An upskirt warning poster in a subway station outside Tokyo.
Almost all smartphone cameras have a built-in shutter noise to prevent the camera being used to take pictures without people’s consent. But a new wave of ‘silent’ apps – some specifically designed for voyeurism – have been blamed for a huge rise in illicit photography in Japan.
Renters have flexibility that homeowners don’t.
Buying a home is seen by most people as part of the “American Dream”, but for most it’s become a nightmare. Buying a home is pretty much the best way to throw your money away and here’s why.
Continue reading… “6 reasons why renting is better than buying a home”
The actual number of guns bought may have been even higher if individual customers took home more than one each.
Over 1.5 million background checks on customers were requested by gun dealers to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System in December, according to the FBI. Nearly 500,000 of those were in the six days before Christmas.
Who is and is not the best one to head up the fundraising?
Company founders are the quintessential cheerleaders, promoting their vision and company every chance they get. But that doesn’t mean that they are necessarily the best at two core functions: selling and fundraising (and many are bad at both but excel at other functions, like technology).
While generating revenue and raising capital require a lot of the same traits, in my experience those who are good at one tend to be poor at the other…
AGNES, a suit to emulate old age.
I am sure you have heard of the fat suit and pregnancy suit. Now meet AGNES – the old person suit.
AGNES stands for “Age Gain Now Empathy System” and was designed by researchers at MIT’s AgeLab to emulate what it feels like — physically — to be 75 years old with arthritis and diabetes.
Continue reading… “AGNES – the suit that makes you feel 75 years old”
Non-resident visitors to the United States wait in line at immigration control at a U.S. airport.
Businesses salivate over the kind of foreign traveler Agustina Ocamp is. He is a 22-year-old Argentine who recently dropped more than $5,000 on food, hotels and clothes in Las Vegas during a trip that also took her to Seattle’s Space Needle, Disneyland and the San Diego Zoo. But she doubts she will return soon.
Continue reading… “Foreign tourists could help the U.S. economy”
Happy New Year Teddy!
Teddy gets all festive for New Year’s Eve. He’s happy and talkative, as long as he’s got his corn!
Continue reading… “Teddy Bear the Porcupine celebrates the New Year”
What significant advances can we expect in 2012?
In 2011 some great medical feats were accomplished. Dallas Wiens became the first recipient of a full-face transplant in the United States, Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords survived a gunshot to her brain, and HIV researchers found a way to lower an infected person’s chance of transmitting the virus to sexual partners by 96 percent.
Continue reading… “5 advanced in medicine predicted for 2012”
Ugh!
Yippee! Let’s poison ourselves with beverages that will make us violently ill! It was your battle cry last night, and today you’re paying the price. But what is that hangover you’re experiencing, exactly?
A hangover is your body’s reaction to drinking too much alcohol.
Everyone has a different tolerance (it’s usually lower for women than men), but anyone who drinks enough is sure to experience a cornucopia of symptoms which might include headache, diarrhea, nausea, fatigue, anxiety, trembling and a general sense of misery. It gets worse the more you drink, when you drink on an empty stomach, when you haven’t slept, or if you imbibe while shakin’ that thang on the dance floor (or rock climbing, or jazzercizing)…
Shortages of medicines like Ritalin and Adderall are so endemic that some patients say they worry almost constantly about availability.
Drugs to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are in such short supply that hundreds of patients complain daily to the Food and Drug Administration that they are unable to find a pharmacy with enough pills to fill their prescriptions.
Continue reading… “Nationwide shortage of ADHD drugs prompts hundreds of calls daily to the FDA”
Futurist Thomas Frey: The sixth law of the future states, “The “unknowability” of the future is what gives us our drive and motivation.”
The fact that the future is unknowable is a good thing. Our involvement in the game of life is based on our notion that we as individuals can make a difference. If we somehow remove the mystery of what results our actions will have, we also dismantle our individual drives and motivations for moving forward.
Continue reading… “Year in Review: Top 10 Articles on FuturistSpeaker.com”
The DJs of the world can breathe a sigh of relief, because if this video is any indication, it’s going to be a long time before they’re in jeopardy of losing gigs to robots.
Watch in horror as this artificial turntablist lays down some of the worst beats I’ve ever heard from the wheels of steel. And that’s including my own feeble attempts on a friend’s 1200s.