PROJECT GOOGLE X

Google X is working on a project to map perfect human health






Google X, the search giant's research and development arm, has set off on a new endeavor called the Baseline Study project. The goal of the project is to one day be able to detect health risks such as heart disease earlier in a patient's life such that preventative measures can be taken before it's too late.
The project is being led by Dr. Andrew Conrad, a molecular biologist credited with creating a cheap way to scan donated blood for HIV. He joined Google in March of last year and has put together a team of roughly 70 to 80 experts in the fields of biochemistry, imaging, molecular biology, optics and physiology.
The Baseline Study got under way earlier this summer through an unnamed clinical testing firm where doctors began collecting bodily fluids like urine, blood, saliva and tears from 175 anonymous volunteers. From there, Google will use its massive computing power to try and find patterns called biomarkers.
The hope is that these biomarkers will help researchers be able to detect health issues before a person even shows signs of them.
For example, a specific biomarker could reveal whether or not someone is able to break down fatty foods efficiently. Those that lack the biomarker could be at risk for early heart attacks in the future. By noticing this trait early and modifying their behavior now, they may be able to avoid the risk altogether.

leaked Windows 9 images

Start menu showed off in leaked Windows 9 images
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Windows 9, codenamed internally at Microsoft as 'Threshold', is still a while away from hitting even the release candidate stage, but that hasn't stopped some fresh images of the operating system leaking out.
Screenshots from MyCE show build 9795 of what's currently still labeled as Windows 8.1. The most interesting thing in the screenshot is an early version of the Start menu, which is expected to return in Windows 9. The new Start menu shows both Modern apps and desktop apps in a hybrid pane, building on the last iteration of the Start menu we saw in Windows 7.
Visually it's quite similar to the sneak peak we saw at Build in early April, and no doubt Microsoft will tweak and improve its design in the lead up to the release of Windows 9.




Also shown in the leaked screenshots is one of the 'Metro'-style apps running in a window on the desktop; another feature expected to be included in Windows 9. Alongside the return of the Start menu, this feature is designed to make the operating system more friendly for keyboard and mouse users.
According to the latest rumors, Microsoft will launch Threshold in early 2015 as both a standard x86 version, and a version that combines Windows RT and Windows Phone. Major improvements to the Xbox One's operating system are also set to launch at the same time.

Zero-size Intelligence-The future of integrated circuits

Zero-size Intelligence:

No one wants to be called a  zero in terms of intelligence, but having o-sized intelligence in 
computing means packing a whole lot of brains in a tiny, tiny package. Computer companies 
encourage forward-thinking creativity, and some, such as Intel, even have futurists on board 
to predict where technology is headed. Futurist Brian David Johnson sees the future advance of computing to so small a size that the housing for the computer itself is almost zero. We have the technology to put computers almost anywhere and in almost anything. Computers used to take up entire rooms, then whole desktops, laps and palms, to micro-chip-sized casings and atom-powered transistors invisible to the naked eye;
Many have predicted that the shrinking of computing size would also lead to the end of something called Moore's Law. Gordon E. Moore, a co-founder of Intel, famously predicted that every two years the number of transistors on a chip will roughly double every 24 months. As computer brains have diminished in size -- with some models powered by just five atoms and one-atom developments about 10 to 20 years down the road -- getting smaller may reach an end point as atomic transistors replace chips. Whether the low cost will trickle down despite the high cost of innovating such small transistors remains to be seen.

what moore's law states?

The laws of physics are to blame. The current process allows us to create chips with transistors that are measured in atoms. Eventually, or about 2020, transistors will become so small that quantum theory or atomic physics will take over and electrons will begin to leak out of the wires. 

In 2020 it is estimated that we could get to the point where we have the ability to create transistors that are 5 atoms wide. According to Kaku, at this juncture the Heisenberg uncertainty principle comes into play, which states that you cannot know both the position and velocity of any particle, which means we cannot know where an electron is, and therefore cannot be confined to a wire, causing a circuit to short circuit.

Does the end of Moore’s Law equate to the end of Silicon Valley?

The bad news is that we have about 8 years before this specific etch-a-sketch method of chip development will slow to a crawl. While innovation will likely continue, the time we will have to wait longer for our computer power to double. 

Dell Inspiron One 2020 20-inch all-in-one multi-touch PC

This Inspiron One features a 20-inch edge-to-edge glass touchscreen with 10-point touch capability, offering a sleek flat surface that’s easy to clean and easy to swipe on, even from the borders. The resolution is an HD+ 1600×900, giving you screen real estate that slides in between 720p and 1080p, letting you watch your movies and other media in fairly good quality.

