The First Time We Heard Black Holes and Other Future Tech

We want to dedicate today’s article to the revolutionary time we heard black holes for the first time, along with other future technology news.

The First Time We Heard Black Holes

It’s not the first time Einstein was proved right. However, on February 11 2016, we did hear the first black holes collide - proving right all social media rumors outlined in a feature on how we may have discovered gravitational waves.

The collision between two black holes, one 29x the mass of the sun and the other nearly 36x, nearly a billion light years away was detected by LIGO - an interferometer used by nearly 1000 scientists around the world in 14 countries. LIGO has detectors in Livingston, Louisiana and Hanford, Washington.

“It’s the first time the universe has spoken to us with gravitational waves. And, surprisingly, the source of the waves is a system of two black holes in orbit around each other that spiral inward and smash together. The scientific community will now work towards strengthening the instrumentation to make it capable of detecting gravitational waves produced by all accelerating masses,” said David Reitze, Physicist at the California Institute of Technology.

Use Your Arm as a Touchscreen with this Device

In an attempt to help solve the ‘fat finger problem’ of not ever hitting the right point on a touchscreen, the Future Interfaces Group (FIG) at Carnegie Mellon University have come up with a smart device that allows a user to employ use of the arm as a touchscreen interface.

Called SkinTrack, the device requires the user to wear a ring that sends a low-energy, high-frequency signal when the finger touches the surface of the skin.

“A major problem with smartwatches and other digital jewelry is that their screens are so tiny. Not only is the interaction area small, but your finger actually blocks much of the screen when you’re using it. Input tends to be pretty basic, confined to a few buttons or some directional swipes. SkinTrack makes it possible to move interactions from the screen onto the arm, providing much larger interface,” the researchers said.

Biosensor that Detects Parkinson’s, Cancer, Alzheimer’s

Researchers at the National Nanotechnology Laboratory (NNL) in Brazil have developed a biosensor that is capable of diagnosing neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and Cancer.

“The device can detect such molecules even when they’re present at very low levels in the examined material, thanks to its nanometric sensitivity. Platforms like this can be deployed to diagnose complex diseases quickly, safely and relatively cheaply using nanometer-scale systems to identify molecules of interest in the material analyzed,” says Carlos Cesar Bof Bufon, a researcher at NNL.

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