Solar Light that Runs for 6 Months on a Single Day of Charge and Other Science Tech
It’s a new week with new science and technology news! Enjoy
the latest digest for today #HappyMonday
Solar Light that Runs
for 6 Months on a Single Day of Charge
We’ve seen and talked about a lot of new and upcoming solar
tech in recent times. But what about a light that can work for upto 6 months on
single charge? Feltmark, a Los Angeles-based studio brand, has made a minimalist
candybar-shaped solar light that can beam 240 lumens using only 1.6W of power.
“The Ellum Solar is an intuitive smart light, embedded with
sensors that illuminate the dark when motion is detected. The Ellum attaches
magnetically and has a touch dimmer to manually adjust the brightness of the
light, wherever you need it. Thoughtfully simple, a solar panel spans the
bottom of Ellum, making charging wire free and always available. 1 day of
charge = 6 months of use,” reads the product page of Ellum Solar.
The company has put up the product on crowdfunding platforms,
and plans to deliver the final product by July this year for $54 per light.
Google and NHS
Partner to Improve Healthcare
After New Scientist, a UK-based weekly English-language
international science magazine, released information that Google has patient
records of over 1.6 million UK NHS patients (that caused a controversy online
over privacy issues), Google has come out clean by stating that it will use the
information to develop the ‘Streams’ app in conjunction with DeepMind.
“We are working with clinicians at the Royal Free to
understand how technology can best help clinicians recognize patient
deterioration - in this case acute kidney injury (AKI). We have, and will
always, hold ourselves to the highest possible standards of patient data
protection. This data will only ever be used for the purposes of improving
healthcare and will never be linked with Google accounts or products,” Google
said.
Privacy issues, you say? Mustafa Suleyman, Co-founder of
DeepMind, believes Google is as safe as it can get. "As Googlers, we have
the very best privacy and secure infrastructure for managing the most sensitive
data in the world. That's something we're able to draw upon as we're such a
core part of Google.”
Vitamin that Stop Aging
of Organs
In an attempt to understand how cell regeneration deteriorated
with aging, researchers from EPFL’s Laboratory of Integrated Systems Physiology
have found a way to stop aging in mice using a vitamin.
"We gave nicotinamide riboside to 2-year-old mice,
which is an advanced age for them. This substance, which is close to vitamin
B3, is a precursor of NAD+, a molecule that plays a key role in mitochondrial
activity. And our results are extremely promising: muscular regeneration is
much better in mice that received NR, and they lived longer than the mice that
didn't get it. We demonstrated that fatigue in stem cells was one of the main
causes of poor regeneration or even degeneration in certain tissues or organs,"
said Hongbo Zhang, a researcher.
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