No one was expecting it, but Garmin may have just created the iPhone's closest competitor.
The GPS gurus have announced the Nüvifone ($TBA; Q3 2008), a new touchscreen device that combines a 3.5G (HSDPA) mobile phone and personal navigator.
The Nüvifone has all the standard Garmin GPS features, along with a web-browser, email and messaging apps, Google local search capability, and MP3 and MPEG4/AAC support.
It's also got a built-in camera that automatically tags your photos with the exact latitude and longitude of where they were taken.
Passengers were left open-mouthed when a group of commuters - including a suited man - got up from their seats and performed the dance featured in Michael Jackson's music video for hit Thriller.
The bemused London Underground travellers clapped as the straight-faced group sat down once they had finished.
A Transport for London spokesperson said: "There are clearly occasions, like this, when everyone enjoys being entertained by some talented people.
"There are other occasions where inconsiderate behaviour can spoil a journey for other passengers. Our message is simply that a little consideration to your fellow passengers can make a real difference to everyone."
Inventor and saxophone player Peter Davey has come up with a device that he claims boils water in no time.The study was conducted by Prof. Paul L. Dawson, a food microbiologist, who decided to experiment with "double dipping" after watching a Seinfeld re-run in which a character named "Timmy" objects to George's dubious dipping habits.
Professor Dawson told the New York Times that he expected "little or no microbial transfer" as a result of double dipping.
He was wrong.
Double dippers are just as gross as you've always suspected:
The team of nine students instructed volunteers to take a bite of a wheat cracker and dip the cracker for three seconds into about a tablespoon of a test dip. They then repeated the process with new crackers, for a total of either three or six double dips per dip sample. The team then analyzed the remaining dip and counted the number of aerobic bacteria in it. They didn't determine whether any of the bacteria were harmful, and didn't count anaerobic bacteria, which are harder to culture, or viruses."The way I would put it is, before you have some dip at a party, look around and ask yourself, would I be willing to kiss everyone here? Because you don't know who might be double dipping, and those who do are sharing their saliva with you," says Professor Dawson.There were six test dips: sterile water with three different degrees of acidity, a commercial salsa, a cheese dip and chocolate syrup.
On average, the students found that three to six double dips transferred about 10,000 bacteria from the eater's mouth to the remaining dip.
Each cracker picked up between one and two grams of dip. That means that sporadic double dipping in a cup of dip would transfer at least 50 to 100 bacteria from one mouth to another with every bite.
It's a height/weight chart, featuring photos of dozens of different body types. Tall and short, thin and fat, I'd like to take your jpg photograph and drop it into a matrix, building an online visual index of heights and weights.
Everyone is welcome, from 4'11" (150cm) to 6'6" (198 cm) and from 90 lbs. (41Kg) to 260 lbs. (118Kg) and beyond!
Here are two examples: Thomas, who occupies the 6'4" / 115 pounds cell; and Tracy, who's in the 5'7" / 370 pound cell.
Do we know any 22 year old who watches?
An underground collective of artists called illegal art used hundreds of Post-its to create a giant to-do list in New York City’s SoHo. What’s even better, passer-bys can "participate" in the art project by writing their own notes!
Using specialized paper with microdots to track pen movement, the Pulse not only copies notes, but can do quick calculations, translate foreign words and record 3D audio.The main feature of the Pulse is that it digitally transfers handwritten notes and links it to audio recorded at the same time. For example, if you were to begin recording audio while writing, you could go back later, tap anywhere on the page and bring up the audio that was recorded while writing in that specific part of the page.
The written notes are transferred to the computer via a USB dock and are imported into Livescribe's own software interface. From here notes can be organized and manipulated as you see fit. One feature is the ability to animate pen strokes, so that they sequentially appear on screen like you wrote them on paper. It also comes with handwriting recognition software so that you can search for keywords in your notes. The early software we saw had a few bugs, but it should be ironed out before the Pulse hits shelves. All of these notes can also be uploaded to your own personalized page on Livescribe's server (250MB free) where you can share with others, or just keep it as backup for yourself.
