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A system and method for enhancing passwords, access codes, and personal identification numbers by making them pace, rhythm, or tempo sensitive. The password includes a sequence of characters and an associated timing element. To access a restricted device or function a user enters the correct character sequence according to the correct pace, rhythm, or tempo. The entered sequence and timing element are compared with stored values and access is granted only if the entered and stored values match. In an alternative embodiment the stored timing element is set, and periodically altered, by a computer or program without consent from the user and visual, auditory, and/or tactile prompts indicate the correct timing element to the user during the authentication process. The meaning of the prompts are provided to the user in advance.

A method and apparatus for optically assaying a targeted substance in a sample using a diffraction anomaly grating sensor. The optical sensor has a diffraction grating coated with at least one dielectric layer such that the sensor is sensitized to interact with the targeted substance. Upon interaction, light incident upon the sensor at a particular angle propagates through the dielectric, thereby exhibiting a dip in zero-order reflectance. Advantages of the present invention include facilitating increased sensitivity while protecting the metal grating from tarnishing and degradation. The present invention also allows for the construction of sensors that are sensitized to a plurality of substances, thus eliminating the need for an operator to reconfigure the sensing system in order to assay different substances.

The present invention relates to bead incubating and washing on a droplet actuator. Methods for incubating magnetically responsive beads that are labeled with primary antibody, a sample (i.e., analyte), and secondary reporter antibodies on a magnet, on and off a magnet, and completely off a magnet are provided. Also provided are methods for washing magnetically responsive beads using shape-assisted merging of droplets. Also provided are methods for shape-mediated splitting, transporting, and dispensing of a sample droplet that contains magnetically responsive beads. The apparatuses and methods of the invention provide for rapid time to result and optimum detection of an analyte in an immunoassay.

A transceiver preferably embedded within a wearable security watch, PDA, or other device which achieves a variety of wireless ultrasonic and/or radio-frequency based functions, including digital identification and proximity and sensation monitoring of assets, individuals, pets, and the like. The portable or wearable device realizes these functions by periodically polling and receiving information tags within the transmitting distance of the device. The invention can help reduce the likelihood of the theft, loss, or misplacement by detecting that a tag associated with or attached to an entity has left an individual's proximity and sounding an alarm. The device can also assist individuals with sensory impairments, including persons who are deaf, diabetic, and the like, by detecting a tagged entity as it enters the space around an individual, or by detecting environmental stimuli, such as excessive heat in an individual's proximity or vital sign changes, and sounding an alarm.

Biosensors including resonant optical cavities. The resonant optical cavities are shaped so as to generate whispering gallery modes, which increase the quality factors of the cavities and facilitate the detection of analytes in a sample with enhanced sensitivity. The sizes of the resonant optical cavities facilitate their use in biosensors that include arrays of sensing zones. Accordingly, the resonant optical cavities may be used in high-density sensing arrays that can be read in real-time and in parallel. Thus, the resonant optical cavities are useful for detecting small concentrations of samples in real-time and with high throughput. Different embodiments of the biosensors are also disclosed, as are methods for using the biosensors.

The invention relates to a droplet actuator device and methods for integrated sample preparation and analysis of a biological sample. A droplet actuator device is provided for conducting droplet operations. The droplet actuator device may include a bottom substrate and a top substrate separated from each other to form a gap therebetween; an arrangement of droplet operations electrodes arranged on one or both of the bottom and/or top substrates for conducting droplet operations thereon; a reagent storage layer comprising one or more compartments bound to the top substrate; and one or more openings arranged to provide a fluidic path from the one or more compartments into the gap, upon breach of a breachable seal separating the one or more compartments and openings.

A method and device for video conferencing between first and second conference locations. Each conference location is provided with a video camera and a video image monitor to carry the image of a video conferee to a remote location. The video cameras are located proximate the video monitors such that each video camera is placed upon an emotionally neutral field of the image of the remotely located conferee and aimed substantially at the eyes of the local conferee facing the conferee's monitor in order to create eye-to-eye contact between conferees while positioning the video camera as to not interfere with said conference.

The present invention pertains to: a conductive sheet, a touch panel, a display device, a method for producing the conductive sheet, and a recording medium. In the present invention, the relative refractive index of a substrate with respect to a first protective layer, and/or the relative refractive index of the substrate with respect to a second protective layer is 0.86-1.15. The relative refractive index of a first substrate with respect to the first protective layer, and/or the relative refractive index of a second substrate with respect to the second protective layer is 0.86-1.15.

A jumping robot is provided. In another aspect, a jumping robot weighs less than 50 grams, jumps at least 20 cm high and has a maximum linear dimension of 10 cm. A further aspect provides a robot that employs an electromagnetic actuator that actuates at least two of: jumping, steering, self-righting, and/or mid-air orientation control.

