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The future of Smart Cars

A number of products on the market are misnamed. Two immediately come to mind.

DaimlerChrysler’s Smart Car, although stylish ( the other definition of smart) and fuel efficient, isn’t  much more intelligent then other cars.

Then there’s Apple’s iPod Nano, where the label isn’t indicative of its size.

If you really want to know how intelligent cars could become in the future, pay attention to the Grand Challenge.  It’s a desert car race, or more appropriately an obstacle course , designed to test unmanned, self-navigating or autonomous vehicle technology

The sponsor of the Grand Challenge is the research arm of the Pentagon, known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).  This year they will double the prize for the finisher to 2 million dollars, after none of the entrants finished last year’s inaugural race that had 15 finalists.

If no one crosses the finish line of this grueling 280-kilometer course in the U.S. desert, the prize will again double to 4 million USD next year.

From the nearly 200 participants from 37 US states and four other countries that applied, including three teams from Canada, we expect that after qualification runs, 20  robo-cars will be selected to race in the final on Oct 8,2005.

The Pentagon’s stake in this is obvious.  The U.S. military hopes robots, such as an un-manned all-terrain vehicles, will begin replacing soldiers in dangerous situations in the near future.

The DARPA Grand Challenge race is "part of the Pentagon's effort to cut the risk of casualties by fulfilling a congressional mandate to have a third of all military ground vehicles unmanned by 2015."

"The military currently has a small fleet of autonomous ground vehicles stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan but the machines are remotely controlled by a soldier who usually rides in the same convoy.  The Pentagon wants to eliminate the human factor and use self-thinking robotic vehicles to transfer supplies in war zones."

see: http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge or  http://www.grandchallenge.org

Are we likely to see a transfer of this knowledge into the civilian sector?  You bet.  We are already seeing spin-offs.

One team who, even though they didn’t finish last year’s race, has been approached by a railroad equipment company and asked to modify its vehicle for use on rails.  The technology appears to adapt well for the railroad, to monitor potential flaws in the rails or find obstacles ahead of an oncoming train.

Cars companies are already introducing incremental improvements in smart features,(although largely in luxury models) such as: collision avoidance, GPS navigation, roadway monitoring and wireless communications.  In the works are Lane Departure Warning Systems, and other neat smart capabilities.

Technology Review Magazine predicts that the average price of a complete intelligent car system is expected to drop in half from $2000 to about $1000.

While all the technology components are available to produce mass market intelligent cars, as we've seen in trial runs, we are still a number of years away from the vision of a driverless vehicle on our streets.

As William Halal from the University of Washington plainly notes in his TechCast.org site, when it comes to intelligent cars, it’s a Chicken and Egg problem - ”An intelligent highway isn’t useful without intelligent cars to use it and vice versa”

What will be a signal or milestone that we are heading toward a society with intelligent transportation?  My bet?.... look for unmanned taxi cabs, likely to be introduced first of all in Japan.

ETA: Intelligent Cars (in mainstream use)

Predictions range across the board from 2009 to 2020 depending on which expert you listen to.

ETA: Intelligent Highways (driverless cars and convoys of unmanned trucks in mainstream use)

Predictions are also quite uncertain  and variable.  Outlooks range from 2015 to 2040

Impacts: What do you thing the societal impacts might be when intelligent cars drive themselves on intelligent highways?   Pros?  Cons? Consequences?

Long haul truck drivers? Well I think your jobs are safe for another 10-20 years, then I'd start to worry.

More on this developing field in the future.

Walter Derzko

Expert, Consultant and Guest Speaker on the emerging Smart Technologies and author of an upcoming book on the Smart Economy

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Turning food leftovers into electricity

FOOD LEFTOVERS MAY BECOME ELECTRICITY: Leftovers to Lights Project

UC Davis researchers and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) need local food processors and large food-servers, such as restaurants, to take part in a survey on turning food leftovers into electricity.

The Leftovers to Lights Project is looking for interested businesses in the city of Sacramento that would like to participate in the survey.  Surveys are anticipated to take less than one hour to complete.  Businesses that could take part include commercial food processors, restaurants, bakeries, hospitals and hotels.

