Low fat not likely but oh so yummy
Remember those old Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup TV commercials? You know, the ones where someone holding a chocolate bar bumps into a person holding a jar of peanut butter, thus creating a new taste sensation?
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Potato Chip Chocolate
Most Hated Toy
Don’t you just love it
I sort of recall seeing a commercial for this stuff while in a drunken haze at about three in the morning. Other than that, I had no experience with it.
Black Tissues
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Perfect for funerals
While napkins, notepaper, even toilet tissue has been known to come in a variety of pastel and primary shades, facial tissue has remained steadfastly white. Until now, that is – introducing Black Tissues from Daishowa!
Yamaha AvantGrand Digital Piano
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Sweet Sound
Plenty of digital pianos can deliver a sound that’s amazingly close to the real thing, but ask any professional pianist, and they will tell you that the those ones and zeros skip a key part of the analog piano experience. With an acoustic piano, when the hammers strike the strings they create vibrations in [...]
Solar Panels To Help Light Up Building
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The John Molson School of Business, Montreal, shows – for the first time – how solar heat panels integrated with power technology on its top two floors will help the building light up itself.
Scientists Use Own Children As Test Subjects
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Even before his son was born, Pawan Sinha saw unique potential. At a birthing class, Dr. Sinha, a neuroscience professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, stunned everyone, including his wife, by saying he was excited about the baby’s birth “because I really want to study him and do experiments with him.” He did, too, [...]
Golf Ball Technology May Improve Your Car’s Gas Mileage
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I get really skeptical whenever I hear about some gizmo that supposedly saves lots of gas, but this dimpled car wrap kind of makes sense. Long ago, golf ball manufacturers discovered that a dimpled surface would help a ball to fly farther through the air with less drag, so why not apply the same thinking [...]
The Rise Of The Robots
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There are now 1 million industrial robots toiling around the world, and Japan is where they’re the thickest on the ground. It has 295 of these electromechanical marvels for every 10 000 manufacturing workers-a robot density almost 10 times the world average and nearly twice that of Singapore (169), South Korea (164), and Germany (163).
Volitan: A Solar/Wind Powered Concept Boat
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Might the Volitan presage a new generation of lightweight, fully sustainable boats? It certainly sounds good on paper: the futuristic vessel would use solid sails – equipped with double layer solar cell panels – to harness both wind and solar energy and would have an incredibly light, stiff body structure, courtesy of its carbon fiber [...]
Top 10 Photos of the Week
The Rock Mouth People are a great novelty item. When you unzipped their mouths,
and its cold enough, the teeth will begin to chatter
This week is a bit silly because none of the planets are aligned, cosmic energy is totally out of phase, and none of the captions match the photos. But that never stopped us [...]
