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Biology's next mega-project will find out what we're really made of.

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I n 1665, Robert Hooke peered down his microscope at a piece of cork and discovered little boxes that reminded him of rooms in a monastery. Being the first scientist to describe cells, Hooke would be amazed by biology's next mega-project: a scheme to individually capture and scrutinize millions of cells using the most powerful tools in modern genomics and cell biology.

The objective is to construct the first comprehensive "cell atlas," or map of human cells, a technological marvel that should comprehensively reveal, for the first time, what human bodies are actually made of and provide scientists a sophisticated new model of biology that could speed the search for drugs.

To perform the task of cataloguing the 37.2 trillion cells of the human body, an international consortium of scientists from the U.S., U.K., Sweden, Israel, the Netherlands, and Japan is being assembled to assign each a molecular signature and also give each type a zip code in the three-dimensional space of our bodies.

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"We will see some things that we expect, things we know to exist, but I'm sure there will be completely novel things," says Mike Stubbington, head of the cell atlas team at the Sanger Institute in the U.K. "I think there will be surprises."

Previous attempts at describing cells, from the hairy neurons that populate the brain and spinal cord to the glutinous fat cells of the skin, suggest there are about 300 variations in total. But the true figure is undoubtedly larger. Analyzing molecular differences between cells has already revealed, for example, two new types of retinal cells that escaped decades of investigation of the eye; a cell that forms the first line of defense against pathogens and makes up four in every 10,000 blood cells; and a newly spotted immune cell that uniquely produces a steroid that appears to suppress the immune response.

The Cell Atlas

Breakthrough A master catalog of every cell type in the human body.

Why It Matters Super-accurate models of human physiology will speed up the discovery and testing of new drugs.

Key Players - Broad Institute
- Sanger Institute
- Chan Zuckerberg Biohub

Three technologies are coming together to make this new type of mapping possible. The first is known as "cellular microfluidics." Individual cells are separated, tagged with tiny beads , and manipulated in droplets of oil that are shunted like cars down the narrow, one-way streets of artificial capillaries etched into a tiny chip, so they can be corralled, cracked open, and studied one by one.

The second is the ability to identify the genes active in single cells by decoding them in superfast and efficient sequencing machines at a cost of just a few cents per cell. One scientist can now process 10,000 cells in a single day.

The third technology uses novel labeling and staining techniques that can locate each type of cell-on the basis of its gene activity-at a specific zip code in a human organ or tissue.

Behind the cell atlas are big-science powerhouses including Britain's Sanger Institute, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and a new "Biohub" in California funded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In September Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, made the cell atlas the inaugural target of a $3 billion donation to medical research.

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Paying with your face sounds funny but it is actually very cool. Instead of paying with a credit card there is a chip installed in your face. when you will go and pay the bill they will scan your face and scan the chip in your face. So paying will be a lot easier. now people wont have too worry about losing there creditcard.

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Face-detecting systems in China now authorize payments, provide access to facilities, and track down criminals. Will other countries follow?

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S hortly after walking through the door at , a Chinese startup valued at roughly a billion dollars, I see my face, unshaven and looking a bit jet-lagged, flash up on a large screen near the entrance.

Having been added to a database, my face now provides automatic access to the building. It can also be used to monitor my movements through each room inside. As I tour the offices of Face++ (pronounced "face plus plus"), located in a suburb of Beijing, I see it appear on several more screens, automatically captured from countless angles by the company's software. On one screen a video shows the software tracking 83 different points on my face simultaneously. It's a little creepy, but undeniably impressive.

Over the past few years, computers have become incredibly good at recognizing faces, and the technology is expanding quickly in China in the interest of both surveillance and convenience. Face recognition might transform everything from policing to the way people interact every day with banks, stores, and transportation services.

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Technology from Face++ is already being used in several popular apps. It is possible to transfer money through Alipay, a mobile payment app used by more than 120 million people in China, using only your face as credentials. Meanwhile, Didi, China's dominant ride-hailing company, uses the Face++ software to let passengers confirm that the person behind the wheel is a legitimate driver. (A "liveness" test, designed to prevent anyone from duping the system with a photo, requires people being scanned to move their head or speak while the app scans them.)

