Soitec, a French manufacturing company, says it has used techniques designed for making microprocessors to produce solar cells with a record-setting efficiency of 46 percent, converting more than twice as much sunlight into electricity as conventional cells.
Although the cells are more complicated to produce, using established manufacturing techniques promises to keep production costs down.
When the lights go out – especially on a dark, stormy night – there’s always a fear that they won’t go back on again. And in some cases they don’t, for days or even weeks, depending on the damage caused to the electrical system. Just ask the folks who went through Hurricane Sandy.
“Basically, without electricity, life comes to a halt,” said Yaron Gissin, CEO of Kalisaya, whose KaliPAK portable solar-powered electrical generator is designed to run for hours on end, providing enough power to run lights, laptop and cellphones.
Snapchat might have turned down more than $3 billion from Facebook to be acquired, but it looks like it spent a hefty $15 million to quietly acquire a startup building a Google Glass-inspired product.
The recent Sony email leaks contain deal terms stating that ephemeral messaging app Snapchat paid $15 million for Vergence Labs, according to a Business Insider report. More specifically, it paid $11 million in cash, and $4 million in stock.
Fifteen years ago, one of the first major initiatives in the Internet of Things took place. In 1999, the Auto-ID Center was formed at MIT; it later became the Auto-ID Labs, a global consortium of researchers and practitioners. The goal of both organizations was to research and help implement radio-frequency identification devices (better known by their acronym, RFID). That same year also marked the first recorded use of the Internet of Things (IoT) term by an Auto-ID co-director. (While the concept of connected things goes back at least two decades, to our knowledge it was Kevin Ashton, a co-founder of the MIT Auto-ID Center, who first used the appealing IoT term in 1999.) RFID was arguably the first major IoT technology of any scale.
The Luce X2 Touch TV vending machine uses facial recognition and customers’ medical records to determine if they should be allowed to buy an unhealthy snack.
SORALUCE realizó la presentación mundial del Dynamics Active Stabilizer DAS (Sistema de amortiguador activo desarrollado en colaboración con el Centro Tecnológico IK4-IDEKO) en las Jornadas Tecnológicas celebradas del 12 al 15 de noviembre en BIMATEC SORALUCE GmbH, su Centro Tecnológico en Limburg (Alemania).
Además del DAS, SORALUCE mostró a sus clientes tecnologías que van más allá de la propia máquina así como nuevos desarrollos aplicados a las tecnologías de fresado, mandrinado y torneado. Estos desarrollos fueron expuestos en condiciones de mecanizado reales por parte de los mejores especialistas.
Lift, the mobile app incubated by Twitter co-founders’ Obvious Corp., launched last year to help people build healthier habits and achieve their goals by offering a simple way to track your progress while supported by a social community who provide pushes, motivation and positive reinforcement to keep users on track. Today, Lift is expanding its set of support options to focus on more serious goal setters with the introduction of a paid coaching model in version 2.0 of the app, out now.
Des scientifiques du Centre d'Excellence de Chimie Verte (CECV) de l'université de York ont créé une "start-up" de valorisation des déchets alimentaires issus de la région à travers l'extraction de composés chimiques et/ou de matériaux naturels afin qu'ils puissent être utilisés par d'autres industries locales.
A warehouse full of lettuce might not be the first place you would expect to find the next Industrial Revolution. But follow the LED lights and you’ll discover a glimpse of the future of agriculture — industrial-scale, indoor farming.
Advances in LED technology are helping to create an environment where vegetables can be produced at scale for maximum impact — with higher yields and shorter grow cycles, no matter what climate.