Using a system under development by the UC Davis Biological and Agricultural Engineering department, food waste can be turned into methane, which can be used to generate electricity, replacing fossil fuels.  Wastewater treatment plants have been using this proven technology for more than a century.

Food waste comprises roughly 18 percent of Sacramento's commercial garbage.  Diverting food waste from local landfills also can help reduce air and water pollution, and may help businesses reduce the size of their trash bins, possibly reducing disposal costs.

Smart shirt coaches athletes-Haptic sports garments

New Scientist magazine reports this week that a Dutch research team have designed tactile sports garments, called Haptic clothing, which have already been tested on rowers.

"Sensors in the garment monitor the speed of the athlete’s movements. If the rower deviates from the optimum speed, vibrating pads prompt the wearer to use more of certain muscle groups." 

“The feedback can be understood by the person much more quickly than if they are getting shouts from a human trainer,” say researchers.

"So far, the clothes have been tested on athletes using rowing machines in the laboratory. The researchers have also designed a vest for speed-skaters with vibrating pads at the shoulder and hip, which provides instant feedback on skaters’ movements as they hurtle around the rink. Similar clothing could alert soccer players to posture problems as they strike the ball."

In all, I've catalogued over 100 examples of smart clothing and textiles with amazing novel capabilites, like the example above. 

ETA: This area of research will likely explode into numerous commercial launches over the next  year  or two.

Walter Derzko

Expert, Consultant and Guest Speaker on the emerging Smart Technologies and author of an upcoming book on the Smart Economy

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Exoskeletons helps elderly and disabled people walk and carry things

At long last, exoskeletons, once the stuff of science fiction, are on the verge of proving themselves in military and civilian applications.  This new generation of anthropomorphic, untethered, and self-powered exoskeletons is marrying humans' decision-making capabilities with machines' dexterity and brute force.

ETA: November 2005 in Japan

According to an article in the October issue of IEEE Spectrum, the very first commercially available exoskeleton, scheduled to hit the market in Japan in November, is designed to help elderly and disabled people walk and carry things. 

Cost: The exoskeleton, called HAL-5 is built by Cyberdyne Inc. in Tsukuba, Japan, and will cost about 1.5 million yen (around US $13 800).

Status in Japan: lab prototype and 1st generation commercial version

Status in the USA: lab prototype 2nd generation

Meanwhile, in the United States, the most advanced exoskeleton projects are at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Sarcos Research Corp., in Salt Lake City. 

Both are funded under a $40 million, five-year program begun by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 2001.  According to the Spectrum article, during the past several months each group has been field-testing a second-generation exoskeleton that is a huge improvement over its predecessor.

DARPA's exoskeleton research program is called the: Exoskeletons for Human Performance Augmentation (EHPA) Program.

The overall goal of the Exoskeletons for Human Performance Augmentation (EHPA) Program is to develop devices and machines that will increase the speed, strength, and endurance of soldiers in combat environments.

Projects will lead to self-powered, controlled, and wearable exoskeletal devices and/or machines and demonstrations of their utility in military applications.  Inclusion of exoskeleton technology into land-based operations could radically alter the current military doctrine though significant increases in the doctrine though significant increases in the load-carrying and power deliver capacity of the individual soldier.  This technology will extend the mission payload and/or mission range of the soldier and increase the lethality and survivability of ground troops for short-range missions and special operations.  Currently the program is evaluating exoskeleton prototypes with the goal of determining the best applications for exoskeleton technology in the near and far terms.

Impacts:

What do you think humans will be like with super-capabilities in an "enhanced reality" world?

In his new book, Ray  Kursweil calls it Human 2.0

We are witnessing a new "blended reality", where people are morphing into robots and  robots are acting more and more like people.

Key Driver: Body Modification

The growth of Exoskeletons is one trend that clusters together with other similar trends into a Major Driveing Force called Body Modifcation.

We see numerous examples of our culture’s fascination with body modifications that range from tattooing, piercing, and cutting, to anorexia, plastic surgery, (currently illegal) stem cell treatments for cosmetic rejuvenation, organ transplants, capability enhancement ( exoskeletons) and life-extension technologies such as the possibility of rejuvenation medicine (regrowing a younger version our own cells, tissues and  whole organs),

The UC Santa Cruz Institute for Advanced Feminist Research (IAFR) will present a three-day conference on body modification, on October 14-16, 2005 entitled  "Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations,"

IAFR director Helene Moglen,said that the conference emerged from the recognition that in the 21st century: "the body is experienced less as a fixed entity than as a changeable product and a project of technological, medical, and artistic invention."

