAN | ANT | PIKIRAN RAKYAT 24082012]
Lapindo mudflow in Sidoarjo, East Java, was run over six years more and leveling the area around Sidoarjo mud puddle. Inversely proportional to the quantity of silt carried by utilization. Departing from the idea that, two Semarang State University (Universitas Negeri Semarang/UNS) student, Aji Christian Bani Adam and Umarudin try to see the benefits of the mud from the side of science. Aji said that, when viewed from the side of science, the mud contains some metals such as manganese and zinc. Both of these metals can be used for a battery.
"There are some points in the mud containing high manganese and zinc. Zinc is highest in the center of the mudflow, the former Porong toll of submerged mud, the puddles in the Panjerokan Village and Jatianom Village in Sidoarjo area. While manganese is located in the former Porong toll, Panjerokan Village, and Renokenongo Village," said student majoring in Pure Chemistry.
Sidoarjo mud or Lumpur Sidoarjo (Lusi) Pro Dry Cell is an innovative battery that is triggered by two students of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. Battery AA 1.5 volt, in black and blue colors are made using raw materials and some materials Sidoarjo mud additives. Sludge is used in paste form (semisolid) with a ratio of 70 percent. The process of manufacturing dry cell batteries of Lusi Pro Dry Cell made by powder metallurgy method is mixing the raw material powder through the reaction. Processes that occur in this method is the process of calcination and sintering processes.
Calcination process, namely the removal of crystal water content, whereas the sintering process or heating below the melting temperature and in solid form. Sintering process to provide heat energy for the process of unification between the particles. Metallurgy method requires heating to the sintering program appropriately.
Lusi Pro Dry Cell Batteries bring Aji and Umarudin won the 2012 Youth Technopreneurship 2nd awarded by the Ministry of Research and Technology of Republic Indonesia. These batteries also have many advantages when compared to other similar batteries.
The main advantage is the raw material resources of most of the Sidoarjo Mud is very abundant. In addition, higher density battery cells, batteries more durable and cheaper production costs due to use of used batteries. Layers of pasta filled wrapper is opened and then closed it with a used battery with a sticker affixed to the machine as suppressors and battery identification. Lusi Pro Dry Cell Batteries has the potential to be applied to electronic equipment such as car batteries require yag, remote control, television, cameras, and others.
Even so, Aji said that currently he and Umarudin of Pure Biolqgi majors and two other team members Oki Prisnawan of Economics and Yoga Pratama of Sport Science Faculty UNS still have difficulties in making Lusi Pro Dry Cell batteries are still done manually.
"Constraints on the instrument, it should use the machine for the manufacture of batteries can produce the same results all the time while we are still made manually by human power. Work with human labor is most likely human error can happen," he said.
In addition, he also worried that there will be komersialiasi of raw materials from the battery when the Sidoarjo Mud mass produced. For that he and his team have plans to invite the company Lapindo cooperation.
Currently a new battery in a day can be produced as many as a hundred pieces, but his plans in late October 2012 will be launching Lusi Pro Dry Cell in the UNS and will be produced in greater numbers about 500 pieces per day. The hope Lusi Pro Dry Cell is also applicable to mass as a battery characteristic of Sidoarjo.
Production and sales of batteries is also expected to help reduce the suffering of the victims of the mud by helping to provide revenue for the welfare of victims who are displaced. *** [WIDI KUSUMA ANGGRAENI | PIKIRAN RAKYAT 16082012]
Technology put out the fire had not changed much in the last half century. U.S. militaryresearch institutes to develop new techniques to extinguish the fire. This time using sound to extinguish flames.
Fire extinguishers to the latest technology developed by humans to fight the fire. Previously, fought the fire with water, soil, up to a wet sack. In principle, fire fighting is done to drive the oxygen molecules that act as fuel.
"Fighting fires can be done with the techniques of physics rather than the commonly used chemical combustion," says DARPA spokesman told reporters on Thursday (July 12, 2012).
Matthew Goodman, Darpa programme manager, said: "We have shown that the physics of combustion still has surprises in store for us. Perhaps these results will spur new ideas and applications in combustion research."
Research shows that fire is cold plasma can be disturbed by light waves and sound waves. A laboratory experiment designed to prove this theory. DARPA video show on the website shows, two loudspeakers, which developed flanking fire and fuel sources, is able to stop the fire.
Fighting techniques to use these sounds can be done in two ways, namely:
First, when the speaker is on, the wave propagation speed up the air. This process is able to crush the flame, so the fire easily stopped.
