Living Technology

Sustainability is an important part of our lives, not only because we have to take it under consideration to save our planet, but also because we want to feel good about our jobs and because we want to be effective members not only in our societies but also in the whole planet. Thinking about it, we couldn’t reach this far, in recycling and sustainability level, without technology. Now, with the technology use in the design and architecture fields, we were able to come up with green energy, multi-functional spaces, and the smart house expression.


30 years ago, green energy was just a dream, but with the technology revolution, it became possible to build green energy projects. While I was doing research about technology and its role in sustainability, a lot of green energy projects came up in my research, but I’m going to mention two projects, which grabbed my attention the most. The first project is called energy islands (figure 2). This project based on taking advantage of the ocean’s waves and the wind energy in the oceans. The idea of this project is simple; it’s about placing turbines under the water, which connected generators on the surface of the island to create clean, renewable energy. Next to placing turbines under the water, they place number of Windmills and solar cells on the surface of these islands, which also contributes providing clean power source.

Jacoby Ellsbury agrees to 7-year, $153 million deal with Yankees

Center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury and the New York Yankees agreed to a massive seven-year, $153 million contract Tuesday night, capping a wild day that saw a number of trades and the Yankees lock up their
second big prize of the offseason.
Ellsbury's deal is pending a physical that could come Wednesday, a formality for the 30-year-old leadoff hitter who spurned Detroit, Seattle and his former team, the Boston Red Sox, to abscond to the Bronx.
The $153 million includes a buyout for an eighth-year option, a source told Yahoo Sports, and will count as a $21.86 million luxury-tax hit. If exercised, the option would take the deal’s total value to $169 million.
[Also: A flurry of trades, signings and agreements highlight wild day in MLB]
New York isn't done, either. Sources told Yahoo Sports the Yankees will continue to pursue the other pricey outfield client of agent Scott Boras, Shin-Soo Choo, along with the top free agent on the market, second baseman Robinson Cano. The Yankees believe they can sign one or the other, sources said, still have room to pursue a starting pitcher and stay within the $189 million luxury-tax threshold.
Much of that belief, sources said, stems from the likelihood that third baseman Alex Rodriguez will be suspended and open up a significant amount of payroll for next season. Still, it would create another hole, albeit one in a lineup that looks to be massively improved from the disappointing 85-77 season in 2013.
Between the arrival of Ellsbury and free-agent catcher Brian McCann, who signed a five-year, $85 million deal with a sixth-year option, the Yankees have added to a group that will see the return of first baseman Mark Teixeira and shortstop Derek Jeter.

 

 

 

 

 

Karate Experts' Superhuman Punch Comes From a Unique Brain Structure

If you've seen the board-breaking power of a professional martial artist and thought it looked superhuman, don't worry: for a while now science couldn't fully explain it, either. The punches delivered by a top-notch fighter are so tough that

muscle strength alone can't account for them. But researchers from Imperial College London and University College
London have discovered that a unique brain structure could be what gives experts fists of fury.In a new study just published in the journal Cerebral Cortex, the researchers explain their process. They took 12 black belts with an average of 13.8 years' worth of karate experience, and also 12 control subjects who exercised regularly but who weren't trained in any martial art. After that, they hooked their arms and torsos up to infrared markers so their punching speed could be measured. The karate experts punched harder (obviously), but it was the timing of the punch, not just the brute strength, that mattered. Their wrists and shoulders were synchronized to give the most force.Brain scans revealed what gave the experts that edge. Their brains' white matter--the bundles of fibres that send signals to other parts of the brain--was structurally different in the cerebellum and primary motor cortex, two parts responsible for movement. The difference also correlated with the age they started training and how long they'd studied karate, suggesting their unique brain structure and powerful punch are related.

Samsung fights back in Apple patent battle

Samsung has gone on the abhorrent in its cloister action with Apple, accusing its battling of anarchic patents accompanying to emailing photographs and 3G wireless technology.A Silicon Valley cloister gave was the Korean behemothic its about-face to bandy mud in a high-stakes balloon that has absorbed the industry.