Walter Derzko

Expert, Consultant and Guest Speaker on the emerging Smart Technologies and author of an upcoming book on the Smart Economy

".....Strategy without action is a day-dream; action without strategy is a nightmare"

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Where is Smart Technology Research headed?

Innovation in Smart Technology is fairly predictable.

Surprised?

If you want to know where the breakthroughs are likely to occur today, just follow the money (funding) trail back about 5 years and see what the government was funding at the time.

The US Department of Defense  (DoD) is usually a good bell weather for smart innovations that will likely be transferred in time from the military sector to civilian use.

The following is a partial list of areas where the military plans to fund research over the next 5 years and where we are likely to see some fruitful smart technology ideas.

Note the improving levels of "smarts or intelligence" in each.

Materials and Structures

• Materials and structures that are dynamic and adaptable, including large space structures and ultra-lightweight space optics that can be compactly stowed for launch and then dynamically deployed.
• Materials and structures that inherently change their intrinsic properties (e.g., “soft to hard”) in response to the environment and/ or can heal or rebuild themselves when damaged.

Biology and Biomedical

• New approaches to understand and mitigate the deleterious effects of environmental stresses (stress, fear, etc.) that address both the physiological and the psychological effects of those environments.
• Research to advance the understanding of neuroscience for the improvement of learning, memory, and training.

Biological Warfare Defense

• New concepts for reliable and minimally invasive pre-symptomatic diagnosis.

Training and Simulation

• New concepts for enabling a real-world simulation to enhance training and simulation, including the seamless use and manipulation of real terrain data, the handling of large numbers of entities in the same place, and interactive (not just pictorial) representations.
• Quantitative, mathematical models of behavior (individual and crowds) and cultures.
• Approaches to automatically generate new simulation and/or training scenarios from lessons learned.

Fundamental and Applied Mathematics

• The application of existing or new mathematical concepts to emerging defense problems such as extracting knowledge from large databases or quantifying the uncertainty in the performance of complex DoD systems such as mobile networks.
• Fundamental mathematical approaches to understand and quantify the behavior of biological systems.
• New mathematical approaches that dramatically improve the efficiency of collecting and processing sensor data.

Walter Derzko

Expert, Consultant and Guest Speaker on the emerging Smart Technologies and author of an upcoming book on the Smart Economy

".....Strategy without action is a day-dream; action without strategy is a nightmare"

- old Japanese proverb

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Smart Levees (2) reinforced with smart concrete

'Smart Concrete' Could Improve Levees

In a previous post, we introduced you to the concept of smart levees, structures with a built in electronic nervous system.  We also explored the uses for smart cement from the University of Michigan.

Fuse the two together and you get another approach to "up-smarting" a levy, which is essentially a pile of dirt. Encase levees in smart concrete.

Problem:

The failure of levees in the wake of Hurricane Katrina points out the need for new technologies to strengthen levees and monitor their reliability, according to Deborah D. L. Chung, Ph.D., a University at Buffalo materials scientist and inventor of "smart concrete."

"The technology used to build levees is really very primitive -- sometimes it involves just the piling of dirt.  Surely there's a lot of room to use higher technologies than that," says Chung,

Smart Solution:

Chung's smart concrete, may be one such technology whose time has come for commercial use -- not only in the construction of levees, but for a range of disaster and homeland security applications.

ETA: Available now, patented in 1998.

Benefits / Pros:

Stress & Deformation Detection

With smart concrete, short carbon fibers are added to the conventional concrete mixture.  This modification gives the concrete the ability to detect stress and tiny deformations in the concrete.  In the presence of structural flaws -- within a levee made of smart concrete, for example -- the concrete's electrical resistance increases.  This change can be detected by electrical probes placed on the outside of structures.

"You could use a meter to continuously monitor stress and deformation within levees made of smart concrete," Chung explains.  "When deformations in the levee deviate from an acceptable baseline, an alarm could be triggered."

