An elderly woman cries in the devastated town of Rikuzentakata in Iwate prefecture.
There are events in history that sear themselves into the world’s collective imagination, and enter the realm where myth meets heartbreaking reality.
Heart Rate Monitor Integrated Into Under Armour Sport Shirt
Under Armour
Heart rate and sports monitors appear just about everywhere–in standalone devices, in watches, in bras, in shoes, in GPS devices–so why not just build them right into shirts. Many heart rate monitors need to be strapped to the chest anyway, so a heart-rate shirt seems like a logical conclusion. (video)
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World’s Largest Source of Spam Email Shut Down By Microsoft and U.S. Marshals
The scale of the shut down is unprecedented.
The world’s most prolific source of spam emails has been shut down in a series of coordinated raids by Microsoft and US federal authorities. The Rustock botnet, an international network of virus-infected computers, had for years generated billions of emails per day, promoting unlicensed online pharmacies and cut-price impotence pills.
Walking and Talking on Cellphone Dangerous for Over 60’s
Walking and talking dangerous for seniors.
Older people find multi-tasking more difficult than younger ones, researchers have found, so those who “walk and talk” across a road could be putting themselves at greater risk.
Tsunami Caught on Dashboard Camera as it Hits Car
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Raw, actual footage from a dashboard camera driving along a beach road as the tsunami hit Japan. You can see the wave hitting the windshield and car being carried away in the wave.
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Biggest Security Threats on Facebook
Facebook is the new frontier for fraud.
Forget those phishing emails that attempt to get your credit card or bank sign-in information. When crooks want to know how to get into your bank account, they post a message on Facebook. These messages appear so innocuous and so appropriate in the Facebook setting that you are likely to not only get conned, but pass on the scam.
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Computer Vision Syndrome Sweeping the Country
The eyes have it – Computer Vision Syndrome!
If you find yourself looking in the mirror at the end of a long day only to see the bloodshot eyes of a crackhead staring back at you, it may be because you are addicted to something —your digital devices.
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Brilliant Forced Perspective Photography – Part 2
Forced perspective photography
You don’t always have to use Photoshop to create optical illusions in your photographs. With a technique called forced perspective you can create illusions that make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It just takes a little creativity with the placement of the subjects in the shot and the camera angle.
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Shock Wave Engine Could Make Hybrid Cars More Fuel Efficient
Wave rotor motor
Piston engines are big, heavy, dirty, complicated, and expensive pieces of machinery that have been around for a century. It’s about time for something better, and one option could be wave disk engines, which are small, light, clean, simple, and cheap pieces of machinery that aren’t around yet. But they’re close.
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Wealthiest Countries Are Also the Smartest Countries: Study
The smartest 5 percent, made a big contribution to the strength of their economies.
It’s not just how free the market is. Some economists are looking at another factor that determines how much a country’s economy flourishes: how smart its people are. For a study published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, researchers analyzed test scores from 90 countries and found that the intelligence of the people, particularly the smartest 5 percent, made a big contribution to the strength of their economies.
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Visa Unveils Person-to-Person Payments in the U.S.
Visa customers will be able to send and receive funds.
Visa announced Wednesday a personal payments service that will allow U.S. customers to send and receive funds to any eligible Visa credit, debit or prepaid account anywhere in the world.
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Life Expectancy in the U.S. Sets New Record, Surpasses 78 Years
Life expectancy at birth rose for babies born in 2009.
U.S. life expectancy has hit another all-time high, rising above 78 years. The estimate of 78 years and 2 months is for a baby born in 2009, and comes from a preliminary report released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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