The Livescribe Pulse Smartpen is expected to ship in March (PC only, Mac support to follow soon) with the 1GB model selling for $149 and the 2GB model for $199. Both pens come with a 100-page dot notebook, 3D recording headset, ink and stylus refills, USB cradle, Livescribe Desktop app, and 250MB of online storage.
"He was unable to recall how he got to the state office campus, how he got into the building, or how he became injured," Swoboda said.
The student was "extremely intoxicated" and had a cut over his left eye and another one on the back of his head when troopers Kenneth Ahigian and Ben Fitelson arrived, Swoboda said
Police found a garbage can next to the shattered glass downstairs, which Johnson apparently used to smash the locked door's glass.
Johnson told police he was trying to get back to his dorm. The teen from Hopewell Junction claimed he had been drinking at a "downtown establishment," but didn't say which one, Swoboda said.
It's standard procedure for police to try to find out where the alcohol was obtained in cases of underage drinking, Swoboda said.
Johnson faces the felony charge of possession of a forged instrument for changing the birth date on his driver's license, Swoboda said.
He also was charged with criminal mischief and trespassing, both misdemeanors.
Most people eat with them. Some people play them. But Joe Allison is a a bit different.
Here are some things you can do to innovate through observation:
1. Don’t take things for granted
2. Watch for inconveniences
3. Watch for possible gaps
4. Follow technology trends
5. Watch how your competitors work
6. Observe different people at different places
7. Capture every idea
8. Create a master list of problems
9. Review your master list of problems
10. Take action
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Drinking from the bottle has never been as classy, thanks to these Beer Bottle Goblets ($25/2-pack).
Made from reclaimed Grolsch, Sol, or Corona bottles, glass artisans cut away the bottles' bottoms, and reuse them, bonding them to the bottles' former tops to create a robust foot.
Clinique M Cover ($14) is a coverup for men that helps camouflage blemishes, shaving nicks, and the dark circles. It's water and sweat resistant, and is said to blend invisibly. Just dab it on and smear it in with your finger.
These delicate fronds and whorls are not decorative etchings, nor have they anything to do with vegetation, despite their biological appearance.
In fact they are nothing more than frozen water — ice crystals which formed on Mail reader Stuart Dent's cars on two frosty nights earlier this month outside his home in Oxfordshire.
The beautiful patterns, called "fern frost", reflect myriad water molecules arranged in six-sided patterns, a deep symmetry governed by the geometry of the molecule itself.
These delicate fronds and whorls are not decorative etchings, nor have they anything to do with vegetation, despite their biological appearance.
Like a windowpane, the paintwork encourages the growth of long ice crystals, each interlocking with the last, with the overall pattern being dictated by tiny scratches, dust and other imperfections on the surface.
Beautiful though it is, this is nature at her most ephemeral — artwork that disappears shortly after the first rays of sun strike in the morning.
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The world's largest swimming pool, acknowledged by the Guinness World Records, is located at the resort of San Alfonso del Mar in Algarrobo city on the southern coast of Chile. It measures 1,013 metres (3,323 ft) in length, covers an area of eight hectares (20 acres) and contains 250,000 cubic meters of water. Link
As his wife called 911, Galvanek pulled two injured passengers from the truck, assessed their wounds, and properly prioritized/administered treatment (direct pressure and elevation) to one of the accident's more brutal injuries, a mutilated hand. In short, he did things just as he should have in a circumstance that could have ended even worse. And yes, Galvanek thanks his training in a video game for his performance under pressure:
I have received no prior medical training and can honestly say that because of the training and presentations within America's Army, I was able to help and possibly save the injured men. As I look back on the events of that day, the training that I received in the America's Army video game keeps coming to mind."linkI remember vividly in section four of the game's medic training, during the field medic scenarios, I had to evaluate the situation and place priority on the more critically wounded. In the case of this accident, I evaluated the situation and placed priority on the driver of the car who had missing fingers. I then recalled that in section two of the medic training, I learned about controlled bleeding. I noticed that the wounded man had severe bleeding that he could not control. I used a towel as a dressing and asked the man to hold the towel on his wound and to raise his hand above his head to lessen the blood flow which allowed me to evaluate his other injuries which included a cut on his head.
