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Would you like a Google search with that glass of milk? Or maybe a funny YouTube clip with that late-night snack? Trips to the kitchen just became more wired with Samsung’s debut of a fridge with built-in internet.
The “Zipel e-Diary” boasts a 10-inch touch screen perfect for displaying pictures or browsing the internet for last-minute dinner recipe ideas. The fancy fridge has a 2.49 million won ($2,174 USD) price tag, but Samsung says they have no immediate plans to offer it outside South Korea. Eh, we'll just have to stick to the low-tech fridge and show off family photos with an old, tried-and-true magnet.
Full story at Yahoo.
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Posted by Futurity
Physicists at the University of Sheffield have discovered that transition region quakes power the lower base of the Sun's corona. The quakes take the form of mega-tsunamis generated by plasma jets.
"We may now get a step closer to resolve one of the greatest puzzles of astrophysics—why the atmosphere of stars, like the Sun, is so much hotter than its surface," says Robertus von Fay-Siebenburgen, a professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics.
Full story at Futurity.
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Posted by HowStuffWorks.com
People who enjoy board sports often have a need for speed. But many -- especially those who don't have access to hills or ramps -- don't know how to get it. A riverboarder named Kevin Veon started tackling these acceleration issues in 2004 by experimenting with a braided rubber cord, and that's how bungee boarding was born.
Bungee boarding is a wild new adventure sport. It goes like this: You take a tough, 20-foot-long elastic cord. Tie one end to a tree beside a river, attach the other end to a small surfboard, and wade in. If you hold the board underwater, flat against the current, the pressure of the water pushes you downstream. When the cord has stretched as far as it will go, mount the board and angle it upward (in the direction from which you came) so that the current pushes it to the surface. With the force of the current greatly diminished, the stretched cord pulls the board -- and you with it -- back upstream at around 30 miles per hour. That's bungee boarding in a nutshell.Read on to learn more about the physical forces that make this sport possible.
Full story at HowStuffWorks.com.
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Posted by Annie Colbert
Who knew that jamming along to “Billy Jean” while brushing your teeth could turn you into the King of Pop? With the help of some scotch tape, this women goes from regular looking lady with a toothbrush to Michael Jackson. Eeks!
Full story at BuzzFeed.
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Posted by Futurity
The first sign of injury in glaucoma occurs in the brain, not the eye as previously thought.
“If you followed the disease long enough, eventually the optic nerve, then the retina, show signs of degeneration,” explains David Calkins, associate professor of ophthalmology at Vanderbilt University. “So the degeneration works in reverse order. It starts in the brain and works its way back to the retina so that in the very latest stages of the disease, the earliest structures, the ones nearest the eye, are the last to go.”
Full story at Futurity.
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Posted by Catherine Faas
Before you completely commit your life to a protective bubble built out of hand sanitizer, read this article. New research suggests that a warm quick hug, a Jerey Shore-worthy fist pump, or a friendly high five can communicate a wide range of emotions—often times more accuratel than words. What’s more, is that touchy-feely people tend to achieve higher levels of motivation and success than those who keep their hands firmly shoved in their pockets.
Read all about it at The New York Times.
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Posted by Futurity
One out of two lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) youth have been victims of cyberbullying, according to a new survey of more than 400 junior high, high school, and college students between the ages of 11 and 22.
Among the non-heterosexual respondents, 45 percent reported feeling depressed as a result of being cyberbullied, 38 percent felt embarrassed, and 28 percent felt anxious about attending school. More than a quarter (26 percent) had suicidal thoughts.
More than half also indicated that they didn’t think a school official could do anything to stop it.
Full story at Futurity.
Posted by Catherine Faas
According to a new study, massage therapy may be beneficial for children with autism. The study followed sixty autistic children, between the ages of three and ten, as they received eight weeks of either Thai massage or sensory integration therapy. By the end of the treatment period, both groups of children showed significant improvements in conduct problems and anxiety. They also had an easier time sleeping, better classroom concentration, and more productive social intereactions.
Full story at About.com.
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Posted by Catherine Faas
The Pantless Knights, the guys responsible for the hilarious I’m on a Mac video, are back at it—and this time they’ve delivered a new anthem for for all you proud social media geeks.
Full story at Mashable.
Posted by Guy Kawasaki
Do you use Pandora? It’s the music service that helps you find music that you’d like. It’s been around for ten years now and has frequently been on the edge of death. Now it has 48 million users and did $50 million in revenue in 2009. The company will probably do $100 million this year.
CEO Tim Westergren and his team have shown how perseverance, a great product, and nimbleness can yield success. Pandora is a great inspiration for tech entrepreneurs. The New York Times has a great profile of the company where you can learn how:
Disclosure: Garage Technology Ventures is an investor in Pandora (because of the efforts of Geoff Baum).
Full story at New York Times.
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For a hundred bucks, you can stick it in and see what's inside! The Porn Detection Stick is a USB drive that searches for pornographic images. Using "advanced image analyzing algorithms that categorize images as potentially harmful by identifying facial features, flesh tone colors, image backgrounds, body part shapes, and more" it promise less than 1% false positives.
The software does not search for videos and only works on Windows-based PCs.
Watch for a huge surge in Mac sales.
Full story at CNet.
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Posted by Noelle Chun
Here’s an interesting tidbit: In 2007, the city of Sao Paulo eliminated every semblance of advertisement from the large city metropolis—part of a bigger effort by its mayor to make the city, instead of the ads, the focal point of beauty. The video above gives just a taste of how the Clean City Law has transformed the fourth biggest metropolis in the world.
Read the full story at Web Urbanist for more pictures and background.
Posted by Noelle Chun
With April Fools less than a month away, it’s prankster season. Aspiring Jim Halperts, take note of these cubical pranks.
See all the office pranks at The Pro Designer.
Posted by Guy Kawasaki
Just saw this…I’m a little late, but it’s combining Valentine’s Day and football gets interesting.
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