This config is geared towards casual use, and it’s powered by a capable Intel Pentium G2020T processor that will perform well when it comes to typical everyday tasks. The included 4GB RAM and 500GB hard drive line up with what you’ll find in most basic mainstream computers, and will be enough for day-to-day use as well.

On the connectivity side you’ll find five USB ports (two on the side, three on the back), plus a multi-card reader and gigabit ethernet. Wireless-N and Bluetooth 4.0 are there too, giving you wireless options. A DVDRW is also present, making it simple to watch movies and more on the large display.

MIT wristband cools and heats body depending on need

MIT Wristband Could Make AC Obsolete!

The Wristify prototype is a personal climate-controlling wearable.

Here’s a scary statistic: In 2007, 87 percent of households in the U.S. used air conditioning, compared to just 11 percent of households in Brazil and a mere 2 percent in India. Another one: By 2025, booming nations like those are projected to account for a billion new consumers worldwide, with a corresponding explosion in demand for air conditioning expected to arrive along with them. Keeping indoor spaces at comfortable temperatures requires a huge amount of electricity–especially in sweltering climates like India and Brazil–and in the U.S. alone it accounts for a full 16.5 percent of energy use.

All of that adds up to a big problem. At a point when humans need to take a sober look at our energy use, we’re poised to use a devastating amount of it keeping our homes and offices at the right temperatures in years to come. A team of students at MIT, however, is busy working on a prototype device that could eliminate much of that demand, and they’re doing it by asking one compelling question: Why not just heat and cool our bodies instead?

SHAMES RUNS HOT. HIS MOM RUNS COLD. HE FIGURED THERE MUST BE A WAY FOR THEM TO COEXIST.

Wristify, as they call their device, is a thermoelectric bracelet that regulates the temperature of the person wearing it by subjecting their skin to alternating pulses of hot or cold, depending on what’s needed. The prototype recently won first place at this year’s MADMEC, an annual competition put on by the school’s Materials Science and Engineering program, netting the group a $10,000 prize, which they’ll use to continue its development. It’s a promising start to a clever approach that could help alleviate a serious energy crisis. But as Sam Shames, the MIT senior who helped invent the technology, explains, the team was motivated by a more prosaic problem: keeping everyone happy in a room where no one can agree where to set the thermostat.

Shames runs hot. His mom runs cold. He figured there must be a way for them to coexist peacefully. So he started researching, digging into physiology journals to get a better understanding of how we experience temperature. One paper held the key to the Wristify concept. It detailed how locally heating and cooling different parts of the body has all sorts of effects on how hot or cold we are–or, more accurately, how hot or cold we think we are. “There’s a big perceptual component to it,” Shames says.

“The human body and human skin is not like a thermometer. If I put something cold directly on your body at a constant temperature, the body acclimates and no longer perceives it as cold.” Think of what happens when you jump in a lake. At first, it’s bracingly cold, but after a while, you get used to it. By continually introducing that sudden jolt of cold, Shames discovered, you could essentially trick the body into feeling cold. Wristify basically makes you feel like you’re continually jumping into the lake–or submerging into a hot bath.

In building the prototype, Shames and his co-inventors–Mike Gibson, a second-year Ph.D. student; David Cohen-Tanugi, a fourth-year Ph.D. student, and Matt Smith, a postdoctoral researcher–had the challenge of figuring out how to best exploit that perceptual tick. The research suggested that anything with a temperature change greater than 0.1 degree Celsius per second would produce the effect. Their wristband, which harnesses thermoelectrics to both heat and cool a patch of skin, is capable of changing that surface at a rate of 0.4 degrees Celsius per second.

“THE MOST COMMON REACTION YOU GET IS THAT YOU SEE SOMEONE SMILE.”

They’re still refining the cycles used to deliver that temperature change–right now, Shames says, they’ve settled on roughly 5 seconds on, 10 seconds off. Along the way they had the chance to test it on all sorts of friends, family and classmates, and Shames says that people could definitely feel the technology at work. “The most common reaction you get is that you see someone smile,” he says.

