Complaints about doctors jumped by 69% in three years.
In the UK, the number of complaints made to the General Medical Council about doctors has risen 23% in the past year, the regulator says. The GMC report showed there were 8,781 in 2011 compared to 7,153 in 2010.
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tabwood is an eco-friendly stand for your devices.
tabwood is a blend of Modern Technology and Old World Craftsmanshipthat uses natural materials as oppose to energy intensive non-renewable products that are currently used to support Tablet Computers, eReaders andSmart Phones. You have a beautifully design digital device so why wrap it up in an ugly plastic case. Let tabwood put it on display!
tabwood is one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase, which takes place on Oct 13, 2012 at the Denver Merchandise Mart. If you want to see one of these in person, this is your chance!
Recently, inventor Lou Hayes took a moment answer some questions about creating 3D models in AutoCAD, his Kickstarter project and producing something that solves a problem and resonates with people…
The new energy policy calls for a wider use of renewable energy sources.
The Japanese government’s just-released energy policy calls for the complete phase-out of nuclear power. However, the timeline is somewhat longer than many expected, with the policy saying that nuclear generation will be eliminated by the end of the 2030s, instead of at the beginning of that decade. The 20-page policy paper also lacks specific details about how the government will achieve its target.
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Science experts rank the refrigerator as Invention #1.
The UK’s national academy of science, The Royal Society asked a question: What are the most meaningful innovations in humanity’s culinary history? What mattered more to the development of civilization’s cultivation of food: the oven? The fridge? The plough? The spork?
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If Facebook can persuade that silent majority to become more engaged in the site its future looks pretty bright.
Facebook is a pretty divisive company. One group took to the the social network, sharing their lives in updates and shifting a good portion of their social interactions onto Facebook’s sprawling social graph. The other group took the opposite direction, avoiding the site entirely, or canceling their accounts, or griping as they came to endure Facebook as a necessary evil of being online.
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On Thursday, the New York City Board of Health voted to ban the sale of sugary soft drinks larger than 16 ounces at restaurants. This is a move that has sparked intense debate between public health advocates and beverage industry lobbyists. When did sodas get so big in the first place?
Captain Underwear – Defender of alligator boots.
Quote of the Day: “I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.” – Henny Youngman
Combining Darts with Poker. What a great idea!
Card Parlour Darts is a patented poker darts game that uses a regulation steel-tip dart board to combine the thrill of throwing darts with the strategy and popularity of poker.
Card Parlour Darts is one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase, which takes place on Oct 13, 2012 at the Denver Merchandise Mart. An impressive array of innovations will be on hand, so come and check out all the unique inventions!
Recently, company founder Charles Hanes took time to answer a few questions about the wonderful world of darts and adding Card Parlour Darts rooms to Casinos…
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Futurist Thomas Frey: Wouldn’t it be great if you could turn on your television and it instantly knew what show you wanted to watch?
We all dream of an easier life, so what if we got into our car and it knew where we wanted to go, or turned on a radio and it played the perfect music, or pressed “call” on our phone and we would instantly be connected to the person we most wanted to talk to.
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It just makes sense to announce pricing and ship dates as soon as they’re known.
When Apple has a new product coming out, one of the nice things they do is tell you how much it will cost and when it will go on sale. Apple’s competitors only sometimes do and that is especially true in the phone industry.
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Scientists, like anyone else, can be prone to bias in their bid for a place in the history books.
For several years, Dirk Smeesters had spent his career as a social psychologist at Erasmus University in Rotterdam studying how consumers behaved in different situations. He studied whether color had an effect on what consumers bought or if death-related stories in the media affected how people picked products. And whether it was better to use supermodels in cosmetics advertising than average-looking women.
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What will phones look like in 10 years?
The mobile is pretty well-established in the near future. The iPhone 5 has been released and it is similar to every iPhone that has been released since 2007. That shows that our current mobile devices have been sitting on the same plateau for years.
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