Soft Cell fabric panels with embedded LEDs
Here’s a new way to create ambience – light up your room with glowing wallpaper. In partnership with Danish textile company, Kvadrat, Philips is looking into bringing luminous textiles to the market.
China shut down 1.3 million websites 2010
More than one million websites closed down in China last year, a state-run think tank has said.
China claims that they offer a “high level of freedom” for online speech. Hah! I don’t know what world they live in because in our world, the real world, China has shut down 1.3 million websites and routinely block websites.
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the state-run organization who reported the figure, also said that there were were 41% less websites at the end of 2010 than a year earlier. It’s like they don’t want the Internet to grow…
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Biomarker for Autism discovered
Researchers have identified the reduced activity in a part of the brain associated
with empathy and argue it may be a ‘biomarker’ for a familial risk of autism.
Siblings of people with autism show a similar pattern of brain activity to that seen in people with autism when looking at emotional facial expressions. Researchers at the University of Cambridge identified the reduced activity in a part of the brain associated with empathy and argue it may be a ‘biomarker’ for a familial risk of autism…
Boy regrets selling his kidney to buy iPad
In this case an iPad was worth more than a kidney. Oh, the cost of technology!
A 17-year-old student in Anhui Province sold one of his kidneys for 20,000 yuan only to buy an iPad 2. Now, with his health getting worse, the boy is feeling regret but it is too late, the Global Times reported today…
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A third of iPhone users think they already have 4G phones
Thirty four percent of iPhone owners think they already have 4G phones, according to a survey which shows that naming, as well as timing, can be everything.
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Trap for mosquitoes developed using odor from smelly feet
Mosquitoes were drawn to smelly socks.
A new trap for malaria-spreading mosquitoes using the odor of human feet to lure them in is being developed by scientists in Tanzania.
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Men in the U.S. diagnosed with cancer are more likely to die than women
Men are more at risk of developing cancer.
Men in the U.S. who are diagnosed with cancer are more likely to die from the disease than women, due to a higher initial risk and later detection, U.S. government research showed.
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Talking cars coming soon!
Tests suggest it could reduce motorway pile-ups by 40%.
“Talking” cars coming soon, say Italian scientists who claim to have developed a software that lets vehicles “communicate” with one another on the road.
Breathtaking photos of the night sky seen with the naked eye
Photographer Alex Cherney has dedicated his life’s work to capturing the night sky.
A star-gazer with just an ordinary digital camera has come a little bit closer to the final frontier. – Alex Cherney spent 18 months photographing the night sky and turned thousands of snaps into incredible time-lapse video of the cosmos. (Pics)
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The untold story behind abortion drug RU-486
A new report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reveals a listing of “adverse events” regarding use of mifepristone (RU-486). According to the data, 14 women have died using the abortion drug and 2,207 American women have sustained injuries. Approx 1.5 million women have taken the drug so far.
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Mongolia Unicycle Tour claimed “half as difficult as biking”
All for one and one for all!
If you ever shied away from the challenge of a long distance bike trip, well here’s a trip that really isn’t for the faint of heart — or the unskilled.
Last summer, Adventure Unicyclist, Bike Asia and Grasshopper Adventures teamed up to host a tour of Mongolia by unicycle.
The 12-day tour (with seven days of one-wheeled biking) covered 150 miles and gave athletically inclined and adventure-tuned travelers a unique way to get from point A to point B, while creating quite the spectacle in pictures. The Monguni tour group jokingly claims that unicycling is only half as difficult as biking — you only have half as much to worry about…
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Climbing up the social ladder can be good for your health
Rising up the social ladder can help to make you healthier as well as wealthier.
Those who are climbing up the social ladder cut their chances of suffering from high blood pressure by a fifth, compared with siblings who stay on the same rung.