Solar Light that Runs for 6 Months on a Single Day of Charge

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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.

Read more at www.bit.ly/q3newsblog. Q3 Technologies is a large diversified technology company which develops custom software products for the healthcare industry including cloud applications, enterprise applications across all platforms and Rich Internet Applications (RIA).