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Wife Misses Husband…Solution: Life Sized Mannequin!

December 12th, 2005 at 12:14 pm » Comments (0)

Suzy Walker loves to share a meal with her husband, despite getting some strange looks.



Princetonians Pull Together for One of Their Own

December 12th, 2005 at 12:09 pm » Comments (0)

Delwin Olivan is an 18-year-old Princeton student who is being extorted
by the RIAA to the tune of $5,000 as punishment for being caught
promoting music by sharing it on the Internet.



Bees Recognize Human Faces

December 12th, 2005 at 11:57 am » Comments (0)

Honeybees may look pretty much all alike to us. But it seems we may not look all alike to them. A study has found that they
can learn to recognize human faces in photos, and remember them for at least two days.



Safety of Nanoparticles Unknown

December 12th, 2005 at 11:48 am » Comments (0)

Those stain-resistant khakis you just picked up at the mall, the
tennis ball that holds its bounce longer and sunscreen that’s clear
instead of white have something in common — nanotechnology.



Put CO2 Back in the Ground and Pump More Oil

December 12th, 2005 at 11:43 am » Comments (0)

The energy industry has found a new way to dispose of the greenhouse
gas carbon dioxide: pump it back into the underground oil reservoirs
from whence much of it came.



Things You Never Knew Firefox Could Do!

December 12th, 2005 at 11:36 am » Comments (0)

With the release of the new version 1.5 of Firefox, there’s never been
a better time to download the open-source browser, take it for a drive,
kick the tires and see what it can do. In the case of a browser, mainly
what it can do is show you web pages, hopefully quickly. So the real
satisfaction comes from [...]



Play-Doh Fools Biometric Scanners

December 12th, 2005 at 11:32 am » Comments (0)

Eyeballs, a severed hand, or fingers carried in
ziplock bags. Back alley eye replacement surgery. These are scenarios
used in recent blockbuster movies like Steven Spielberg’s "Minority
Report" and "Tomorrow Never Dies" to illustrate how unsavory characters
in high-tech worlds beat sophisticated security and identification
systems



Bird Flu, The Video Game

December 12th, 2005 at 9:31 am » Comments (0)

Don’t worry about bird flu — video games will come to the rescue.



Study: Women Who Abort Face Long-Term Distress

December 12th, 2005 at 7:28 am » Comments (0)

Women who abort may face mental distress even years after the incident, says a study.



The False-Memory Diet

December 12th, 2005 at 7:21 am » Comments (0)

According to the results of a study released in August, it is possible to convince people that they don’t like certain fattening foods – by giving them false memories of experiences in which those foods made them sick.



Ergomorphic Footwear

December 12th, 2005 at 7:18 am » Comments (0)

Most people expect to break in a new pair of shoes by wearing them for a few weeks until the material softens and stretches to fit. But the shoe designer Martin Keen has a better idea.



Do-It-Yourself Cartography

December 12th, 2005 at 7:01 am » Comments (0)

The most influential mashup this year wasn’t a Beatles tune remixed with hip-hop lyrics. It was an online street map of Chicago overlaid with crime statistics. Chicagocrime.org, which was created by the journalist Adrian Holovaty, was one of the first Web sites to combine publicly available data from one site (in this case, the Chicago [...]



Consensual Interruptions

December 12th, 2005 at 6:46 am » Comments (0)

The problem is all too familiar: You’re chatting with a group of people when someone’s cellphone goes off, interrupting the conversation. What makes the intrusion irritating isn’t so much the call itself – the caller has no way of knowing if he has chosen a good time to cut in. It’s that the group as [...]



The Snap-On Smile

December 12th, 2005 at 12:00 am » Comments (0)

Meet the Snap-On Smile – a thin, flexible, resin shell of perfect teeth that snaps over your actual teeth like a retainer. No adhesive, no drilling.