Showing posts with label amazing facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label amazing facts. Show all posts

Friday, October 7, 2011

'Invisible key' invented by Taiwan scientists

TAIPEI: A team of Taiwanese researchers have developed an "invisible key" technology which allows users to unlock their doors by means of simple hand gestures, the head of the team said Monday.

"In the future, you won't have to worry about losing or forgetting your keys," said Tsai Yao-pin, who teaches at the Technology and Science Institute of Northern Taiwan.

At the heart of the technology developed by his team is a chip that can detect movement in three dimensions, as used in Nintendo's Wii video game console, he said.

The technology allows users to easily unlock their doors by repeating a gesture preset in the sensor, according to Tsai.

The "invisible key" won him a gold medal at the four-day Taipei International Invention Show and Technomart which ended Sunday.

He estimated that it make take half a year for the invention to go commercial as several interested companies have approached him. (AFP)

Friday, August 5, 2011

What Are C-Strings?

As narrow as a G-string but without the band around the waist, leaving just a C shaped piece between the legs held in place firmly by a flexible internal frame.Since there is no material around the waist, the c-string completely eliminates the panty lines which thongs and other underwear create. C-strings are also designed for use as beachwear, which reduces the tan lines that would have been left by the side straps of even a G-string


Among the advantages that this item has are: No Panty Lines! No Tan Lines! The C-String is a completely new and exciting innovation in lingerie. Say goodbye to panty line and uncomfortable straps. Say hello to a sexy new freedom.The C-String can be worn under all your favorite clothes: Dresses, skirts and jeans

Monday, July 18, 2011

2.5 ft man marries 5 ft 4 inch girl in Mirpur (Pakistan)

MIRPUR: Sardar Arif, a 2.5 ft tall man who works in a shopping mall in Mirpur city of Azad Kashmir, tied the knot with a girl measuring 5ft 4 inch in height, Geo News reported Sunday.

The wedding ceremony was held with full celebration.

They say that love is blind and this could be seen in the case of Sardar Arif (age:35, height: 2.5 ft) and Shumaila (age: 25, height 5ft 4inch). Both of them worked in the same shopping mall where they fell in love and decided to get hitched.

Hundreds of people attended their wedding ceremony including the Chief Executive of the shopping mall where the couple worked.

Talking to Geo News, the groom said it was a love marriage while the bride said she would spend her entire life happily with her man.

Monday, July 11, 2011

Earth II Found

The first planet that could support life as we know it outside our solar system has been discovered.
A team of European astronomers say they have detected a rocky world, possibly only 50 per cent larger than the Earth, circling a small red star called Gliese 581, 20.5 light years away in the constellation Libra.
What makes the discovery so important is that the planet orbits in what astronomers call the "Goldilocks zone" – where makes it neither too hot, nor too cold for life.
Astronomers have found more than 200 planets circling other stars, but, until now, all have been unsuitable for life because they are either massive gas balls, resembling Jupiter, that circle scorchingly close to their parent, stars, or have eccentric orbits that take them out into the bitterly cold depths of space.
The newly found "super-Earth," about five times more massive than our planet, is 14 times closer to its star than the Earth is from the sun. As a result, its year lasts only 13 Earth days. It has been named , named 581 c.
However, because the star is only a third the mass of our sun, it is also much cooler.
Astronomers estimate that the world's surface temperature would therefore be between 0 and 40 degrees.
"Water would thus be liquid," one of the discoverers, Stephane Udry, from Switzerland's Geneva Observatory, said.
"Models predict that the planet should be either rocky – like our Earth – or covered with oceans."

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Trolley bus converted into battery-powered vehicles

China's biggest city of Shanghai has converted its gasoline-powered trolley buses on the Nanjing Road into battery-powered vehicles as part of the efforts to reduce emissions.The trolley bus, nicknamed "Clang, Clang", has been installed with 24 batteries that will enable it to run for about 60 kilometers or sustain it for a day's operation.


Now all the six old trolley buses have been converted into battery-powered vehicles, emitting no tail gases. The conversion of the rest two will be completed by October 1, according to the trolley bus management company.All the old gasoline powered trolley buses used to emit tail gases far beyond the prescribed standards, according to the environmental monitoring staff members.The conversion of each trolley bus cost about 150,000 yuan, well worth in terms of social and economic effect, the trolley bus management company said.

All the storage batteries are recharged at night at half o the normal price, according to the operator.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Paralysed stuntman completes London marathon

The 51-year-old, paralysed and brain-damaged after a motorbike crash in 1996, completed the 42km (26 mile) route and raised £75,000 for charities Children with Leukaemia and The Eddie Kidd Foundation.




‘I’m lost for words,’ said his wife, Sam, 42. 'It's the best thing he has ever done. I'm so proud of him.'It's amazing. He'd done it, he's done it! The one thing I would say to anyone out there who's disabled, injured or sick: get some perspective. If Eddie can do it, so can you.'As a beaming Eddie walked the last steps of the marathon on a special frame, helped by Sam, actor Ray Winstone and former The Bill star Graham Cole, crowds of supporters erupted in jubilation.


His wife, a former model, cried with joy as her husband was sprayed with the drink by family and friends in celebration.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Amazing 3D Street Illusion



To create maximum publicity for their Winter destinations and ski resort flights‚ Easyjet tasked Street Advertising Services to draw something really special for their 3D pavement art. Here is the result... The pictures toured around three cities and malls and people loved to interact with the art.(Link)

Monday, May 23, 2011

Amazing 3D Street Illusion

‘Accident' Building site, Vienna, by Julian Beever.


When viewed from certain angles, Beever's intricately detailed chalk sketches create a convincing impression of depth on the flat surface of paving stones. From other perspectives, however, his drawings appear strangely distorted and bear little resemblance to their intended image. To construct his illusions, Beever, originally from Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, uses a camera lens to help him manipulate the image on the flat surface to appear more realistic.(Link)

Friday, March 18, 2011

World's largest pool

Already drawing the crowds in the South American resort of San Alfonso del Mar in Chile, this artificial lagoon and swimming pool is eight hectares in size and contains an incredible 250,000 cubic meters of water.


Acknowledged by Guinness World Records as being the world’s largest swimming pool, the lagoon trounces all other record holders in the category, including the Orthlieb pool in Casablanca, Morocco, itself a huge 150 meters by 100 meters – the San Alfonso pool is 1km in length.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Life in the trees

Korowai - life in the trees
They reside on trees, coursing agrarian boars and indulge in cannibalism.
According to the demography conducted this year, in this association of nomads, there were 3000 people.


Only a few assembly of the association can apprehend and write. During the census, 2,686 humans were interviewed through an interpreter. They seemed to still reside in the Stone Age.


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Strong boys

Here are two very strong boys. The first one is 5-year-old Giuliano Stroe who was born in Romania and has been training since the age of two in Italy. The second boy is 16-year-old Richard "Tiny Tarzan" Sandrak. He was born in Ukraine and moved to the USA to become a movie star starring in Little Hercules. He could bench press 210 pounds (95 kg) at the age of six.



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