Keyboard jeans
Techie fashion has brought us the ear bud-equipped hoodies and the scratch-and-sniff jeans that have been turning a few head and noses. But, now there’s a new kid sashaying down that catwalk.
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Nomophobia – fear of being separated from your mobile phone.
There is no doubt cell phones have become a necessity in today’s world. But, an new study reports that a large number of Britons are now suffering from ‘nomophobia’ – the fear of being separated from their mobile.
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In 2009, auto accidents caused by distracted driving left over 5,000 people killed, and 450,000 injured. With smartphone use growing rapidly, along with new developments like Facebook integration with your car’s dashboard, the number of distracted driving accidents, it would seem, has nowhere to go but up.
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Beam Technologies Bluetooth-enabled toothbrush.
What is this world coming to when someone decides that your toothbrush needs to connect with your smartphone? Well, it happens to be the world we’re living in right now.
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The Harvard Monolithic Bee (or “Mobee”) pops up within an assembly scaffold,
which performs more than 20 origami assembly folds.
A new technique inspired by elegant pop-up books and origami will soon allow clones of robotic insects to be mass-produced by the sheet.
Devised by engineers at Harvard, the ingenious layering and folding process enables the rapid fabrication of not just microrobots, but a broad range of electromechanical devices…
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Miniature chameleon
This little chameleon is one of four miniature lizards identified in Madagascar, adding to our growing list of amazingly teeny animals. The one on the match in this picture is a juvenile, but even the adults max out at 30 millimeters. They’re the smallest lizards in the world, and some of the smallest vertebrates found to date. (Pics)
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Risk of heart attack or stroke can jump after high-pollution days.
Short-term exposure to air pollution — just a day or a week in some cases — may kick off a heart attack or stroke, scientists now say.
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Facebook is used by nearly 850 million people each month and roughly 480 million people use it every day. With a user rate like that and an upcoming $75 to $100 billion initial public offering, one might think Facebook is not only a highly visible company, but also one of Corporate America’s most reputable.
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Balaji Tammabattula’s invention allows anyone to duplicate any item, simply by photographing it.
Following the recent development of 3D printing technology, one Indian Computer Scientist has taken the revolution one step further.
Chris Vanderhook, left, and Tim Vanderhook, right, at Myspace headquarters in Beverly Hills.
It may be too soon to tell if MySpace can become culturally relevant again. But, Tim and Chris Vanderhook, the two young investors who bought the faded social networking site from News Corp. in June 2011 now have some semi-solid reason to hope.
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A ground-breaking study that may change how heart attacks are treated.
When a person has a heart attack a piece of muscle in a person’s heart dies from lack of blood flow , it scars over and is lost. But a team of researchers from the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles has proven that those muscles may not necessarily be gone forever.
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E-volo Multicopter
Last October, near Karlsruhe, Germany, Thomas Senkel completed the first manned flight of an electric multicopter, flying it 10 feet off the ground for 90 seconds. Senkel, a physicist and paraglider pilot who helped found the company E-volo to build the craft, invented it after seeing a YouTube video of a German hobbyist’s remote-controlled hexacopter in action. (Video)
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