The group is keen to push the product forward. In its current state, the device is very much a prototype–a crude mess of electronics strapped to a cheap, fake Rolex band. But none of the components are prohibitively expensive–the prototype works with about $50 worth of off-the-shelf parts–and Shames says they could produce the same effect with about half the on-the-skin surface area used by the current version. “The focus on our development thus far has been technical proof of concept,” Shames says, but they’re committed to turning Wristify into a real product. “We’ve been thinking long and hard about the next best steps to pursue,” he says. “One thing we’re really conscious about is the aesthetics of our device. It has to look good and it has to be comfortable.”

If it comes together, though, it would be a compelling sell–a wearable that offered personalized, dynamic climate control. It might not solve the AC energy problem in one fell swoop, but it could nudge us away from the central-heating-and-cooling mindset that is taking us there–more of a next-gen fan or handwarmer than a full heating and cooling replacement. It’s certainly an intriguing approach. As Shames says, “Why heat or cool a building when you could heat or cool a person?”

Amazon's Fire Phone Will Beat the iPhone in 3 Years ..whispered? ..have a look

How Amazon's Fire Phone Will Beat the iPhone in 3 Years !

No one could catch Apple when Apple focused on leading the market, but once Apple started focusing on competing with Samsung, passing it got far easier, and Samsung did it. However, Samsung isn't a good leader, and you can see that in its weakening sales numbers. So, if Apple continues to chase Samsung, and Samsung continues to be bad at leading, Amazon wins.


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Amazon launched its rather impressive Fire Phone last week, and it has a number of things that make it interesting -- but just as the iPhone improved massively by the third version, I expect this phone will as well, as a result of users providing feedback on what they want.

Ironically, if the iPhone fails against the Fire Phone, it will be because Jeff Bezos is executing Steve Jobs' old strategy of focusing on building a great experience, while Tim Cook shifts Apple to price competition, as a result of his battles with Google and Samsung. I'll share what I see coming and then close with my product of the week: the Qualcomm 800 processor, which is at the heart of the new Fire Phone.


  
Modeling Success and Failure

One of the functions of analysts is to document how a leading product will be overcome by a competitor. The analyst starts by assuming the outcome and then works backward to take into account both actual and anticipated events that support that outcome.

The first time I did this was when I co-led the project to spin out the IBM Software Business as a separate company. Detailed analysis indicated with some certainty that if IBM didn't spin out the business, then Microsoft would pass it by. IBM didn't, and Microsoft did.

These efforts typically are geared toward preventing the outcome they forecast -- not ensuring it -- though several times in my career, I've failed because I accurately predicted the outcome. In other words, being right isn't the goal of undertaking this -- ensuring you are wrong actually is.

Bezos Mirroring Jobs

What made the iPhone so successful when other screen phones were failing was that Jobs focused more on what the phone did and on the customer experience than he did on the device itself. The phone it was based on, the LG Prada, had been well branded and was just as expensive, but it wasn't particularly interesting or easy to use. It was very pretty, though.

Screen phones were failing for a number of reasons: They were difficult and unsafe to use (you had to look at them when typing, which increased the difficulty, and if you did this while driving it shortened your life expectancy). They were relatively fragile (it was easy to break a screen), and they got crappy battery life because the screens were so large.

Jobs got people to forget all of that by wrapping the iPhone with apps and iTunes, and making it incredibly easy to use.

Bezos started with a screen phone, then wrapped it with Amazon's movie and music services, and improved the store-in-your-pocket experience that exists on the Kindle Fire tablets. This shopping experience is one of the Fire Phone's killer features, and it should appeal to Kindle fire users, much like the Apple fans really embraced the iPhone first.

The lesson folks often forget with a new device like this is to attract your fans first -- then move to the rest of the market. Kindle Fire users should love this phone.

The other two killer features are the Mayday button, which is like having an Apple Genius in your pocket, and the 3D display, which creates an "oh wow" sharable experience. Ease of use and the "oh wow" experience connected to the first generation iPhone were what allowed it to quickly dominate the market.

Beating Apple

Amazon won't beat Apple with the generation-one Fire Phone, and it likely won't do so with generation two. Generation one is focused on making Kindle Fire tablet users love it, and generation two likely will be focused on fixing any immediate design or use problems. It is typically the generation-three product -- assuming one and two have been successful -- that steps out and begins to showcase the potential for dominance.

Amazon will beat Apple if Apple continues to go down a path of price-cutting and chasing Samsung rather than leading the market. No one could catch Apple when Apple focused on leading the market, but once Apple started focusing on Samsung, passing it got far easier, and Samsung did it.

