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Bell Labs Zips Past Google Fiber to Set Broadband Speed Record of 10GBPS

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Records are meant to be broken, but sometimes they’re downright shattered. Case in point – <strong>Bell Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent, just set a new broadband speed record of 10 gigabits per second</strong> using traditional copper telephone lines combined with a prototype technology that’s intended to show how existing copper access networks can be used to deliver 1Gbps symmetrical ultra-broadband access services.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The prototype technology is called XG-FAST and is an extension of G.fast technology, a new broadband standard currently being finalized by the ITU. G.fast, which is expected to be commercially available in 2015, uses a frequency of 106MHz to deliver broadband speeds of up to 500Mbps over a distance of 100 meters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">By comparison, XG-FAST uses an increased frequency range of up to 500MHz to achieve faster speeds, albeit over shorter distances. Using XG-FAST technology, Bell Labs was able to hit 1Gbps symmetrical over 70 meters on a single copper pair, and 10Gbps over 30 meters using two pairs of lines (bonding).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“Our constant aim is to push the limits of what is possible to ‘invent the future’, with breakthroughs that are 10 times better than are possible today,” explains Marcus Weldon, President of Bell Labs. “Our demonstration of 10Gbps over copper is a prime example: by pushing broadband technology to its limits, operators can determine how they could deliver gigabit services over their existing networks, ensuring the availability of ultra-broadband access as widely and as economically as possible.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Interesting stuff, though Bell Labs set the record in a lab under ideal conditions. Quality of wire, crosstalk, and other factors can all affect real-world results. Nevertheless, it’s pretty exciting that 10Gbps speeds are visible in the distance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">SOURCE-<a href="http://www.technobuffalo.com/2014/07/12/bell-labs-zips-past-google-fiber-to-set-broadband-speed-record/" target="_blank">TECHNO BUFFALO</a></span></div>
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Bell Labs Zips Past Google Fiber to Set Broadband Speed Record of 10GBPS

Can we get some of that 10Gbps, please? Records are meant to be broken, but sometimes they’re downright shattered. Case in point – Bell Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent, just set a new broadb…

12 Jul 2014

NASA’s newest telescope is housed in a special jumbo jet that flies at 45,000 feet

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The thick, soupy atmosphere of Earth is great for breathing, but not so much for seeing what’s going on in the cosmos. That’s why the most spectacular and scientifically important images of the universe have been taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. It has served the world well for more than 20 years, but Hubble is nearing the end of its useful life, and the James Webb telescope is still years away from completion. In the meantime, NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have just completed the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) — a giant telescope that rides on the back of a high-altitude jumbo jet. It’s really the next best thing to being in space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">NASA has been working on the SOFIA project for a number of years, but only recently has the flying observatory been declared fully operational. Sadly, it’s not as simple as strapping a telescope to a standard jet and heading for the skies. The plane itself, a Boeing 747SP, is highly specialized. This craft was designed by Boeing to be able to fly higher, faster, and longer than a standard 747, which is perfect for SOFIA. The frame of the aircraft has been modified to be considerably lighter, but the most obvious change is the addition of a large door toward the aft where the 2.5-meter telescope peeks out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The unique design of this aircraft allows it to remain in the stratosphere (at about 45,000 feet, 13,000 meters) for several hours making observations. At that altitude, most of the atmospheric distortion ground telescopes contend with <a href="http://www.geek.com/science/nasas-sofia-telescope-lives-in-a-jumbo-jet-at-45000-ft-1598833/" style="color: #b1700a; text-decoration: none;">is a non-issue</a>, and it can fly to any part of the globe to observe different parts of the sky. One advantage SOFIA has over space-based telescopes is that it lands at the end of each mission, which makes it considerably easier to repair and outfit for particular tasks. A telescope like Hubble needs to be almost entirely automated and servicing it is a <em>bit </em>more involved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">SOFIA’s telescope works with nine interchangeable instruments that allow it to do astronomy in the infrared and visible spectrum. However, only one instrument can be attached at a time. That’s not a huge problem as NASA plans more than 100 flights per year. The telescope also has a system of gyroscopes and pressurized oil bearings to cope with vibration from turbulence and the engines. Using these packages, SOFIA is capable of investigating many of the same things as space telescopes including exoplanet study, comet composition, and stellar evolution. The newly completed GREAT spectrometer will be perfect for peering deep into distant planetary nebulae.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">While operating SOFIA is cheap compared to launching a space telescope, the yearly costs are still more than $80 million. NASA has worried publicly that unless the DLR contributes more funding to the program, it might have to be grounded in a few years. The space agency is working to convince Congress to authorize additional funding in 2015 for the SOFIA program. Until it knows for sure, NASA will continue flying SOFIA missions and studying the universe at 600 miles per hour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">SOURCE-<a href="http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/186069-nasas-newest-telescope-is-housed-in-a-special-jumbo-jet-that-flies-at-45000-feet" target="_blank">EXTREAM TECH</a></span></div>
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NASA’s newest telescope is housed in a special jumbo jet that flies at 45,000 feet

