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  • Ready to Join a New Breed of Sugar Daddies?

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    Is Tiger Woods the new face of sugar daddies? When you think of a sugar daddy you immediately conjure up an image of an unattractive old rich guy preying on women a third of his age. But there is some evidence, apart from Tiger, that there is now a new breed of younger, successful sugar daddies out there.

    According to MutualArrangements.com, which bills itself as the “World’s Premier Sugar Daddy Website Online” the sugar daddy of today is younger, more attractive and closer in age to his sugar baby. In fact, 28.4% of all of the sugar daddies on Mutual Arrangements are under age 40 – and nearly half – 47.2% are under age 45!

    There has been a shift in recent years towards a person earning wealth at a younger age than those of previous generations. There are now a plethora of men in their thirties and forties with plenty of financial resources, all having a desire to care for a woman, or women.

    Ready to become a sugar daddy yourself and take care of some pretty young thing? Then head on over to Mutual Arrangements – they have the girls, you have the cash. It’s a match made in heaven.

    photo credit: MutualArrangements.com

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    3. Is Your Bachelor Pad Ready for the Ladies?

  • The 2-Billion-Eyed Intermedia

    Kevein Kelly is one of the people to answer this years Edge question, which asked “How has the internet changed the way you think?” – The 2-Billion-Eyed Intermedia. He actually wrote a response, as opposed to just searching Google and linking to something that sounded cool…

    To a first approximation the Internet is words on a screen — Google, papers, blogs. But this first glance ignores the vastly larger underbelly of the Internet — moving images on a screen. People (and not just young kids) no longer go to books and text first. If people have a question they (myself included) head first for YouTube. For fun we go to online massive games, or catch streaming movies, including factual videos (documentaries are in a renaissance). New visual media are stampeding onto the Nets. This is where the Internet’s center of attention lies, not in text alone. Because of online fans, and streaming on demand, and rewinding at will, and all the other liquid abilities of the Internet, directors started creating movies that were more than 100 hours long.

    These vast epics like Lost and The Wire had multiple interweaving plot lines, multiple protagonists, an incredible depth of characters and demanded sustained attention that was not only beyond previous TV and 90-minute movies, but would have shocked Dickens and other novelists of yore. They would marvel: “You mean they could follow all that, and then want more? Over how many years?” I would never have believed myself capable of enjoying such complicated stories, or caring about them to put in the time. My attention has grown. In a similar way the depth, complexity and demands of games can equal these marathon movies, or any great book.

    But the most important way the Internet has changed the direction of my attention, and thus my thinking, is that it has become one thing. It may look like I am spending endless nano-seconds on a series of tweets, and endless microseconds surfing between Web pages, or wandering between channels, and hovering only mere minutes on one book snippet after another; but in reality I am spending 10 hours a day paying attention to the Internet. I return to it after a few minutes, day after day, with essentially my full-time attention. As do you.

    We are developing an intense, sustained conversation with this large thing. The fact that it is made up of a million loosely connected pieces is distracting us. The producers of Websites, and the hordes of commenters online, and the movie moguls reluctantly letting us stream their movies, don’t believe they are mere pixels in a big global show, but they are. It is one thing now, an intermedia with 2 billion screens peering into it. The whole ball of connections — including all its books, all its pages, all its tweets, all its movies, all its games, all its posts, all its streams — is like one vast global book (or movie, etc.), and we are only beginning to learn how to read it.

    Knowing that this large thing is there, and that I am in constant communication with it, has changed how I think.



  • Disgusting: The GUMMI-X toy kit is an edible insect maker

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    What Japanese toy maker Megahouse is offering here is truly disgusting: A toy kit that you can use to form edible insects made of juice and other liquids. The so-called GUMMI-X [JP] is geared towards teenage boys, but it has the potential to seriously freak out certain adults, too.

    Users will be able to create a total of four exotic insects and such that they can put into their meals. Choose between the stag beetle, the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, the especially disgusting pill bug and the Procambarus clarkii, a freshwater crayfish. Other animals, a frog for example, are sold separately.

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    Users can follow instructions that come with the GUMMI-X to pour liquids (for example cola or hot chocolate) into casting molds, wait a while for the gummy “insects” to stiffen and, ultimately, eat them.

    This stag beetle, for example, is made primarily of coffee:

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    This is how a lunch box with one of our friends in it looks like:

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    The GUMMI-X will hit Japanese stores on February 1. The starter kit will cost around $40. Two extension kits (with two more casting molds each) will be available at the same time (price: $18 each).

