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Thomas Frey - Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute

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Tajikistan Bans Gold Teeth

September 30th, 2006 at 2:46 pm » Comments (0)

Dushanbe, Tajikistan (AHN) – In a country where most of the people are living below the poverty line, gold teeth is certainly a no-no among government personnel. Tajikistani president Emomali Rakhmonov is set to ban state employees from wearing gold teeth to improve his country’s image.



Rocket Belt Covention Has People Flying by the Seat of Their Pants

September 30th, 2006 at 2:36 pm » Comments (0)

The Rocketbelt Convention, sponsored by Jet Pack International, LLC, brought together old and new as homemade rocketbelts from all over the country were displayed alongside the original Bell Aerosystems Rocketbelt, built in the 1960’s. Current and former rocketmen, rocketbelt builders, engineers and high tech inventors met together for a two day symposium, "Where the Past [...]



Foxy Friends Facilitate Firefox Crop Circle

September 30th, 2006 at 1:56 pm » Comments (0)

A bunch of Firefox devotees set out to generate more PR for Firefox. They decided to make a huge accurate Firefox logo in a crop field (designs like these are called "crop circles"). Some crop circle designs are obviously man made like this one, whereas others are not so easily explained and are a topic [...]



Introducing Stick-on Lighting

September 30th, 2006 at 9:17 am » Comments (0)

It’s getting to that point in the price/performance curve where battery-powered LED lighting fixtures are disposable and practical. A prime example is Sylvania Dot-it LEDs, stick-up lights that cost less than $10 and shine for over a hundred hours.



Coolest Picture of the Sun You’ll See This Month

September 30th, 2006 at 8:59 am » Comments (0)

It looks like a speck of dust on the surface of the sun. But this spectacular picture shows the space shuttle Atlantis alongside the International Space Station silhouetted as they orbit the earth. Amazing photo.



Terrible Construction Project

September 30th, 2006 at 8:51 am » Comments (0)

This stupid homebuilder might want to rethink his line of work after building a house 20 feet higher than road. Check out these crazy photos.



Quantum Study Yields Unusual Results

September 30th, 2006 at 8:10 am » Comments (0)

Swiss scientists have found particles in a solid-state device can be turned into an unusual state of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate.



Re-growing Lost Limbs

September 30th, 2006 at 8:00 am » Comments (0)

U.S. researchers are working toward possibly enabling people some day to renew or replace damaged and missing body parts.



Study: Overeating Linked to Emotions

September 30th, 2006 at 7:51 am » Comments (0)

Researchers at Brookhaven National Lab in Upton, N.Y., report evidence linking the brain and stomach with emotions to cause overeating and obesity.



Suicide Rates Dropping

September 30th, 2006 at 7:41 am » Comments (0)

Suicide rates among the youngest and oldest Americans have steadily declined since the late 1980s, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday in a finding that contradicts popular conceptions that rates were rising.



Monkey Causes Collapse of Zimbabwe Agricultural Sector

September 30th, 2006 at 12:15 am » Comments (0)

The Zimbabwe government on Monday finally fingered the cause of the dramatic collapse of the country’s agricultural sector — a monkey.