7:29 PM
UC-SD researchers have succeeded in creating a potential vaccine for malaria from algae. Malaria affects more than 225 mil people worldwide, resulting in fever, headaches, coma, and even death:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20120517-researchers-produce-potential-malarial-vaccine-from-algae
Paralyzed woman moved a robotic arm with her thoughts (she picked up and drank coffee), the first time in 15 years that the woman was able to pick up anything that she wanted:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/paralyzed-woman-moves-robotic-arm-with-her-thoughts/2012/05/16/gIQAd52hUU_story.html
Study found that coffee drinkers may live longer. The study tracked more than 400,000 older adults for about 14 years and found that coffee drinkers were less likely to die than people who didn't drink coffee, with the lowest risk of death for men and women being those who averaged 4 or 5 cups of coffee per day:
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-sci-coffee-death-20120517,0,7014507.story
AT&T's limited available spectrum in some markets really hurts their LTE speeds there--AT&T gets 17.4 Mbps downlinks/8 Mbps uplinks where they have 20 MHz of 700 MHz spectrum (Verizon has 20MHz in basically every market, with much more than 20MHz in many markets), but in places like Chicago they have just 10 MHz and gets just 7.6 Mbps downlink/4 Mbps uplink. Other cities such as LA are even slower:
http://gigaom.com/mobile/atts-chicago-problem-why-lte-slows-down-in-the-windy-city/
If you thought texting while driving was bad...56% of drivers in South Korea have watched TELEVISION while they are driving! 65% of cars in South Korea have some type of TV available to be watched. I cannot understand how 90% of the South Koreans polled understand that it is illegal to use a mobile phone while driving, but only 42% knew that it was illegal to watch TV while driving!
http://broadcastengineering.com/RF/South-Korea-mobile-TV-highway-danger/
NewNet has been around for 20 years and is betting big that there is a big business in WiMAX in the U.S. They acquired Motorola's former WiMAX division from NSN and are pushing WiMAX at CTIA:
http://www.wirelessweek.com/News/2012/05/newnet-relaunches-with-wimax-at-the-center/
Oscium turns an iPad, iTouch, or iPhone into a spectrum analyzer or dynamic power meter, or both. So, an iPad can serve as the user interface for standard equipment in the lab while having all of the mobility benefits that PC-based instruments cannot have:
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=055&ACCT=0000100&ISSUE=1109&RELTYPE=IN&PRODCODE=000000&PRODLETT=QR.html
Google's Project Glass may incorporate the use of gesture-based magic rings:
http://www.droid-life.com/2012/05/17/project-glass-to-incorporate-the-use-of-gesture-based-magic-rings/
Pour a Guinness into this glass and the beer's black color fills out the QR code that is activated by the beer. Other beers do not activate the code. The QR code can be scanned with a smartphone, tweeting about your pint, updating your Facebook status, checking you in with Foursquare, downloading coupons/promotions, launching exclusive Guinness content, etc.:
http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/guinness-qr-cup-reveals-scannable-code-when-full-140602
Woman is accused of having unlawful sex with her daughter's teenage boyfriend. She gave birth to the teen's baby and told police that she was in love with the 16-year-old boy...I wonder how her daughter feels, with her new sibling being her boyfriend's child:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/05/woman-allegedly-has-baby-with-daughters-teenaged-boyfriend.html
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20120517-researchers-produce-potential-malarial-vaccine-from-algae
Paralyzed woman moved a robotic arm with her thoughts (she picked up and drank coffee), the first time in 15 years that the woman was able to pick up anything that she wanted:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/paralyzed-woman-moves-robotic-arm-with-her-thoughts/2012/05/16/gIQAd52hUU_story.html
Study found that coffee drinkers may live longer. The study tracked more than 400,000 older adults for about 14 years and found that coffee drinkers were less likely to die than people who didn't drink coffee, with the lowest risk of death for men and women being those who averaged 4 or 5 cups of coffee per day:
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-sci-coffee-death-20120517,0,7014507.story
AT&T's limited available spectrum in some markets really hurts their LTE speeds there--AT&T gets 17.4 Mbps downlinks/8 Mbps uplinks where they have 20 MHz of 700 MHz spectrum (Verizon has 20MHz in basically every market, with much more than 20MHz in many markets), but in places like Chicago they have just 10 MHz and gets just 7.6 Mbps downlink/4 Mbps uplink. Other cities such as LA are even slower:
http://gigaom.com/mobile/atts-chicago-problem-why-lte-slows-down-in-the-windy-city/
If you thought texting while driving was bad...56% of drivers in South Korea have watched TELEVISION while they are driving! 65% of cars in South Korea have some type of TV available to be watched. I cannot understand how 90% of the South Koreans polled understand that it is illegal to use a mobile phone while driving, but only 42% knew that it was illegal to watch TV while driving!
http://broadcastengineering.com/RF/South-Korea-mobile-TV-highway-danger/
NewNet has been around for 20 years and is betting big that there is a big business in WiMAX in the U.S. They acquired Motorola's former WiMAX division from NSN and are pushing WiMAX at CTIA:
http://www.wirelessweek.com/News/2012/05/newnet-relaunches-with-wimax-at-the-center/
Oscium turns an iPad, iTouch, or iPhone into a spectrum analyzer or dynamic power meter, or both. So, an iPad can serve as the user interface for standard equipment in the lab while having all of the mobility benefits that PC-based instruments cannot have:
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=055&ACCT=0000100&ISSUE=1109&RELTYPE=IN&PRODCODE=000000&PRODLETT=QR.html
Google's Project Glass may incorporate the use of gesture-based magic rings:
http://www.droid-life.com/2012/05/17/project-glass-to-incorporate-the-use-of-gesture-based-magic-rings/
Pour a Guinness into this glass and the beer's black color fills out the QR code that is activated by the beer. Other beers do not activate the code. The QR code can be scanned with a smartphone, tweeting about your pint, updating your Facebook status, checking you in with Foursquare, downloading coupons/promotions, launching exclusive Guinness content, etc.:
http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/guinness-qr-cup-reveals-scannable-code-when-full-140602
Woman is accused of having unlawful sex with her daughter's teenage boyfriend. She gave birth to the teen's baby and told police that she was in love with the 16-year-old boy...I wonder how her daughter feels, with her new sibling being her boyfriend's child:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/05/woman-allegedly-has-baby-with-daughters-teenaged-boyfriend.html