Several potentially transformative treatments for cancer and HIV face a common obstacle—getting drugs into cells, which are designed to reject foreign materials.
A new microfluidic device, recently developed by a startup called SQZ Biotech, can get microscopic material into cells quickly and cheaply by vigorously squeezing those cells, temporarily making their membranes permeable.
3D printers give hardware designers a way to convert their computer models into objects they can see and feel. A Boston-area startup has made a desktop printer that goes one step further: by printing wires, it allows designers to make working prototypes of their electronic creations.
Voxel8 today launched its website and has begun to take orders for a 3D printer that can make plastic three-dimensional objects with embedded electronic circuits. The company, which works out of the Greentown Labs incubator in Somerville, MA, plans to demonstrate the 3D printer at the CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas and start delivering it later in 2015. It prints plastic and conductive inks, which function as wires for electronic components.
It’s evident here at the CES show that the automakers are moving quickly toward offering a real self-driving car, but it’s the absence of detailed mapping data that might delay its arrival on the roads.
Indeed, much of the focus has been on the development of better sensors and radar systems, and companies like Audi, Mercedes, and Ford have made big strides with the technology. Ford CEO Mark Fields told VentureBeat that he believes a fully-autonomous vehicle will hit the market within five years.
Following Facebook’s $2 billion purchase of Oculus VR and Samsung’s launch of their Gear VR Innovator Edition headset, no one doubts that virtual reality is hot. Isn’t it time that someone started on a standard for VR gaming?
SmartThings unveiled a major update to its Hub smart-home device today, enabling it to work even if your Internet or power goes down.
SmartThings made the announcement onstage today at the 2015 CES conference in Las Vegas during Samsung’s keynote speech. The announcement came shortly after Samsung chief executive Boo-Keun Yoon made the audience an interesting promise: “In five years,” he said, every single one of Samsung’s products will be a connected “Internet of Things” device.
It doesn’t take much effort to switch a light on or off, but we don’t do it nearly enough to save a lot of energy. And sometimes, even making the effort to get lighting just right can be a pain. That’s why companies are betting on smart lighting, which can set the lights in your home to suit your preferences and be controlled remotely.
For obvious reasons, hospitals are a hotspot for germ exposure, which can increase the risk of infection for those making a visit by up to 10 percent, according to a recent study. What might be surprising though, is that researchers found more bacteria colonization on the hospital elevator buttons than even on the facility’s toilets.
Samsung chief executive Boo-Keun Yoon said that his company will invest up to $100 million in the developer community for applications for the Internet of Things.
This category — where everyday devices become smart and connected — is a big theme at the 2015 International CES, the tech trade show where Yoon gave one of the opening keynotes today.
He said that in 2017, about 90 percent of Samsung’s products would be connected in some way to the Internet of Things. To get ready for that day, Samsung needs to invest in a lot of developers and startups that can create meaningful applications based on all of the data collected from the newly created devices.
Ford chief executive Mark Fields announced today that his car company is experimenting with ways to solve parking problems in major cities.
Ford is creating experimental apps that allow people to find nearby parking spots and recommendations for the best one to try to get first. There’s also an experiment in social collaboration, where residents in an area can reserve a parking spot in crowded neighborhoods.
“We don’t think these experiments will produce a single solution,” Fields said. But the company wants the ideas to flow. Fields made the announcement as part of a keynote talk at the 2015 International CES, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week.
Ford Motor Company says it will engage in 25 experiments in cities around the world to test new driving models. Most of the experiments involve some form of car sharing.
Ford CEO Mark Fields announced the experiments this morning at the company’s CES keynote.