The thick, soupy atmosphere of Earth is great for breathing, but not so much for seeing what’s going on in the cosmos. That’s why the most spectacular and scientifically important images of the unive…

12 Jul 2014

SCIENTISTS creates a living copy of Vincent Van Gogh's ear with relative's DNA

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If you thought cloning mice, frogs and extinct mammoths to be challenging, how about cloning Vincent Van Gogh's ear? Dutch artist Diemut Strebe has grown a living replica of the ear that Vincent Van Gogh reportedly sliced off in a troubled episode, using genetic material from one of Van Gogh's direct descendants. With a lifespan of 80 years or more, the ear could live as long as any one of us, says Strebe, who is investigating the idea of replicating people from historical DNA.</div>
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"The ear is grown with Lieuwe van Gogh's cells," Strebe tells Gizmag. "By his natural relationship to Vincent, he carries in his cells the white chromosomes of Vincent and a 16th of his genome."</div>
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Strebe figured out the shape of the ear by looking at a historical photo of the artist, and extrapolated the measurements to create a 3D-printed mold that approximated its shape. A scaffold placed in the mold was seeded with Van Gogh's cells, which grew until the ear reached its final form. The result, states Strebe, is a true living piece.</div>
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"It has a metabolism," Strebe tells us. "It lives in a container, in a system which mimics our body. It has a lung, it has a heart, it has plasma and it even has oxygen exchange."</div>
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To make a system that supported the ear, she built a bioreactor that mimics the body's different parts. According to Strebe, the ear could live to be really old if it's well taken care of and given proper nutrition. To genetically engineer the ear to be as close to Vincen't Van Gogh's as possible, she collaborated with scientists at Harvard and MIT as part of a project called "Sugababe." Along with some of Van Gogh's genetic material, the ear is also made up of some genetically engineered components.</div>
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While she initially hoped to use Van Gogh's own DNA to grow the ear, that plan fell apart when donated letters that supposedly belonged to the artist (which took a year for her to source) were found to lack any trace of his DNA. Strebe next approached Lieuwe van Gogh, the great-great-grandson of Vincent's brother Theo Gogh, who readily donated a bit of his skin for the project. Strebe, who is currently trying to source other historical DNA to experiment with, says that the project brings up many interesting questions about human replication.</div>
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"Theoretically a historical person could be genetically created," Strebe tells us." There are many interesting questions involved about uniqueness, about the possibility to reconstruct somebody physically or how identical the result would be even if you get to that point. The questions involved are similar to those when Plutarch talked about the Ship of Thesus – whether a ship would be the same ship if all its parts were replaced?".</div>
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The living ear was exhibited recently at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany.</div>
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SCIENTISTS creates a living copy of Vincent Van Gogh's ear with relative's DNA

If you thought cloning mice, frogs and extinct mammoths to be challenging, how about cloning Vincent Van Gogh's ear? Dutch artist Diemut Strebe has grown a living replica of the ear that Vincent Van …

