hello and welcome to technology update despite our five senses not everything is quite what meets the eye this episode looks to shed some light on devices they give us a glimpse i was hiding just out of sight. remember the earth was the center of the universe until copernicus and galileo came along man's origins were unknown before darwin changed everything and the notion that there was something smaller than an atom was nearly unthinkable until ernest rutherford. even today the quest to gaze beneath the surface just goes on and on. recently we took a peek through the glass walls of hypercube where many of russia's up and coming

innovators had gathered to attend the annual prize award ceremony the competition sifted through roughly fifteen hundred clever ideas all looking to come home with one of the five top honors winners were crowned for the top i.t. project the leading innovation for helping society as well as a trio for best idea project and production ready invention but in addition to the award ceremony there was plenty of other innovation minded activity going on the previous finalists and runners up were also invited to show off the latest developments on their path to a full fledged start up when a few government officials were on hand to get an up close and personal view of the country's leading young minds and well the winners may have taken home to glory one of the top competitors from a past. in the time since the competition these developers have turned their so-called.

spectrometer. device can help police save lives. for the. drugs and other chemicals in the. equipment. to get such machinery out into the field to.

evil doers. sniffer dogs have been used for this purpose for a long time now. they're great at explosive detection but they have one major disadvantage a dog is really only able to work a maximum of thirty minutes before needing a rest they can resume work only after six to eight hours with a dog isn't able to tell you the exact kind of substance it's found it can only signal that something is there by raising a poor or giving some other sign but then it's up to the explosive. very often putting their own lives at risk to do so also every dog is different simply. in contrast detectors will work exactly. according to the developers. apart from their competitors.

field spectrometers can identify what. the. compounds. so far have been selected for their usefulness in the field. and. can add. one

significant. functionality. failed. so far. more than two hundred. clear orders from the country's biggest security agencies could. potential terrorist. but in reality the most dangerous things might be hiding in the food and

drinks we put in our own bodies so with that in mind we've come to this region institute to take a closer look at the molecular makeup of things out. here at the institute of solid state physics scientists have developed a compact that we here at technology update hope would help us get to the bottom of some of the longest running popular soda brands no it's got to admit that i had delusions of unlocking secrets and discovering. to my apparently untrained mind. spectroscope developed here was the best way to get the answers that we were looking for. now in theory there's a wide array of potential methods of analysis each possessing its own benefits and shortcomings for example. exceptionally precise. and expensive then there's mass spectrometry which also carries

a pretty hefty price tag. spectroscope can be less expensive but complex sample prep work excludes gas samples then there are traditional chemical analyses applications of which are more limited and require extensive training in many cases though spectroscopy is the best just not for investigating. a coloring agent whose luminescence spectrum is too intense for us to observe any individual molecules vibrations that we would usually need to register in order to identify the composition of the substance in question in short the spectrum of the coloring agent makes it impossible to observe any spectra of the combinational scattering which would be otherwise visible. but just because our idea. doesn't mean that there inspector. market can't perform a litany of other tests to help. show that a soda free from colorings yields the results we were looking for the three main

peaks correspond to water sugar and acid thank you. well the voice can be used for nonscientific purposes that is for practical tasks as for example in the analysis of gemstones it's always interesting to know what impurities the gemstone has because they help us to find out more about the stone itself to identify its origin . it sheaves this by creating and investigating what's called the scattering correctly to the laser beam hits the molecules they become excited and begin to vibrate that scatters or refracts the laser light had a slightly altered wavelength the device is internal c.c.d. sensor measures the shift of the wavelength those alterations are then compared against the system's database of rom and shifts in terms of the gym it allows anyone operating the inspector five thirty two to tell if they're looking at a fake or something much more precious.

one of the achievements we take pride in is the high spatial resolution of devices . this becomes especially apparent when the device is attached to a microscope. with a resolution of around one micro you can obtain an individual eye in spectrum every square my current of the surface. this enables us to present ourselves as a major player on the serious scientific research device market. one of our latest achievements is measuring graphing. only devices such as ours can identify a layer of graphing which is this thin as one atom grows on the substrate material . inspector team manages all this by employing a thirty make laser that emits a five hundred thirty two nanometer wavelength the c.c.d.

sensor is designed to work at room temperature and has been specially designed to suppress other physical processes like raleigh scattering that can interfere. that means the resulting analysis is just as accurate as anything else out there on the market and does it in a matter of seconds and it's automatic recognition software alerts us to what's right in front of our noses but a knowable without specialized equipment even at places as idyllic as moscow's patriarch's pond there are hidden dangers all around and the first that for protecting yourself is knowing the potential risks. to the plane actually radioactive particles everywhere they come from the sun space and many naturally occurring objects to drive the point home. showed elevated radioactivity from a simple. we can measure the radiation background radiation is pretty close ciro point zero eight but it will gradually go up. the ideal for that extremely compact

. was spurred on by the nuclear disaster in fukushima japan while the immediate threats to those in the vicinity were clear right away the experience has left many people concerned about extraordinary and every day radiation. looking for a way to give people more peace of mind this moscow based innovator got to work designing his own smartphone powered. the device can help people better understand the risks that simply aren't visible for example the paint used in this old compass is still radioactive particles that are easily measurable but the right equipment. we already have a whole line of software products and devices for various smart phones. laptops books with varying levels of complexity on the market from simpler and less expensive models to more sophisticated versions. but of course the

idea of checking radiation levels is far from a new one ever since people understood the risk of radioactivity there's been the but often cumbersome a geiger counter to measure it the device is characteristic clicking sound has long let the user know if the plate of food in front of him or her is safe to eat each audible click is an incoming radioactive particle being ionized since its introduction models have become more portable and simply taking that tradition into the future. the next version. which we're calling conductor version. we're also working on a totally new generation of the device which will employ. at the moment though those plans are just that plans on paper to make the technological leap the company needs new investments which could be coming in the