    Ask the Japan Trend Shop or Rinkya if you want to get the GUMMI-X but live outside Japan.

    Via Maikomi Jounal [JP]

    Hat tip to Akky


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  • The New Compact Coupe by Volkswagen shows up at Detroit Auto Show

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    The newest hybrid rolls out in town, this time from Volkswagen’s end. The car was unveiled at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Known as the New Compact Coupe, this concept hybrid boasts of a fuel consumption of 45mpg with an extremely low CO2 emission (98g/km). It also packs a TSI engine powered by a 20kW electric motor and a seven speed gearbox with direct shift. The car can zip up to a top speed of 141mph. it requires as little as 8.6 seconds to cross the 62mph mark. Volkswagen has embraced the concept of hybrid technology and is eagerly awaiting the release of their first hybrid this year, a 4X4 SUV. The car nestles a four-cylinder TSI petrol engine with intercooling, turbocharging and direct injection. This generates 110kW if power at the cost of and engine displacement of 1.4 liters. Besides all this, the car also generates kinetic energy every time you step on your brakes and saves this energy in the lithium ion battery. Volkswagen is sure taking the hybrid theory seriously!
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    [TheGreenCarWebsite]

  • A Peak oil demand fund

    The FT points to a new peak oil (or “peak demand”) fund operated by some guys called Beetle Capital Partners, who predict we are about to enter a period of “creative destruction in which new policies and new entrepreneurs will radically transform the vast complex of energy-related industries” – Peak oil demand funds.

    “The world is now headed towards economic conditions that will entail not only cyclical but structural change: a damaged financial sector, an overstretched consumer base, rising energy prices, and shortages of food, water and other natural resources so severe that they could heighten global and regional tensions. These factors, combined with new external ones like carbon pricing, all point to one thing: a crisis of confidence in growth.”



  • waking dreams

    not strictly speaking a new thread. I’m not diabetic though have been tested and continue to be checked for glucose intolerance. I have recently been to the doctor re my second episode of ‘waking dreams’. My dr doesn’t really have an answer but i am having my cholestrol rechecked as my mother died young from circulation problems. My health is excellent for my age (58) the reason I am posting is cos I googled ‘waking dreams low blood sugar’ and came to some good posts on this site which reassured my a little as they are well scarey! My episodes took place under exactly the same conditions. the night before I drank more than usual, had little or no breakfast and then played a tough game of squash. In the early afternoon I started to feel quite odd and started to have episodes where I thought I had just done something or had a long converstation which hadn’t happened. These episodes where of quite normal stuff, but it was quite difficult to stop them happening without someone with me talking and keeping my attention. the first episode was 18 months ago, the second just a few weeks ago. the second time was less scarey as it was familiar and I drank lots of juice and ate sweet snacks which may or may not have helped. My doctor is really none the wiser and I would really appreciate anyone who has shared this experience posting as I’m hoping its a blood sugar ‘thing’ !!!

  • Triumph Motorcycles Gains Market Share in the US

    According to recent data revealed by the Motorcycle Industry Council (MIC), British motorcycle manufacturer Triumph continued to gain market share in the United States, becoming one of the fastest growing motorcycle manufacturers in country and one of only two marques (alongside BMW Motorrad) that did not lose market share for the past five years.

    Sales of Triumph motorcycles in the United States increased by 5.49 percent in December 2009 over the same period in 2008, while most manufacturers… (read more)

  • Chinese Response To Krugman: He’s A Doctor That Can Identify Cancer, But Doesn’t Know The Cure

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    A column in the English-launguage version of Global Times is being read as China’s official response to Paul Krugman, who has called out the country’s ostensibly destructive mercantilist policies.

    The column, written by someone named Liu Ge starts off with a bit of a shot at Krugman:

    Paul Krugman, the Nobel laureate in economics in 2008, is one of the US’ few star economists, known for brashly speaking out on many topics.

    Whether his reputation will last has yet to be seen, but his New York Times opinion column gives him a powerful platform to speak from.

    On the last day of 2009, he used his column to harshly criticize China’s economic policies and call for the US to be more confrontational.

    Then he gets into the crux of the matter:

    Krugman wrote in his book, The Conscience of a Liberal, “It’s only in retrospect that the political and economic environment of my youth stands revealed as a paradise lost, an exceptional episode in our nation’s history.”