The technology figures to take off in China first because of the country's attitudes toward surveillance and privacy. Unlike, say, the United States, China has a large centralized database of ID card photos. During my time at Face++, I saw how local governments are using its software to identify suspected criminals in video from surveillance cameras, which are omnipresent in the country. This is especially impressive-albeit somewhat dystopian-because the footage analyzed is far from perfect, and because mug shots or other images on file may be several years old.

Paying With Your Face

Breakthrough Face recognition technology that is finally accurate enough to be widely used in financial transactions and other everyday applications.

Why It Matters The technology offers a secure and extremely convenient method of payment but could raise privacy concerns.

Facial recognition has existed for decades, but only now is it accurate enough to be used in secure financial transactions. The new versions use deep learning, an artificial-intelligence technique that is especially effective for image recognition because it makes a computer zero in on the facial features that will most reliably identify a person (see " 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2013: Deep Learning ").

"The face recognition market is huge," says Shiliang Zhang, an assistant professor at Peking University who specializes in machine learning and image processing. Zhang heads a lab not far from the offices of Face++. When I arrived, his students were working away furiously in a dozen or so cubicles. "In China security is very important, and we also have lots of people," he says. "Lots of companies are working on it."

Employees simply show their face to gain entry to the company's headquarters.

One such company is Baidu, which operates China's most popular search engine, along with other services. Baidu researchers have published papers showing that their software rivals most humans in its ability to recognize a face. In January, the company proved this by taking part in a TV show featuring people who are remarkably good at identifying adults from their baby photos. Baidu's system outshined them.

Face++ pinpoints 83 points on a face. The distance between them provides a means of identification.

Now Baidu is developing a system that lets people pick up rail tickets by showing their face. The company is already working with the government of Wuzhen, a historic tourist destination, to provide access to many of its attractions without a ticket. This involves scanning tens of thousands of faces in a database to find a match, which Baidu says it can do with 99 percent accuracy.

Jie Tang, an associate professor at Tsinghua University who advised the founders of Face++ as students, says the convenience of the technology is what appeals most to people in China. Some apartment complexes use facial recognition to provide access, and shops and restaurants are looking to the technology to make the customer experience smoother. Not only can he pay for things this way, he says, but the staff in some coffee shops are now alerted by a facial recognition system when he walks in: "They say, 'Hello, Mr. Tang.'"

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Quadrofoil is eco-friendly electric watercraft with zero emissions. The Crazy cool water craft has full charge in 2 hours and a range of 100 km. The Quadrofoil is on reorder for $28,000 in the US.
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https://youtu.be/4asCK8yamb0  Although motorcyclists make up just 1% of total road traffic, they account for 19% of all road deaths, with riders 38 times more likely to die than drivers of a car. Although the technology is still a prototype ,this technology has potential to cut road deaths. Japanese Yamaha is taking the idea of automation/robotics one step up with Motobot. This isn’t a self-driving motorcycle, but a standard 1000-cc R1M bike with one big difference -, it has a robotic rider. Designed to look  like a human rider ,complete with helmet and visor, even it's hands turn the throttle, grab the brake and operate the clutch, and its feet shift the gears just like a person would!
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Many don't know that there are Prosthetic Limbs controlled by thought are in the works to become mainstream. This will make life ten times easier for amputees. Normally, Prosthetic Limbs can only move at the remaining joint on your body. They're essentially a stick with some rubber at the end. But with a robotic limb, amputees can move it almost like a normal arm.

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It turns sunlight int heat and then into light that the we can use it still is a prototype and we can see the final product in 10-15 years. It is made up of crystals that control the light. Black Carbon Nano tubes and silicon.The nano tubes  turn the light into heat and the crystal controls the wavelengths. Some of the components are expensive so they can only make a few. It doesn't take a lot of energy to use. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603497/10-breakthrough-technologies-2017-hot-solar-cells/

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Brain implants that could reverse spinal cord injury's by french Neuroscientist Grégoire Courtine. He studied a paralyzed monkey and then installed flexible electrodes around the animal’s spinal cord, below the injury. Which resulted in him being able to move his legs. it transmits the monkeys thoughts to the cords on his leg which makes him move. very few scientists have been able to move computer cursors or robots with thoughts, this is a scientific break through.
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" Go, go!" was the thought racing through Grégoire Courtine's mind.

