Google’s Smart Spoon

Google is throwing its money on technology, brain power and now on humble spoon. This technology senses that how a hand is shaking and then it makes instant adjustments to stay balanced. In the testing process, the Liftware spoons reduced the shaking of the spoon bowl by an average of 76 per cent. According to Google spokesperson Katelin Jabbari, “We want to help people in their daily lives today and hopefully increase understanding of disease in the long run.”

This spoon is bit more than the basic utensil spoon; Google has used thousands of algorithms to help the people who are suffering from essential tremors and Parkinson’s disease to eat without spilling. The other adaptive devices have been developed for the help of those who are suffering from tremors, rocker knives, weighted utensils, pen grips. But according to experts till now technology has not been used in this way.

According to Dr Jill Ostrem, Neurologist at UC San Francisco Medical Center, who specializes in movement disorders like Parkinson’s disease and essential tremors, “It’s totally novel.” She helped by advising the inventors by saying the device, which has a fork attachment, has been a remarkable asset for some of her patients. As per Dr Jill Ostrem, “We have few patients who couldn’t eat independently they need help to be fed, but now they can eat on their own. It’s true it will not cure the disease because they still have tremor, but it’s a very positive change for them.”

In world more than 10 million people have essential tremors or Parkinson’s disease, including Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s mother. According to Brin, “He also has a mutation associated with higher rates of Parkinson’s and has personally donated more than $50 million to research for a cure”. But it was not related with the acquisition of Lift Labs.

Anupam Pathak, the founder of Lift Lab said, moving from a small, four-person startup in San Francisco to the big Google campus in Mountain View has freed him up to be more creative and technically advance as he explores how to apply the technology even more creatively and broadly. Team of Lift Lab works at the search giant’s division of Google known as; Google(x) Life Sciences, which is also developing a smart contact lens to measures the glucose levels in tears for diabetics and is researching that how nano-particles in blood might help detect diseases. Joining the Google and working in Google(x) Life Sciences was motivating, said Google(x) Life Sciences, but still his main focus remains on people who are now able to eat independently with his device. He said, “If you build something by your hands and it has that sort of an impact, it’s the greatest feeling ever”.

In September, Google got into the no-shake utensil business by acquiring a small, National Institutes of Health-funded startup called Lift Labs for an undisclosed sum. According to Pathak,“As an engineer we likes to build things, that’ are more validating thing that can happen”. The more he added that we are hoping and trying to add the sensors in the spoons to help medical researchers and providers better understand measure and alleviate tremors.

Shirin Vala, 65 old resident of Oakland had an essential tremor from last one decade and she was at her monthly Essential Tremor group at a San Ramon medical clinic in the starting of 2014 when researchers developing the device introduced the idea and asked voluntary help. As it was refined, she tried it out and gave them feedback. And when product hit the market at $295 apiece, she bought one. Without the spoon, Vala said eating was really a challenge because her hands trembled so hard food fell off the utensils before she could eat it. ‘I was shaking and I had a hard time to keep the food on a spoon, especially soup or something like an olive or tomatoes or something. It is very embarrassing. It’s very frustrating,’ she said. The spoon definitely improved her situation and now it is expected that this spoon will improve the situation of others as well.

Invention of Blue LED

Three researchers received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention of Blue Light-Emitting-Diode, a technology that is best for the water purification, high-speed networking and efficient home illumination. Two Japanese citizens Isamu Akasaki, professor at Meijo University and Nagoya University, Hiroshi Amano, professor at Nagoya University and an American citizen, Shuji Nakamura professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara will receive the nobel prize for their incredible invention.

Division of Prize Money:

All three scientists will split an award of about $1.1 million, and it’s a lot more than $200, which Nichia paid to Shuji Nakamur for his invention, but in 2005, he won less than $8 million in a lawsuit arguing that he deserved a bigger share of money as the royalties of invention.

Key advantage of Invention:

Nobel prize often go to fundamental discoveries like; the Higgs Boson, but when committee makes an award for an invention, than it’s emphasize the usefulness of the invention, and blue LED is very useful. According to Per Delsing, professor of physics at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden stated that a quarter of energy consumption goes to illumination and for result any consequent saving of energy and increase in efficiency is really going to have a big impact on civilization.

