Thursday, 18 September 2014

NASA aiming for establishment of traffic rules for Low-Flying and Commercial Drones


Commercial Drones
NASA is not among the latest companies who got interested in the air traffic control management system. According to the recent files reports, NASA is in search for partners to collaborate and establish a traffic management system for low-flying drones. In the fact sheet containing the proposal on this issue NASA explained that at the moment there are no infrastructure established that can not only enable but also safely manage the extensive usage of low-altitude airspace. Drones and the Small craft which are basically remotely guided and are used by hobbyists along with drones have no knowledge of each other. They might not be able to avoid each other and other things like high winds and power lines etc.

NASA is aiming towards building a system, which will help them in tracking as well as managing the increasing numbers of aircrafts in the air. Even though NASA has been working on a project on the similar lines for more than years, the proposed “Unmanned aerial system Traffic Management” (UTM) is still in its infancy. Currently NASA is planning to work people who have expertise and have contributed towards this idea, which includes aircraft makers, sensors and software developers and aviation experts among others.

Commercial drones

Agency is looking for partners to develop a project for safe commercial usage of drones in United States of America. This multi-year program is an idea towards developing air traffic management for commercial drones. This program is important as the commercial drones used in banned in USA by the Federal Aviation Administration which includes devices like Octocopters, Quadcopters and other remote-controlled aircraft among others.

This means a path has been cleared for people who now legally fly consumer can grade UAS (unmanned aerial system) from various companies ranging from 3D robotics, DJI and Parrot among others. Added to this factor, now Amazon has announced that they will use this device to deliver package.

Airware is among the first partners who are helping the agency in this multi year program. The aim of this device is to ensure a safe management apart from the low altitude use of devices from ground to 500 feet. According to Jesse Kallman, who is the head of Airware's business development and regulatory affairs, the current problem that everyone is facing is that there is no universal system for the ensuring the safety of people on ground apart from those in airplanes and helicopters, as sometimes there are communication issues with drone pilots due to their devices.

Apart from this NASA aims to safe delivery of the pilot at ground. Even though this program it is not expected to launch it for upcoming years, but elements of this work is expected to come out in the market anytime in between.

Wednesday, 17 September 2014

Linkedin Creates Three Privacy Features to Protect Users Account


Linkedin
As we can see that hacking all around the world has increased to a great extent that too in a professional way. It has become difficult for the users to keep their precious information safe anymore. Recently, the mass celebrity photos were leaked by the hackers, which became the main concern for the people all across the globe as well as the government.

So, LinkedIn which follows the policy of “Members First” have taken a vital step to provide protection to the users account. And as a starting step, LinkedIn has proposed three security tools, in order to provide more control to the users over the vital data associated with their account.

Having more hold on your account is important as you never know who’s having eye on you or using it seating far away from you. Keeping all the factors in mind it has designed three special tools to provide more access to the users to their account. These tools include browsing history, varying password details and transparency of data.

Activity History:- 

It is nothing but a tool that helps you know all the devices on which a user is logged into. It helps a user to find out whether someone has gained access to their account without permission or not.
One can perform this task by going to settings and clicking on the option “view the sign in devices”. This will help you to check the devices that have access to your account and you can log out of any device at instant itself just from the same tab itself.

Changing password details:- 

This additional feature added by LinkedIn, will inform the users in the form a mail that includes information like date, time, device, browser, operating system, IP address, in case if you change your password or anyone else.

This is a protective tool added, as the hacker can be tracked easily if they try to change the password of your account. This will also provide you with the approximate physical location from where the changes have been made.

Data Transparency

Finally, it added an additional feature that allows its users to transport all of their LinkedIn data to their desired device. This will help the users to monitor each and everything that they have done or not done on LinkedIn, thereby providing them easy access to check whether anyone else has posted or searched something using their account or not.

Users can utilize this feature by going to settings tab and selecting the option “download your data” and the information including updates, activity, IP records and searches will be transferred to the desired place.

Conclusion:- 

As there are lots of hackers hunting down people through their accounts, it is advisable to the people to check their settings in order to see if these features are available to them or not. So just make use of these valuable tools and secure yourself from being targeted by these hackers.

Implanted Sensors to Diagnose Glaucoma


Implanted Sensors
Scientists have discovered a way to examine glaucoma by means of a tiny machine implanted in the eye. The analysis from the machine could be checked by a Smartphone. This expertise could assist in preventing some people from becoming blind. They have prepared a low-power sensor, which could be placed everlastingly in an individual’s eye to follow hard-to-measure alterations in eye pressure. This sensor would be implanted with a non-natural lens t the time of cataract surgical procedure and would identify pressure changes right away, then convey the data wirelessly by means of radio frequency waves.

What is Glaucoma? 

Glaucoma expresses a number of eye ailments in which there is great harm to the optic nerve. This optic nerve attaches the retina with the brain, and therefore any injury to it causes an individual to defect peripheral vision.

Ability of implanted sensor to detect the disease

The little sensor, just a few millimeters in length, is put in synthetic lens and these are utilized to replace the original lenses that patients with cataracts have. The manner the sensor works is as a tiny barometer. Pressure results the fluid within the sensor to shift. The progress of the fluid can be followed through a Smartphone camera that has a particular optical adapter.

A thin, round antenna covers the perimeter of the machine – approximately tracing a patient’s iris – and controls sufficient energy from the nearby field to regulate a little pressure sensor chip. This chip corresponds with a close-by receiver concerning any shifts in regularity, which indicate an alteration in pressure.

