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A low cost, easy to maintain, "green" toilet that uses no water and turns human waste into electricity and clean water will be tested in 2016, possibly in Ghana. Dubbed the "Nano Membrane Toilet" by its creators from Cranfield University, UK, this new approach to managing waste could help some of the world's 2.3 billion people who have no access to safe, hygienic toilets.

The toilet's magic happens when you close the lid. The bottom of the bowl uses a rotation mechanism to sweep the waste into a sedimentation chamber, which helps block any odors from escaping. The waste is then filtered through a special nanotech membrane, which separates vaporized water molecules from the rest of the waste, helping to prevent pathogens and solids from being carried further by the water.

The vaporized water then travels through to a chamber filled with "nano-coated hydrophilic beads", which helps the water vapor condense and fall into a collection area below. This water is pure enough to be used for household washing and farm irrigation.

The residual solid waste and pathogens are driven by an archimedean screw into a second chamber. This part of the design is still being finalized, but the current plan is for the solid waste to be incinerated to convert it into ash and energy. The energy will power the nanomembrane filtration process, with enough left over to charge mobile phones or other small devices.


The only waste product of the whole process is ash from the burning of solids, which is nutrient-rich and pathogen free, and therefore, usable in farming. The toilet can manage the waste generated by households of up to 10 people.

Funded in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Reinvent the Toilet Challenge, and winner of the CleanEquity Monaco 2015 award, the nano membrane toilet is to be trialed and tested in 2016, possibly in Ghana.

Currently, more than 650 million people in the world do not have access to clean water, and more than 2.3 billion don't have access to a safe, private toilet. Researchers around the world are working to help solve this problem, but high-tech solutions, such as adding solar panels, are usually too expensive to be practical.

Sociological issues also play a role. As toilet infrastructure deteriorates, people prefer to go outside rather than use a smelly room inside their house. This makes women vulnerable to rape, and creates further sanitation and hygiene issues.

The nano membrane toilet is clean, odorless and aspirational, and it should be capable of working in environments that lack sewage, external power and water. So it will be interesting to see how it works in the field.

The plan is for the toilet to be rented to households through a local organization, helping to spread the costs to stay within the Gate Foundation's challenge of keeping the cost of the toilet below US 5 cents per person per day.

If all goes well, the toilet could also find applications elsewhere like the military, construction industry, yachts, or outdoor events.

The video below, created by the Cranfield Water Science Institute, was developed for the Reinvent the toilet fair in 2014. It showcases some earlier ideas of how the toilet could work in the field.

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An international study seems to have created a test that can determine the biological age of a patient's body. The research – undertaken by King's College London (KCL), the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and Duke University in the US – could have a wide range of applications, including improving screening techniques for age-related diseases such as Alzheimer's, allowing doctors to begin treatment earlier in the process.

Before delving into the importance of the research, we have to know the difference between chronological age and biological age. Your chronological age is your age in years, days and minutes from the moment you were born. Whilst all people age chronologically at the same rate, our bodies run on a separate biological clock, meaning that the bodies of two people at the chronological age of say 50, could have significantly seperate biological ages.

Prior to the new research by KCL et al, there had been no reliable tool to accurately determine a person's biological age, a factor synonymous with neurological diseases. The seven-year experiment saw the team examine thousands of tissue samples from subjects of the same chronological age, subjecting them to a test known as RNA profiling. Through this approach, it was discovered that the activation of 150 genes in the blood, brain and muscle tissue of an individual at the chronological age of 65 constituted the biological markers of being in good health.

Using this discovery as a basis, the researchers were then able to create a formula for healthy aging. A low score based on the formula carried the hallmarks of cognitive decline. In an interesting twist, the samples examined as part of the study appeared to dispute the idea that biological age may result from an individual's lifestyle choices.

The team believe that the molecular test developed during the research could be easily translated into a blood test that could provide early indications of the onset of a degenerative disease such as Alzheimer's, which is currently known to affect 5.1 million people in America alone.

The results of the study have potential applications reaching beyond dementia research. The ability to accurately discern a person's biological age could significantly increase the success rate of organ transplant surgeries, by matching the biological age of the patient with that of the donor.

The next step in the project will be to determine why these differences in biological age occur, with an eye to attacking age-related diseases at their source.

http://www.dailytechfeeds.com/2015/09/new-study-will-allow-scientists-to.html

"Today we have the biggest news in iPad since the iPad," says Apple CEO Tim Cook. That's right: Apple has just announced the iPad Pro, and it's the biggest iPad yet. It has everything the iPad Air 2 offers, and a little extra on top. Rather than talking about their similarities, though, let's look at the differences.

The iPad Pro comes with a giant 12.9-inch display with 2,732 x 2,048 pixels. To put that size into perspective, that means the screen is almost exactly the same width as the regular iPad's is tall. It also has the same familiar 4:3 iPad aspect ratio and a functionally identical pixel density to the iPad Air. Apple says it's so big the on-screen keyboard is "full-sized," like on its laptops.

