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Students Develop Low-Cost Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired

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OurVision is a low-cost wearable that reads text out loud to users and helps them navigate their surroundings. In addition, it assists the person in navigating the surroundings by describing nearby objects and their distance from the user. The team built 11 devices, which currently are stored in the NAB library.

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Sandia researchers developing new family of metal-based ionic liquids for low-cost, efficient flow batteries

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Sandia researchers have developed a new family of electrochemically reversible, metal-based ionic liquid (MetILs) that could lead to non-aqueous redox (reducing-oxidizing) flow-battery energy storage systems ( earlier post ) able to cost-effectively store three times more energy than today’s batteries. agricultural industries.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. I bought them from a junk store, and maybe paid $2 for them. I admittedly have long had a fascination with these reel-to-reel tapes.

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How Robots Can Help Us Act and Feel Younger

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One is within the home for an older person who needs help, and the other is for the rest of society—for younger people who need to be more productive to support a greater number of older people. Well, one robotic idea is to just cook meals for the person. How do we help that person have a truly better quality of life?

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8 Products That Excel at Protecting Children’s Digital Privacy

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The platform, which collects minimal data about the students, runs on low-cost and legacy devices. A username generator eliminates the need for the child to create one that might accidentally include personal identifiers. Yoti asks children to authenticate their age and does not store their data.

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Intel to invest more than $250M over next two years in autonomous driving; “Data is the new oil”

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In his talk, Krzanich noted that in 2016, the average person generates 650MB of data a day through use of their PCs, mobile phones and wearables. By 2020, projections show that the average person will generate 1.5GB of data a day. Personal data. —Brian Krzanich. The Waze app is a good example of this type of data today.

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An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python

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He retained professional programmers who volunteered their time to teach 90-minute weekly in-person and virtual classes seven days a week. Vic Wintriss The classes are held in the San Diego area, including at the Valencia Park/Malcom X and Central libraries and the Digital Start North County tech hobby store in Fallbrook.