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Extremely Rare – Royal Raymond Rife Microscope #2 Up For Auction In London

November 4th, 2009 at 6:02 pm » Comments (0)

Royal Raymond Rife Microscope #2

Royal Raymond Rife, “genius scientist”, trained for six years at the Carl Zeiss Optical Company in Germany and became the inventor of powerful microscopes, leading to the discovery of a revolutionary therapy for viral diseases.
 
Pictured above is his second microscope which will be included as lot 113 in the Bonhams sale 10th [...]



The Seven Giants of the Urals

November 4th, 2009 at 9:33 am » Comments (0)

Tall and mighty do they stand!

Seven rock formations called Man-Pupu-Nyor (little mountain of the gods) stand in the Komi Republic, a part of the Ural Mountain area of Russia. They range from 30 to 42 meters tall! The pillars formed when erosion washed away the mountain that once surrounded them over a period of 200 [...]



Carbon Zero Road Block System

November 4th, 2009 at 9:18 am » Comments (0)

Want to have a method that your car can generate power as it drives along the road? Well, check out the Carbon Zero road block system. This concept uses blocks on the road, and as you drive over these blocks, the pressure from your car pushes the blocks down, creating kinetic energy. N-type silicon and [...]



CyberWalk Omni-Directional Treadmill

November 3rd, 2009 at 8:43 am » Comments (0)

 CyberWalk has developed an omni-directional treadmill, which allows humans to walk in any direction yet stay centered on the treadmill. The user should be able to walk seemingly endlessly in any direction without leaving a small room.  Underneath the walking surface is many densely packed small balls which let the friction of the user’s shoes do [...]



Face Detection Attendance System

November 3rd, 2009 at 8:30 am » Comments (0)

Now you SEE me…
Want to rule the office with an iron fist? Well, if that’s the case, you’ll a facial recognition time attendance system, like the CVJB-G107 (pictured above). This device uses a set of digital cameras that can be used in the dark to track the attendance of your employees via facial recognition. The [...]



Air Board Adventures

October 30th, 2009 at 8:43 am » Comments (0)

WOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!!!
 
For $14,000, you can have a personal hovercraft toy, the Air Board. It can transport you at 15 mph over concrete, asphalt, grass or shallow wet areas, but you cannot drive it over water like a real Hovercraft! Speed and braking are controlled through two levers located on the steering bar, by using varying degrees of [...]



Get Charged Up With Scosche PowerFuze Pro

October 30th, 2009 at 7:40 am » Comments (0)

Charge up your tech gizmos here!

Carry a whole lot of gizmos with you wherever you go? The Scosche PowerFuze Pro ought to help you out in this department, where it can be plugged directly into the wall socket or in a vehicle via the cigarette lighter socket. For the former, you will be able to [...]



DARPA’s $40,000 Balloon Finding Contest

October 30th, 2009 at 7:32 am » Comments (0)

DARPA is holding a competition to find ten large weather balloons. Winner gets $40,000!

To mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet, DARPA has announced the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that will explore the role the Internet and social networking plays in the timely communication, wide area team-building and urgent mobilization required to solve broad [...]



Flammable Ice For Halloween

October 30th, 2009 at 7:23 am » Comments (0)

(YouTube Link)
 High school science teacher “Mr. Kent” has a YouTube channel full of neat chemistry demonstration videos. In this one, he sets ice on fire. Here’s how…



Samsung AMOLED TV Supports 3D Pictures

October 29th, 2009 at 8:04 am » Comments (0)

Start Thinking in 3D!

Samsung’s foray into the AMOLED TV world has yielded this 30″ screen which supports 3D picture (stereoscopic) alongside the traditional full HD resolution view for movie buffs. The panel is painfully thin at a mere 2.5mm, where it was made possible thanks to Samsung’s patented Simultaneous Emission with Active Voltage (SEAV) technology.



Jammin’ On The Playable Electric Guitar Shirt

October 29th, 2009 at 7:56 am » Comments (0)

(YouTube Link)
 The Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt isn’t just a t-shirt. You can actually play music on it. Use a magnetic pick over the string markings and press down on the frets with your other hand. There’s also a volume nob and an amplifier that fits on your belt. Has it been a long time since [...]



Lullabelly Prenatal Music Belt

October 27th, 2009 at 7:50 am » Comments (0)

Are you a nervous first time mom-to-be who wants nothing but the very best for your little one? Most people would say yes, and figure out that if their kid listens to Mozart or other musical geniuses while they were in the womb, they would turn out to be at the top of the class [...]



16 Hissing Cockroaches In Mouth May Be a World Record

October 27th, 2009 at 7:25 am » Comments (0)

A pet shop worker has set a new world record after stuffing 16 Madagascar hissing cockroaches – each more than 6cm long – into his mouth.
Sean Murphy, of Lansing, Michigan, US, shattered the old Guinness World Records score of 11 to secure the new mark.



