Braille Touch
Braille Touch, a new app that enables people to type messages on an Android or iOS touch screen without having to look down. The app is designed for people who are visually impaired, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t use it too.
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David and Candice Knox spend about half the year together with a few weeks apart followed by a few working apart.
Candice and David Knox have been married for 13 years. They met at a seminar 20 years ago in Vancouver, British Columbia. The couple jokes they had to go through customs just to date. Little did they know four years ago when the economy tanked and Candice Knox got a job offer in Palm Desert, that the anniversary luggage he gave her 10 years ago would come in handy.
It’s no longer uncommon for people to work until 70.
In 1972, when Paula Symons joined the U.S. workforce, typewriters in her office clacked nonstop, people answered the telephones and the hot new technology revolutionizing communication was the fax machine.
Continue reading… “Baby boomers in America enter new era of ‘work til you drop’”
Young teenagers who drink alcohol have typically been exposed to drinking on-screen.
Ten to 14 year old children who watch a lot of movies featuring alcohol are twice as likely to drink, according to new research.
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If you eat what you like, you decrease cravings.
Researchers have found that a low-calorie meal plan that includes dessert with breakfast may help dieters lose weight.
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Sing all you want and don’t annoy others.
Are people getting tired of hearing you sing, and now they’re starting to shoot dirty look daggers into your heart, causing you to lose faith in your future career as a singer?
Then you need to get this plunger looking thing and strap it on your noisemaker. It’s called the Noiseless USB Karaoke Microphone and it just might save your life…
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The LED pain reliever is simple and easy to use.
Over at HAMMACHER SCHLEMMER they have an LED Pain reliever for sale. How can a bunch of lights heal an injury? If it’s good enough for astronauts…
Using technology developed by NASA to heal astronauts’ injuries, this device’s 60 LEDs produce safe infrared heat to stimulate blood circulation, relieve swelling in joints, and loosen tight muscles. A study at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee showed the LED technology reduced painful inflammation by up to 37%…
At Denver International Airport this horse is a symbol of how the airlines want you to board
Quote of the Day: “Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I’ll show you a man who can’t get his pants on.” – Joe E. Lewis
Only half of all people who own Internet-capable TVs have actually connected them to the internet.
The big buzz for the last couple of years has been 3D TV’s. It seems lately though it’s all about the Internet connection. Major TV-makers such as LG, Panasonic, Samsung and others are offering television sets with Wi-Fi and apps to access video services like Netflix, music sites like Pandora and social networks like Twitter.
Continue reading… “Study: Half of internet TV’s are not connected to the internet”
While it seems like just about everyone has a smartphone now, a closer look by Nielsen finds that 66 percent of those in the 24- to 34-year-old age group have smartphones , representing “the greatest proportion of smartphone ownership” of any age group.
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The Orbit
New technology can make life’s most tedious tasks more interesting. Take laundry, for example. The Orbit is a waterless washing machine, which levitates your clothes and scrub them clean with dry ice in a matter of minutes.
Continue reading… “Orbit – waterless washing machine uses levitation and dry ice to clean laundry”
Some 2.5 million people worldwide die each year from the harmful use of alcohol.
Up to 210,000 Britons will be killed prematurely by alcohol over the next 20 years, with a third of those preventable deaths due to liver disease alone, health experts warned Monday.
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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