San Francisco-based Prana said its new wearable, which combines breath and posture tracking, can offer a unique look into your health and well-being.
The small round device clips into the inside of the user’s waistband. It uses a 3-axis accelerometer and a fancy set of fancy algorithms (which took two years to develop) to measure the body’s breathing patterns. It can also tell if you’re slouching.
You can use the information presented by the device’s app (Android and iOS) to train yourself to breathe properly and use better posture. Just doing this can yield a variety of health benefits like lower stress levels and no back pain, Prana said.
The race is on to bring the predictive and diagnostic power of genome sequencing to health care. The trick is to do the sequencing and analysis quickly and inexpensively. We’ve seen several substantial venture investments in companies with different approaches this year — like Omicia and DNAnexus.
Transparent films containing carbon nanobuds—molecular tubes of carbon with ball-like appendages—could turn just about any surface, regardless of its shape, into a touch sensor.
The films were developed by a Finnish startup, Canatu, and could be used to add touch controls to curved automobile consoles and dashboards, for example. The films are rugged and can be repeatedly bent around something as thin as the cord for your earbuds, so they could be handy for adding buttons to flexible devices.
Hewlett-Packard will take a big step toward shaking up its own troubled business and the entire computing industry next year when it releases an operating system for an exotic new computer.
The company’s research division is working to create a computer HP calls The Machine. It is meant to be the first of a new dynasty of computers that are much more energy-efficient and powerful than current products. HP aims to achieve its goals primarily by using a new kind of computer memory instead of the two types that computers use today. The current approach originated in the 1940s, and the need to shuttle data back and forth between the two types of memory limits performance.
La nouvelle "smart city" Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town (SST) [1] a été inaugurée jeudi 27 novembre. Cet événement a été organisé par Fujisawa SST Council, un consortium dirigé par Panasonic [2], dans la banlieue de Tokyo où se situe cette nouvelle ville s'étalant sur environ 19 hectares. Les maisons y sont notamment équipées de panneaux photovoltaïques, de système d'information sur leur consommation et production personnelles. Cette ville se veut "durable pour 100 ans".
Batteries offer perhaps the greatest opportunity for innovation in the technology realm. Whoever figures out a way to pack a bigger punch into a smaller space will undoubtedly make a lot of money, which perhaps explains why Seeo is seeing so much interest from investors.
The Hayward, California-based company develops rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, and it has just announced the closure of a $17 million Series E round.
L'Institut Fraunhofer pour les techniques de production et l'automatisation de Stuttgart (IPA, Bade-Wurtemberg) a développé conjointement avec l'entreprise autrichienne Langle GmbH un nouveau système d'application de revêtement par poudre.
L'entreprise PVG Solutions [2], l'université de Miyazaki [3] et d'autres ont conjointement mené des recherches sur le côté l'arrière des panneaux photovoltaïques double face. Les pertes énergétiques et l'augmentation de température ont principalement été étudiées. L'entreprise PVG s'investit dans l'amélioration des performances des panneaux double face pour notamment pouvoir développer les capacités des centrales dans les régions neigeuses à l'image de "Asahikawa Hokuto Solar Power Plant" à Hokkaido générant plus d'énergie que prévu.
Tis the season when shoppers flock to online deal sites and use their price comparison software to hunt for the best bargains. They are not alone. Shipping companies could soon start using similar algorithms to cheaply and efficiently charge their electric trucks to get those same orders delivered.
Tras el duro informe de Moody's, que ponía en entredicho la salud financiera de Grupo Villar Mir y OHL, y las desinversiones realizadas por el holdingen su filial, adelantadas por este medio, la comunidad financiera ha pedido explicaciones a la compañía y esta ha transmitido un mensaje de tranquilidad.
