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Postby winston » Fri Nov 08, 2013 8:01 am

Next step for wearables? NeuroSky brings its smart sensors to health & fitness

A San Jose-based company called NeuroSky is building sensors to detect your brain activity, so you can control things with your thoughts. The applications for this kind of technology are endless — and are best known in the gaming community – but the company raised an undisclosed sum today to push into the health and fitness market.

The funding comes from Softbank, a Japanese corporation, in a round that chief executive Stanley Yang describes as “strategic.” Neurosky has raised about $40 million since its inception in 2006.

The company builds the chips and software and strikes partnerships with device manufacturers. It has developed a complex set of algorithms that can track analog electrical brainwaves and turn them into digital measurements. This kind of technology is still nascent, but is referred to by futurists as “thought controlled computing.”

The flagship product, MindWave, is a headset that can log into your computer using just your thoughts. Researchers recently used the EEG headset to develop a toy car that can be driven forward with thought.

NeuroSky’s smart sensors can also track your heart rate and other bodily metrics and can be embedded in the next generation of wearable devices. “We make it possible for millions of consumers to capture and quantify critical health and wellness data,” Yang said.

The company isn’t the only biosensor maker on the market. Yang claims that NeuroSky’s competitive edge is that its chips monitor at the EKG/ECG level and can track both brain and heart activity.

The company does not intend to apply for regulatory approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as it provides the sensor technology, not the devices themselves. By email, Yang said the technology won’t be used at this stage for clinical or diagnostic purposes.

http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/04/next- ... h-fitness/
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Re: New Technologies

Postby winston » Wed Apr 09, 2014 6:05 am

Finding Profits On The Final Frontier

By John Persinos

Looking for new growth opportunities in an overbought market? Look to the stars.

When seeking aerospace plays, investors tend to focus on the commercial or military aircraft segments and ignore the satellite industry.

However, the accelerating commercialization of outer space for navigation and telecommunications should afford continued growth for the companies that develop, build and operate satellites.

Source: Investing Daily
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Re: New Technologies

Postby winston » Fri May 02, 2014 7:31 am

The “Holy Grail” of Energy Investing Is Going to Make You – and Your Grandchildren – Rich

By Dr. Kent Moors

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Google develops revolutionary spoon to help people struggling with tremors
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Revolutionary urinal 'makes energy'
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Re: New Technologies

Postby winston » Thu Mar 12, 2015 6:16 am

Life 30 Years From Now…

Last Friday, I wrote to you about the Nasdaq reaching highs of old and warned that perhaps things aren’t all that different between today’s bubble and the bubble that obliterated so many investors back in the early 2000s.

Of course, this is contrary to what most analysts are saying right now. But that shouldn’t surprise you. As Pete DiOrio called me before I debated Peter Schiff at his St. Kitts conference, I’m a contrarian’s contrarian!

I focused particularly on the biotech sector, comparing it to the Nasdaq and asked the question: Will biotech stocks endure a smaller correction than the Nasdaq in the great reset ahead, or will it correct more given that it has outperformed by over 60% in the rally since early 2009?

The honest answer is, I don’t know yet. But biotech, like India and emerging markets, is something I’m watching keenly. In the long-term, there’s a lot of potential there, and here’s why…

Numerous emerging technologies are set to shape our future beyond what the PC, smart phone, Internet and broadband has done for us since the late 1980s. The four I’m most interested in are (in order of emergence):
Biotech.
Robotics.
3D printing.
Nanotechnologies.

What sets these particular emerging technologies apart in my mind is that they operate from the bottom-up. They embody the new network economy…

When you can create new medical cures down to the genes and cells, that’s bottom-up. It’s more targeted.

When you can create products from smaller and more local 3D printing factories, that’s bottom-up.

Nanotechnologies literally promise that you can create something from the energy in the air — that should result in much cleaner production and energy. That’s bottom-up.

Already our life expectancies are rising much faster than the 1.5 year average since the ’60s. In the next four decades, they could potentially rise even faster than the average four years we gained between the 1930s and 1960s. A recent cover of Time proclaimed that a baby born today could now live to be 142 years old. A cover on National Geographic last year told the same story. I think those claims are a little optimistic, but it is entirely possible that we achieve a 120-year life span in the next 40 to 50 years.

That is the one game changer we see for changing the dismal demographic outlook in developing countries in the decades ahead.

Again, we’re taking massive leaps forward in our ability to grow new organs, target cancers more precisely, change bad genes, clean out our arteries with nanobots, and even scrub the CO2 from our atmosphere.

Printing human organs is already a decade-old practice.