This time physics nobel prize awarded for the concepts, which is very far from day-to-day human experiences, but it play an important role. The blue LED is something that you can buy at the local electrical store. According to H. Frederick Dylla, CEO of American Institute of Physics, it is the combination of materials science; it required a combination of materials science and physics. As per the Dylla, it was very expensive technology, which requires atomic-layer epitaxy, in which layers are put down atomic layer by atomic layer at high vacuum and it is more complicated than any incandescent lights.

Three colors of Light-Emitting-Diode (LED):

The white light of sun can be reproduced artificially with the help of three colors of light; green, red and blue and blending technology. LEDs are efficient at converting the electrical energy into visible light, but LEDs prove it much harder proved much harder to engineer than red and green lights. It took many years after red LEDs were invented in the year of 1960, before fabrication techniques and semiconductor materials grew sophisticated enough to enable Blue Light-Emitting-Diode in the mid of 1990s.

Working of LEDs:

White LEDs work either by packaging trios of blue, red and green LEDs or by using just blue LEDs, whose light also excites phosphors and emit red and green light. Now white LEDs are spreading rapidly in all over the world, led by lighting applications. White LEDs can be used widely in traffic lights, vehicle headlights, streetlights, and as costs come down office and home lights. There are also some major forces in electronics, which provides the lights for phones, tablets, laptops and TVs. Fluorescent bulbs are very efficient and as it’s a big step forward, but LEDs are nearly 20 times as efficient as incandescent bulbs. LEDs saddled with the risky mercury-related health risks, which comes by fluorescent bulbs.

Basic science bears all Fruit:

Dylla, is happy because this time nobel prize is awarded to something comprehensible to the public, but it doesn’t mean that all scientific inquiry should be directed only toward products, who have only commercial or practical benefit.

Exoskeletons

Virtual reality is much effective than visuals, but most of us are seeing little more than 3D imagery and head-tracking in head-mounted display. For real immersion, VR is going to need to take advantage of all the other senses as well. Smell and touch are just as important as sound and sight, but for these there are much harder problems to solve. Dexta Robotics Company is developing a peripheral or gadgets to simulate the sensation of touch for virtual world. And now they are on the way to provide consumer-friendly virtual reality solutions for better experience.

Oculus Rift has shown much interest in past few years or two that everyone from tiny engineering projects for giant corporations are investigating VR. Oculus Rift is paired with an unidirectional treadmill to create an extremely immersive experience, but the sense of touch is something, which will bring them on next level. Till now everything was focused on the motion-tracking and display, but now this mechanical exoskeleton dubbed the “Dexmo F2” which is designed to give you the experience of touch in virtual world.

This prototype doesn’t have feature to convey the object in question, as it stands the brakes are either off or on. There is no middle ground, it’s disappointing but remember this is extremely early in the life of virtual touch. To keep the cost low, this is early model as it doesn’t have ability to simulate touch the other fingers. The prototype will be available through a Kickstarter campaign by the last of October 2014, in the range of $200. So before placing the order for Dexmo F2 keep this in mind.

In Question and Answer on Reddit, representative of Dextawent in the detail, that how this oddball mechanical skeleton will work. In this model, the pointer finger and thumb will be fit in tiny disc braking system and it will feel the sensation of touch, while other three figures will feel nothing. When you will try to pick-up the virtual object, your finger and thumb will meet the resistance like you are picking up an object in the real world.

The implementation is limited in scope, bulky, and extremely unattractive but don’t allow it to make the fool of yourself. If you want to feel the virtual reality than you need to go through the pains. May be your parents will never strap their figure in this weird mechanical spider, but this research will be the milestone in the world of true Matrix-style immersion.

Apples, pork and mushrooms sounds like a important ingredient for recipe of a kebab, but the average someone rarely think of to add strawberries. According to John Gordon from IBM, the result is delicious. Dr Gordon from the team of cognitive-computing and responsible for a machine called Watson; this machine is able to digest and analyze large number of English text and than it can draw interface from it. In March 2014, Watson fed reams of recipes and texts about the food, and it seems that these 4 ingredients would complement each and it will base on sharing a number of flavorsome chemical compounds. And at least Dr Gordon thinks Watson’s suggestion is a winner.

Working for new recipes sounds a trivial and seems to like the use of a multimillion-dollar piece of kit, but Dr. Gordon’s culinary experiment neatly explains the unique idea of Hypothesis Generation and the possible uses of same are certainly not trivial. Researcher was demonstrated the power of the technique published by Olivier Lichtarge of Baylor College of Medicine in August 2014, in collaboration with Dr Gordon’s group they employed it to hunt for kinases, which can activate another protein P53, as it curbs the growth of cancers.