very near future at the end of january the company expects to hear back from. a sizable grant that could give them the resources they need to move those next generation radiation detectors from paper to the production line. the company's anxious to get that going because according to certain estimations there could be a major so. we can see fairly high demand across the world. especially in southeast asia and japan recently we ordered a marketing research report from a japanese company basically based on very calculations they believe that if these devices were launched on the japanese market today in the first month we would sell around forty to fifty thousand of them over the course of a year sales would total some five hundred thousand. from that point the market would stabilize and show its true capacity. overall. the japanese market

is. need to accept some three to six million devices per year. well annual global demand here and again this is according to the marketing research report would likely be around ten to fifteen million devices. and as a wise man once said knowing is half the battle. enables users to note on a unified map where they found increased levels of radiation that could then in theory be used to inform government agencies or interested citizens with a handful of accidents ingrained in our collective memories that information is of concern to people all over the globe presently there are some one hundred seventy five million living within seventy five kilometers of major nuclear reactors of course everyone's hoping for fully safe operations but now your own dosimeter is never more than an arm's length away.

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back to technology update identifying external threats as one thing but no profession is more to gain by piri beneath the surface than medicine with each new advance scientists are leveling the playing field against seemingly unseeable foes since we can really only observe the consequences or symptoms of most illnesses

doctors have always had to rely on reading between the lines they can often only narrow in on our ailments by process of elimination but on the back of many giant leaps forward in the past century m.d.'s now have a greater arsenal at their disposal. for example they can bombard our bodies with harmless ultrasonic waves showing the image in real time of their high frequency poses are good for monitoring pregnancies as well as blood flow in their radioactive isotopes which allow doctors to target specific organs often to check for cancer magnetic fields have also been mastered to keep an eye on soft tissues like the brain injured tendons but the granddaddy of them all is the x. ray which has been giving doctors a glimpse into our bones and lungs for more than one hundred years. the technique discovered nearly by accident has highlighted how gaining new insight into what was previously out of reach these major dividends the technique revolutionized many

diagnosis. with oversize film images becoming a standard in hospitals everywhere. in the past is the name of the game now armed with nearly instantaneous results. if. the needed properly. make modern day technicians almost as. the latest x. ray equipment with previous models but of course the first big difference is the ability to refine the images. additionally it's increased the quantity as well as the quality of diagnoses. a technology. recently. produced a range of high tech equipment all of it focused on getting past the barriers

created. the. newcomer to the russian medical. it was started in the late one nine hundred eighty s. . the first camera. over the years and decades has slowly but surely improved and expanded the products to the medical profession by the company's calculations it currently accounts for about twenty five percent of the markets in which it operates. at this point one of its main offerings is an entire set of x. ray machinery for doctors that need to get a peak on the accuracy and clarity most important. to take certain precautions. but these are a whole number of tests objects that allow us to evaluate farias in each parameter like this one which shows us the resolution that is the smallest objects you can

see in a human body for example. object is a specially made lead plate and has pairs of lines a different intervals within the space of one millimeter judging by how many line pairs we see we can figure out what the smallest element we can x. rate in the human body is there are also these objects that have varying densities which we used to conduct contrast sensitivity checks and there exists a great variety of such tests. in addition to offering traditional simple static snapshots these are equipped with a linear x. ray technology that allows easier scanning of mobility impaired patients and also enables technicians to focus in on one spot in particular by moving the detector along with the x. ray tube linear x. rays minimize background image interference the next generation of technology that's been adopted the world over including a lot of russian hospitals that use it as well is computed to mo graffiti it involves scanning the patient's body to produce two more graphic images all slices

of specific areas of the body then these individual layers of put together and could be looked at from any number of angles and certain parameters could be measured these cross-sectional images are used for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes so that the doctor can get a full picture of the patient's condition but getting that three d. computed toma graph for c.t. image isn't so easy circular scan only captures an area about twenty five millimeters wide so if the doc needs to check on a large section of the body it can take dozens of spins around. the world over there are really only a handful of companies that are capable of producing equipment like this given the complexity and cost to develop it it should be no great surprise that here electron has teamed up with philips. this is the first full cycle innovative partnership of its cause. initially the

russian side provided some fifteen percent of the components for the most part this included things like service aleutians and associated software. but a contribution to thirty percent were in the process of increasing it to as much as fifty percent. in other words we're gradually replacing foreign components with russian made ones. to the most. more than five hundred of their kids to hospitals and clinics around the country additionally electronic exports equipment to thirty. some cases. is just what the doctor ordered which takes us to the physical institute. the nuclear physicist peace laureate.

researchers that received prizes in physics this institute just. stretching all the way back to the days of peter the great but at the moment the hottest topics. is work on a revolutionary kind of magnetic resonance imaging machine. much like the computer . scanners. at the structures of. electromagnetic radiation exceptionally powerful magnets to redirect the hydrogen atoms in our bodies and eventually give a detailed account of the internal. what we do here is considered a priority for the limited physical institute's that is currently the biggest medical project being developed by the russian academy of sciences.

ministry of industry and trade. provided a grant. and implemented this project. makes the hole in. such a construction. for one thing by cutting prices. significantly

reducing it these images are much cheaper to operate. around twenty five dollars per. seventy five to one hundred thousand dollars to the initial price. making the. monitoring. from the complex. kind of m.r.i. machine very small and highly. a space to install it's all a big m.r.i. can take up to. the hospitals and clinics this is important because it's difficult to totally reconfigure a launch area. currently about halfway to the cutting edge. they've already finished.

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