Reinforcement

Chung, who also has studied the use of continuous carbon fibers in the form of composites, suggests that some levees could be encased in a shell composed of such composites, which are similar to the material used to form the bodies of jet aircraft.

"If you use that as the outer shell of a levee, you could make use of the carbon fiber's electrical conductivity to monitor fiber breakage," she says.  "So in addition to serving as levee reinforcement, the shell also serves as a sensor of damage."

Other Applications:

Similarly, the electrical properties of smart concrete could be used to detect underground stress that builds prior to an earthquake, to monitor building occupancy for intruders or for stragglers during an evacuation, and to monitor traffic flow in an emergency or around U.S. borders, Chung says.

Cons:

Added Costs

According to Chung, use of smart concrete would increase construction costs by 30 percent, which is a main reason industry has not adopted its use, she says.  Of course, reconstruction costs after a disaster can run much higher, she points out.

"People might say they like sensing, but in real life do they really want their bridge or their highway to be smart," Chung asks.  "When it comes to real construction projects, all they really care about is mechanical behavior, and every penny counts in the bidding process."  Says Chung

Government Incentives

Need for the equivalent of the Apollo program for Smart Technologies

Governments must raise a challenge for business to create the capability to design and build an intelligent infrastructure that will lead us into the 21 century

Federal and local governments and municipalities will need to offer incentives by incorporating the need for smart sensing into their structural ( roads, bridges, levy ) specifications, otherwise these ideas will continue to exist as isolated demonstration pilot projects and won't be actively incorporated into our community infrastructure

Source : University of Buffalo Press Release

Level: Intelligence Level (1) Adapting: Modifying Behavior to React to/Fit the Environment

Status: working lab prototype and commercial version available

Impacts:

What do you think of smart levees reinforced with smart concrete? Would you pay extra taxes for the added protection?

Walter Derzko

Expert, Consultant and Guest Speaker on the emerging Smart Technologies and author of an upcoming book on the Smart Economy

".....Strategy without action is a day-dream; action without strategy is a nightmare"

- old Japanese proverb

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How Children see the Future

Rebecca Smithers, writes in today's Guardian

Children imagine a flying future

"Today's 10-year-olds imagine a future transformed by technology in which their lessons will be taught by robots and they will learn about celebrities and alien languages.  According to a survey published today, only one in a hundred thinks they will be walking to get from A to B; the rest believe they will use jet packs, and hoverboards, as routine transport.

Participants in the study by internet provider AOL to mark its 10th anniversary are the first generation born in the internet era, and their views show how central technology is to their lives.  Most believe there will still be schools to go to, but that technology will play an increasingly important role in learning.  The 600 children surveyed think there will still be teachers, but 37% imagine them to be robots.  Some 24% believe that teachers will be human but also that the teachers will have interchangeable microchips so that one person can teach all subjects.

More than one in two believe hoverboarding will be popular, while one third predict that rocket boots will be their favourite amusement, and another third think it will be a jet pack.  As to activities today they think will remain popular, 27% said football and 23% riding a bike.

When it comes to the curriculum, they predict future generations will be learning robot building (63%), alien languages (47%), celebrities (26%) and R&B music (22%).  Children will wear virtual reality helmets to bring lessons to life, say 40%, while 23% believe they will not need lessons because microchips implanted in their head will release relevant information to the brain.

Matt Whyman, internet agony uncle and adviser to the chief medical officer on youth issues, said: " The kids seem very aware of the liberating quality of technology." 

Walter Derzko

Expert, Consultant and Guest Speaker on the emerging Smart Technologies and author of an upcoming book on the Smart Economy

".....Strategy without action is a day-dream; action without strategy is a nightmare"

- old Japanese proverb

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Smart sensors find buried treasures, solve ancient mysteries

Smart sensors and smart robots have aided in some recent sensational discoveries: finds of buried treasure on Robinson Crusoe Island, a remote outcrop off the Chilean coast and the possible location of the fabled Atlantis.

