Futurist Thomas Frey: A report issued Tuesday by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety boasted of the fact that red-light cameras were responsible for a significant drop in highway fatalities at the intersections where they were posted.
OneDerWear – Disposable Underwear for Travelers
OneDerWear
OneDerWear is disposable underwear that eliminates the hassle of repacking or washing dirty underwear while traveling. They are ultra-light and disposable. OneDerWear are designed to provide comfort and convenience for travelers.
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Growing Student Loan Debt Weighs Heavier on Graduates
College loans will top a trillion dollars.
More students will be going to college this and more of these students will borrow money to do so. Student loan debt will likely top a trillion dollars this year. And for the first time last year student loan debt outpaced credit card debt.
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Funeral Parlor Offers Drive-Through Casket Viewing
Convenience for those on the go.
A drive-through funeral parlour in Compton, California, with a glass-encased chamber for the coffin offers convenience to mourners. Robert L. Adams Mortuary also provides a speedy way for well-known community members to be viewed en masse…
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Biodegradable Golf Balls Made From Lobster Shells
Balls from Shells
David Neivandt, a professor at the University of Maine, and Alex Caddell, an undergraduate student there, have developed a golf ball made from the shells of lobsters.
Though biodegradable golf balls already exist, this is the first to be made with crushed lobster shells with a biodegradable binder and coating, creating value from waste material…
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UK Gets Viagra-Laced Beer
Hot n Horny Beer in the UK!
Royal Virility Performance, a limited-edition beer soon to be made available in the U.K., will contain lashings of viagra, which is available without a prescription there…
Serious People Live Longer Than Happy People: Study
Serious people live longer.
We’ve been told for years that stress can kill you. We’ve been told that happy people live longer and that hours in the gym will keep you healthy. Now an eight decade long study has turned this kind of long-cherished conventional wisdom on its head. Now it seems stress can be good for you and serious people may live longer than those with sunny dispositions. Exercise may not hold the key to longevity.
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12 Laws of the Future
Futurist Thomas Frey: For several decades now I have been contemplating our relationship with the future.
Many of my colleagues think of me as that crazy guy who assigns human attributes to this thing we call the future.
Fujitsu Creates the World’s Smallest Vein Sensor
Fujitsu’s vein sensor is the world’s smallest and slimmest.
Technology to make biometric security useful is already in place. Manufacturers are making biometric security more efficient, and usable. Fujitsu has created the world’s smallest and slimmest vein sensor. The vein sensor recognizes the veins on the palm of a person’s hand, unlike a fingerprint sensor that reads a user’s finger prints in order to verify a person’s identit. The user just has to hold their palm lightly over the sensor in order to use it. The user doesn’t even have to touch the sensor, eliminating any hygienic issues.
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Study: Video Games Make You Eat More
Video games compel you to eat even when you aren’t hungry.
A study in Canada has offered up a new clue to the country’s obesity epidemic. The study suggested that video-game use is not just a rampant and sedentary replacement for physical exertion, but actually compels players to eat more — even when they are not hungry.
Men Are Twice as Likely to Crash Their Cars Than Women Drivers
Men are the worst drivers.
The news women have been waiting to hear — men are the worst drivers. Men are twice as likely to crash because of distractions ; more than one in 10 who had an accident admitted it happened after they became distracted at the wheel, compared with one in 20 women according to a new study.
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Top 10 Photos of the Week
When Dr. Seuss came up with the idea, this wasn’t what he had in mind
“The only difference between a taxman and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.” – – Mark Twain