    The paradise referred by Krugman is the period from the end of World War II to the 1970s, also the time when he was growing up. His nostalgia is touching, but shouldn’t affect our policy judgements.

    It’s true that during this time the US economy grew rapidly, wage levels rose sharply and the gap between the rich and the poor was signifi cantly reduced.

    However, at that time billions of people worldwide had still not joined the wave of globalization. With globalization, the US has been forced into a very different kind of economy.
     
    A general manufacturing industry can no longer survive there. When the US found that modern service sectors such as high-tech, communications and finance could not guarantee full employment, it was no longer possible to return to this earlier paradise.

    Paul Krugman is like a doctor facing a patient with extensive cancer. He can diagnose the cause of what plagues the US, but he cannot provide a genuine cure.

    So who is correct here?

    Well, we really can’t blame China for doing everything it can to rev its growth, through all manner of pro-manufacturing policies, including its maintenance of a permanently cheap yuan. The government there, presumably, has little ability to curb its growth at all.

    But, to some extent, we also think Krugman is correct, not so much in slamming the Chinese, but in the fact that the current currency regime, whereby the dollar is king, and thus perpetually overvalued isn’t helpful to the global economy.

    Read more at The Global Times — >

    (via The World Bank blog and Free Exchange)

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  • Uefa U21 Championship – Denmark 2011

    I didn´t see a thread for this tournament so here we go.

    None of the stadiums has been designated for finals, semi finals or opening match but a good guess will be that NRGi Park in Aarhus will held both the opening match and the Final.

    Dates

    March 27, 2009 – September 7, 2010 : Qualifying Rounds

    October 9 – 13, 2010 : Play-off for Final Tournament

    June 12 – 20, 2011 : Final Tournament (group stage)

    June 23, 2011 : Semifinals and Olympic Qualifying play-off

    June 25, 2011: Final

    City´s and stadiums´s

    Aarhus

    Aarhus, or Århus, is the second largest city in Denmark, and 99th-largest in the European Union, and the sixth-largest amongst the Nordic countries. The principal port of Denmark, it is situated on the east side of the peninsula of Jutland in the geographical center of Denmark. Aarhus is the seat of the council of Aarhus municipality with 307,000 inhabitants and 239,865 in the inner urban area, and app. 800.000 inhabitants within 1/2 hour transport. the city claims the unofficial title "Capital of Jutland".

    Aarhus is the main and biggest city in the East Jutland metropolitan area (Danish: Byregion Østjylland). which is a co-operation in the eastern Jutland with 17 Municipalities. With more than 1.2 million people living in the area it represents approximately 23% of the population of Denmark and is the second largest metropolitan area after the Copenhagen metropolitan area.

    The Stadium

    NRGi Park is a modern Football and athletics stadium in the southern part of Aarhus inner city, the stadium is a allseater with a capacity of 21.000 people.
    The stadium was build in 1920 as Aarhus Idrætspark and the latest renovation was in 2001.
    It will get a smaller renovation before 2011 so the stadium better can handle the big crowds at concerts and football games.

    Aalborg

    Aalborg sometimes written as Ålborg, is a city in Denmark. Its population, as of 2009, is 122,461, making it the fourth largest in the country after Copenhagen, Århus, and Odense. The earliest settlements date back to around 700 AD. Its location by the Limfjord made it an important harbour during the Middle Ages, and an industrial centre later. Today the city is in a transition from a working-class, industrial, city to a knowledge-based one.

    The Stadium

    Energi Nord Arena was build in 1960 as Aalborg stadion and the latest renovation was in 2002.
    The capacity is 13.800 using both seating and standing areas, for international matches the capacity is 10.500.

    Herning

    Herning is a Danish city of Region Midtjylland. It is the main town and the administrative seat of Herning Municipality. Herning has a population of 45,470 (1st January 2009) including the suburbs of Tjørring, Snejbjerg, Lind, Birk, Hammerum and Gjellerup, making Herning the twelfth largest urban area in Denmark.

    Herning is home to Messecenter Herning, the largest exhibition centre in Scandinavia, which gives the town a reputation for its many trade fairs.
    Carl-Henning Pedersen and Else Alfelt’s museum of art aka Herning Art Museum is one of the major attractions.

