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Could a new battery breakthrough technology Offer 30 Times More Power, Charges 1,000 Times Faster? Battery technology has improved over the past decade, but now scientists claim they have made a giant leap in power storage, giving lithium-ion batteries 30 times more power and the ability to recharge 1,000 times faster “than competing technologies.” This is a battery breakthrough that could change the world — it’s “a whole new way to think about batteries,” according to its creators. The team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, headed up by Professor William King, wrote about the technology in the April 16 issue of Nature Communications. According to King, battery technology has “lagged far behind” the...

Source: Forbes:  Anthony Wing Kosner, Contributor One of the most futuristic of iWatch concepts just got a dose of validation from the patent office. BothApple Insider and Patently Apple reported this morning on a patent application that was just published for a “an advanced wearable computer in the form of a bracelet that could double as a watch.” With this device’s multitouch display, users “can accomplish a number of different tasks including adjusting the order of a current playlist, or reviewing a list of recent phone calls. A response to a current text message can even be managed given a simple virtual keyboard configuration across the face of the flexible display.”     A Look at Apple’s Patent Design… See related...

Source: Forbes: Anthony Wing Kosner, Contributor Google opened up a sort of pre-order contest for civilians (i.e., non-developers) this week for its new augmented reality headgear that should ship before the end of 2013 for $1,500 (for those with a clever enough idea.) The other significant news is that both CNET and The Verge report that “Google Glasses will be able to connect via Bluetooth to both Android phones and the iPhone. Glass can pull down data from wifi or use the 3G or 4G feed from a connected phone, but it won’t have its own cellular radio.” A Closer Look at Google Glasses… It’s nice to see that Google is not escalating the platform wars by locking iOS out of the Google Glasses ecosystem. In truth, that would not have been in...

Wearable technology is hitting the scene with a furry. From smart watches to Nike’s Fuel Band exercise goal manager, wearable technologies are penetrating many parts of our everyday lives. I recently posted a blog video featuring wireless medicine and the impact that smartphones are making on healthcare. It’s important to understand what exactly is behind these “wearable technology”. It really started with the iPod. Yes… The iPod was where it really hit the mainstream but let me explain why and furthermore, where this is trending… The iPod, (and of equal importance, iTunes) was nothing more than a “mobile, wearable extension” of iTunes and your PC. All syncing, etc. was beween those two devices. A user created an...