Interesting - Contact lens with Infrared vision -

Sounds good but, would people take the pain of wearing contact lens , instead of a regular goggles?

According to the article:- 

Seeing the infrared spectrum has a number of applications that go beyond the nighttime war games glamorized in adventure flicks. Doctors can use the wavelengths to monitor blood flow, and civil engineers can use them to identify heat or chemical leaks

And it’s so thin that it could be integrated in cell phones, eyeglass-mounted computers and even contact lenses to provide an infrared-vision mode

The link below has more information:-

http://singularityhub.com/2014/03/29/contact-lenses-with-infrared-vision-ultra-thin-graphene-opens-up-the-possibilities/

"DeepFace" from Facebook can identify people in Pictures - 97.25% Accuracy. (close to human rate 97.53%)

Good for them because now they can perform better data mining.

I am trying to figure out how it can help us

According to the article:- 

The deep-learning part of DeepFace consists of nine layers of simple simulated neurons, with more than 120 million connections between them. To train that network, Facebook’s researchers tapped a tiny slice of data from their company’s hoard of user images—four million photos of faces belonging to almost 4,000 people.

The links below has more information:

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/525586/facebook-creates-software-that-matches-faces-almost-as-well-as-you-do/

For Science Fans - New direct evidence of the expansion of the universe (Big Bang theory)

According to the article:- 

Gravitational waves, proposed by Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity nearly 100 years ago but never before proven, are believed to have originated in the Big Bang explosion and then been amplified by the universe’s inflation.

Using a special telescope located at the South Pole, scientists not only detected gravitational waves in the universe’s fossil radiation; they also found that the telltale polarization signals are much stronger than expected.

In addition to providing the first direct evidence of the universe’s inflation, the measurements can be used to date the process and determine how much energy it took.

The links below has more information:

http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/big-bangs-smoking-gun-discovered-140317.htm

Bright side of Technology - 3D printing helps medical field

News like this is refreshing as it reminds us the primary purpose of science is to help humanity. Most of the time we are only inventing gadgets that makes more dumb in the name of efficiency. (Ex: When was the last time we calculated something without a calculator).

According to the article:- 

A survivor of a serious motorbike accident has had pioneering surgery to reconstruct his face using a series of 3D printed parts.

Stephen Power, from Cardiff, is thought to be one of the first trauma patients in the world to have 3D printing used at every stage of the procedure.

The project was the work of the Centre for Applied Reconstructive Technologies in Surgery (Cartis), which is a collaboration between the team in Swansea and scientists at Cardiff Metropolitan University.

The links below has more information:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-26534408#story_continues_2

I did not know this - Fungus in our mouth that protects from other fungus

According to the Article:

A little-known fungus called Pichia lives in healthy mouths and may play an important role in protecting us from an infection caused by the harmful fungus Candida. 

The other fascinating thing is it was able to inhibit other fungus that causes disease," Ghannoum says, including Aspergillus and Fusarium.

The following link has more information:

http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/03/friendly-fungus-protects-our-mouths-invaders

"Orbital Computing" - An idea that could increase computing power substantially.

Looks like good news for computers , NSA and Hackers who would like to Brute force passwords.

For us, I am not sure , OS and software vendors will continue to write fat-sluggish code and ensure that the end users will not experience any performance gains.

SNIPPETS from the Article:-

This idea orbital computing and the big takeaway for engineers is that one can switch the state of an electron’s orbit 10,000 times faster than you can switch the state of a transistor used in computing today.

 The primary advantage here is that while we’ve known for a while that a laser can speed up a state change (and thus, speed up computing) those lasers require a lot of power. The terahertz breakthrough offers a boost in speed without requiring a huge power draw.

The links below has more information:

http://gigaom.com/2014/03/10/physicist-proposes-a-new-type-of-computing-at-sxsw-check-out-orbital-computing/

Alan Turing's "theory of morphogenesis" validated after 60 years

Alan Turing was a Genius whose life had a tragic end. After 60 years , he is remembered again.

SNIPPETS from the Article:-

Turing was the first to offer an explanation of morphogenesis through chemistry. He theorized that identical biological cells differentiate, change shape and create patterns through a process called intercellular reaction-diffusion ;

Just as Turing theorized, the once identical structures—now chemically different—also began to change in size due to osmosis.

More than anything, this research further validates Turing as a pioneer across many different fields,

The links below has more information:

http://phys.org/news/2014-03-turing-theory-chemical-morphogenesis-validated.html

We are all aware of Patent trolls, how about, Patent delay for 45 years.

Gilbert P. Hyatt, the dogged inventor isn't some gadfly in a garden shed. He's probably made more than $150 million from a deal with Royal Philips, the Dutch electronics maker, to license 23 of his patents, including the 1990 one. Intel Corp. co-founder Robert Noyce invested in Hyatt's first company in the 1960s, according to Hyatt.

He has taken the patent office to court more than 10 times to force the agency to reconsider rejections of some of his applications. He even won a case at the Supreme Court in 2012 over what type of evidence can be presented in district court.

To me , the following sensible line

"I respect Gilbert Hyatt's work — the process of engineering is difficult," Bassett said in a telephone interview. "But innovations are more than ideas. The broader context matters. If Gilbert Hyatt had never existed, I believe the microprocessor would have developed in the same way that it did."

The link below has more details:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-wp-blm-news-bc-inventor01-20140301,0,255272.story

Shoes - That could guide you to your destination. (or at least it makes you to believe so)

Besides its use for navigation, Lechal can also be utilized as a fitness tracking system, as it's able to count steps, track calories burned, and create interactive workouts. It'll also buzz your shoes to let you know you've left your phone behind, or if you're traveling and are near points of interest – in the latter situation, you'd proceed to check the app display to see what the point of interest is.


http://www.gizmag.com/lechal-haptic-feedback-navigation-shoes/30939/