Members of the Chorley and South Ribble Knit and Natter Group in Lancashire, England, decided to knit something useful for new mothers learning to breastfeed: knitted breasts!
[Breastfeeding Network] helper Sara Cookson said that whilst the knitted boobs seem quite funny at first glance, they’re actually one of their most important tools, and they would be [...]

The waffle, in typical Japanese fashion, has been dissected and re-concocted. Substituting the gooey rice paste, mochi, for the wheat flour used by westerners in the waffle, Japanese chefs have created the moffle, Japan’s latest food craze. And a quick-thinking entrepreneur stepped up the craze by creating the Moffle, a moffle cooker.

Japanese astronaut Takao Doi has thrown a boomerang in space and found, to the surprise of many, that it does come back.
The 53-year-old conducted an experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, Japanese time, to see whether boomerangs fly back in space. Many had predicted that it wouldn’t but Doi confirmed that it [...]

The GPS Ranger now features American Sign Language support, making virtual tours of places more accessible to the deaf and hard-of-hearing, augmented by the present captioning option. Some of the features include :

The Economist has an interesting article on the next big thing in automotive industry: the quest in search of the perfect battery.
Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which helped to make the mobile-phone revolution possible in the past decade, are now expected to power the increasing electrification of the car. “They are clearly the next step,” says Mary [...]

University of North Texas (UNT) student John Bramblitt paints beautiful works of art in vivid colors, despite the fact that he’s been blind for years. This video is the winner of YouTubes Inspirational Video of the Year Award.

 
Intel has found a way to stretch a Wi-Fi signal from one antenna to another located more than 60 miles away.
They recently announced plans to sell a specialized Wi-Fi platform later this year that can send data from a city to outlying rural areas tens of miles away, connecting sparsely populated villages to the Internet. [...]

The risk of suffering a torn artery at a beauty salon is even more remote, but Marilyn Noonan, 47, of La Jolla, California, is proof that it can happen.

A corn flake shaped like Illinois is now a museum piece.
A trivia-company owner from Austin, Texas, purchased the flake on eBay last night from two sisters in Virginia for $1,350.

Picture taken on March 19, 2008 shows Chema Chuxing Tu (the painting of a tour by chariot) in the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) engraved on a rock of barren hills to beautify the environment in Xuzhou City, East China’s Jiangsu Province.

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Lisa Lavie is one energized performer.  This video was one of the six finalists for YouTubes Music Video Awards.
 

 
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Reuters has fired Lebanese freelance photographer Adnan Hajj after he transmitted at least two photographs from Lebanon that were doctored to make Israeli attacks seem more dramatic.
Photo-editing software gets more sophisticated all the time, allowing users to alter pictures in ways both fun and fraudulent. Last month, for example, a photo [...]

Balloon Bowl
This is not a sport that most people engage in. In fact, we kinda think this was the first time ever. Very creative though.
 

A new opinion poll shedding light on the most unpopular forms of house guest behavior has thrown up a surprise winner in the offensiveness stakes.
With the nation still grappling with the introduction of smoking legislation in the past two years, lighting up in someone else’s house has been voted the most terrible breach of etiquette.
 
 

Although many researchers have believed women choose partners based on the kind of relationship they are seeking, a new study from The University of Texas at Austin reveals women’s preferences can be influenced by their own attractiveness. Attractiveness and and a feeling of entitlement are closely linked.

Shown for the first time on video, Segway inventor Dean Kamen presented his Vapor Compression Distiller on last night’s Colbert Report. The distiller is a chemical-, membrane-, and filter-free water purifier. Kamen claims the box draws pure drinkable water from oceans, poisons—even a 50-gallon drum of urine.
 

What are the IQ requirements for you to move ahead in your profession?  This is a question that we don’t ask very often, bu as it turns out, some professions attract the very brightest, making it very competitive.
After the jump is a chart that puts the whole thing into perspective.