So how does your daily caffeine ritual compare to the options listed on this chart?
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Women still multitask more than men but find it stressful
Women do about 10 hours more multitasking in the home each week.
Even thought men may be helping more in the home, working women still do more multitasking in U.S. families than their partners and are finding it stressful, according to a new study.
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World’s heaviest insect weighs 3 times more than a mouse
A former park ranger from America found the heaviest ever recorded giant weta on New Zealand’s Little Barrier Island.
Mark Moffett, a former park ranger, has revealed how he spent two days tracking down a giant insect on a remote New Zealand island – and got it to eat a carrot out of his hand.
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Is your smartphone spying on you?
The Carrier IQ app not only tracks everywhere you go it also records all of your keystrokes.
A clandestine application called Carrier IQ, was recently discovered by an Android developer. The application is built into most smartphones and it doesn’t just track your location; it secretly records your keystrokes, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Is it time to put on a tinfoil hat? That depends on how you feel about privacy.
Google Maps mapping the indoors
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Two questions that cartographers, and Google Maps, strive to answer are “Where am I?” and “What’s around me?.” With Google Maps’ “My Location” feature, which shows your location as a blue dot, you can see where you are on the map to avoid walking the wrong direction on city streets, or to get your bearings if you’re hiking an unfamiliar trail. Google Maps also displays additional details, such as places, landmarks and geographical features, to give you context about what’s nearby. And now, Google Maps for Android enables you to figure out where you are and see where you might want to go when you’re indoors.
iCam turns iPhone 5 into a point and shoot camera
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Apple has monumentally revolutionized major industries like music and computing, but Apple’s vast achievements fall short of its late CEO Steve Job’s dreams. According to his official biography by Walter Isaacson, Jobs originally envisioned Apple as game changer in almost every market like textbooks, television and photography. (Pics)
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Biomimetic Antenna for gathering sunlight could transform solar-powered devices
The photosystem in green bacteria consists of a light-harvesting antenna called a chlorosome and a reaction center. The energy of the light the pigments absorb is transferred to the reaction center (red) through a protein-pigment antenna complex called the baseplate (gold). The antenna (green) is made of rod-shaped aggregates of pigment molecules.
Sometimes when people talk about solar energy, they tacitly assume that we’re stuck with some version of the silicon solar cell and its technical and cost limitations. Not so…
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Bridgestone’s puncture-proof tires
Do these look like they are for earth vehicles?
Featuring an intricate resin spoke system, Bridgestone’s new airless tire provides the same level of shock absorption as an inflated tire without you having to worry about monitoring air pressure or changing a flat ever again.
The idea is similar to Michelin’s Tweel which first appeared back in 2006, and even the wheels used on the Lunar Rover that NASA developed during the Apollo era…
The amazing origami automatic stroller
Anyone who has dealt with collapsing and reopening a baby stroller knows it can be a real pain. And when you’re a parent trying to juggle kids, bags of baby gear and your shopping, the last thing you want to do is monkey around with a stroller that just won’t collapse properly.
The 4Moms company has created the solution to this problem: a stroller that collapses and reopens itself with the touch of a button…
Violent video games alter brain function
Violent video game play has a long-term effect on brain functioning.
There could be something to that link between violent video games and aggression. Researchers have bantered back and forth for years with findings that support and then debunk such a link. But Indiana University School of Medicine researchers in Indianapolis found signs via functional magnetic resonance imaging that the brain is affected by violent games.
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Crazy iPhone cases for all ages
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If you can find three examples of anything then you’ve got yourself a trend. So, we feel confident in officially declaring that iPhone cases are most definitely getting more wacky. (Pics)
Microscopic worms could hold the key to long-term space living
NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander’s solar panel and the lander’s robotic arm.
Microscopic worms which are biologically very similar to humans may be the key to helping humans colonize other planets like Mars by giving clues on coping with long-term space living, according to British scientists.
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