    The stadium

    MCH Arena is a Danish football stadium. It is situated in Herning and is the home of FC Midtjylland. In the opening match, FCM won 6-0 against Akademisk Boldklub. Until 2009, the stadium was known as SAS Arena.

    Messecenter Herning owns the stadium. It cost 85 million DKK to build the stadium.

    The stadium is approved for UEFA Europa League and national games.

    The stadium is locally known as Zidan Arena as Mohamed Zidan, FC Midtjylland’s former striker, scored nine goals in the first three matches played there.

    Viborg

    Viborg is a town in central Jutland, Denmark and is the seat of both Viborg municipality and Region Midtjylland. Viborg is also the seat of the Western High Court, the High Court for the Jutland peninsula. Viborg Municipality is the second largest municipality of Denmark, covering 3,3% of the total land area of Denmark.
    Viborg is one of the oldest towns in Denmark, with Viking settlements dating back to the 8th century. Due to its central location, the town had great strategic importance, in political and religious matters, during the Middle Ages. A motte-and-bailey type castle was once located in the town. Viborg takes its name from a combination of two words: Wii, meaning a holy place, and berg, meaning a hill.

    The Stadium

    Viborg Stadion is the homeground of Viborg FF and is build in 1930 and is renovated in stages from 2001 to 2008, the pictures posted does not show the 4 office towers build in each corner.
    The capacity after the renovation is 9.566 and the stadium is a allseater besides 500 standing places build to reach the capacity of 10.000 as the danish FA wants for all superliga stadiums.

    Here is a new picture with one of the office towers in the corners.

  • Pick Bon Jovi Grammy Performance Song!

    You can select the song Bon Jovi will perform at the 2010 Grammy later this month! The legendary band has been booked to sing at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, which takes place in Los Angeles on Jan. 31. Bon Jovi is up for a Grammy in the Best Pop Performance category for their track ”We Weren’t Born to Follow.” The ”Nice Day” hitmakers have teamed up with CBS to give their fans an opportunity to select the song they will perform through a online poll.

    Viewers can log on to www.cbs.com/grammys and vote for one out of six hit Bon Jovi songs: “Always,” “Bed Of Roses,” “Have A Nice Day,” “It’s My Life,” “Livin’ On A Prayer” and “Wanted Dead Or Alive.”

    Bon Jovi has sold more than 120 million albums worldwide.


  • IRL Cuts Down Pre-Season Testing to One Event

    In a recent attempt to cut down expenditures of the teams lining up for the 2010 IndyCar Series, the North American championship officials decided to reduce the pre-season testing to only one session prior to the season opener in Sao Paolo, in mid March.

    The teams will only have the chance to test their 2010 challengers on the Barber Motorsports Park road course, in a testing event scheduled for February 24 to 25. Therefore, there will be no more oval testing in the pre-season from now on, ma… (read more)

  • Coleção Bairros de São Paulo – Bairro do aeroporto de Congonhas: Campo Belo!

    Bom, há um bom tempo era pra eu ter visitado o Campo Belo, mas são tantos bairros em São Paulo para visitar que cada vez que vou escolher é uma batalha mental…:lol:

    O Campo Belo é um bairro de classe média agradabilíssimo, exceto pelo….Barulho dos aviões 😆

    Sim o bairro fica ao lado do aeroporto de Congonhas ou poderíamos dizer que o aeroporto de Congonhas fica no bairro do Campo Belo? :nuts:

    O fato é que se São Paulo já possui o maior tráfego aéreo de toda a América Latina, então dá para ter uma idéia de que a cada 2 minutinhos uma aeronave decola e outra pousa o dia inteiro nesta região.

    Eu não visistei todo o bairro e quero fazer o passeio em duas partes, pois ontem estava um sol muito forte e um calor infernal, como todos no Brasil inteiro deve estar sofrendo de norte a sul.

    Portanto, aos moradores e conhecedores da região saibam que partes importantíssimas da região, incluindo o aeroporto e entorno eu simplesmente…. deixei para outro dia.:lol:

    Vale lembrar também que por motivos de calor, meu cérebro foi afetado e andei por partes do Ibirapuera…

    Enfim, é isso…

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  • Once Destined for Bankruptcy, Adventrx Pharmaceuticals Sets New Course With Reformulated Drugs

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    Bruce V. Bigelow wrote:

    Like something out of an old Clint Eastwood movie (where the cowboy left for dead is somehow resurrected), San Diego’s Adventrx Pharmaceuticals (AMEX: ANX) announced last week that it raised $19 million and filed a new drug application.