We will have increasingly intelligent robots to help us make products more cheaply in developed countries, putting us back in competition with emerging countries and their cheap labor.

Aging societies are moving inexorably towards a life filled with robots to care for the aged. Japan is leading the charge on this score.

Author of Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari even believes that thanks to our technological advancements, humanity will be unrecognizable by 2045. That is, how we are today will cease to exist and we will be something entirely new.

But the base of this next revolution, which my 45-Year Innovation Cycle shows will surge again from 2032 and mature around 2055, is biotech. It’s like the Internet of the future, but even it is still in in its infancy, like personal computers in the 1980s. And Ben Benoy has his finger on the pulse. (Or is it more accurate to say he has his finger on the human genome?)

Even better, he has found a way to use the revolutionary technology of today to play the revolutionary technology of tomorrow.

What strikes me as most powerful, however, is that his system doesn’t rely on the biotechnology sector moving up in a straight line. As I mentioned last Friday, this sector faces a rocky road ahead as we move across the 45-Year Innovation Cycle plateau between now and 2032. So the fact that Ben is able to play both sides of the market using his system makes it something you should consider adding to your investment strategies.

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Postby winston » Tue Jun 02, 2015 8:09 pm

Internet of Things market to reach $1.7 trillion by 2020: IDC By STEVEN NORTON

The global Internet of Things market will grow to $1.7 trillion in 2020 from $655.8 billion in 2014, research firm IDC says, as more devices come online and a bevy of platforms and services grow up around them.

The firm predicts that the number of “IoT endpoints,” connected devices such as cars, refrigerators and everything in between, will grow from 10.3 million in 2014 to more than 29.5 million in 2020.

Devices, connectivity and IT services are expected to account for the majority of the global IoT market in 2020, with devices alone accounting for 31.8% of the total.

Purpose-built platforms, storage, security, application software and “as a service” offerings are expected to capture a greater percentage of revenue as the market matures.

The Asia Pacific region captured around 58.3% of the revenue from IoT in 2014 and will shrink slightly to 51.2% in 2020.

In China, a large and growing population using mobile devices alongside a push to make manufacturing practices more efficient may spur a significant number of new devices and IoT standards, said Vernon Turner, IDC’s research fellow for the Internet of Things.

Well networked countries like South Korea and Singapore may also ramp up smart city initiatives.

North America is expected to maintain revenue share of just more than 26% over the forecast period, while the share in Western Europe is expected to jump from 12% to about 19.5%.

Source: Market Watch
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Re: Internet Of Things

Postby winston » Wed Jun 03, 2015 7:29 pm

The Challenges Of A New Internet Era

Cloud computing, linking computing power in data centres with consumers and businesses online, has transformed how we work and play, forever.

But internet companies face huge pressures to meet rising demand for data services, and the technology remains in its infancy.

Leading tech provider Huawei has some of the answers.

http://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/speci ... ustry.html
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Re: Internet

Postby winston » Fri Jun 05, 2015 7:04 am

Gigabit Internet

Gigabit Internet service is destined to affect billions of homes and businesses around the world. You may also hear this technology referred to as "fast Internet" or "ultra broadband."

The term "gigabit" refers to a speed of 1 gigabit per second. That 1 gigabit equals 1,000 megabits. And what it means is that our Internet service could soon become a lot faster.

Currently, average U.S. broadband speeds are around 25 megabits per second.

Gigabit Internet would be 40 to 100 times faster than the pokey Internet service we've got now.

Tech industry insiders tend to call it "gigabit fiber" because we need fiber-optic cables to reach such high speeds. These thin strands of glass or plastic literally use beams of light to transmit voice, photos, music, movies, and other data – and there's nothing faster than light.

Gigabit Internet, which is beginning to pop up in the Kansas City area, Austin, Texas, and elsewhere, will greatly enhance sectors that depend on fast Internet connections.

For you, right now, with the likes of Netflix and YouTube becoming such bandwidth hogs, Gigabit Internet would mean a much better video-streaming experience.

And in the near future, gigabit Internet will make ultra-high-definition television (UHDTV), or "4K," more workable. UHDTV signals have roughly four times the resolution of high-def TV sets and could easily bog down your home network.

Analysts project sales of 4K sets to increase 60-fold from the 2013 base year to 1.43 million units by the end of 2016. By 2018, the market will be worth roughly $3 billion.

And that's just for starters. Gigabit Internet will shake up the $93 billion market for Internet service providers and will play a key role in the $1.7 trillion market for e-commerce, which includes streaming music and video.

Source: Money Morning
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