However, Samsung isn't a good leader, and you can see that in its weakening sales numbers. So, if Apple continues to chase Samsung, and Samsung continues to be bad at leading, Amazon wins.

In that scenario, Amazon moves into Apple's place as market leader, and both Samsung and Apple go after it, but given Amazon operates at break even and has store scale and reach that neither company can match, it is even more unlikely that Amazon can be caught from behind -- unless it stumbles -- than it was for Apple.

Apple is particularly weak against Amazon's economic model, which is based on managing to zero. In other words, Amazon can spend every cent it makes in profit and not be killed by investors, because that's what it currently does.

Apple has huge financial reserves, but it will crush margins if it spends them, and its valuation will fall like a rock, putting the entire executive team at risk. Samsung, which is a low-margin company, was a huge problem for Apple. Amazon is potentially far worse.

Wrapping Up: Count Down to Amazon Leadership

The only way Apple comes out of this on top is if Amazon stumbles like Microsoft did with Zune (which it hasn't done yet) or if Apple can retake market leadership before Amazon can challenge for it, which isn't for at least two years, or when the generation-three Fire Phone launches.

Amazon has demonstrated with the Kindle Fire tablet and its core shopping execution that it, unlike Samsung, is fully capable of leading this market, and once it's out in front, it will be nearly impossible to catch -- unless it trips and falls.

In short, Amazon wins if it continues to use Steve Jobs' playbook with an Amazon spin, and if Apple continues to use a strategy better suited to Samsung or Compaq. Let's revisit this, assuming we are all still around, in June of 2017.


 Qualcomm Snapdragon 800



Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 is an impressive part. In fact, the specs look more appropriate for a PC than a phone, except it isn't very power hungry. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 has four 2.3 GHz cores and a high-performance GPU (for graphics).

It has a world modem that should work anyplace you want to travel and at maximum data rates in most areas (which could actually suck if you get hit with roaming charges).

                                                          Qualcomm Snapdragon 800



It supports the new faster USB 3.0 standard if you want to transfer data with a cable (which most of us don't do anymore), and it will both display and capture 4K video.

One of my personal favorite features is quick-charge 2.0, which helps you charge your device very quickly (I often forget to plug my phone into the charger at night). In short, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 carries the Qualcomm banner, showcasing what it can do well, and it is an appropriate choice for a phone that can challenge Apple without breaking the bank.

Because the Qualcomm 800 solution, which isn't even Qualcomm's best part (that's the even more powerful 810), is what makes the Amazon Fire Phone so incredibly versatile.


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The original concept phone P-One

The original concept phone P-One:

Modern mobile phones too similar to each other. The original form and function more reason not welcome. Now all compete only specifications. Concept called P-One, a mobile phone is very different from their present counterparts. The device is shaped more like an USB drive than a phone and it includes a circle in the middle of the body.
On board the number P-One have built motion sensors, it supports handwriting. For the traditional keyboard in such a compact device has no place. Received SMS text is easy to read on a small screen. Range of functions in P-One extremely simple: messages, calls and FM- radio. It is also possible to connect an external functional blocks, for them in the center ring is a special slot.
The center ring is also used as a fulcrum for the integrated kinetic charger. This means that if the battery charger can be connected to the ring in the ring and charge the battery. Extremely useful option, it may even save someone’s life if it is a call to emergency services. Unfortunately, hardly something similar may soon enter the market.

Samsung:Concept of smart bike

Samsung:Concept of smart bike:

Samsung has always been famous for a wide range of branded products. The company produces not only a bunch of mobile phones, but also a bunch of very different products. For example,if Google is seriously interested in cars, that the Korean manufacturer has now told about the original project the “smart” bike.
Connected to the smart bike the mobile device allows the user to manage intellectual functions of the vehicle. Developers equipped bike the modules Wi-Fi, Bluetooth,digital camera and laser projectors. To all of this work, the battery is also provided. In the motion in bicycle provides a classic way – by using the pedals.
Built into the design of bicycle laser projectors are responsible for creating original bike paths. Since laser beams interact with the ambient light sensor on your phone, they can turn on automatically when it gets dark outside, or in the case of poor lighting.
In the back of the bike mounted camera that result in synchronization with a smartphone can serve as  rearview mirror. The frame of the vehicle created by the designer, together with Giovanni Pelitsoli bicycles, is made of aluminum tubes which are supposed to be able to counteract the vibration in the road. Samsung has not yet reported on the plans or release dates smart bike on the commercial market. Unfortunately, this project is only Samsung concept.