The world economy has become so integrated that shoppers find relatively few T-shirts and sneakers in Wal-Mart and Target carrying a “Made in the U.S.A.” label. But globalization may be losing some of the inexorable economic power it had for much of the past quarter-century, even as it faces fresh challenges as a political ideology.
People with the severe form of apnea, which interferes with sleep, are several times more likely to die from any cause than are folks without the disorder, researchers report in the latest edition of the journal Sleep.
The findings in the 18-year study confirm smaller studies that have indicated an increased risk of death for people with apnea, also known as sleep-disordered breathing.
The time of day shouts at you from the edges of this Giant Digital Clock/CD holder. It’s a designer’s nod to the ‘80s when things like digital clocks and CDs were so fresh and new. If this not-really-giant 29×14-inch model is somehow too big for you, you can also get a 9-inch-wide mini-version to hold your mini-CDs.
Few things can pump up the romantic mood like a warm flickering fire, and while a real wood fire has that crackling sound you can’t get from gas, cleaning out all of that soot and ash the next day isn’t my idea of fun. Gas fires give you most off that mood enhancement without the housekeeping requirements, but most are still built into the wall of your house.
Xavier Herit stands before his customers holding a syringe mid-air. But he is not a doctor and it doesn’t contain any medication.
The syringe is filled with strawberry-infused Cointreau and sodium alginate and is part of an arsenal of tools that are pushing Herit’s cocktails to drinking’s cutting edge.
A Lotta Java!
Now that is a large cup of coffee! Vinacafe Bien Hoa, Vietnam’s largest coffee producer, has just been awarded a new Guinness World Record for the largest coffee cup:
Segway has been trying like hell to revolutionize how humans get around and it seems like they are selling more as gas prices go up.
If memory keeps failing you, worry not. IBM has been working on a software that might help you in recalling forgotten pieces of your life.
What is it about these creatures? In the new $25 million Audubon Insectarium, which opened here in June, you can watch Formosan termites eat through a wooden skyline of New Orleans (as if this city didn’t have enough problems), stick your head into a transparent dome in a kitchen closet swarming with giant cockroaches and watch dung beetles plow their way through a mound of waste. And then you can engage in the museum’s most brilliant interactivity by joining in the line of eager visitors prepared to munch on a handful of crunchy Cajun-fried crickets or scoop up some wax-worm stir fry.
The first object to brighten the dark, primordial universe after the Big Bang was the tiny seed of a star that rapidly grew into a behemoth 100 times more massive than the sun, scientists said on Thursday.
German doctors have succeeded in transplanting two complete arms onto a 54-year old man in what their hospital said was the world’s first operation of this kind.
Shakespeare once called sleep the “balm of hurt minds.” Bodies, too, apparently. People with the severe form of apnea, which interferes with sleep, are several times more likely to die from any cause than are folks without the disorder, researchers report in Friday’s edition of the journal Sleep.
Unlike your average foot stool which sits just out of range, insolently expecting you to move it so that you can put your feet up, the RoboStool will come to you. It’s got three modes: remote control, a mode which uses waypoints for navigation and a thermal sensor for free roaming. Second video after the jump.
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Remember the Maya single chair and the surf chair workstation. Another hi-tech chair-cum-workstation is this ‘@-space’ Media Chair from BeeB that is tailored to suit your various needs. The chair is meant to be a perfect spot for your living room.
A new license is revolutionizing people’s sex lives these days - it’s called STFree card.
Manhattan-based company STFree Certifications provides its health-conscious customers a sexual history “license” with a phone number on the back that enables them to prove their testing backgrounds to potential partners.
Forget the $12,000 Knish, $1,000 ice cream sundae, White truffles, Caviar, and Saffron. According to a recent list compiled by Fortune Small Business, a magazine part of the media conglomerate CNN-Time Warner group, world’s most expensive food is Edible gold leaf.
A shadow swept across Russia on Friday, delighting skywatchers who flocked to Siberia from around the world to see a rare total eclipse of the sun.
The elusive exercise pill just took a step closer to becoming a reality. Scientists have found that two compounds can boost endurance in mice by changing the metabolic properties of the animals’ muscle. One of the drugs appears to mimic some of the benefits of exercise even in sedentary mice. But the most dramatic benefit comes from combining one of the drugs with exercise, enabling mice to run 60 to 75 percent longer.
Talking, eating, texting, changing the radio station…all things that we do while we are driving. They take our attention away from the road and significantly increase the likelihood of an accident, especially at intersections. A new system from Ford, called “Smart Intersection” was designed to reduce the number of accidents related to driver distraction.
In the tradition of Richard Feynman’s ode to orange juice, but spiced with actual information.
In a preliminary ruling Monday, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Bonnie Sabraw said Sprint Nextel must pay California mobile-phone consumers $18.2 million as part of a class-action lawsuit challenging early termination fees.
Though the decision could be appealed, it’s the first in the country to declare the fees illegal in a state and could affect other similar lawsuits, with broad implications for the nation’s fast-growing legions of cell phone users.
A U.S. scientist has developed a new way of powering fuel cells that could make it practical for home owners to store solar energy and produce electricity to run lights and appliances at night.
A new catalyst produces the oxygen and hydrogen that fuel cells use to generate electricity, while using far less energy than current methods.
While some consumers in the US are shopping online to avoid driving, even those visiting stores in person are hitting the Web first.
Eight out of 10 respondents who had recently made consumer electronics purchases in a brick-and-mortar store said they had visited the store’s Website first, according to a May 2008 Nielsen Online survey. More than one-half said they purchased from the retailer on whose Website they had spent the most time.
Pure Digital is proving that simplicity sells. The company says it has now sold 1 million of its Flip video cameras in less than a year, and the NPD Group has listed the Flip Ultra as the top-selling video camera in June.
A New York City police officer has been placed behind a desk after being caught on tape deliberately pushing a man off of his bike during a Friday Critical Mass event in Times Square.
