SciTech Digest - 17/2017.
SciTech Digest - 17/2017.
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Cheap microfluidic chips, 3D printed glass, Solid state LIDAR, CRISPR antibiotics, SynBio directed evolution, Memory rejuvenation drug, Brick laying robot, Colour night vision, Steerable sound, Smallest integrated photonics.
1. Super Cheap Microfluidic Chips
New techniques employ 3D printers and laser cutters to use cheap materials such as plastics, paper, and laminates to quickly create custom microfluidic chips, thus opening up the technology to pretty much everyone by avoiding the need for photolithography and other expensive tools http://news.mit.edu/2017/makerspaces-could-enable-widespread-adoption-of-microfluidics-0421.
2. 3D Printing Glass
A new process allows for the production of 3D printed glass structures by printing a mix of a polymer binder and quartz glass nanoparticles; the final structure is then sintered to remove the polymer and fuse the glass https://www.kit.edu/kit/english/21780.php.
3. Solid State LIDAR
The solid-state LIDAR ecosystem is heating up with Velodyne set to launch a new solid-state device for automotive market applications http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sensors/velodyne-announces-a-solidstate-lidar.
4. CRISPR Antibiotics
CRISPR is being combined with bacteriophages to target specific drug resistant pathogenic bacteria and cause infected cells to cut critical genes that results in cell-death, thus acting as a new kind of antibiotic https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604126/edible-crispr-could-replace-antibiotics/.
5. Directed Evolution in Synthetic Biology
Using directed evolution to design/discover ever better and more efficient enzymes and genetic pathways in synthetic biology is becoming ever-more common and routine http://blogs.plos.org/synbio/2017/04/18/directed-evolution-in-synthetic-biology-an-interview-with-professor-frances-arnold/.
6. Rejuvenating Memory with Umbilical Cord Protein
A protein found in umbilical cord blood, known as TIMP2, has been found to rejuvenate and boost brain function and cognitive performance in old mice, and is an interesting candidate for treating age-related cognitive decline in humans https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2017/04/protein-in-umbilical-cord-blood-rejuvenates-old-mices-memory.html.
7. Brick-Laying Robot
The latest brick-laying robot enables the automatic construction of novel and previously infeasible masonry for creative architecture http://www.wired.co.uk/article/archi-union-bricklaying-robot.
8. Full Colour Night Vision
X27 is a new night vision sensor produced by SPI that is the first to offer high-resolution day-like imagery in the darkest conditions by utilising a broad spectrum thin film array http://tribunist.com/technology/this-companys-full-color-nightvision-is-going-to-revolutionize-combat-for-us-forces-video/. The video has to be seen to be believed.
9. Steerable Sound
A new audio system uses 64 speaker modules with 4,096 transducers to create a steerable sound system that is being tested in train stations to simultaneously send 16 different messages to different gates at the same time; I wonder if we’ll ever see such things in the home? http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/holoplots-steerable-sound-beams.
10. Smallest Integrated Photonics Circuits
A new method for controlling light propagation in waveguides using arrays of nanoantennas has enabled the creation of the smallest such devices with the largest operating bandwidth, and which offer a range of advanced computing, communications, and imaging applications http://engineering.columbia.edu/news/nanfang-yu-light-propagation-waveguides.
Permalink here: http://www.scitechdigest.net/2017/04/cheap-microfluidic-chips-3d-printed.html
Cheap microfluidic chips, 3D printed glass, Solid state LIDAR, CRISPR antibiotics, SynBio directed evolution, Memory rejuvenation drug, Brick laying robot, Colour night vision, Steerable sound, Smallest integrated photonics.
1. Super Cheap Microfluidic Chips
New techniques employ 3D printers and laser cutters to use cheap materials such as plastics, paper, and laminates to quickly create custom microfluidic chips, thus opening up the technology to pretty much everyone by avoiding the need for photolithography and other expensive tools http://news.mit.edu/2017/makerspaces-could-enable-widespread-adoption-of-microfluidics-0421.
2. 3D Printing Glass
A new process allows for the production of 3D printed glass structures by printing a mix of a polymer binder and quartz glass nanoparticles; the final structure is then sintered to remove the polymer and fuse the glass https://www.kit.edu/kit/english/21780.php.
3. Solid State LIDAR
The solid-state LIDAR ecosystem is heating up with Velodyne set to launch a new solid-state device for automotive market applications http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sensors/velodyne-announces-a-solidstate-lidar.
4. CRISPR Antibiotics
CRISPR is being combined with bacteriophages to target specific drug resistant pathogenic bacteria and cause infected cells to cut critical genes that results in cell-death, thus acting as a new kind of antibiotic https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604126/edible-crispr-could-replace-antibiotics/.
5. Directed Evolution in Synthetic Biology
Using directed evolution to design/discover ever better and more efficient enzymes and genetic pathways in synthetic biology is becoming ever-more common and routine http://blogs.plos.org/synbio/2017/04/18/directed-evolution-in-synthetic-biology-an-interview-with-professor-frances-arnold/.
6. Rejuvenating Memory with Umbilical Cord Protein
A protein found in umbilical cord blood, known as TIMP2, has been found to rejuvenate and boost brain function and cognitive performance in old mice, and is an interesting candidate for treating age-related cognitive decline in humans https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2017/04/protein-in-umbilical-cord-blood-rejuvenates-old-mices-memory.html.
7. Brick-Laying Robot
The latest brick-laying robot enables the automatic construction of novel and previously infeasible masonry for creative architecture http://www.wired.co.uk/article/archi-union-bricklaying-robot.
8. Full Colour Night Vision
X27 is a new night vision sensor produced by SPI that is the first to offer high-resolution day-like imagery in the darkest conditions by utilising a broad spectrum thin film array http://tribunist.com/technology/this-companys-full-color-nightvision-is-going-to-revolutionize-combat-for-us-forces-video/. The video has to be seen to be believed.
9. Steerable Sound
A new audio system uses 64 speaker modules with 4,096 transducers to create a steerable sound system that is being tested in train stations to simultaneously send 16 different messages to different gates at the same time; I wonder if we’ll ever see such things in the home? http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/holoplots-steerable-sound-beams.
10. Smallest Integrated Photonics Circuits
A new method for controlling light propagation in waveguides using arrays of nanoantennas has enabled the creation of the smallest such devices with the largest operating bandwidth, and which offer a range of advanced computing, communications, and imaging applications http://engineering.columbia.edu/news/nanfang-yu-light-propagation-waveguides.
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