The French neuroscientist was watching a macaque monkey as it hunched aggressively at one end of a treadmill. His team had used a blade to slice halfway through the animal's spinal cord, paralyzing its right leg. Now Courtine wanted to prove he could get the monkey walking again. To do it, he and colleagues had installed a recording device beneath its skull, touching its motor cortex, and sutured a pad of flexible electrodes around the animal's spinal cord, below the injury. A wireless connection joined the two electronic devices.

The result: a system that read the monkey's intention to move and then transmitted it immediately in the form of bursts of electrical stimulation to its spine. Soon enough, the monkey's right leg began to move. Extend and flex. Extend and flex. It hobbled forward. "The monkey was thinking, and then boom, it was walking," recalls an exultant Courtine, a professor with Switzerland's École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

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In recent years, lab animals and a few people have controlled computer cursors or robotic arms with their thoughts, thanks to a brain implant wired to machines. Now researchers are taking a significant next step toward reversing paralysis once and for all. They are wirelessly connecting the brain-reading technology directly to electrical stimulators on the body, creating what Courtine calls a "neural bypass" so that people's thoughts can again move their limbs.

At Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, a middle-aged quadriplegic-he can't move anything but his head and shoulder-agreed to let doctors place two recording implants in his brain, of the same type Courtine used in the monkeys. Made of silicon, and smaller than a postage stamp, they bristle with a hundred hair-size metal probes that can "listen" as neurons fire off commands.

Reversing Paralysis

Breakthrough Wireless brain-body electronic interfaces to bypass damage to the nervous system.

Why It Matters Thousands of people suffer paralyzing injuries every year.

Key Players - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering
- University of Pittsburgh
- Case Western Reserve University

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To complete the bypass, the Case team, led by Robert Kirsch and Bolu Ajiboye, also slid more than 16 fine electrodes into the muscles of the man's arm and hand. In videos of the experiment, the volunteer can be seen slowly raising his arm with the help of a spring-loaded arm rest, and willing his hand to open and close. He even raises a cup with a straw to his lips. Without the system, he can't do any of that.

Just try sitting on your hands for a day. That will give you an idea of the shattering consequences of spinal cord injury. You can't scratch your nose or tousle a child's hair. "But if you have this," says Courtine, reaching for a red espresso cup and raising it to his mouth with an actor's exaggerated motion, "it changes your life."

Grégoire Courtine holds the two main parts of the brain-spine interface.

photograph by hillary sanctuary | epfl

The Case results, pending publication in a medical journal, are a part of a broader effort to use implanted electronics to restore various senses and abilities. Besides treating paralysis, scientists hope to use so-called neural prosthetics to reverse blindness with chips placed in the eye, and maybe restore memories lost to Alzheimer's disease (see "10 Breakthrough Technologies 2013: Memory Implants ").

And they know it could work. Consider cochlear implants, which use a microphone to relay signals directly to the auditory nerve, routing around non-working parts of the inner ear. Videos of wide-eyed deaf children hearing their mothers for the first time go viral on the Internet every month. More than 250,000 cases of deafness have been treated.

In this video made by EPFL researchers, a monkey with a spinal cord injury that paralyzed its right leg is able to walk again.

But it's been harder to turn neural prosthetics into something that helps paralyzed people. A patient first used a brain probe to move a computer cursor across a screen back in 1998. That and several other spectacular brain-control feats haven't had any broader practical use. The technology remains too radical and too complex to get out of the lab. "Twenty years of work and nothing in the clinic!" Courtine exclaims, brushing his hair back. "We keep pushing the limits, but it is an important question if this entire field will ever have a product."

Courtine's laboratory is located in a vertiginous glass-and-steel building in Geneva that also houses a $100 million center that the Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss funded specifically to solve the remaining technical obstacles to neurotechnologies like the spinal cord bypass. It's hiring experts from medical-device makers and Swiss watch companies and has outfitted clean rooms where gold wires are printed onto rubbery electrodes that can stretch as our bodies do.

A close-up of a brain-reading chip, bristling with electrodes.

Flexible electrodes developed to simulate the spinal cord.

The head of the center is John Donoghue, an American who led the early development of brain implants in the U.S. (see "Implanting Hope") and who moved to Geneva two years ago. He is now trying to assemble in one place the enormous technical resources and talent-skilled neuroscientists, technologists, clinicians-needed to create commercially viable systems.

