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and use only half of it for the screen, ’s Project Ara: the rest could be the keyboard. If on a long trip, you could drop a lot of other Piece together your Android modules and replace them with battery http://archive.financialexpress.com/news/google-s-project-ara-piece-together-your-an- modules so that you don’t run out of droid/1303756/3 power. While it seems as simple as building blocks, Project Ara will actually be ushering in cutting edge technology into your hands. This is the first initiation of a network on device concept in the mobile form factor, explains Eremenko, adding that any modules can draw or supply power and also be a power storage device at the same time. While the modules will transmit data and power using inductive contactless coupling, they will have electropermanent magnets that connect them to the frame. Simply put, the design wont have any connectors and users will be able to hot swap any module. Eremenko thinks the biggest impact hat if you could decide the power decided to go ahead with Project Ara will come when people will be able to Wof the processor, resolution of because we felt that finally we were at manage power better by being able to the display and sensor of the camera a point where the overhead penalty of use multiple battery packs and also every time you picked up your making something modular could be when developers start bringing in to leave home? It might made small enough that it would be fitness modules. sound like science fiction, but this is acceptable to the consumer.” While critical mass is still a couple of exactly what Google is working on at At the core of Project Ara is the years away, over time Ara could end up the moment. In fact, its Project Ara endoskelton, or the frame, on which being a cheaper alternative as it will let aims to bring in a the modules will go. Google want to users avoid paying for hardware that can be changed according to the produce these for around $50 and features they never use. But for now user’s character and preferences. spawn and app level of innovation with Eremenko says pricing is a long way While IndianExpress.com got a sneak the modules. The idea is to let off. peak into the prototypes, the market developers market the modules directly Google understands that the thirst for pilot is expected to be available in to consumers, maybe through the customisation is much more on mobile 2015. Paul Eremenko, who developed store. This means once and that will be one of the key drivers the project and leads it now, sums up you buy the endoskelton, you can go to for adoption of Project Ara. And Google the concept as the hardware version of the store and buy any module you is not the only company trying to cash Android. “Our stated objective around want. There will be three frame sizes to in on this. While Chinese telecom giant Project Ara is to democratise the choose from, the mini, medium and ZTE has showcased its modular hardware ecosystem around mobile. jumbo and the smallest of them will concept called the Eco-Mobius, Israeli We want to drastically lower the barrier have slots for 10 modules. startup Modu Mobile which was making of entry for developers,” he added in a The possibilities are endless. For a name for itself with modular phones video chat earlier this week. “We instance, you could buy a jumbo frame Contd. on page 2 02 Volume 1 l Issue 7 l December 2014

Contd. from page 1 hardware developers could grow to the Google Play store designs was acquired by Google a scale by offering customers innovative *Once you buy the endoskeleton, you couple of years back. Eremenko says modules which would not have found can go to the store and buy any module Google is interested in making the acceptance with mainstream brands. you want. There will be three frame modular phone platform interoperable The appification of mobile phone sizes to choose from the mini, medium and that is why they have chosen hardware is almost here. and jumbo, with the smallest of the lot industry standard protocol and put Building blocks having slots for 10 modules everything out there. *At the core of Project Ara is the *For instance, you could buy a jumbo We are at least a couple of years away endoskeleton, or the frame, on which frame and use only half of it for the from being able to buy a modular phone the modules, or mobile parts, will go screen, the rest could be the keyboard. frame or the modules to populate it. But *Google wants to produce these for If on a long trip, you could drop a lot of when Project Ara is here, it could around $50 and spawn an app-level of other modules and replace them with change the way we think about and innovation with the modules. The idea battery modules so that you don’t run use mobile phones. The tech world is is to let developers market the modules out of power. looking at a scenario where small directly to consumers, maybe through Kwiz E-Motor Winding- In a BIG Way Q1 Sun Microsystems was acquired by which company? it orders, expedites 1. Hewlett Packard the production with 2. Oracle improved accuracy. 3. IBM For an assignment 4. Apple that might have taken Q2. Adobe created the PDF. The two weeks working in PD is for “portable document”. AutoCAD, the biggest What is the F for? savings using EPLAN 1. Format 2. Folder is about 23-28 work 3. File 4. First hours. For larger projects, the savings Q3. What was the tablet computer are proportionately released by Blackberry in 2011? greater. “Drawings 1. Playbook 2. Playbox EPLAN design software offers accelerated design for a variety of are archived and 3. Playboy 4. Playberry specialized machine projects can be easily found in Q4. What is the largest search MT-Advanced Machine & Tool EPLAN. A complete set of drawings engine in Russia? ACorp. specializes in the building can be brought up in just a few 1. Google 2. Baudu of coiling and winding equipment and minutes without paper work. While 3. Bing 4. Yandex other machines used in the production the vast majority of our machines are Q5. Which service was of electric motors, generators, custom, there are a few we repeat with discontinued by Google in 2011 alternators, and other devices. The minor adjustments. With EPLAN, we to make way for Google +? engineering phase of fulfilling an can pull up the drawings, make minor 1. order can take as little as three days, adjustments quickly and easily, and 2. or, a typical order involves a customer spin out a set of plans for it”,says AMT 3. wanting a single machine to produce engineers. 4. MySpace a new motor. Finally, EPLAN helps integrate AMT took a conservative approach engineering and has made for a Answers of November issue to implement EPLAN (name of smooth transition. AMT Engineers Q 1. Steve Wozniak software). Using EPLAN is actually states that, “We get a quick turnaround Q 2. Shuffle replacing AutoCAD Electrical. EPLAN when we make a request—usually Q 3. Nullsoft Inc. electrical drawings for the machines within the day. Q 4. TED

