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New method neuters your dog without removing his testicles

April 1, 2012

This is great news for dogs and dog lovers: there is a new method to sterilize male dogs without surgery! It’s called Esterilsol, a solution of zinc gluconate, L-Arginine and water that is shot into the dog’s scrotum.

The method—also called zeutering—will sterilize your dog within a month. It has now been approved for 10-month and younger dogs in the United States. So far, about 300 dogs have been neutered in this way…

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Helicopter parents can put their silhouette on a rattle and never be apart from their kids

March 31, 2012

Visions of mother at every shake.

If you can’t bear the thought of not being part of your child’s life for even a second, you can now get your face carved into a stylish baby rattle so they can never escape your presence…

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Canada kills the Penny

March 31, 2012

Will all coins go away now?

Finally, after years of talking, the Canadian government killed the penny in its recent budget. Finance Minister Flaherty was clearly thinking of decluttering and interior design, noting “Pennies take up too much space on our dressers at home.”

There is also a real green side to this; the weight of all those pennies adds up, as does the cost and footprint of shipping them.

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Woman making fortune from made-to-measure penis warmers

March 31, 2012

Croatian seamstress Radmila Kus

Croatian seamstress Radmila Kus has revealed she is struggling to cope with the huge demand for her latest product – her very own range of willy warmers. Knitting fan Radmila said ‘she just can’t keep up’ after launching her bespoke men’s product – and has had to recruit a small army of knitters in a bid to increase production…

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Evacuated Tube Technology – rewriting the rules of high speed travel

March 30, 2012

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ET3, a licensing organization, holds a patent to Evacuated Tube Technology or ETT and say that with their tubes, you will eventually be able to get you from New York to Beijing in 2 hours and from New York to London in less than an hour.

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Physicists add 11 colors to the rainbow by tearing apart atoms

March 29, 2012

New colors found utilizing lasers and ion cascades.

True, the pink is a lie. But a UC Santa Barbara research team has honestly just generated eleven new hues using lasers and ion cascades.

The team created the new colors by aiming a pair of lasers—one high-frequency, the other low-frequency—at a slab of semiconductor material, a gallium arsenide nanostructure. The high-frequency beam separates an electron from its host atom, generating what’s known as an exciton (a bonded pair consisting of a negatively-charged electron and a positively-charged host). The powerful, low frequency wave then accelerates the freed electron, which goes crashing into the electron-less atom in front of it. Since the electron has extra energy from the acceleration when it recombines with the host atom in front of it, that energy is radiated as light. Previously unseen frequencies of light…
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Blind man takes a trip in one Of Google’s self-driving cars

March 29, 2012

Google’s self-driving cars have absolutely nothing to do with Google’s core business, and Google has never even tried to explain how they’re going to make money.
But so what? They’re really cool. They push technology forward. And as this video shows, they could make people’s lives better in real, tangible ways…

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Transparent, flexible ‘3-D’ memory chips may be the next big thing in small memory devices

March 28, 2012

A flexible, transparent memory chip created by researchers at Rice University.

New memory chips that are transparent, flexible enough to be folded like a sheet of paper, shrug off 1,000-degree Fahrenheit temperatures — twice as hot as the max in a kitchen oven — and survive other hostile conditions could usher in the development of next-generation flash-competitive memory for tomorrow’s keychain drives, cell phones and computers, a scientist reported March 27…

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Is learning to code more popular than learning a foreign language?

March 28, 2012

The demand and popularity of coding keeps increasing.

There was a time when people used to go to night classes or buy DIY guides to learn foreign languages in their spare time. But theNew York Times is to have us believe that French and Spanish are out of the window, to be replaced by Python and Java.

It’s an interesting concept. There’s certainly no denying the fact that as a nation we’re becoming more tech savvy—you only need to look around a coffee shop to tell you that—and with that is bound to come an increased shift to learning how to make devices work better. This is giving rise to new fast coder training programs like DaVinci Coders. From the New York Times…

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99dresses wants to give women an infinite closet

March 27, 2012

Solve your wardrobe problem.

The model for how women purchase clothing is essentially broken. Because it is an ever-changing status symbol and subject to trends, fashion is not exactly like any other goods.

For example, with furniture you buy a new couch or a bed and then you have one, you don’t need another one or a different one two weeks later. Not so with dresses or shoes. In fact if many women, myself included, had their way, we’d never wear the same thing twice.

But spending $$$ on something you’ll only wear once isn’t really economically feasible, for even the 1%ers among us…

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Rupert Murdoch employed hackers to destroy a Pay-TV rival

March 27, 2012

Rupert Murdoch

Everybody’s favorite octogenarian media tycoon is at it again. This time, Rupert Murdoch is accused of hiring hackers to crack a pay-TV rival’s encryption system and then post the hack on the internet in order to financially cripple them. It worked: they’re now bust…

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Tricked-out Cadillac baby stroller has fire coming out of the tailpipes

March 26, 2012

In June 2010, this custom Cadillac baby stroller won first place in the Open Car class at the Monthly Muscle Car Show in Plano, Texas. Macomber Fiberglass Bodies in Santa Paula, California sells unfinished fiberglass shells on Ebay to make this or other custom pedal cars or strollers at home…

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