Thursday, February 2, 2012
As Smartphones Get Smarter, You May Get Healthier: How mHealth Can Bring Cheaper Health Care To All
Posted by Linda H on 5:20:00 AM
Ramesh Raskar knew fixing this problem would be tricky. It required a new way of thinking about eye tests--and a new kind of device, one powerful enough to support high-resolution visuals, cheap enough to scale, and simple enough to be used by just about anyone. The MIT professor briefly toyed with stand-alone options, which were complicated and costly. Then he reached into his pocket and pulled out an unexpected savior: his iPhone.
"The displays had gotten so good, thanks to people wanting to watch episodes of Lost in high definition," Raskar recalls. "I was immediately energized."
Breakthrough in seaweed biofuel reported
Posted by Linda H on 5:15:00 AM
A newly engineered microbe can do the work by metabolizing all of the major sugars in brown seaweed, potentially making it a cost-competitive alternative to petroleum fuel, said the report in the US journal Science.
The team at the Berkeley, California-based Bio Architecture Lab engineered a form of E. coli bacteria that can digest the seaweed's sugars into ethanol, it said. Unlike other microbes before, researchers found it can attack the primary sugar constituent in seaweed, known as alginate.
Apple Needs to Make it in America
