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<title><![CDATA[Sparsh touches cloud for mobile copy and paste]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Why didn't I think of this(Credit:MIT Media Lab)Smartphones have been around for at least several years now, but they still have certain limitations. Despite having a plethora of wireless technologies built-in--Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G, etc.--there's no simple way to transfer &quot;clippings&quot; of data from one device to another. But a new research project at MIT called Sparsh is aiming to fix that oversight.Sparsh (the Hindi word for &quot;touch&quot;) isn't an app, at least not in the way we generally use the word. It's a tool that's supposed to be part of a mobile operating system, like &quot;undo&quot; or &quot;select all,&quot; running within apps at all times. It creates a virtual cloud-based clipboard where any data, like a phone number or photograph, can temporarily live until it's &quot;pasted&quot; to another device. For it to work, at least two devices need to be Sparsh-enabled. A user wanting to share data becomes, in concept, an avatar for a copy-and-paste-like function. The person touches data on a device, such as a photo or text, and Sparsh sends it to the cloud. The same person then touches another device, and presto! The relevant information is pasted in as if it had been copied from the same machine.Copying pictures from a phone to a tablet computer.(Credit:MIT Media Lab) Sparsh isn't the only tool for transferring small amounts of device-to-device data on the scene. Indeed, a popular iPhone app called Bump allows people to trade photos, apps, contact info, and even music from one phone to another simply by bumping the devices together. Bump is very cool, but it requires both the sender and recipient to be running the app. In addition, it's not open with what it can send or where it can send it--it only works from phone to phone, and while there are many options for things it can send, there are more things it simply can't. Sparsh aims to live in the devices we use at the operating-system level, meaning it would seem intuitive to use and be available within any app for almost any type of data.Right now, Sparsh is just a concept project by Pranav Mistry, a Ph.D. candidate at MIT's Media Research Lab, but we think it's intriguing and potentially useful enough that OS makers could integrate it into next-gen mobile operating systems. With rumors that the forthcoming iPhone 5 (among other handsets) will make extensive use of the proverbial cloud, it follows that wireless copy-and-paste functions should make an appearance, and Sparsh seems to have a clean head start.See it in action in a video below.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Waste heat-powered thermoelectrics find investors]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Erlenex51</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Rather than burning stuff to make electricity, a handful of thermoelectric-technology companies are trying to tap waste heat as an energy source.Phononic Devices yesterday said that it raised $10 million to further develop and commercialize its semiconductor material for converting heat into electricity and efficient cooling. Investors in the series B round were Venrock and Oak Investment Partners.Phononic Devices&amp;39' module which can be used to generate electricity from waste heat(Credit:Phononic Devices)The Raleigh, N.C.-based company is improving on technology originally developed at the University of Oklahoma that can be embedded in small chips. Initially, the company plans to make modules for refrigeration or cooling electronic equipment.On Thursday, another thermoelectric company, Alphabet Energy, said it has received two contracts worth $1.48 million from the U.S. Air Force and Army. The San Francisco-based start-up, which licensed technology developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, will develop prototype thermoelectric chips for mobile power generation products that run on waste heat.Thermoelectric chips use materials that are relatively efficient at converting a difference in temperature into a flow of electricity. Similarly, they can also take electricity and remove heat. Cooling with solid-state devices has been done in small refrigerators for years.The challenge for thermoelectric technologies is making semiconductor materials that are relatively inexpensive and efficient at the heat-to-power conversion. In addition to cooling and portable power, thermoelectric chips have been tried oncars where engine or exhaust heat is used to power electronics.Phononic Devices received a $3 million grant from the Department of Energy ARPA-E program for funding research into clean-energy close to commercialization. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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