World’s Smallest Working Model Train Set Unveiled

October 26th, 2009 at 7:37 am » Comments (0)

 

The world’s smallest working model train set has been unveiled – measuring just 1/8th of an inch by 1/4 of an inch.
At 1-35200 scale to the real thing, the five-carriage train travels around an oval route including a ride through a tunnel.
Created by New Jersey model train enthusiast David Smith, the model was built using [...]



Creative New Places to Have Sex

October 24th, 2009 at 6:05 pm » Comments (0)

The secret to your sex life may lie in some exotic new location
If your bedroom boredom has taken a toll on your sex life, all you need is a drastic, yet quick change. How about changing the place in which you are having sex?
Forget the boring kitchen or the bathtubs… think bizarre, out-of-the-box! Try out [...]



Scientists Researching Possible Health Benefits of LSD and Ecstacy

October 24th, 2009 at 5:22 pm » Comments (0)

LSD and ecstacy shown to be more effective against anxiety
disorders than Prozac, Zoloft and other “legal” drugs
A growing number of people are taking LSD and other psychedelic drugs such as cannabis and ecstasy to help them cope with a variety of conditions including anorexia nervosa, cluster headaches and chronic anxiety attacks.
The emergence of a community that passes [...]



Berlin ‘Green’ Brothel Offers Discounts to Cyclists

October 17th, 2009 at 5:25 pm » Comments (0)

Bike To  Berlin Brothel For Bangin Benefits!

A brothel in Berlin has leapt on the “green” bandwagon by offering discounts to clients who can prove they arrived by public transport or bicycle.
“Everyone’s a winner,” explained Regina Goetz, a former prostitute who runs the “Maison d’envie” (House of Desire) brothel in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg, a district in [...]



iREV, The Family Bumper Boat With a Built-In Grill

October 16th, 2009 at 7:36 am » Comments (0)

 
There’s no rational reason why I should want an iREV. A real boat would be way faster and much more versatile. But the iREV is a floating picnic table with a grill. Now that’s cool.
On top of the low-fire charcoal grill and Kumbaya-friendly seating arrangement, there’s an optional 500 watt speaker system complete with satellite [...]



DNA-Inspired Closet Is As Space-Savy As Twisted and Curvy

October 15th, 2009 at 8:26 am » Comments (0)

All hung up on DNA

Irina Alexandru’s design is more of a coat hanger than a closet, but it’s intended to allow for the maximum amount of clothing hangers in the smallest amount of space. We just plain like the curvy double helix design.
For those who are having flashbacks to biology class: Yes, a double-helix is actually [...]



Circular Periodic Table

October 11th, 2009 at 9:06 am » Comments (0)

Image: Mohd Abubakr
The modern periodic table of elements has been attributed to Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, which he published in 1869. Pictured above is a proposed alternative that is shaped like a circle in order to arrange atoms by relative size:
According to Mohd Abubakr from Microsoft Research in Hyderabad, the table can be improved by [...]



B.C. Town of Barriere Plans To Erect Its Own Stonehenge

October 8th, 2009 at 3:39 pm » Comments (0)

 

Stonehenge offers many mysteries

This Canadian brainstorm actually makes sense. The town proposing the Stonehenge replica is in a compatible global location. The folks at The Vancouver Sun tell us more.
“The town of Barriere is hatching a plan to place a concrete replica of England’s Stonehenge at the centre of a major park development.
Barriere’s version would [...]



Wheezometer Measures Asthma Attacks In Trademarked Wheeze Percentiles

October 8th, 2009 at 8:03 am » Comments (0)

 Breathe, Wheeze and Measure.

An asthma sufferer myself, I’ve long known the ghostly sensation of an invisible hand reaching through my breastplate to ethereally squeeze my lungs until I turn into a purple faced goblin. In the manner of many asthma sufferers, I like bragging about my attacks, and comparing them to the supposed attacks of [...]



Micro Pigs Latest UK Pet Trend

October 8th, 2009 at 7:26 am » Comments (0)

These micro piglets may be tiny enough to fit in a teacup, but at $1100 their price tag is anything but small. The pets, which grow to be just 14in tall, have become so popular that they are now almost impossible to get hold of in Britain.
“Demand for micro pigs is soaring and we are [...]



Executive Compensation vs. The Grunt Worker World

October 7th, 2009 at 7:17 am » Comments (0)

GOOD’s executive compensation infographic shows the compensation levels of the business world’s top execs, with the number of minimum wage earners each super-suit’s take-home pay would support. Wow that is a lot of capitalistic greed!



Eating Sweets Every Day In Childhood ‘Increases Adult Aggression’

October 2nd, 2009 at 9:08 am » Comments (0)

Children who eat sweets and chocolate every day are more likely to be violent as adults, according to new research.
Children who eat sweets and chocolate every day are more likely to be violent as adults, according to new research.