They use the software to read the 186,879 abstract papers and produced a list of the most promising experiments on kinases. The twist was that question sin papers were published before 2003. It means that Dr Lichtarge could check that Watson-based approach came to the same conclusions as those arrived at by human researchers over the subsequent 10 years, in which top 9 kinases the software picked and out of which 7 have subsequently been shown to activate P53. Anne Poupon from French National Institute for Agricultural Research, heads the another group working on automated Hypothesis Generation and her software, Méthode d’Inférence crunches research on hormones and they interact with the 1,500 types of receptor molecules. It recommended to look more closely at certain of these interactions, as the literature on them contains contradictory results, which need to be resolved.

BrainSCANr, devised by Bradley Voytek from University of California, San Diego and his wife Jessica presents the third example of automated hypothesis generation. BrainSCANr is designed to help the neuroscientists, where it will help in the selection of research projects. By sifting more than 3.5m papers, software suggested that clues to the origin of migraines may be found in the levels of serotonin, it is signaling molecule which released by neurons in a region.

Advantages of Hypothesis:
According to Dr Lichtarge, hypothesis generation software works as a part because science writing tends to be free of humor and sarcasm that could trip it up. The source of text can be analyzed in search of hypotheses to test. Web searches rarely lack complex grammar and verbs that can be confusing for software’s. By analyzing the typed words in the web browser of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Bing search engine by people wondering why they feel ill while using Microsoft Research, in Redmond, Washington produced the hypotheses on potentially harmful pairings of medications. Microsoft Research’s head, Eric Horvitz, says America’s Food and Drug Administration has formed the team to use “early warning” hypotheses for producing better designs for laboratory experiments.
It all looks rather than promising that both IBM and science, it launched a commercial version in August for automated hypothesis generation software. Discovery Advisor, Dr Gordon hopes, as this service is known to be a money-spinner for the firm.

Moving data between storage formats or computer systems is not an insignificant job, mainly when it consists of both structured and unstructured data. One should be able to recognize and avoid certain basic data migration mistakes, such as:

• Not involving the lines of business and business users at the beginning

After merging multiple systems into one, companies often need to recognize the correct business uses at the beginning. In other words, consult the people who will be actually operating the system and using the data into the migration project.

• Lack of organizational structure and data governance policies

It is an integral part of a business to have a governance structure. Privileges need to be defined in order to create, approve, edit, or remove data from the system.

• Not so good quality of data in an inheritance system

It should be mandatory to assess the quality of present data in a legacy system before getting on to a data-migration job. Such as, will the existing data support new users? What is it missing? And what are you planning to do? Etc. But companies often don’t pay much attention to all this.

A thorough evaluation makes it easier for companies to assess the amount of work necessary for migrating legacy data effectively.

• Not updating and validating business rules

For running the business successfully, company’s business and validation rules updating are must as it may not be as per current standard. These updates will ensure that your existing data match, comply or map with the business rule.

In addition, especially when a migration includes important information such as payroll, financial, and inventory data, auditors must ensure that data moved from a legacy system to a new system has been validated.

• Failure to validate and test the data-migration process

It is really necessary to keep validating and testing throughout the project’s life cycle. One should keep in check the following:

How to test the data? Who will test and evaluate it? Who will sign off on it? And who’s the eventual consumer of the data?

• Involvement of non-experienced employees in industry best-practices

Employees may be an expert in what they do, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are equally knowledgeable in data management, migration, and governance.

• Too much dependency on the tools of the job

Mostly due to inexperience staff a data-migration project often end up with IT department, which may not be proficient enough to manage it. Thus, improper use of a migration tool can wind up moving bad data.

• Cross-object dependencies

In the migration process, cross-object dependencies are often learned very late which can further throw off migration timeline. A complex project may have several different data objects coming in from a vast range of different applications. Only at the end while dealing with the clients we search for those missing pieces of data or dependencies.

• Often trying to go live in one single big upload

Instead of assuming that everything is fine and just by hitting a button all the data will load without any problem, it is necessary to have a project timeline with several, iterative test loads along the way.

• Budget overruns due to Inadequate planning in beginning

Because of improper planning at the start of a project budget often gets out the range and this happens usually when project is in realization stage.

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