    Shares of the biotech, which had no pulse a year ago, sprang to life. Adventrx stock that had been trading around 26 cents a share zoomed to 39 cents on the news, before falling back to 28 cents in extraordinarily heavy trading of nearly 85 million shares. Trading in Adventrx continues to be heavy, and I’ve been contacted by several shareholders who want more details about Adventrx, or who are urging me to write more. Yesterday, Adventrx closed at 47 cents a share, yet one recent e-mail enthusiastically predicts, “This one goes to $2.” A gamblers’ mentality surrounds Adventrx these days, and should serve as a warning to investors.

    Nevertheless, the comeback at Adventrx has been remarkable. Brian Culley, who describes himself as the biotech’s “principal executive officer,” recounted the story for me recently, saying that a year ago Adventrx was destined for bankruptcy. He’ll no doubt revisit the story again in a presentation he’s set to give this afternoon at the OneMedForum Finance Conference in San Francisco.

    Adventrx specializes in developing improved formulations of existing cancer treatments that address side-effects and other limitations associated with their safety and use. But Culley told me during a telephone interview, “The company ran into two pretty troubling matters.”  One stemmed from a decision in mid-2008 to discontinue the late-stage clinical trial of a “co-factor” drug that was intended to enhance the activity and reduce the toxicity of a widely used chemotherapy for metastatic colorectal cancer. “They got equivocal data, and it basically failed,” Culley says. “That set the company on a pretty poor trajectory.” The other matter, Culley says, was that Adventrx was “hemorrhaging cash while running headlong into pretty hard economic times.”

    By last March, Adventrx had laid off all but a handful of employees and announced plans to “substantially end” its drug development and business operations. A few weeks later, the company was down to just two employees—Culley, a vice president who had previously headed business development, and lawyer Patrick Kernan, who assumed the duties of chief financial officer as well as Adventrx general counsel.

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  • Solar powered auto rickshaws in India, one step closer to reality

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    Auto rickshaws powered by solar power and zooming about on Indian streets are not a far fetched dream. Auto rickshaws are a symbol of Indian transport and having them go green is indeed a laudable effort. Known as Soleckshaws, these human electric hybrid rickshaws come to the rescue of the Delhi 2010 Commenwealth Games that will be held this October and can carry 2 passengers at a speed of 9 mph for 25 miles on a single charge. When drained, the empty cells will be replaced with charged up cells at dedicated stations. The electric modification will also help curb the spread of tuberculosis among rickshaw pullers who are stricken by this disease due to hard work and malnutrition.

    A hub in partnership with the Indian government involving IIM Ahmedabad, UK Carbon Trust and British Petroleum’s Alternative Energy Group is working towards the designing of the solar powered rickshaw. The shortcoming is the significant engine damage caused due to the starting and stopping of the motor in crowded areas like Chandni Chowk. However, these little solar powered three wheelers are sure to come to the rescue of the Delhi government during the oncoming games.

    [Wired]

  • Ford Mondeo se tornará um veículo globalizado


    Parece que o Salão de Detroit está rendendo, durante a apresentação da terceira geração do Focus a Ford informou que o modelo se tornará um veículo globalizado, tendo o mesmo desenho e plataforma em todos os mercados onde for comercializado. Agora, mesmo do outro lado do Atlântico, uma fonte da própria Ford presente no evento revelou ao site inglês Autocar que além dele, o Ford Mondeo, sedan médio-grande de luxo da marca, também se tornará um veículo global.

    O modelo vendido na Europa ganhará um face-lift ainda esse ano por lá, mais já em 2014 a Ford apresentará sua nova geração. Segundo essa fonte o sedan será fabricado na China, em uma das fábricas na Europa e em uma das fabricas da América do Norte, provavelmente no México.

    Ainda segundo essa fonte, além de se tornar um veículo global o modelo chega para substituir o Ford Fusion, outro sedan médio-grande de luxo da marca voltado para os mercados latinos e norte-americanos. Então conclui-se que teremos o Ford Mondeo novamente no mercado brasileiro até 2015, já que o Fusion acabou de ganhar um face-lift e o novo Mondeo só chegará em 2014.

    Lembrando que o Mondeo será o 4º veiculo da marca a se tornar um veículo global. Além do Fiesta europeu e da terceira geração do Focus, a próxima geração do Ka também será globalizado e será inclusive fabricado no Brasil.