Among Donoghue's top priorities is a "neurocomm," an ultra-compact wireless device that can collect data from the brain at Internet speed. "A radio inside your head," Donoghue calls it, and "the most sophisticated brain communicator in the world." The matchbox-size prototypes are made of biocompatible titanium with a sapphire window. Courtine used an earlier, bulkier version in his monkey tests.

As complex as they are, and as slow as progress has been, neural bypasses are worth pursuing because patients desire them, Donoghue says. "Ask someone if they would like to move their own arm," he says. "People would prefer to be restored to their everyday self. They want to be reanimated."

A model of a wireless neurocommunication device sits on a skull.

Credit

Photos by Alain Herzog | EPFL and Hillary Sanctuary | EPFL; Additional photos courtesy of the Wyss Center; and EPFL

Antonio Regalado Senior Editor, Biomedicine

I am the senior editor for biomedicine for ... where I wrote about science, technology, and politics in Latin America for MIT Technology Review. I look for stories about how technology is changing medicine and biomedical research. Before joining MIT Technology Review in July 2011, I lived in São Paulo, Brazil, More Science and other publications. From 2000 to 2009, I was the science reporter at the Wall Street Journal and later a foreign correspondent.

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" Go, go!" was the thought racing through Grégoire Courtine's mind. The French neuroscientist was watching a macaque monkey as it hunched aggressively at one end of a treadmill. His team had used a blade to slice halfway through the animal's spinal cord, paralyzing its right leg.

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Toyota-backed flying car to take flight in 2018

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With the advancement of technology, it would only be so long until agriculture got it's upgrade. Tractors need people to ride them to use them, and if they're not many people on the farm, it could take a long time to get the tractor work done. These new driverless tractors can help farmers multitask by having the tractor do it's own thing while the farmer goes out to do more work that could possibly be more important than the tractor. They will have path-finding tech to help efficiently collect crops. Farmers might have some trouble setting it up though, because of it's big amount of technology that is in the tractor
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Samsung is coming out with a phone that has a fold able screen called the Samsung Galaxy X. This phone allows you to expand your regular phone into basically a tablet by basically just flipping it. Its release date was rumored to be around 2017 but probably wont be out until awhile. This phone will easily allow your phone to basically fold into the shape of a wallet without struggle. It is a 5 in phone and folds out into a 7 in tablet which would be really useful.  - Beau Gilmore

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This invention will create objects to scan your face to visually recognize you and may soon implement hearing. I chose this invention because it is an interesting concept. It is being developed by  many companies in  China. This technology is useful for many aspects of life from gaining constant access in a building while being monitored to being able to track down criminals easier. It can help track down criminals because mugshots can become outdated and if this technology is implemented everywhere  it will keep a constant eye on them.
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Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility (Honda Humanoid Robot)

Honda Asimo can perform many impressive tasks. His tasks include, running, climbing stairs, reaching and grabbing objects, and also following basic commands. Its power source is a rechargeable, 51.8 volt Lithium ion battery that is packed on his back. The battery last for one hour on a single charge. After 15 years of development, Honda engineers introduced the first version of ASIMO on October 31st, 2000.
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An Aerofex Aero-X is a real life speeder bike which is similar to the speed bike in Star Wars. It is powered by a water cooler 240 horsepower engine and two large rotors, The Aerofex Aero-X has an altitude of 12 feet and speeds up to 45 miles per hour, it can also carry up to 310 pounds. It will cost $85,000 and will ship sometime soon in 2017.
- Jaden Borneo
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A quantum computer makes use of the quantum properties of subatomic particles to speed up computational processing.  Exponentially. What sets the quantum computer apart from the already fast super servers that we have today is the fact that the data packets, called quibits, can represent 0 and 1 simultaneously. The bits we have today can only represent one or the other, slowing down simulations and calculations. A Dutch research facility,  QuTech, is getting closer to quantum computing every day. What's holding us back is the sheer size of quantum electronics. Or rather lack thereof. Since the bits are represented by subatomic particles, you could say that it is hard to keep track of the parts. The day that we achieve quantum computing power will be a day remembered for the rest of mankind.
James Lehman
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