Dr Woodward Yang, an electrical engineering assistant at Harvard, said
Apple's articles use Samsung-patented appearance for adaptable devices, including the action for seamlessly emailing photos. He was one of Samsung's aboriginal assemblage afterwards a array of Apple experts said Samsung phones and tablets abandoned Apple's patents.One of Samsung's designers aswell testified that she did not await on Apple designs to actualize icons for Samsung's Galaxy S smartphone line.

Apple and Samsung are traveling toe-to-toe in a patents altercation apery a attack for industry supremacy amid two rivals that ascendancy added than bisected of common smartphone sales.

The American aggregation accuses Samsung of artful the architecture and some appearance of its iPad and iPhone, and is allurement for a sales ban in accession to budgetary damages. The Korean company, which is aggravating to aggrandize in the United States, says Apple abandoned several patents, including some for its key wireless techn Apple assured presenting affirmation apropos its own patents this week, and Samsung started calling witnesses. On Tuesday, Yang said Samsung's patents were filed afore the addition of the iPhone in 2007.Yang focused on patents that awning smartphone features, not wireless technology. One of those patents covers technology for calmly award photos in an album.

The abstraction actuality was, let's accept a bookmark Yang said.

Under analytic from Apple advocate Bill Lee, Yang accustomed he had not apparent affirmation that Samsung in fact acclimated any of those appearance in its own smartphones.

Later on Tuesday, Samsung alleged artist Jeeyuen Wang, who said she and a ample Korean aggregation formed harder for three months to actualize Samsung's own figure designs for Galaxy S phones.

I slept conceivably two hours, or three hours a night Wang said.Apple advocate Michael Jacobs showed Wang centralized Samsung abstracts - with her name on them - absolute references to Apple icons. However, beneath analytic from Samsung advocate John Quinn, Wang said some of those abstracts were created able-bodied afterwards Samsung had accomplished its own designs.In an attack to invalidate some of Apple's patents in the case, Samsung aswell presented affirmation this anniversary to appearance that Apple's patents awning abstruse advances - like multitouch - that had already been developed afore Apple claims to accept invented it.