12 Jul 2014

DOL-Fin is designed to let you swim like a dolphin

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22px;">Besides being able to </span>fly like a bird<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22px;">, many people fantasize about having the ability to swim like a dolphin. Divers already have the option of replacing their two regular swim fins with one fluke-like flexible rubber monofin, although aerospace engineer Ron Smith claims that his invention is much more effective. Known as the DOL-Fin, it incorporates a wide rigid hydrofoil-type fin.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There are actually several models of "Dynamic Oscillating Lateral"-Fin, designed for different applications (such as freediving or recreational scuba diving) and levels of performance. In all cases, however, the feet are held firmly in place using either straps built into a foot platform, or attached Shimano cycling shoes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">An elastomer/nylon composite suspension frame connects the fin to the feet, allowing the fin to pitch up and down in the same way that a dolphin's flukes change pitch as it swims. The fin itself is made from rigid aluminum, although most models also have swept-back flexible rubber tips.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The exact physics by which the DOL-Fin is claimed to work are pretty complex, but the basic idea is that the rigidity of the fin and the foot attachment setup minimize wasted energy, while the fin's ability to pitch keeps it from "stalling out" as it arcs through the water. Additionally, the fin's wide design gives it a larger effective surface area than old-school monofins, plus its hydrofoil design is simply more hydrodynamic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Although some versions of the DOL-Fin have been around for a few years now, Smith is currently putting the finishing touches on his Orca Mk2 model. It sports a streamlined design, along with some other features aimed at competitive freediving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"The DOL-Fin Orca Mk-2 offers competition level monofin performance, with recreational levels of comfort," Ron told us. "It is made from incompressible materials (no foam), so the fin's buoyancy and swimming characteristics do not change with depth. It has adjustable foot straps that easily allow it to adapt between warm and cold water diving, eliminating the need for multiple monofins for different conditions. It has a modular design that is lightweight and easily packed into standard luggage for traveling."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">He hopes to begin selling it within about six weeks, at a price of US$1,200. If you're on more of a budget, or simply aren't a competitive freediver, prices for some of his older, simpler models start at $680.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Perhaps not surprisingly, Smith isn't the only person making and selling this type of product. Designer Ted Ciamillo also hand-builds a monofin known as the <a href="http://caw-designs.com/?page_id=460" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1e8dd7; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Lunocet</a> (pictured above), which works on much the same principle as the DOL-Fin. The fin itself looks more like a dolphin's flukes, though, as opposed to a hydrofoil. Pricing for it starts at US$299, which doesn't include the required cycling shoes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You can see the X-15 model of the DOL-Fin in use off the shores of Kauai, in the video below.</span></div>
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DOL-Fin is designed to let you swim like a dolphin

Besides being able to fly like a bird, many people fantasize about having the ability to swim like a dolphin. Divers already have the option of replacing their two regular swim fins with one fluke-li…

