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Dinosaur Smelling Skills Open New Angle On Bird Evolution

October 29th, 2008 at 11:10 pm » Comments (0)

Follow Your Nose !!!
Although we know quite a bit about the lifestyle of dinosaur; where they lived, what they ate, how they walked, not much was known about their sense of smell, until now.



‘Digital Dark Age’ May Doom Some Data

October 29th, 2008 at 11:05 pm » Comments (0)

Now you see why i hang out in the digital world
What stands a better chance of surviving 50 years from now, a framed photograph or a 10-megabyte digital photo file on your computer’s hard drive?



NASA’s Phoenix Mission Faces Survival Challenges

October 29th, 2008 at 10:56 pm » Comments (0)

looks like a tonka truck
In a race against time and the elements, engineers with NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander mission hope to extend the lander’s survival by gradually shutting down some of its instruments and heaters, starting this week.



Soybeans No Longer ‘A Musical Fruit?’

October 29th, 2008 at 10:51 pm » Comments (0)

An apple made out of everything but thee apples!
Soybeans may drop off the list of musical fruit. Scientists in Singapore are reporting victory over some consumers’ No. 1 complaint about soy products — the “flatulence factor” caused by indigestible sugars found in soy.



Global Warming Killing Frogs And Salamanders

October 29th, 2008 at 10:45 pm » Comments (0)

 
Frogs and salamanders, those amphibious bellwethers of environmental danger, are being killed in Yellowstone National Park. The predator, Stanford researchers say, is global warming.



Baby Delivered Following Abdominal Pregnancy

October 29th, 2008 at 8:27 pm » Comments (0)

Baby Born After Abdominal Pregnancy
When doctors at the Government Kasturba Gandhi Hospital wheeled in 30-year-old Meena for a caesarean, they thought it would be just another 15-minute procedure. But the team walked out of the operation theatre only three hours later, to announce the birth of a 2.25 kg baby boy.
Though fatigued, they were smiling [...]



Thin Is In: Samsung New OLED Panel 0.05mm Thick

October 29th, 2008 at 8:10 pm » Comments (0)

Thin Is In
The newspaper business may be going down the tubes but if those ever-emergent thin displays get to market soon enough there might still be hope for those technology-challenged old school publishers. The latest entry in the thin display race comes from Samsung and it’s called the Flapping Display. Revealed at Japan’s recent FPD [...]



Vortex Tunnel: Like Stepping Back To The 60’s In Your Own Home

October 29th, 2008 at 8:05 pm » Comments (0)

Vortex Tunnel
HauntedProps.com’s Vortex Tunnel is designed to jazz up a hallway in a haunted house, but really you could just use it as a wacky walkway in any abode. If you don’t mind shelling out quite a bit, that is.
Wrap your head around this:



First fully Artificial Heart, Ready For Transplant In 2.5 Years

October 29th, 2008 at 7:52 pm » Comments (0)

 Fake Heart
Medical technology is advancing by leaps and bounds, bringing with it futuristic devices that were but dreams until only recently. One such advancement is the fully artificial heart, a fake ticker that can be placed inside the body to replace a damaged or faulty original.



Sonic Lounger: Massages And Resonates The Entire Body

October 29th, 2008 at 7:47 pm » Comments (0)

 
Sonic Lounger
How do you like to relax? If you like to relax by curling up on the couch, wrapped in a blanket wearing sweatpants, you’re clearly poor and stupid. That’s not how to relax! You need to relax by strapping yourself into a $9,000 device that looks like an alien surgery table! That’s how rich [...]



CynoCast: Delivers Live Or Pre-Recorded Web Content To Your Customer’s Computer

October 29th, 2008 at 11:57 am » Comments (0)

 
Featured Invention at the Colorado Inventor Showcase  
CynoCast is a breakthrough technology that allows you to communicate more effectively with your audience by delivering targeted web pages to their computer screen while you narrate. CynoCasts are created using a simple, yet robust, software tool called “Live Dashboard”.



Buddhist Temple Made of Beer Bottles

October 29th, 2008 at 7:28 am » Comments (0)

The Fruits of Recycling

Monks in Thailand’s Sisaket province collected a million beer bottles and built an entire temple! The Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple is constructed of a combination of green Heineken bottles and the brown bottles of a local beer.



UltraPin: The Revenge Of The Revenge Of Pinball

October 29th, 2008 at 7:20 am » Comments (0)

UltraPin is a virtual pinball machine, which is to say it’s not really a pinball machine at all: all the action is contained within a standard enough video game, with the cabinet and controls in otherwise authentic shape. The table itself is a big LCD display.
Something vaguely similar this was tried at the end of [...]