The larger panel, Apple hopes, will be ideal for the new multitasking additions to iOS 9, which let you run apps side-by-side, or in a split view and "pop-over" video. Of course, you can do that on an iPad Air 2, but thanks to the larger screen the apps will look more like they do on a regular iPad. It also frees up some extra space around the display, which Apple has decided use to include four speakers up front. Hopefully they sound good, and this'll be a great high-def movie machine.

Powering the iPad Pro is Apple's latest SoC (system on a chip), the A9X. As you'd expect, it's an upgrade over the iPad Air 2's A8X in every way, with twice the memory bandwidth and graphics performance. Apple says it's faster than 80 percent of "portable PCs" sold in the past year. One thing Apple isn't talking about is how much RAM the Pro has, but chances are its silence on the matter means that it's the same 2GB as the Air 2.

Elsewhere, this is very much an iPad. It's super thin (6.9mm) and super light (1.57 pounds). You'll find a FaceTime camera up front and an 8-megapixel iSight camera at the back. It has Touch ID built into the home button, 10 hours of battery life, and multiple color options (silver, gold and space grey). Essentially everything else you'd expect of an Apple tablet.

So. What's the price for all of these additions? Brace your wallet: the iPad Pro will start at $799. That's for a 32GB WiFi model. The 128GB WiFi model will cost $949, while the LTE 128GB model costs $1079.

But wait, there's more! There are also a number of new accessories. But before we get to that, a quote -- one you'll probably hear a lot on social media over the coming weeks:



"It's like we said on the iPad, if you see a stylus, they blew it."
Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder

That's right, Apple has announced a stylus, called Pencil. Okay, so it's a little unfair to evoke that Jobs quote. He was clearly talking about a stylus as a primary interface tool, rather than an optional accessory, which is exactly what this is. But a writer can't resist a good egg-on-face quote.

The new stylus, then -- what does it do? It does lots of things. Unlike the capacitive third-party styli for previous iPads, the Pencil is truly pressure sensitive, behaving more like a Galaxy Note or a Wacom unit. It's also got some sensors inside for detecting position, force and tilt. It'll be great, Apple says, for drawing, annotating, and other stuff that most people do with pens. Apple was joined on stage by Microsoft, which showed off how well the new accessory works with its Office suite.

Oh, and it charges from the iPad's Lightning port. At least you'll never lose the cable? It'll set you back a cool $99.

In addition to the stylus, Apple also trotted out a "Smart Keyboard," which is a $169 keyboard case for the iPad Pro that turns the tablet into a Surface-a-like. It connects to the iPad via a new port called the "Smart Connector," and contains a full keyboard with the same butterfly key technology as the Apple's recently launched super-thin Macbook. Yay? Yay!

While we'll need a lot of time with the new device to make a verdict, there are a couple of things that are very clear right now.

First, Apple recognises that consumer tablets are not the growth market they once were, and it needs to keep the pricing of its regular iPads as low as it can while maintaining both its profit margins and its "unique selling point" of being a manufacturer of "superior" devices. That's why we're seeing a newer, more-expensive iPad. It will at least get the attention of those looking for a high-end tablet, and the iPad Air and Mini will be there if customers want something cheaper.

Second, Apple recognises that with Windows 10, Microsoft's Surface and similar devices actually pose a threat to the iPad in enterprise environments. That's why we're seeing styli and keyboards, and that's why it's paired with IBM over the past year to make sure there are plenty of suitably enterprise-focused apps for iOS, and that's why it brought Microsoft on stage to show how "productivity" friendly the Pro is.

One thing we don't know? When exactly this thing will be available. Apple's keeping quiet on that for now, but you'll be the first to know once we find out.

http://www.dailytechfeeds.com/2015/09/this-is-apples-ipad-pro.html

A smartphone with a 16-megapixel camera may seem cutting edge, but it won't impress astronomers now that the US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has given the go-ahead to start construction of the world's largest digital camera. With a resolution of 3.2-gigapixels (enough to need 1,500 high-definition television screens to display one image), the new camera is at the heart of the 8.4-meter (27.5-ft) Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) now under construction atop Cerro Pachón in Chile.

Not surprisingly, the new camera is no lightweight. The three-mirrored device is the size of a small car, tipping the scales at over 3 tons (2.7 tonnes). It's the result of a wide partnership of institutions that include Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and SLAC, contains 189 sensors, has a resolution equivalent to 800,000 eight-megapixel cameras, and contains a filter-changing mechanism and shutter for viewing different wavelengths from the near-ultraviolet to the near-infrared.

Having passed the last major approval decision, Critical Decision 3, the camera will be built and tested over the next five years in a new 185-sq m (2,000-sq ft), two-story-tall clean room at SLAC in Menlo Park, California before installation in the LSST.

It's hoped that this will assist astronomers to gain a better understanding of how galaxies are formed, aid in tracking potentially dangerous asteroids, and also provide a better understanding of dark matter and dark energy, which is believed to make up 95 percent of the Universe.

"We’ve been working hard for years to get to this point,” said Nadine Kurita, camera project manager at SLAC. "Everyone is very excited to start building the camera and take a big step toward conducting a deep survey of the Southern night sky."

http://www.dailytechfeeds.com/2015/09/worlds-most-powerful-digital-camera.html