12 Jul 2014

"Nano-pixels" hold huge potential for flexible, low-power, high-res screens

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Retina displays featured on Apple's iPhone 4 and 5 models pack a pixel density of 326 ppi, with individual pixels measuring 78 micrometers. That might seem plenty good enough given the average human eye is unable to differentiate between the individual pixels, but scientists in the UK have now developed technology that could lead to extremely high-resolution displays that put such pixel densities to shame.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Led by Oxford University scientists, a research team has created a prototype device that features pixels just 30 x 30 nanometers in size. The high resolution potential of the technology was discovered while the team was exploring the link between the electrical and optical properties of phase change materials (PCMs) that can switch from an amorphous to a crystalline state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">By sandwiching a seven-nanometer thick layer of the PCM Germanium-Antimony-Tellurium (Ge2Sb2Te5 or GST) between two layers of transparent electrodes made of indium tin oxide (ITO), the scientists discovered they could "draw" still images within the sandwich "stack" using an atomic force microscope. They then found that the "nano-pixels" could be switched on and off electronically, creating colored dots that could be used as the basis for an extremely high-resolution display.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"We didn't set out to invent a new kind of display," said Professor Harish Bhaskaran of Oxford University's Department of Materials, who led the research. "We were exploring the relationship between the electrical and optical properties of phase change materials and then had the idea of creating this GST 'sandwich' made up of layers just a few nanometers thick. We found that not only were we able to create images in the stack but, to our surprise, thinner layers of GST actually gave us better contrast. We also discovered that altering the size of the bottom electrode layer enabled us to change the color of the image."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But extremely high-resolution isn't the only impressive quality of the technology. The layers that make up the GST sandwich are created using a sputtering technique, which would allow them to be deposited as thin films on extremely thin and flexible substrates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"We have already demonstrated that the technique works on flexible Mylar sheets around 200 nanometres thick," said Professor Bhaskaran. "This makes them potentially useful for 'smart' glasses, foldable screens, windshield displays, and even synthetic retinas that mimic the abilities of photoreceptor cells in the human eye."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Additionally, like the power-saving E-Ink displays used in eReaders, all the pixels don't need to be constantly refreshed, as is the case with LCD screens. This means that only those pixels that actually change would need to be refreshed, significantly lowering energy consumption.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Furthermore, the scientists believe displays based on the technology could switch between a color e-Reader mode that saves power by relying on reflected light, and a video display mode that makes use of a backlight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The team believes displays made using the technology would be easy to manufacture from inexpensive materials, while also being reliable as they would be solid-state. Amongst the wide variety of potential applications, the team highlights the technology's benefits for use in smart glasses, where the nano-pixels would allow even images projected at a larger size would offer very high resolution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"Along with many other researchers around the world, we have been looking into the use of these GST materials for memory applications for many years," says Professor David Wright from the Department of Engineering at the University of Exeter, who is co-author of a paper detailing the technology. "But no one before thought of combining their electrical and optical functionality to provide entirely new kinds of non-volatile, high-resolution, electronic color displays – so our work is a real breakthrough."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Although the work is still in its early stages, the team has filed a patent for the technology and is fielding discussions on the displays with companies and investors through Isis Innovation, Oxford University's technology commercialization company.</span></div>
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Apple Hires Tag Heuer Exec, iWatch Rumours Increase

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Apple is known for high-end products and kit that people can’t wait to get their hands on!  The world is always waiting for the next amazing creation by <a href="http://www.apple.com/" style="color: #0092dd;" target="_blank" title="Apple">Apple</a>.  Right now, its the iWatch.  What makes its arrival even more exciting, is the fact that Patrick Prunjaux, the sales director of <a href="http://www.tagheuer.com/" style="color: #0092dd;" target="_blank" title="tagheuer">TAG Heuer</a>, has recently been nabbed by Apple.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The iWatch is already centred around incomplete here say and rumours, but it is expected to make its awesome appearance in October; in time for holidays and early Christmas shopping!  But with the poaching of Prunjaux from such a luxury watchmaking company, people are foaming at the mouth in anticipation.  But Apple still refuses to comment!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The ‘iWatch’ is so anticipated, it has caused many fans to mock-up images like this one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The head of LVMH’s luxury-watch division, Jean-Claude Biver stated: “Our sales director left yesterday because he took a contract from Apple to launch the iWatch”  LVMH includes Swiss brands, TAG Heuer and Hublot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Apple seems to have a knack for stealing highly sought out executives, especially in the last few months.  Chief Executive Angela Ahrendts, previously from Burberry, became head of retail and online sales in May; Paul Deneve, former head of <a href="http://www.ysl.com/gb" style="color: #0092dd;" target="_blank" title="YSL">Yves Saint Laurent</a>, was also hired last year in order to work on special projects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So what does all this mean for the iWatch?  Big things we hope!  More than just a sports watch, the stealing of such a luxury watchmaking giant should make the iWatch an incredible piece of kit!  We just hope that its as good as the rumours all foretell!  We will have to wait and see!</span></div>
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Apple Hires Tag Heuer Exec, iWatch Rumours Increase

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