Spanish Booty on Robinson Crusoe Island

The Guardian newspaper reports that a robot,  dubbed "Arturito", ( invented by Chilean researchers , tuned to find "gems"and can scan 50 meters below the earth,)  has located 600 barrels of gold and Incan jewels (estimate to be worth over $10 Billion USD) on the remote Pacific island called Crusoe Island or Juan Fernández island.

As well, according to the Guardian:

"Over the past year  [ "Arturito"] has grabbed headlines by breaking some of the country's biggest criminal mysteries. First, the robot detected the buried arsenal of a rightwing sect known as Colonia Dignidad.  The guns and rocket launchers were buried 10 metres deep and while the authorities had searched for years, the robot found the buried weapons almost instantly.  Then, in the case of missing businessman Jose Yuraszeck, Arturito was able to analyse the soil and identify the molecular composition of human bones, allowing investigators to dig straight to the body of the murder victim."

Atlantis

Using similar sophisticated smart geological sensors, Marc-André Gutscher, whose paper: "Destruction of Atlantis by a great earthquake and tsunami?  A geological analysis of the Spartel Bank hypothesis", which appears in a recent issue of Geology: Vol.  33, No.  8, pp.  685–688. ( an academic, peer-reviewed journal), explores the possibility that the submerged paleoisland (Spartel) in the western Straits of Gibraltar corresponds to Plato's description of Atlantis.

Analysis of sedimentary deposits revealed a large earthquake and a tsunami hit the island about 12,000 years ago, roughly the time indicated in the Plato's writings for the destruction of the city.

(see update in Comments section)

Other Historical Mysteries solved

In his Geology paper, Gutscher recounts some other mysteries that have been solved by smart sensing technologies.

"In recent years several studies have sought to explain the origin of legends and myths deeply rooted in ancient cultures in terms of geological phenomena." writes Gutscher. 

• Faulting and hydrocarbon gas emissions were demonstrated to have existed at the temple of Apollo in Delphi, Greece, and were reported in ancient documents to have influenced the oracle
• The paleogeography of the ancient harbor of Illium (Troy) was investigated using modern sedimentological techniques and was found to correspond closely to the Homeric accounts. 
• Noah's Great Flood...The recurrent deluge story (e.g., in the Epic of Gilgamesh, Greek mythology, and the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament) has been interpreted in terms of the catastrophic flooding of settlements along the Black Sea as the Bosphorous spillway was breached ca.  5500 B.C. (Ryan and Pitman, 1998 ; Lericolais, 2001 ). 
• Several authors have attributed the biblical accounts in Exodus (Old Testament) to the catastrophic eruption of Santorini (Thera), Greece, ca.  1600 B.C., the ash falls of which may have been the source of the “plague of darkness” in Egypt '

Next Challenge:

Maybe Arturito can be brought in to solve the mystery of the money pit on Oak Island, Nova Scotia.

Impacts:

Smart sensory robots will enhance: our ability/desire for exploration: gold-digging, finding buried land mines, or locating weapons of mass destruction.

Are we about to enter a new golden age of re-discovery & exploration with our new-found high tech sensory capabilities? The smart technology-enabled Gold Rush?

At the extreme: What will this "enhanced reality" world look like when we all have super-senses?

Smart sensory robots will obsolesce: the myth of the lone treasure hunter, relying on gut feelings

What will Smart sensory robots bring back, retrieve: the thrill of the hunt/ chase; the robot chaser replaces the hound dog in the new 21 century "foxhunt"

Please add your thoughts to the comments page

[N.B. Thanks to Cy Jamison, one of our regular blog readers for alerting us to today's Guardian story ]

Walter Derzko

Expert, Consultant and Guest Speaker on the emerging Smart Technologies and author of an upcoming book on the Smart Economy

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Fighting progress:"The Great Firewall of China"

Fighting progress- - "The Great Firewall of China".

The Guardian reports today that:

"China has built the most sophisticated government-controlled internet on earth, often hailed as "the Great Firewall".  With the help of western technology firms and internet companies, China filters foreign sites, restricts blog postings, limits online chats and censors instant messages for the second-largest online population in the world.  While the barriers are easy to get around with a bit of techno-wizardry, journalists, editors, internet service providers and cybercafe owners are all under heavy pressure to abide by the rules and to self-censor to stay in business.  The experience can frustrate - thousands of sites are blocked, emails can just disappear, and even search engines will not turn up results for certain words.  Banned phrases from news sites, blogs and instant messaging services include independence, democracy, Taiwan, Tiananmen Square, freedom and the Dalai Lama."