There are some restrictions still. Their perfect results are on the basis of the studies madein animal eyes. Moreover, how much time the appliance may endure is not however clear. If incessant monitoring is required, it should be competent to last for some years. Furthermore, itwill only be appropriate for some types of glaucoma.

One more challenge is that of inserting the mechanism in humans. It is suggested that the tool will take credit on an intraocular lens that is typically implanted in usual cataract surgery. It is a simple process that some patients having glaucoma and also cataract previously undergo.

It has been recommended that, since the lens within the eye plays a key role in the devices leading to one type of glaucoma, then advance lens extraction will prevent glaucoma disease in some sorts of glaucoma. This system is undergoing a test in humans, and could heighten study on implantable sensors.

However, if ophthalmologists could put in a pressure monitoring arrangement in the eye with one artificial lens in cataract surgery – now a general procedure done on 3 million or 4 million public each year to eliminate blurry image or glare resulted by a unclear lens, which could prevent patients from another surgery and basically help their substitution lens “smarter” and also functional. The accomplishment of the monitoring tool has to be well-fitted clinically and should be designed to be easy and consistent. Every doctor who does cataract surgeries should be able to utilize this.

Want a cut edge screen with high resolution for your laptop?

Asus ZenbookUX305
Today in the technological world, it is really the in thing to have a sharp screen with high resolution. If that is your criteria too, then your first catch should be none but the Asus ZenbookUX305, which gives you a screen like never before. This means that the high definition movies that you will watch in it are bound to be even more enjoyable experience.

You can use this product as both a tablet as well as a laptop. The screen is so sharp that even the blurred images have a brighter view in this. And if you are a gamer, then the experience while you are playing games in it is quite pleasurable. It has a screen that is bound to attach you with itself.

What are its basic features and where is it suitable? 

This screen has a resolution manager so that whenever any low-resolution picture is downloaded from the internet, when enlarged the picture does not become blurred in any way and it remains intact. It is best suitable for the following places.

This product is best suited for: 

  • Businessmen who have to conduct presentations in the presentation hall. Due to the sharp screen, the presentation comes out to be in a nicer form. If there are situations in which graphical represents are to be used, then it becomes best when the resolution is good as because there are minute things to be noticed in it. 
  • Secondly, for the people who are involved in the field of designing, film editing, and doing Photoshop, the clearer image makes the work far easier. The better the resolution is, the better is the working with the tools in this field. And for the professionals, this is almost a must have. The designing are better shown and the resolution gives the picture perfect image of the designing so that you can get hold of the flaws and correct it.
  • For the people who love watching movies in their laptops and tablets, this is indeed a great catch. If you are fond of watching movies, then try this one out, as it will leave you craving for more. And once you get used to it, you will no longer like to watch the movies in the low resolution anymore.
  • For the ones who are game addicts, the sharper the screen the better the game is played. Almost every gamer would kill to have a screen like Asus is offering right now. Gamers, you need to change your strategy to be the winners. Try using this high-resolution screen for once. When you get to have a mind-blowing experience of it, then you no longer will want to play in the low screen resolutions anymore. You can grab every detailing of the game and therefore, you will be able to go play in a better manner than before.
Overall, you can have a taste of this cut edge screen, which will open a new door for new experiences for you.

Tuesday, 16 September 2014

Printable Solar Panels Coming Soon To Change the Way Energy Is Used


Printable Solar Panels
A group of Australian scientists and researchers have claimed to make breakthrough in the field of energy by successfully developing printable solar panels. This group comprises of the scientists from esteemed Australian National Science Agency, popularly known as CSIRO in collaboration with two major Australian universities i.e. Melbourne and Monash. This group had been researching for developing the power cells, which could be printed on plastic as a part of the Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium since 2007.

This research team consists of 50 scientists from varied backgrounds such physics, engineering and chemistry, all coming together to give right shape to this innovative and courageous project. With their success in producing the printable solar panels, we are hopeful that very soon it would be used in low-power applications in near future.

Features of Printable Solar Panels

The printable solar panels are highly cost effective and immensely cheap in manufacturing and day to day operations. Its looks and the manner of working is widely different from the traditional silicon solar rooftop panels from Roof Worx LLC. The best thing about it is that it could be made semi transparent or could even be used for a tinted window scenario.

Printable solar panel offers a wide amount of possibilities in industrial, commercial and personal use because of its low cost, flexibility and lightweight. 

The Future of Printable Solar Panels

Researchers are optimistic in their view regarding the use of the printable solar panels in upcoming years. The printable solar panels could be used in a whole range of applications such as temporary structures, consumer product packaging, window and window furnishings, remote locations and developing communities.

A lead researcher also asserted that very soon the electronic accessories like the iPad covers, skins of iphone, laptop bags, tablet covers would be developed up of printable solar cells, which would give these the ability to collect some energy and power the electronics.

How the Printable Solar Panels Are Made

Researchers had used the commercial printer where with the use of solar ink they easily happened to print solar cells. Printing solar panels were as simple as printing plastic bank notes. However, the research for a suitable printing was in development since 2001.

Researchers had developed this simple technique by printing their solar inks in a roll-to-roll process onto process just like the PET method. This printing is usually done in open air along with the use of the off-the shelf printing equipment which were exclusively adapted for using the solar inks.

This project was aimed at developing panels which varies in colour and looks at the same time being lightweight and conformable while delivering a stable voltage even in indoor surroundings.

Printable Solar Panels Does Have Great Commercial Potential

Solar Cell Consortium had applauded this successful venture of the Australian scientists and had said that this technology does have the potential of dramatically reducing the dependence on the traditional sources of electricity not only in Australia but also across the world. This also have the potential to be used in developing countries where it is very hard to find cheap and easily deployable energy source.