Second, the burning surface is driven by sound waves, thus speeding up the evaporation of fuel. As a result, the flame spread as well as lowering the temperature. The fire was extinguished quickly. "The sound waves at certain frequencies could extinguish the fire," said DARPA spokesman.
U.S. ambitions to find a technological fire after the aircraft carrier USS-George Washington got fire in May 2008. Fire that lasted for 12 hours caused damage worth U.S. $ 70 million. This new technology is expected to accelerate the extinction of fire, especially in the military. *** [ANTON WILLIAM | KORAN TEMPO 3944]Note: Thisblogcan be accessedviayoursmartphone.
Engineers from Duke University and Carnegie Mellon University developed a camera with a resolution of the order of gigapixel. The camera is used for military reconnaissance technology the United States, but could be developed for commercial purposes.
Researchers named the AWARE-2 camera, measuring 75 x 75 x 50 centimeters. 1 gigapixel resolution obtained from 98 micro-resolution 14-megapixel camera. This camera can capture an area of 120 x 50 degrees.
"This is a camera that could change the trend," says robotics expert from Carnegie Mellon University, Illah Nourbakhsh.
Micro cameras record images on duty at the same time so as to produce an image like a patchwork. Then stitched patchwork image using the software named Gigapan developed by Nourbakhsh.
Photo stitch technique was carried out by researchers of biology and archeology. Tailoring aims to improve image resolution. Each picture is taken in turn for a few hours, and then stitched using a computer.
AWARE-2 record images simultaneously within and immediately sutured. Thus, the entire image capture of the event. This camera can record three images per minute.
Researchers have tested the camera at Pungo Lake, North Carolina. The result, hordes of geese that swim in the lake from a distance of several kilometers can be seen very well. Another picture shows the panorama of surrounding buildings in Seattle, Washington.
Now, researchers are trying to repair a camera that can record ten images per second. Making research is planned to cost U.S. $ 100 thousand. If the mass is made, the price of the camera can be lowered to U.S. $ 1,000.
Technology development in the sport is not stagnant, continues to apply in today's modern competition. Two apparel company, Adidas and Nike, which will not cease to continue to innovate in the sport performance of athletes in order to achieve a more optimal.
Adidas miCoach
Adidas miCoach system is the answer of the apparel manufacturer based in the city of Herzogenaurach, Germany to rival that has previously released the Nike+. Judging from the features, miCoach offers a more specific performance of the tracking for a particular sport.
Now the company has announced their latest innovation for technology tracking devices aka team team tracking technology that will make his debut in the Star Wars Major League Soccer to be held in Philadelphia on July 25, 2012.
Tracking team results using the technology Adidas miCoach system attached to the soles of shoes are compatible. The results can be displayed on mobile devices with the Android platform and iOS. (Picture from: http://gadgetznews.com/)
Tracking technology is installed in the shoe, and will be connected wirelessly with mobile devices like smartphones, tablet PC, or laptop with iOS or Android platform. System that allows coaches to perform in real-time tracking of the performance of the players who are belaga in the field, through the display metrics on each individual player and team analysis as a whole. In addition, data can be shared with other players on the official page of Adidas.
This allows coaches to see information such as heat maps heat maps alias of the field and the pulse of the players. This course will help coaches to make the right decision. For example, determining the formation to pick players who still play or pull out a player who is considered to be exhausted. Perhaps with the miCoach application of technology in the MLS will affect the performance of the U.S. national team in World Cup Brazil 2014.
Nike+
Competitor of Adidas miCoach system technology is the Nike+ technology which is made of Nike apparel manufacturer based in Oregon City, USA. The system uses tracking engine made by MotionX.
So whether it's Nike+ technology? A system that lets you know how far you walk or run and how fast you do it. This system consists of an accelerometer sensor that is placed inside the shoe that is compatible and a signal receiver that is plugged into mobile devices with iOS platform like the iPod nano, iPod Touch, iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and that serves as a receiver.
The latest update brings a nice new look to Nike+ Running for iPhone. (Picture from: http://www.cultofmac.com/)
On 7 September 2010, Nike has released Nike+GPS applications, the advantages of this application that can be used without having to use shoes that have been fitted with sensors for this application using GPS. Then you can see the route you run in full, the following information as the area where you run quickly and in an area where you are running slowly. *** [TONI IRAWAN | PIKIRAN RAKYAT 21062012 | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES]