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Top 5 Trends in Hotel Technology Did You Know? http://hospitalitytechnology.edgl.com/news/Top-5-Trends-in-Hotel- Technology-89637 RevMax has unveiled an How to start a blog infographic to assist property e http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/how-to/Where-to-start- owners around the world to know while-starting-a-blog/articleshow/42109931.cms about the latest technology trends topping the charts this season. One of the current trends listed deals with device and entertainment autonomy. A SmartBrief poll showed that 45% of hotel guests travel with two devices and 40% with three or more. Thus, ensuring guests have electronics (adequate and easy-to- reach plugs, bandwidth capabilities) and ergonomic support (seating and surfaces) becomes essential for hotels. Another important tip by the hotel solutions provider is to leverage the billboard effect, defined as the increase in offline bookings of a property when it is listed with an Online Travel Agency (OTA). An tart your search by thinking about the type of blog you want to experiment conducted by Cornell have and how much control you want to have over the look and University observed that one of the S domain name. Free blogging services usually have a set of standard participant hotels experienced an templates and easy controls to get started, but the design is usually impressive 14% increase in direct not terribly flexible. Paid services often offer more design control, bookings when it contracted with an feature management and tools. OTA. Besides, Average Daily Rate If you are an artist or a photographer and want to quickly post about (ADR) increased by 1.5% during the things you see, a visually-oriented platform like Tumblr may work OTA listing of the same property. best; Tumblr is free and has its own mobile apps for blogging on the According to the infographic, 38% go. If you want to compose long and thoughtful essays, a blogging of the guests reported that Wi-Fi platform suited to longer writing and editing, like Medium, may be was the priority factor while booking most useful. (While Medium has a mobile app for iOS, it is currently a hotel. Also, a whopping 85% of intended for reading material on the site rather than writing.) Some travelers said they wanted access platforms like Typepad and WordPress are flexible enough to handle to free Wi-Fi in hotels. eRevMax either approach. suggests hoteliers to provide the WordPress comes in two versions. One is the free WordPress.com service for free to guests who enroll site, which provides less customization but hosts the blog on its own for their select programs, for starters. servers and has its own mobile apps. The other version is found Such services may be made at WordPress.org, where the WordPress blogging software can be exclusive for gold and platinum level downloaded and used on someone else’s servers. You have more members or accessible in lobbies of control over the look and feel of the blog there. full-service properties. Some free services, like Google’s , make it easy to set up a These are important insights for basic blog, especially if you already use some of the company’s other property owners and serve as a products, like Google Plus Photos. Paid services like Squarespace helpful reminder to get thinking may cost $8 a month or more, but you get technical support along about what is important to guests with perks like search-engine optimization and slick designs that who want to stay connected virtually. work for both desktop and mobile readers. 04 Volume 1 l Issue 7 l December 2014