Four giant waterfalls will be erected in New York for three months this summer in a public art project city officials hope will create $55 million in extra tourism revenue for the Big Apple.
Hall & Oates has canceled the Florida leg of their upcoming U.S. tour, according to the promotion company. Just a conflict of dates, we're told. Hopefully, the dates will be rescheduled.(Among the half dozen gigs was a March 26 show at Clearwater's Ruth Eckerd Hall.)
The soulful pop 80s duo does seem to have a lot of their plate this spring. There are rumors they'll appear on American Idol again as performers or mentors. Daryl Hall also is scheduled to speak and give interviews during Austin's SXSW music super-conference in mid-March.
And the now-cleanshaven John Oates is busy working on a new cartoon in development about the superpowers of his formerly famous mustache. Seriously. No telling if Hall's signature sideburns are going to serve as the 'stache's crime-fighting sidekick.
Their quick intelligence, razor-sharp memory and ruthless cunning have made them a foe of gardeners everywhere. Now it turns out that grey squirrels are even more devious than anyone realised.
An over 2.4-meter-high peacock-shaped lantern made of potatoes is shown here at a department store in Shenyang, Northeast China's Liaoning Province January 16, 2008. The United Nations has announced that 2008 is the International Year of Potatoes with the theme of "promoting food safety and alleviating poverty".
Approximately 500,000 colored balls thundered down Rome’s Spanish Steps on Wednesday as self-styled artist and activist Graziano Cecchini pulled off his second eye-catching stunt in three months.
In October last year, Cecchinipoured red industrial dye into the waters of the Trevi fountain, creating a spectacle that angered local administrators, delighted tourists and was beamed around the world. Early on Wednesday, helped by three assistants, the 54-year-old ‘artist’ struck again.
Standing at the top of the famous staircase in front of the Trinita’ dei Monti church, he tipped over huge sacks of plastic balls which then went careening down the marble steps into the piazza below.
As tourists rushed about picking up souvenir balls, police quickly cordoned off the area and called in the municipal refuse collectors. They arrived a little later with large nets to scoop up the colored spheres.
Meanwhile, Cecchini, a former militant with extreme right-wing groups, was explaining the philosophy behind his exploit to reporters.
”This is an artistic operation which documents through art the problem that we have in Italy. They’re always telling us lies, both the Left and the Right,” he said.
Good ideas are a dime a dozen, right? Who cares unless you have the money to develop it, build a prototype, quit your day job, snag investors, find customers, etc.?
Naive entrepreneurs may yet have their day . . . if they get on Korean reality TV. A game show called "Idea - How Much?" gives contestants the opportunity to pitch their ideas, and a panel of potential buyers (CEOs of companies) a chance to instantly bid on them. One such contestant came away with $750,000 for a new sceen saver concept (the screen saver runs streaming video content). To me, what's compelling about this show, compared with others that might be focused on new inventions, is that the auction takes place right then and there, and real money changes hands in a flash (supposedly, anyway).
The key, I imagine, is to have an idea that's simple to present in a short amount of time, which is sometimes a challenge with complex tech products that take a little time to grasp and appreciate.
How long before this kind of show comes to U.S. television?
Via Web 2.0 Asia.
Fully interactive USB Boxer with graphics and sounds. What’s really special about the Boxer is that he’s taking computer games off the screen and bringing a real physical presence to the action. You control the punches via your keyboard as the boxer takes on the speed ball – and instead of the action taking place on-screen, you can really see the punches land and feel the excitement as you test your skills and rhythm. This fun toy cost $60.
Japan's Panasonic has created the world's longest-lasting alkaline battery, according to Guinness World Records.