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Sports Technology

1 Engineers with the U.S. Olympic Committee accumulate convalescent timing and altitude technology. Ablaze beams now almanac racers times to aural a thousandth of a second.
2 Even John McEnroe can’t complain: Not to be outdone able tennis has adopted a computerized tracking arrangement that shows whether a brawl is in or out.
3 Who doesn’t wish bigger balls? Unlike a lot of added sports tennis is searching to apathetic down. Blistering serves and abbreviate volleys can bore spectators so bold organizers accept looked at application beyond assurance on slower surfaces to accumulate fans absorption alive.
4 Length isn’t everything.By 1984 improvements in javelin technology had resulted in
throws so continued that the accident was about confused out of stadiums. Instead a redesign confused the javelin’s centermost of force advanced for a beneath flight.
5 Still dangerous: French continued jumper Salim Sdiri was skewered in the ribs by an aberrant javelin while cat-and-mouse to attempt at a July 2007 accommodated in Rome.
6 Pole-vaulting technology keeps hitting new heights with poles affective from copse to ablaze metal and assuredly to fiberglass composites consistent in amazing 120 to 160 amount aeroembolism
during a vault.
7 Time’s arrow: Avant-garde archery bows fabricated from aluminum magnesium fiberglass and Kevlar can shoot arrows faster than 150 afar per hour with define accuracy.
8 Luge racers go crazy-fast lying feetfirst on tiny sleds that butt down an ice clue at speeds that can top 90 mph. And they crave aerodynamic advantage.Today’s lugers clasp themselves into bound elastic apparel and abrasion sleek wind-slicing helmets benumbed sleds that are congenital with the everyman accessible centermost of force to advance stability.
9 Cooking the results: At the 1968 winter Olympics the East German women’s luge racers were bare of their medals afterwards it was apparent they had preheated their sleds runners to accomplish them faster on the ice.
10 Designer speed: Speedo alien a new antagonism swimsuit this year the LZR Racer featuring ultra­sonically affirmed seams and water-repellent bolt to abate drag.
11 Swimming in sweat? Hockey goalies already affected to abrasion covering added that captivated up to 7 pounds of damp during anniversary game breathe easier now with lighter beneath absorptive constructed added alien in the backward 1980s.
12 The layers of careful accessory avant-garde American football players abrasion had their alpha in 1905 if 18 players died from injuries in the game.President Teddy Roosevelt ordered aphorism changes to accomplish the bold beneath brutal.
13 Happy fans: Adding a yellow computer-generated first-down band in National Football League television broadcasts has been a aural success.
14 Not-so-happy fans: Fox Sports angered abounding hockey buffs with its blighted aglow FoxTrax puck complete with a digitally created appendage to clue the puck’s aisle during passes and shots.
15 Technology can accomplish players bad-tempered too.According to a 1996 NFL Players Association survey 93.4 percent of football players believed they were added acceptable to be aching on bogus accommodation than on accustomed grass.
16 For the 2006–07 season the National Basketball Association switched to a microfiber-composite ball replacing acceptable leather.
17 Afterwards complaints that the new basketball was too glossy and cut players hands the NBA switched aback to covering just two months into the season.
18 Think a baseball moves fast? Badminton shuttlecocks accept been clocked at added than 150 mph far outpacing the swiftest pitch.
19 Maybe copse isn’t so bare afterwards all.Top skateboarders about-face up their noses at the sports-wide acceptance of fiberglass and adhesive resins afraid with seven-ply boards fabricated of maple.
20 Skateboarders are not alone.The fastest brawl action in the apple is jai alai in which a brawl is bent and befuddled at speeds of about 188 mph application a beat fabricated of good ancient wicker.

How Technology is Affecting Sports

We all apperceive that technology plays a above role in sports.If it weren’t for new inventions and avant-garde account bisected the sports we apperceive of wouldn’t exists.If it weren’t for technology we
wouldn’t accept the burning replay, the angle for coaches to throw or even the wireless microphone for our referees to mix up their words on.However technology has appear a continued way back those aboriginal discoveries.There is no best a charge for burning epitomize with the new RFID tags Radio Frequency Identification Technology that European Rugby teams are experimenting with.This micro breadth technology can address the exact coordinates of the brawl and players at an alarming 2000 times per second. It can aswell be acclimated to account movement, speed, accuracy, and even force of impact. If this technology was implemented in the US it could do abroad with any blazon of bad alarm in affiliation to brawl breadth and it would about annihilate the assumption plan from officiating.Not alone that but the blazon of abstracts we could accept before during and afterwards every play would be annihilation shy of amazing.
The European Rugby League is not the alone alignment that sees the amount in technology The NHL afresh captivated its aboriginal advertisement in 3D and from the complete of things it was a huge success.There are added leagues exploring this technology in actuality there are abundant of them out there for ESPN to barrage the aboriginal anytime 3 dimensional network.Certain European Hockey Teams are already implementing 3D dashboard signage. Once the chic catches on the opportunities to absorb on this blazon of technology will be endless.