The present invention relates to systems and methods for controlling droplet movements on a droplet microactuator and a droplet microactuator device, system and method for processing and/or analyzing samples. According to one aspect, a system is provided and includes a controller, a droplet microactuator electronically coupled to the controller, and a display device displaying a user interface electronically coupled to the controller, wherein the system is programmed and configured to permit a user to effect a droplet manipulation by interacting with the user interface. According to another aspect, a sample analyzer is provided and includes an analyzer unit comprising electronic or optical receiving means, a cartridge comprising self-contained droplet handling capabilities, and a means for coupling the cartridge to the analyzer unit which aligns electronic and/or optical outputs from the cartridge with electronic or optical receiving means on the analyzer unit.

The invention provides a depression risk screening system and method based on a virtual reality scene electroencephalogram signal. Under the stimulation of a virtual reality scene, real-time acquisition, processing and analysis of data are carried out on the electroencephalogram signal by an electroencephalogram acquisition system, and finally, a depression risk is screened by a data mining method. The system provided by the invention comprises a virtual reality induction system, a electroencephalogram signal acquisition system and a data analysis system; the virtual reality induction system is used for establishing different virtual reality scenes; the electroencephalogram signal acquisition system is used for acquiring the electroencephalogram signal of a human brain, which is generated under the stimulation of the virtual reality scene and is continuously changed, and outputting the processed electroencephalogram signal and extracted real-time feature information; the data analysis system has a classification discrimination model trained by labeled healthy populations and depression risk populations, compares feature information required in a depression screening process with feature parameters of the classification discrimination model, and distinguishes and discriminates the healthy populations and the depression risk populations.

The present invention relates to a glove or mitten having a pocket or other similar holder for a cell phone positioned against the wrist of the wearer. The pocket has a mouth opening toward the glove wrist so that the phone is easily removed from the pocket either simultaneously with removal of the glove or without requiring the removal of the glove. The location of the phone on the wrist allows the wearer to more readily hear the “ring” of an incoming call or feel an alert if vibration of the phone is used as an incoming call alert.

Disclosed is a device for varying capacitance which pertains to the field of application of electronic devices and components. The technical essentials of the present invention lie in that: two dielectrics are disposed in parallel with an isolation layer interposed therebetween; the two dielectrics each are connected to an electrode at the same one end face thereof; the other end face of each of the two dielectrics is provided with an elastic conductive pad; a gasket is provided between the two dielectrics and the elastic conductive pads. The relative position and compressed area between the elastic conductive pads and the dielectrics vary according to the magnitude of the external force so that the capacitance between the electrodes of the dielectrics is varied accordingly within a certain range. Therefore, once the value and the variation of the capacitance between the electrodes are measured, the magnitude and the status of the external force which brings about the variation of the capacitance can be obtained. The device of the present invention has a simple structure and high sensitivity. Also, it has a definite zero initial value and a maximum value of the capacitance, and therefore is easy for handing and measurement.

A wearable tactile stimulation device can include a facial mask, an air-suit, and a pair of gloves. A wearable tactile stimulation device can include integrated conduits and nozzles configured to deliver tactile stimulation to portions of a users face, hands, and/or body. The tactile stimulation can be delivered via puffs of air transmitted through the conduits and nozzles. A controller can be configured to control tactile stimulation by controlling the generation and delivery of puffs of air. The puffs can be delivered individually, or in combination.

The invention relates to an instant rice food comprising the following raw materials (by weight ratio): oat 20-30 parts, black wheat 5-10 parts, Chinese sorghum 20-25 parts, buckwheat 15-20 parts, maize particles 15-20 parts. The food is prepared through the steps of immersing, boiling, immersing, and boiling again.

The invention discloses a method for preparing bioactive protein powder through endogenous enzymolysis of marine low-value coarse fish, which is characterized by comprising steps of raw material preparation, primary crushing, enzymolysis, small peptide liquid preparation, mixing and drying, post treatment and the like. During enzymolysis, enzymolysis process parameters are selected according to the endogenous enzyme activity measured from the raw materials; and during mixing and drying, peeled bean pulp powder is used as a carrier to prepare a bioactive protein material. The method of the invention performs process improvement based on the enzymolysis of the primary exogenous proteinase preparation, solves the difficult problems of high production cost, unstable exogenous enzyme activity and non-thorough enzymolysis in the endogenous enzymolysis process, and is more suitable for industrialized production; and the prepared bioactive protein powder has the sense, flavor and cultivation effects superior to those of the fish powder, and is a good fish powder substitute.