The stage for the next "Orange revolution"?

Walter Derzko

Expert, Consultant and Guest Speaker on the emerging Smart Technologies and author of an upcoming book on the Smart Economy

".....Strategy without action is a day-dream; action without strategy is a nightmare"

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Nano-wires detect early warning signs of cancer -Lab on a chip

In the last few weeks I've seen numerous exciting breakthrough announcements on smart sensor technologies from various labs around the world.

One of the most promising that I'd like to move on to your radar screen was an announcement made by a team of researchers from Harvard's medical school.

Their nano-wire technology for spotting cancer, appears to be the most promising of the bunch, due to the relatively few technological, regulatory and social barriers in place that stand in its way to the marketplace-most likely your Doctor's office or into a yet to emerge business niche, which I envision could be a storefront, lab-on-a-chip service ----advanced diagnostic healthcare management.  Just as we now take our cars into a tune-up every several months or after 8,000 Km., with these new sensing capabilities which all appear to be ready to jump on the market around 2010, we'll all be taking in our bodies in for a round of preventive maintenance.

Problem:

Initial cancer testing today is still quite crude -it identifies only whether or not cancer is present, and takes weeks for lab results

Smart Solution:

Harvard University researchers have found that molecular markers indicating the presence of cancer in the body are readily detected in blood scanned by special arrays of silicon nano-wires -- even when these cancer markers constitute only one hundred-billionth of the protein present in a drop of blood.  Also nanowire arrays have the potential to immediately fill in details on exactly what type of cancer is present.

Benefits:

Accuracy and Sensitivity

In addition to this exceptional accuracy and sensitivity, these devices also promise to pinpoint the exact type of cancer present with a speed not currently available to clinicians.  "Our results show that these devices are able to distinguish among molecules with near-perfect selectivity," researchers says, adding that the risk of false readings is minimized by the incorporation of various control nanowires.

Instantaneous

"A nanowire array can test a mere pinprick of blood in just minutes, providing a nearly instantaneous scan for many different cancer markers.  It's a device that could open up substantial new possibilities in the diagnosis of cancer and other complex diseases."

Address complexity

"Genomics and proteomics research has elucidated many new biomarkers that have the potential to greatly improve disease diagnosis," the scientists write.  "The availability of multiple biomarkers is believed to be especially important in the diagnosis of complex diseases like cancer, for which disease heterogeneity makes tests of single markers inadequate.  Patterns of multiple cancer markers might, however, provide the information necessary for robust diagnosis of disease … [and] detection of markers associated with different stages of disease pathogenesis could further facilitate early detection."

Ongoing tracking

Nanowires could also track patients' health as treatment progresses.  Because the arrays detect molecules suspended in fluids, drops of blood could be tested directly, in a physician's office, without any need for biochemical manipulation.

Cons

In time, will this obsolesce conventional labs, cancer screening procedures and lab workers ?  The reply from Harvard was:"I think it can change the scope of what labs focus on and what lab workers do."

Barriers / Obstacles:

Clinical trials, FDA approval, search for the right commercial partner

ETA: Commercial prototype 2007-2008

In our discussion with the research group, they speculated that: "We believe that commercial prototype could be realized on 2-3 year time frame.  All of key issues for reliable fabrication and detection of the devices have been worked out in reproducible manner, and it really requires a commercial partner."

ETA: on the market by 2010-12

"Based on need, I would hope this could be available for office visits within 5-7 year time frame depending in part on regulator approval."

Impacts:

What do you think about being able to get an instant diagnosis?

PROS?  CONS?  Impacts?  Please post your ideas in the comments section below

Business Opportunties:

If you would like to explore the business opportunity windows behind this and other smart sensor breakthroughs, email me.

Source: Harvard Press Release;

A paper describing the work on Nanowire arrays will appear in October in the journal Nature Biotechnology and is now posted on the journal's web site.

Walter Derzko

Expert, Consultant and Guest Speaker on the emerging Smart Technologies and author of an upcoming book on the Smart Economy

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