Gizmo Talk US FDA Approves Swallowable Sensor That Tracks Health From The Inside http://illnessopedia.org/news-details/fda-approves-swal- lowable-sensor-that-tracks-health-from-the-inside-87/

he US Food and Drug Administration has approved an Tingestible digital sensor that can be swallowed in a pill to track health data from inside the body. The idea is that the data can be used not only by patients themselves, but also by caregivers and doctors to individualize their care. The ingestible sensor, formerly known as the Ingestion Event Marker or IEM, is already approved for use in Europe. It is the first “digital pill” to receive FDA approval, in a move that its maker Proteus Digital Health, whose headquarters So once it comes into contact with stomach fluid, the are in Redwood City, California, sees as the start of an era sensor powers up, and “communicates a unique signal where digital medicine “shifts the care paradigm”. that determines identity and timing of ingestion”, says On Monday, George Savage, co-founder and chief medical Proteus. officer at Proteus Digital Health, told the press: The ingestible sensor passes through the body in much “We are thrilled to have achieved this important milestone the same way as high-fiber food, according to information to market our ingestible sensor in the United States now, on the company’s website. as well as in Europe.” The signal that it sends from the stomach travels through “We are very much looking forward to bringing the benefits the patient’s body to a patch worn on the skin. The patch of our ingestible sensor to the American public in the form contains technology that senses the signal and records of innovative product offerings,” he added. the exact time the ingestible sensor was swallowed. The ingestible sensor, which is about the size of a grain of The patch can then send this information to a mobile sand and made mostly of silicon, is part of an integrated phone application, and with the consent of the patient, be system designed to give patients and their doctors “end-to- passed on to doctors and caregivers, so they can provide end personal health management”. better quality care. Embedded in a pill or tablet, the device can help keep an Proteus says its integrated “feedback” system is also eye on whether patients are taking their medications at the designed to collect a range of other measurements, such prescribed time and rate. as for heart rate, body position and activity. This is important, because although the effectiveness and Eric Topol, geneticist and cardiologist, is a professor of safety of drugs are established in clinical trials, those tend genomics at The Scripps Research Institute and wrote a to follow well-controlled conditions, with patients taking book called “The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How their drugs at the prescribed rates in the right quantities. the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Healthcare” But at home, adherence to prescribed regimens may not be where, among other things, he says technology that so easy to monitor, and without information about precisely gives doctors a continuously updated picture of what is when patients are taking their medication, doctors can’t happening with each patient, will help them provide better, see if that is the problem, should the drug not work as it individualized care. should. Topol told the press: The sensor does not contain a battery, it works like a “The FDA validation represents a major milestone in “potato battery” that children make in science lessons at digital medicine. Directly digitizing pills, for the first time, in school. It has two conductive materials, one on either side. conjunction with our wireless infrastructure, may prove to When these get wet in the stomach, they power the sensor be the new standard for influencing medication adherence for a short amount of time. and significantly aid chronic disease management.” 05 Volume 1 l Issue 7 l December 2014 Skanska to use 3d printing in construction “http://www.constructionglobal.com/equipmentit/365/Skanska-to-use-3d-printing-in-construction” Sciences elements of buildings from weeks Research Council to hours. We expect to achieve a (EPSRC) under level of quality and efficiency which their Innovative has never been seen before in Manufacturing construction.” & Construction Dr Richard Buswell from Research Center Loughborough University’s Building (IMCRC) led the Energy Research Group said: project. The team “The modern construction industry developed 3d is becoming more and more concrete printers, demanding in terms of design and kanska has signed a which are fitted to a gantry and construction. We have reached a Scollaborative agreement with robotic arm. point where new developments Loughborough University in the UK The printer deposits a high– in construction manufacturing are to develop the use of 3d printing performance concrete precisely required to meet the new challenges technology in the construction under computer control. It works and our research has sought to sector. by laying down successive layers respond to that challenge. The university has granted Skanska of concrete until the entire object “We are pleased and excited by the a license to use its concrete printing is created. The printer can make opportunity to develop the world’s technology - taking it out of the things that cannot be manufactured first commercial 3D concrete laboratory and onto construction by conventional processes such as printing robot with Skanska and sites in real-world application. complex structural components, their consortium. We have been Skanska is also collaborating curved cladding panels and convinced of its viability in the lab, with Foster + Partners, Buchan architectural features. but it now needs the industry to Concrete, ABB and Lafarge Tarmac The aim of the initial 18-month adapt the technology to service real as it aims to develop a 3D printing development programme is to applications in construction and supply chain. develop the world’s first commercial architecture.” A team from Loughborough’s School concrete printing robot. of Civil & Building Engineering - Rob Francis, Skanska’s director headed up by Richard Buswell and of innovation and business Simon Austin – has been working improvement said: “3d concrete on the development of 3d printing printing, when combined with technology for the construction a type of mobile prefabrication industry since 2007. centre, has the potential to reduce The Engineering & Physical the time needed to create complex Tech trivia l .ch is the domain name of Switzerland. l The iPhone app Instapaper lets users save magazine, newspaper and blog pieces for reading later. l Toy Story was the first animated computer generated feature film. l In 1994, Jeff Taylor founded the famous employment website monster.com l The software Flash was named for the term “Future-Splash”.

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