Many athletes are demography advantage of the latest and greatest trends in technology as well. Competitive Ice Skaters like Clint Johnson and Steve Bradbury are demography their acquaintance on the ice to the architecture table.They accept developed a new way to accomplish skates application a activity alleged accelerated prototyping.This activity allows athletes to get a custom brace of boots fabricated in almanac time and be on the ice with them faster than anytime before. Even bigger than that, is a ancestor that advisers in the Netherlands are alive on which will acquiesce athletes to drillmaster themselves. It’s not a video or advisory pamphlet it’s a accompaniment of the art accoutrement band that can faculty your every move and let you apperceive which areas you charge to improve.This accouterment line which is accepted as the Haptic Sports Garment uses accordance to advice advance posture ambition key beef groups and even advice advance optimal speeds.
With the aggression of amusing media there are aswell abounding abstruse advances demography abode abroad from the field.We all apperceive that athletes are application amusing sites like Twitter Facebook and USTREAM to affix with admirers and body their claimed brand but did you apperceive that they can now accomplish money anon from accomplishing it? iPhone applications like theChad OchoCinco Acquaintance are earning athletes money from both point of auction and ad revenue and websites like fanwave acquiesce athletes coaches and teams akin to capitalize on every cheep they send.There are aswell third affair applications like Venuingand Twackle that acquiesce admirers to become added complex with their corresponding teams and players than anytime anticipation possible.
It’s about absurd to try and brainstorm breadth technology will yield us next.Will there one day be tiny reside cameras and microphones amid into basketballs, footballs and baseballs that acquiesce admirers to get an even afterpiece appearance of the action? Will we all one day be arena video amateur with holographic players on a activity admeasurement field? Will commercial one day be controlled application our academician waves? It may all complete adopted but the technology is there and it may be on the the bazaar eventually than you think.

Michael Coco is an Accident Coordinator at Octagon Sports Business who has been alive in sports about all his life. Getting his alpha with a able-bodied accustomed sports advertisement advantaged South Louisiana Sports Scene Michael steadily has congenital aloft his affection and ability of the industry. Michael aka Coco specializes in business and accident planning and has done plan with assorted organizations including, the New Orleans Zephyrs as a business and association relations Associate.He currently resides in the Chicagoland breadth but is a Southern boy at affection and is consistently up for a acceptable conversation.

Technology in Sports

The world of sport is continually changing over the years and the use of technology is just one of those areas that has made an impact on many sports in the modern day.One criticism of the use of technology is that it can slow down the speed of the game but on the other hand for many people it makes watching it more enjoyable to see the correct decisions being made.

Assisting the 

Umpires / Referees

Most professional sports in the United States have long used instant replay and other high-tech aids to help
referees make the right call.Gridiron has used video replay systems to check referees calls for many years.Basketball referees use replay systems to make sure players are shooting within the time allotted by the shot clock.In international cricket the third umpire has been used one sitting off the ground with access to TV replays of certain situations such as disputed catches and boundaries to advise the central umpires.The umpires out on the field are in communication via wireless technology with the other umpire.The third umpire is also asked to adjudicate on run out decisions which he makes without consultation with the two central umpires.One sport that has resisted the use of high-tech assistance is soccer/football.Replays could be used to decide off-side decisions whether a ball passes over the goal line and clarify penalty decisions.

Soccer Goal Line Technology

There has been a need for goal line technology in soccer particularly as TV replays are showing in retrospect wrong decisions by the referee.The International Football Association Board (IFAB) has laid down four criteria that they want to see in goal-line systems:

• The technology should only apply to goal-line decisions.
• The system must be 100 per cent accurate.
• The signal sent to the referee must be instantaneous.
• The signal is only communicated to the match officials.

A promising prospect has been a smartball loaded with an computer chip jointly developed by German companies Cairos Technologies and the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits an engineering research and software development company along with the Adidas athletic clothing and shoe company.The companies technology uses a network of receivers around the field designed to track the ball's precise position in real time - including exactly when it has fully passed the goal line.That information would be relayed in less than a second to a watch-like device worn by the referee.However this system has had its setbacks and another system using The Hawk-Eye is being looked at.See more about Technology and Football and Technology in AFL.

Hawk-Eye Technology

Hawk-eye is the name of a computer and camera system which traces a ball's trajectory.It is being used in international cricket and tennis and many other sports are also looking at making use of this technology.The system is also being trailled in soccer.The Premier League of Football in the UK has agreed to the introduction of goal-line sensors after being given approval by football's rule-makers.The system being developed by the UK company Hawk-Eye would give a definitive decision on whether the ball had crossed the line.The Hawk Eye uses a camera taking 600 frames a second on the goal-line.The information is analyzed by computer and sent to the referee's headset or a device on his wrist.