    Fonte: Autocar


  • Detroit 2010: Nissan anuncia que também venderá veículo de baixo custo nos EUA


    Exatamente, o CEO da Nissan para as Américas, Carlos Tavares, anunciou durante o Salão de Detroit que a Nissan irá vender dois veículos de baixo custo nos EUA. O modelo utilizará a mesma plataforma que o compacto brasileiro irá utilizar, a plataforma V, e será fabricado no México.

    No total, dessa plataforma sairão três novos veículos, o substituto do Micra na Europa, o novo compacto da marca aqui no Brasil e um novo veiculo no mercado norte-americano que deverá ser um sedan e ficará abaixo do Versa (Tiida sedan) ou substituindo o mesmo, sendo que ou o veiculo desenvolvido para o Mercosul ou o substituto do Micra na Europa acompanha esse último nos EUA. Na verdade pode até se tratar do mesmo veículo que será vendido aqui no Brasil, mais com detalhes diferenciados para o mercado norte-americano, como o acabamento.

    Por lá o carrinho custará menos que US$ 10 mil e para isso vários itens de conforto serão vendidos como opcionais como já acontece com o Nissan Versa. A meta é atingir modelos como Mini Cooper e o Ford Fiesta, que entrará na briga em breve, com a versão hatch e o Hyundai Accent com o sedan.

    Fonte: Auto Diário


  • Susan Boyle Botox

    Watch out guys, Susan Boyle has “discovered” Botox and she’s armed with the power of makeup.

    Spinster-turned-talent show sensation Susan Boyle, 48, says she’s lost weight, got her teeth whitened and discovered the wonders of Botox since shooting to the top of the Billboard charts with the release of her debut album, I Dreamed A Dream, last year. While SuBo still considers herself an “ugly duckling,” she’s learned to take more pride in her appearance, she tells Italy’s Grazia.

    “I have a new hairdresser and I have discovered Botox, as well as getting my teeth whitened. I’ve lost weight for my own self esteem. It’s all been very important. I was never able to buy myself shoes or nice dresses or go to the hairdresser,” she says. “I have the closet of a star. Before I had to save and recycle clothes – for example, the outfit I wore on Britain’s Got Talent I had bought for my brother’s wedding.”

    When asked if she would like to have a boyfriend, Susan replied: “That would be nice. To be honest, I have had a few offers but at the moment I am just so busy. For the time being, I have my cat Pebbles to keep me company, he is the most reliable companion.”

  • Chill Soups Quickly: Cooling Ice Paddles

    2010-01-14-CoolingPaddle.jpgThis is one of the tools that restaurants use to cool down huge pots of stock and other hot foods when they’re not going to be used right away. With all the soup we’ve been making lately, we’re thinking about picking one up for ourselves!

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  • The Green Falcon – A UAV powered by solar energy

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    An unmanned vehicle in the air monitoring forest conditions is the newest desire of Queensland University of Technology, Australia. This light weight vehicle uses solar energy to power itself up. It will be available in 24 months after flight tests are carried out. Known as the Green Falcon, this UAV is capable of providing round the clock service with the added benefits of zero emission and pollution. The vehicle is also suitable for use in coastal and border surveillance, forestry, atmospheric conditions etc. The Green Falcon has a wingspan of 2.5m and weighs around 4kg. The UAV is powered using 28 monocrystalline solar cells and a lithium ion battery. It also packs a maximum power point tracker and an energy management system making it efficient and practical for use.

    The testing of this project will cost $45,000-75,000 for resources like wireless cameras and electronics. This innovation should help make surveillance a whole lot easier.

    [Flightglobal]

  • Samsonite unveils bag that charges phones using solar energy

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    Traveling around with a bag that charges your phone sounds incredible, right? Samsonite displayed this messenger bag that can charge up your BlackBerry Curve using energy from the sun. The back is equipped with a system that can charge the phone when exposed to direct sunlight for 4.5 hours. That may seem long, but remember, this bag is serious about saving energy. The bag can carry a notebook of 15.6 inches, though it cannot charge its battery. A 12V automotive charger adapter in the bag enables phones with a standard car charger to be attached and charged. The bag turns greener with the materials used to build it. The body of the bag is made out of recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET). This cool bag that uses sunlight to charge up your mobile phone can be yours for under $100 when it shows up in the market this spring.
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    Via – [Newlaunches]